1 cup of milk; 2 small teaspoonfuls of corn-starch; 1 egg; 1 teaspoonful of vanilla; ½ cup of sugar.
Scald the milk; add the corn-starch, wet with a little cold milk; pour upon the beaten eggs and sugar. Return to the fire, and stir until quite thick. Flavor when cold. Make a good cup of chocolate, and pass with this delicious cake.
Fourth Week. Sunday.
Chicken Soup with Eggs.
1 large chicken; 4 quarts of water; 1 cup of milk; 1 cup of raw rice; pepper, salt, and chopped parsley; 6 eggs.
Put on the chicken, trussed, but not stuffed, in the water with the rice. Boil three hours, or until the bones are ready to slip from the meat. Take out the chicken, salt it and put by in a cool place for to-morrow. Cool and skim the soup; season it, and rub through a soup-sieve back into the pot, rice and all. The rice should be boiled to pieces, and pass freely through the sieve. Put in the parsley, and simmer, while you heat the milk in a separate vessel, and poach an egg for each person who is to partake of the soup. Trim each egg round when you have taken it from the water, and lay carefully upon a flat dish. Pour the hot milk into the tureen; then the soup. Stir well, and lay the eggs upon the top, one by one, taking pains not to break them.
Braised Beef.
Lay a piece of beef-fillet, without bone, weighing five or six pounds, in a broad pot. Scatter sliced onion over it, salt slightly, and, if you have any good gravy, add this to the cupful of boiling water you pour over the meat. Cover tightly, and cook slowly an hour and a half, adding boiling water should the gravy sink too low. When done, dredge with flour, set in a hot oven, and, as the flour browns, baste with butter, to glaze. It should not remain longer than ten minutes in the oven. Strain the gravy; pour off the top fat; put into a saucepan with a little browned flour and a tablespoonful of catsup. Boil until thickened; pour a few spoonfuls over the meat, the rest into a boat.