Canned French Beans.
Clip the beans into short and equal lengths. Put into a saucepan, cover with hot salted water, and stew half an hour. Drain, stir in a lump of butter, with pepper and salt, and dish.
Flour Hasty Pudding.
Heat to boiling a quart of milk. Salt, and stir in three tablespoonfuls of flour, rubbed smooth in a little cold milk. Boil and stir fifteen minutes, and add a tablespoonful of butter. Cook two minutes; turn into an uncovered deep dish, and eat with butter and sugar, or cream and sugar. Sprinkle each saucerful with nutmeg.
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Cauliflower Soup.
Skim your soup-stock. Heat and boil it for ten minutes. Strain off two quarts, and return the rest to the stock-jar. Parboil a small cauliflower; clip it into small clusters, and drop into the soup when you have brought it again to a boil. Cook slowly fifteen minutes. Stir in a tablespoonful of butter cut up in half as much flour. Season to taste; boil up fairly, and serve.
Pork Chops, with Tomato Gravy.
Trim off skin and fat; rub all over with a mixture of powdered sage and onion. Put a small piece of butter into a frying-pan; put in the chops, and cook rather slowly, as they should be well done. Lay the chops upon a hot dish; add a little hot water to the gravy in the pan; a great spoonful of butter rolled in flour; pepper, salt, and sugar, and half a cup of juice drained from a can of tomatoes—keeping the tomatoes themselves for a tomato omelette for breakfast. Stew five minutes, and pour over the chops.