Corn and Tomato Soup.
Take the fat from the top of your stock. Drain off the soup, and add a can of corn, chopped fine, and the same of tomatoes, rubbed through a colander. Cook all slowly one hour; add what seasoning is required, and pour out.
Baked Halibut.
Get a cut of halibut weighing five or six pounds, and lay for two hours in salt and water. Wipe dry, and score the outer skin. Set in the baking-pan; pour a cupful of boiling water, in which has been mixed a tablespoonful of butter, over it, and bake one hour, basting often with butter-and-water. When a fork will penetrate it easily, it is done. Lay upon a hot dish; add a little boiling water to the gravy, stir in a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, the juice of half a lemon, and a little browned flour, wet up with cold water. Serve in a boat when you have boiled it one minute.
Stewed Pigeons.
Clean the pigeons, tie them in shape, and cook precisely as you did the grouse on Friday, First Week in December.
Mashed Potatoes.
Serve with the halibut.
Fried Salsify.
Scrape, and boil until tender. Drain and cool. Mash to a paste, picking out the fibres. Add a very little milk, a spoonful of butter and a beaten egg and a half for each cupful of mashed salsify. Make into flat, round cakes; roll in flour, and fry brown.
Dorchester Cracker Plum-Pudding.
2 quarts of milk; 6 Boston crackers, split and buttered; 8 eggs, beaten very light; 2 cups of sugar; nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon to taste; 1 lb. of raisins, seeded and cut in two; 1 teaspoonful of salt.
Heat the milk almost to boiling, and pour upon the beaten eggs and sugar, with the seasoning. Do not boil it again. Butter a pudding-dish; put a layer of buttered crackers in the bottom, buttered side up, and moisten with a few spoonfuls of custard. Cover thickly with raisins, and these with crackers, buttered side downward. Moisten with hot custard, and repeat the order given, until crackers and fruit are all in the dish. Pour in custard until only the surface of the upper layer is visible, but not enough to float them. Cover, and leave all night in a cold place. Add the rest of the custard in the morning, at intervals of five or six minutes between the cupfuls. Bake, covered, two hours in a moderate oven; then brown. Eat hot, with sauce.