Julienne Soup.
Pare and cut into small dice,
- 2 carrots.
- 1 turnip.
- 1 cup small string-beans.
- 6 tomatoes.
- 1 onion.
- ¼ of a cabbage-heart.
Cook ten minutes in salted boiling water, leaving out the tomatoes. Drain away the water, and spread the vegetables upon a dish to cool, while you take the fat from your cold soup-stock; strain the latter from the bones and meat, and heat to a gentle boil. Continue this for five minutes, skimming well; put in the parboiled vegetables, the tomatoes, and a pint of green peas, and stew steadily, but not fast, for half an hour. Pour out all together.
Lamb Cutlets.
Trim carefully, lay in a little warmed butter for an hour, turning several times. Then broil upon a greased gridiron, taking care they do not drip. Butter, pepper, and salt each, and lay them in a circle about the peas purée.
Purée of Green Peas.
Boil three pints of green peas until soft. Rub them, while hot, through a fine colander. Work in a tablespoonful of butter, cut up in flour; pepper and salt to taste; add three teaspoonfuls of milk, and stir in a saucepan until very hot and smooth. Put in the centre of a hot, flat dish, with the cutlets about it, and help out both at the same time.
Potato Strips.
Pare large potatoes: cut into long strips; lay in ice-cold water one hour; dry between two towels and fry in salted dripping to a light brown. Drain well, and dish upon a folded napkin.
Lettuce.
Pull out and tear apart the white hearts, and heap within a salad-bowl. Rub together
- 2 tablespoonfuls of salad oil.
- 1 teaspoonful, each, of sugar and salt.
- Half as much made mustard and pepper, and whip in—a few drops a time—4 tablespoonfuls of vinegar.
Pour over the salad.
Ristori Puffs.
- 5 eggs.
- The weight of the eggs in flour.
- Half their weight in sugar.
- One-quarter their weight in butter.
- Juice of one lemon and half the grated peel.
- Soda.
Use prepared flour always in this receipt. Cream butter and sugar, and beat in the yolks. Add the lemon; a pinch of soda, dissolved in a teaspoonful of hot water, then the beaten whites, alternately with the flour. Bake in muffin rings in a quick oven. Eat hot, with jelly sauce.