The directions given for cake apply likewise to puddings. Always beat the whites and yolks of the eggs separately and very light, and add the whites just before baking or boiling. All puddings (except those risen with yeast), should be baked immediately after the ingredients are mixed. Thick yellow earthenware dishes are better than tin for baking puddings, on several accounts. One is that the pudding, to be good, must be baked principally from the bottom, and tin burns more easily than earthenware. Another reason is, that the acids employed in some puddings corrode and discolor tin. Garnish the pudding with sifted white sugar, and with candied or preserved orange or lemon peel. In boiling a pudding, cold water should never be added. Keep a kettle of hot water to replenish the water in the pot as it boils away. As soon as the pudding is done, remove it from the boiling water. A decrease in heat whilst cooking, makes boiled pudding sodden, and makes baked pudding fall. The best sauce for a boiled pudding is cold sauce made of the frothed whites of eggs, butter, sugar, nutmeg, and a little French brandy, while for a baked pudding, a rich, boiled wine sauce is best. PLUM PUDDING. 3 dozen eggs. 3 pounds baker's bread, stale, and grated fine. 3 pounds suet. 3 pounds brown sugar. 1 pound sliced citron. 3 pounds currants. 4 pounds seeded raisins. ½ ounce nutmeg, and the same of mace, cloves, and cinnamon. Half pint wine. Half pint French cooking brandy. Mix and divide into six parts. Tie each part in a twilled cotton cloth, put them in boiling water, and let them boil four hours. Then hang them in the air to dry a day or two. Keep them in a cool, dry place. When you wish to use one, it must be boiled an hour before dinner. Serve with rich sauce. It will keep six months or a year.--_Mrs. T. M. C._ _Plum Pudding._ 10 eggs. 1 pound chopped suet. 1 pound seeded raisins. 1 pound currants. 1 pound stale bread crumbs. ½ pound citron. 1 nutmeg. 1 wine-glassful wine. 1 wine-glassful brandy. ½ pound brown sugar. Beat the eggs light, add the sugar and spices, stir in the suet and bread crumbs, add the fruit by degrees, then the wine and brandy. Pour into a well-floured bag, leaving a third as much room as the mixture occupies, for swelling. Put into a pot of boiling water and boil four hours. Dip the bag into cold water when ready to turn out the pudding, to prevent it from sticking.--_Mrs. E. B._ _Plum Pudding._