Chop crystallized fruits, add raisins and currants, then pour brandy (or grape juice) over them and let stand several hours. Cream Crisco and sugar, add eggs well beaten together, and all other ingredients. Divide into greased mold (small Crisco cans will do) filling two-thirds full and steam steadily for three hours. Turn out while hot and serve with hard sauce. Sufficient for two medium-sized puddings or one very large one. Rice Pudding 1/2 cupful rice 3 cupfuls milk 3/4 cupful sugar 1/4 cupful Crisco 3 eggs Powdered cinnamon to taste 1/4 cupful seeded raisins 1/2 teaspoonful salt Wash rice and steam it in milk until thick, then allow to cool. Cream Crisco and sugar, add well beaten eggs, raisins, salt, rice, and cinnamon. Grease pudding dish with Crisco, pour in mixture and bake one hour in moderate oven. Walnut Pudding 1/2 cupful sugar 2 cupfuls flour 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 4 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 1/2 teaspoonful salt 2 eggs 1 cupful milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract 1 cupful chopped English walnut meats For Sauce 1 cupful sugar 1/2 cupful water 3 yolks eggs 2 cupfuls whipped cream 1/2 teaspoonful lemon extract Mix flour, sugar, salt and baking powder together, add eggs well beaten, vanilla extract, milk, Crisco, and nuts. Mix well and divide into 9 greased individual molds, cover with greased papers, and steam steadily for three-quarters of an hour. Turn out and serve. _For sauce_. Boil sugar and water till syrup spins a thread, pour over beaten yolks of eggs, and stir quickly. Set aside to cool, stir occasionally, add lemon extract and just before serving mix in whipped cream. Sufficient for nine individual puddings. Woodford Pudding (_Kate B. Vaughn_) 1 cupful sugar 3 eggs 1/2 cupful buttermilk 1 teaspoonful baking soda 1-1/2 cupfuls flour 1/2 cupful Crisco 1 cupful blackberry jam 1/2 teaspoonful salt 1/2 teaspoonful grated nutmeg For Sauce 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 cupful whipped cream Powdered sugar 1/4 teaspoonful salt _For pudding_. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add salt, eggs well beaten, nutmeg, flour, soda mixed with buttermilk, and jam. Mix well and turn into Criscoed pudding dish and bake in moderate oven thirty minutes or until firm. _For sauce_. Cream Crisco and beat in as much powdered sugar as it will take up, add salt, and stir over boiling water until it becomes liquid, flavor with vanilla extract or sherry, and just before serving add cream. Serve hot with pudding. SANDWICHES [Illustration]