Second Week. Monday.
Vermicelli Soup.
Add the remains of yesterday’s soup to what remains in your stock-pot. Dilute with a little boiling water, and heat all to a boil. Strain out the ox-tails, etc., which have done such good service. Although it is Monday, make time to put them into a pot, by and by, with the skeletons of yesterday’s chickens. Cover them with the skimmed liquor in which the corned beef was cooked on Saturday, and warm slowly to a boil, then, put back into the stock-pot for to-morrow’s soup. As to to-day’s soup, add seasoning to taste; boil up and skim, and, ten minutes before serving, drop in a handful of vermicelli, broken small, and cooked ten minutes in boiling water. Boil up once and serve.
Mutton Chops.
Trim off fat and skin; leave a bare piece of bone at the top of each; broil over or under a bright fire; salt, pepper, and butter each one, and lay upon a hot dish, the large end of each overlapping the small end of that beyond it.
Baked Sweet Potatoes.
Wash, and lay in a moderate oven. When they are soft between the fingers, they are done. Serve in the skins.
Tomato Sauce.
Pare, slice, and stew twenty minutes. Then season with pepper, salt, and sugar; stir in a good lump of butter rolled in flour; simmer ten minutes, and serve.