Canned Pea Soup.
As your stock must be running low, add a quart of boiling water to the contents of the jar, and boil slowly at the back of the stove for an hour and a half. Strain, cool, skim, and add a can of green peas. Cook until these are tender; pulp through a colander into the soup, season with pepper and salt, also a lump of white sugar, stir in a lump of floured butter, and when it has boiled once more, pour upon dice of fried bread placed in the tureen.
Beefsteak.
Flatten and broil upon a greased gridiron over a clear fire. Turn as it drips. It should be done in ten or twelve minutes. Lay upon a hot-water dish; pepper, salt, and butter liberally. Cover with another hot dish, or a heated cover of block-tin.
Graham Savory Pudding.
2 heaping tablespoonfuls of Irish oatmeal, soaked two hours in a little cold water; 2 cups of boiling milk; handful of fine crumbs; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; 1 tablespoonful minced onion; 1 teaspoonful mixed sweet marjoram and parsley; 3 eggs.
Pour the hot milk upon the soaked oatmeal, and stir over the fire for fifteen minutes. Add the bread-crumbs, beat up well; put in the onion, herbs, butter, pepper, and salt, lastly the whipped eggs. When very light, butter a mould, pour in the pudding, set in a pan of boiling water, and this in a moderate oven. Bake one hour, turn out, and send around a boat of drawn butter with it.
Baked Potatoes.
Bake in a steady oven until soft; wipe, and send to table without peeling them.
Creamed Parsnips.
Boil tender, scrape and slice lengthwise. Put over the fire with two tablespoonfuls of butter, pepper, and salt, and a little minced parsley. Shake until the mixture boils. Dish the parsnips, add to the sauce three tablespoonfuls of cream in which has been stirred a quarterspoonful of flour. Boil once, and pour over the parsnips.
Susie’s Bread Pudding.
1 quart of milk; 4 eggs; the whites of three, more for méringue; 2 cups fine dry crumbs; 1 tablespoonful melted butter; 1 cup of sugar; juice and half the grated peel of 1 lemon.
Beat eggs, sugar, and butter light. Soak the crumbs in the milk, and mix well, beating long and hard. When nearly done spread with a méringue made of the whipped whites of three eggs and a little powdered sugar. Eat cold.