CORNMEAL PUDDING

Bring one pint of milk to the boiling point; pour it gradually on one-half cup of Indian meal, stirring all the while to prevent lumps.  When cool add three eggs well beaten, and one tablespoon of flour, one-half cup of sugar, one-half teaspoon of ginger, one teaspoon of cinnamon, pinch of salt and one pint cold milk.  Pour into battered pudding dish and bake an hour and a half.  Serve with hot maple sugar or cream.

BLACK BREAD PUDDING

Yolks of three eggs beaten with one cup of sugar; add one teaspoon of cinnamon, pinch of cloves, and pinch of allspice; one cup of stale rye bread crumbs added gradually.  Mix well and add beaten whites.  Bake slowly.  Half an hour before serving, add one cup of claret or white wine.  Serve with sherry wine sauce or whipped cream.

DIMPES DAMPES (APPLE SLUMP)

Mix one-half cup of sugar, one-quarter teaspoon of salt, two cups of flour and gradually two cups of milk to make a smooth batter.

Melt one-half cup or a little less of butter in a large shallow dripping-pan and let it spread all over the pan to grease it well, then pour one-half cup of butter and one quart of sliced apples to the batter.  Mix and pour into pan or pans not more than three-quarters of an inch deep and bake in a moderate oven, thirty to forty-five minutes, until a golden brown.  This quantity serves ten people.

BIRD’S NEST PUDDING

Pare four or five large tart apples and cut off the top of each apple to use as a cover.  Now scrape out all the inside, being careful not to break the apples; mix scrapings with sugar, cinnamon, raisins, a few pounded almonds and add a little white wine and the grated peel of one lemon.  Fill up the apples with this mixture and put back the top of each apple, so as to cover each well.  Grease a deep dish, set in the apples and stew a few minutes.  In the meantime make a sponge cake batter of four eggs, one cup of pulverized sugar, one cup of flour and pour over the apples and bake one-half hour.  Eat warm or cold, with or without sauce.

Plain baked apples can be substituted for the filled apples.

SUET PUDDING WITH PEARS

Take half a pound of suet and chop it to a powder.  Soak a loaf of stale bread, squeeze out the water and add to the suet.  Work bread and suet well with your hands and add two eggs, one cup of sugar, one teaspoon, of salt, allspice, cloves, cinnamon and grated peel of a lemon.  Add flour enough to work into a huge ball; sift two teaspoons of baking-powder in flour.  Pare about half a peck of cooking pears and cut in halves, leaving the stems on.  Lay half the pears in a large kettle, put the pudding in centre of the pears, and lay the rest of the pears all around.  Add sugar, sliced lemon, a few cloves, some cinnamon bark and three tablespoons of syrup.  Fill up with cold water and boil half an hour on top of stove.  Then bake for at least three hours, adding water if needed.