AUGUST.
First Week. Sunday.
Macaroni Soup.
Take the fat from your cold soup; pour the latter carefully from the meat, and heat to a slow boil. Having removed all the scum that will rise, add a quarter pound of macaroni, broken into short pieces, boiled twenty minutes in hot salted water, and left to get cold. Simmer fifteen minutes, and serve.
Stewed Ducks.
Clean, wash, and truss neatly, but do not stuff the ducks. Put into a broad saucepan, such as is generally known as a braising-pan. Strew with a little onion; pour over them a cupful of weak broth made by boiling the giblets in a pint of water and reducing one-half. Season this well, and when you have poured it upon the ducks, cover the saucepan and cook gently an hour and a half or until the ducks are tender. Turn them when half done. Take up when ready; keep hot while you strain and thicken the gravy with browned flour. Pour a little over the ducks, the rest into a boat.