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Apples, or any other Fresh Fruit

"We may live without poetry, music and art,
"We may live without poetry, music and art,

IN- GREDIENTS for good-sized dish. lb. of puff-paste, about 1 pint of fruit compote.

AVERAGE COST, 1s. 9d.

Make 3/4 lb. of puff-paste, taking care to bake it in a good brisk oven, to draw it up nicely and make it look light. Have ready sufficient stewed fruit, the syrup of which must be boiled down until very thick; fill the vol-au-vent with this, and pile it high in the centre; powder a little sugar over it, and put it back in the oven to glaze, or use a salamander for the purpose; the vol-au-vent is then ready to serve. It may be made with any fruit that is in season, such as rhubarb, oranges, gooseberries, currants, cherries, apples, &c.; but care must be taken not to have the syrup too thin, for fear of its breaking through the crust.

TIME. hour to 40 minutes to bake the vol-au-vent. 3 "We may live without poetry, music and art, We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks."

WAFERS, GENEVA.

AFERS, Geneva. INGREDI- ENTS for goodsized dish. 2 eggs, 3 oz. of butter, 3 oz. of flour, 3 oz. of pounded sugar. AVERAGE COST, exclusive of the preserve and cream, 6d.

Well whisk the eggs; put them into a basin, and stir to them the butter, which should be beaten to a cream; add the flour and sifted sugar gradually, and then mix all well together. Butter a baking-sheet, and drop on it a teaspoonful of the mixture at a time, leaving a space between each. Bake in a cool oven; watch the pieces of paste, and, when half done, roll them up like wafers, and put in a small wedge of bread or piece of wood, to keep them in shape.

Return them to the oven until crisp. Before serving, remove the bread, put a spoonful of preserve in the widest end, and fill up with whipped cream. This is a very pretty and ornamental dish for the suppertable, and is very nice and easily made. TIME.-Altogether from 20 to 25 minutes.

SEASONABLE at any time.

OWEN MEREDITH ("Lucile").

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