This section is from the book "Cookery From Experience", by Sara T. Paul. Also available from Amazon: Cookery From Experience.
Pour a pan of thick sour milk into a bag made for the purpose - of strainer-cloth or rather thin crash; tie it loosely and hang it to drain for five or six hours; when dry, turn it out, rub it with the back of a wooden spoon until every lump is out of it, add rich cream and a little salt, and rub to a smooth paste. Serve in a glass or china dish, with a little pepper on the top.
Cover the bottom of a pudding dish with stale rusk grated finely, or bread crumbs if you have no rusk; put a layer of thinly sliced tart apple on them, sprinkle them plentifully with sugar, and scatter little pieces of butter thickly over them; then add more crumbs, apples, sugar and butter until the dish is full; put crumbs for the top layer, sprinkled with sugar and butter, pour over the top three-quarters of a teacup of syrup molasses. thinned with a little boiling water Bake until the top is well browned and the apples are tender. To be eaten hot with wine-sauce, or only a little warm with cream. Season each layer with a sprinkling of cinnamon and a little nutmeg.
Soak a coffeeeup of tapioca in cold water all night, pare and core six large tart apples, put them in a pudding-dish, fill the centre of each apple with butter and sugar, pour the tapioca over the apples, and bake in a quick oven until the apples are soft. Serve cold with cream.
Soak over night a coffeecupful of tapioca; in the morning, put it over the fire in the water it was soaked in, which should be about a quart, boil it until a jelly, replenishing with boiling water as it thickens, until it will run from the spoon; add four, or five tablespoonsful of sugar; pare and core whole as many apples as will nearly fill your dish, make a syrup of sugar and water, boil the apples in it until clear, take them out, drain all the juice from them, lay them in the dish, and pour the tapioca over them, and set away until cold. This is improved by slicing a lemon and adding to the apples a few minutes before you take them out of the syrup. To be eaten with cream; or it is very nice without any accompaniment.
Mash in a preserving-kettle a quart of very ripe blackberries, sweeten them with white sugar, cook them fifteen minutes, then stir in dry flour until enough to make them stick together, keep them boiling all the time. When stiff enough, pour into teacups. When cold, turn them out; to be eaten with cream.
Pare and core tart apples, leaving them whole, put them in a preserving-kettle with water to cover them, simmer them gently until a little tender, take them out, and lay them on a dish to cool; add to the water they were boiled in a half pound of sugar to every pound of apples, slice a lemon and put in the syrup, bring to a boil, and lay the apple in, and boil gently until clear; take them out and place them in the dish you will serve them in, have ready soaked a quarter of a box of gelatine in cold water enough to cover it, stir this into the syrup, give One boil up, and strain through a sieve or fine cloth over the apples. Set away until next day. Strain the syrup before adding the gelatine.
Dissolve on the range a quarter of a pound of tapioca in as little water as you can use; add to it, when dissolved, a teacup of sifted sugar and one quart of fruit in season - strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or cranberries; cook about ten minutes and pour into moulds. Serve cold with cream. Soak the tapioca in cold water for three hours before setting it on the fire.
Three lemons, a pound and a quarter of loaf sugar, two ounces "of butter, six eggs; beat the butter, sugar and eggs together, then add the juice of the lemons with the rind of one, set the vessel in another of boiling water, and stir until it begins to thicken; take it from the fire, stir until cool, and pour into glass cups or a large glass bowl.
Dissolve half a box of gelatine in a pint and a half of water over the fire; add a pound of fine white sugar, the rind of two and the juice of three lemons. Boil all together one minute, strain through a sieve or fine cloth; when nearly cold, add the whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth; beat all well together, set it in a cool place, and when it begins to thicken beat it well; repeat this several times; then pour into moulds. Set in the ice several hours. Serve with cream.
Wash a cup of rice in two or three waters, and put it in a quart of milk sweetened to your taste, add a pinch of salt, and a cup of stoned raisins, put it in a farina-boiler, and cook it one hour. To be eaten with cream, cold.
Peel the stalks and cut them in pieces half an inch in length, pour boiling water on it and drain a moment in a cullender, put it over the fire in a preserving-kettle, with plenty of sugar, but no water, as the fruit is very juicy, and with the sugar will make all the syrup you need; stew it a few minutes; just before taking it off the fire, add the peel of a lemon cut in thin slips. When cold, put it on pie-crust previously baked, or fill a vol-au-vent with it.
A pint and a half of cream, rind of one orange grated, the juice of two, a quarter of a pound of stale macaroons grated fine, six ounces of sugar; whip the cream and stir all in it, and freeze like ice cream.
 
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