COLD CABINET PUDDING.
Make a custard of one pint hot milk, yolks of three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sugar; thicken with corn starch. Flavor with teaspoonful of vanilla. Decorate a mould with candied fruit; cover fruit with custard; cool, add a layer of lady fingers or stale cake, then a layer of fruit and more custard, and chill; continue until the mould is full. Serve with whipped cream and candied cherries.
PRUNE WHIP.
Wash thoroughly one half pound of prunes and soak three hours in enough water to cover; cook in same water until the consistency of marmalade. Rub through a sieve, sweeten. Whip the whites of four eggs, and add the prunes (which should be thoroughly chilled); beat until well mixed; pile lightly on a buttered platter, and bake until a delicate brown. Serve with whipped cream or soft custard.
WASHINGTON PIE, CHOCOLATE FILLING.
Make a plain cup cake, and bake in two layers. For the filling, beat the yolks of two eggs till light, and add one half cupful of sugar; stir this into one half cupful of milk; melt two ounces of chocolate and stir into the milk; put on stove, and cook till it thickens; beat till cool, flavor with vanilla and spread on the cake between layers and sprinkle confectioners’ sugar on top. Plain Washington pie has simply a dressing of whipped cream, sweetened, and flavored with vanilla, between the layers.
STRAWBERRY CREAM CAKE.
Make cake the same as for any good layer cake. For the filling take one cupful of thick sweet cream, whip until stiff, add four tablespoonfuls of fine grained granulated sugar and one pint of strawberries, crushed slightly, and sweetened. When cake is perfectly cold spread between layers. This should not stand long before serving.
CHARLOTTE RUSSE PIE.
Three eggs, one and one half cupfuls of sugar, two cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of pure cream of tartar, one half cupful of cold water, one half teaspoonful of soda. Beat the eggs thoroughly with the sugar, add one cupful of flour with even teaspoonful of pure cream of tartar, then water, and another cupful of flour. Enough for two pies.