Apple Jonathan

1 pint of sweet milk. 1 egg, beaten.

1 small teaspoonful of soda. ½ teaspoonful of salt.

2 small teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar. Flour to make a batter rather thin.

Have 4 or 5 large apples peeled and chopped; stir and pour in a well-buttered pudding-dish and steam or bake. Sour milk and soda may be used instead of sweet for the batter. Serve warm with butter and sugar, sweetened cream or pudding-sauce.

Birds' Nests

1 quart sweet milk.

3 well-beaten eggs.

1 pint of bread-crumbs, soaked in the milk. ½ cupful of sugar. 1 tablespoonful of butter. 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder. Pare 6 or 8 nice tart apples, dig out the cores, fill the cavities with sugar and sprinkle sugar over the top.

Put the apples in a buttered pudding-dish, pour batter over all. Bake or steam one hour. Serve with preferred pudding sauce.

This recipe may be altered by substituting for the breadcrumbs flour enough for a batter about like muffins; 1 egg may be omitted in this case, otherwise follow the rule. If desired the apples may be sliced and sugar sprinkled over them. If baked, half a cup of water should be poured over the apples before the batter is added.

If more convenient a sour milk and soda batter may be substituted. Graham flour is preferred by many to wheat, as more healthful.

Brown Betty

Put in a pudding-dish 2 pared and sliced tart apples, a little salt and nutmeg, some sugar and dot with bits of butter, then a layer of fine bread-crumbs. Repeat these layers until the dish is full - apples for the top. Butter and sugar to suit the taste. Lastly, ½ cupful of hot water; cover closely and bake one hour.

This is good either hot or cold. Both bread and apples become somewhat jellied when the pudding is done. Can be served without sauce.

Peach Pandowdy

Fill a 2-quart basin ½ full of canned peaches or fresh fruit sliced, pour over them a batter made like that for Apple Jonathan, with the addition of 1 tablespoonful of shortening. Pour over the peaches. Serve with pudding-sauce after baking until the crust is done.

Dried peaches may be stewed and served in the same manner. Serve with cream and sugar.

Steamed Fruit Puffs

1 pint flour. 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Sweet milk to make a batter that will drop from the spoon. 5 cups buttered; put in each 1 spoonful of batter, then some fresh fruit, preserves or jam; then more dough, leaving room to rise. Steam twenty-five minutes. Serve with sweetened cream or sauce.