The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

then permit it to finish cooking with light-colored crust, disturbing it no more. Eat cold with cream. =Rice Pudding, 2.=-½ cup rice, ¾ pint milk, 4 apples, peeled, cored, and stewed, ⅓ cup sugar, 4 eggs. Boil rice in milk until reduced to pulp; beat well with apple sauce and sugar for 10 minutes, then set aside to cool; then carefully mix in whites of eggs, whipped to stiff froth, butter the mold, pour in pudding, set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ½ up its sides; steam slowly for 25 minutes; permit it to stand 3 minutes before turning out; serve with custard sauce. =Sago Pudding.=—1 quart milk, 4 tablespoons sago boiled in the milk till soft; set dish in kettle of hot water, and let sago swell gradually. Beat up 3 eggs, and stir into cooked milk and sago; salt and sugar to taste. Then put in oven and bake very lightly. Serve with creamy sauce. =Soufflé of Different Fruits.=—With fruits of a soft and juicy nature, such as peaches, plums, apricots, bananas, etc., proceed in this manner: Remove the kernels and press the fruit through a sieve; put what you have thus obtained in a bowl, adding ½ pound powdered sugar and the whites of 3 eggs; beat well with an egg-beater for 5 or 6 minutes. Then take the whites of 6 or 7 eggs and beat them into a stiff froth; mix well together. Put this on a dish in a well-heated oven 5 or 6 minutes before serving. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top. For hard fruits, such as apples, pears, etc., cook them first and then press through a sieve. The treatment is exactly the same as for the others. =Suet Pudding.=—2 eggs, 1 cup milk, ½ cup molasses, ½ cup finely chopped suet, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 3 scant cups flour, spices to taste, and 1 cup mixed chopped fruit—raisins, citron, currants, or almonds. Steam 2 hours and serve with a soft sauce. =Tapioca Pudding.=—1 small cup tapioca, 1 quart milk, 1 teaspoon butter, 3 tablespoons sugar. Soak