This section is from the book "Tested And Tried Recipes Of Azusa And Vicinity Housekeepers", by The Azusa Woman's Club. Also available from Amazon: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.
One can of chopped pineapple, ½ box of gelatine dissolved in 1 pint of cold water. Add juice of pineapple and let come-to boil. Two cups of sugar and juice of 2 lemons beaten until light. Pour hot gelatine over mixture and stir well, then add pineapple. Put in cold place and let stand until it thickens a little, then add whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff. Beat 10 minutes, mold and serve with whipped cream.
- Mrs. J. T, Lindley.
Butter a quart pudding dish, fill it with layers of thinly sliced sour apples, sprinkling sugar and cinnamon between every 2 layers. Pour over the whole a cupful of cold water and cover closely with a buttered plate. Set the pudding dish in a pan of hot water in the oven and cook slowly 3 hours and a half. "When cold, it can be turned from the dish in a jellied mass. Serve with whipped cream. - Mrs. C. H. Lee.
One-half cup of seedless raisins (good measure), 2 quarts of water, 1 cup of sugar, ½ cup corn starch, ½ cup chopped walnuts. Boil raisins in the water until tender, add sugar, dissolve corn starch with a little cold water, add to mixture, stirring until thickened; add walnuts. Pour into a mold, chill and serve with whipped cream or sweetened milk.
- Mrs. T. W. La Fetra.
Have rosy-cheeked, firm, tart apples of even size. Take core out if bad, and blossom end, but leave whole and do not pare. Cover with hot water, put one scoop of sugar in and cook until tender. Be careful to leave whole. Lift out apples carefully. Cook syrup until it thickens and pour over apples. When cold, if properly cooked, is a delicious jelly.
- Mrs. Leroy Calvert.
One quart of whipped cream, 1½ cups of maple syrup, 4 eggs. Pour hot syrup over beaten yolks. Cook until the mixture thickens in a double boiler. Cool, then add beaten whites and whipped cream. Pack as for ice cream and let stand 3 or 4 hours. - Mrs. Ralph Holmes.
Cut into small pieces 6 grapefruit, 4 oranges and 1 pineapple. Cover with 1 cup of sugar and let stand over night on ice. In the morning add 1 cup of sherry and ¾ cup apricot brandy. An hour before serving, add diced peaches, strawberries and Maraschino cherries. Serve in sherbet glasses.
- Mrs. Ralph Holmes.
Six eggs beaten separately, 2 cups granulated sugar, 8 tablespoonfuls rolled cracker- and 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder well mixed, a pinch of salt, 1 pound walnuts chopped fine, ½ pound of dates cut in small pieces. Bake in slow oven forty minutes. When done it may fall half, but it is all right. Cut in squares and serve with whipped or plain cream. A cherry on each square is a pretty addition. Will serve 12 or 15 people. - Mrs. R. F. Thaxter.
Mix 1 box marshmallows, quartered, 1 teacup ground nut meats and 1 pint whipped cream sweetened and flavored. Serve very cold. - Mrs. E. C. Thomas.
 
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