This section is from the book "Crumbs From Everybody's Table - A Cook Book", by Mrs R. L. Porter, Mrs H. S. Ball. Also available from Amazon: Crumbs from everybody's table: A cook book.
1 qt. of milk, Yolks of three eggs,
2tablespoonfuls of corn starch, Sweeten and flavor to taste.
Slice three bananas and put into custard while hot, then pour into a glass dish. When cold, beat whites of eggs to stiff froth, sweeten a little and lay on top of pudding.
Mrs. H. W. Seale.
Beat whites of six eggs very stiff with six tablespoonfuls sugar. Cut up one doz. ripe mellow peaches and stir them in. Serve with whipped cream.
Mrs. H. M. Frost.
Beat to stiff foam whites of six eggs, add small teacupful currant jelly, and whip all together. Sweeten to taste. Fill as many saucers, as you have guests, half full of cream, dropping in the center of each saucer a table-spoonful of the beaten eggs and jelly in the shape of a pyramid. Season with lemon.
Mrs. Fannie R. Barkley.
Two tablespoonfuls tapioca soaked over night in little water; in the morning add one-half cupful sugar, one pt. milk and one egg. Heat milk, add tapioca and boil twenty minutes. Add yolk of egg, sugar, two tea spoonfuls flour, and a little salt, to milk, boil five minutes and pour into a dish. Beat white of egg with one and a half tablespoonfuls sugar, spread over top and set in oven a few minutes. Pare and slice bananas, peaches or oranges, place in the bottom of a glass dish and sprinkle with sugar. Wet a knife, slip around the edge of pudding to loosen, and lay over the fruit.
Mrs. Chas. Noble, Pacific Grove.
H. H, Mason, Red Bazaar, Sells
Crumbs From Everybody's Table
Soak one-half cupful of tapioca in, water over night. In the morning cook it in a double boiler till clear; add one cupful of raspberry jam, a little salt and a small piece of butter; stir well, turn it into a mould and set away to cool and harden. Serve with whipped cream.
Mrs. R. L. Porter.
A small loaf of bread, grated, 1/2 cupful each of butter and sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls of currant jelly, 6 or 8 large apples, pared, cored and sliced very thin, little nutmeg. Heat butter and bread in a pan. Stir apples, jelly, sugar and nutmeg together, and let stand about half an hour. Butter your tin well, line it first with the prepared bread, then layer of apples, then layer of the bread again. Take two layers of apples and three layers of bread. Very nice, when cold to slice and place whipped cream on slices.
Mrs. C. M. Hansen.
Divide a stale sponge cake through center; take upper half and lay brown side down in a deep dish; separate one-fourth lb. of lady fingers and put on, then one-fourth lb. of macaroons. Blanch a few almonds and sprinkle over cakes; pour over one-half glassful sherry and same of brandy; spread over this a thick layer of raspberry jam, then pour on a boiled custard; garnish with whipped cream.
Mrs. L. G. Hare.
 
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