The bride's cook book

Stuff a half peach with chopped nuts and dates and serve with milk or cream. Add a few sliced peaches to bread pudding and Indian pudding. This makes a welcome variation. Frozen sirup from canned peaches with no additional sugar makes a delicious punch for serving with meats. Much time and fuel may be conserved by using canned peaches in steamed puddings and dumplings in place of raw fruit. Diced oranges and peaches arranged with a sprig of mint and some sirup from the peaches in a cocktail glass make a fruit cup which is sure to be popular. For a "different hot bouillon" dissolve a bouillon cube in some hot sirup from canned peaches. For an easy and delicious frozen dessert a can of peaches may be packed in ice and salt for 2 hours, turned out on a platter and served cut in slices. JELLIED PEACHES— Place halves of DEL MONTE Canned Peaches in a square wet mold. Dissolve 1 envelope of softened gelatin in 1^/4 cups of boiling water, add % cup of sugar, or Vs cup of corn sirup and V2 cup each of lemon juice and the sirup from the peaches. Pour the mixture over the peaches and when cold and firm cut in squares with one-half peach in each. PEACH ISLAND— Place 6 halves of DEL MONTE Canned Peaches in a serving dish. Beat 2 egg yolks with 2 tablespoons of sugar or com sirup and Vs teaspoon of salt, add 1 cup of hot milk, cook in double boiler until thick, cool, add ^ teaspoon of vanilla, fold in 2 beaten egg whites, pour over the peaches and sprinkle with coconut. PEACH COCONUT PUDDING— Mix ^ cup of cornstarch with V2 cup of cold water and add to 2 cups of hot milk, cook in double boiler 35 minutes, and add y2 cup of coconut. Line a wet mold with DEL MONTE Canned Sliced Peaches, pour in pudding and when cold turn out on a serving dish. IIA Del Monte Canned Fruits and Vegetables PEACH TAPIOCA— Put % cup (Vs can) of drained DEL MONTE Canned Sliced Peaches in a serving dish. Cook V2 cup of minute tapioca, 1^/^ cups of boiling water, Vs teaspoon of salt, % cup of sirup from the peaches, and 1/16 teaspoon of cinnamon in a double boiler until tapioca is clear and transparent. Pour over the peaches and serve hot or cold with milk or cream. PEACH BETTY— Arrange 1 cup of bread crumbs and 1% cups (% can) of DEL MONTE Canned Sliced Peaches which have been drained, in alternate layers in a greased baking dish, sprinkle each layer of peaches with sugar or corn sirup and a little cinnamon, dot with 2 tablespoons of butter substitute, pour % cup of water over all, and bake 35 minutes in a moderate oven. PEACH BLANC MANGE — Mix 5 tablespoons of cornstarch and 3 tablespoons of sugar or Vs cup of corn sirup, 2i/^ cups of hot milk, stirring constantly, and cook in the double boiler 35 minutes. Add % teaspoon of vanilla and pour into wet mold lined with % cup (Vs can) of DEL MONTE Canned Sliced Peaches. Chill and serve with sirup from the peaches, or with cream. PEACH SOUFFLE— Arrange 1^/2 cups (% can) of drained DEL MONTE Canned Sliced Peaches in a greased baking dish. To 3 stiffly beaten egg \yhites add 1/16 teaspoon of salt and ^ cup of the peach sirup. Pour over the peaches and bake in a slow oven 30 minutes. Serve with custard sauce made from the egg yolks and the remainder of sirup from the peaches.