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864 Method.—Peel and slice the pumpkin, remove the seeds, boil it in slightly-salted water until tender, and pass it through a fine sieve. Beat and add the eggs, sweeten to taste, put in the lemon-rind, cinnamon and ginger, and stir in gradually sufficient milk to reduce the consistency to that of thick batter. Turn the mixture into a piedish lined with short crust paste, cover and bake in a moderately hot oven from 40 to 45 minutes. Serve hot.

Time.—To bake the pie, from 40 to 45 minutes. Average Cost, uncertain. Sufficient for 6 or 7 persons. Seasonable in summer.

Ingredients.—Pumpkin, apples, sugar, ground allspice, paste.

Method.—Remove the rind, seeds and puffy centre part of the pumpkin, and slice the rest thinly. Fill a piedish with alternate layers of apple and pumpkin, sprinkling each layer with sugar and a pinch of allspice. Add 3 or 4 tablespoonfuls of water, cover with paste, and bake in a moderately-hot oven from 45 to 60 minutes. Serve hot.

Time.—To bake, from 45 to 60 minutes. Average Cost, uncertain. Sufficient for 6 or 7 persons. Seasonable in summer.

Ingredients.—Salsify: to each ½ gallon of water allow 1 heaped tablespoonful of salt, 1 oz. of butter, 2 tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice.

Method.—Scrape the roots gently, so as to strip them only of their outside peel; cut them into pieces about 4 inches long, and, as they are peeled, throw them into water mixed with a little lemon-juice, to prevent their discolouring. Put them into boiling water with salt, butter and lemon-juice in the above proportion, and let them boil rapidly until tender; try them with a fork, and, when it penetrates easily, the roots are done. Drain the salsify, and serve with good white sauce.

Time.—From 30 to 40 minutes. Seasonable from December to March.

Ingredients.—1½ lb. of stewed oyster plant (salsify), 3 ozs. of butter, ½ a gill of milk, salt to taste, a pinch of cayenne pepper.

Method.—When the oyster plant is boiled tender, rub it through a sieve; add part of the butter and all the other ingredients, mix well, put in a baking-dish, cover the top with grated breadcrumbs and the rest of the butter, Bake it a delicate brown, and serve hot.