Should there be more gravy than you need, set it away carefully. Each day brings forth a need for such.
Crab-apple Jelly
Is a pleasing sauce for roast fowls.
Stewed Celery.
Select the best blanched stalks, and lay aside in cold water. Stew three or four stalks of the coarser parts, minced, with a small onion, a few sprigs of parsley, also chopped, and a bone of ham, or other meat. Stew for an hour in enough water to cover them; strain, pressing hard. Cut the choicer celery into pieces two inches long; pour over them the “stock” from the strainer, season with pepper, and, if needed, salt. Stew until very tender. Stir in a good tablespoonful of butter, and a little corn-starch, wet up in cold water. Simmer gently three minutes, and dish.
Fried Salsify.
Scrape and lay in cold water ten minutes. Boil tender, drain, and when cold, mash with a wooden spoon, picking out the fibrous parts. Wet to a paste with milk, work in a little butter, and an egg and a half for each cupful of salsify. Beat the eggs very light. Season to taste, make into round, flat cakes, dredge with flour, and fry to a light brown. Drain off the fat, and serve hot.
Margherita Lemon Custard.
- 5 eggs.
- 1 quart of milk.
- Half the grated peel of a lemon.
- 5 tablespoonfuls of white sugar.
Beat the whites of two eggs and the yolks of five very light; add the sugar and pour over these the milk, scalding hot. Lastly, put in the grated peel, pour into a buttered pudding-dish, and set in a pan of hot water. Put both into the oven, and bake the custard until it is well “set.” Then spread with a méringue made of the reserved whites beaten stiff with a little powdered sugar. Shut the oven door, and cook the méringue until slightly tinged with yellow-brown. Eat cold.