Fruits
Ambrosia
Six sweet oranges, peeled and sliced (seeds and as much of the core as possible taken out), one pine-apple peeled and sliced (the canned is…
Apple Compote
Pare the apples, cut the core out, leaving them whole. Make a syrup, allowing three-fourths pound of sugar to a pound of fruit; when it…
Apple Sauce
Pare, core and cut in quarters apples that do not cut to pieces easily, and put on to stew in cold water with plenty of sugar. Cover close…
Baked Apples
Cut out the blossoms and stems of tart apples, in the stem end put some sugar; bake till soft; serve either warm or cold. Sweet apples…
Iced Apples
Pare and core one dozen large apples, fill with sugar and a little butter and nutmeg; bake until nearly done, let cool, and remove to…
Fried Apples
Quarter and core apples without paring; prepare frying-pan by heating it and putting in beef-drippings, lay the apples in the pan, skin…
Black Caps
Pare and core tart apples with apple-corer, fill the center with sugar, stick four cloves in the top of each, and bake in deep pieplates…
Fried Bananas
Peel and slice lengthwise, fry in butter, sprinkle with sugar, and serve. Thus prepared they make a nice dessert. The bananas must be ripe.
Iced Currants
Wash and drain dry, large bunches of ripe currants, dip into beaten whites of eggs, put on sieve so they will not touch each other, sift…
Gooseberry Fool
Stew gooseberries until soft, add sugar, and press through a colander (earthen is best), then make a boiled custard, or sweeten enough rich…
Oranges In Jelly
Boil the smallest-sized oranges in water until a straw will easily penetrate them, clarify half a pound of sugar for each pound of fruit…
Orange Pyramid
Cut the peel in six or eight equal pieces, making the incisions from the stem downward; peel each piece down about half way, and bend it…
Baked Pears
Bake washed, unpeeled pears in pan with only a tea-spoon or two of water; sprinkle with the sugar, and serve with their own syrup.
Baked Pie-Plant
Cut in pieces about an inch long, put in baking-dish in layers with an equal weight of sugar, cover closely and bake.
Baked Peaches
Wash peaches which are nearly or quite ripe, place in a deep dish, sprinkle with sugar, cover and bake until tender.
Stewed Pie-Plant
Make a rich syrup by adding sugar to water in which long strips of orange peel have been boiled until tender, lay into it a single layer of…
Peach Pyramid
Cut a dozen peaches in halves, peel and take out stones, crack half the seeds, and blanch the kernels; make a clear boiling syrup of one…
Frozen Peaches
Pare and divide large, fresh, ripe and juicy peaches, sprinkle over them granulated sugar, freeze them like ice-cream for an hour; remove…
Baked Quinces
Wash and core ripe quinces, fill with sugar, and bake in bakingdish with a little water.
Compote Of Pears
Pare and quarter eight nice pears, and put in a porcelain saucepan with water enough to cook; put on lid, and cook fruit until tender, then…
Mock Strawberries
Cut ripe peaches and choice well-flavored apples, in proportion of three peaches to one apple, into quarters about the size of a…
Oranged Strawberries
Place a layer of strawberries in a deep dish; cover the same thickly with pulverized sugar; then a layer of berries, and so on, until all…
Strawberries With Whipped Cream
Prepare in layers as above, cover with one pint of cream, whites of three eggs and a tea-cup of powdered sugar, whipped together and…
Snow Flakes
Grate a large cocoa-nut into a glass dish, and serve with cream, preserves, jellies or jams.
Peach Meringue
Put on to boil a quart of milk, omitting half a cup with which to moisten two table-spoons of corn starch; when the milk boils, add the…
Peach Custard
Equal parts rich sliced peaches, green corn pulp and water. Sweeter to the taste, and bake twenty minutes.
Raspberry Float
Crush a pint of very ripe red raspberries with a gill of sugar; beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth and add gradually a gill of…
Florida Grape Fruit
The fruit stores display a new clear-skinned lemon-colored fruit, about three times as large as an orange, and bearing a general…