Ambrosia

10 oranges, peeled and sliced in circular slices. 1 cocoanut, grated. 1 pine-apple, sliced.

Arrange the oranges and pine-apple in alternate slices, sprinkling each layer with powdered sugar and grated cocoanut. Keep cool as possible before serving. This dish can be made without the pine-apple.

Pine-Apple

Cut in dice; sprinkle thickly with sugar sometime before serving, that it may penetrate the fruit. Pile loosely in a glass dish with a circle of maccaroons or lady-fingers around the edge of the dish.

Peaches

Pare, slice and sprinkle with powdered sugar; do this just before serving. Send the cream around with the fruit. Set in a refrigerator until thoroughly chilled, if convenient. Before sending to the table sprinkle over a little more sugar. Canned peaches may be chilled on ice and served in the same fashion.

Cocoannt Snow

1 cocoanut, grated; leave out the brown skin. Heap lightly in the center of an ornamental dish. Decorate the edge of the dish with smilax or some other pretty leaf, or vine. Serve in small dishes, putting two or three spoonfuls of whipped cream over each dish. Flavor the cream with rose-water, 2 tablespoonfuls to a pint of the cream. The cocoanut may be served without the cream.

Strawberries

First

Pick over carefully; never wash unless absolutely necessary, and then only a few at a time, hulling afterward. Sprinkle liberally with sugar some time before serving. Sweet cream with this fruit is delicious.

Second

Place a layer of berries in a glass dish; sift fine loaf sugar over them, then another layer of fruit, and again-sugar, until the dish is filled. Add to the dish the juice of a fresh lemon. Before serving let them be gently stirred. A delicious dish.

Raspberries And Blackberries

Look over carefully and serve plain, with sugar and cream.

Water-Melon Tea Dish

Take a fully ripe water-melon, put on ice until thoroughly cold; slice, remove seeds and cut the red pulp in any shape preferred. Put a layer into a glass dish; sprinkle with granulated sugar; alternate melon and sugar until the dish is filled. Set on ice, if possible, until it is ready to serve. Dish out same as any other fruit. Very nice.

Water-melons served plain should be kept on ice until wanted. Gut in circular slices, leaving in the rind.

Mask-Melon

Cut in sections, from the stem downward, following the natural division of the melon. Remove the seeds. Pepper, salt and sugar are used with this fruit at pleasure.

Melons may be taken as the first course at breakfast, or used as a dessert. If the skin breaks easily from a melon, this may be observed as an indication of ripeness. If the blossom end of a musk-melon is soft and elastic to the touch, there is a certainty of its ripeness.

Substitute For Cream

Pounded ice is an agreeable addition to a saucer of strawberries, raspberries, etc. Pound in a stout cloth until it is almost as fine as snow and spread it over the berries. This is an excellent substitute for cream.

Sliced Tomatoes

Peel and slice the tomatoes. Sprinkle over them finely pulverized white sugar, then add sufficient diluted cider vinegar to cover them, or serve with cream and sugar in the same manner as peaches. Vinegar, salt and pepper are preferred by some.