Onions

Cover the onions with boiling water and allow them to boil five minutes. Drain them, add fresh hot water and heat to the boiling point. Cook in the Caloric one hour. When ready to serve, drain and cover with hot milk seasoned with salt, pepper and butter.

Plain Macaroni

Boil in the Caloric, forty minutes, one-half pound of broken macaroni in water with one-half tea-spoonful of salt. Drain. Thicken two cupfuls of milk with flour and season with butter, pepper, salt and paprika. Pour this over the macaroni and bake in the Caloric two and one-half hours, using two radiators.

Potatoes In Butter

Pare ten or twelve potatoes and cut them into dice or slices. Brown a piece of butter in a basin and put the potatoes into it. Add salt and cook the potatoes five minutes, turning them often. Place the basin in the Caloric rack and bake thirty minutes, using two radiators.

Potatoes With Fried Sausage

Pare and slice the potatoes and fry the sausages quickly. Heat some butter and put a layer of potatoes into it. Then add some of the fried sausages and repeat, using potatoes on the top. Add butter to each layer and season each with salt and pepper. Cook in a covered kettle in the Caloric one and one-fourth to one and one-half hours. Serve with sauerkraut.

Potatoes With Ham

Prepare the potatoes as in the recipe for potatoes with parsley, using small pieces of smoked ham instead of fried sausage.

Potatoes With Parsley

Pare ten or twelve large potatoes. Slice them thickly and divide the slices into long, narrow pieces. Heat one and one-half tablespoonfuls of butter. Add the potatoes with salt and one tablespoonful of chopped pars-ley. Stir the potatoes and cook them for a few minutes. Then remove, in a covered kettle, to the Caloric and cook forty-five minutes.

Potato Stew-Fry three slices of lean and fat salt pork in a kettle. Add a sliced onion and when it browns add one quart of potatoes thickly sliced and enough boiling water to cover them. Cook in the Caloric two hours. When ready to serve, season with butter, pepper, paprika and one cupful of cream. Set over a flame for a few minutes to reheat.

Sauerkraut

One quart of sauerkraut and two pounds of fresh pork. Cut the pork in slices and mix with the sauerkraut in a Caloric kettle. Cover with boiling water and boil ten minutes. Remove, in a covered kettle, to the Caloric for six or eight hours, using one radiator. A little salt should be added, before cooking, if needed. Drain, and serve on a hot platter.

Sliced Potatoes With Bacon

Pare the potatoes and cut them into slices. Fry a piece of bacon in a little lard until it is light yellow. Add the potatoes with a little salt and fry them for a few minutes, without turning them. Cook in a covered kettle in the Caloric one hour.

Stewed Pumpkin

Wash and cut up the pumpkin without paring it. Place it in a Caloric kettle without adding any water. Cook two hours, using two radiators. When done, press through a colander.