Milk 1 pt. Sugar 2 tablespoonfuls Salt 1/8 teaspoonful Eggs 2 Lemon _or_ Vanilla 1/2 teaspoonful _Method._ Scald the milk, sugar, and salt together. Beat the eggs in a baking dish and pour the scalded milk over them. Add the flavoring and stir well. Set the baking dish in a pan of boiling water and bake in a moderate oven until a knife thrust into the custard will come out clean. Serve cold either plain, or with chocolate sauce. Nutmeg may be grated on top of the custard before baking, or caramel flavoring may be added in place of the vanilla. =3. Chocolate sauce.= _Ingredients._ Chocolate 1 square Sugar 1/4 cup Boiling water 1/2 cup Cream 1/2 cup _Method._ Mix the chocolate, boiling water, and sugar together and stir over the fire until smooth and thick. Add the cream and serve hot. =4. Caramel flavoring.= _Ingredients._ Sugar 2 cups Boiling water 1 cup _Method._ Pour the sugar into a saucepan and stir over the fire until it becomes a thick brown sirup. Pour the boiling water on this and leave on the fire, stirring occasionally until the sugar is all dissolved. This may be bottled and kept for some time. =5. Shortcake.= _Ingredients._ Flour 1 cup Baking powder 1 teaspoonful Salt 1/4 teaspoonful Butter 4 tablespoonfuls _or_ One half butter and one half lard. Milk 1/2 cup _Method._ Mix dry ingredients and cut butter into this mixture with two knives. Stir in the milk and spread the mixture out on a buttered layer cake tin. Bake in a hot oven until brown. Wash and hull a box of strawberries, sprinkle with 1/2 cup of sugar, and crush with a spoon. When the shortcake is done remove from the pan, cut around the edge with a sharp knife and right through the center of the cake, making two layers of it. Spread the lower layer with butter and then with the crushed strawberry. Replace the top layer and serve hot. Fresh peaches, preserves, or a mixture of orange and banana may be used for this shortcake. Another kind of strawberry cake is made of sponge cake, and served cold with whipped cream. =6. Steamed pudding.= _Ingredients._ Suet chopped 1 cup Raisins, currants, and citron sliced 1 cup Egg 1 Sweet milk 1 cup Molasses 1/2 cup Soda 1 teaspoonful Salt 1/4 teaspoonful Flour 3-1/2 cups _Method._