This section is from the book "Three Meals A Day", by Maud C. Cooke. Also available from Amazon: Three Meals a Day.
1 tablespoonful of butter rubbed with:
1 tablespoonful of flour.
1 wineglass of vinegar.
½ teacupful molasses or brown sugar.
½ teacupful of sugar.
1 teacupful of cold water.
1 grated nutmeg.
Stir until it boils. Serve hot.
1 cupful of white sugar. 1 cupful boiling water or milk.
When melted, stir in 2 well-beaten eggs. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Serve immediately.
½ cupful of currant jelly, beaten to a smooth batter.
1 tablespoonful of melted butter.
2 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar.
½ teaspoonful nutmeg. ½ cupful of boiling water.
Beat thoroughly. A little lemon juice may be added if liked. Serve hot. Exceedingly nice.
2 tablespoonfuls of butter rubbed with 1 level tablespoonful of flour. Stir in 1 cupful of brown sugar. ½ cupful of boiled cider. ½ cupful of boiling water. Mix well, let simmer a few moments and serve hot. Nice for apple dumplings or mince pudding.
½ pound maple sugar cut in bits and dissolved in ½ cupful boiling water. Set over a good fire to melt quickly. Stir in ½ cupful butter, cut in bits. 1 cupful of maple syrup may foe used instead of the sugar. Flavor, if liked, with grated nutmeg. Nice for dumplings, hatter-puddings, etc.
Bring the juice poured from a can of peaches to a boil. Dissolve 1 tablespoonful of corn-starch in ½ cupful cold water, add to the juice, boil two minutes and stir in 1 small cupful of sugar. This sauce is served with Peach Batter Pudding, but may be used with other. The juice of preserved fruit makes nice sauce.
2 yolks of eggs reserved from the pudding. ½ lemon, juice and grated rind.
1 cupful of sugar creamed with:
2 tablespoonfuls butter. ½ cupful water.
Set the dish in a saucepan of boiling water and stir until it reaches boiling point. Serve.
If made for another pudding, 1 whole egg may be used instead of the yolks of 2, and 1 cupful of water may be added. Beat the egg separately and put in the whites last of all.
½ cupful of butter creamed with 1 cupful white sugar. Stir into this 1 large cupful of strawberries washed and mashed smooth. Delicious. Butter Sauce.
1 cupful butter. 2 cupfuls granulated sugar.
1 cupful boiling water. When partly cool add: 1 beaten egg. ½ teaspoonful cornstarch, rubbed smooth in a little cold water. Heat over the fire until it thickens sufficiently.
 
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