Julienne Soup.

Mutton Stew with Peas.

Boiled Corn.

Potato Croquettes.

Cucumbers.

Cream Cake and Chocolate.

Julienne Soup

2 lbs. of beef, and the same of lean veal; 1 lb. of lean ham; 2 carrots; 2 turnips; 2 onions; 1 cup of Lima beans; 3 tablespoonfuls of butter; sweet herbs; pepper and salt; 6 quarts of water.

Cut the meat small, and cook with herbs in the water four hours. Strain. Put the meat and half of the stock, well seasoned, upon the ice. Cool the rest, skim, season, and put back into the pot. Prepare your vegetables in the following manner: Put the butter into a frying-pan, and when hot, fry the onion, sliced, in it; then, carrots and turnips cut into strips less than an inch long. When they have cooked five minutes, put them into the soup. Simmer half an hour; skim, and put in the beans. Cook gently half an hour more, and pour out.

Mutton Stew With Peas

Take three pounds from the breast, and cut it into inch-square pieces. Dredge these with flour, and fry brown in good dripping; add a small, sliced onion, and a tablespoonful of chopped herbs. Cover well with cold water, put on the saucepan-lid, and stew gently until very tender. Take out the meat, and keep hot over boiling water; strain and season the gravy; put in a quart of young peas, and stew slowly until the peas are done. Put back the meat, boil up once, and serve.

Potato Croquettes

Mash two cups of potatoes light and smooth; season with pepper, salt, and a little nutmeg, and beat in two eggs. Put a spoonful of dripping into a frying-pan, and when it hisses, stir in the potato mixture. Keep stirring . until it is very hot. Spread upon a dish to cool. When cold, mould into croquettes; dip in beaten egg, then in rolled cracker, and fry to a fine yellow-brown. Drain well, and heap upon a dish.

Boiled Corn

See Thursday, Fourth Week in June.

Raw Cucumbers

See Saturday, Second Week in July.

Cream-Cake And Chocolate

2 cups of powdered sugar; 2/3 cupful of butter; 4 eggs; 1/2 cupful of milk; 3 cups of prepared flour.

Cream butter and sugar; add the beaten yolks, the milk, finally the frothed whites, alternately with the flour. Bake in jelly-cake tins. When cold, spread the following mixture between them :

1 cup of milk; 2 small teaspoonfuls of corn-starch; 1 egg; 1 teaspoonful of vanilla; 1/2 cup of sugar.

Scald the milk; add the corn-starch, wet with a little cold milk; pour upon the beaten eggs and sugar. Return to the fire, and stir until quite thick. Flavor when cold. Make a good cup of chocolate, and pass with this delicious cake.