This section is from the book "The Dinner Year-Book", by Marion Harland. See also: Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats - A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners.
Casserole of Rice with Calf's Brains.
Young Turnips.
Green Pea Fritters.
Bananas, Oranges, Nuts, and Raisins.
Tea, Toasted Crackers, and Cheese.
As I stated, after writing out the receipt in full for this soup (see Wednesday - Third Week in March), I shall not repeat it in this volume. Please, therefore, refer to the minute directions then given, and follow them in preparing to-day's soup - only leaving out the brains in the force-meat. You may make enough soup for two days, keeping that for Friday upon the ice.
Select a piece not too salt. The brisket is a good cut for family use, when not too fat. Boil in plenty of hot water, allowing fifteen minutes per pound. Make a good cup of drawn butter, taking some of the beef-liquor - strained - as a base. Chop up a little parsley and half a pickled onion, and stir into the butter one minute before pouring it out into a sauce-boat. Save the liquor for Saturday. For directions for making drawn butter and other sauces, please consult "General Receipts," page 183.
Peel and quarter. Cook in boiling water, a little salted, about half an hour, or until tender. Drain, but do not mash. Pepper and salt, then butter, after dishing them,
Make a cupful of gravy from the bones and stuffing of yesterday's chickens. Cool and skim it. Soak a cup of rice two hours in two cups of cold water; drain this off; put the rice into a farina-kettle with the gravy, previously heated to a boil, and a cup of boiling water. Season with salt and pepper, and cook tender, shaking up once in a while, but not stirring. When the rice is nearly dry, make a rounded hillock of it in the middle of a dish; strew with grated cheese, and brown upon the upper grating of the oven.
Boil the calf's brains ten minutes; lay in cold water twice as long. Then dry well and beat up with an egg, pepper, salt, and a very little flour. Fry, by the spoonful, in hot fat, drain, and lay around the rice.
1 pint boiled green peas, mashed while hot, with pepper, butter, and salt. 2 beaten eggs. 1 cup of milk.
Less than 1/2 cup prepared flour.
Beat eggs, milk, and mashed peas smooth, then add the flour and fry upon a griddle as you would breakfast-cakes.
Pile bananas and oranges together, garnishing with green leaves. Put nuts and raisins upon two smaller dishes Pass all at the same course.
If you have a hot-water pot and a spirit lamp, make the tea upon the table a few minutes before it is needed, then cover the pot with a "cozy." This is a pretty English fashion which, I am glad to see, is gaining ground in our country. Butter the split crackers while hot, and send around with the tea and cheese.
 
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