Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-10

Dessert.
Coffee. Jelly. Cream.
Cost
Soup cents; brisket of beef Az pounds,
% cents; rice, 2 cents: squash, 5 cents; let
tuce cents; dressing, 5 cents; gelatine,
half box, I cents; cream q cents; coffee,
2 cents. Total, 90 cents.
Wednesday.
Breakfast.
Stewed prunes.
flashed meat on toast Potato balls
Hot rolls. Butter. Coffee. Cream.
Cost:
Prunes, cents; cream, cents. Total,
IL cents.
Luncheon.
Meat croquettes
flashed brown potatoes. Radishes.
Bread. Butter.
Cocoa. Sponge cake
Meat used for breakfast and luncheon
left from Tuesdays roast. Radishes 5
cents; cocoa. cents; half loaf of cake, 3
cents. Total, II cents.
Dinner.
Corned beef
Boiled potatoes Boiled cabbage. Beets
Onions (creamed).
Bread Butter.
Dessert.
Gooseberry pie
Cost:
Corned beef (briSket), 4 pounds, "a cents:
cabbage, cents; beets, ) cents; gooseber-
rles, 10 cents; onions, cents. Total, 80
cents.
Thursday.
Breakfast.
Corned beef nash. Dreamed potatoes
Drowned in oven.
Graham gems. Butter.
Coffee Cream.
Cost:
Milk, cents; cream, 6 cents; eggs, 2
cents; milk. 2 cents: graham flour i cent;
berries, III cents. Total. % cents.
Graham Gems.
Two cups graham Hour half teaspoonful
salt, tablespoonful sugar, egg, beaten
separately; / cup of milk. 1 cup Of water
Mix flour, salt and sugar, add milk to the
be aten yolks, then water and stir this into
the dry mixture, add The whites beaten
stiff. and bake in no. gem pans 40 min
utes.
Luncheon.
Goldfish la creme.
Baked potatoes. Bread. Butter.
Hot ginger bread. Baked Bananas.
Cost:
Goldfish, cents: milk, cents; bananas,
cents; ginger bread, 4 cents. Total, 1G
cents.
Ginger Bread.
Half a cup of shortening (part lard and
butter), half cup hot water, l cup of mo-
lasses, l egg, a little salt, flour, little as
possible: l small tcaspoonful soda dissolved
in little warm wafer; add last thing, half
teaspoonful vinegar; half a teaspoonful
ginger, little cinnamon. If you like.
Dinner.
Potato soup.
Sirloin steak.
New potatoes. String beans with bacon.
CucumberS.
Bread. Butter.
Dessert.
Pink pudding.
Cost:
beans, cents; bacon, cents; cucumbers.
8 cents: cream, 3 cents; raspberries 10
cents. Total, 60 cents.
Potato Soup.
Three small potatoes, l pint Of milk, l
teaspoonful of chopped onion, 1 stalk Of
teaspoonful salt. half saltspoonful white
pepper, dash of cayenne pepper, half q
tablespoonful flour, tablespoonful butter
Tablespoonful chopped parsley, If you
wish ,t.n AaaGA
Pink Pudding.
One quart of red raspberries, just cover
with water; cook until soft enough to rub
through a sieve, ell but the seeds; ~ CUPS
of sugar added. Put on the stove; add
tablespoonfuls cornstarch Tin a little wa
teri; cook until thickened: pour into a
mold: serve with cream when very cold
Fayorite English dish.
Friday.
Breakfast.
Berries.
Meat stew. Dreamed potatoes.
Bread. Butter.
Coffee. Cream.
Cost:
Berries. 10 cents milk, cents; cream, 6
cents. Total, IS cents.
Luncheon.
Escalloped fish, served in Shells
Lyonnaise potatoes. Waffles
Cold ginger bread.
Sliced bananas. with cream.
Tea.
Cost:
Fish. 10 cents; milk, cents; bananas
and cream. Z cents; tea, cents; eggs,
milk and lemon. for wafties and sirup. 6
cents. Total, q certs.
Wafties.
One pint of flour. 1 teaspoonful baking
powder. half teaspcCnful of salt 3 eggs,
"a CUBS milk, l tablespoonful melted but
ter. Mix in the order given; add the beat
en- yolks of the eggs with the milk; then
the melted butter; the whites last. Serve
with the following:
Lemon Sirup.
One cup Of sugar, quarter of a cup of
water. l teasDoonful of butter, table,
spoonful CT lemon juice: boil the sugar
with the water until 1t thickens slightly:
add the butter and lemon juice Serve as
soon as the butter Is melted.
Dinner.
Baked blue fish,
New potatoes. Aacaroni and cheese.
Fried cucumbers. Bread. Butter,
Dessert.
Rhubarb pie. -15ss al
Cost:
Fish. . cents; cucrmbers. 8 cents; mac