1 quart flour.
¼ lb. suet.
1 teaspoonful salt.
½ teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water.
1 teaspoonful cream-tartar sifted in the flour.
Cold water enough to make into a tolerably stiff paste.
Roll out, cut into squares, put in the middle of each a fine, juicy
apple, pared and cored. Fill the hole left by the core with marmalade,
or with sugar wet with lemon-juice. Stick a clove in the sugar. Close
the paste, tie up in the cloths, when you have wet them with hot water
and floured them, and boil one hour.
A pleasing idea for dumpling cloths is to crochet them in a close
stitch with stout tidy cotton. They are easily done, wash and wear
well, and leave a very pretty pattern upon the paste when they are
opened. Crochet them round, with a cord for drawing run into the outer
edge.