Baked Mutton Chops.
3 lbs. of mutton chops; 5 fine potatoes; 1 onion; 1 kidney; 1 pint of oyster-liquor; pepper, salt, and parsley; 1 tablespoonful of butter.
Lay one-third of the chops—rid of all the fat and skin—in a baking-dish; cover with potatoes and onions, sliced very thin; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Put on another layer of chops, more potatoes and onions, then the sliced kidney. Cover with potatoes; season; put in the rest of the chops; cover with onion and potatoes. Pour in the oyster-liquor and melted butter, with parsley, pepper, and salt. Cover very closely, and bake in a moderate oven three hours. Turn out upon a heated flat dish.
Macaroni Pudding.
Break half a pound of macaroni into short pieces, and boil twenty minutes in hot, salted water. Drain; add two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, the minced remains of yesterday’s game, or some other cold meat, a little chopped ham, and four beaten eggs. Mix all well, wetting with a little soup-stock—adding, finally, a cup of milk, in which has been stirred a pinch of soda. Pour into a greased mould, and boil one hour. Turn out, and serve with a gravy made of cold gravy left from yesterday, mixed with a little hot stock, strained, thickened, and boiled for one minute.
Winter Squash.
Pare, cut up, and cook soft in boiling water, a little salt. Drain; mash smooth, pressing out all the water; work in butter, pepper, and salt, and mound in a deep dish.
Cold Slaw.
Shred a firm cabbage, and pour over it a dressing made in these proportions: One teaspoonful of sugar, half as much salt, pepper, and made mustard, rubbed smooth in two tablespoonfuls of oil, and then beaten up very gradually with five tablespoonfuls of vinegar, and a teaspoonful Colgate’s essence of celery.