"If you do, you must have half-priced things the second night, then."
"Well, how is this?
| "Mutton croquettes; mashed potatoes; minced turnips. |
| Celery salad; crackers and cheese. |
| Bread pudding with dates. |
| Coffee." |
"That does very well. I see you had no carrots and had to buy turnips, but they are cheap. Celery, however, I am afraid was rather expensive, wasn't it? Could you not have had shredded cabbage instead? And you really did not need crackers and cheese with it; you might have had them with coffee for dessert. But, you are learning. Now try another winter dinner, because they are most difficult of all."
Dolly wrote, after some thinking:
| "Purée of dried lima bean soup. |
| Rounds of pork tenderloin; minced carrots; potato balls. |
| Cherry pie. |
| Coffee." |
"Fair; pretty good," commented her sister. "I see you plan to put the carrots and potato balls around the one pork tenderloin you had Frenched, so it would be enough, and you had a heavy soup with the light meat. So far I have no fault to find. But I cannot approve of pie after pork. Can you not have the canned cherries another way?"
Dolly scratched out the word "pie," and wrote in "pudding."
"That is all right. Now just one more to use up the scraps left from this."