Drain off most of the liquid from a can of tomatoes into the boiling soup-kettle. Put a layer of crumbs in the bottom of a buttered bake-dish; butter them, and lay in the tomatoes, seasoned with pepper, salt, and sugar. Cover with buttered crumbs, and bake, covered, half an hour—then brown.
Baked Onions.
Cook in two waters—the second, salted and boiling. When tender, drain; set closely together in a bake-dish. Pepper, salt, and butter liberally; pour over them a little of your soup-stock, strained through a cloth; brown in a good oven; lay in a deep dish, and pour over them the gravy thickened with browned flour, and cooked one minute.
Suet Dumplings.
2 cups fine crumbs soaked in a cup of hot milk; 1 cup powdered suet; 4 beaten eggs; 1 tablespoonful of sugar; 1 teaspoonful cream-tartar mixed with 1 tablespoonful of flour; ½ teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the milk; a little salt.
Beat the eggs into the soaked crumbs; add salt, suet, sugar, lastly, the flour. Beat and knead hard, make into balls; put into floured cloths; leave room to swell; tie tightly, and boil one hour. Eat hot, with sauce.
Fourth Week. Sunday.
Macaroni Soup.
Skim your stock; pour off and strain two quarts; heat to a slow boil; add a tablespoonful of walnut catsup; skim well, and drop in half a cupful of fancy macaroni, which has been cooked ten minutes in a little boiling water. Simmer five minutes, and serve.