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Puff-paste Rings, or Puits d'Amour

INGREDIENTS. - Puff-paste (see PASTE), the white of an egg, sifted loaf sugar.

Make some good puff-paste by recipe; roll it out to the thickness of about 1/4 inch, and, with a round fluted paste-cutter, stamp out as many pieces as may be required; then work the paste up again, with a smaller cutter, stamp out sufficient pieces to correspond with the larger ones.

Again stamp out the centre of these smaller rings; brush over the others with the white of an egg, place a small ring on the top of every large circular piece of paste, egg over the tops, and bake from 15 to 20 minutes. Sift over sugar, put them back in the oven to colour them; then fill the rings with preserve of any bright colour. Dish them high on a napkin, and serve. So many pretty dishes of pastry may be made by stamping puff-paste out with fancy cutters, and filling the pieces, when baked, with jelly or preserve, that our space will not allow us to give a separate recipe for each of them; but as they are all made from one paste, and only the shape and garnishing varied, perhaps it is not necessary, and by exercising a little ingenuity, variety may always be obtained. Half-moons, leaves, diamonds, stars, shamrocks, rings, &c., are the most appropriate shapes for fancy pastry.

TIME.-15 to 25 minutes.

SEASONABLE at any time.

Pumpkin Pie. (American Recipe.) -INGREDIENTS for large pie.-Pumpkin, 6 eggs, 3 pints of milk, 1/21 lb. of loaf sugar, flavouring of mace and nutmeg. AVERAGE COST, 1s. 6d.

Pare the pumpkin, take out the seeds, and stew till soft, press it through a sieve, and to a quart of the pulp allow the ingredients named. Mix first with it the sugar, then the milk, then the yolks and whites of the eggs, beaten separately, and beat all together. Line a pie-dish with puff-paste, pour in the mixture, and bake in a quick oven.

TIME. hour to bake the pie.

SEASONABLE in summer.