Part 64

=Sheep's-head Stew= (see Mutton Stew, page 187).

=Potato and Onion Salad.= Slice some potatoes (fresh boiled and slightly warm are best). Sprinkle them with minced onion, salt, and pepper. Dress with a little melted butter and vinegar.

=Pudding Sauce=, the same as that for Apple Dumplings.

MONDAY, JANUARY

Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. Fried Mush and Soup from Boiled Boiled Potatoes, with Molasses. Beef, with Macaroni. Butter Gravy. Bread. Broiled Beef Flank, Dried Apple Roly- Coffee. with Mustard Sauce. poly Pudding. Bean Purée. Bread. Bread. Tea.

=Mustard Sauce.= Make some drawn butter in the following manner:

A heaping tablespoon of butter, or beef fat, is put into a saucepan. When it boils, one heaping tablespoon of flour is added, and stirred as it cooks. To this add gradually one pint of water, one teaspoon of salt, and one fourth of a teaspoon of pepper. If you wish to unite economy and good flavor, use one half teaspoon of beef fat in making the sauce, and add one half teaspoon of butter cut in small pieces just before serving. Add a little mustard, and you have mustard sauce.

=Bean Purée.= Make like Pea Soup, page 307.

=Dried Apple Roly-poly Pudding.= Make the soda-biscuit dough which is used in dried apple pie. Roll it out into a thin sheet, and spread with stewed and flavored dried apples. Roll it into a round or loaf, and bake in a pan containing a little water.

TUESDAY, JANUARY

Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. Fried Potatoes. Browned Farina Bean Soup. Bread. Soup, with Toast. Milk Toast. Coffee. Stewed Mutton, with Tea. Yeast Dumplings.

=Browned Farina Soup.= Make like Browned Flour Soup, except use farina.

For other similar bills of fare and recipes, see the Lomb Prize Essay, entitled "Practical, Sanitary, and Economic Cooking," which is published and sold at a low price by the American Public Health Association, and may be bought at any book-store. It is most heartily recommended to nurses who do district nursing as a book which will be found useful among the poor and those possessed of moderate means.

LITERATURE

In preparing the preceding pages the following authorities have been consulted. Their works will be found useful for reference on subjects connected with the chemistry of food, bacteriology, nutrition, health, practical cooking, and allied topics.

"The Chemistry of Cookery." W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS. 1885.

"Food Materials and their Adulterations." ELLEN H. RICHARDS. 1886.

"The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning." ELLEN H. RICHARDS. 1882.

Various Articles on Food in "The Century Magazine." W. O. ATWATER. 1887-88.

"Elementary Manual of Chemistry." ELIOT AND STORER. Compiled by W. RIPLEY NICHOLS. 1880.

"A Manual of Practical Hygiene." EDMUND A. PARKES. Edited by FRANÇOIS DE CHAUMONT. 1887.

"A Simple Treatise on Heat." W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS. 1880.

"Food for the Invalid." J. MILNER FOTHERGILL. 1880.

"Food and Feeding." SIR HENRY THOMSON. 1880.

"The Boston Cook Book." D. A. LINCOLN. 1884.

"New England Breakfast Breads." LUCIA GRAY SWETT. 1890.

"Miss Parloa's New Cook Book." MARIA PARLOA. 1880.

"Diet for the Sick." MARY E. HENDERSON. 1885.