mer gently until quite soft. Do not allow to
boil, or fruit will be spoiled. Take out stones, crack some, and
save kernels. Rub prunes through sieve, add sherry, kernels blanched,
grated rind and strained lemon juice, and cinnamon, and then, if
thicker than rich cream, add more wine, or water, and use.

Chocolate Jelly

2 squares chocolate
1 tablespoonful Crisco
2 cupfuls boiling water
3/4 cupful sugar
4 tablespoonfuls cornstarch
1/4 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1/2 cupful chopped walnut meats
Whipped cream

Break chocolate into small pieces, dissolve in boiling water, add
Crisco, salt, cornstarch mixed with sugar, stir and boil for eight
minutes. Remove from fire add vanilla and nuts and pour at once into
wet mold. Cool, turn out and serve with whipped cream.

Cottage Pudding

1 cupful sugar
1 egg
1 cupful milk or water
2-1/4 cupfuls flour
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
2-1/2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1 cupful sultana raisins

Sauce

1 tablespoonful Crisco
1 cupful sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoonful flour
1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1-1/2 cupfuls boiling water

_For pudding._ Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten,
milk, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt, and raisins. Mix well, turn
into greased mold, and bake twenty-five minutes in moderate oven. Turn
out and serve with sauce. This pudding may be steamed for one and a
half hours.

_For sauce_. Mix flour, sugar, and Crisco in small saucepan, then stir
in egg and boiling water and boil for three minutes. Flavor with the
vanilla.

Molasses Sponge Pudding

2 cupfuls flour
2 teaspoonfuls powdered ginger
1/2 teaspoonful baking soda
1/2 cupful Crisco
1/2 cupful molasses
1 egg
1 tablespoonful breadcrumbs
3/4 cupful milk
1/2 teaspoonful salt

For Sauce

1 teaspoonful Crisco
1 teaspoonful cornstarch
2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice
3 tablespoonfuls molasses
1 cupful hot water

_For pudding_. Mix flour, breadcrumbs, soda and ginger together, then
rub in Crisco with finger tips. Beat egg, add milk, molasses, salt and
stir into dry ingredients. Turn mixture into Criscoed mold, cover with
greased paper and steam steadily for two hours. Turn out and serve
with sauce.

_For sauce_. Blend Crisco and cornstarch together, add molasses,
water, and lemon juice, and boil a few minute