25 pounds of round of beef
6 sweet peppers, or
1 can of Spanish pimentos
12 sweet turnips
1/2 bottle of Worcestershire sauce
1 cupful of flour
1 pound of suet
10 large onions
3 gallon cans of peas
12 carrots
1 jar of beef extract
4 tablespoonfuls of salt
4 tablespoonfuls of cornstarch
1/4 pound of butter
Put the suet into a large kettle or in two smaller ones; try it out and remove the crackling. Add to the hot fat the onions and peppers chopped fine. Shake until they are well cooked and slightly browned. Add the meat cut into cubes of one inch, cover the kettles and cook a half hour, stirring now and then. Dissolve the beef extract in three gallons of hot water, pour it over the meat, and simmer for two hours. Add the carrots and turnips cut into dice, and more water if necessary, and cook one hour longer. Add the flour and cornstarch moistened in cold water, and all the seasonings. Stir and boil ten minutes, add the peas, drained, and serve. This is nice garnished with small hot milk biscuits. Taste before serving it, to see if you have added sufficient salt.
VEAL ROLL
4 pounds of lean veal
3 shredded wheat biscuits
1 teaspoonful of salt
1/2 teaspoonful of sage
1/2 pound of lean ham
2 eggs
1 tablespoonful of parsley
1 saltspoonful of pepper
Put the veal and ham through a meat chopper, add all the seasonings, and the biscuits rubbed fine. Mix thoroughly, add the egg slightly beaten, mix again, and form into a roll three inches in diameter. Roll in oiled paper, place in a baking pan, cover the bottom of the pan with hot water, add a slice of onion, and, if you have it, a little chopped celery tops. Bake slowly one and a half hours, basting over the paper every fifteen minutes. When done, remove the paper, and put in a cold place. Serve in thin slices with tomato jelly salad.
This will cost about one dollar and will serve eighteen persons.
MAN-OF-WAR SALAD
For twenty-five persons, chop sufficient hard white cabbage to make two quarts. Cover it with cold water, let it soak for an hour, and then wash it through several cold waters, and dry it in a towel. Cover three boxes of gelatin with a pint of cold water to soak a half hour. Open three cans of tomatoes, put them in a saucepan with four chopped onions, a cupful of chopped celery tops, if you have them, bring to a boil, add the juice of a lemon, a level tablespoonful of salt, ten drops of Tabasco sauce, the juice of a lemon, or two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, and the gelatin. Stir a moment, and press through a sieve. Dip bread pans or melon molds in cold water, put in a layer of cabbage, then a very thin layer of Indian relish, then cabbage, and so continue until the molds are filled. Pour over the tomato jelly, cold, and stand aside over night. Serve in slices with cooked or French dressing.
COOKED DRESSING
Put a pint of milk over the fire in a double boiler, add three level tablespoonfuls of cornstarch moistened in a little cold milk. Cook until thick and smooth. Take from the fire, add the beaten yolks of four eggs, and work in slowly two tablespoonfuls of butter. Add a teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper. When cool add the juice of a lemon or four tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Fold in carefully the well-beaten whites of the eggs, and stand aside until very cold.