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Coffee (Baba with Syrup-Sift cups)

*Baba with Syrup-Sift 3 cups flour and ½ teaspoon salt into a basin, add 1 yeast cake dissolved in 1/2 cup luke warm milk; make well in center of flour, pour in 5 beaten eggs, mix with the hand for 5 minutes. Put it into Criscoed basin, spread over with 1/2 cup Crisco, cover and put in warm place until it has risen to twice its original size. Knead until elastic, add 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 tablespoons currants, 2 tablespoons sultana raisins, knead again. Turn into large Criscoed mold. It should not be more than half full. Allow to rise to top of tin, then bake in moderate oven for 30 minutes. Turn out and pour syrup over it. To make syrup, boil 2 cups water with 1/4 cup sugar for 10 minutes, then add 2 tablespoons apricot jam and boil 5 milk, 1/2 cup cream, 2 well beaten eggs, and pour into prepared pie plate. Bake till firm in moderate oven. Serve hot. As a change, minutes. Strain, add 1 wineglass rum and bring to boiling point. place on the pumpkin pie as it comes out of the oven a layer of halved marshmallows, replace in the oven November 25 and let them brown.