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1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Macaroni with Cheese. — Break one-quarter of a pound of macaroni in three-inch pieces, and put into three pints of boiling salted water. Boil twenty minutes, or until soft. Drain in a coU ander, and pour cold water through it to cleanse and keep it from sticking. Cut into inch pieces. Put in a shallow baking-dish and cover with a white sauce, made with a cup and a half of hot milk, one tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour, cooked according to directions for white sauce, (See Jan. q.) Use half a cup of grated dry cheese. Put part of it with the sauce and mix the remainder with fine cracker crumbs, anMacaroni with Cheesed sprinkle over the top. Put a few small lumps of butter on, and bake till the crumbs are brown. WEDNESDAY, JAN. Breakfast.— Hominy, with Cream ; Salt Fish Balls; Hot Rolls ; Coffee. Dinner.— Corned Beef; Cabbage; Boiled White Potatoes; Bread and Butter ; Steamed Pudding. 5apper.— Cold Sliced Corned Beef ; Bread and Butter ; Hot Baked Apples ; Cake ; Tea. CoRSRD Beef. — Select a piece of beef which has a fair pro- portion of fat. If very salt, soak in cold watar half an hourCorned Beef. Put on to boil in fresh, cold water enough to cover it. Skim care- fully when it begins to boil and cook slowly, simmering (not boiling) until very tender. THURSDAY, JAN. Brealcfast. — Oatmeal and Cream; Boiled Eggs; Warmed Potatoes ; Bread, Butter and Coffee. Dinner.- Broiled Beef Steak; Baked White and Sweet Potatoes; Celery ; Bread and Butter ; Apples; Salted Peanuts. Supper. — Creamed White Potatoes. Graham Bread; Butter; Canned Peaches ; Currant Cake ; Tea. Salted Peanits. — Cover one pint of roasted and shelled pea- nuts with boiling water. Let them stand for five minutes, then pour off the hot water. Cover the nuts with cold water and rub off the thin, brown skins. Put the peanuts in a warm bowl and .«tir in two tatilespoonfuls of salt and two of melted butterSalted Peanuts. Place the bow! in a place warm enough to keep the butter liquid for one hour. At the end of that time drain all the liquid from the nuts and spread them in a clean, shallow pan. Cook them in a moder- ate oven for about twenty minutes. They should be brown and crisp at the end of that time. FRIDAY, JAN. 20 Breakfast.— Oranges ; Corned Beef Hash ; Toast ; Butter ; Coffee. Dinner.- Baked Haddock ; Boiled White Potatoes ; Fried Pars- nips ; Bread and Butter -Bread Pudding. Supper.— Creamed Fish ; Bread and Butter : Apple Sauce ; Cake; Tea. Baked Haddock. — Stuff the fish with one cup cracker crumbs, one saltspoonful salt, one saltspoonful pepper, one tea- spoonful chopped onion, one teaspoonful chopped parsley, one- fourth cup melted butteBaked Haddockr. Put two or three shoes of fat salt pork over and near the fish ; dust with flour ; baste often. Bake till brown. SATURDAY, JAN. 21 Breakfast. — Oatmeal and Cream; Broiled Salt Mack- erel; Warmed Potatoes; Bread and Butter; Coffee. Dinner. — Tomato or Mock Bisque Soup and Crackers ; Pork Chops • Mashed White Potatoes ; Turnips ; Baked Apple Dumplings. 5upper. — Baked Beans ; Boston Brown Bread ; Cut up Oranges ; Plain Cake ; Tea.