Turnip Soup.
12 turnips; 3 tablespoonfuls of butter; 1 onion; 2 stalks of celery; bunch of herbs; 2 cups of milk; pepper and salt; 2 quarts of water; 1 tablespoonful—even—of flour.
Pare and lay the turnips in cold water half an hour. Slice into the soup-pot, with the onion and celery; also the chopped herbs. Pour on two quarts of cold water, and boil until the vegetables are broken to pieces. Rub, with their liquor, through a sieve. Season, and return to the fire. When it boils, stir in the butter cut up in the flour; cook five minutes; pour into the tureen, and add the boiling milk.
Boiled Cod.
Sew the fish up in a piece of mosquito-netting. Put on in plenty of boiling water, a little salt, allowing about twelve minutes per pound. Unwrap; lay upon a hot dish, and pour over it—serving some in a boat—a cupful of drawn butter made from the fish pot-liquor, and containing, besides butter and flour, the pounded yolks of two boiled eggs, and a tablespoonful of chopped green pickle.
Mashed Potatoes.
Mash, and pass with the fish.
Fricasseed Eggs.
7 or 8 hard-boiled eggs, laid in cold water so soon as they are done; a cup of gravy left from yesterday’s soup; a little cold chopped meat; melted butter, pepper, salt, and French mustard; three tablespoonfuls of cream.
Cut the cold eggs, crosswise; take out the yolks; slice a bit from the bottom of each white “cup” thus made, and stand them closely together in a flat dish. Rub the yolks to a paste with the butter; mix with the chopped meat and seasoning, and make into round balls, with which fill your “cups.” Heat, and add the cream to the gravy, and pour over the eggs. Set in the oven three minutes to heat; stick a bit of parsley in the top of each ball, and send to table.
Canned Succotash.
Turn out a can of succotash into a saucepan; barely cover with hot water, and cook half an hour. Pour off the water; put on, instead, a cup of cold milk. Bring to a boil; pepper, salt, and put in a lump of butter, rolled in flour. Simmer five minutes.
Chocolate Tartlets.
4 eggs; ½ cake Baker’s chocolate, grated; 1 tablespoonful corn-starch, dissolved in milk; 3 tablespoonfuls of milk; 4 tablespoonfuls of white sugar; 2 tablespoonfuls of vanilla; ½ teaspoonful cinnamon, and a little salt; 1 heaping teaspoonful of melted butter.
Rub the chocolate smooth in the milk; heat over the fire, and add the corn-starch wet in more milk. Stir until thickened, and pour out. When cold, beat in the yolks and sugar, with the flavoring. Bake in open shells lining paté-pans. Cover with a méringue made of the whites and a little powdered sugar, when they are nearly done, and let them color slightly. Eat cold.