Pare, slice, and stew twenty minutes. Season with pepper, salt, sugar, a lump of butter rolled in flour; put in a tablespoonful of fine bread-crumbs, and simmer ten minutes longer.
Tapioca Pudding.
1 cup tapioca, soaked six hours in a little cold water; 1 quart of milk; 1 large cup of sugar; 5 eggs; grated peel of ½ lemon; a little salt.
Scald the milk, and pour upon the yolks and sugar; beat the soaked tapioca into this custard; salt; whip in the frothed whites. Pour into a buttered mould; put on the top, and set in a pan of boiling water, and this into a moderate oven. Cook three-quarters of an hour, or until firm. Turn out carefully, and eat with sauce.
Third Week. Friday.
Clam Soup.
50 clams; 1 quart of milk; 1 pint of water; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; 12 whole peppers; a few bits of cayenne-pods; 6 blades of mace; salt to taste; 1 tablespoonful of corn-starch.
Cut the hard parts from the clams, and set by the soft portions. Put the hard bits into the soup-pot, with the clam-liquor, the water, and spices. Boil half an hour; strain, salt, and return to the fire, with the soft parts. When the soup begins to simmer, stir in the butter and corn-starch. Stew five minutes, and pour into the tureen. Stir in the boiling milk, and serve. Send oyster-crackers and sliced lemon around with it.