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Rh inside scooped out, and the cavity filled with jam or stewed fruit and cream.

Time.—About 40 minutes. Average Cost, 8d. Sufficient for 6 or 8 persons.

Ingredients.—12 ozs. of flour, 8 ozs. of golden syrup slightly warmed, 4 ozs. of suet finely-chopped, 1 level teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, milk.

Method.—Dissolve the soda in a little warm milk. Mix the flour and suet together, stir in the treacle, add the soda, and a little more milk if necessary, but the mixture should be rather stiff. Turn into a greased basin, and steam or boil from 2½ to 3 hours.

Time.—To cook the pudding, from 2½ to 3 hours. Average Cost, 7d. Sufficient for 5 or 6 persons.

Ingredients.—12 ozsozs. [sic] of flour, 6 ozs. of finely-chopped suet, 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder, ¼ of a teaspoonful of salt, cold water.

Method.—Mix the flour, suet, baking-powder, and salt together, and add water gradually until a rather stiff paste is formed. Shape it into a roll, wrap it in a pudding-cloth, which must be previously scalded and well dredged with flour on the inner side, and secure the ends with string. Put it into boiling water, and cook for about 2¼ hours. Serve with jam, treacle, stewed fruit, or, if preferred, good gravy.

Time.—About 2¾ hours. Average Cost, 6d. Sufficient for 6 or 7 persons.

Ingredients.—6 large sour baking apples, about 8 ozs. of breadcrumbs, brown sugar, butter, 6 cloves.

Method.—Pare, core and slice the apples. Cover the bottom of a buttered piedish with breadcrumbs, add a layer of apple, sprinkle with