Cassell's dictionary of cookery

occasionally imported into this country, but it is by no means sufficiently well known." Mansfield Pudding.— Chop three ounces of suet ; add to it one table-spoonful of flour, four table-spoonfuls of currants, a pinch of nutmeg, two ounces of moist sugar, the soft part of a French roll, which has been previously soaked in half a pint of boiling cream or milk, and well beaten, a table-spoonful of brandy, a tablespoonful of cream, and two eggs. Beat the pudding with a fork for four or five minutes, and put it into a buttered dish, or into a china mould, if preferred. Time to bake in a moderate oven, three-quarters of an hour. Probable cost, lOd. Sufficient for three or four persons. Manx Cake.— Rub oil the peel from half a large lemon on lumps of sugar ; ascertain the weight of sugar, and add as much more of pounded sugar as will make eight ounces in all. Mix the pounded sugar with eight ounces of rice-flour. Beat eight eggs until you can take up a spoonful free from strings ; dissolve the lumps of sugar in the beaten eggs, and mix them gradually with the flour. "WTien these ingredients are well beaten together, bake in a buttered tin. Time, thirty minutes to bake ; to beat the eggs, twenty-five to thirty minutes. Probable cost, Is. 2d. for this quantity. Maple. — The sugar-maple is a species of maple not unlike the sycamore. It abounds in the northern districts of the United States and in the British North American possessions. Large quantities of sugar are made from it, but almost solely for domestic use. A single tree yields from two to six pounds of sugar in a season. Maple Sugar, Apparatus required for Making. — In many localities, where wood is no object, a rude method of boiling is followed ; but where fuel is scarce, a cheap apparatus should be prepared that will require but little fuel. In some districts broad pans or kettles have been made, of sheet-iron bottoms, and sides of plank or boards, care being taken, to allow the fire to come in contact -with the iron only. These pans cost but a trifle, and, owing to their large surface, the evaporation is rapid. Another cheap construction for boiling with economy is to make a light box of plank, some four or five feet square — the -width of a wide plank will answer — and then put into it, almost at the bottom, a piece of large copper funnel, say ten or twelve inches at the outer part, and then smaller. This funnel, beginning near one end, should run back nearly to the opposite side, then turn, and come out at the opposite end — or at the side near the end, as most convenient — being in only two straight parts, that the soot may be cleared out. Each end should be made tight with a flange nailed to the box. At the mouth of the large part there should be a door to reduce the draught ; here make the fire, and at the other end have a funnel to carry oif the smoke. In this case there is only sheet-copper between the fire and the sap which surrounds the funnel, so that the heat is readily taken up by the liquid, and very little escapes. For catching the sap various kinds of vessels are used. The cheapest MAP ( 406 ) MAP