Maple Sugar Ice Cream.
One quart cream, 2 cups maple sugar, 2 eggs, 1 pint of milk, ½ cup of flour, scant.
Let the milk come to a boil. Beat one cup of sugar, flour and eggs until the mixture is light and creamy, then stir into the boiling milk; cook until the flour is thoroughly cooked. Set away to cool. When cold whip the cream, add the other cup of sugar and turn into the cooked mixture and freeze.
Mince Meat. (Very Nice.)
One quart of chopped beef, ½ pound of suet, 1 cup of butter, 1 pint of molasses, 2 quarts of chopped apples, 2 cups of raisins, 2 pounds of maple sugar, 1 tablespoonful each of cloves, allspice and cinnamon.
Boil slowly in 2 quarts of sweet cider two or three hours, being careful not to let it burn.
Maple Sweet Pickles.
Seven pounds fruit, 1 pint best maple or cider vinegar, 1 tablespoonful ground cinnamon, 3 pounds of maple sugar, 1 teaspoonful ground cloves, 1 teaspoonful ground allspice. Boil until the fruit is tender. This is excellent for plums, pears, peaches or cucumbers.
Maple Sugar on Snow.
For preparing maple sugar for eating on snow, either sugar or syrup may be used, but the syrup if obtainable, is best. Boil the syrup until, when dropped on snow, it remains on the surface and becomes waxy, then spread it upon the surface of the snow or a block of ice. If the sugar is used, add a little water and melt it, being careful not to burn, and treat in the same manner as the syrup. This will be found, as every sugar maker knows, one of the most delicious treats obtainable.