ould previously
rinsed with cold water and sprinkled with sugar and set the form on
ice for 2 hours; when ready to serve turn the pudding onto a dish
and send vanilla sauce to table with it.

585. +Figaro Pudding.+-- Soak 1 ounce gelatine in a little water for
15 minutes; place a saucepan with 1 pint sweet cream, the yolks of 4
eggs and 6 tablespoonfuls sugar over the fire and stir until nearly
boiling; add the gelatine and stir till it is dissolved; remove it
from the fire and set aside to cool, stirring it now and then; when
quite cold and beginning to thicken stir in lightly 1 pint whipped
cream and flavor with vanilla; rinse out a mould with cold water,
sprinkle with sugar, fill in the cream and set in a cool place to
form; serve with cold strawberry sauce.

586. +Farina Melusine (with Apples).+-- Bring 1 quart milk to a boil,
add, stirring constantly, 1 cup farina and stir until it forms into
a stiff paste and loosens itself from bottom of saucepan; transfer
it to a dish; when cold stir 2 tablespoonfuls butter to a cream and
add alternately the yolks of 6 eggs, the farina, 4 tablespoonfuls
sugar, the rind of 1 lemon and lastly the beaten whites; pare and
core 8 large tart apples, put them in a long pan over the fire, add
1 quart boiling water, cover with another pan of same size and steam
them 5 minutes (no longer); then remove carefully, lay them into a
long shaped pudding dish, put a teaspoonful jelly into each apple
and pour the farina mixture over so the apples are entirely covered;
bake in a medium hot oven about 3/4 hour and serve with the following
sauce:--Stir 2 tablespoonfuls butter with 1 cup powdered sugar to a
cream, add the yolks of 2 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls rum or Cognac,
a little nutmeg and lastly the whites beaten to a stiff froth;
sufficient for a family of 8 persons.

587. +Farina Beignets.+-- Bring 1 pint milk with 1 tablespoonful
butter to a boil and add, stirring constantly, 1 cup farina;
continue stirring until it loosens itself from the bottom of
saucepan; transfer the farina to a dish and when cold mix it by
degrees with the yolks of 3 eggs, the grated rind of 1 lemon and 1
tablespoonful sugar; divide this into equal parts the size of an
egg, roll them into oblong shapes, dip them into the beaten whites,
roll in fine bread crumbs and fry in boiling lard; serve them dusted
with sugar or send fruit sauce to table with them.

588. +Farina Pudding (without Eggs).+-- Boil 3 pints milk with a