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Tipsy Cake, or Sponge Cake Pudding

INGREDIENTS for large dish.- 12 stale small sponge-cakes, raisin wine, 1/21 lb. of jam, 1 pint of custard (see CUSTARD).

AVERAGE COST, 2s.

Soak the sponge cakes, which should be stale (on this account they should be cheaper), in a little raisin wine; arrange them on a deep glass dish in four layers, putting some jam between the layers, and pour round them a pint of custard, made by recipe, decorating the top with cut preserved fruit. TIME.-2 hours to soak the cakes.

SEASONABLE at any time.

Toad-in-the-Hole. (Cold Meat Cookery). INGREDIENTS for good-sized dish.-6 oz. of flour, 1 pint of milk, 3 eggs. butter, a few slices of cold mutton, pepper and salt to taste, 2 kidneys. AVERAGE Cost, exclusive of the cold meat, 1s.

Make a smooth batter of flour, milk, and eggs in the above proportion; butter a baking-dish, and pour in the batter. Into this place a few slices of cold mutton, previously well seasoned, and the kidneys, which should be cut into rather small pieces; bake about 1 hour, or rather longer, and send it to table in the dish it was baked in. Oysters or mushrooms may be substituted for the kidneys, and will be found exceedingly good.

TIME. Rather more than 1 hour.

SEASONABLE at any time. rather Toad-in-the-Hole. (A Homely but Savoury Dish.) - INGREDIENTS for dish for 6 persons.-1½ lb. of rump steak, 1 sheep's kidney, pepper and salt to taste. For the batter, 3 eggs, 1 pint of milk, 4 tablespoonfuls of flour, 1/21 saltspoonful of salt. AVER- AGE COST, 2s. 6d.

Cut up the steak and kidney into convenient-sized pieces, and put them into a pie dish, with a good seasoning of salt and pepper; mix the flour with a small quantity of milk at first, to prevent its being lumpy; add the remainder, and the 3 eggs, which should be well beaten; put in the salt, stir the batter for about 5 minutes, and pour it over the steak. Place it in a tolerably TOAST, TO MAKE DRY.

TOFFEE, EVERTON. brisk oven immediately, and bake for 1½ should be piled lightly on the dish they are hour.

TIME.-1 hour.

SEASONABLE at any time.

Note. The remains of cold beef, rather underdone, may be substituted for the steak, and, when liked, the smallest possible quantity of minced onion or shalot may be added.