Tomatoes Stuffed with Corn.
Set large, smooth tomatoes in a greased pudding-dish. Cut a slice from the top of each. Scoop out the seeds, leaving the walls thickly lined with pulp. Have ready a cupful of corn grated from the cob, and seasoned with butter, pepper, and salt. Fill the tomatoes with this; put on the upper slices, and pour a little gravy over all. Bake, covered, in a moderate oven, one hour. Serve in the dish.
Cream Peach Pie.
Make as directed in Saturday, Fourth Week in August; but lay the upper crust on lightly, slightly buttering the lower at the point of contact. When the pie is done, lift the cover and pour in a cream made thus: 1 cup (small) of rich milk, heated; whites of 2 eggs, whipped and stirred into the milk; 1 tablespoonful of sugar; ½ teaspoonful of corn-starch wet up in milk. Boil three minutes. The cream must be cold when it goes into the hot pie. Replace the crust, and set by to cool. Eat fresh.
Third Week. Sunday.
Rice and Tomato Soup.
Skim the soup in your stock-pot. Strain from the meat and bones; heat and add a pint of tomatoes, stewed, strained, and seasoned, and a cup of boiled rice with the cup of water in which it has been cooked. Season to taste; simmer fifteen or twenty minutes after it begins to boil, and turn out.
Boiled Chickens and Tongue.
Tie the stuffed and trussed chickens in netting, fitted to their shape, and cook in plenty of boiling water, a little salt. An hour and a quarter should suffice, if the fowls are tender. Soak a tongue over night. In the morning, wash it well and boil eighteen minutes to the pound. Trim and skin it. Lay in the middle of the dish, with a chicken on each side, and pour over them drawn butter, based upon a cupful of the liquor in which the chickens were boiled, mixed with a little minced parsley. Save the rest of the liquor.