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Ruby Under Snow

Wash a quarter of a pint of tapioca, and let it soak for three or four hours in three-quarters of a pint of water, and with it the thin rind and strained juice of half a lemon. Take out the rind, and simmer the tapioca till it is clear, then mix with it six table-spoonfuls of red-currant jelly. Let it simmer three or four minutes longer, and pour it into a large dish. When it is quite cold and stiff, pile upon it a little whipped cream, or, if preferred, the whites of two eggs beaten till firm, and sweetened and flavoured with lemon-rind. This is a pretty and wholesome dish for a juvenile party. It should be made the day before it is wanted. If the whites of eggs are used they should be laid on at the last moment.