Now, with an ordinary brush, paint these waxy-looking pears a bright red with a little cochineal, and place these half-pears on the white rice, slanting, with the thick part downwards and the stalk end uppermost.
Cut a few sticks of green angelica about an inch and a half long and of the thickness of the ordinary stalk of a pear, and stick one of these into the stalk end of each pear.

The red pear, with the green stalk resting on the snow-white bed of rice, looks very pretty.

A little chopped angelica can be sprinkled over the white rice, like chopped parsley.
FRUITS, BOTTLED .-- When apricots and peaches are preserved in bottles, they can be treated exactly in a similar manner to those preserved in tins.

It will be found advisable, however, to taste the syrup in the bottle, as it will be often found that it requires the addition of a little more sugar.
Ordinary bottled fruits, such as gooseberries, currants, raspberries, rhubarb, damsons, cranberries, etc., can be used for making fruit pies, or they can be sent to table simply as stewed fruit.

In this case some whipped cream on the top is a very great improvement.