The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps

The pattern people's household book, 1927 — five hundred recipes, then how to lay a table, take out a stain and stock a first-aid cabinet.

Fruit Desserts

7 recipes in this part of The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps.

Stuffed Peaches

Pare large peaches and cut a slice from the top of each. Remove the pits without breaking the fruit and fill hollows with any . chopped…

Fresh-Fruit Cup

Peel and dice the pineapple, bananas and oranges. Wash and juice hull the strawberries. Mix all together, with the lemonand sugar, and set…

Macedoine of Fruit

Pare and slice peaches and pears, cut pineapple and melon in small pieces, mix fruit and sugar, and chill for one hour. Serve each glass in…

Blushing Apples

Core the apples. Cook in sirup made of sugar and water, turning so that they will cook evenly until they are tender. Carefully remove the…

Baked Stuffed Apples

Cut off the stem end of the apples, but do not peel them. Remove all the core and part of the pulp, leaving the walls of the cup about…

Stuffed Baked Pears

Pare and core large pears and stuff with seeded dates, raisins chopped nuts or chopped nuts with some tart marmalade or shredded coconut…

Meringued Pears

Pare and core the pears, place them in a baking-dish and fill the centers with one tablespoon sugar, a little grated lemon-rind or candied…

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