Mash very soft with butter and milk; season and heap irregularly upon a dish.
Succotash.
6 ears of corn; 1 pint of string-beans, trimmed and cut into short pieces; 1 tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour; 1 cup of milk; pepper and salt.
Cut the corn from the cob, bruising as little as possible. Put over the fire with the beans in enough hot water, salted, to cover them, and stew gently half an hour. Turn off nearly all the water, and add a cupful of milk. Simmer in this, stirring to prevent burning, twenty minutes; add the floured butter, the pepper and salt, and stew ten minutes. Serve in a deep dish.
Devilled Tomatoes.
12 fine, firm tomatoes, pared and sliced nearly half an inch thick; yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs, pounded; 3 tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and same of vinegar; 2 raw eggs, beaten light; 1 teaspoonful sugar, and half as much, each, of made mustard and salt; a pinch of Cayenne.
Rub butter, pounded yolks, pepper, salt, mustard and sugar together. Beat hard, add vinegar, and heat to a boil. Put this upon the beaten eggs and whip to a smooth cream. Set in hot water while you broil the tomatoes in an oyster-broiler, over clear coals. Lay this upon a hot chafing-dish, and pour the scalding dressing upon them.
Baked Huckleberry Pudding.
1 pint of milk; 2 eggs; 1 quart of flour (sifted); 1 gill yeast; 1 saltspoonful of salt; 1 teaspoonful of boiling water; nearly a quart of berries, dredged with flour.
Make a batter of these ingredients—leaving out the berries—and set in a warm place to rise, for about four hours. If light then, stir in the dredged berries; pour into a buttered cake-mould, and bake one hour in a moderate oven. Turn out, and eat with hard sauce.