Orange Custard

6 oranges.

1 cup sugar.

2 tablespoons corn starch.

1 pt. mill 3 eggs.

Boil the milk and stir in the corn starch, eggs and 4 tablespoons of sugar mixed together. Slice the oranges lengthwise and put sugar over them and pour the custard over this. Whip the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, add a little sugar put on top of custard and bake quickly until brown. Serve cold.

Peach Pudding (With Custard Sauce)

1 doz. or 1 can peaches. 11/2 cups sugar.

2 sticks cinnamon.

4 eggs .

1 pt. milk.

1 teaspoon vanilla.

Mix peaches and cinnamon with 3/4 cup of sugar and cook about 1/2 hour. Make a meringue of the whites of eggs and 1/4 cup of sugar, put on top of peaches and bake a few minutes. Make a sauce by boiling milk, yolks of 2 eggs, 1/2 cup of sugar, and vanilla. Serve cold.

Plum Pudding

1 lb. seeded raisins.

1 lb. currents.

1 lb. suet (minced fine).

1/4 lb. sugar.

1/2 lb. bread crumbs.

1/4 lb. citron (cut fine).

8 eggs, beaten separately.

Juice and grated peeling of 1 lemon.

1/2 lb. flour.

1 pt. milk.

1 teaspoon salt.

1 wine glass brandy.

1 wine glass sherry.

1 grated nutmeg.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

Mix all well together and boil 6 hours in a mould.

"Simple" Plum Pudding

6 ozs. suet (minced fine).

8 ozs. seeded raisins.

8 ozs. currants.

1/4 teaspoon powdered cinnamon.

1/4 teaspoon powdered cloves.

Juice and cut peeling of 1 orange.

3 eggs beaten separately.

3 ozs. bread crumbs.

3 ozs. flour.

1/2 teaspoon salt. 1/4 grated nutmeg. 1 oz. citron.

4 ozs. sugar. 1/2 pt. milk.

Mix all the above ingredients together, and boil in a mould 6 hours. Serve with any kind of sauce.

Sweet Potato Pudding

8 grated sweet potatoes.

1 coffeespoon powdered cinnamon.

1 1/2 tablespoons butter.

1 qt. milk. 11/2 cups sugar. 3 eggs well beaten.

Melt the butter, add cinnamon, sugar, milk, eggs and potatoes, mix well and bake in a pan set into another pan filled with water about 1 hour.

Rice Pudding

2 cups boiled rice.

3 eggs. 1/4 teaspoon vanilla.

1 1/2 pts. milk. 1/2 cup sugar.

Heat milk, mix with beaten yolks of eggs and sugar, add rice and vanilla, and bake until firm. Make a meringue of whites of eggs and sugar; put on top of pudding and bake until brown. Serve with cream.

Rice And Peach Pudding

2 cups boiled rice.

1 doz. or 1 can peaches.

1 pinch salt.

6 level tablespoons sugar. Whites of 4 eggs. Juice of 1/2 lemon.

Mix the rice with sugar, salt, lemon juice and peaches; put this in a baking dish and bake 10 minutes; then put on top, a meringue of whites of eggs and sugar and bake a few minutes longer. Serve cold with cream.