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Some Kitchen Kinks: Boil

Boil sugar and water together with a thin piece of lemon rind for three minutes. Cool, add lemon juice, and freeze like ice cream.

Orange Ice.-1½ cupful of water; 2 small oranges; 3 tablespoonfuls of sugar.

Make and freeze like lemon ice.

Prune Jelly.-1 cupful of prunes; 11 tablespoonfuls of gelatin; 3 tablespoonfuls of sugar. Stew prunes in sufficient water to cover them well. When tender, press through a potato ricer, add gelatin previously soaked for half an hour in a little water, return to the fire, add sugar, reheat, and pour in molds to cool.

Apple and Custard.-1 large apple; 1 tablespoonful of sugar; 1 teaspoonful of cornstarch; yolk of 1 egg. Pare and core apple, fill the cavity with sugar, put a little water in the bottom of a dish, and bake. Make a custard of a cupful of milk, sugar, cornstarch, and egg. Flavor to taste after boiling thick and pour around the baked apple. Use the white for a meringue. Eat cold.

Slip. -1 tablespoonful of cornstarch; 2 cupfuls of boiling water; cupful of sugar; juice and rind of 1 lemon; white of 1 egg.

Boil the cornstarch till thick in water, add sugar and lemon, and pour into a baking dish. Beat the white of egg with a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, spread on top, brown slightly, and serve cold with cold boiled custard.

Egg Cream.-2 eggs; 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar; juice and rind of lemon.

Separate yolks from whites of eggs and beat the yolks with sugar in bowl until well mixed, then add lemon, and place bowl in a dish on the stove.

Stir slowly until the mixture begins to thicken, add the beaten whites of eggs, and stir until it is like thick cream.