Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every ..

HAVE the marrow bones cut in lengths of two or three inches, wash and wipe the bones, covering the ends with a stiflf dough of flour and water. Fasten the bones in a piece of cloth, put in a sauce-pan with enough boiling water to cover them and boil for an hour; then remove both cloth and dough. They may be served simply as they are, with pieces of buttered toast, or may have the marrow removed and spread on hot toast. A still better* way for the marrow lover is to spread it on steak, especially tenderloin, and always very hot. JUNE 8th "Pineapple is great. She is indeed almost too transcendent — a delight, if not sinful, yet so like to sinning, that really a tender conscenced person would do well to pause." — Charles Lamb. TO one pound of sugar add three pints of boiling water and cook for half an hour. Pare a fine pineapple (the yellow ones are best), and grate it, or, better still, tear from the core with a silver fork. Add four tablespoonfuls of lemon- juice and the pulp of an orange. When the boiled syrup is cool, pour into it the pineapple and orange and pack away in ice for two or three hours. When ready to serve pour in a glass of sherry or Madeira and a few strawberries or stoned cherries, if in season. Put into a punch-bowl with a block of ice. JUNE 9TH "I quitted the 'Rose Cottage Hotel' with deep regret, believing that I should see nothing so pleasant as its gardens and its veal-cutlets and its dear little bowling green, elsewhere." — Thackeray. VEAL cutlets fried with a gravy are certainly not a very wholesome dish, despite the fact that they are undeniably appetizing. The following recipe gives perhaps the most delicate way known of preparing this indigestible meat. Cut the slices about three-quarters of an inch thick. Dip them first in egg and then in breadcrumbs seasoned with salt, pepper and chopped parsley. Broil them over a clear fire and serve with butter and catsup. JUNE lOTH "And, upon my word, the very thing my soul was longing for — a cup of coffee!" — Mrs. Humphry Ward ("Lady Rose's Daughter"). THE difficulty of getting a good cup of coffee when traveling is sometimes great, and it may be avoided by carrying a bottle of percolated coffee in one's outfit. Put one pound of pulverized coffee in a glass chemist's funnel, the smaller end of which has been stopped with absorbent cotton. The coffee must first be moistened with a cupful of water stirred thoroughly through it. After putting the coffee in the funnel pour over it one quart and half a pint of cold water. Set the funnel over a jar and let the water percolate through the coffee. The extract obtained will make strong coffee used in the proportion of five teaspoon- fuls to a coffee cupful of boiling water. Add the coffee to the water, not the water to the coffee. In a cool place this will keep a fortnight without difficulty. JUNE iiTH ''"When you are tired of eating strawberries in the garden, there shall be cold meat in the house." — Jane Austen ("Emma"). STRAWBERRIES from the garden should be served on their own leaves, dusted with powdered sugar, and each delightful little heap crowned with whipped cream. To preserve them in a way to keep their garden flavor, stew one-quarter of them, squeeze the juice through a bag as for jelly, cook the remainder of the terries in this juice, to which sugar enough to make a rich syrup has been added. JUNE I2TH ''"Greens, oddly bruised, formed the accompanying vegetable." — Charlotte Brontë ("Shirley"). BEET-TOP greens mixed with dandelion greens are delicious in the Spring of the year. They should be carefully washed and boiled