_Sufficient_ for 1 entremets.

VOL-AU-VENT OF FRESH STRAWBERRIES WITH WHIPPED CREAM.

1381. INGREDIENTS.--3/4 lb. of puff-paste No. 1208, 1 pint of
freshly-gathered strawberries, sugar to taste, a plateful of whipped
cream.

_Mode_.--Make a _vol-au-vent_ case by recipe No. 1379, only not quite so
large nor so high as for a savoury one. When nearly done, brush the
paste over with the white of an egg, then sprinkle on it some pounded
sugar, and put it back in the oven to set the glaze. Remove the
interior, or soft crumb, and, at the moment of serving, fill it with the
strawberries, which should be picked, and broken up with sufficient
sugar to sweeten them nicely. Place a few spoonfuls of whipped cream on
the top, and serve.

_Time_.--1/2 hour to 40 minutes to bake the _vol-au-vent_.

_Average cost_, 2s. 3d.

_Sufficient_ for 1 _vol-au-vent_.

_Seasonable_ in June and July.

STRAWBERRY.--Among the Greeks, the name of the strawberry
indicated its tenuity, this fruit forming hardly a mouthful.
With the Latins, the name reminded one of the delicious perfume
of this plant. Both nations were equally fond of it, and applied
the same care to its cultivation. Virgil appears to place it in
the same rank with flowers; and Ovid gives it a tender epithet,
which delicate palates would not disavow. Neither does this
luxurious poet forget the wild strawberry, which disappears
beneath its modest foliage, but whose presence the scented air
reveals.

WEST-INDIAN PUDDING.

1382. INGREDIENTS.--1 pint of cream, 1/2 lb. of loaf-sugar, 1/2 lb. of
Savoy or sponge-cakes, 8 eggs, 3 oz. of preserved green ginger.
_Mode_.--Crumble down the cakes, put them into a basin, and pour over
them the cream, which should be previously sweetened and brought to the
boiling-point; cover the basin, well beat the eggs, and when the cream
is soaked up, stir them in. Butter a mould, arrange the ginger round it,
pour in the pudding carefully, and tie it down with a cloth; steam or
boil it slowly for 1-1/2 hour, and serve with the syrup from the ginger,
which should be warmed, and poured over the pudding.

_Time_.--1-1/2 hour. _Average cost_, with cream at 1s. per pint, 2s. 8d.

Sufficient for 5 or 6 persons. Seasonable at any time.

YEAST DUMPLINGS.

1383. INGREDIENTS.--1/2 quartern of dough, boiling water.

Mode.--Make a very light dough as for bread, using to mix it, milk,
instead of water; divide