This section is from the book "The Dinner Year-Book", by Marion Harland. See also: Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats - A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners.
Rissole Soup.
Lamb Chops.
Potato Mound.
Ladies' Cabbage.
Damson Tart.
Take the fat from the top of your cold stock. Pick out some of the best pieces of meat - about a cupful - and set aside. Add a pint of boiling water to the stock, and boil slowly, with the bones and the rest of the meat, for nearly an hour. Chop the meat reserved from the stock; make into force-meat with fine crumbs, seasoning with onion, parsley, pepper, salt, nutmeg, and binding with beaten egg. Flour your hands and make this into round balls. Roll them in flour; set in a floured pie-dish, not touching each other, and leave in a quick oven until crusted over. Let them cool. Strain your soup; add such seasoning as you desire; heat to a boil; drop in the force-meat rissoles, and heat, without boiling, three minutes.
Trim off fat and skin, leaving a bare bit of bone at the end of each. Broil quickly over a clear fire; butter, salt, and pepper each, and stand them on the larger ends, just touching each other, around your mound of potato.
Mash smooth, with butter, milk, salt, and pepper; make into a smooth mound upon a hot dish, and arrange the chops around it.
See Sunday, First Week in September.
Boil a firm cabbage in two waters. When done, quarter it and let it get perfectly cold. Chop fine; add two beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, pepper, salt, and three tablespoonfuls of milk. Stir all well; pour into a buttered pudding-dish, and bake, covered, until very hot, then brown. If your dish has been well buttered, turn the cabbage upon a hot dish, and pour over it a cupful of drawn butter.
Fill a pie-dish, lined with good paste, with ripe, sound damsons; sweeten very plentifully; cover with crust and bake. Brush with beaten egg when done, and return to the oven one moment, to glaze.
 
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