Mashed Turnips.
Pare, quarter, and cook tender, in boiling salted water. Mash in a colander, pressing hard. Stir in butter, pepper and salt, and turn into a deep dish.
Kidney Beans.
Shell; put on in boiling water with an inch or so of fat salt pork, and cook tender. Drain well, salt, pepper, and butter.
Southern Rice Pudding.
1 quart fresh, sweet milk; 1 cup of raw rice; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; 1 cup of sugar; 5 beaten eggs; 1 teaspoonful of grated lemon-peel; a pinch of cinnamon and same of mace.
Soak the rice in the milk two hours. Heat in a farina-kettle until the rice is soft. Cream butter and sugar; stir in the beaten eggs and whip hard. When the rice is lukewarm, put all together, and bake in a buttered mould about forty-five minutes. Eat warm with sauce, or cold with sugar and cream.
First Week. Wednesday.