Chop 6 ounces of suet and ½ pint of figs fine, add ¾ pint bread crumbs, 4 ounces of moist sugar. Mix first the bread and suet, then the figs and sugar, add a little nutmeg, a well beaten egg, a cup of sweet milk. Steam in a mold 4 hours.

SAUCE—1 cup of sugar, ½ cup of butter, boil well together, ¼ cup of brandy added before taking from stove; beat yolk of 1 egg and stir in, beat white of the egg and stir in, not before it is sent to the table.

Miss G. Adams.