Chopped Potatoes.
Chop coarsely cold boiled potatoes. Have ready in a saucepan a little good dripping, well flavored. As it heats, put in the potatoes, and stir until smoking hot all through.
Watermelons and Pears.
Keep the watermelons on ice for some hours before you send them to table. Lay upon a large flat dish, and serve the pears in a fruit-dish or basket.
Fourth Week. Tuesday.
Farina Soup.
2 lbs. of lean coarse beef; 2 lbs. of mutton-bones; 1 onion; 1 grated carrot, and 1 grated turnip; bunch of herbs; pepper and salt; ½ cup of farina, soaked two hours in a cup of milk; 3 qts. of water.
Crack the bones and chop the meat and onion. Put these on with the other vegetables, the herbs, and water, and boil slowly three or four hours. Strain, cool, skim and season. Put in the farina with a pinch of soda, and simmer half an hour.