Mock Turtle Soup.
Please consult receipt for Wednesday, Third Week in March. There should be enough for two days at least.
Hot Pot.
2 lbs. of lean veal; calf’s brains from your boiled head; 1 pint of oysters; pepper—cayenne is best; a little minced onion; salt; a tablespoonful of butter; ¼ lb. of oyster crackers, buttered and split; minced parsley and lemon-peel.
Cut the veal into squares, and parboil for twenty minutes. Put a layer in the bottom of a buttered bake-dish; season well; sprinkle on a little onion, and put a layer of split crackers next. The brains should be beaten up with a raw egg, and seasoned. Drop in small spoonfuls upon the crackers; next, put a few oysters, strewed with pepper, salt and butter-bits; more veal, and so on to the top, which should be crackers. Fill the dish with the water in which the veal was boiled, seasoned, and an equal quantity of oyster liquor. Cover closely, and bake in a moderate oven an hour and a half. Serve in the dish. It should not be uncovered for browning.
Cauliflower à la Crême.
Boil a fine cauliflower in plenty of hot salted water, having tied it up in a bit of mosquito-net. When done, put into a deep dish, blossom upward, and pour over it a cupful of drawn butter in which has been beaten, and then cooked, a raw egg.
Mashed Parsnips.
Scrape, slice lengthwise, and put on to boil in hot salted water. They will take more than an hour to cook. When tender, drain and press in a colander. Mash smooth; put into a clean saucepan with a little butter, pepper and salt. Stir until very hot, then dish.
Lima Beans.
See Thursday of First Week in October.
Cocoanut Pudding.
1 heaping cup fine crumbs; ½ cup of butter; 1 cup powdered sugar; 1 grated cocoanut; 2 cups milk; tablespoonful corn-starch wet with cold water; 5 eggs, nutmeg and rose-water to taste.
Soak the crumbs in the milk, and add to the creamed butter and sugar, and the beaten yolks. Beat well; put in the corn-starch; the whisked white; at last the grated cocoanut. Beat one minute; pour into a buttered pudding dish, and bake in a moderate oven forty-five minutes. Eat cold, with sugar sifted on top.