CHAPTER XV.

PUDDINGS AND PIES.

Sweet Food, Remarks—Queen of all Puddings—Flour Pudding—Flour and Fruit Pudding—Rusk and Milk—Rusk Pudding—Meat and Rusk Pudding—A good Pudding—Pan Dowdy—Corn-meal Pop-over—Best Apple-pie—Puddings: of Rice; Bread and Fruit; Boiled Fruit—Curds (English)—Common Apple-pie—Plain Custard—Another—Mush or Hasty Pudding—Stale Bread Pudding—Rennet Wine—Rennet Custard—Bird’snest Pudding—Minute Pudding of Potato Starch—Tapioca Pudding—Cocoa-nut Pudding—New-England Squash or Pumpkin Pie—Ripe-fruit Pies: Peach, Cherry, Plum, Currants, and Strawberry—Mock Cream—Pudding of Bread-crumbs and Fruit—Bread and Apple Dumplings—Indian Pudding without Eggs—Boiled Indian and Suet Pudding—Dessert of Rice and Fruit—Another—Cold Rice and stewed or grated Apple—Rich Flour Pudding—Apple-pie—Spiced Apple-tarts—Baked Indian Pudding—Apple Custard—Macaroni or Vermicelli Pudding—Green-corn Pudding—Bread Pudding for Invalids or young Children—A good Pudding—Loaf Pudding—Lemon Pudding—Green-corn Patties—Cracker Plum-pudding—Sauces for Puddings, Liquid—Hard—Another—A healthful Sauce—Universal Sauce—Paste for Puddings and Pies—Pie-crusts without Fats; made with Butter, very rich 74