Vermicelli Soup.

Take the fat from the top of your soup-stock; dip out rather more than half. Add a little seasoning to that which remains, and return to the ice. Should the weather be very warm it will be wise to heat all together, and then divide, returning the smaller portion to the ice. Warm the stock designed for to-day with the remains of yesterday’s tomato sauce; and when it begins to boil, strain through thin, coarse muslin. Put back over the fire, and take off all the scum that rises in ten minutes’ boil. Then put in a scant cupful of vermicelli, which has been broken up small, boiled five minutes in very hot water, and drained. Simmer five minutes, and pour out.

Roast Beef and Browned Potatoes.

Have all gristly parts of the beef cut away, and such bones removed as will injure the shape, or embarrass the carver. Put the beef into a dripping-pan, throw a cupful of boiling water over it, and roast ten minutes per pound, basting very often and copiously. Just before taking it up, dredge with flour and baste once with butter. After dishing the meat, pour the top from the gravy; add a little boiling water; put it into a saucepan, and thicken with browned flour. Pepper, and serve after a brief boil.

Browned Potatoes.

Boil, and strip off the skins of large, fair potatoes. Half an hour before you take up the meat pour off the fat from the gravy; lay your potatoes in the dripping-pan, and cook brown, basting frequently. Lay about the meat when dished.

Fried Egg-plant.

Slice half an inch thick, and lay in salt water one hour, with a heavy plate on top to keep under the water. Pare each slice. Make a batter of two eggs, a cup of milk, a little salt, and flour for thin batter. Wipe the egg-plant perfectly dry; dip each slice in the batter, and fry in hot dripping. Drain well, and serve on a heated flat dish.

Boiled Green Corn.

Strip off all but the thin husk next the corn. Turn this down, and pick off the silk from the grains. Replace the husk, tie a thread about it to keep it smooth, and cook the corn from thirty to forty minutes, according to size and age. Pull off the husk; break the stalk close to the ear, and serve, wrapped in a napkin.

Raw Tomatoes.

Pare and slice; put into a salad dish, and dress as follows: Rub one teaspoonful of sugar, and half as much each of pepper, salt, and French or other made mustard, smooth with two tablespoonfuls of salad-oil. Beat in, a little at a time, five tablespoonfuls of vinegar, and half a teaspoonful extract of celery. Pour over the tomatoes, and set on ice until wanted.

Narcissus Blanc-Mange.

1 quart of milk; 1 package Cooper’s gelatine, soaked in 2 cups of cold water; yolks of 4 eggs, beaten light; 2 cups white sugar; 1 large cup of sweet cream, whipped with a little powdered sugar, and flavored with vanilla; rose-water for the blanc-mange.

Heat the milk to scalding. Stir in the sugar and gelatine, and when these are dissolved, beat in the yolks, and cook two minutes. Turn out into a shallow dish to cool. When it begins to form, put, a few spoonfuls at a time, into a bowl, and whip vigorously, flavoring with rose-water. When it is a yellow sponge, put into a wet mould, with a cylinder in the centre. Do this on Saturday. On Sunday turn into a dish, and fill the hole in the middle with whipped cream, just churned. Lay more whipped cream about the base. Like all other preparations of gelatine, this should be kept upon ice until you are ready to use it.

Iced Coffee and Sliced Cake.

Make the coffee at breakfast-time. It should be very strong. While hot add one-fourth as much boiling milk. When cool put on ice, and serve with more ice in the tumblers. Send around a basket of cake with it.

A ham-bone broken to bits; 1 quart of cold water; 3 pints of good stock; as many poached eggs as you have people at table; a little pepper; ½ cup of rice.

Boil your ham-bone in a quart of water until the liquid is reduced one-half. Strain off the stock from the meat and bones in the jar or bowl; add the ham broth and half a cup of well-soaked rice. Simmer until this is soft, skimming often, and pour into the tureen. Lay the poached eggs, neatly trimmed, round upon the top.

Braised Larded Beef.

Lard yesterday’s cold roast with strips of fat salt pork; lay in a broad saucepan; half cover with gravy, and strew minced onion over it. Cover closely and stew slowly at back of the range one hour. Dish the meat; boil down the gravy fast for a few minutes, and pour over it.

Chopped Potatoes and Corn.

Split each row of grain upon cobs of cold boiled corn, and cut them off clean. Add twice as much chopped cold boiled potatoes. Have a little good dripping hot in a frying-pan. Put in potatoes and corn and stir until very hot, but do not let them brown. Serve in a deep dish.

Cucumber and Onion Salad.

Pare the cucumbers and lay in ice-water one hour. Do the same with the onions in another bowl. Then slice them in the proportion of one onion to three large cucumbers, and arrange in a salad-bowl, and season with vinegar, pepper, and salt.

Stewed Squash.

Pare, quarter and boil the squash in hot salted water. Drain, mash very smooth, and put back over the fire with a few spoonfuls of milk, a little chopped parsley, and a good lump of butter, rolled in flour. Stew five minutes, after the boil begins, stirring well from the bottom most of the time. Pour into a deep dish.

Peaches and Cream.

See Wednesday of First Week in August.

The remains of your roast beef—bones cracked, and meat, skin, etc., chopped; 6 potatoes, boiled and mashed; bunch of herbs, chopped; 1 sliced onion; salt and pepper; 3 quarts of water; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, rolled in flour; 1 tablespoonful of walnut catsup.

Put on meat, bones, herbs, onion, and water, and simmer two hours, until the nourishment is all drawn from them. Strain, cool, take off the fat; rub in the potatoes through a colander, and season. When it is again hot, stir in the floured butter, and after boiling one minute, the catsup. Pour into the tureen. If you have any soup left from yesterday, you may add it to this, when the potatoes go in.

Kidneys SautÉs with Wine.

Cut the kidneys into thin slices, and cook ten minutes in a little dripping in a frying-pan. Take out and lay upon a hot-water dish, covering closely. Add to the dripping in the pan a little gravy—beef will do, or a little of your soup; season with a chopped onion, parsley, salt and pepper, and thicken with browned flour. Boil up; add a glass of good wine and the juice of half a lemon. Pour upon the kidneys, and set in boiling water five minutes. If kidneys are cooked too long they toughen.

Baked Omelette aux Fines Herbes.

7 eggs; ½ cup of milk in which has been dissolved a quarter teaspoonful of corn-starch; 1 tablespoonful minced herbs; pepper and salt; butter and onion.

Beat the yolks very smooth, and whip in the milk; then stir in the frothed whites. Put a tablespoonful of butter in a round, rather shallow bake-pan; add the chopped herbs and a little finely minced onion. Set upon the upper grating of the oven until it begins to simmer. Pour in the omelette and bake quickly until high, and delicately browned. Run a sharp knife quickly around the edge and invert the dish upon a hot platter. Or, if your bake-dish is presentable, serve in it. Eat at once, as it soon falls.

String-Beans.

Cut off both ends, and pare the strings from both sides. Cut into short pieces, and cook thirty minutes, or until tender, in boiling salt water. Drain, season with pepper, salt and butter, and serve in a deep dish.

Cauliflower au Gratin.

Cook a cauliflower—tied up in a net—in boiling salt water, fifteen minutes. Drain, clip into small clusters, and lay in a stone-china or block-tin dish. Pour a cup of drawn butter over it; strew thickly with fine crumbs, and brown upon the upper grating of a brisk oven.

Syllabub and May’s Cake.

Whip a pint of cream to a stiff froth in your syllabub-churn, sweetening as you go on, with half a cup of powdered sugar. When it is a snowy mass upon the sieve upon which you have laid it as it rises, beat in a glass of wine. Set upon ice until wanted, then fill into glasses.

May’s Cake.

Please consult “Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea,” page 338.

Knuckle of veal—well cracked—about 4 lbs.; 3 onions; ½ lb. of lean ham; 2 turnips; bunch of parsley; 1 scant cup of barley soaked two hours in a little milk.

Put on meat, bones, and barley, and stew slowly in a gallon of water three hours. Then add the vegetables, cut into neat dice, parboiled, and left to cool. Cook gently one hour and a half. Strain without pressing. Pick out the meat and bones, and return to the soup-pot with three pints of broth. Add a quart of cold water; cook, covered, one hour more, and season well. Turn into a jar or bowl, and when cold, set on ice for to-morrow’s soup. Cool that meant for to-day; skim, season, and put over the fire with the barley and vegetables. When it begins to boil, pour into the tureen.

Chickens À la FranÇaise.

Boil, and then blanch a sweetbread by dropping it into cold water. Then chop, mix with the pounded boiled livers of the chickens, and one-sixth as much bread-crumbs as you have meat. Season. Have ready, cleaned and washed, a pair of nice chickens. Fill with this force-meat. Cover the breasts and sides with thin slices of fat salt pork; put into a dripping-pan; pour about them a large cupful of boiling water, and roast—basting often—one hour. Take off the pork; lay it in the gravy, and dredge the fowls with flour. As this browns, baste well, with butter once, three times with gravy. Take up and keep hot while you strain; cool, skim and thicken the gravy. Have ready cooked a cup of rice measured when raw—which has been boiled in the water used for cooking the sweetbread and livers, then seasoned. Make a broad, flat-topped mound of it upon a dish; lay the chickens on it, and pour a little of the gravy over them. Serve the rest in a boat.

Succotash.

Cut the corn from eight or ten cobs; mix this with one third the quantity of Lima beans, and cook one hour in just enough water to cover them. Drain off most of the water; add a cupful of milk, with a pinch of soda stirred in. When this boils, stir in a great spoonful of butter rolled in flour; season with pepper and salt, and simmer ten minutes longer.

Sweet Potatoes.

Select those of uniform size; parboil them, with the skins on. Peel and lay in a baking-pan. Bake until soft to the grasp, glazing with butter just before you take them up.

Apple Sauce.

Peel and slice juicy tart apples, and stew with just enough water to keep them from burning, until broken to pieces. Stir deeply and well, often. Beat a good lump of butter into them while hot, sweeten abundantly, and season with nutmeg. Mash and beat all the lumps to smoothness, or take them out.

Blackberry Shortcake—Hot.

2 quarts of sifted flour; 3 tablespoonfuls of butter, and 2 of lard; 2½ cups of buttermilk, or sour, thick milk; yolks of 2 eggs, beaten light; 1 teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in hot water, and the same quantity of salt.

Rub the shortening into the salted flour. Add beaten yolks and soda to the milk, and make out the paste quickly. Roll into two sheets—that intended for the upper crust half an inch thick, the lower, rather thinner. Lay the batter in a well greased baking-pan; cover thickly with the berries; sugar them; put on the top crust, and bake about twenty-five minutes to a nice brown. Cut into squares and eat—splitting these open—with sugar and butter.

Peel and slice twelve large tomatoes, and stew twenty minutes. Rub through a colander to a pulp; season this with pepper, salt, and sugar. Take the fat from the top of your cold soup-stock, and put the latter over the fire. Simmer half an hour; strain out meat and bones. Boil and skim three minutes, and add the tomato sauce. Cook gently ten minutes; stir in a tablespoonful (even) of corn-starch wet with cold water. Boil up and pour out.

Boiled Leg of Mutton.

Cook in plenty of hot salted water, allowing twelve minutes to the pound. Take out when done, wipe carefully; dish, and rub all over with butter. Serve with caper sauce.

Caper Sauce.

Take a cupful of the liquor in which the meat has been boiled. Put on in a saucepan; boil and skim for a moment; stir in two tablespoonfuls of butter rubbed into a heaping teaspoonful of flour. Stir over the fire five minutes, add the juice of a lemon, pepper, and two dozen pickled capers—or, if you have not these, pickled nasturtium seed. Send to table in a boat. Save the rest of the pot-liquor for soup.

Mashed Potatoes.

Prepare as usual, whipping light with a fork, and heaping upon a hot dish.

Stewed Egg-plant.

Soak and stuff as directed on Thursday, Fourth Week in August, but instead of baking it, put on in a cupful of your soup-stock, and stew, closely covered, one hour, or until very tender. Take up and keep hot in a deep dish. Stir a lump of butter rolled in flour into the gravy; boil up and pour over the egg-plant.

Lima Beans.

Shell, and cook about forty minutes in boiling, salted water. Drain, pepper, salt and stir in a good lump of butter when dished.

Peach Fritters.

1 quart of flour; 1 cup of milk; ? cup of yeast; 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar; 4 eggs; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; a little salt; ripe, freestone peaches, pared and stoned.

Sift the flour into a bowl; work in milk and yeast, and let it rise five or six hours. Then, beat eggs and sugar light with butter, salt, and stir into the risen dough. Knead faithfully with your hands. Pull off bits nearly as large as an egg. Flatten and put in the centre of each a peach (pared), from which the stone has been slipped out through a slit in one side. Close the dough over it; make into a round ball, and lay upon a floured pan for the second rising. The balls must not touch each other. In an hour they should be light. Fry as you would doughnuts, but more slowly. Drain in a colander, and eat hot with brandy-sauce.

2 quarts of broth; 2 lbs. of halibut, rock, or other white fish; 2 onions; salt and cayenne; juice of half a lemon; dripping for frying.

Cut the fish into neat strips; take out the bones. Remove the fat from the cold pot-liquor set by yesterday, put in the fish-bones, and put on to stew down. Fry the sliced onions; drain from the fat; lay in the bottom of your soup-pot; put the fish upon them; put in a little broth, and simmer gently one hour. Take out the fish, dredge each piece with flour, and return to the kettle. Cover with two quarts of the strained stock, and cook, slowly, half an hour. Add cayenne and lemon, and pour out.

Mutton Batter Pudding.

2 cups of milk; 1 large cupful of flour; 2 eggs; neat squares of cold mutton, freed from skin and fat; pepper and salt; some melted butter, heated with tomato catsup.

Make a batter of the milk, eggs and flour. Lay the meat in the melted butter, pepper and salt; butter a pudding-dish; pour in a little of the batter; then add the meat soaked well in the butter; pour in the rest of the batter, and bake one hour in a steady oven. Serve at once.

Stewed Tomatoes and Corn.

Pare and slice six large tomatoes and one small onion. Cut the corn from four cobs, mix up well together, and stew half an hour. Season with pepper, salt and butter, stew again ten minutes, and pour out.

Cream Potatoes.

Pare and cut the potatoes into small squares or rounds. Cook twenty minutes in boiling water, a little salt. Turn this off; add a cupful of milk; and when this bubbles up a tablespoonful of butter with a teaspoonful of water wet up with cold milk, also, a little chopped parsley. Simmer five minutes and pour out.

Apple Cake with Cream.

2 cups of powdered sugar; 3 cups of prepared flour; ½ cup of corn-starch, wet with a little milk; ½ cup of butter creamed with the sugar; ½ cup of sweet milk; the whites of six eggs, whipped stiff.

Add the milk to the creamed butter and sugar; the corn-starch, then the flour and whites alternately. Bake in jelly-cake tins.

Filling.

3 tart, well-flavored apples, grated; yolks of 2 beaten eggs; 1 cup of sugar; 1 lemon, juice, and half the grated rind.

Beat yolks, sugar, and lemon together. Grate the apples directly into this mixture. Put into a custard-kettle, with boiling water outside of it, and stir to a boil. When cold, put between the cakes. Eat fresh with cream.

Iced Coffee.

See Sunday of this Week.

6 lbs. knuckle of veal; ½ lb. lean bacon; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter rubbed in 1 of flour; 2 onions; 2 carrots; 2 turnips; 3 cloves stuck in an onion; 1 blade of mace; bunch of herbs; 6 quarts of water; pepper and salt; 1 cup of boiling milk.

Cut up the meat and crack the bones. Slice carrots, turnips, and one onion, leaving that with the cloves whole. Put on with mace, and all the herbs except the parsley, in two quarts of cold water. Bring to a slow boil; take off the scum, as it rises, and at the end of an hour’s stewing, add the rest of the cold water—one gallon. Cover and cook steadily, always gently, four hours. Strain off the liquor, of which there should be about five quarts; rub the vegetables through the colander, and pick out bones and meat. Season these highly, and put, as is your Saturday custom, into a wide-mouthed jar, or a large bowl. Add to them three quarts of stock, well salted, and, when cold, keep on ice. Cool to-day’s stock; remove the fat; season, put in chopped parsley, and put over the fire. Heat in a saucepan a cup of milk, stir in the floured butter; cook three minutes. When the soup has simmered ten minutes after the last boil, and been carefully skimmed, pour into the tureen, and stir in the hot, thickened milk.

Mock Quails.

Cut slices about four inches square, and half an inch thick, from a leg of veal; flatten with the side of a hatchet, and dip in beaten egg. Make a force-meat of a cold boiled sweetbread, chopped fine, a little minced fat pork or ham, a few oysters, also minced, and a seasoning of pepper, cloves, nutmeg, and a pinch of grated lemon-peel. Wet with oyster-liquor, and the juice of half a lemon. Spread the slices with this, and roll each up tightly. Bind with soft thread, and lay in a broad saucepan. Half cover with broth borrowed from your soup, cooled and skimmed. Cover and stew slowly nearly one hour. Make the remnants of the force-meat—adding a few bread crumbs—into small balls. Roll in flour and set in the oven until browned. Five minutes before you take up the meat, roll these in beaten yolk of egg, once and again, until thickly coated. Let them stand to cool while you take up the “quails.” Lay them upon a hot dish; clip and gently withdraw the threads. Strain the gravy; add a little boiling water; thicken with browned flour; stir in a spoonful of butter, and when it boils, drop in the “quail eggs.” Simmer just one minute, and pour over the meat.

Kidney-Beans.

Shell; cook in boiling salted water thirty minutes, or until tender; drain, dish, and season with pepper, butter and salt.

Corn Fritters.

2 cups of grated corn; 2 eggs; 1 cup of milk; flour for thin batter; a pinch of soda; salt; 1 tablespoonful melted butter.

Mix and fry as you would griddle-cakes.

Potatoes À la Lyonnaise.

Parboil and chop some potatoes; heat a little good dripping or butter in a frying-pan. Stir in half a minced onion, for every eight potatoes, with a teaspoonful of chopped parsley. When they have cooked one minute, add the potatoes, and stir until all are tender, but not browned. Drain, pepper, salt and dish.

Cabinet Pudding.

2 cups of prepared flour; 3 tablespoonfuls of butter, creamed with the sugar; 5 eggs; 1 cup of sugar; ½ lb. raisins, seeded, and cut in three pieces each; ½ cup of milk; ½ lemon—juice and grated peel.

Add the beaten yolks to the creamed butter and sugar; then the milk and flour, alternately with the whites. Lastly, stir in the fruit, dredged with flour; pour into a buttered mould, and boil two hours and a half.

Eat hot with liquid sauce.

Take the fat from your soup-stock. Dip out two quarts, add one large cup of boiling water, and strain into the soup-kettle. Heat to a slow boil; skim carefully; add half a cup of grained tapioca, soaked two hours in a little cold water; cook until this is clear; put in what additional seasoning your taste demands, with a glass of wine, and a teaspoonful of celery essence, and pour out.

Roast Ducks.

Put sage and onion in the stuffing for one; make that intended for the other, of bread-crumbs, seasoned with pepper and salt, and wet up slightly with milk. Lay the ducks in the dripping-pan; pour boiling water over them, and roast, basting often, until tender and brown. Dish; take the fat from the gravy; season, thicken with browned flour and boil up. Serve in a gravy-boat.

Stuffed Tomatoes.

Choose enough large, smooth tomatoes to fill a shallow pudding-dish. Cut a slice from the top of each, scoop out the inside. Chop the pulp with a little cold meat, taken from your soup, a sprinkling of minced onion, and the grated corn from two cobs. Season with pepper, salt and butter; fill the tomatoes, put on the top slices; fill the interstices with the force-meat, pour on a little gravy, cover and bake forty minutes—then brown.

Cauliflower with Sauce Tartare.

Boil a large cauliflower—tied in netting—in hot salted water, from twenty-five to thirty minutes. Drain; serve in a deep dish with the flower upwards, and pour over it a cup of drawn butter, in which has been stirred the juice of a lemon, and a half teaspoonful of French mustard, mixed up well with the sauce.

Sweet Potatoes.

Please see Wednesday of First Week in September.

Melons, Peaches, and Pears.

Serve the melons upon a flat dish; the other fruit in baskets, or upon fruit-stands, garnished with leaves.

Black Coffee, Crackers and Cheese.

Pass very strong hot coffee without cream, in small cups of clear china, and fancy crackers with grated cheese.

Cut into thin, short strips, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, and 1 onion; peel and slice 6 fine tomatoes; corn cut from 2 cobs; ½ cup boiled rice; 3 pints of soup-stock; 1 pint of boiling water; seasoning at discretion.

Boil the vegetables tender in a little hot salted water. Drain, butter, and keep them hot. The tomatoes and corn should be stewed in another vessel, twenty-five minutes, and seasoned. Add to your soup-stock a pint of boiling water, and simmer half an hour, then strain. Return to the fire with the cooked vegetables and the boiled rice. Stew gently ten minutes and turn out.

Stewed Lamb À la JardiniÈre.

Lay a breast of lamb, or two scrags, in a broad pot, meat downward. Scatter over this a sliced turnip, a sliced onion, and two sliced tomatoes, with a little pepper and salt. Add less than a cupful of broth from your soup; cover, and cook slowly one hour. Turn the meat then, and cook one hour longer, very slowly. When tender, but not ragged, dish, and keep hot. Strain the gravy; thicken with browned flour; season; boil up, and pour over the meat.

French Beans SautÉs.

Cut off the fibres from both sides of the (string) beans, and clip into short pieces. Boil tender in hot salted water; drain dry, and put into a saucepan in which you have melted a great spoonful of butter, seasoned with pepper, a little French mustard, and a tablespoonful of vinegar. Toss and stir until the beans are very hot, and glazed with the butter. Serve in a deep dish.

Mashed Potatoes au Gratin.

Mash in the customary manner, and heap upon a greased pie-dish. Strew thickly with dry crumbs, and brown upon the upper grating of the oven. Slip carefully to a hot, flat dish.

Peaches, Cream, and Cake.

See Monday of First Week in September.

4 lbs. of lean, coarse beef, cut into strips; 2 lbs. mutton or beef bones, broken small; 2 onions, sliced and fried; bunch of sweet herbs; 3 carrots; 2 turnips; 5 quarts of cold water; pepper and salt; dripping.

Fry the meat and onions in the dripping to a light brown. Put on in two quarts of water, and having cooked one hour, add the other vegetables chopped, and the remaining three quarts of water, cold. Boil slowly four hours, skimming often. Strain, pulping the vegetables. Put meat and bones into the stock-pot, season well; divide the broth into two portions; salt one, and pour into the stock-pot. When cold, set on ice for to-morrow. Cool and skim the rest; heat and skim until quite clear. Put dice of fried bread into the tureen.

PatÉ de Foie de Veau.

3 lbs. of calf’s liver—parboiled and cold; ½ lb. of cold cooked ham; 3 eggs; 1 tablespoonful of butter, and same of fine crumbs; 1 scant cup of milk; a little minced onion and parsley; nutmeg, cayenne, and a pinch of grated lemon-peel; some good pie-paste.

Mince the ham, and pound the boiled liver. Make into a sort of paste with the butter, beaten eggs, bread-crumbs, milk, and seasoning. It should be just soft enough to pour. Butter a bake-dish profusely; line with a good paste, rolled out thicker than for most pies. Fill this with the liver mixture; cover with crust, which must not overlap the edge of the dish, but be pinched down firmly upon the lower crust; set in a pan, containing a cupful of boiling water, just enough to keep the bottom crust from burning, and bake one hour and a quarter in a moderate oven. Pass a knife around the edges of the crust to detach the patÉ; invert upon a deep dish. Pass with it drawn butter in which have been beaten two raw eggs, and these thickened by two minutes’ boiling.

Stuffed Squash.

Pare a “turban” squash, and cut off a slice from the top. Extract the seeds, and lay one hour in salt water. Then fill with a good stuffing of crumbs, chopped fat salt pork, parsley, etc., wet with gravy. Put on the top slice; set the squash in a pudding-dish. Put a few spoonfuls of melted butter and twice as much hot water in the bottom; cover the dish very closely, and set in the oven two hours, or until tender. Lay within a deep dish, and pour the gravy over it.

Succotash.

See Wednesday, First Week in September.

Baked Potatoes.

Wash, wipe, and lay in a moderate oven. Bake until soft to the grasp. Send to table in their skins, wrapped in a napkin.

Baked Blackberry Pudding.

1 pint of milk; 2 eggs; 1 quart flour, or enough for thick batter; 1 gill bakers’ yeast; 1 saltspoonful of salt; 1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in boiling water; nearly a quart of berries, dredged with flour.

Make the batter and let it rise in a warm place four hours. When very light, stir in the dredged fruit lightly and quickly; pour into a buttered dish and bake one hour, covering with white paper should it “crust” over too fast. Turn out, and eat with sweet sauce.

3 lbs. of lean veal; ½ lb. lean ham; 2 carrots, grated; 1 chopped onion; thyme and parsley; 1 cup of chopped mushrooms; pepper and salt; 1 cup of milk; floured butter; 4 quarts water.

Cut the meat small and put on with herbs and vegetables in the water. Bring to a slow boil, and keep at this, taking off the scum as it rises, for three hours, or until the liquid is reduced one-half. Strain, cool, skim, season and return to the fire with the chopped mushrooms. Stew slowly half an hour; stir in a tablespoonful of butter cut up in one of flour. Boil two minutes and pour into the tureen. Add the boiling milk, and pour out.

Roast Tenderloin of Beef.

See Sunday of First Week in September.

Beets SautÉs.

Wash and cut off the tops, but do not touch the roots with a knife. Boil one hour; scrape and slice them, and stew ten minutes in a little butter, mixed with pepper, and a good spoonful of vinegar. Toss and stir lest they should brown.

Lima Beans.

See Thursday, First Week in September.

Fried Egg-plant.

See Sunday, First Week in September.

Velvet Blanc-Mange.

1 pint sweet cream, whipped stiff; ½ package Cooper’s gelatine soaked in 2 cups of cold water; 2 glasses white wine; juice of one large lemon; bitter almond flavoring; 1 cup sugar.

Put sugar, soaked gelatine, lemon and wine into a covered vessel for one hour. Stir well, and set the covered jar or bowl into a saucepan of boiling water until the gelatine is dissolved. Strain and cool before flavoring it. When it begins to congeal, beat gradually into the whipped cream. Put into a wet mould, and bury in the ice until wanted. Pass cake with it.

1 quart of broth in which the feet and giblets of the chickens have been boiled; all that you have left of yesterday’s soup, strained; 4 beaten eggs; parsley, salt and pepper; dice of stale bread.

Cool and skim the quart of water in which have been boiled for one hour the cleaned feet and giblets of your chickens. (Salt the giblets and put them in the refrigerator.) Set this broth over the fire, and season. When it boils, take it off, pour it upon the beaten eggs; put all into a jar and set in boiling water, stirring until it thickens. Heat in another saucepan the remains of yesterday’s soup—or, if you have none, a scant quantity of milk, thickened with floured butter; pour into a tureen, add the egg-broth, and throw in a good handful of stale bread-dice. Stir well and serve.

Smothered Chickens with Mushrooms.

Split a pair of young, full-grown chickens down the back. Lay them, breasts upward, in a dripping-pan; pour over them a great cupful of boiling water in which have been melted two tablespoonfuls of butter. Invert another pan over them, covering closely, and cook in a steady oven until they are tender and of a mellow russet hue. An hour is generally sufficient. Baste very often, twice at the last with butter. Keep the fowls hot upon a chafing-dish while you add the rest of the can of mushrooms opened yesterday—each mushroom sliced into thirds—to the gravy, with browned flour and pepper. Simmer ten minutes; pour a little upon the chickens, the rest into a boat.

Scalloped Cauliflower.

Small, and therefore cheap, cauliflowers will do for this purpose. Boil them in hot salted water twenty minutes. Drain, cool, and chop. Beat into them a couple of eggs, a spoonful of melted butter, a half cup of milk, and season. Pour into a buttered bake-dish; cover with drawn butter, then with fine crumbs, and bake half an hour.

Stewed Tomatoes.

Loosen the skins with boiling water; peel, slice, and stew twenty minutes. Season with sugar, pepper, salt, a good piece of butter cut up in flour, and stew five minutes more.

Beet-root Salad.

Arrange the cold beets left from yesterday in a salad-dish. Pour a little salad-oil over them, season with sifted sugar, salt, a little cayenne, and vinegar at discretion.

Peaches and Cream.

See Monday of First Week in September.

3 onions; 3 turnips; 3 carrots; ½ cabbage; bunch of herbs; 8 tomatoes, sliced; 3 tablespoonfuls of butter; 1 teaspoonful of corn-starch; pepper, sugar, and salt; 1 cup of boiling milk; 3 quarts of cold water.

Chop the vegetables, and put all except the tomatoes and cabbage over the fire, with the water. Simmer one hour. Then add the cabbage, previously parboiled. Ten minutes later, put in the tomatoes and herbs. Stew rather fast for half an hour. Rub through a colander; put over the fire; stir in the butter and corn-starch. Cook five minutes; season well. Let all stand together at the side of the range, covered, five minutes, and pour out. Stir in the boiling milk (with a pinch of soda in it) after the soup is in the tureen.

Cream Pickerel.

If you cannot get pickerel, pike, or salmon-trout, use rock-fish or bass for this dish. Clean the fish, and, if large, score the back-bone in several places. Bake slowly, pouring a cup of boiling water over him at first, afterward basting often with butter and water. When done, lay upon a hot-water dish; add to the gravy in the dripping-pan a cup of milk (with a pinch of soda stirred in), and, when this heats, stir in two tablespoonfuls of butter, one teaspoonful of corn-starch, wet in water, and a little chopped parsley. Boil up once, to thicken, add pepper and salt to taste, and pour over the fish.

Giblet Omelette.

7 eggs; 2 tablespoonfuls of cream; yesterday’s giblets, chopped very fine and seasoned; 1 good spoonful of butter.

Beat yolks and whites together; then add the cream. Heat the butter in the frying-pan; put in the giblets; shake hard for a moment, and pour in the eggs. Keep them free from the bottom by shaking, and loosening with a cake-turner; and, when quite “set,” fold in the middle. Invert a hot dish over the pan, turn out, and serve at once.

Mashed Potatoes.

Mash soft, heap upon a hot dish, and serve without browning.

Boiled Corn.

See Sunday, First Week in September.

Cucumbers.

Pare; lay in ice-water an hour; slice, and dish, with pounded ice strewed over and among them. Pass condiments with them.

Diplomatic Pudding.

1 quart of milk; 4 eggs; 1 cup very fine bread-crumbs; 1 tablespoonful of corn-starch, wet with cold milk; ¼ lb. of currants, washed, dried, and dredged; 1 cup of sugar.

Soak the bread-crumbs in the milk, setting the vessel containing them in one of hot water, and heating milk and crumbs to scalding. Pour upon the beaten eggs and sugar; add corn-starch; lastly, the dredged currants. Pour into a buttered mould, and boil an hour and a quarter. Turn out, and pour a cup of hot custard over it for sauce, flavored with vanilla, or other essence.

1 perfectly clean sheep’s head, cleaned with the skin left on; 3 lbs. scrag of mutton, broken to pieces; 2 onions; 2 carrots; bunch of herbs; pepper and salt; a large handful of noodles (see Receipt, Wednesday, First Week in August); 7 quarts water.

Slice the vegetables, put with the head and scrag into a soup-kettle, add four quarts of water, and simmer two hours, or until the sheep’s head is so tender that the bones will slip out. Skim well, pour in three quarts of cold water, and after three minutes take out the head carefully. Lay in a greased bake-dish; as carefully, pull out the bones through the under side, and put these back into the soup-kettle. Add the vegetables and herbs; bring again to a slow boil, and cook three hours longer. Take out meat and bones; salt highly; put into your stock-jar, and pour half the broth over them. Season this also, and put by for another day. Rub the vegetables through the sieve into the broth left for to-day. Cool, skim; season, and set over the fire. Boil and skim for two minutes; add the noodles; simmer twenty minutes, and pour out.

Baked Sheep’s Head À la Russe.

Let the boiled and boned sheep’s head get cold in the bake-dish. Then brush over with raw egg, and sift over it a mixture of fine crumbs, a dust of flour and some minced parsley (dried and powdered is better), seasoned with pepper and salt. Set in the oven; baste well with butter, as it browns. Serve in the dish, and send with it a boat of drawn butter, based upon a cupful of the soup and seasoned with French mustard, the juice of half a lemon, and some onion pickle minced very fine.

Sweet Potatoes.

See Wednesday of First Week in September.

Squash.

Pare, slice, cook soft in boiling salt water. Drain and mash smooth in a hot colander. Season with butter, salt, and pepper.

Tomatoes Stuffed with Corn.

Set large, smooth tomatoes in a greased pudding-dish. Cut a slice from the top of each. Scoop out the seeds, leaving the walls thickly lined with pulp. Have ready a cupful of corn grated from the cob, and seasoned with butter, pepper, and salt. Fill the tomatoes with this; put on the upper slices, and pour a little gravy over all. Bake, covered, in a moderate oven, one hour. Serve in the dish.

Cream Peach Pie.

Make as directed in Saturday, Fourth Week in August; but lay the upper crust on lightly, slightly buttering the lower at the point of contact. When the pie is done, lift the cover and pour in a cream made thus: 1 cup (small) of rich milk, heated; whites of 2 eggs, whipped and stirred into the milk; 1 tablespoonful of sugar; ½ teaspoonful of corn-starch wet up in milk. Boil three minutes. The cream must be cold when it goes into the hot pie. Replace the crust, and set by to cool. Eat fresh.

Skim the soup in your stock-pot. Strain from the meat and bones; heat and add a pint of tomatoes, stewed, strained, and seasoned, and a cup of boiled rice with the cup of water in which it has been cooked. Season to taste; simmer fifteen or twenty minutes after it begins to boil, and turn out.

Boiled Chickens and Tongue.

Tie the stuffed and trussed chickens in netting, fitted to their shape, and cook in plenty of boiling water, a little salt. An hour and a quarter should suffice, if the fowls are tender. Soak a tongue over night. In the morning, wash it well and boil eighteen minutes to the pound. Trim and skin it. Lay in the middle of the dish, with a chicken on each side, and pour over them drawn butter, based upon a cupful of the liquor in which the chickens were boiled, mixed with a little minced parsley. Save the rest of the liquor.

Breaded Egg-plant.

Slice, and pare each slice. Lay in salt and water one hour, with a plate on top, to keep the slices under water. Wipe dry; salt and pepper; dip in beaten egg, then in cracker-dust, and fry to a fine brown in lard or dripping. Drain, and serve.

Boiled Cauliflower.

Cook in boiling salted water twenty-five minutes, having tied the cauliflower up in white netting. Drain; untie; lay in a deep dish, the blossom upward, and deluge with a white sauce made of drawn butter, with the juice of a lemon squeezed in.

Lima Beans.

See Thursday, First Week in September.

Frozen Custard and Cake.

Please refer to Sunday, Second Week in July.

Skim the liquor in which the chickens were boiled yesterday. Put over the fire, with the grated corn from twelve ears. Boil one hour; rub through a colander; season, heat, and stir in a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour, a little finely cut parsley, and a teaspoonful essence of celery. Simmer five minutes; add a cup of boiling milk, and pour out.

Casserole of Rice, with Chickens and Tongue.

Chop the remains of yesterday’s chickens and tongue fine, with the giblets. Season, and put over the fire, with a cup of yesterday’s soup, and, when almost on the boil, add two beaten eggs. Boil a cup of rice in a little of the chicken-liquor used for your soup, until the rice is soft, and the liquor absorbed. Beat two eggs into half a cup of milk, in which a tablespoonful of butter has been melted. Stir and beat this into the rice. Let it get cold, and then line a greased mould with it—one with a cylinder in the middle will not do. Make the walls of rice-paste an inch thick; then fill with the mince, which should not be too soft. Cover with the rice; put the top on the mould; set in a pot of boiling water, and cook one hour and a half. Turn out with great care, and pour a little of the pot-liquor, thickened and seasoned, over it.

Onions Stewed Brown.

Top and tail them; skin, and dredge them with flour. Then fry to a good brown in dripping. Put into a pot, cover with a little of the liquor in which the tongue was boiled, and stew slowly two hours, or until tender. Take up the onions; thicken the sauce with browned flour, add a tablespoonful of butter, with pepper; boil up, and pour over the onions.

Baked Sweet Potatoes.

Wash, wipe, and lay in a moderate oven. Bake until the largest is soft between your testing fingers. Wipe off, and serve in their jackets.

Cold Slaw.

Shred the heart of a firm white cabbage. Put into a salad-bowl, and season with sugar, salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar. Stir up and toss thoroughly.

Corn-starch Hasty Pudding.

1 quart fresh milk; 3 tablespoonfuls corn-starch, wet up in cold milk; 1 tablespoonful of butter; 1 teaspoonful of salt.

Scald and salt the milk, and stir into it the corn-starch. Boil steadily, stirring now and then, for fifteen minutes. Add the butter; let the pudding stand in hot water, uncovered, after you have ceased to stir, until you are ready for it; then serve in an open, deep dish. Eat with cream and sugar.

Tea and Fancy Biscuits.

If the weather be hot, have iced tea; if cool, and suggestive of early frosts, or equinoctial storms, introduce the bright tea-pot and pretty “cozy.”

3 lbs. of veal—lean and cut into strips; 2 onions, sliced and fried; 3 quarts of water; 1 tablespoonful of minced parsley; ½ cupful of raw rice; 2 tablespoonfuls of grated cheese; salt and pepper.

Fry the onions in dripping; put in the meat, and fry to a light brown. Put into the soup-pot with the water, and boil slowly three hours, or until brought down to two quarts. The meat should be in rags. Strain; cool, skim, and season. Put back into the kettle with the rice, which must have soaked one hour in a little water. This water, also, must go into the soup. Simmer half an hour. Put the grated cheese into the tureen, and when the rice has boiled soft, pour upon the cheese, stir up and serve.

Beefsteak.

Flatten with the broad side of a hatchet, and broil quickly upon a greased gridiron. Ten minutes should be enough if you like it rare. Lay upon a hot dish, turn another over it, having salted, buttered, and peppered it, and let it stand five minutes before sending to table.

Potatoes au Naturel.

Cook, without paring, in boiling salted water, until a fork will enter easily the largest. Pour off the water; set the pot, uncovered, upon the range for a moment, to dry off the moisture; peel rapidly, and dish.

Kidney-Beans.

Shell; cook in boiling water, a little salt, half an hour, or until tender. Drain, salt, pepper, and butter, and serve in a deep dish.

Raw Tomatoes.

Pare and slice. Put into a salad-dish, and pour over them a dressing made of two tablespoonfuls of oil rubbed with one teaspoonful of sugar, and half as much, each, of made mustard, salt, and pepper; then with five tablespoonfuls of vinegar, whipped in, a little at a time.

Fruit Dessert.

Use your own discretion and consult your own convenience in devising a tasteful and acceptable dessert of fruits, such as should now be plenty and cheap. Late peaches, melons, bananas, pears, and apples, are, some or all of them, within reach of housekeepers of moderate means. Arrange in dishes or baskets decorated with green sprays and flowers.

Coffee and Cake.

Consult, also, your discretion and the weather in the question of hot or iced coffee.

2 ox-cheeks; 3 onions; 2 carrots; 2 turnips; 12 whole black peppers; 6 cloves; salt; 5 quarts of water; ½ cup of German sago.

Break the bones of the cheeks, and wash well with salt and water. Cover with cold water; bring to a boil, and throw off the water. Fry the sliced onions, and put into the pot with the meat, also the sliced carrots, onions, and spice. Cover with a gallon and a quart of water. Bring to a slow boil, and keep this up, skimming often, for four hours. Strain off the liquor; pick out the meat and bones; salt highly; put into your stock-pot with nearly half the broth. Set in a cold place for to-morrow. Pulp the vegetables into that meant for to-day; let it cool; take off the fat, and put back over the fire. Season to your liking; add the sago, which should have been soaking for two hours in a little water, and simmer until it is clear.

Stewed Calf’s Hearts.

Wash two fresh calf’s hearts; stuff with a force-meat of crumbs, chopped salt pork, a little thyme, sage and onion. Tie up snugly in clean mosquito-netting; put into a broad saucepan; half cover with broth from your soup from yesterday or to-day. Cover and stew an hour and three-quarters gently, turning several times. Take out the hearts, and keep them hot, while you thicken the gravy with a tablespoonful of butter cut up in flour. Boil up, add pepper, salt, a little grated lemon-peel, and the juice of half a lemon, with a small glass of wine. Pour over the hearts.

Lima Beans.

See Thursday, First Week in September.

Potatoes au MaÎtre d’HÔtel.

Slice cold boiled potatoes rather thick. Have ready in a saucepan four or five tablespoonfuls of milk, a good lump of butter, with salt, pepper and minced parsley. Heat quickly; put in the potatoes, and stir until almost boiling. Stir in a little flour, wet with cold milk; cook a moment to thicken it; add the juice of half a lemon, and pour out into a deep dish.

Stewed Tomatoes and Onion.

Peel, slice, and stew a dozen tomatoes ten minutes. Then add a small parboiled onion, cut up small; cook twenty minutes; stir in sugar, salt and pepper, with a good spoonful of butter rolled in flour. Simmer five minutes, and pour out.

Stewed Pears with Rice.

Pare and halve eight large pears. Put into a saucepan with eight tablespoonfuls of sugar and a cup of claret—or if you prefer, clear water. Stew slowly until tender and clear. Take out the pears and boil down the syrup to one-half, flavoring, then, with essence of bitter almond. Have ready two cupfuls of boiled rice, cooked in milk, and sweetened. Spread upon a flat dish; lay the pears upon it, and pour on the syrup. Eat very cold.

Take the fat from the top of your cold stock. Pick out some of the best pieces of meat—about a cupful—and set aside. Add a pint of boiling water to the stock, and boil slowly, with the bones and the rest of the meat, for nearly an hour. Chop the meat reserved from the stock; make into force-meat with fine crumbs, seasoning with onion, parsley, pepper, salt, nutmeg, and binding with beaten egg. Flour your hands and make this into round balls. Roll them in flour; set in a floured pie-dish, not touching each other, and leave in a quick oven until crusted over. Let them cool. Strain your soup; add such seasoning as you desire; heat to a boil; drop in the force-meat rissoles, and heat, without boiling, three minutes.

Lamb Chops.

Trim off fat and skin, leaving a bare bit of bone at the end of each. Broil quickly over a clear fire; butter, salt, and pepper each, and stand them on the larger ends, just touching each other, around your mound of potato.

Potato Mound.

Mash smooth, with butter, milk, salt, and pepper; make into a smooth mound upon a hot dish, and arrange the chops around it.

Fried Egg-plant.

See Sunday, First Week in September.

Ladies’ Cabbage.

Boil a firm cabbage in two waters. When done, quarter it and let it get perfectly cold. Chop fine; add two beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, pepper, salt, and three tablespoonfuls of milk. Stir all well; pour into a buttered pudding-dish, and bake, covered, until very hot, then brown. If your dish has been well buttered, turn the cabbage upon a hot dish, and pour over it a cupful of drawn butter.

Damson Tart.

Fill a pie-dish, lined with good paste, with ripe, sound damsons; sweeten very plentifully; cover with crust and bake. Brush with beaten egg when done, and return to the oven one moment, to glaze.

12 potatoes, peeled and sliced; 1 large onion, also pared and sliced; 2 quarts of boiling water; 1 cup of hot milk; 3 beaten eggs; 3 tablespoonfuls of butter rolled in flour; salt, pepper, and 1 teaspoonful celery essence; chopped parsley.

Fry potatoes and onions light brown in a little butter. Put into a soup-pot with the boiling water, and cook gently until soft. Rub through a colander to a smooth purÉe. Add the water in which they were boiled, and return to the fire. When the purÉe begins to bubble, stir in the buttered flour, pepper, salt, and chopped parsley, and simmer five minutes. Heat the milk in another vessel; pour upon the beaten eggs; cook one minute, and pour into the tureen. Add the purÉe; stir in the celery-essence, and it is ready.

Devilled Crabs.

Boil the crabs; cool; break the shells and pick out the meat. To eight tablespoonfuls of meat, add three of fine crumbs, the yolks (chopped) of three boiled eggs, the juice of a lemon, with salt and cayenne to taste. Work up to a soft mixture with drawn butter; fill scallop or clam shells, or patÉ-pans with it, sift cracker-dust over the top, and brown delicately in a quick oven.

Roasted Sweetbreads.

3 fine sweetbreads; 1 cup of gravy—a cup of your soup will do; 1 beaten egg; cracker-dust; 1 tablespoonful mushroom catsup; 1 small glass wine; a very little minced onion put into the gravy; 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter; fried bread.

Boil and blanch the sweetbreads. Wipe perfectly dry, roll in egg, then in the pounded cracker. Lay in a baking-pan; pour the melted butter slowly over them, that it may soak into the crumbs. Set in the oven, cover, and bake forty-five minutes, basting freely, from the time they begin to brown, with the gravy. Dish upon crustless slices of fried bread. Strain the gravy; add catsup and wine; boil up, and pour over the sweetbreads.

Potato Croquettes.

Mash the potatoes, and beat in a raw egg, butter, milk, nutmeg, a little grated lemon-peel, with pepper and salt. Heat in a saucepan, stirring constantly, for three minutes. The saucepan should be buttered first. When cool enough to handle with comfort, make into croquettes, roll in flour, or dip in egg and cracker-crumbs, and fry—not putting too many into the pan at once—in boiling lard, or dripping. Drain in a hot colander, and serve.

Boiled Green Corn.

See Sunday, First Week in September.

Apple SoufflÉ Pudding.

7 or 8 juicy apples; 4 eggs; 1 cup fine crumbs; 1 cup of sugar; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; nutmeg, and a little grated lemon-peel.

Pare, core, and slice the apples, and cook tender in a covered farina-kettle without adding water to them. Beat to a smooth pulp, and stir in butter, sugar, and seasoning. When cold, whip in the yolks of the eggs; then the frothed whites, alternately with the crumbs. Beat to a creamy batter; put into a buttered pudding-dish, and bake, covered, fifty minutes. Then brown quickly. Eat hot with custard sauce, or cold, with cream and sugar.

3 lbs. of lean beef; 3 lbs. of marrow bones; 3 lbs. coarse mutton; 3 onions; 3 carrots; 3 turnips; 3 sprigs of parsley, and same of thyme and marjoram; 6 quarts of water; 3 blades of mace; 3 tomatoes; 3 ears of corn; 3 tablespoonfuls of rice; pepper and salt.

Chop the vegetables; cut up the meat and crack the bones. Put onions, carrots, turnips, herbs and mace into the soup-pot; cover with three quarts of water; stew gently three hours; strain off the broth into a bowl; pour the remaining three quarts of water, boiling hot, upon the meat, bones, and vegetables in the pot, and put back over the fire. Cool that which you have strained; take off the fat, and put on in another kettle, with the tomatoes, the corn cut from the cob, and the rice. Season, and cook gently for another hour, then pour out.

Boil the soup left in the pot, three hours longer at the back of the range; add boiling water as the liquid shrinks. At the end of that time, season well; pour, without straining, into the stock-pot, and keep in a cold place. You have now stock for three days—a good investment of time, materials, and labor.

Veal and Ham Cutlets, À la Polonaise.

Slice cutlets of veal, of equal size, with as many slices of corned ham, previously cooked. Flatten the cutlets with a hatchet; dip in beaten egg, then in cracker-dust, mixed with minced parsley, pepper, salt, and nutmeg. Fry in dripping; drain, and lay upon a dish, with alternate slices of the ham, broiled, and spread with a dressing of butter and a little French mustard.

Stewed Potatoes.

Pare, and cut the potatoes into dice. Stew, with a small onion, in enough hot water to cover them. Turn off most of the water; take out the onion; pour in a cup of cold milk, and, when this boils, stir in a little chopped parsley, pepper, salt, and a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour. Boil up once, and serve.

Cream Squash.

Mash, and press in a hot colander. Return to the fire, with a good spoonful of butter, three or four spoonfuls of milk, and a quarter spoonful of flour, wet up in the milk. Stir for five minutes; season with pepper and salt, and dish.

Scalloped Tomatoes.

Pare and slice. Scatter fine crumbs in the bottom of a bake-dish; cover with slices of tomatoes, seasoned with sugar, pepper, salt, and butter. Cover with crumbs, and these with tomatoes. Fill the dish in this order, covering all with crumbs, with bits of butter sprinkled upon them. Bake, covered, half an hour, and brown.

Bavarian Cream.

1 pint rich milk, and the same of sweet cream; yolks of 4 eggs; ½ oz. gelatine; 1 small cup of sugar; 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla or other extract.

Soak the gelatine two hours in enough cold water to cover it. Heat the milk, and stir in the gelatine until melted. Pour this upon the beaten yolks and sugar, and heat until it begins to thicken. It should not boil. Take from the fire, flavor, and let it cool somewhat. The cream should have been whipped stiff in a syllabub-churn. Beat, a spoonful at a time, into the lukewarm custard, until it is like sponge-cake batter. Pour into a wet mould, and set on ice to form. It will be formed in a few hours, if buried in the ice.

Take the fat from your soup-stock, add a pint of boiling water, and bring to a slow boil. Strain all through a colander. Pour off two quarts, through a soup-sieve, into your soup-kettle, and set over the fire to simmer clear. Pulp the vegetables left in the colander, and press the juice out of the meat into the rest of the broth. Remand this to the stock-pot. When that in the soup-kettle has boiled ten minutes, and been skimmed carefully, add a half cup of what is known as “fancy macaroni,” cut into fantastic shapes, expressly for soups. It should have been boiled twenty minutes, or until tender, in hot salted water. Simmer one minute in the soup; add seasoning, if needed, and serve.

Fricasseed Chickens.

Clean, wash, and joint a pair of chickens. (Salt the giblets slightly, and keep on ice until Monday; or, should the weather be warm, boil them in a pint of water; salt it well, and set away with the giblets in it.) Scald the pieces of chicken in boiling water, leaving them in it four minutes. Lay in ice-water ten minutes, to blanch them. Add to the quart of boiling water used for scalding them, the skimmed fat, the necks, and the heads, cleaned by scalding, picking off the feathers and cutting off the beaks. Stew for one hour, or until there is but a pint of gravy. Strain, cool, and take off the fat. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter into a saucepan, with a very finely minced onion and a dessertspoonful of flour. When they begin to simmer, put in the joints of chicken; turn several times in the butter, and, after they begin to color, add enough gravy to keep them from scorching, and stew, covered, at least an hour. Keep the chicken hot; strain the gravy; add parsley, pepper, and salt. Have in another saucepan a half cup of hot milk. Pour upon two beaten eggs, make very hot, and add to the gravy when you have taken the latter from the fire. Stir up, and pour over the chickens.

Spinach À la CrÊme.

Boil in plenty of hot salted water; drain, and chop fine upon a board or in a wooden tray. Return to the saucepan with a tablespoonful of butter, and when hot, add a little sugar, pepper, salt, nutmeg, and two tablespoonfuls of cream. Stir until very hot, and serve in a deep dish, with sippets of fried bread laid over it.

Devilled Tomatoes.

1 quart fine ripe tomatoes, pared and cut in thick slices; yolks of 3 boiled eggs, pounded; 3 tablespoonfuls melted butter; 4 tablespoonfuls vinegar; 1 raw egg, beaten light; 1 teaspoonful powdered sugar; 1 saltspoonful salt, and same of made mustard; a soupÇon of cayenne.

Rub a tablespoonful of butter into the pounded yolks; add the seasoning, then the vinegar, and put into a tin or porcelain saucepan. Heat, and stir in the beaten egg. Set in boiling water while you heat the rest of the butter in a frying-pan, and put in the sliced tomatoes. Shake over the fire eight minutes, turning several times. Lay the tomatoes upon a hot dish. Strain the butter in which they were fried into the dressing, stir well, and pour over the tomatoes.

Sweet Potatoes—Browned.

Parboil, peel, and lay in a baking-pan. Baste with a little of your soup stock, then with butter, until they are baked to a nice brown.

Baked Pears and Cream.

Peel ripe pears, and cut them in half, without removing the seeds. Pack in layers in a stoneware jar. Strew each layer with sugar, and drop a pinch of nutmeg in, now and then. Put a small cupful of water in the bottom to prevent burning. Fit on a close cover, and set in a moderate oven. Bake three hours on Saturday, and leave, unopened, in the oven all night. Set upon ice for some hours before you use them. Pour into a glass dish, and eat with cream. They are delicious if the pears are of fair quality.

Orange Cake.

Please see “Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea,” page 318.

Again skim the contents of your stock-pot. Pour into the soup-kettle with the water in which the giblets were boiled. Add seasoning at discretion, and simmer, after the boil is reached, fifteen minutes. Chop the gizzards very fine, and put into the soup. Pound the livers to a paste, with a heaping tablespoonful of butter, and half as much flour; thin with a little of the boiling soup; stir into the soup; boil one minute, and serve.

Brown Beef Stew.

3 lbs. lean beef; 1 onion; a tablespoonful of powdered marjoram; thyme and parsley, mixed; 1 tablespoonful of browned flour; 1 teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce; 1 tablespoonful of tomato catsup; 1 glass of wine; juice of half a lemon, and a pinch of the peel; 1 cup of chopped mushrooms; dice of fried bread.

Cut the beef into strips two inches long; add the minced onion; just cover with water, and cook, at the back of the range, two hours. Add the rest of the ingredients, with the exception of the flour, catsup, sauce, lemon-juice, and wine, and let it simmer one hour longer. Then add the condiments just named, and the flour. Boil up; line a deep dish with small squares of fried bread, and pour the stew upon them.

Mashed Potatoes.

Prepare as usual, and send up without browning.

Lima Beans.

See Thursday, First Week in September.

Cucumber and Onion Salad.

See Monday, First Week in September.

Bananas, Oranges, and Apples.

Rub clean; arrange effectively as to color and size, put green leaves among them, and give a doily, clean plate, and fruit-knife to each person.

Coffee and Albert Biscuit.

Have the coffee hot and strong, and be sure the biscuits are fresh.

1 quart of stock, made by adding a little water to the strained remnant of yesterday’s soup. Or, if you have nothing of this sort, make a broth of coarse bits of veal and any bones you may have; 1 can of preserved lobster; 1 cup of milk, with a pinch of soda stirred in; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, rolled in flour; yolks of 2 eggs; minced parsley, cayenne, and salt.

Heat your broth; skim and season. Put in the lobster, picked to pieces; simmer ten minutes, then boil up sharply, once. Heat the milk in a saucepan; stir in the floured butter; pour upon the beaten yolks. Cook one minute. Pour the lobster into the tureen; stir in the thickened milk, and send to table. Pass oyster crackers and butter with it.

Roast Lamb.

Lay in the dripping-pan. Dash boiling water over it, and cook fifteen minutes for each pound. Baste often with the gravy. Ten minutes before taking it up, dredge with flour, and baste with butter. Pour the fat from the top of the gravy; thicken with browned flour, and stir in a tablespoonful of currant jelly. Boil, and send up in a boat—salting and peppering to taste.

Baked Squash.

Boil, drain, and mash in a hot colander. Season with pepper, salt, and butter; add a few spoonfuls of milk and two beaten eggs. Pour into a buttered dish, and bake to a light brown in a quick oven.

Green Corn cut from the Cob.

Boil the corn until tender. Split each row of grains, then shave them close to the cob. Butter, pepper, and salt, and serve hot in a deep dish.

Sweet Potatoes.

Boil with the skins on; peel quickly, and lay in a baking-pan, within a hot oven, a few minutes, to dry, before piling them upon a flat dish.

Rock-work.

1 quart of milk; 5 eggs; 6 tablespoonfuls of sugar; vanilla, or other essence.

Heat the milk: pour upon the beaten yolks and sugar. Cook until the custard begins to thicken. Pour out, and, when cold, flavor, and pour into a glass bowl. Whip the whites stiff with two spoonfuls of the sugar, flavor, and poach by laying, a spoonful at a time, upon boiling milk, and, carefully withdrawing the spoon from underneath, leaving the oval mass of mÉringue floating upon the surface. Turn it over when one side is done, and, presently, take it up, and lay upon the custard. Heap them irregularly on the top, and let all get cold before serving. Pass light cakes with this custard.

4 lbs. of beef; 2 carrots; 3 turnips; ½ head of cabbage; 1 pint green corn; 1 quart tomatoes; bunch of herbs; 4 quarts of water; pepper and salt.

Put on the beef, herbs, and water early in the morning, with some well-cracked bones, if you have them, and let it boil at the back of the range, very slowly, for five or six hours. Should the water sink below two-thirds of the original quantity, replenish from the boiling tea-kettle. An hour before dinner, strain the soup; put meat and bones into the stock-pot, and season well. Pour upon them all that you can spare from the liquor, and leave enough for to-day. Set this in a cool place. Cool, and remove the fat from that meant for to-day; return to the soup-kettle, and put in the vegetables, cut into shreds, and parboiled for ten minutes. The cabbage should have been cooked in two waters. The corn must be cut from the cob, and the tomatoes pared and sliced. Simmer gently half an hour; season; cook one minute, and pour out.

Cold Lamb.

Trim the remains of your roast into a presentable shape; garnish with parsley and nasturtium-blooms.

Tomato Sauce.

Pare, slice, and stew the tomatoes for twenty minutes. Strain, and rub through a colander, leaving the hard and tough parts behind. Put into a saucepan with a little minced onion, parsley, pepper, salt, and sugar. Bring to a boil; stir in a good spoonful of butter rolled in flour. Boil up, and serve.

Eggs and Mushrooms.

Slice the rest of the can of mushrooms, opened for Monday’s stew, into halves. Stew ten minutes in a little butter, seasoned with pepper and salt, and a very little water. Drain; put the mushrooms into a pie-dish; break enough eggs to cover them over the top; pepper, salt, and scatter bits of butter over them; strew with bread-crumbs, and bake until the eggs are “set.” Serve in the dish.

Breaded Egg-plant.

Slice nearly half an inch thick; pare each slice and lay in salt and water one hour. Wipe dry, dip in beaten egg, then in rolled cracker, and fry to a fine brown in salted lard or dripping.

Potato Fritters.

6 tablespoonfuls mashed potato rubbed through a colander; ½ cup rich milk, or cream; 5 eggs, beaten light; 2 tablespoonfuls sugar; 2 tablespoonfuls prepared flour; juice of 1 lemon, and half the grated peel; ½ grated nutmeg.

Work the cream into the potato; add beaten yolks and sugar, and whip to a froth. Put in lemon, flour, nutmeg, and beat three minutes before stirring in the whites. Drop, by the spoonful, into hot sweet lard, and fry to a light brown. Drain upon clean, heated paper, sift white sugar thickly over them and serve at once. Eat if you like with wine sauce, or with powdered sugar only.

Take the fat from the top of your cold stock. Add a pint of boiling water to it, with a sliced onion, and cook slowly, with the meat in, for forty minutes. Strain, pressing all the strength out of the meat; stir in a tablespoonful of catsup, and as much browned flour wet up in cold water. Have ready a sweetbread, boiled and blanched, then cut into neat dice. Put these into the soup, and boil one minute; add a great handful of fried bread, cut into dice, and pour out. If you have any soup left from your “Julienne,” heat, strain, and add to this.

Braised Breast of Veal.

Make a deep incision between the ribs and meat: stuff with a good force-meat made of crumbs, chopped salt pork, seasoning and a little onion. Skewer the flap of meat back into its place; put a layer of thin fat salt pork into a broad saucepan; lay the veal upon it. Pour in a cup of gravy—from the soup, if you have no other—cover with more fat pork, or ham, put on a close lid, and cook fifteen minutes to the pound. Take out the meat; set in a very quick oven, dredge with flour, and, as it browns, baste well with butter once. Keep hot upon a dish, while you strain the gravy in the braising-pan; thicken it with browned flour, season to taste, and stir in the juice of half a lemon, and a glass of claret. Boil up and pour a little upon the veal, the rest into a boat.

Cauliflower with Sauce.

See Sunday, Third Week in September.

Stewed Squash.

Pare, seed and quarter. Cook in boiling water salted, until soft. Mash in a colander; rub through it, and put back into a saucepan, with a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour; a few teaspoonfuls of milk, pepper and salt to taste. Stir until it begins to bubble; then pour into a deep dish.

Fried Potatoes.

Pare, slice thin, and lay in ice-water half an hour. Dry between two towels, and fry to a pale brown in hot lard, a little salt. Drain by shaking in a colander, and serve in a dish lined with a napkin.

Boiled Apple Dumplings.

1 quart prepared flour; ¼ lb. suet, powdered; 1 teaspoonful salt; cold water to make a pretty stiff paste; fine juicy apples, pared and cored.

Make the paste; roll into a sheet a quarter of an inch thick; cut into squares; put in the centre of each an apple; bring the corners together, and pinch the edges. Have ready some small square cloths, dipped in hot water, and floured on the inside. Enclose each dumpling in one of these, leaving room to swell, and tie it up, bag-wise, with a stout string. Boil one hour; turn out and serve with plenty of sweet sauce.

3 large onions, sliced; 3 boiled potatoes rubbed through a colander; 3 tablespoonfuls of rice boiled in 1 quart of milk; 2 quarts of cold water; 3 tablespoonfuls of butter rolled in one of flour; chopped parsley; pepper and salt to taste.

Parboil the onions ten minutes; throw off the water and let them cool. Then slice, and put over the fire with the cold water, and boil down to three pints. The onions should be reduced to a pulp. Strain; rub through the colander, and set over the fire. When it boils, add the mashed potatoes, the butter, seasoning, parsley, and simmer ten minutes. Have the rice boiled soft in the milk with a pinch of soda; strain it out and add to the soup in the kettle. Cook gently five minutes, and turn into the tureen. Pour in the boiling milk, and it is ready.

Baked Blue Fish.

Score the fish down the back, and lay in a dripping-pan. Pour over it a cup of hot water in which have been melted two tablespoonfuls of butter. Bake one hour, basting every ten minutes; twice with butter, twice with the gravy, and again twice with butter. Take up the fish and keep hot, while you strain the gravy into a saucepan; thicken with flour; add a teaspoonful of anchovy paste, the juice of half a lemon with a little of the grated peel, pepper and salt. Boil up, pour half over the fish, the rest into a boat. Garnish the fish with eggs, quartered lengthwise, lettuce hearts, and quartered lemons.

Imitation Oyster Scallops.

Cut the best pieces from your cold roast veal, in squares about an inch long and half as thick and wide. Make a cup of rich drawn butter, and put these into it. Set over the fire in a saucepan, and add a very little minced onion and parsley. Heat for ten minutes, but do not boil. Chop a pickled cucumber quite fine, stir into the mixture, season with salt and cayenne; fill scallop, or clam shells, or patÉ-pans lined with baked paste, with the scallop; cover with fine crumbs, and brown in a brisk oven.

Potato Puff À la GenÈve.

Whip mashed potatoes light and soft with milk, butter, and two raw eggs; season with pepper and salt, and beat in a few spoonfuls of powdered cheese. Pile upon a neat bake-dish, and brown nicely. Serve in the dish.

Raw Cucumbers.

See Friday, Second Week in September.

Cream Cakes.

Some good puff-paste; whites of 2 eggs; ½ cup of sweet jelly; 1 cup of cream, whipped to a froth; 3 tablespoonfuls powdered sugar; vanilla, or other flavoring.

Roll out the paste as for pies. Cut into squares five inches across. Have ready well-greased muffin-rings, three inches in diameter. Lay one in the centre of each square; turn up the four corners so as to make a cup of the paste; pinch the tips upon the upper edge of the ring to keep it in place, and having prepared all, bake in a quick oven. When done, pull out the rings with care; brush the paste, outside and in, with the white of egg, and set back to brown. When cold, wash on the inside with the jelly, and fill with the whipped cream, sweetened and flavored.

2 lbs. of coarse, lean beef, cut into strips; 2 lbs. of knuckle of veal, chopped to pieces; 2 lbs. of mutton bones, and the bones left from your cold veal, cracked to splinters; 1 lb. of lean ham; 4 large carrots; 2 turnips; 2 onions; bunch of herbs; 3 tablespoonfuls of butter, and 2 of flour; 1 tablespoonful of sugar; salt and pepper; 7 quarts of water.

Put on meat, bones, herbs and water, and cook slowly five hours. Strain the soup, of which there should be five quarts. Season meat and bones, and put into the stock-pot with three quarts of the liquor. Save this for days to come. While the soup for to-day is cooling that you may take off the fat, put the butter into a frying-pan with the sliced carrots, turnips, and onions, and fry to a light brown. Now, add a pint of the skimmed stock, and stew the vegetables tender; stir in the flour wet with water; and put all, with your cooled stock, over the fire in the soup-kettle. Season with sugar, cayenne and salt; boil five minutes; rub through a colander, then a soup-sieve, heat almost to boiling, and serve.

Glazed Ham.

Soak and boil a ham twenty minutes to the pound, and let it get almost cold in the water. Skin it neatly, and coat with a paste made of a cup of cracker-crumbs, one of milk, two beaten eggs, and seasoned with pepper. Set the ham in the oven until the glazing is browned, moistening, now and then, with a few spoonfuls of cream. Wind frilled paper about the shank, and garnish with parsley.

Lettuce Salad.

Pull out and tear to pieces the hearts of lettuce; pile in a salad-bowl; sprinkle with white sugar, and season with oil, pepper, salt, and vinegar, in the proportions so often given. Toss up with a silver fork.

Potatoes À la Lyonnaise.

See Saturday, First Week in September.

Cabbage au Gratin.

Quarter a small white cabbage, and boil tender in pot-liquor taken from your ham. Let it get cold; chop and season with pepper, salt, a good spoonful of butter, three or four of milk, and beat smooth with two raw eggs. Put into a buttered dish; strew thickly with crumbs; wet these with pot-liquor, and bake, covered, forty-five minutes,—then brown.

Peach Pudding.

12 ripe peaches, pared, stoned, and stewed in a little water; 1 cup bread-crumbs; 2 cups of boiling milk; 5 tablespoonfuls of sugar; 5 beaten eggs; tablespoonful of butter.

Soak the crumbs in the hot milk; stir in the butter, the beaten eggs and sugar, at last the cooled and mashed peaches. Beat up light; put into a buttered pudding-mould; set in a pan of boiling water; cover, and cook one hour in a good oven. Turn out, and eat with sweetened cream.