sugar and prunes, and bake in small buttered dishes. Serve
hot or cold, with cream.


Junket

1 junket tablet.
1 quart milk.
1/2 cup sugar.
1 teaspoonful vanilla.

Break up the junket tablet into small pieces, and put them into a
tablespoonful of water to dissolve. Put the sugar into the milk
with the vanilla, and stir till it is dissolved. Warm the milk
a little, but only till it is as warm as your finger, so that if you
try it by touching it with the tip, you do not feel it at all as
colder or warmer. Then quickly turn in the water with the tablet
melted in it, stirring it only once, and pour immediately into
small cups on the table. These must stand for half and hour
without being moved, and then the junket will be stiff, and the cups
can be put in the ice-box. In winter you must warm the cups till
they are like the milk. This is very nice with a spoonful of whipped
cream on each cup, and bits of preserved ginger or of jelly on it.


Strawberry Shortcake

Margaret's mother called this the Thousand Mile Shortcake, because
she sent so far for the recipe to the place where she had once
eaten it, when she thought it the best she had ever tasted.