ckly enough. Young
unpeeled tender rhubarb gives a pink sauce--older stalks peeled furnish
a translucent green. Either is sufficiently decorative. They can be made
more so, if the tarts they appear on, have a cherry or preserved
strawberry dropped in the middle of them.

_Banana Pie_: Line a deepish earthen pie dish with thin, very good
crust, fill it three parts with bananas, sliced crosswise very thin.
Cover them thickly with sugar, add the strained juice of a large lemon,
dot with bits of butter, put on a lattice crust, and bake in a quick
oven twenty-five minutes.

_Banana Pudding_: Slice very thin, crosswise, three medium size bananas,
sprinkle thickly with sugar, then add to a batter made by beating up
four egg-yolks and two whites, with one cup crumbled rich stale cake,
half-cup sugar, cup very rich milk, and the juice of a large lemon. Mix
smooth, pour into a deep pudding dish, and bake in a quick oven, then
cover with meringue made from the egg-whites left out, beaten up with a
small pinch of salt, two teaspoons cold water, and six tablespoonfuls of
sugar. Return to the oven and let barely color. Serve hot or cold.

_Sweet Potato Pudding_: Beat four eggs very light with four cups sugar
and one cup creamed butter. Add a cupful of very rich milk, mix smooth,
then add one pint of raw grated sweet potato. Mix well, pour into a deep
earthen dish and set in hot oven. As soon as a brown crust forms on top,
stir it down. Repeat this three times at least. Serve hot, with either
wine sauce or a rich sugar and butter sauce, flavored with lemon. It is
best not to flavor the pudding proper, so one may get undiminished the
zest of the brown crust stirred through it.

_Poor Man's Pudding_: Take for each person to be served, a fresh egg, a
tablespoonful sifted flour, and half a cup very rich milk. Add a pinch
of salt for each six eggs. Separate the eggs, beating yolks and whites
very light. Mix yolks gradually with the flour and milk, taking care to
have no lumps. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites at the very last--if
the batter is too thick add a little more milk. Pour into a deep pan,
and bake in a quick oven. It must be taken up the moment it is done or
it will fall, and be ruined. Serve immediately, with a sauce made by
working together over hot water three cups sugar, one cup butter, half a
cup boiling water, cup fruit juice, wine or whiskey, with any flavoring
approved. The sauce cannot be made too rich, the pudding s