Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery: The "All About It" Books

them some pounded white sugar. These may be made richer by using puff-paste instead of suet-crust. _Time._—From ½ to ¾ hour, or longer. _Average cost_, 1½_d._ each. _Sufficient_ for 4 persons. _Seasonable_ from August to March, but flavourless after the end of January. APPLE DUMPLINGS, Boiled. _Ingredients._—6 apples, suet-crust, sugar to taste. _Mode._—Pare and take out the cores of the apples with a scoop; sweeten, and roll each apple in a piece of crust, made with ¾ lb. of flour to 6 oz. of suet, and be particular that the paste is nicely joined. Put the dumplings into floured cloths, tie them securely, and place them in boiling water. Keep them boiling from ¾ to 1 hour; remove the cloths, and send them hot and quickly to table. Dumplings boiled in knitted cloths have a very pretty appearance when they come to table. The cloths should be made square, just large enough to hold one dumpling, and should be knitted in plain knitting, with _very coarse_ cotton. _Time._—¾ to 1 hour, or longer should the dumplings be very large. _Average cost_, 1½_d._ each. _Sufficient_ for 4 persons. _Seasonable_ from August to March, but flavourless after the end of January. APPLE FRITTERS. _Ingredients._—For the batter, 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, ½ oz. of butter, ½ saltspoonful of salt, 2 eggs, milk, 4 medium-sized apples, hot lard or clarified beef-dripping. _Mode._—Break the eggs, dividing the whites from the yolks, and beat them separately. Put the flour into a basin, stir in the butter, which should be melted to a cream; add the salt, and moisten with sufficient warm milk to make it of a proper consistency, that is to say, a batter that will drop from the spoon. Stir this well, rub down any lumps that may be seen, add the yolks and then the whites of the eggs, which have been previously well whisked; beat up the batter for a few minutes, and it is ready for use. Now peel and cut the apples into rather thick whole slices, without dividing them, and stamp out the middle of each slice, where the