Put on in enough boiling water to cover it. Salt slightly; stew half an hour; turn off most of the water, and put in as much cold milk. Heat to boiling; stir in a good lump of butter rolled in flour; pepper and salt; simmer ten minutes, and pour out.
Potatoes à la Parisienne.
Pare, and cut into small balls with your potato-gouge. (The scraps should be boiled and mashed.) Boil in hot salted water, until tender; drain, and drop into a saucepan containing a cupful of drawn butter seasoned with pepper and parsley. Stew three minutes.
Spinach.
Pick off the leaves, and boil in plenty of hot salted water. Drain; chop upon a board, or in a tray; put into a saucepan, with a tablespoonful of butter, a little sugar, pepper and salt, nutmeg, and a few spoonfuls of milk or cream. Stir, and heat until bubbling hot; pour out upon small squares of fried bread.
Baked Apple Dumplings.
1 quart of prepared flour; 2 tablespoonfuls of lard, and 1 of butter; 1 saltspoonful of salt; 2 cups of milk.
Mix into a paste, rubbing shortening and salt into the flour, then wetting with the milk. Roll out less than half an inch thick; cut into squares; lay a pared and cored apple in the centre of each; bring the corners together, and join neatly. Lay in a buttered baking-pan, the joined edges down, and bake to a nice brown. Glaze with white of egg just before you take them up. Sift powdered sugar over them, and eat with hot, sweet sauce.
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