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1868
Tuesday, November 17.

Spiced Beef

Boil a shin of ten or twelve lbs of beef until the meat readily falls from the bone Pick the meat to pieces and mash the gristle very fine rejecting all parts that are too hard to mash. Set the liquor in till cool; then take off all the fat. Boil the liquor down to a pint and a half, then return the meat to the liquor and while hot add any salt and pepper that may be needed, a half teaspoonful of cloves the same of cinnamon a little nutmeg, a half teaspoon of parsley chopped fine a very little sage [[strikethrough]] and summer savory [[/strikethrough]] Let it boil up once and put it into a soup dish to cool. Cut in thin slices from breakfast or tea

Macaroni Pie

Boil the macaroni in water until quite tender, draw the water off, put into the baking pan add a tablespoon of butter 1/2 lb. of grated cheese a pt milk, salt pepper and mustard to taste.