o suit taste.
Cook five minutes. When ready for pie thin the mixture with cider or
with a glass of tart jelly melted and add seeded raisins or currants
and a little brandy if liked. Bake between two crusts of pastry and
serve warm. One heaping cup of mince meat will make one pie. Fruit
juice left from canned fruit is nice added to mince meat and often can
be nicely utilized this way.

NEOPOLITANS.--Take pie crust left over after mixing pie. Roll it into a
thin sheet and cut into oblong strips three by two inches. Bake in
quick oven. Spread half with jam, lay balance of strips over that like
sandwiches and spread jam or jelly on top. Dust with powdered sugar.
Lemon or orange cake filling or frosting may be used instead of juice
or marmolade, and crushed fresh, sweetened berries make a good filling
and covering if capped with whipped cream.

ENGLISH CHEESE PIE.--One cupful of thick sour cream or milk curd,
salted slightly, two beaten eggs, three fourths cup of sweet milk, one
half cup sugar, one half cupful of English currants (dried). Rub curd
thoroughly first and mix with other ingredients. Bake in a deep pie tin
lined with pie crust. Powder with cinnamon.

FRENCH TART.--Pound eight macaroons fine, pour boiling milk over them
to make a soft batter, add six well beaten eggs and one half cupful of
sugar. Cook thick, add one half cup of butter and the juice of an
orange. Line a pie with pastry, fill with the mixture and bake. Dust
with powdered sugar before serving. Eight good sized macaroons will
take from two to three cups of milk.

PATTIES.--Three cups flour, one cup lard, three fourths cup of ice
water, one teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoon salt. Mix and roll like
pie crust. Bake in patty pans. Makes thirty patties.

PIE CRUST.--One and one quarter cups flour, pinch baking powder, mix
with one half cup lard and one teaspoon salt. Add ice cold water enough
to roll out--about one fourth cup. Flour board and roll thin.

BERRY TARTS.--One pint of buttered strawberries or red raspberries, one
cup sugar, the beaten white of one egg stirred through the sugar. Mix
with the berries. Bake between two crusts until egg is set then serve
with whipped cream.--Contributed.

Fancy Desserts

"They make maple syrup out of corn cobs that you can't tell from
the adulterated." Abe Martin.

SPONGE CAKE DESSERT.--Take hot water sponge cake, cut it into thin
slices and line the sides of stem sherbet glasses. Fill