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30 Bake it and grate nutmeg over the top.

Currants or raisins, floured, and stirred in at the last, will greatly improve it.

It should be eaten cold, or quite cool.

BOSTON PUDDING.

Made a good common paste with a pound and a half of flour, and three quarters of a pound of butter. When you roll it out the last time, cut off the edges, till you get the sheet of paste of an even square shape.

Have ready some fruit sweetened to your taste. If cranberries, gooseberries, dried peaches, or damsons, they should be stewed, and made very sweet. If apples, they should be stewed in a very little water, drained, and seasoned with nutmeg, rose-water and lemon. If currants, raspberries, or blackberries, they should be mashed with sugar, and put into the pudding raw.

Spread the fruit very thick, all over the sheet of paste, (which must not be rolled out too thin.) When it is covered all over with the fruit, roll it up, and close the dough at both ends, and down the last side. Tie the pudding int a cloth and boil it.

Eat it with sugar. It must not be taken out of the pot till just before it is brought to table.