90 FRUITS AND HOW TO tTSE THEM. 



bread-crumbs, just milk enough to swell tliem, two eggs, 

 two tablespooniuls of butter, three of sugar, the juice of 

 one lemon and jrrated rind of two. Beat sugar and butter 

 to a cream, then the eggs and lemon juice, and lastly the 

 bread and milk. Mix and bake in one crust with two long 

 strips about an inch wide laid lightly around the edge so as 

 to make it twice as thick as the bottom. Gently press the 

 lower edge of this strip to make it adhere and pour in the 

 mixture. If a meringue is desired, save out the two w^hicos, 

 beat together with pulverized sugar till they are stiff, and 

 spread over the pie when done. Return to the oven and 

 brown lightly. 



Liemon Sliort-cake.— Make a plain biscuit or short-cake 

 crust as described in Strawberry short-cake), and spread 

 between the two or three layers composing it the yellow 

 grated rind and juice of one large lemon mixed with one 

 cup of sugar and one cup of fresh sweet cream. Serve at 

 once with one cup of cream sweetened and flavored with 

 lemon. 



Lemon Washington Pie.— Beat the yolks of three 

 f gg3 and stir in one cupful of sugar, one cupful of flour, 

 and one teaspoonful baking-powder and the beaten whites 

 of the three eggs. Bake in three or four jelly-cake tins. 

 When done spread between them this mixture. 



BoiHogether three fourths of a pint of water, one cupful 

 of sugar, and a heaping teaspoonful of butter, and stir in 

 two tablespoonfuls of flour, made smooth in a little cold 

 water. When it thiokejis draw to the back of the stove 

 and stir in the beaten yolks of two eggs, and lastly the juice 

 and grated yellow rind of a large lemon. 



Lemon Cake.— Any kind of plain cake flavored with 

 lemon passes under this name. The following is good: 



Cream together two cupfuls ofsugarwithtwo-thirdsofa 

 cupful of butter, add the beaten yolks of three eggs, then 

 the beaten whites, two-thirds of a cupful of milk, three cup- 

 fals and one-half of flou; and at the last the juice of one 

 lemon. A little more than half a teaspoonful of soda 



