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DATE AND NUT PUDDING

1 cup dates cut small 2 heaping teaspoons baking
1 cup nuts powder

1 cup sugar Y2 cup milk

1 small cup flour 3 eggs

Mix dry ingredients together, and add milk, eggs, beaten separately. Bake in
a slow oven, and serve with drawn butter sauce.

(DEM.) CARAMEL TAPIOCA

Y cup white sugar 2 egg yolks
1% pints hot milk Yg teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons minute tapioca Y teaspoon vanilla

Caramellize sugar, add hot milk; when sugar is dissolved add tapioca. Cook 15
minutes, add egg yolks and salt. When thick remove from fire, and frost with egg
whites beaten stiff, flavored and sweetened.

SNOW PUDDING

Three tablespoons cornstarch dissolved, 1 pint boiling water poured over it.
Put in the white of 3 eggs beaten stiff. Steam 15 minutes; set away to cool.

Sauce

Yolks of 3” eggs Y2 cup sugar
1 cup milk Butter size of walnut
Boil and flavor.

CARROT PUDDING

cup flour 1 tablespoon marmalade
cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon molasses
cup bread crumbs 1 teaspoon cinnamon

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1 cup grated raw carrots orange and 1 lemon (juice
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cup grated raw potatoes and rind of each)
cup currants 2 eggs
cup raisins 1 cup chopped suet
3% cup milk Y2 teaspoon baking soda in
2 ozs. citron peel a little mashed potato
Yy teaspoon nutmeg Pinch salt
Y2 teaspoon ginger Sherry can be added if desired

Sift flour and spices together, add sugar, breadcrumbs, raisins, suet, currants
and citron. Then add carrots, potatoes. Now add marmalade, molasses, rind and
juice of lemon and orange. Mix all together. Beat the eggs and add to mixture.
Now add milk, salt and baking soda, then pour into buttered basin or tins and steam
3 hours. Serves 6 to 8 persons.

(DEM.) APPLE GLACE WITH MARSHMALLOWS

Make a syrup of a cup each of boiling water and granulated sugar; in this cook
6 or 7 appites, cored and pared. Turn apples often to keep them whole, and make
sure they are tender by testing with a skewer. Remove them to a baking dish as
they are done, baste with syrup and dredge generously with sugar, set into hot oven
to glaze them. Remove to serving dish with a spatula; pour syrup from the two
dishes around the apples, and when slightly cooled, press 1 or 2 marshmallows into
the centre of each. Serve with or without cream. Cherries may be used instead of
marshmallows.

APPLE WHIP

Cook 2 or 3 apples until soft, rub through a fine sieve. Beat white of 1 egg.
Add 1 tablespoon sugar, and beat with the apple. Serve with whipped cream.