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CUP CAKE 1-1/2 cups hot milk Juice of 1 orange 1/2 cup cake crumbs 1 egg slightly beaten 1/2 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt Grated rind of 1/2 orange Mix milk and crumbs, let stand five minutes, and press through a fine sieve; add other ingredients. Prepare paste, fill, and bake the same as Custard Pie  PINEAPPLE PIE 1 can grated pineapple Few grains salt 1 cup sugar 1 egg 2-1/2 tablespoons flour 1/2 tablespoon butter Mix sugar, flour, and salt add beaten egg, and mix with pineapple; pour into a deep pie plate lined with paste, add butter in small pieces, cover with strips of paste, and bake in a hot oven about forty minutes, reducing the heat during the second half of baking. PRUNE PIE 2 cups cooked prunes 1 tablespoon flour 1/2 cup sugar Grated rind of 1/2 orange Stone prunes, cut in quarters, and put into a paste-lined plate; cover with sugar, flour, and rind mixed. Cover with upper crust, brush with milk, and bake in a hot oven half an hour, reducing the hea

BEVERAGES 20.--COFFEE, EGG, AND MILK 2 eggs 1-1/2 teaspoons instantaneous coffee 2-1/2 tablespoons sugar 3 cups milk Few grains salt Beat the eggs until light; add the other ingredients, and strain into glasses. Serve very cold. (This recipe fills four tumblers.) 21.--GRAPE JUICE (Unfermented) Pick over and wash grapes, barely cover with water, and cook until soft and white; drain through cheesecloth, and to each quart of juice add one cup each of water and sugar; bring to boiling point, skim, bottle, and cork tightly. When cold, dip corks into melted paraffin. 22.--GRAPE EGGNOG 1 egg 1/4 cup milk 1/3 cup grape juice Nutmeg 1 teaspoon powdered sugarbeet egg until very light, add grape juice and sugar, and beat again, add milk, beat well, pour into a glass, and dust with nutmeg. 23.--GINGER PUNCH 1-1/4 cups sugar 2 teaspoons Jamaica ginger 1 quart boiling water 1/2 cup orange juice Grated rind 1 lemon 1/3 cup lemon juice Boil sugar and water with the lemo

Hansel and Gretel Once upon a time, a very poor woodcutter lived in a tiny cottage in the woods. He had two children, Hansel and Gretel. A few years after Hansel and Gretel were born, their mother died. The woodcutter married again, but his second wife did not like the children at all. One day the wife said, there is not enough food in the house for all of us. There are too many mouths to feed we must get rid of the two children. Take them far away from the house so that they can never find their way back The poor woodcutter did not know what to do. He knew that his wife did not like his children, but he loved them, he through to himself I won’t take them too far they will be able to find to find their way back home then the children heard what their step-mother had said Gretel started crying. Hansel put his arm around her and comforted her. He said, “don’t worry! If they leave us in the forest, we’ll find the way home.” That night, hansel crept outside the hous

CHAPTER 1. VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION Causes of Variability. Effects of Habit. Correlation of Growth. Inheritance. The character of Domestic Varieties. The difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species. Origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more Species. Domestic Pigeons, their Differences, and Origin. The principle of Selection anciently followed its Effects. Methodical and Unconscious Selection. Unknown Origin of our Domestic Productions. Circumstances favorable to Man's power of Selection. When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature. When we reflect on the vast diversity of the plants and animals which have been cultivated, and which have varied during all ages under the most different climates and treatment, I think