This section is from the book "The Old And New Cook Book", by Martha Pritchard Stanford. Also available from Amazon: The old and new cook book.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
 
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