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With Orange Jelly

The same mixture as the preceding with 1/2 pound of cocoanut and some lemon extract instead of raisins and brandy. Almonds, citron, cherries and other fruits can be used in like manner.

The same useful mixture also makes a good white cake, white raisin cake, etc. There is something almost apalling in the vaulting ambition of these cooks when they set themselves to naming puddings. How blest, then, is our lot, that for the purposes of this writing we are without the bounds of Great Britain and of Canada, otherwise we, the reader and the scribe, should inevitably encounter and have to pay attentions to, let us see--"Her Majesty's pudding." "Empress Josephine's pudding," "Queen Mab's pudding" This last is cosmopolitan, however, and is a nice enough little pudding, but too fairy like to be eaten with a knife and fork. There is good reason for believing that it is not a Spenserite at all, but a tawny Italian cream pretending to come accredited from. "The court of Mab and of the faery king."

Then there would be "Princess Louise's pudding," "Beatrice pudding," and Marie Stuart's and Sir Watkins'. Besides, there would be shadows in the distance of the illustrious Lord Dundreary's pudding and the honorable Earl of Flaxton's. So every cloud has its silver lining. We might be worse off. As it is, we already have the queen rose of the rose bud gar--I mean we already have the "queen of puddings" and the Sultana Scheherezade's fav--at least, that is, we have a very white sultana raisin pudding with carmine chee--that is to say, with carmine colored sauce; we have the king pudding that rules the British roost, laurel crowned, with all his fierce snap-dragon flames around him; the socialist Jack Cade of puddings is coming on his way, and how do we know but that to meet and dispute with great Haggis, the highland chief, there will arise from our steaming cauldron a stalwart Tuscarora chief, in a yellow mantle, with silk and tassel, just as he won over his Minnehaha long ago, whatever her name may have been then. Meantime make way for the great; here comes imperial pudding. It is still a question whether this should be regarded as a l' imperial or a l' imperiale, but as pudding is masculine in French probably it is imperial. No doubt but in this case the empress had it made to suit the emperor, and not to suit herself, which makes it all the more remarkable.