AN APPLE PANDOWDY.—
Make a good plain paste. Pare, core, and slice half a dozen or more fine large juicy apples, and strew among them sufficient brown sugar to make them very sweet; adding some cloves, cinnamon, or lemon-peel. Have ready a pint of sour milk. Butter a deep tin baking-pan, and put in the apples with the sugar and spice. Then, having dissolved, in a little lukewarm water, a small tea-spoonful of soda, stir it into the milk, the acid of which it will immediately remove. Pour the milk, foaming, upon the apples, and immediately put a lid or cover of paste over the top, in the manner of a pie. This crust should be rolled out rather thick. Notch the edge all round, having made it fit closely. Set it into a hot oven, and bake it an hour. Eat it warm, with sugar.
HONEY PASTE (for the HANDS.)—
Take half a pound of strained honey, half a pound of white wax, and half a pound of fresh lard. Cut up the wax very small, put it into a porcelain-lined saucepan, and set it over the fire till it is quite melted. Then add alternately the honey and the lard; stirring them all well together. Let them boil moderately, till they become a thick paste, about the consistence of simple cerate, or of lip salve. Then remove the saucepan from the fire, and stir into the mixture some rose-perfume, or carnation, or violet—no other. Transfer the paste, while warm, to gallicups with covers; and paste a slip of white paper round each cover.
For keeping the hands white and soft, and preventing their chapping, there is nothing superior to this paste; rubbing on a little of it, after dipping your hands lightly in water.