Fig Roll

Whole wheat flour, 1 quart. Baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon. Butter, 1 tablespoon.

Egg, 1. Figs, 10. Milk, 1 1/2 cups.

Sift flour and baking powder together, rub in butter and 1 egg beaten light. Make a soft dough with the milk. Roll out quickly 1/2 inch thick and cut in oval pieces. Brush with melted butter. Chop figs and spread on half of each piece. Fold over other half and seal with white of egg. Bake 20 minutes in a hot oven.

Steamed Apples

Prepare apples as for baking. Put in top of double boiler with 1 cup of water. Fill lower part with boiling water and steam for 25 minutes. Serve with cream and sugar.

Mother, South Weymouth.

Raspberry Whip

Egg whites, 3.

Mashed raspberries, 1 1/2 cups.

Powdered sugar, 1 cup. Whole raspberries, 1 cup.

Granulated sugar.

Beat the egg whites till very stiff, then beat in the mashed raspberries and powdered sugar. Cover the whole raspberries with granulated sugar. Let them stand for 1/2 hour and then put some into each dessert glass. Pile it full of the whip and serve ice cold.

Baked Bananas

Bananas, 6.

Melted butter, 2 tablespoons.

Sugar, 1-3 cup.

Lemon juice, 2 tablespoons.

Remove skins from bananas, scrape, cut in halves lengthwise and arrange in a shallow pan. Mix butter, sugar and lemon juice, and baste bananas with half this mixture. Bake 20 minutes in a slow oven, basting during the baking with remaining mixture.

Orange Fool

Oranges, 6. Eggs, 3.

Cream, 2 cups. Sugar.

Nutmeg, a pinch.

Whip cream and beat eggs. Mix and beat in juice of the oranges, add sugar to taste and nutmeg. Cook in double boiler till thick, stirring constantly. Then remove, cool and chill before serving.

Coffee Whip

Flour, 3 tablespoons. Sugar, 4 tablespoons.

Clear coffee, 2 cups. Egg whites, 2.

Mix flour and sugar and dissolve with a little of the coffee. When well blended add rest of coffee and cook in double boiler until thick. When partly cool fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and chill. Serve with whipped cream.

Mrs. C. W., Jamaica Plain.

Scalloped Bananas

Bananas, 6. Salt, 1 teaspoon. Bread crumbs, 1 cup.

Brown sugar, 1/2 cup. Butter, 1 tablespoon. Water, 1/2 cup.

Skin, scrape and slice the bananas. Butter a baking dish, put in half the bananas and sprinkle with half the salt, sugar and bread crumbs. Add the remaining bananas and sprinkle with the rest of the salt, sugar and bread crumbs. Divide the butter in bits and put over the top. Pour over all the water, cover and put in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake for 20 minutes more or until nicely browned.

Banana Whip

Large bananas, 3.

Lemon juice, 2 tablespoons.

Sugar, 1 cup.

Grated lemon rind, 1 teaspoon. Granulated gelatine, 2 table-spoons. Boiling water, 2 cups.

Soak gelatine in 1/2 cup of cold water for 15 minutes. Dissolve in boiling water, add sugar, lemon juice and rind. Set in pan of ice water. The bananas should be very ripe, skin them, scrape and put through a coarse sieve. When jelly is cold beat it till light, add banana pulp and beat again. Pile into a glass dish and serve with whipped cream or cold cocoa sauce.