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With Orange Syrup

1 pound of cocoanut (less if the desiccated is used). 1 full pressed quart of bread crumbs. 1 quart of milk. 2 ounces of butter. 2 ounces of sugar. 1 lemon, or sour orange. 4 yolks of eggs.

Make up like preceding kinds; mix in half the cocoanut and bake in two buttered pans. Beat up 6 whites of eggs, add to the firm froth 5 ounces of granulated sugar and the remaining half pound of cocoanut. Spread this cocoanut meringue over the puddings and bake again very slowly with the oven doors open. Cut in squares or diamond shapes and serve with orange syrup. There are numbers of good nondescript articles which we hardly know where to place on an American hotel bill-of fare.

Their merit is proven by that best of tests, a constant appreciative demand. A good dinner gets to looking incomplete when occasionally they are left off. As these articles do not belong anywhere else they are by common consent and usage called "sweet entrees"--which is probably an Americanism--and with the entrees they stand, usually bringing up the rear.

As already hinted, these "sweet entrees" are always evidently welcome and undoubtedly make a difference in the amount of pastry required afterwards. But one of these is enough at a time. Bad taste, poor management and poverty of resource among meats and vegetables are apparent when a bill-of-fare with ten or twelve entrees shows half of them to be of a sweet or farinaceous character. Without the one each day a long line of favorites, such as fruit fritters, charlottes, rice cakes, sweet croquettes, patties, turnovers, rice with apples, pancakes, etc., etc., could never appear at all. This, however, applies only to hotels furnishing full length bills-of-fare. There are greater numbers of houses, both public and private, where any one of these sweet entrees might suffice for the pastry course, and this is particularly the reason for here describing the charlottes which are oftenest used as puddings A fruit charlotte cannot be "thrown together" and be good. Its excellence, when carefully made, and its cheapness, make it worth the attention here given to details.