beaten eggs; dip the
dumpling cloths in hot water, wring them out and flour well inside;
put 2 spoonfuls of the boiled rice upon each cloth, spread it out
smooth and lay in the center of each a peeled and cored apple; fill
the opening left by the removal of the core with currant jelly or
sugar; draw the 4 corners of the cloth together, bring them to the
top of the apple and fasten with pins; drop them into boiling water
and boil 1/2 hour; serve with sweet cream or vanilla, fruit or claret
sauces.

CAKES.

797. +Plain Cake.+-- 1 cup butter, 1 cup milk, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups
prepared flour, 4 eggs and the grated rind of 1 lemon; stir butter
and sugar to a light white cream with your right hand; then stir
with a silver spoon, add the eggs, 1 at a time, stirring a few
minutes between each addition; next add the sifted flour and milk
alternately; butter a large, round cake pan and line it with
buttered paper; pour in the cake mixture and bake in a medium hot
oven for 1 hour; to ascertain if cake is done thrust a knitting
needle into center of cake; if it comes out clean the cake is done;
if not, the baking must be continued; when done remove the cake from
oven and let it stand 10 minutes; then turn it out of pan, remove
the paper and set the cake in a cool place or put it when cold in a
tin cake box. If plain flour is used take 1-1/2 teaspoonfuls baking
powder and sift it with the flour. Measure with a cup which holds
half a pint.

798. +Marble Cake.+-- Take the same mixture as for Plain Cake and
divide it into 3 equal parts; add to one part some red sugar or a
little prepared cochineal, to give it a fine pink tint; stir into
another part 3 tablespoonfuls grated chocolate and leave the third
part plain; butter a large cake pan and line it with buttered paper;
fill the pan about 1/2 inch deep with the plain batter and drop upon
this in 3 or 4 places 1 spoonful of the dark and pink batters; pour
in more plain batter; then drop in the pink and brown the same way;
continue until all is used; the pink may be omitted if the coloring
is not handy; bake the same as Plain Cake; when done ice the cake
with boiled chocolate glaze.

799. +Nut Cake.+-- Prepare a cake batter the same as for Plain Cake,
stir in 1 pint shelled walnuts broken into pieces and finish the
same as Plain Cake; or stir 3 cups freshly grated cocoanut into the
plain cake batter; or stir 1 pint shelled hickory nuts into the
plain cake batter; or almonds