Mutton Soup.
3 lbs. scrag of mutton—bones cracked and meat chopped; 2 turnips; 2 onions; chopped parsley; pepper and salt; 3 quarts of water; ½ cup of barley, soaked two hours in a little water.
Put on meat and vegetables with the bones in the water, and simmer three hours and a half. There should be two quarts of soup. Strain, cool, and season; add the barley, and cook gently until this is soft.
Roast Rabbits.
Skin, clean with great care, and wash a pair of fat rabbits—or hares—stuff with a force-meat of crumbs and chopped fat salt pork, seasoned with onion, thyme, pepper and salt. Sew up with fine thread; bind the legs to the body in a kneeling posture, and lay in the dripping-pan. Pour over them a cupful of boiling water, and cover as you did the chickens yesterday. Baste with butter twice, with their own gravy twice, and twice, at last, with butter. Just before you take them up, dredge with flour and give a final baste with butter. Dish when you have clipped and drawn out the threads. Thicken and season the gravy, and pour into a gravy-boat.
Cheese Custards.
6 tablespoonfuls of finely grated cheese; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; 4 eggs; 1 cup of milk, with a teaspoonful of corn-starch stirred in it; salt and pepper; soda.
Beat the eggs very light, and pour upon them the milk heated (with a pinch of soda) and thickened with the corn-starch. While still warm, add pepper, salt, butter, and cheese. Beat up well and pour into greased custard-cups. Bake in a quick oven about fifteen minutes, or until high and brown. Serve at once, as a separate course, passing bread and butter with them. They should follow the soup directly, or be served just before the dessert.
Stewed Corn.
Empty a can of corn into a saucepan and cover with hot-salted water. Cook half an hour, drain off the water, add a cup of milk, and, when this boils, a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour. Pepper and salt to taste; simmer five minutes and serve.
Lima Beans.
Soak the dried beans overnight, changing the water twice. In the morning put on to cook in cold water, with a clean piece of streaked fat pork or bacon, an inch or so square. When the beans are soft, drain; take out the pork and dish; seasoning with butter, pepper and salt.
Cocoa Pudding.
1 cup of fine crumbs; 1 quart of milk; 4 eggs; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; 1 scant cup of sugar; 2 tablespoonfuls of grated cocoa, or of cocoatina; 1 teaspoonful of Colgate’s vanilla.
Soak the bread in the milk; put over the fire in a farina-kettle, and stir to a boil. When thick and smooth, stir in the butter, the sugar, and the cocoa. Take from the fire, pour out; beat two minutes and whip in the beaten yolks, then the whites, which should have been beaten stiff. Put into a buttered mould, set in a pan of hot water and bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Turn out and eat with powdered sugar.