_*Black Bean Soup
Roast Leg of Mutton, Currant Jelly
Stewed Tomatoes
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Macedoine Salad
Cheese Straws
Fruit Cake
Coffee_
_*Black Bean Soup_--2 cups black beans, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1 onion,
1 lemon, 2 quarts stock or water, 2 stalks celery, 2 hard-cooked eggs,
1-1/2 tablespoons flour, 3 cloves, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce,
salt, pepper, red pepper, and mustard to taste.
Wash beans and soak over night; in morning drain, cover with boiling
water and boil 30 minutes; drain, throwing away water. Slice onion,
dice celery, and cook 5 minutes in half of Crisco in soup pot; add
beans, stock or water, and cloves. Simmer until beans are soft,
add more water as stock or water boils away. Rub through sieve, add
remaining Crisco and flour rubbed together, then heat to boiling
point, add seasonings. Cut lemon in thin slices, removing seeds, and
cut eggs in thin slices. Put them into a hot soup tureen, and strain
soup over them.