This section is from the book "The Just-Wed Cook Book", by E. F. Kiessling. Also available from Amazon: The Just-Wed Cook Book.
Cook 1 cup seeded raisins in 3 cups water until tender. Drain water from raisins into double boiler. There should be 21/2 cups. Add 3/4 cup Minute Tapioca, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, few grains salt and 1 tablespoonful butter and cook over hot water until mixture is transparent. Pare and core 7 or 8 sour apples, arrange in buttered baking dish, fill centers with 1 cup seeded raisins mixed with 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice, 2 tablespoonfuls sifted cracker dust and grated rind 1 lemon. Pour the tapioca over the apples. Bake in moderate oven until apples are well done. Serve with custard sauce or cream, plain or whipped. Sprinkle shredded cocoanut over the top.
Wash a half pound of prunes and soak them over night. Cook them in the water in which they were soaked until quite soft, remove the stones and press the prunes through a potato masher. Add a quarter of a cup of sugar and cook five minutes. Beat the whites of two eggs to a very stiff froth, add this, with a half tablespoonful of lemon juice, to the prunes pulp, stirring in lightly with a fork. Put all in a buttered shallow dish and bake twenty minutes in a slow oven. Serve with cream or a custard made from the yolks of the eggs.
RUSSIAN CREAM | |
8 ounces sugar, | 1/2 gill orange juice, |
4 eggs, | 2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice, |
10 leaves of gelatine, | 1/2 pint white wine, |
1/2 pint whirmed cream. | 1/2 gill rum. |
Beat the sugar, orange juice, eggs, wine and rum well together. Stir in a saucepan till it thickens, then add the dissolved gelatine. Remove from the fire, whick briskly and stir in the whites of eggs beaten to a snow. Pour into a mould rinsed with cold water, and, when set, turn out.
To two well-beaten eggs add two and one-half cups of milk and one-half cup of sugar; put on the stove and add one tablespoonful of cornstarch dissolved in a little milk; heat until it has the consistency of a thin custard; when cold add chopped crystallized cherries, pineapple and walnuts, and flavor to taste; then set it in a pail of ice and salt for four or five hours.
Three eggs, 1 teacupful sugar, 1/2 cup Gold Medal Flour, 1 cup jam, 1/2 cup butter, 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in 3 teaspoonfuls of sour milk; add cinnamon and nutmeg; mix and bake slowly 3/4 of an hour.
Sauce for Pudding - One pint boiling milk, 1 tablespoonful Gold Medal Flour with milk; have ready 1 teacup sugar and 1/2 cup butter; mix thoroughly; boil 2 or 3 minutes, add butter and sugar but do not boil.
BOILED CUSTARD | |
1 quart milk, | Yolks of 4 eggs, |
1 cup sugar, | Teaspoonful vanilla, |
Pinch of salt, | 1 ounce butter. |
Put milk in double boiler with sugar, salt and butter. When boiling add cornstarch which has been blended in a scant cup of water, or milk. Stir constantly. When thick turn heat off and add the beaten yolks of eggs. Must be done deftly so as to prevent curdling. Add vanilla when the custard is taken from stove.
 
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