Busy day in the kitchen and dinner
must stand back and make itself small.
Fruit is very abundantand cheap and the
hostess and that one of her hired girls
that has the biggest arms are twisting and
squeezing currants and raspberries in
strong towels expressing the juice to boil
down with equal weight of sugar to make
jelly. It is a pressing business which
makes the girl red in the face, as pressing
might be expected to do, and the land-
lady herself has her lips c^'jiously set as
she says she is "afraid somebody will be
very much annoyed by their putting up
fruit in the kitcken, but — ."
I don't know what the final but, was in-
tended to mean, unless it was :
"But when she will she will, jru may
depend on*t.
And when she won't she won't, and
there's an end on't."
However, the landlady is very kindly
disposed and interested, as this is Mr,
Farewell's birthday, and a little supper is
in preparation to celebrate the anniver-
sary. The cakes are already ornamented
with initials and dates on them as large
as life and wreathed with roses, but care-
fully hidden away to guard against spring-
ing the surprise too soon. The chickens
are already boiling for salad, £.nd the
manager went to the depot this time un-
der heavy injunctions not to forget the
lemons. Mrs. Farewell also, made
a special request of me that the frosting
on the cakes be of such a nature that it
can be sliced evenly with the cake itself,
whether the slices be thick or thin ; not
break off in the annoying way of their
town confectioner's cakes as soon as the
cake is cut. Requests like these are im-
perial orders and must be obeyed, and —
"Our praises are our wages.* — (Shakes-
peare.)
But, Mary! It is time now to set your
preserving kettle away off the stove until
after dinner; it would break my heart to
see you all starving to death at one
o'clock precisely.
Dinner.
Soup— Scotchf barley broth (6 qts, 20-
cents.)
73
COOKING FOR PROFIT,
Trout a la Bechamel (No. 684; 4 lbs
gross, and sauce, 42 cents.)
Boiled corned beef and cabbage (i lb,
beef, 10 cents.)
Roast beef (not in demand, some from
previous day enough.)
Spring lamb (4 lbs, net, 48 cents.)
Stuffed shoulder mutton (No. 686 ;3 lbs,
net, boned, and stuffing, 35 cents.)
Macaroni and tomatoes, Italienne (No.
65 ; V2 lb, macaroni, y^ can tomato, 2
ozs, cheese, etc., 14 cents for about 14
orders.)
Summer beets in sauce (5 beets and
sauce, 6 cents.)
Cabbage (2 heads, 10 cents.)
Onions in cream (5 cents.)
Potatoes browned, mashed (8 cents.)
Baked corn starch pudding, red cherry
syrup for sauce (No. 689; 24 cents.)
Raspberry pie, apple pie (used canned
apples, 3 pies, 30 cents.)
Vanilla ice cream (3 pts, cream, etc.,
40 cents.)
Angel food cake (No. 2 ; doubled, 25
cents.)
Nuts, raisins, cheese, crackers, condi-
ments, pickles 35.
Butter 10, milk 24, cream 10, coffee,
tea, sugar 16.
Total, $4 \2\ 34 persons; about 12
cents a plate.
683— Scotch Barley Broth.
mel ; because that is the name of the
sauce, it is always a cream-white dish. ✪ Trout a la Bechamel
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Busy day in the kitchen and dinner must stand back and make itself small. Fruit is very abundantand cheap and the hostess and that one of her hired girls that has the biggest arms are twisting and squeezing currants and raspberries in strong towels expressing the juice to boil down with equal weight of sugar to make jelly. It is a pressing business which makes the girl red in the face, as pressing might be expected to do, and the landlady herself has her lips curiously set as she says she is "afraid somebody will be very much annoyed by their putting up fruit in the kitcken, but — ."
I don't know what the final but, was intended to mean, unless it was :
"But when she will she will, you may
depend on*t. And when she won't she won't, and
there's an end on't." However, the landlady is very kindly disposed and interested, as this is Mr, Farewell's birthday, and a little supper is in preparation to celebrate the anniversary. The cakes are already ornamented with initials and dates on them as large as life and wreathed with roses, but carefully hidden away to guard against springing the surprise too soon. The chickens are already boiling for salad, £.nd the manager went to the depot this time under heavy injunctions not to forget the lemons. Mrs. Farewell also, made a special request of me that the frosting on the cakes be of such a nature that it can be sliced evenly with the cake itself, whether the slices be thick or thin; not break off in the annoying way of their town confectioner's cakes as soon as the cake is cut. Requests like these are imperial orders and must be obeyed, and — "Our praises are our wages." — (Shakespeare.)
But, Mary! It is time now to set your preserving kettle away off the stove until after dinner; it would break my heart to see you all starving to death at one o'clock precisely.
Dinner.
Soup— Scotch barley broth (6 qts, 20- cents.)
Trout a la Bechamel (No. 684; 4 lbs gross, and sauce, 42 cents.)
Boiled corned beef and cabbage (i lb, beef, 10 cents.)
Roast beef (not in demand, some from previous day enough.)
Spring lamb (4 lbs, net, 48 cents.)
Stuffed shoulder mutton (No. 686 ;3 lbs, net, boned, and stuffing, 35 cents.)
Macaroni and tomatoes, Italienne (No. 65 ; V2 lb, macaroni, y^ can tomato, 2 ozs, cheese, etc., 14 cents for about 14 orders.)
Summer beets in sauce (5 beets and sauce, 6 cents.)
Cabbage (2 heads, 10 cents.)
Onions in cream (5 cents.)
Potatoes browned, mashed (8 cents.)
Baked corn starch pudding, red cherry syrup for sauce (No. 689; 24 cents.)
Raspberry pie, apple pie (used canned apples, 3 pies, 30 cents.)
Vanilla ice cream (3 pts, cream, etc., 40 cents.)
Angel food cake (No. 2 ; doubled, 25 cents.)
Nuts, raisins, cheese, crackers, condiments, pickles 35.
Butter 10, milk 24, cream 10, coffee, tea, sugar 16.
Total, $4.12 34 persons; about 12 cents a plate.
683— Scotch Barley Broth.
mel ; because that is the name of the sauce, it is always a cream-white dish.
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