If you prefer, you can give the cake with the blanc-mange, and drink the coffee afterwards.
Second Week. Monday.
“Once-Again” Soup.
A good soup, founded upon such stock as you made on Saturday, is better the third day than the first. Therefore, take off the fat from the portion kept on the ice since yesterday’s providential division, and warm it slowly, almost to a boil. If you have time, cut some fried bread into dice and put into the tureen before you pour in the soup.
Cold Lamb.
Do not murder the well-cooked, juicy innocent of yesterday by hashing and reheating. A nice dish of cold lamb, trimmed and garnished with cresses and cool, white lettuce, is goodly to the eyes—and taste—on a sultry June day.
Cheese Fondu.
- 2 cups milk, with a pinch of soda stirred in.
- 1 cup very dry, fine crumbs.
- ½ lb. of dry cheese, grated.
- 4 beaten eggs.
- 1 tablespoonful of melted butter.
- Pepper, salt, and a pinch of mace.
Soak the crumbs in the milk; beat in the eggs, butter, seasoning—lastly, the cheese. Butter a pudding-dish; put in the mixture; strew the top with fine crumbs, and bake, covered, half an hour; then brown quickly. Eat soon, as it will fall in cooling.