Apple Pudding

Save all the peeling from several days; add a few whole apples. Cook with water, strain and prepare like rhubarb pudding.

Currant, Raspberry Or Peach Pudding

Prepare the same as the foregoing. If peaches or peach skins are used, do not press much of the pulp through. It is better to use more peeling than whole fruits. In serving peach or apple salad, the peelings can be saved from a day or two and preserved by stewing them in a little water until ready for use.

Lemon Filling For Pie

Stir the yolks of three eggs with one-half cup of sugar, add the grated rind and juice of two lemons or one lemon and one orange, then add two tablespoons of cornstarch, one of butter and one and one-half cup of hot water. Stir in a double boiler over the fire until it is thick. Then pour it into the baked crust. Beat the whites with a tablespoon of sugar and a little lemon juice. Put over the top and brown in the oven.

Strawberries With Whipped Cream

Select fresh ripe berries and wash. Put the desired amount on flat medium-sized plates. Beat up some cream with the whites of several eggs and a little powdered sugar. Cover the berries with the cream and serve with wafers or triscuit.

Peaches And Pears With Whipped Cream

Peel and slice them. Prepare and serve the same as the foregoing. These dishes are not good for delicate stomachs.

Plain Junket

Warm one pint of milk to blood heat, flavor as desired; stir in. one junket tablet which has been dissolved in a little water and pour into a dish; set on ice. Serve with cranberry or prune sauce and wafers.

Wine Gruel

Bring equal parts of white or red wine and water to a boil, flavor with lemon rind or cinnamon, add sugar, thicken with instantaneous tapioca or with potato flour. Serve plain or add a piece of butter and the yolk of an egg.

Wine Gruel Of Port Or Sherry

Soak some plain sago or tapioca for about three hours, then pour into boiling water, add sugar, lemon rind, and a pinch of salt. When almost done, add port or sherry (one to three ounces to one person). Serve plain, or with butter and the yolk of an egg.

Wine Gruel Of Red Claret

Bring equal parts of wine and water to a boil, thicken with potato flour or instantaneous tapioca, add sugar and a little salt, add a small amount of preserved raspberries or strawberries, jam or jellies, or sliced pineapple. The whites of several eggs beaten to a snow with a little salt may be mixed with it before serving. Zwieback or wafers is a good addition.

Rice Gruel. No. 1

Mix two to three tablespoonsful of rice flour with a little cold water, add to it a pint of boiling water, two level tablespoonsful of sugar of milk, salt to taste, boil fifteen to twenty minutes. Put on a soup plate, pour hot or cold sterilized cream over it.

Rice Gruel. No. 2

Prepare as number one. After removing from the fire, add ? piece of butter, and the yolk of an egg, mix thoroughly, then put on a soup plate. Serve with or without cream.