Lettuce Salad.
One-third as much oil as you have vinegar; pepper and salt at discretion. Cut up the young lettuces with a sharp knife; pile in a salad-bowl; sprinkle with powdered sugar, and pour the rest of the ingredients mixed together over the salad. Toss up with a silver fork, to mix all well.
Spinach à la Reine.
Boil the spinach in salted water twenty minutes. Drain very thoroughly. Chop fine; return to the saucepan with a teaspoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter, three tablespoonfuls of cream, a little nutmeg, pepper and salt. Stir constantly until almost dry. Have ready an egg-cup dipped in boiling water. Fill it with spinach, press hard and turn out upon a hot dish. Do this until all is moulded. Put a slice of egg upon the top of each.
Transparent Puddings.
- ½ lb. butter.
- 1 lb. of sugar.
- 6 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately.
- Juice of 1 lemon and grated rind of two.
- ½ teaspoonful of nutmeg.
- ½ glass of brandy.
Cream butter and sugar, beat in all the yolks and the whites of three eggs, the lemon, spice and brandy. Bake in open shells of good paste. (Add another “baste” of butter to the crust made for your pigeon pie; roll out and line paté-pans with it.) When nearly done, spread each with a méringue made of the reserved whites, whipped up with a little powdered sugar. Color very lightly.
As they are to be eaten cold make them on Saturday.
Coffee,
Hot and strong, should be handed at the close of dinner particularly if you attend afternoon service!