INDIVIDUAL APPLE DUMPLINGS

Butter six muffin rings and set them on a shallow agate pan which has been well buttered.  Fill the rings with sliced apples.  Make a dough of one and one-half cups of pastry flour sifted several times with one-half teaspoon of salt and three level teaspoons of baking-powder.  Chop into the dry ingredients one-fourth of a cup of shortening, gradually add three-fourths of a cup of milk or water.  Drop the dough on the apples on the rings.  Let bake about twenty minutes.  With a spatula remove each dumpling from the ring, place on dish with the crust side down.  Serve with cream and sugar, hard sauce or with a fruit sauce.

WHIPPED CREAM PIE

Make a crust as rich as possible and line a deep tin.  Bake quickly in a hot oven and spread it with a layer of jelly or jam.  Next whip one cup of sweet cream until it is thick.  Set the cream in a bowl of ice while whipping.  Sweeten slightly and flavor with vanilla, spread this over the pie and put in a cool place until wanted.

GRATED APPLE PIE

Line a pie-plate with a rich puff paste.  Pare and grate four or five large tart apples into a bowl into which you have stirred the yolks of two eggs with about half a cup of sugar.  Add a few raisins, a few currants, a few pounded almonds, a pinch of ground cinnamon, and the grated peel of a lemon.  Have no top crust.  Bake in a quick oven.  In the meantime, make a meringue of the whites of the eggs by beating them to a very stiff froth and add about three tablespoons of pulverized sugar.  Spread this over the pie when baked and set back in the oven until brown.  Eat cold.

APPLE CUSTARD PIE

Line your pie-plates with a rich crust.  Slice apples thin, half fill your plates and pour over them a custard made of four eggs and two cups of milk, sweetened and seasoned to taste.

CHERRY PIE, No. 1

Line a pie-plate with rich paste, sprinkle cornstarch lightly over the bottom crust and fill with cherries and regulate the quantity of sugar you scatter over them by their sweetness.  Bake with an upper crust, secure the edges well by pinching firmly together.  Eat cold.

CHERRY PIE, No. 2

Pick the stems out of your cherries and put them in an earthen crock, then set them in the oven until they get hot.  Take them out and seed them.  Make tarts with or without tops and sugar to your taste.  The heating of the fruit gives the flavor of the seed, which is very rich, but the seeding of them while hot is not a delightful job.  Made this way they need no water for juice.

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