Cut good puff-paste into rounds a quarter of an inch thick. Reserve one of these for the bottom of each paté. With a smaller cutter take out the centre of three others and pile upon this, making a deep well over an inch across. Bake quickly, glazing with white of egg when nearly done.
Boil three sweetbreads ten minutes, leave in cold water as long; cut into dice, put into a saucepan with a great spoonful of butter, a little pepper and salt, and a few spoonfuls of boiling water, and stew twenty minutes. Stir, meanwhile, into half a cup of boiling milk a tablespoonful of butter, cut up in as much flour. Add to the sweetbreads with a little minced parsley. Boil up. Fill the patés, and arrange upon a heated dish.
If dried, soak over night, put on next day in cold water, salted, and cook gently until soft. Drain, stir in butter and pepper. If you use the canned beans, put on in boiling water, then proceed as above directed.
½ lb. of butter. ¾ lb. of flour. 6 eggs. 1 pint water—warm—not scalding.
Stir the butter into the warm water, and heat slowly to a boil. Then put in the flour, boil and stir one minute; empty into a dish to get cold. Beat the eggs light, and whip, first the yolks, then the whites, into the cooled paste. Drop in great spoonfuls, upon buttered paper, not letting them touch each other, and bake, in a quick oven, ten minutes. They should puff up to quadruple their original size. Pass a sharp knife lightly around each, split, and fill with the following mixture:
1 quart of milk. 4 tablespoonfuls of corn-starch. 2 eggs. 2 cups of sugar. 1 teaspoonful butter. Vanilla.
Heat three cups of milk, and stir in the corn-starch wet with the other cupful. Beat the eggs and sugar together, and add the boiling mixture, by degrees. Put in the butter; mix well and cool before adding the vanilla.
Second Week. Saturday. —— Soup Verte. Baked Mutton Cutlets. Hominy Pudding. Potato Cakes. Lettuce. —— Tapioca Pudding. ——
2 lbs. coarse beef, chopped fine. 1 turnip. 1 onion. Celery-seed tied in a bag. 1 grated carrot. Nearly a quart of spinach leaves. 2 lumps of sugar. 1 tablespoonful of butter, rubbed in flour. Bunch of parsley. Pepper and salt. A little of yesterday’s pastry, cut into strips—like “noodles.” 2 quarts of cold water.