Rice Soup.
Take the fat from your cold stock, and strain it from the meat. Boil up once and skim. Add half a cup of rice, and simmer until this is very tender. Add the water in which have been soaked two tablespoonfuls of burnt sugar, and pour out.
Stuffed Veal with Garnish of Green Peas.
Take the large bones from a piece of loin of veal; stuff the cavities thus made with a good force-meat of chopped pork crumbs and seasoning—a few chopped mushrooms are an improvement—cover the sides with greased sheets of thick writing-paper; put a cupful of soup stock or other gravy in the dripping-pan, and baste well, for one hour with butter and water, afterwards with the gravy. Cook fully twelve minutes to the pound. Take off the paper during the last half hour; dredge with flour, baste with butter, and brown nicely. Take up and keep hot while you skim the fat from the gravy, stir into it half a cupful of chopped mushrooms and a little browned flour. Serve this—having cooked it three minutes—in a boat. Have ready some green peas, boiled and seasoned, and make a fence of them about the veal when dished.
New Potatoes.
Refer to Thursday, Second Week in July.
Boiled Corn.
See Thursday, Fourth Week in June.
Bean Salad.
Cut the beans into inch-lengths, pile in a salad-dish and pour upon them such a dressing as you compounded for the raw tomatoes on Friday of Second Week in July. Garnish with curled lettuce.
Orange Snow.
4 large sweet oranges, all the juice, and the grated peel of one; juice and half the grated peel of 1 lemon; 1 package of Coxe’s gelatine soaked in a cup of cold water; whites of 4 eggs, whipped stiff; 1 large cup of white sugar; 3 cups of boiling water.
Mix the juice, and peel of the fruit with the soaked gelatine, also the sugar. Leave them covered for one hour, then pour on the boiling water and stir clear. Strain through flannel, wringing hard. When quite cold, whip in the frothed whites very gradually until the mixture is a white sponge. Put into a wet mould on Saturday, and set on the ice.
Iced Tea and Cake.
Set the tea aside after breakfast in a pitcher, or bottle, which you can keep in ice. When you serve it, half fill each glass with ice, put in more sugar than you would use for hot tea, and pour on the cold liquid.