th custard
as a sauce. This is very nice for invalids, omitting the sauce.

RICE BLANC MANGE.

One half pound ground rice, one quart of milk, three ounces of sugar,
the rind of half a lemon, one half teaspoonful of vanilla. Boil the rice
in the milk for twenty minutes with the sugar and rind of lemon, then
remove the rind and add the vanilla. Put it into a wet mould.

LEMON JELLY.

MISS CLINT.

Dissolve one package or twelve sheets of gelatine in a little warm
water. Then add three and one half pints of boiling water, one pound of
sugar and the juice of four lemons. Cool in a mould.

COFFEE JELLY.

MRS. GAUDET.

Two tablespoons of coffee, one package of gelatine, one glass of sherry
boiled down to one pint.

ICED APPLES WITH CREAM.

MRS. W. W. WELCH.

Pare and core six apples; cook them in a syrup made of one cup of sugar,
and two of water; drop the apples into the boiling syrup; when they are
tender put them on a platter, when cool cover with a thin layer of
meringue and brown. Let the syrup boil until reduced to one half
cupful, when cold, will form a jelly, cut into squares and place over
and around the apples. Serve cold with sugar and cream.

FRUIT JELLY.

MISS FRY.

To one large box of gelatine add one half pint cold water. When
dissolved add juice of three lemons, two cups sugar, one pint of boiling
water. Arrange in layers in a mould. Four bananas and two or more
oranges (sliced) six castane nuts chopped fine, six figs, one quarter
lb. dates cut into small pieces. Strain jelly over this and cool. Serve
with whipped cream. A lining of ladies fingers is an improvement.

COMPOTE OF APPLES.

MISS SEPTIMUS BARROW.

Take five apples, wipe, but do not peel them, take the cores out of four
of them and put them in a deep dish. Slice the fifth apple and put the
slices and a small lemon sliced with the four apples. One quarter lb.
brown sugar to be sprinkled over apples. One half pint of water. Bake
until perfectly soft but do not let them lose their shape. Put them in a
dish, press and strain the cut up pieces over the cooked apples. To be
eaten cold.

POMMES A LA VESUVE.

MISS LAMPSON.

Pile some apple marmalade high in a dish; get ready some macaroni boiled
in water well drained, and afterwards sweetened with white sugar, and
flavored with brandy; cut it into short lengths, lay it as a bordering
round the mountains of marmalade; dust the whole over with powdered
sugar, and on