Summer Squash, or Cymbling Soup.
The bones from your cold veal; 2 lbs. lean, raw veal, chopped fine; 1 onion; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter rubbed in flour; 1 cup of milk, with a pinch of soda; 1 tablespoonful of white sugar; 2 beaten eggs; 2 good-sized white squash pared and quartered; pepper and salt; fried bread; 4 quarts of water.
Boil bones, meat, and onions in four quarts of water until this is reduced to two. Strain, cool, and take off the fat. Cook the squash in one pint of the stock until soft enough to rub through a colander; pulp, and put this, with its liquor, in the remaining three pints of broth; also the sugar, seasoning, and floured butter, and cook slowly without boiling, five minutes. Heat the milk, pour upon the eggs, stir over the fire until it begins to thicken. Put dice of fried bread into the tureen; pour on the milk and eggs, then the soup, and stir up well.
Scalloped Veal.
Chop the cold veal and stuffing; put a layer into a greased bake-dish; season, and wet with the cold gravy. Lay chopped mushrooms upon this; then bread-crumbs, with butter scattered over them. More meat seasoning, mushrooms and crumbs should fill the dish, with plenty of crumbs, profusely buttered, on top. Wet each layer of meat with gravy. Cover the dish, and bake until it bubbles on top. Brown lightly, and send to table in the dish in which it was cooked.
Mashed Turnips.
Peel, slice, and cook soft in boiling salted water. Mash in a hot colander, pressing well. Season with salt, pepper and butter; smooth into a heap in a root-dish, and put pats of pepper on top.
Stewed Tomatoes.
See Wednesday of Second Week in July.
Potatoes, Boiled Whole.
Peel as thin as possible. Put on in boiling water, a little salt, and cook fifteen minutes. Then, pour in a pint of cold water. This checks the boil and throws the meal, or starch, to the surface. Increase the heat, and boil until a fork will pierce the largest. Throw off the water; set the pot on the range, and let the moisture evaporate. Put the potatoes in a deep dish; pour upon them a few spoonfuls of melted butter mixed with chopped parsley, and serve.
Bananas, Oranges, and Cherries.
Put bananas and oranges in one dish; the cherries, bestrewed with cracked ice, in another.
Iced Coffee and Fancy Biscuits.
See Monday of Second Week in July.