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For Beginners and the Best Cooks 7

Bananas—Fresh, alone or with other fruits as desserts or salads.
Baked or fried, with a sweet sauce or as a meat accompaniment. As an
ingredient in cakes, fillings, cream pie fillings, made-up desserts.

Blackberries—Fresh, cooked in desserts, combined in sweet salad
mixtures. Preserved. |

Blueberries—Fresh, with cream or custard. Cooked—in desserts,
added to muffin batters, stewed and sweetened for use as a sauce for cottage
pudding, etc.; preserved.

Cherries—Fresh (never eaten in conjunction with milk), pitted and used
in sweet salads. Cooked in desserts, as a pudding sauce: Preserved. Candied.

Cranberries—Fresh. Minced and sweetened, for use in fruit cocktail.
Cooked—as sauce, jelly or frozen frappé, to serve with meats or mould in
salads. Cooked, well sweetened, for use in desserts.

Currants—Dried, for adding to batters, doughs, fruit fillings, con-
serves, etc.

Dates—Uncooked—a most wholesome sweetmeat, plain or stuffed; an
easy dessert. Stewed and chilled—a delicious dessert or a breakfast fruit
served alone or with prepared cereals and cream. A delicious combination
dessert, under a light custard, junket, blanc mange or other milk pudding
mixture, chopped and added to cake and muffin batters; to cream pie
fillings, custards, etc.; cooked, as a cookie filling.

Figs—Raw, as a dessert (perhaps with nuts shelled at the table); a
wholesome sweetmeat, plain or split and stuffed. Stewed and chilled as a
dessert served with its syrup, or drained and with cream or custard or in »
any combination dessert. Added, uncooked, to cake and muffin batters.
Stewed, as a cookie filling. ce

Gooseberries—Sweet varieties, fresh; good in fruit salads (halved).
Cooked as dessert; stimulating to appetite in a fruit appetizer. Stewed,
cooked in desserts, pie fillings. Preserved.

Grapefruit—Fresh or canned. Fine breakfast fruit. Smart and
appetizing as first course at luncheon or dinner course, alone or with other
fruits. Incomparable for fruit salad. Alone or combined with sweeter
fruits in a ‘fruit cup’—an excellent dessert. Halved and prepared as
oranges. The chilled juice alone or with other fruit juices, for breakfast,
for fruit cocktail, punches. Used like orange, for pie filling.

Huckleberries—Same as blueberries.

Lemons—Invaluable juice—used in beverages, salad dressing, season-
ing for fish and other foods, in sauces, jellies and other desserts; as a
flavouring—perhaps with grated or shaved yellow rind, and to sharpen other
fruit sauces; used in preserves, etc. Cut in shapes for garnishing; used
in cooking to keep boiled or steamed fish and certain vegetables white.