See receipt for Saturday of second week in May.
Young Onions—Stewed.
Cook ten minutes in boiling water; throw this off, and pour on a cup of cold milk. Stew tender in this, add pepper, salt, a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour; simmer five minutes and turn out.
Potato Puff.
Mash the potatoes very soft, beating in butter, and milk, and finally, the whipped white of an egg. Whisk to a cream; heap roughly in a neat bake-dish and brown in a good oven.
Strawberries and Cream.
Cap and pile the strawberries in a glass dish. Send around powdered sugar and a pitcher of cream with them.
Silver Cake.
This delicate and handsome cake should have been made on Friday or Saturday. Please see “Common-Sense in the Household,” Series No. 1, General Receipts, page 332.
