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Second Week. Wednesday.
Cream Soup.
The liquor in which your calf’s head was boiled; 1 onion; bunch of parsley; 1 blade of mace; 1 cup of milk; yolks of 2 eggs; pepper and salt; 1 teaspoonful corn-starch, rubbed in cold water.
Boil your calf’s head early in the day, until you can just handle it without breaking it to pieces. It will be firmer for baking if left to get cold at this juncture. Skim the pot-liquor, put in the sliced onion, parsley, and mace, and boil slowly two hours. Strain, cool, skim, season, and thicken slightly with the corn-starch. Beat the yolks in a bowl, add the boiling milk, and pour into the heated tureen. Add the soup, stir up well, and serve.
Baked Calf’s Head, with Mushrooms.
Set the cold boiled calf’s head in the oven; pour a cup of pot-liquor, boiling hot, over it, and bake half an hour, basting very often. Then dredge well with flour and baste twice with butter. Now coat thickly with a paste made of the brains, boiled, cooled and beaten smooth with an egg, and seasoned with pepper and salt. When this has browned, dish the head. Strain the gravy, add half a cupful of mushrooms, boiled and chopped, a very little browned flour, the juice of a lemon, and, if needed, a little boiling water. Stew one minute and send up in a boat.
Spinach.
Boil in hot water, a little salt, about twenty minutes. Drain and press; then chop very fine and return to the fire with a good lump of butter, salt, pepper, sugar, a few tablespoonfuls of cream, and beat to a smooth mixture like custard. Pour into a deep dish and serve.