This section is from the book "Chi Omega Cook Book", by The North Shore Alumnae of Chi Omega. Also available from Amazon: Chi Omega Cook Book.
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon butter grated rind one-half orange
1 1/2 cups boiling water 1 egg
Method:
Mix sugar and flour thoroughly, pour over the water and boil for five minutes. Add the butter, pour onto the egg, well beaten and return to the heat for a moment, but do not boil.
Jane Pruden Totten, Xi.
1 cup Hour
1 teaspoon baking powder pinch salt
Method:
Add enough milk to make soft batter. Grease cups. Put in a little batter. Cover with berries of any kind. (Blue berries and red raspberries very nice). Fill cup about three-fourths full. Steam twenty minutes. Cover with hot sauce. Hot Sauce: one-half cup sugar, one cup water, one teaspoon butter, fruit juice.
Bernice Waite, Xi.
1 egg
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 cup butter
1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
1 small cup raisins - chopped
1/2 cup sweet milk 1 cup flour
Method:
Steam in six cups (little over half filled) one hour and serve with whipped cream or vanilla sauce.
Elizabeth Kuehmsted Moore, Xi.
1 cup brown sugar butter size of an egg
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons (rounding) flour
2 egg yolks
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
Method:
Melt butter and sugar, add flour, milk, eggs and seasoning and cook until thick. Cool. Cut sponge cake in half and spread filling between layers and on top. Pile whipped cream on top and sprinkle with crushed peanut brittle.
Jessie Whiting Axelson, Xi,
1 tablespoon gelatine soaked in 1/4 cup cold water
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup water
6 large apples
1 cud brown sugar
1 tablespoon butter 1/4 cup cream 3/4 cup chopped nuts 1 cup whipped cream
Method :
Boil white sugar and water, peel and core apples and cook until tender in this syrup, keeping them whole. Remove apples, dissolve soaked gelatine in hot syrup. Cook brown sugar, butter and cream together to soft ball stage, add nuts, place apples in serving dish and fill centers and cover top with nut mixture. Pour syrup around them and set aside to cool. Garnish with whipped cream and nuts.
Ruth Wallis Wagner, Chi Alpha.
Fruit-Rice Compote *
1/2 cup rice 2 cups milk
1 egg
1 can peaches
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Method:
Cook the rice and milk in double boiler until tender, add the egg. Separate mixture. Thicken the juice of the peaches and then warm the peaches in this mixture. Place rounds of rice on individual plates, imbed peach on each round and cover with syrup. Any canned fruit can be substituted for the peaches.
Bobby Shurtleff Cole, Nu.
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
2 teaspoons boiling water (more may be needed to make it smooth) 4 eggs 2 dozen lady fingers
Method :
Melt chocolate, add sugar and water. Stir and let cool. Add yolks, one at a time. Beat well. Add stiffly beaten whites. Arrange lady fingers in layers, pour mixtures over them. Let stand in ice box several hours. Serve with whipped cream.
Marion Crater Davy, Xi.
Add maraschino cherries, three tablespoons cherry juice to custard if desired.
Elizabeth Kuehmsted Moore, Xi.
 
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