“That Soup” Again.
Remove every particle of fat from the top of your stock. Take out what is needed for to-day, and heat to boiling—slowly.
Roast Turkey, Garnished with Sausages.
Wash out the turkey carefully. Stuff as usual, adding a little cooked sausage to the dressing. (Salt the giblets, and keep for to-morrow.) Lay the turkey in the dripping-pan, pour a great cupful of boiling water over it, and roast about ten minutes per pound—slowly for the first hour. Baste faithfully and often, dredging with flour, and basting with butter at the last. Dish the turkey, laying boiled sausages around it. Pour the fat from the gravy; thicken with browned flour; salt, and pepper. Boil once, and serve in a boat.
Mashed Turnips.
Pare, quarter, and cook tender in boiling water, a little salt. Mash and press in a heated colander; work in butter, pepper, and salt; heap smoothly in a deep dish, and put “dabs” of pepper on top.
Canned Corn Pudding.
Drain, and chop the corn fine, add a tablespoonful of melted butter, four beaten eggs; a large cup of milk, with an even teaspoonful of corn-starch stirred in it, with salt and pepper to taste. Bake, covered, in a greased pudding-dish one hour; then brown quickly.
Sweet Potatoes.
See Sunday of First Week in December.
Cranberry Sauce.
Cook a quart of cranberries with a very little water, slowly, in a porcelain or tinned saucepan. Stir often, and when they are broken all to pieces, and thick as marmalade, take off, sweeten liberally, and rub through a colander. Wet a mould, and put them in to form.
Orange Snow and Snowdrift Cake.
4 large sweet oranges, juice of all, and grated peel of one; juice and half the grated peel of 1 lemon; 1 package of gelatine soaked in 1 cup of cold water; whites of 4 eggs, whipped stiff; 1 large cup of powdered sugar; 2 cups of boiling water.
Mix the juice and peel of the fruit with the soaked gelatine, add the sugar, stir well, and leave them for one hour. Pour on boiling water, and stir until clear. Strain, and press through a coarse cloth. When cold, and beginning to congeal, whip a spoonful at a time into the frothed whites. Put into a wet mould. Do this of course on Saturday.
For Snowdrift Cake, please refer to Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea, page 340.