- 6 butter crackers, soaked in water, and beaten smooth.
- Juice of three lemons and half the grated peel.
- 1 cup of molasses.
- A pinch of salt.
- 1 tablespoonful of melted butter.
- Pie-paste for shells.
Chop the pulp of the lemons, leaving out the thick white peel, very fine; stir into the crushed crackers, with the butter and salt. Beat the molasses into this, gradually, with the grated peel. Line two pie-dishes with good paste, fill with the mixture and bake, without upper crusts. Eat warm, or cold. They are best fresh.
First Week. Thursday.
Beef Soup with Barley.
- 3 lbs. of beef from the shin.
- 2 lbs. of bones.
- 1 onion stuck with cloves.
- 2 stalks of celery.
- The half can of tomatoes left from yesterday’s soup.
- 2 turnips.
- Nearly a cup of pearl barley.
- 4 quarts of water.
- Pepper and salt.
Cut up the meat and crack the bones. Cut up celery, turnips, and tomatoes. Put all these, with the onion, into the soup-pot, with the gallon of cold water, and boil gently three hours. The liquor should be reduced one-third. Wash the barley and boil fifteen minutes in a very little water. Strain the soup, pressing hard. Season; let it boil up once, and skim before adding the barley and the water in which it has boiled. Simmer half an hour, and serve.
Stuffed Loin of Veal.
Prepare a dressing of bread-crumbs, a little chopped corned ham, parsley, pepper and salt, moistened with milk. Have the bones taken out of the meat, and fill the holes thus left with the stuffing. Secure the meat into a good shape with skewers, and cover the top and sides with thick foolscap paper, binding it with strings. Grease paper and strings, put the veal into your dripping-pan with a cup of hot water, and bake, basting the paper now and then with dripping, to prevent scorching. At the end of an hour, take out the meat and remove the paper. Pour off the gravy, carefully setting it by; return the meat to the oven with a cupful of milk in the pan instead of the gravy. Baste with butter, lavishly, once,—afterwards, and often with the milk as it heats. Roast, not too fast, nearly an hour more, or until your meat is tender. Should the milk evaporate too rapidly, add a little hot water. Indeed, this is a wise precaution against scorching. Take up the veal, thicken the gravy left in the oven, with a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour, salt, and pepper, heat carefully that the milk may not “catch,” and pour some over the meat, serving the rest in a boat. Veal cooked in this way is very nice, but requires much attention at the last.