This section is from the book "Mary Jane's Cook Book", by Mary Jane. Also available from Amazon: Mary Jane's Cook Book.
Almonds, 1/2 pound. Eggs, 6.
Sugar, 1 cup.
Lemon juice, 2 tablespoons.
Cake crumbs, 1 cup.
Pound the almonds fine in a mortar, add yolks of eggs beaten till thick and lemon colored, add sugar, lemon juice, cake crumbs and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in a slow oven for 30 minutes.
Cornmeal, 1 cup. Milk, 6 cups. Eggs, 2.
Molasses, 1 cup. Figs, 1 cup. Salt, 1 teaspoon.
Cook cornmeal with 4 cups of milk, add finely chopped figs and salt. When mixture is cool add molasses, and eggs well beaten. Pour in baking dish and add without stirring the remaining milk. Bake in moderate oven for 3 hours.
Indian meal, 2 cups.
Flour, 1 cup.
Sugar, 1 cup.
Soda, 1 scant teaspoon.
Seeded raisins, 1/2 cup. Chopped nuts, 1 cup. Lemon, 1. Boiling water.
Mix all together in a double boiler with boiling water enough to allow meal to swell, and boiling water in lower part. Boil 2 hours. Eat with any favorite sauce. G., Boston.
Bread crumbs, 2 cups. Sugar, 1/2 cup. Suet, 1 cup. Eggs, 2.
Orange marmalade, 1 cup. Flour, 2 tablespoons. Baking powder, 2 teaspoons. Milk.
Chop suet and beat eggs. Add milk to moisten all. Steam in a buttered mold for 2 hours. Serve with plain or hard sauce.
Mrs. H. J. K., Plymouth.
Sugar, 1/2 cup. Molasses, 1 cup. Flour, 1 1/2 cups.
Milk, 1/2 cup. Butter, 1/2 cup. Soda, 1 teaspoon.
Eggs, 4.
Beat together the sugar, molasses and Hour. Heat the milk and butter and add the soda. Combine the mixtures and beat thoroughly. Add the eggs, well beaten, and beat again. Steam in buttered pud-ding mold 3 hours or bake 1 1/2 hours. Serve with vanilla sauce.
Bread crumbs, 12 ounces. Suet, 12 ounces. Chopped apples, 12 ounces.
Currants, 12 ounces.
Eggs 4,.
Nutmeg, 1 teaspoon.
Lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon.
Mix all well, beating eggs, and boil for 3 hours. Serve with a lemon pudding sauce.
Winter squash, 1.
Apples, 6.
Bread crumbs, 7 tablespoons.
Grated nutmeg, 1 teaspoon. Salt, a pinch. Sugar, 1/2 cup.
Eggs, 6.
Cut squash in pieces and steam until tender, drain and mash through a sieve, add apples stewed with sugar until soft and rubbed through a sieve. Mix well and add remaining ingredients, beating eggs well before adding. Bake 45 minutes. More sugar may be used is desired.
Bread crumbs, 1/2 pound. Suet, 4 ounces. Seeded raisins, 1/4 pound. Carrots, 3/4 pound.
Currants, 3/4 pound. Sugar, 3 ounces. Eggs, 2. Milk.
Nutmeg.
Boil the carrots until tender enough to mash to a pulp, add the remaining ingredients and moisten with enough milk to make a thick batter. Turn into a buttered dish and bake for 50 minutes. If it is desired to boil it, tie in a pudding cloth and boil for 2 1/2 hours. Turn it out of the dish and dredge with powdered sugar.
A. W., Medford.
 
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