Egg Soup.
2 lbs. lean ham; 1 lb. lean veal, cut into dice; 1 carrot; 1 onion; 1 grated turnip; 1 boiled potato, mashed; chopped parsley; 3 quarts of water; 6 or 8 eggs.
Cut up the meat, onion, and carrot, and put on with herbs and water to come to a slow boil. Keep this up for three hours and a half. The water should not lose more than one-third. Strain off the liquor; cool and skim. Put over the fire, with the grated turnip and mashed potato. Season, and simmer half an hour. Pour into the tureen, and lay upon the top of the soup as many poached eggs, trimmed round, as there are persons to be served.
Larded Steak, Broiled.
Flatten a large steak, and lard it with thin strips of fat salt pork, bringing all the ends out on one side of the steak. You can do this with a knife and your fingers, by making two holes for each lardoon, and making a loop of it under the steak; but it is better to have a larding-needle. Broil upon a greased gridiron; lay upon a hot dish; put upon it a little warmed butter, seasoned with pepper, salt, and French mustard.
Purée of Potatoes.
Mash boiled potatoes; rub through a colander; add a few spoonfuls of milk, one of butter rolled in flour, and stir over the fire five minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Pour into a deep dish.
Baked Macaroni.
Break half a pound of macaroni into inch lengths, and cook twenty minutes in boiling salt water. Drain; cover the bottom of a buttered dish with it; strew with grated cheese and butter-bits, pepper and salt lightly, and put in another layer of macaroni. Fill the dish in this way; strew cheese and butter on top; pour in half a cup of milk, and bake, covered, half an hour—then, brown quickly.
Bavarian Salad.
2 small onions; 2 heads of lettuce, pulled to pieces; 1 boiled beet, cold and sliced; 3 tablespoonfuls salad-oil; 2 of vinegar; yolk of 1 raw egg; 1 saltspoonful of salt, and same of made mustard.
Chop the onions exceedingly small, and beat into the whipped egg the salt, mustard, the oil, last of all, the vinegar. Put the lettuce into a dish; cover with the beet-root, and pour on the dressing.
Lemon Cream Pie.
1 cup of sugar; 1 tablespoonful of butter; 1 egg; 1 lemon, pared carefully, even to the white rind, and the seeds removed; 1 tablespoonful corn-starch, wet in cold water; 1 cup of boiling water.
Stir the corn-starch into the water, and pour over the creamed butter and sugar. When cold, add the minced lemon and grated peel, with the egg. Beat hard and bake in open shells of paste. Eat cold.