Please see Wednesday, Second Week in June.
First Week. Friday.
Sister Anne’s Soup.
12 potatoes, pared and quartered; 1 onion, sliced; tablespoonful of minced parsley; 1 cup of unskimmed milk (cream is still better); 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; 1 tablespoonful of corn-starch, wet with cold milk; 1 teaspoonful of sugar; 2 quarts of boiling water; pinch of soda in the milk.
Parboil the potatoes ten minutes; throw off the water, and put on two quarts of boiling water. Cook in this one hour with the onion, replenishing from the kettle as it boils away. Then rub through a fine colander, season with pepper, salt, and parsley, and re-heat. When it bubbles up, stir in the butter and corn-starch; boil up, add the hot milk, and serve.
Boiled Bass.
Put enough water in the pot for the fish to swim in, easily. Add half a cup of vinegar, a teaspoonful of salt, an onion, a dozen black peppers, and a blade of mace. Sew up the fish in a piece of clean net, fitted to its shape. Heat slowly for the first half hour, then boil eight minutes, at least, to the pound, quite fast. Unwrap, and pour over it a cup of drawn butter, based upon the liquor in which the fish was boiled, with the juice of half a lemon stirred into it. Garnish with sliced lemon.
Cold Mutton.
Put on the larded joint, cold, garnished with nasturtium flowers and curled parsley.