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PASTRY.
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FRITTERS.


Seven eggs.
Half a pint of milk.
A salt-spoonful of salt.
Sufficient flour to make a thick batter.



Beat the eggs well and stir them gradually into the milk. Add the salt, and stir in flour enough to make a thick batter.

Fry them in lard, and serve them up hot.

Eat them with wine and sugar.


They are improved by stirring in a table-spoonful of yeast.

These are excellent with the addition of cold stewed apple, stirred into the mixture, in which case use less flour.


FINE CUSTARDS.


A quart of milk or cream.
The yolks only, of sixteen eggs.
Six ounces of powdered white sugar.
Half an ounce of cinnamon, broken in small pieces.
A large handful of peach-leaves, or half an ounce of peach kernels or bitter almonds, broken in pieces.
A table-spoonful of rose-water.
A nutmeg.



Boil in the milk the cinnamon, and the peach-leaves, &c. and stir into it gradually, the sugar, spice, and rose-water.

Beat the yolks of sixteen eggs very light, and