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A small cupful of fresh butter warmed, but not melted, one cupful of
sifted sugar creamed with the butter, a teaspoonful of nutmeg, grated,
eight eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately. Beat the butter and
sugar light and then add the nutmeg and the beaten eggs, which should
be stirred in gradually; flavor with vanilla, almond, peach or
rose-water; stir _hard_; butter a deep dish, line with puff paste and
bake half an hour. Then make a meringue for the top and brown. Serve
cold.

SWEET-POTATO PUDDING.

To a large sweet potato, weighing two pounds, allow half a pound of
sugar, half a pound of butter, one gill of sweet cream, one gill of
strong wine or brandy, one grated nutmeg, a little lemon peel and four
eggs. Boil the potato until thoroughly done, mash up fine, and while
hot add the sugar and butter. Set aside to cool while you beat the
eggs light and add the seasoning last. Line tin plates with puff
paste, and pour in the mixture, bake in a moderate but regularly
heated oven. When the puddings are drawn from the fire, cover the top
with thinly-sliced bits of preserved citron or quince marmalade. Strew
the top thickly with granulated white sugar and serve, with the
addition of a glass of rich milk for each person at table.

PINEAPPLE PUDDING.

Butter a pudding-dish and line the bottom and sides with slices of
stale cake (sponge cake is best); pare and slice thin a large
pineapple, place in the dish first a layer of pineapple, then strew
with sugar, then more pineapple, and so on until all is used. Pour
over a small teacupful of water and cover with slices of cake which
have been dipped in cold water; cover the whole with a buttered plate
and bake slowly for two hours.

ORANGE ROLEY POLEY.

Make a light dough the same as for apple dumplings, roll it out into a
long narrow sheet, about quarter of an inch thick. Spread thickly over
it peeled and sliced oranges, sprinkle it plentifully with white
sugar, scatter over all a teaspoonful or two of grated orange peel,
then roll it up. Fold the edges well together to keep the juices from
running out. Boil it in a floured cloth one hour and a half. Serve it
with lemon sauce. Fine.

ROLEY POLEY PUDDING. (Apple.)

Peel, core and slice sour apples; make a rich biscuit dough, or raised
biscuit dough may be used if rolled thinner; roll not quite half an
inch thick, lay the slices on the paste, roll up, tuck in the ends,
prick deeply with a fork, lay it in a