Part 63

Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. Soda-biscuit. Pea Soup. Corn Mush and Baked Potatoes, with Irish Stew. Molasses. Drawn Butter Sauce. Bread. Bread and Grated Cocoa. Cheese. Tea.

=Drawn Butter Sauce.= Make according to the rule for White Sauce (page 130), except use water instead of milk, and part beef fat instead of all butter.

=Irish Stew= (page 186).

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER

Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. Oatmeal and Milk. Broiled Beef Liver. Lentil Soup, with Bread and Butter. Boiled Potatoes Fried Bread. Cocoa. and Carrots, with Smoked Herring. Fried Onions. Bread. Bread and Cheese. Barley Porridge.

=Boiled Potatoes, and Carrots with Fried Onions.= Slice hot boiled potatoes and boiled carrots together. Season them with salt and pepper, and pour over them hot fried onions.

=Lentil Soup.= Made like Pea Soup, page 307.

=Fried Bread.= Cut bread into small cubes and fry it in hot fat until light brown.

=Barley Porridge.= Made with pearl barley soaked over night in water, and then cooked for two hours, or until it is soft. During the last hour add milk instead of water. Flavor with salt and butter.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. Buckwheat Cakes. Giblet Soup. Codfish Balls. Fried Bacon. Baked Potatoes, with Cheese. Coffee. Drawn Butter Sauce. Bread. Bread. Tea.

=Giblet Soup.= Giblet soup is made from the heart, liver, and neck of chicken and other fowls, which in city markets are sold separately and very cheap. Clean them very carefully, wash in cold water, cut into small pieces, and boil for two hours with onions and herbs. Then add a little butter, thickening, salt, and pepper.

=Codfish Balls= (Salt Cod). Codfish is one of the cheap foods that seems to be thoroughly appreciated among us, and good ways of cooking it are generally understood. It must be freshened by laying it in water over night. When soaked, put it into cold water, and bring gradually to the boiling point; then set the kettle back where it will keep hot for half an hour; at the end of that time separate it into fine shreds, add an equal amount of fresh mashed potato, make into balls, and fry on a griddle.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. Fried Bacon. Boiled Corned Beef, Pea Soup. Boiled Potatoes. with Yeast Biscuit and Bread. Horse-radish Sauce. Butter. Coffee. Stewed Cabbage. Stewed Fruit. Bread. Barley Porridge.

=Boiled Corned Beef.= Boil the beef for three hours, very slowly at first, changing the water once if it is very salt.

=Horse-radish Sauce.= Add grated horse-radish to drawn batter sauce. Simmer a few minutes.

Barley Porridge, page 309.

SATURDAY, JANUARY

Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. Fried Bacon. Browned Flour Soup. Baked Beans. Corn Bread. Stewed Mutton. Bread. Coffee. Mashed Potatoes. Apple Dumplings, with Bread. Pudding Sauce. Tea.

=Corn Bread.= (1) Plain. One cup of sweet milk, one cup of sour or buttermilk, or both of sour milk, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of soda, one tablespoon of butter or suet or lard, three cups of Indian meal, and one cup of wheat flour, or all of Indian meal. Mix, pour into a tin, and bake forty minutes.

(2) Richer. The same, with an egg and one half cup of sugar added.

(3) Very nice. No. 1, with the addition of three eggs, one half cup of sugar, and one third of a cup of butter, one cup of meal being omitted.

=Browned Flour Soup=, page 305.

=Apple Dumplings, with Pudding Sauce.= The Dumplings. Make a crust like that used in dried apple pie. Cut it in squares; place sliced apples in the middle, and gather up or pinch the corners. Bake or steam.

Sauce. One pint of water made into a smooth paste with a heaping tablespoon of flour. Cook ten minutes. Strain if necessary, sweeten to taste, and pour it over one tablespoon of butter, and the juice of a lemon, or other flavoring. If lemon is not used, add one tablespoon of vinegar. This can be made richer by using more butter and sugar. Stir them to a cream with the flavoring, and then add the paste.

SUNDAY, JANUARY

Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. Fried Codfish. Sheep's-head Stew, Potato and Onion Bread and Butter. with Soda-biscuit Salad. Coffee. Dumplings. Broiled Salt Pork. Baked Potatoes. Bread. Bread and Grated Corn Mush, with Cheese. Cocoa. Pudding Sauce.