American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables

apples, to every three pints, grate the peal of a fresh lemon, add cinnamon, mace, rose-water and sugar to your taste--and bake in paste No. 3. Every species of fruit such as peas, plums, raspberries, black berries may be only sweetened, without spices--and bake in paste No. 3. _Currant Pies_. Take green, full grown currants, and one third their quantity of sugar, proceeding as above. _A buttered apple Pie_. Pare, quarter and core tart apples, lay in paste No. 3, cover with the same; bake half an hour, when drawn, gently raise the top crust, add sugar, butter, cinnamon, mace, wine or rose-water q: s: PUDDINGS. _A Rice Pudding_. One quarter of a pound rice, a stick of cinnamon, to a quart of milk (stirred often to keep from burning) and boil quick, cool and add half a nutmeg, 4 spoons rose-water, 8 eggs; butter or puff paste a dish and pour the above composition into it, and bake one and half hour. No. 2. Boil 6 ounces rice in a quart milk, on a slow fire 'till tender, stir in one pound butter, interim beet 14 eggs, add to the pudding when cold with sugar, salt, rose-water and spices to your taste, adding raisins or currants, bake as No. 1. No. 3. 8 spoons rice boiled in a quarts milk, when cooled add 8 eggs, 6 ounces butter, wine, sugar and spices, q: s: bake 2 hours. No. 4. Boil in water half pound ground rice till soft, add 2 quarts milk and scald, cool and add 8 eggs, 6 ounces butter, 1 pound raisins, salt, cinnamon and a small nutmeg, bake 2 hours. No. 5. _A cheap one_, half pint rice, 2 quarts milk, salt, butter, allspice, put cold into a hot oven, bake 2 and half hours. No. 6. Put 6 ounces rice into water, or milk and water, let swell or soak tender, then boil gently, stirring in a little butter, when cool stir in a quart cream, 6 or 8 eggs well beaten, and add cinnamon nutmeg, and sugar to your taste, bake. N.B. The