Work the hominy smooth with the butter; beat in the eggs with a wooden spoon; salt, and make into long balls, with floured hands. Flatten at the ends, roll in flour, and fry to a golden brown in lard or dripping. Drain, and pile upon a flat dish.
Cauliflower.
Boil a fine cauliflower in hot salted water. Drain, put into a deep dish, blossom upward, and pour over it a cup of rich drawn butter, with the juice of half a lemon stirred in.
Claret Jelly.
1 package Coxe’s gelatine, soaked one hour in a large cup of water; 2 cups of sugar; 2 cups of claret; 1 pint of boiling water; juice of 1 lemon; a pinch of mace.
Put gelatine, lemon, sugar, and mace together, and cover half an hour. Pour on the boiling water; stir until the gelatine is melted, and strain through a flannel bag. Add the wine, and strain through double flannel into a wet mould. Set in ice.
Mrs. M.’s Sponge-Cake.
See “General Receipts No. 1, Common Sense in the Household Series,” page 326.
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