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6 heaped cups of cake crumbs and icing. 6 eggs. 1^4 cups milk. y^ cup brandy. I lemon. Mix eggs and milk together, stir in the cake crumbs, add the grated rind of the lemon and the juice, stir up and bake covered with buttered paper to prevent blistering. Cost; cake 2 lb 10, eggs 8, milk 3, lemon 2, brandy 6; 29 cents for 2 quarts . Serve with sauce sabayon or transparent . 770— Delicate Cake. One of the very best white cakes. 2 cups granulated sugar — i pound light weight. 2 cups white butter — ^ pound. 13 whites of eggs — ^ pound. 2 cups corn starch. ^ ^^^. ^^r,^, 2 cups flour. } ' P"""'^ together. I teaspoon cream tartar. I teaspoon baking powder. Flavoring extract or little brandy if wished, but not essential; J^ cup milk. Sift the cream tartar and baking powder in the mixed starch and flour. Soften the butter and stir it and the sugar together to a cream ; add the whites a little at a time, without previous beating, then the flour and starch and beat well ; and at last beat in the milk. Bake either in moulds or in jelly cake pans. If lemons are at hand the juice of one may be used instead of cream tartar; but use no soda in white cakes. Dinner July 27. Soup — cream a la duchesse (8 qts 45 cents). Scalloped salmon, frizzed potatoes (fish, charged previous days, say, 20 cents). Boiled corned tongue (2^ lbs, 28 cents). Corned beef and cabbage (i lb, and cabbage 16 cents). Roast beef, (2 ribs, 3 lbs net, 39 cents). Spring lamb (side, 7 lbs net, 80 cents). Roast mutton (for second table, 4 lbs, 48 cents). ^ Grenadins of veal, sauce Napolitaine (8 orders, i lb select and sauce 24 cents). Brochettes of kidney, sauce claremont (4 orders, 10 cents). Mashed turnips 4, hot slaw g, green peas 15, stewed tomatoes 15, potatoes two days 15 (57 cents). Steamed pound pudding, wine sauce (2 lbs and sauce, 28 cents). Apple tarts (24 tarts, to cents). Boston cream puffs (No. 288; 32 puffs half size, 36 cents). Sultana cake and pound cake (15 cents). Vanilla ice cream (254 qts pure cream, sugar, etc., 70 cents). Nuts, raisins, cheese, crackers, pickles, condiments (48 cents). Milk 36, cream 20, butter 20, bread 12 (88 cents). Coffee 10, tea 3, sugar 4 (17 cents). Total ^6 99; 48 persons; 14^ cents a plate . 771— Cream Soup, a la Duchesse. A rich white soft soup like cream of chicken with egg custards. Boil either a chicken or white veal in the stock until quite tender; chop in the meat and pound it in a mortar. Boil a cup of rice and when done and drained pound it also with the meat and pass through a sieve. Use 4 or 5 quarts of seasoned stock, 2 or 3 quarts rich milk and the puree of chicken and rice to thicken. Beat 4 eggs slightly, season with nutmeg, salt and pepper; put in a deep pan and cook either in steamer or in pan of water in the oven. Cut out cork shapes of custard with a column cutter and put in the soup just before serving. Scalloped Salmon, Plain cr au Vin.