"One thing is always sure to please, Just give him puddings such as these."

Apple Pudding

Wash and soak 1/2 pound dried apples (fresh ones may be used). Stone 1/4 pound of dates and cut each one in thirds. Put fruit in saucepan with 1 tablespoon of butter, half a cup of brown sugar and 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon. Stew slowly till tender. Turn out to cool. Sift 1/2 pound of flour into a basin, cut into it 4 tablespoons butter, add 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 tea-spoonful baking powder and 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls ground cinnamon. Make into a stiff paste with the beaten yolk of 1 egg and a little milk. Divide into one large and one small piece. Roll out and line a pudding dish with large piece of dough, put in fruit and cover with small piece of dough. Bake in a moderate oven for three-quarters of an hour. Cool and cover with meringue. Mrs. M. McLElSH,

Riverside, Cal.

Birds Nest Pudding (no sugar)

Put 1 cup seeded dates in the bottom of a baking dish

2 eggs beaten separately

1/2 cup milk

1 cup flour with which sift 2 teaspoons baking powder

1 tablespoon melted butter

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup flour

Pour batter over dates and bake. Serve with cream

Miss Alberta Metzler.

One cup means 1/2 pint. Cup, tablespoon and teaspoon all mean level measurements.

Boiled Rice And Date Pudding

1 cup rice

2 quarts hot water 1 tablespoon salt

2 cups sugar 2 cups water 1 cup cut dates

Wash rice and add slowly to 2 quarts boiling water to which has been added 1 tablespoon salt. Boil about thirty minutes, or until soft. Drain in a coarse strainer pour through it some hot water, and let stand in a warm place to dry off. Mix stoned and cut dates with rice and mould. Serve with a syrup made from the 2 cups sugar and 2 cups water. This amount will make a large pudding. Mrs. F. W. Zabler,

Coachella, Cal.

Bread Pudding (No Sugar)

2 heaping cups stale or fresh bread, cut in dice 1 heaping cup dates (1/2 lb.) 1 1/2 cups thin cream (3/4 pint)

1 egg, beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 cup blanched almonds, cut or not as you please

Mix well, and cook in a double boiler forty minutes.

Mrs. B. A. Teagle,

Coachella, Cal.

New Brown Betty (With Dates)

Grease a pudding dish, and put in it alternate layers of bread crumbs and tart apples and dates mixed. Make enough layers to nearly fill dish, having bread crumbs for first and last layers. Pour hot water on to moisten, dot with bits of butter and bake. Serve with cream and sugar or a good pudding sauce.

Boiled Carrot Pudding

1 pound of grated carrots 3/4 pound chopped suet 1/2 pound dates 4 tablespoons sugar

1/2 pound of either raisins or currants 8 tablespoons flour Spices to suit taste

Put in a greased pudding bag, tie, allowing room to swell, and boil 4 hours; then put in oven for a few minutes to dry. Serve with "Hard Sauce," or any good pudding sauce.