Pare, core and cut in slices some good, tart cooking apples, put a layer
in a baking dish with sugar, cinnamon and a grating of lemon rind, dot
with tiny lumps of butter, then another layer of apples, sugar, etc.,
and so on until the dish is full. Add a very little water and the juice
of a lemon, and use a little more sugar and butter on top than on the
other layers. Bake until the apples are thoroughly cooked. Cover until
nearly done, when the cover should be removed to allow them to brown.
Serve hot with cream or hard sauce.
BANANA FRITTERS.
Half a pint of sweet milk, a scant half pint of flour, two rounded
teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a small pinch of salt, stir all
together; this should make a batter as thick as that of cake. Roll the
pieces of fruit in it with a fork, and drop quickly into boiling fat.
The batter should be prepared just as it is wanted and not allowed to
stand. Cut three medium-sized bananas into three pieces each and divide
each slice lengthwise so that the fruit will be thin enough to cook
thoroughly while the batter is browning. This recipe will make eighteen
small fritters. Put them on a hot platter--do not pile up--and serve
immediately with a fruit sauce.
BAVARIAN CHERRY CAKE.
Half a pound of fine, juicy black cherries, five tablespoonfuls of fine
bread crumbs, five tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, five eggs and one
ounce of sweet chocolate grated. Put the grated chocolate in a mixing
bowl, break an egg into it and add one tablespoonful of bread crumbs and
one of sugar, beat light and break another egg into it, adding another
tablespoonful of bread crumbs and one of sugar. Then separate the three
remaining eggs, the yolks from the whites, adding one yolk at a time
alternately with bread crumbs and sugar until all are used. Add the
cherries. Beat the three whites of eggs to a stiff froth and fold it in
lightly. Butter thick a cake mould, sift dried bread crumbs over it,
turn the cake into it and bake about three-quarters of an hour in a
moderate oven. Test it as other cake. In Bavaria it is served cold, but
I think it would also be nice hot with fruit sauce.
CRANBERRY BAVARIAN CREAM.
Stew one quart of cranberries; while hot rub through a sieve; measure
out half a pint, and add to it a half cup of granulated sugar. Have a
quarter of a box of gelatine soaked in a quarter of a cup of water one
hour, set the bowl over steam entirely to dissolve the gelatine, then
add the cranberries. Turn it into an earthenware bowl, set in a pan of
ice water and beat until it is perfectly cold and begins to thicken,
then add half a cup of rich milk and beat again, and at the last add
half a cup of whipped cream. Beat it thoroughly and turn it into a mould
and set on the ice to congeal. Serve with cream. Do not use a tin mould
for cranberries.
A MOULD OF FRESH FRUIT.
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