Raw Tomatoes.
See receipt for Tuesday of first week in this month for dressing lettuce, when you have peeled and sliced the tomatoes.
Potatoes en Robe de Chambre.
If you use Bermuda potatoes, cook in boiling water. If you take old potatoes, put on in cold and bring rapidly to a boil. Throw off the water when they are done, set back on the range, uncovered, to dry out, and send to table with the skins on.
Floating Island.
- 1 quart of milk.
- 4 beaten eggs.
- 4 heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar.
- 2 teaspoonfuls extract of bitter almond.
- ½ cup of currant jelly.
Beat yolks and sugar light, and pour on, by degrees, the boiling milk. Pour back into the farina-kettle, and heat, stirring constantly until it begins to thicken. When cold, flavor, and pour into a glass dish. Pile with a méringue of the whites beaten up with half a cup of currant jelly. Ornament with dots of jelly.
Second Week. Tuesday.