'ZCi PKUITS AND HOW TO USE THEM. 



enough sugar to sweeten well, and add one teaspoon- 

 fui of vanilla. Stir while cooling, and as it grows thick 

 mix with it two cupfuls of cream whipped to a froth. Turn 

 into a mold to harden. 



Chocolate Creani. — One square of Baker's chocolate, 

 scraped very fln«, one teacupf ul of sugar, yolks of two eggs, 

 one-half teacupful o" sweet milk. Cook over steam until 

 thick, then fill the shells, using spoonful of mixture for each 

 tart. Frost top with following : 



Meringue.— Beat whites of i wo eggs to a stiff froth, add 

 two tablespoonf ulf grated chocolate, six tablespoonfuls sug- 

 ar, one-half teaspoonful lemon extract. Spread frosting 

 evenly over tarts. Place in oven to harden. Serve cold. 



Cocoanut Cream. — Add one cupful ot water to one 

 grated cocoanut, and press through a moderately fine 

 strainer. Boil together )i cupful of water and twice as 

 much sugar twenty minutes, then add the cocoanut to an 

 equal quantity of this syrup. When it is a little cool, stir 

 it sJowly into the well-beaten whites of six eggs, and contin- 

 ue stirring over the fire till it is thick like custard. Pine- 

 apple grated may be prepared in the same manner. 



Cocoanut Snow.— Q-rate a cocoanut and sprinkle pul- 

 verized sugar lightly thi-ough it. Beat the whites of eight 

 eggs to a stiff froth, add to them four large spoonfuls of 

 fine sugar, beat well, and flavor with rose-water. Take half 

 tne cocoanut and stir into it one pint of thick, rich cream. 

 Lay the remainder of the cocoanut lightly over this, and 

 put the eggs and sugar over the top. Decorate the dish 

 with bright-colored jelly. 



FruitTrifle.— Soak an ounce of isinglass in half a cup 

 of water fifteen minutes, add the juice of a lemon and the 

 grated penl of half, and a teacupful of sugar. Over this 

 pour two and a half cupfiils of boiling water, and strain. 

 When it is cool, but before it has thickened, pour it over a 

 mold lined with oranges divided into sections and thin slices 

 of bananas f^-eshly pealed. Set on the ice. 



