Empty a can of tomatoes into a saucepan, and when hot, add a small onion, sliced, with pepper, salt, and a little sugar. Stew twenty minutes, and add a tablespoonful of butter and a good handful of bread-crumbs. Simmer five minutes more and pour out.
Cup Custards—Baked.
- 1 quart of milk.
- 5 eggs.
- 5 tablespoonfuls of sugar.
- Nutmeg and vanilla.
- Powdered sugar for méringue.
Scald the milk, and pour upon the beaten yolks and sugar. Add to this, when you have flavored it, the whites of two eggs. Fill small stone-ware cups and set in a dripping-pan of boiling water. Bake until “set,” cover with a méringue made of the whisked whites (reserved) and a little powdered sugar. Bake until they begin to be tinged. Eat cold from the cups.
Corn-Starch Cake.
Please see “Common-Sense in the Household” Series No. 1, “General Receipts,” page 333.
Second Week. Saturday.
Sweetbread Soup.
- 4 lbs. of lean, coarse veal.
- ½ lb. corned ham.
- 2 lbs. beef bones.
- 2 fine sweetbreads.
- Bunch of parsley.
- 1 onion.
- 2 tablespoonfuls of tapioca, soaked in cold water one hour.
- Pepper and salt.
- 5 quarts of cold water.