n the meantime prepare some dumplings as
follows:--Place 1 cup milk with 1 tablespoonful butter over the
fire; as soon as it boils stir in 1 cup sifted flour and stir
constantly until it has formed into a smooth dough and loosens
itself from the bottom of saucepan; after the dough has cooled stir
1 tablespoonful butter to a cream and add by degrees the yolks of 3
eggs, the dough, 1 tablespoonful dry farina and lastly the whites
beaten to a stiff froth; form the mixture with a tablespoon into
dumplings and drop them into the boiling syrup in which the fruit
was boiled; when done take them out with a skimmer and lay in a
circle around the fruit; pour the syrup over them and serve. These
dumplings may also be made with dried fruit.

794. +Plain Suet Dumplings.+-- 1 pint bread crumbs soaked in 1 cup
milk, 1/2 pound suet freed from strings and chopped fine, 4 eggs
(whites and yolks beaten separately), 1 tablespoonful sugar, 1
teaspoonful salt and 1 cup prepared flour or flour with 1/2
teaspoonful Royal baking powder; work into a smooth dough and shape
with floured hands into dumplings; boil them inclosed in little,
square pieces of muslin or dumpling cloths that have been previously
dipped in hot water, wrung out and floured on the inside; boil 40
minutes and serve with strawberry, cherry or wine sauce; or stir any
kind of fresh fruit into 1/2 pint hard sauce and serve it with the
dumplings.

795. +Plain Dumplings (with stewed Apples).+-- Pare, core and cut
into quarters 6 tart apples; boil 1 cup sugar with 2 cups water to a
syrup, put in the apples and boil till tender, but do not allow them
to break; when done take the apples out with a skimmer and lay them
on a dish; mix 1 cup prepared flour with 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful butter
and a little water into a thick batter, drop a small portion of the
mixture with a teaspoon into the boiling apple syrup and boil 5
minutes; remove them, lay in a circle around the apples and pour the
syrup over them. A few slices of lemon may be boiled with the syrup.
This dish can also be made of pears, dried apples or apricots.

796. +Apple Dumplings (with Rice).+-- Place 1/2 pound rice in a
saucepan over the fire with cold water, boil 3 minutes and drain in
a colander, rinsing with cold water; then put it back on the fire in
the same saucepan with 1 pint milk, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, 1/2
teaspoonful sugar and a little piece of butter; boil until thick;
remove from the fire and mix it with 2 well