Dumplings for Stews, 2.—Mix 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, ⅓ teaspoon salt. Add milk to mix to thick batter. Drop by small spoonfuls over boiling stew, and cook as in preceding receipt.
Suet Dumplings.—1 cup bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons finely chopped beef suet, whites and yolks 2 eggs beaten separately, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder sifted with 1 cup flour, sufficient milk to mix to stiff paste. Flour hands and make into balls. Wring small cloths in hot water, dust with flour, lay ball in each and tie, leaving room to swell. Cook in rapidly boiling water 45 minutes, and serve with liquid sauce (see [Sauces]).
Potato Dumplings.—1 dozen large potatoes, 6 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tablespoon butter, 3 eggs, salt, and nutmeg. Grate potatoes, which have been boiled and skinned the day before; mix with the flour, previously sifted together with baking powder, add the melted butter, and eggs one by one, and salt and nutmeg to taste; form into balls about size of a small apple, put into boiling water, which has been well salted, boil 15 minutes; take out with skimmer, and serve with any kind of fricassee or pot-roast.
Suet Dumplings (Danish).—1 cup suet, chopped fine, 1 cup grated English muffins or bread, 1 cup flour, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, ½ cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 pint milk, large pinch salt. Sift together powder and flour, add beaten eggs, grated muffins, sugar, suet, and milk; form into smooth batter, which drop by tablespoons into pint boiling milk, three or four at a time; when done, dish and pour over them milk they were boiled in.
Puddings
Apple Pudding (Boston).—Paste, 3; 12 or 14 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced; 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg, 1½ cups sugar. Line edge of deep earthenware dish with the paste; pack in the apples, add sugar, ⅓ cup water, and extract; wet edge of paste; lay on cover of paste, press two together, ornament edge, wash with milk, bake in moderate oven; serve with rich cream.
Apple Pudding (English).—Paste, 2; 12 or 14 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced; 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg, 1½ cups sugar. Line earthenware pudding-mold with paste, pack in apples, sugar, and extract; wet edges; cover, pinch edges together firmly; place in saucepan ½ full boiling water.
Apple Tapioca Pudding.—Pare and core enough apples to fill dish; put into each apple bit of lemon peel. Soak ½ pint tapioca in 1 quart lukewarm water 1 hour, add a little salt; flavor with lemon; pour over apples. Bake until apples are tender. Serve cold with cream and sugar.
Blackberry Pudding.—Paste, 2; 1 quart berries, 1½ cups sugar. Proceed as directed for apple pudding.