may be prepared the day previous, as may
also the prune sauce for the toast, the buns, bread, and nearly all the
other foods. The potatoes can be boiled and sliced, the corn for the
soup rubbed through the colander and placed in the ice chest, the green
peas boiled but not seasoned, and the macaroni cooked and added to the
tomato but not seasoned. The berries may be hulled, the nuts cracked,
and the canned fruit opened. If the table is laid over night and covered
with a spread to keep off dust, a very short time will suffice for
getting the Sabbath breakfast. Heat the rolled wheat in the inner dish
of a double boiler. Meanwhile moisten the toast; and heat the prune
sauce.

To prepare the dinner, all that is necessary is to add to the material
for soup the requisite amount of milk and seasoning, and heat to
boiling; heat and season the peas and macaroni; make a cream sauce and
add the potatoes; reheat the rice, which should have been cooked by
steaming after the recipe given on page 99.

All may be done in half an hour, while the table is being laid, and with
very little labor.

TABLE TOPICS.

WATER.

To the days of the aged it addeth length;
To the might of the strong it addeth strength;
It freshens the heart, it brightens the sight;
'T is like quaffing a goblet of morning light.

--_Sel._

It is said that Worcester sauce was first introduced as a medicine,
the original formula having been evolved by a noted physician to
disguise the assafetida which it contains, for the benefit of a
noble patient whose high living had impaired his digestion.

The turnpike road to people's hearts I find
Lies through their mouth, or I mistake mankind.--_Dr. Wolcott._

A good dinner sharpens wit, while it softens the heart.--_Daran._

Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast.--_Shakespeare._

INDEX.

Absorption 38
Acetic acid 119
Acetic fermentation 119
Acorn coffee 433
A fourteenth century recipe 219
After mealtime 471
Aladdin cooker 66
Albumen 26, 53, 78, 365, 384
Albumenized milk 425
Alcoholic fermentation 119
Almond cornstarch pudding 321
cream 321
paste, to prepare 298
sauce 352
Almonds 212
blanched 212, 215
Alum, how to detect in flour 115
Ancient recipe for cooking barley 95
Animal food 391
Anti-fermentatives 192
Appetite, education of