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Coffee (Swiss Pudding- cups)

*Swiss Pudding-11/2 cups breadcrumbs, 1 pound apples, 4 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 tablespoons Crisco, and grated lemon rind.

Choose good cooking apples, peel, core, and thinly slice them. Well Crisco a pint pudding-dish, place some crumbs on bottom, and press some against the sides of dish, put in layer of apples, some sugar, a little lemon peel or any other flavoring preferred, then a few more crumbs, and repeat this until all are used; leaving crumbs for top layer. oven Pile mixture up little as it shrinks while cooking. Place Crisco in small pieces on top. Bake in moderately hot until apples are quite cooked and pudding is browned top and bottom. Turn pudding out on to flat dish, sprinkle sugar over top.

Serve with boiled custard or cream.

This pudding may be served hot or cold.

April 24

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