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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.
Fish Chowder. — Three or four pounds fresh haddock carefully cleaned and cut in pieces three inches square. Place in bottom of kettle five or six slices salt pork, fry brown, then add three onions sliced thin, fry them brown. Remove from the fire and place on the pork and onions, a layer of fish, sprinkle with pepper and salt then a layer of peeled sliced potatoes, then fish and potatoes till fish is used up. Cover with water and let boil for half an hour. Roll six crackers, put in with fish and lastly add a pint or more of milkFish Chowder. Let it get thoroughly heated and serve. SATURDAY, FEB. 4 Breakfast. — California Breakfast Food with Cream. VVarmed over Fish Chowder. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner. — Broiled Beef Steak. Squash. White Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Hot Apple Pie with Cheese. Supper.- Baked Beans. Boston Brown Bread. Canned Fruit. Cake. Rule Fok Wh[te Bread. — i pint milk, scalded and cooled, i tablespoonful of lard, melted in the hot milk, i tablespoonful sugar, I teaspoonful salt, J^ yeast cake dissolved in ^ cup luke warm water, 6 or 7 cups flourRule for White Bread. After scalding the milk, add lard, sugar, and salt. When luke warm, add yeast, and then stir in the flour, being careful not to make it too stiff, use just enough to knead it. Knead till smooth and elastic. Cover, let it rise till light cut it down, divide into four parts, shape into loaves or biscuits. Let it rise again in the pans. Bake forty or fifty minutes. SUNDAY, FEB. Little Pigs in Breakfast.— Wheat Germ with Cream. Bhinkets. Hot Buttered Toast. Coffee. ■^^' Dinner.— Boiled Leg of Mutton with Caper Sauce. Mashed White Potatoe. Turnip. Celery. Bread and Butter. Mince Pie. ("heese. Supper. — Cold Meat Sliced Thin. Crackers. Cheese. Stewed Apricots. Delicate Cake. Tea, Little Pics in Blankets.— Take as many large oysters as are wished, wash and dry them thoroughly with a clean towel. Have some fat bacon, cut in very thin slices, cover each oyster with them and pin on with wooden tooth-picksLittle Pigs in Blankets. Broil or roast them until the bacon is crisp and brown. Do not remove tooth-picks. Serve hot. MONDAY. FEB. 6 Breakfast.— Oatmeal with Cream. Buckwheat Cakes with Maple Syrup. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner. — Meat Pie, (made of cold mutton) Baked Sweet Potatoes. <.'.inned Tomatoes. Bread and Butter. Rice Pudding. Supper.— Milk Toast. Hot Baked Apples. Bread and Butter. Lrtke. Tea. Rice Pudding. — Take one teacup of rice, wash, pour boiling water over it and let it stand five minutes ; throw off, add a cup of sugar, a Utile nutmeg and two quarts of milkRice Pudding. Bake slowly about two hours, stirring occasionally until last half hour then brown. TUESDAY, FEB. Breakfa5t.— Oranges. Fried Sausages. Warmed Pota- ■ toes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. ^ Dinner.- Broiled Beef Steak. Turnips. White Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Baked Apple Dumplings. Supper.— Macaroni with Cheese. Bread and Butter. Chocolate. Canned Peaches. Cake. Baked Apple Dumplings