ORANGE SOUFFLÉ.
Make a boiled custard with the yolks of five eggs, a quart of milk, and sugar to taste. When cool pour it over four sliced oranges, from which all seeds and tough fibre have been removed, and to which has been added one cupful of sugar, and grated rind of one orange. Place this in baking dish, cover with a meringue made of the whites of four eggs; then place the dish in a shallow pan of cold water and put in oven until the meringue is a golden brown. Serve cold.
ORANGE CUSTARDS.
Beat the yolks of six eggs with one and one half cupfuls granulated sugar till light; add to this two cupfuls of orange juice, the juice of one lemon, and the grated peel of one orange; fill in small cupfuls and place in steamer, when solid set away to chill; serve on boiled rice, over which pour a pint of rich cream, sweetened and flavored with a little grated peel of orange.
CHESTNUT CREAM.
Roast the chestnuts, then grate to powdered flakes, heaping lightly in middle of pudding dish, surround with apricot jam, and serve with whipped cream.
PEACH CAKE.
Have sponge or plain cake baked in two layers; cut or slice canned peaches; cover a layer of the cake with the cut peaches; put on another layer of cake and more peaches and turn over all well sweetened and flavored whipped cream.
STEAMED CABINET PUDDING.
Use one tablespoonful of butter to grease a three pint pudding mould. Take one cupful of fruit; raisins, candied cherries, or preserved fruits, as you prefer; sprinkle one half the fruit in the buttered mould, then break in stale cake or bread crumbs, mixing with it the rest of the fruit, filling the mould lightly. Then whip up three eggs, add to them three tablespoonfuls of sugar and three cupfuls of milk, pour over the cake and fruit mixture. Let stand one hour, then steam for one and one fourth hours. Serve hot with creamy sauce.