Recipes For Making Cooked Fruits For Immediate Use

Blackberry Sponge Recipe

Fill an earthen bowl closely with small cubes of bread, pouring over the bread, as it is fitted into place, hot blackberry juice (black berries cooked until soft, with sugar to taste, and passed through a sieve). Use all the juice the bread will absorb. Set the sponge aside in a cool place for some hours, then turn from the bowl. Serve with blackberries, sugar and cream.

Raspberries With Rice Croquettes Recipe

1 cup of rice. 1/4 cup of whipped cream. 1/2 tablespoonful of salt. 1/4 cup of candied orange peel, shredded fine. 3 cups of milk. The yolks of three eggs. Angelica. 1/4 cup of butter. Raspberries, etc. 1/4 cup of sugar.

Blanch the rice, then cook with the salt and candied peel in the milk until tender; add the yolks of the eggs, beaten, the butter, sugar and cream. When cool form into peach shapes, egg-and-bread-crumb, and fry in deep fat; insert angelica for stems. Serve with raspberries dressed with sugar or cold syrup.

Cherries With Crusts Recipe

Cut rings from slices of brioche, or bread, half an inch thick; soak these in egg yolk, beaten and diluted with milk or cream and mixed with sugar and a grating of orange peel. Egg-and-crumb, using macaroon crumbs and, lastly, bread crumbs, and sauté in clarified butter; mask with marmalade and sprinkle with chopped almonds. Dress crown-shaped, one overlapping another, with stewed cherries in the centre. Thicken the cherry syrup with cornstarch or arrowroot for a sauce.

Stuffed Dates With Whipped Cream Recipe

Remove the seeds from choice dates and fill the vacant spaces with slices of English walnut, or pecan nut meats, or halves of blanched almonds, and press into the original shape. Stew until tender in a little hot water, adding, at the last, sugar and lemon juice. Whip a cup of double cream and a cup of milk with a whip churn and remove the froth. Drain and chill the froth and serve the dates in a circle around this.