Scrape, and boil whole forty-five minutes. Drain, and cut into round slices a quarter of an inch thick. Put on in a cupful of weak broth—a little of your soup will do—and cook gently half an hour. Then add three or four tablespoonfuls of milk, a lump of butter rolled in flour, with seasoning to taste. Boil up and dish.
Boiled Pudding.
3 cupfuls of flour; 2 cupfuls of sour milk; 1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water; ½ cupful powdered suet; a little salt.
Stir the milk gradually into the flour until a smooth batter is the result. Put in suet and salt; lastly, beat in the soda-water thoroughly and quickly. Pour into a buttered mould and boil one hour and a half. Turn out and eat hot with sauce.
Second Week. Sunday.
Tapioca Soup.
Take the fat from the top of your stock-pot, dip out as much as you need for to-day; add a large cupful of boiling water and strain into the soup-kettle. Bring to a boil, skim, and put in half a cup of grained tapioca, which has been soaked for two hours in a little water. Simmer until clear.
Roast Saddle of Mutton.
Lay in the dripping-pan, pour a large cup of boiling water over it, and roast twelve minutes to the pound, basting often. As it begins to brown, cover with white paper, lifting this when you baste the meat. Ten minutes before serving, take off the paper, dredge the mutton with flour; baste with butter, and brown. Skim the fat from the gravy; thicken with browned flour, season, and boil once, then serve in a boat. Pass currant jelly with the mutton.