BULLION
For one gallon of soup use ten pounds good beef shank, five quarts of water, one large onion, one carrot, one slice of turnip, three blades of celery, or one tablespoon of celery seed, three doz. pepper corns, six cloves, stick of cinnamon, three teaspoons salt, two sprigs each of parsley, thyme, summer savoy, three bay leaves, one leaf of sage. Put the meat in a soup kettle with cold water. Heat slowly; when the water begins to boil skim carefully, after skimming move the kettle to the back of the range where it will be kept to a boiling point for six hours. A slight bubbling at the sides of the kettle is sufficient cooking. At the end of six hours, you add the salt, spice, vegetables and herbs; after adding these simmer one hour longer. Strain immediately and set away to cool. The next day remove all the fat from the stock (which should be in a firm jelly).
Beat the whites of three eggs until light, and with shells add to the stock, let come to a boiling point for twenty minutes. Strain through a napkin, and if not ready for use set away in a cold place. When ready to serve add a wineglass of wine. This stock will keep in winter a week.
JELLIED CHICKEN OR VEAL
Boil a chicken in as little water as possible, until the meat falls from the bones. Chop rather fine and season with pepper and salt. Put in a mold a layer of meat and then a layer of hard boiled eggs cut into slices. Boil down the liquor left in the pot one half; while warm add one- fourth of an ounce of gelatine, and when dissolved pour into the mold over the meat. Set in a cool place to jelly.
POTATO SURPRISE
Scoop out the inside of a sound potato leaving the skin attached at one side of the hole, as a lid; mince finely the lean of a juicy mutton chop with a little salt and pepper; put it in the potato, fasten down the lid, and bake or roast; before sewing (in its skin) add a hot gravy if the mince seems too dry.
BOILED CIDER PIE
Three tablespoons of sugar, three tablespoons of water, four tablespoons of boiled cider, two tablespoons of flour, one egg. Beat all together. Bake with upper and under crust.
