Savory Bread Pudding.
Soak two cups of bread-crumbs in a cupful of yesterday’s gravy, diluted with a little of your soup-stock. Add a cup of boiling milk, in which a pinch of soda has been stirred; beat to a smooth batter; add half a cupful of minced cold meat, three eggs, pepper, and salt. Pour into a buttered bake-dish, after beating all up light, and bake in a quick oven. Serve in the dish, and pass a little good gravy, or drawn butter, with it.
Bean Salad.
Put cold beans left from yesterday into a salad-bowl, and pour over it such a dressing as you prepared for Cold Slaw, on Monday, First Week in November.
Stewed Apples, Cream, and Cake.
Pare and core juicy pippins. Put a cupful of water, and one of sugar, into a bake-dish. Lay in the pippins; cover, and cook slowly until clear and tender. They should be turned once while cooking. Set away, still covered, in the bake-dish, to cool, on Saturday. On Monday, put them into a glass dish, and send cream and cake to table with them.
Second Week. Tuesday.
Mutton and Oyster Soup.
Crack the bone of your cold mutton, and chop the refuse bits left from the roast. Put on in two quarts of water, and boil down to one. Strain, cool, skim, and add to it a quart of stock. If no liquor is left in the stock-pot for this purpose, add two quarts of water to the meat, bones, etc., in the bottom, and boil down to one; then strain. Heat the two quarts of broth to boiling; add two dozen oysters, with their liquor; season with pepper, salt, and a little mace. Boil one minute. Stir in a great spoonful of butter rubbed in flour; simmer, and stir two minutes, and pour out.