=Raisin Apples.=--A simple dessert enjoyed by the children consists of
apples, cored and each cavity filled with sugar, nutmeg, a bit of butter
and two or three raisins. Add one cupful of hot water, put in bag and
bake in a slow oven. This may be varied occasionally by placing a
meringue on the top of each apple when done, and cooking in a slow oven
for seven minutes longer. Serve cold.
=Baked Apple Sauce.=--Peel and core firm apples of good flavor. Stick
three cloves in each and put bits of mace and cinnamon in the core
spaces. Put them in a well-buttered bag with two heaping cupfuls of
sugar and a half cupful of water. Cook thirty minutes. Have the oven
very hot at first, but slack heat after seven minutes. Lemon juice
instead of water makes a richer flavored sauce. In that case add a half
cupful more sugar at the outset.
=Baked Bananas.=--Peel and remove coarse threads, cut the pulp in halves
lengthwise, dust with sugar and sprinkle with lemon juice, put in
buttered bag and bake fifteen minutes, or roll the bananas in hot
marmalade, then bake.
=Stuffed Dates.=--Select large, fine fruit, wash quickly and remove the
pit. Put into the cavity a bit of crystallized ginger or citron, a nut
or little candied peel, roll in confectioner's sugar and lay in lightly
buttered bag left open at one end. Put in coolish oven to harden.
=Baked Gooseberries.=--Put into a greased bag a pint of "topped and
tailed" gooseberries, add a cupful each sugar and water, seal and cook
twenty minutes.
=Baked Peaches.=--Pour boiling water over the fruit, then rub off the
skins and place in buttered bag without removing the pits. Add a
teaspoonful of water for each peach, seal and bake about twenty minutes
in a hot oven. When done, sweeten to taste and set aside to chill before
using. Serve with sweet cream.
=Baked Pears.=--Select ripe, fine-flavored fruit, snip out the blossom
end and stick in a clove. If the skin is thin, do not peel, but if
tough, remove, put in buttered bag with a little water, seal and cook
from fifteen to thirty minutes according to the quality of the fruit.
=Baked Plums.=--Put in buttered bag with a little water and cook twenty
or twenty-five minutes. Sweeten to taste when done.
=Baked Quinces.=--Wash, core and peel, fill the centers with sugar and
put in greased bag with two tablespoonfuls of water allowed for each
quince. Seal and bake slowly for an hour, until the quince is tender but
not mushy. Serve with the quince syrup and a spoonful of whipped cream
on top of each quince.
=Baked Raisins.=--Remove stems, clean well, put in a colander and wash
thoroughly. Put in buttered bag with a cupful of water for each cupful
of raisins. Seal and cook slowly for half an hour. A mixture of dried
apricots, prunes and cherries is nice with the raisins, but these fruits
need long soaking in cold water before adding to the raisins and
cooking.
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