Lettuce Salad.
Pull out the hearts and blanched leaves, heap them within a salad bowl; strew with powdered sugar, and pour over them a dressing made according to directions given yesterday. Toss up well with a silver fork.
Oatmeal Pudding with Cream.
- 1 quart of boiling milk.
- 4 tablespoonfuls best Irish oatmeal.
- 4 tablespoonfuls of flour.
- 1 teaspoonful of salt.
Wet up flour, oatmeal, and salt, with cold milk and stir into the hot, which must be in a farina-kettle. Stir twenty minutes well from the bottom, and let it stand ten minutes in the boiling water without cooking before pouring into an uncovered deep dish. Eat with cream and sugar.
First Week. Wednesday.
Hot Pot.
- 4 lbs. coarse lean beef, cut up small.
- 2 good-sized crabs.
- ½ lb. of streaked salt pork.
- Bunch of sweet herbs.
- 1 onion.
- 1 bunch of asparagus—the green tops only.
- 8 Boston crackers.
- Cayenne pepper.
- Butter for crackers.
- 6 quarts of water.
- Juice of 1 lemon.