This section is from the book "Three Meals A Day", by Maud C. Cooke. Also available from Amazon: Three Meals a Day.
Take perfectly smooth tart apple sauce beaten to a cream, or the pulp scraped from baked tart apples and beaten Smooth. Sweeten well, and to every large cupful add the beaten White of an egg. Beat all together thoroughly with an egg-beater until it is a,s light as possible. This is nice for dessert with cake, or for tea, or invalids.
12 apples, sliced; stew to a pulp, beat fine and sweeten well. Add the juice of 1 lemon and part Of the grated yellow rind. Beat the whites of 4 eggs to a stiff froth and whip in with the apples. (The lemon can be omitted).
Boil 1 pound of loaf sugar in 1 pint of Water five minutes. Add 2 pounds of tart apples prepared as for sauce. Let boil until the mixture grows thick. . Add the grated rind and the juice of 1 lemon, or flavor with lemon extract. Press into molds that have been dipped in cold water and not wiped. When the molded apple is turned out ornament by sticking blanched almonds over it. Pour whipped cream or soft custard around it. Compared with Apple Trifle, Molded Apple will be cheaper when eggs are scarce.
Slice bananas and pour over them whip-ped cream, sweetened and flavored with vanilla; 1 tablespoonful of gelatine dissolved in a little water and whipped into the cream gives some consistency. Serve with sponge cake.
Slice peaches; leave a few hours in sugar; scald and allow to cool. Make a thick sweet custard and turn over them when both are cold. The result will be a delicious dessert.
Fill a glass dish half full of any fresh berries or sliced peaches. Put in layers with powdered sugar sprinkled between. Pour over them a hot-boiled' custard made in the proportion of 2 eggs and 4 tablespoonfuls of white sugar to 1 pint of sweet milk.
Mold plain boiled rice in teacups. Serve each person with 1 mold; set in a saucer with plain cold-boiled custard poured around it or cream and sugar. The effect is still better for a cupful of raisins to be cooked with the rice before it is molded.
A nice boiled custard may be served with fresh berries and sliced peaches. Sweeten the berries to taste. Serve, and pass the cold custard in a crystal, or china pitcher around with them, allowing each guest to pour over the fruit as much of the custard as they wish. This is a very nice substitute for cream.
Juice of 1 large lemon; dissolve in this 1 large cupful of white sugar, stirring it continually over the fire and taking care not to burn. Then add 2 eggs beaten separately. As soon as the mixture becomes thick, remove from the stove. This can be used in the same manner as Lemon Honey.
 
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