Clear Soup.
Take the fat from your soup-jelly; pour into a pot and heat until you can strain it off from the meat. Cut up the latter; season with salt and a little spice, and put back on the ice. There is still gelatine enough in it to make it valuable. Boil and skim your soup two or three minutes, and add a small cup of German sago which has been soaked in a little water one hour. When clear, serve.
Larded Ducks.
After cleaning and washing, lard the breasts of a pair of ducks with narrow strips of bacon. You must have a larding-needle for this, since both ends of the lardoons must project upon the same surface. Half roast the ducks; put on in a saucepan, with two cups of broth made by abstracting a cup of jelly from your soup-stock, thinning it with boiling water and seasoning it. Add a chopped onion and a glass of claret. Stew half an hour, or until tender; dish; take the fat from the gravy, thicken, boil and pour half over the ducks, the rest into a boat.
Succotash.
8 ears of corn—the grains cut off; about a pint of Lima beans; 1 tablespoonful of floured butter; pepper and salt; 1 cup of milk.
Boil corn and beans for nearly an hour in enough boiling water to cover them. Turn this off, add the milk; when this heats, butter, pepper and salt. Simmer ten minutes.
Stewed Squash.
Pare, seed, quarter, and cook soft in boiling salted water. Pour this off, and add a few tablespoonfuls of strained gravy from your ducks—or any other you may have. Beat the squash to pieces in this, in the saucepan; season well and stir until as stiff and smooth as apple sauce; then dish upon crustless slices of fried bread.
Boiled Potatoes.
See Saturday, Second Week in August.
Peach Ice-Cream.
1 quart of rich milk and as much sweet cream; 4 cups of sugar; 6 eggs; 1 quart of very ripe peaches pared and cut small.
Make as directed in full on Sunday of Second Week in July; but stir in the peaches just before closing the freezer for the second time, beating them well into the congealing cream. Unless they are very sweet, you would do well to dredge them in sugar before they go in.