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Time to bake, 20 minutes. Sufficient for 12 to 15 cheese cakes. Probable cost, 9 d. or lOd. 1583. Orange Tartlets (Petites Tartes d’Orange) Short crust. 1 large orange. 2 oz. butter. 2 oz, castor sugar. 1 dessert-sp. brandy. 3 yolks of eggs. Line six or eight patty pans with short crust, and bake them in a quick oven until the pastry is just set. Meanwhile prepare the mixture for filling them. Grate the rind from the orange and reserve it. Melt the butter in a small stewpan, add the sugar, the strained juice of the orange, yolks of eggs, and brandy. Mix well for a few minutes, add the orange rind, and stir four or five minutes longer. Fill the pastry cases with this mixture and bake in a moderate oven until set. Take out, leave till cold, then serve either with or without a little whipped cream on the top. Time to bake, about 20 minutes. Probable cost, Id. to 1jd. each. 1585. Strawberry, Raspberry, or Red Currant Tartlets (Tartelettes de Fruits) \ pt. fruit. A little liqueur or any fruit syrup. | lb. sugar. 1 doz. tartlet cases. J gill water. Choose nice ripe fruit, pick it, and put it into a basin. Put the sugar and water into a saucepan, and boil them to a syrup, but do not let them colour. Add a little liqueur, or some fruit syrup or essence to flavour. Pour this syrup over the fruit, and stand in a warm place for half hour. Then lift out the fruit carefully, place it in ready cooked tartlet cases, and pour one or two teaspoonfuls of the syrup over. Serve either hot or cold. A spoonful of whipped cream may be put on the top of each just before serving. Note. — Nice ripe cherries may be used in the same way, but they must be stoned. Probable cost. Is. Rice and macaroni are two of our most useful articles of food, and although, thanks to the spread of vegetarian cookery in this country, they are gaining in popularity, they might still be used to a greater extent, and especially by those who avoid meat in any quantity. Special attention has been paid to them in this section, and that rice can be served in other ways than as a mere adjunct to curry, and macaroni in other forms than the well-known macaroni and cheese, the following pages will show. Many simple and savoury ways of cooking both macaroni and rice are here explained. Within recent years nuts have entered largely into the field of cookery, and in modern vegetarian cookery in particular they play an important part. They can be utilised in the making of many tasty dishes, which require only to be tasted to be appreciated, and the recipes here given will no doubt be suggestive of many others. RICE DISHES the rack above the fire, or on a plate in a moderate oven. While drying, stir lightly with a fork every now and then, to keep the grains separate. RICE