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same quantity of mace, and powder four nutmegs; sift Almond Pudding.—Blanch and pound a couple dozen of these spices and mix them together in a cup. Then mix 'Iweet, and the same of bitter almonds; have ready a piece together two large glasses of white wine, one glass of of butter the size of a large egg—one quart and one pint of brandy, and some rose water. Cut one pound of citron into milk—half a paper of rice ﬂour, and sugar to your taste. long strips. Sift one pound of ﬂour into one pan, and one Boil the milk, while boiling add the ingredients and stir as pound of powdered loaf sugar into another pan. Cut up for custard; pour it into a pudding dish. Beat the whites among the sugar one pound of the best fresh butter, and of two eggs with six or eight tablespoonfuls of white sugar, stir them to a cream. Beat twelve eggs perfectly smooth as for icing—pour it over the surface of the pudding, then and thick. and stir them gradually into the butter and sugar put the dish into the oven long enough to brown the top. alternately with the flour, then add, by degrees, the fruit, spice, and liquor, and stir the whole very hard at the last. Let it get cold, and serve it with cream. Bird‘s-Nut Pudding.—-Pare and core six or eight nice tart Put it immediately into a moderate oven, and bake it at least four hours. When done, let it remain in the oven to become apples,and put them in apnddiug dish. Take aquart of milk. six eggs. and suﬂicient ﬂour to make a thin batter—pour it cold: all night is best. Ice it in the morning, ﬁrst dredging over the apples until the dish is nearly full. Bake it until the outside with ﬂour, and then wiping it with a towel. the apples are clear, or you think it is done. Eat it with This will make the icing adhere better. Indian Meal Slwrt-Cakcs.—-Stir into a pint of milk three wine sauce—or, cold sauce made of butter, sugar and nut eggs, beaten light; add a small portion of salt, and half a meg beat well together. Boﬂlrd Bread Padding—Take a loaf of stale bread, and cupful of butter, with enough sifted meal to make a thick cut it up; pour one quart of cold milk over the bread, batter. Drop the batter from a huge spoon upon buttered and let it stand awhile; then mash it smooth with a spoon, tins, and bake the cakes in a quick oven. When they are of and add six eggs, beaten light. Flour a pudding bag Well, a light brown color they are done enough. Almond Icing.—Beat the whites of three eggs to a strong put the batter into it, and let it boil one hour and a half. froth, beat a pound of almonds, very ﬁne, with rose water; To be served with wine sauce. mix the almonds lightly together with the eggs, and put in cnssxs,sc. by degrees a pound of common loaf sugar, beat ﬁne; when Flummcry.—Put one ounce of bitter, and one ounce of your cake is done enough take it out of the oven, lay your sweet almonds into a dish, pour some boiling water over icing on, and put it in to brown. them—strip oi! the skins, and throw the kernels into cold Light Biscuit—To two pounds of ﬂour add one tablespoon water; then take them out, beat them in a marble mortar ful of butter, one teacupful of cream, (slightly sour,) and one with a little rose water, then put them into a pint of calf's small teaspoonful of pearlash. Make the dough as soft as foot stock, set it over the fire, and sweeten it to your taste Q possible, roll it out very thin, out out the cakes, and let them with leaf sugar. As soon'as it boils strain it through at, bake ﬁve minutes. These cakes are very superior to the piece of muslin or gauze, and when a little cold put it into 1' ordinary kind of light biscuit. a pint of thick cream, and keep stirring it frequently till Q Soda Biscuit—Have ready one teaspoonful of soda dis it grows thick and cold. Have ready some moulds—wet Q solved in a pint of sweet milk; rub two teaspoonfuls of cream them in cold water, and pour in the tiummery. Let them I/f/I/J/I/I/ of tartar in the ﬂour you use, and also a lump of butter the stand ﬁve or six hours at least before you turn them out. size of an egg. Make the batter about as stiff as for other Bavarian Cream.-—-Pr0cure one quart of cream. Take one biscuits. ' pint of it, whip it, and lay it on a sieve; take the other pint Rusk—Ingredients: Three bowlfuls of flour, one bowlfni and boil it, adding the yolks of four eggs, well beat—make of sugar, one quarter and half a quarter of a pound of butter, it into a custard, seasoning it to your taste; then put into it a (rubbed in the ﬂour,) two teacupfuls of home-made yeasg half an ounce of isinglass, and set it on some ice. When it 2 and one pint of warm milk; mix all in, and set a sponge. begins to thicken, stir in the whip cream, a spoonful at a Cbcoanut (like—Grate the nut, and let it dry before the time, and beat it until it becomes the consistency of sponge ﬁre; mix with it an equal quantity of sugar, and as many cake; then pour it In your moulds, and put it on ice. whites of eggs as will make a paste. Bake the cakes on Cold Custard.-—Ingredients—-one quart of new milk—half white paper, in a slow oven. a pint of cream—quarter of a pound of powdered white Breakfast China—Ingredients: One quart of sifted ﬂoor, sugar—a large glassful of wine, and a nutmeg. grated. Mix one pint of milk, three eggs, a lump of butter the size of a the milk, cream, and sugar together—stir the wine into it, walnut, and one gill of yeast. Let it rise over night. Bake and pour the mixture into cups; set them in a warm place it in a pan. near a fire until they become a curd. Then set them in a Rice (Ilka—Mix together half a pound of soft boiled rice, very cold place, and grate nutmeg over them. one quarter ofa pound of butter, one quart of milk. six egg; Fro:en Custard—Boil one quart of milk with some lemon Q and flour enough to make a thin batter. Bake them on a peel and cinnamon—the yolks of six eggs, well beaten, and griddle. mixed with a pint of cream. 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Black Chke.-—-Ilave ready two pounds of currents, and two pounds of raisins; drudge them with ﬂour to prevent them from sinking in the cake. Powder as much cinnamon as will make a large tablespoonful, prepare the

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