Clear Sago Soup.
Remove the fat from your soup-jelly. Pour off as much as you need for to-day, without disturbing the sediment. Heat, simmer and skim until the scum ceases to rise; put in half a cup of German sago which has been soaking one hour in a little water. Cook gently until clear.
Roast Beef.
Lay in a dripping-pan and pour a cup of boiling water over it. Roast about ten minutes per pound, basting frequently and copiously. When done, dish; pour the strained gravy into a bowl and set in ice-water to throw up the fat. Remove this, return the gravy to the fire, pepper, salt, and thicken with browned flour. Boil once, and serve in a boat.
Potato Balls.
Mash potatoes very light with butter, milk and salt, and beat in two raw eggs. Put into a buttered saucepan, and stir until hot and stiff. Turn out and let the paste get cold. Then make into balls; roll each in flour; half an hour before taking up the roast beef, pour off nearly all the gravy, and lay the balls about the meat in the dripping-pan. Baste them whenever you baste the meat, and cook to a fine brown. Drain off the grease, and serve as a garnish to the beef, when dished.
Fried Sweet Potatoes.
Boil, peel, and let them get cold. Then slice lengthwise; pepper, salt, flour, and fry quickly in good dripping. Drain well and serve hot.
Apple Sauce.
See Wednesday, Second Week in November.
Celery.
See Monday Second Week in December.
Ribbon Blanc-Mange.
1 quart of milk; 1 package Cooper’s gelatine; ¾ cup of sugar; 1 great spoonful of grated chocolate, wet in a very little cold milk; beaten yolk of one egg; 1 great spoonful of cranberry juice; vanilla extract.
Soak the gelatine one hour in a cup of the milk. Heat the rest to scalding; add sugar and soaked gelatine, and stir eight minutes over the fire. Strain through a muslin bag into four bowls, putting equal portions in all. Color one brown by stirring in the wet chocolate; another yellow, by beating in the yolk; a third, pink with cranberry juice, or currant jelly. Leave the fourth white. Return each portion, excepting this last, to the fire in its turn, and stir until very hot. When all are cold and beginning to congeal, wet a mould, and pour in, first, half of the white; next, half of the pink; thirdly, half of the yellow; fourthly, half of the brown. Upon this brown empty the rest of the white, and let the pink, yellow, and brown follow in course. Let each of the eight courses get firm enough to bear the next before adding more. Do all this on Saturday. On Sunday, turn out and pass with light cake, followed by coffee. The vanilla extract is intended for the chocolate only.
This is a beautiful dish, easy and safe.