RECIPES TRIED AND TRUE
"Men, when dying, make their wills,
But wives escape a work so sad;
Why should they make what all their lives,
The gentle dames have had?"
HOT PUDDINGS
APPLE CHARLOTTE
- 3 to 4 cups chopped apples,
- 1 cup sugar,
- Cinnamon,
- 1 cup raisins and currants mixed,
- 1 lemon, rind and juice,
- Almonds,
- Citron.
Line well greased pudding dish with pie crust. Fill with ingredients cover with pie crust and bake ¾ to an hour in hot oven.
BIRD'S NEST PUDDING
- 6 apples,
- ½ cup sugar,
- Cinnamon,
- Raisins.
Butter dish, fill with apples which have been pared, cored and filled with sugar, cinnamon and raisins. Pour over a sponge batter made from two eggs. Bake about ½ hour. Steam apples first to soften, before filling the dish. Serve with sauce if desired.
BROWN BETTY PUDDING
Butter pudding dish, line bottom with bread crumbs, cover with layer of sliced apples, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and flakes of butter. Continue to alternate with bread crumbs and apples, leaving crumbs on top. Bake about three-fourths of an hour. Serve with any sauce.
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