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Show Corn Starch Pudding With Figs. Put one quart milk on to boil, in a f double boiler, mix two rounded tablespoons table-spoons cornstarch, half a cup of sugar, and half a teaspoon of salt and moisten it with a little cold milk. Stir it into ihe.boilityf. .millv and let- it. cook ten minutes.' stirring often. Beat the yolks of four eggs until light colored and thick and stir them into the boiling stan h. As soon as well mixed remove from the fire, as the egg must be only 8 slightly cooked. Flavor with one tea-, spoon vanilla.. Into a pudding dish" turn about one-third of the cooked mixture, mix-ture, then put in a layer of steamed figs cut 1n small pieces, then another layer of tlie pudding and tigs, and cover with the pirdding. . Beat the whites wf the eggs stiff, then beat h four rounded I sl'Rai' and two' teaspoons of lemon juice. . Pile it lightly light-ly over the surface of the pudding and color it a delicate brown in the oven. Let it become extremely cold before serving. T'se the whole figs which come in bags. Wash them in lukewarm water find stew them in a little water or steam them until tender. |