Sweet Food, Remarks—Queen of all Puddings—Flour Pudding—Flour and Fruit Pudding—Rusk and Milk—Rusk Pudding—Meat and Rusk Pudding—A good Pudding—Pan Dowdy—Corn-meal Pop-over—Best Apple-pie—Puddings: of Rice; Bread and Fruit; Boiled Fruit—Curds (English)—Common Apple-pie—Plain Custard—Another—Mush or Hasty Pudding—Stale Bread Pudding—Rennet Wine—Rennet Custard—Bird’snest Pudding—Minute Pudding of Potato Starch—Tapioca Pudding—Cocoa-nut Pudding—New-England Squash or Pumpkin Pie—Ripe-fruit Pies: Peach, Cherry, Plum, Currants, and Strawberry—Mock Cream—Pudding of Bread-crumbs and Fruit—Bread and Apple Dumplings—Indian Pudding without Eggs—Boiled Indian and Suet Pudding—Dessert of Rice and Fruit—Another—Cold Rice and stewed or grated Apple—Rich Flour Pudding—Apple-pie—Spiced Apple-tarts—Baked Indian Pudding—Apple Custard—Macaroni or Vermicelli Pudding—Green-corn Pudding—Bread Pudding for Invalids or young Children—A good Pudding—Loaf Pudding—Lemon Pudding—Green-corn Patties—Cracker Plum-pudding—Sauces for Puddings, Liquid—Hard—Another—A healthful Sauce—Universal Sauce—Paste for Puddings and Pies—Pie-crusts without Fats; made with Butter, very rich 74 CHAPTER XVI. CAKE. General Directions.—_Cake raised with Powders_—One, two, three, four Cake—Chocolate; Jelly; Orange; Almond and Cocoa-nut.—_Cake raised with Eggs_—Pound Cake; Plain; Fruit; Huckleberry; Gold and Silver; Rich Sponge; Plain Sponge—Gingerbread, etc.—Aunt Esther’s Gingerbread—Sponge Gingerbread—Ginger Snaps—Seed Cookies—Fried Cakes.—_Cakes raised with Yeast_—Plain Loaf-cake—Rich Loaf-cake—Dough-cake—Icing for Cake 85 CHAPTER XVII. PRESERVES AND JELLIES. General Directions—Canned Fruit—To clarify Sirups for Sweetmeats—Brandy Peaches—Peaches (not rich)—Peaches (elegant)—To preserve Quinces whole—Quince Jelly—Calf-foot Jelly—To preserve Apples—Pears—Pine-apples—Purple Plums, No. 1 and No. 2—White or green Plums—Citron Melons—Strawberries—Blackberry Jam—Currants to eat with Meat—Cherries-Currants—Raspberry Jam, No. 1 and No. 2—Currant Jelly—Quince Marmalade—Water-melon Rinds—Preserved Pumpkin 90 CHAPTER XVIII. DESSERTS AND EVENING PARTIES. Ice-cream—Strawberry Ice-cream—Ice-cream without Cream—Fruit Ice-cream—A Cream for stewed Fruit—Currant, Raspberry, or Strawberry Whisk—Lemonade—Ice and other Ices—Charlotte Russe—Flummery—Chicken Salad—Wine Jelly—Apple-lemon Pudding—Wheat-flour Blanc-mange—Orange Marmalade—Simple Lemon Jelly—Cranberry—Apple Ice—Whip Syllabub—Apple-snow—Iced Fruit—Ornamental Froth—To clarify Isinglass—Blanc-mange—Apple Jelly—Orange Jelly—Floating Island—A Dish of Snow—To clarify Sugar—Candied Fruits—Another way—Ornamental Pyramid 95 CHAPTER XIX. DRINKS AND ARTICLES FOR THE SICK AND YOUNG CHILDREN.