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Language: English
By
A RARE COLLECTION OF
CHOICE SOUTHERN DISHES
Chicago
Laird & Lee, Inc.
Publishers
COPYRIGHT, 1922
BY WM. McKINNEY
Foreword
In the art of cooking the “Old Southern Mammy” has few equals and
recognizes no peers.
William McKinney
CONTENTS
Breads
Spoon Bread 3
Cinnamon Toast 3
French Toast 5
Mammy’s Graham Muffins 5
Golden Toast 9
Mississippi Biscuits 11
Virginia Waffles 11
Dixie Biscuit 13
Flour Muffins 13
Southern Pastry 15
Griddle Cakes 15
Sally Lunn 17
Beverages
Louisiana Coffee 23
Hot Chocolate 25
Iced Tea 25
Dewberry Vinegar 27
Cakes
Brides Cake 33
Ponciania Cake 35
Cabin Cake 37
Marguerites 39
Marshmallow Filling 41
Pickaninny Cookies 39
Virginia Doughnuts 45
Plantation Cookies 45
Ginger Snaps 49
Fruit Cake 51
Candy
U. D. C. Cocoanut Candy 53
Mexican Kisses 53
Divinity Candy 55
Almonds Creamed 55
Chocolate Caramels 55
Chocolate Fudge 61
Sea-Foam Candy 61
Meats
Liver Fricasee 69
Salmon Croquettes 69
Creamed Oysters 71
Deviled Crabs 71
Deviled Eggs 73
Scalloped Oysters 75
Cheese Straws 77
Chicken A La King 77
Southern Hash 79
Chicken Croquettes 79
Cream Sauce 81
Perlean 81
Pickles, Relishes
Apple Relish 85
Corn Relish 85
Picalli 89
Stuffed Peppers 89
Peach Pickle 91
Chili Sauce 91
Chess Pies 95
Heavenly Hash 95
Syllabub 97
U. D. C. Pudding 99
Rhubarb Pie 99
Soups
Vegetables
Work lard lightly into the flour and salt, mix with iced water and then
beat dough with rolling pin until it blisters. Cut into biscuits and
bake in quick oven.
Mix flour, salt, soda and baking powder together. Add sweet potatoes
and work the lard in lightly. Mix with milk to make soft dough, roll
thin cut into biscuits and bake in quick oven.
2 cupsful of flour,
1 cupful of yellow meal,
4 tablespoonsful of sugar,
¹⁄₂ teaspoonful of salt,
1 teaspoonful of Cream of Tartar,
¹⁄₂ teaspoonful of soda,
or,
2 teaspoonsful of baking-powder.
SPOON BREAD
Mix in the order given and cook in baking dish in moderate oven.
CINNAMON TOAST
Cut stale bread into thin slices, remove crusts, and cut in halves;
toast evenly, and spread first with butter, then with honey, and dust
with cinnamon. Serve very hot.
1 can corn,
¹⁄₂ cup milk,
¹⁄₂ cup dried and sifted crumbs,
1 teaspoon salt,
1 teaspoon baking powder,
1 egg well beaten,
1 tablespoon flour.
Chop the corn, and add other ingredients in order given. Drop from a
tablespoon into hot, deep fat and fry until brown.
FRENCH TOAST
Mix egg, salt, sugar, and liquid in a shallow dish; soak bread in
mixture, and cook on a hot greased griddle until brown, turning when
half cooked. Serve plain or spread with jam.
Put the salt into the flour and soda into the molasses. Stir all
together and mix with milk or water. Drop into Muffin tins and bake
twenty minutes.
Mix in order given, beat well, and bake in a well-greased shallow pan
in a hot oven about twenty minutes. Half of the egg will make a very
good corn bread. Left-over pieces may be split, lightly buttered, and
browned in the oven.
2 cupsful of flour,
1 cupful of corn meal, (bolted is best)
2 cupsful of milk,
2 teaspoonsful of cream of tartar,
1 teaspoonsful of baking soda,
1 egg,
¹⁄₂ cupful of sugar,
¹⁄₂ teaspoonful of salt.
Stir the flour and meal together, adding cream of tartar, soda, salt
and sugar. Beat the egg, add the milk to it, and stir into the other
ingredients. Bake in a gem-pan twenty-minutes.
Yeast,
One egg beaten lightly,
One tablespoonful of sugar,
One half cake of yeast, dissolved in one-third cup of cold water,
One cup of hot potatoes mashed fine,
One quart of flour,
One tablespoonful of lard,
One teaspoonful of salt.
Put yeast mixed in the order given in a bucket to rise. Let it rise
for about forty-five minutes or longer. Then when risen, put it into
the flour, which has been mixed with the salt and lard. Do not knead
the flour, just stick it together and beat it for fifteen minutes with
rolling pin. If yeast does not make dough soft enough a little warm
water may be used. After beating the dough, put it into a vessel to
rise in warm place for about three hours. When risen, roll it lightly
until about one-fourth of an inch thick. Then cut with biscuit cutter
and dip into hot grease. Lastly fold the biscuits over and put into
pans to rise about an hour or more.
GOLDEN TOAST
Toast as many slices of bread as desired. For twelve slices use three
hard boiled eggs and about two cups of cream sauce. Mash the whites of
the eggs fine and stir them into the cream sauce. Spread each piece of
bread when toasted with cream sauce, and then grate yolks over the top.
Return to oven and heat just before serving.
MISSISSIPPI BISCUITS
Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Then work in lightly the lard and
mix with sufficient milk to make soft dough. Roll thin, cut into
biscuits with small biscuit cutter and bake in quick oven.
VIRGINIA WAFFLES
To beaten yolks add milk, flour, baking powder, salt and butter. Add
stiffly beaten whites last.
Two eggs,
One cup of milk,
One cup of flour,
One-half teaspoonful of salt.
Beat eggs together, add milk, and salt and pour this on the flour. Mix
well and bake about forty minutes in rather slow oven. Serve at once.
DIXIE BISCUIT
Put milk on stove in double boiler with butter, salt, lard and sugar.
When milk becomes scalded, let it cool until blood heat. Dissolve yeast
and stir it into the scalded milk. Then add to milk when cooled two and
a half cups of flour and mix to a stiff batter. Next add an egg well
beaten to the batter and put the batter in a warm place to rise. Let it
rise bout five hours and then knead as for ordinary biscuit using three
and a half cups of flour. Knead until dough can be handled easily,
then roll out to one-half inch thickness. Rub each biscuit with melted
butter, put two biscuits together and place in pans far enough apart
not to touch. Bake fifteen or twenty minutes in hot oven.
FLOUR MUFFINS
Two eggs,
One cup of milk,
One and one-half cups of flour,
One tablespoon of lard,
One teaspoonful of salt,
Two teaspoonful of baking powder.
Beat eggs separately. To yolks, add salt, melted lard, milk, flour, and
baking powder. Lastly, put in the well beaten whites and bake twenty or
twenty-five minutes.
Two eggs,
Three cups of meal,
Four cups of sour milk,
One tablespoonful of lard,
One teaspoonsful of salt,
One-fourth teaspoonful of soda,
One and one-half teaspoonsful of baking powder.
Beat eggs well together, add milk, meal, salt, soda and baking powder
and lastly the hot melted lard. Bake in moderate oven. One cup of fresh
corn cooked until tender may be added to the batter.
SOUTHERN PASTRY
Mix flour and salt, work lard lightly into the flour and mix with iced
water to make stiff dough. Do not knead dough at all, just mix lightly
together.
GRIDDLE CAKES
Scald milk and pour over bread crumbs. Beat two eggs well together,
then add salt, milk and bread crumbs, flour and lastly the melted lard
or butter.
SALLY LUNN
Beat the eggs separately. Then mix and add yeast and sugar. Sift salt
into flour, melt butter and lard and add eggs, yeast and milk before
putting in flour. Leave in bowl and set away to rise. When risen, beat
hard and put into greased pan to rise again. For seven o’clock tea make
it at twelve.
Two eggs,
One cup of sour milk,
One cup of meal,
One-half cup of flour,
One teaspoonful of salt,
Two teaspoonsful of baking powder.
One tablespoonful of lard.
Beat eggs separately. To yolks add salt, milk, melted lard, meal, flour
and baking powder. Lastly put in the well beaten whites and bake in
moderate oven.
1 cup meal,
1 cup flour,
4 teaspoonsful baking powder,
¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt,
3 tablespoons bacon fat,
³⁄₄ cup milk.
Mix and sift dry ingredients; rub in shortening with finger tips,
add milk and mix thoroughly; roll lightly, on a floured board to a
thickness of one-half inch; cut with biscuit cutter, brush with milk or
water, and fold double. Bake in hot oven fifteen minutes.
(Baked)
Pour one pint of boiling sweet milk over three heaping tablespoonsful
of corn meal. Beat well and set in a warm place all night. On the
morning add to the mixture a pint of warm milk or water, a teaspoonful
of sugar, a pint of flour. Beat well and set in a warm place for about
two hours or until it looks spongy. Then add one teaspoonful of salt,
one tablespoonful of lard and enough flour to make a soft dough. Work
fifteen minutes, knead into loaves, let them rise one or two hours, and
then bake an hour or longer.
Beverages
Beat the yolk of one egg, add a teaspoonful of sugar, and a small pinch
of salt, then pour in slowly stirring all the while a cup of milk. Pour
in a glass and put spoonful of whipped cream on top and any quantity of
“flavoring desired.”
Make syrup by boiling sugar and water together for ten minutes. Add
the tea, fruit juices, pineapple, and strawberry syrup. Let stand
thirty minutes, strain and add enough iced water to make one or one and
one-half gallons of liquid. Turn into large punch bowl over a piece of
ice and lastly add cherries. This quantity will serve about ten people.
LOUISIANA COFFEE
Melt the chocolate over hot water. Add the sugar, salt and boiling
water. When smooth, add the heated milk and cook twenty minutes in
double boiler. Then beat with egg beater and flavor. More sugar may be
added if desired.
TEA--SOUTHERN STYLE
Take one-half teaspoonful of tea to one cup of boiling water. Put the
tea in the pot, pour the boiling water upon it and let stand where it
will keep hot for five minutes. Then serve. Tea should never be boiled
for it makes it bitter.
ICED TEA
Use one scant teaspoonful of tea to one cup of boiling water. Pour
boiling water over tea leaves and let stand until milk warm. Then
strain and sweeten to taste while tea is still warm, as it requires
less sugar. Serve with crushed ice, green mint leaves, and sliced lemon
and orange.
Boil sugar and water ten minutes, and cool; add strained lemon juice,
mint leaves bruised, and ginger ale; half fill glasses with crushed
ice, and julep, and garnish with a sprig of mint.
DEWBERRY VINEGAR
Over three quarts of dewberries pour one pint of vinegar and let it
stand twenty-four hours. Strain and add one pound of sugar to one
pint of juice. Scald twenty minutes and bottle tight. Strawberry and
raspberry vinegar may be made in the same way.
Cakes
Two eggs,
Two cups of brown sugar,
One cup of butter,
One cup of buttermilk,
Three cups of flour,
Half cake of melted chocolate,
One and one-half tablespoons of cinnamon,
One teaspoon of cloves,
One teaspoon of allspice,
One teaspoon of soda dissolved in half cup of boiling water.
Cream butter and sugar and add to well beaten eggs, next add milk,
melted chocolate, flour beaten in lightly, vanilla and spices, and
lastly the boiling water and soda. Bake in layer tins and moderate oven.
FILLING
Put all the ingredients except vanilla on to cook. Cook until thick,
then beat until creamy, add vanilla and spread on layers.
Cream one cup of butter and two cups of powdered sugar. Add stiffly
beaten whites of six eggs, three cups of flour, in which has been
sifted two teaspoonsful of baking powder, and one teaspoonful of
vanilla. Bake in layers in moderate oven.
Put on two cups of white sugar with enough water to dissolve thoroughly
and cook until it spins a thread. Then add one teaspoonful of vanilla
and pour slowly over the whites of two eggs beaten stiff. Beat until
creamy and then spread on cake layers. Thickly strew the top of icing
with raisins, English walnuts and blanched almonds.
Sift flour and sugar together five times, then add cream of tartar.
Have whites well beaten and add sugar and flour slowly, then almond
extract. Beat very little after flour goes in and bake in round cake
pan in moderate oven for about fifty minutes.
FILLING
Cream butter and sugar, add milk, flour, cornstarch and flavoring. Bake
in layers in moderate oven.
Mix in the order given and cook in biscuit pan in moderate oven.
BRIDE’S CAKE
PONCIANIA CAKE
Cream butter and sugar and add to well beaten yolks. Next add
alternately the flour and the whites beaten stiff, then the fruits,
which have been cut fine and dredged with flour, and lastly the nuts.
Bake in a slow oven.
Cream butter and sugar and add to well beaten yolks. Next add flour and
whites beaten stiff, the fruit, nuts, brandy, wine and spices. Bake in
slow oven from four to five hours.
CABIN CAKE
To whites of eight eggs beaten stiff, add one cup of butter and
two cups of sugar creamed together. Next add three-fourths cup of
milk, three cups of flour, two teaspoonsful of baking powder and one
teaspoonful of vanilla. Bake in layers in moderate oven.
FILLING
Put on to cook two cups of sugar and half a cup of water. Boil without
stirring until it jellies when dropped into cold water. Then pour over
stiffly beaten whites of three eggs, then stir into icing a small
quantity of citron, currants, dates, figs, raisins, almonds, English
walnuts (all chopped fine) and grated cocoanut, leaving out a similar
quantity to be put on top of cake when iced.
Four eggs,
Three cups of flour,
Two cups of sugar,
One cup of butter,
One cup of milk,
Two teaspoonsful of baking powder,
One teaspoonful of Vanilla.
Separate eggs leaving out two whites for filling. To beaten yolks, add
butter and sugar creamed together, then the milk, flour, baking powder
and vanilla and lastly whites of two eggs beaten stiff. Bake in layers
in moderate oven, and put together with any kind of filling desired.
Cream crisco and sugar and add to stiffly beaten whites, then add
the milk. Next beat the flour in lightly, and add baking powder and
vanilla. Bake in layer cake tins in a moderate oven.
Put sugar and water on to cook. Let it cook until it spins a thread,
then gradually pour it over the yellows, which have been beaten until
thick. Beat until filling becomes creamy, add one teaspoonful of
vanilla, and spread on layers.
MARGUERITES
PICKANINNY COOKIES
Sift one quart of flour, make a hole in the center, put in two cups of
sugar, one of lard, one beaten egg, and one cup of sweet milk, into
which has been stirred a half teaspoonful of soda. Work all together,
roll thin and bake in a quick oven.
Cream butter and about two-thirds of the flour together. Beat whites of
eggs to a stiff froth, beat yolks of eggs and sugar together until very
light. Mix thoroughly all the ingredients, stirring in last the loose
flour. Bake in a slow oven until done.
MARSHMALLOW FILLING
Four eggs,
Two cups of sugar,
One cup of butter,
One cup of sweet milk,
Three cups of flour,
One teaspoonful of baking powder,
One-half pound of raisins,
One teaspoonsful each of Cinnamon, cloves and allspice.
Cream butter and sugar and add to well beaten eggs. Next add the milk,
flour, baking powder, raisins and spices. Bake in layers in moderate
oven.
CHOCOLATE SAUCE
1 tablespoonful of butter,
1 cupful of sugar,
2 tablespoonsful of cocoa,
4 tablespoonsful of boiling water.
Put the butter into an agate dish on the stove; when melted, stir in
the cocoa and sugar dry; add boiling water and stir until smooth. Add
vanilla to taste.
VIRGINIA DOUGHNUTS
Mix in the order given adding the dry ingredients sifted together and
enough more flour to make a dough just soft enough to handle. Have the
board well-floured, and the fat for frying, heating. Roll out only
a little at a time, cut into rings with an open cutter. Do all the
cutting before frying, as that will take your entire attention. The fat
should be hot enough for the dough to rise to the top instantly.
PLANTATION COOKIES
2 eggs,
1 cupful of sugar,
1¹⁄₂ cupfuls of oatmeal, or Rolled Oats,
²⁄₃ cupful of cocoanut,
¹⁄₄ teaspoonful of salt,
¹⁄₂ teaspoonful of vanilla,
2 tablespoonsful of butter.
Cream the butter and sugar together and add the well-beaten eggs. Add
the remainder of the ingredients and drop on a well greased baking-pan.
Bake in a moderate oven, from fifteen to twenty minutes.
4 eggs,
1 cupful of sugar,
1 cupful of flour,
1 teaspoonful of Cream of Tartar,
¹⁄₂ teaspoonful of soda,
Pinch of salt,
1 teaspoonful of extract of Lemon.
Beat together eggs and sugar, add salt and extract. Stir into the
dry flour the soda and cream of tartar. Mix all together. Bake in a
moderate oven, in a large pan, and turn out, when done, on a clean
towel, which has been sprinkled with powdered sugar. Spread with jelly
and roll while warm.
AUNT SUG’S NUT COOKIES
To well beaten eggs add creamed butter and sugar, cinnamon, soda,
water, flour, fruits, which must be dredged with flour, and nuts.
Lastly add one teaspoonful of vanilla and drop by spoonful into greased
pans. Bake in moderate oven.
GINGER SNAPS
Put butter, powder and sugar into flour, add ginger and molasses. Add
more flour if needed. Roll out thin and bake in a quick oven.
FRUIT CAKE
Cream butter and sugar and add to well beaten yolks. Then add
alternately the flour and whites of the eggs beaten stiff; then the
wine and brandy spices. Lastly add the fruit which has been chopped
fine and dredged with flour, mix well together and bake about four
hours in a slow oven.
Candy
U. D. C. COCOANUT CANDY
Put sugar, milk and butter on to cook. Let it cook until it will form a
soft ball when tried in cold water. Add vanilla, remove from stove, and
beat in the cocoanut until it becomes creamy. Pour into buttered plates
and cut into squares when cold.
MEXICAN KISSES
Put sugar and butter and milk on to cook. Cook until it will form a
soft ball when tried in cold water. Add vanilla, remove from stove and
beat until creamy. Then put in nuts and drop from spoon on buttered
papers.
Cook about twenty minutes, beat until creamy, and pour into buttered
plates. When cold cut into squares.
DIVINITY CANDY
Three cups of white sugar,
Three-fourths cup of white Karo syrup,
Whites of two eggs,
Three-fourths cup of water,
One teaspoonful of vanilla.
Put sugar, syrup and water on to cook. Let it cook until it will form
a hard ball when tried in cold water. Remove from stove and pour
gradually over stiffly beaten whites. Add vanilla and one cup of nuts
and beat until creamy. Pour into buttered plates and cut into squares
when cold.
ALMONDS, CREAMED
Shell and blanch burnt almonds and lay them in the open oven to dry,
but do not let them brown. Put one cup of granulated sugar over the
fire with a tablespoon of water; stir until it is well dissolved and
comes to a boil. Drop into this the blanched almonds a few at the time
and take them out immediately with a perforated spoon or candy dipper,
laying them on waxed paper until they harden, or upon buttered plates.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELS
Mix in a saucepan two cups of brown sugar, half a cup each of molasses
(not syrup) and cream, half a cake of unsweetened chocolate, and four
tablespoons of butter, bring to a boil slowly, taking care the sugar
does not scorch before it is entirely melted, cook steadily until
a little of the candy is brittle if dropped in cold water, add two
teaspoons vanilla, turn into a greased pan, and cut into squares as
soon as it is cool.
Put a pint of New Orleans molasses over the fire in a saucepan and
boil for twenty minutes. Stir in a quarter teaspoon of baking soda
and boil fifteen minutes longer, or until a little, dropped into cold
water, becomes brittle. This candy must be stirred constantly while
it is cooking or it will scorch. When it reaches the brittle stage,
add a teaspoon of vinegar and a tablespoon of butter and pour into
well-buttered pans. Mark into shape with a buttered knife after the
candy begins to form and before it is really hard.
Put a half cup of cold water and two cups of granulated sugar into a
clean saucepan and boil slowly, without stirring, until it spins thread
from the tip of a spoon dipped into it. Take from the stove, leave it
untouched until it is about blood-warm, then stir steadily, always in
one direction until the mixture begins to become creamy. Flavor to
taste with essence of peppermint, adding this cautiously so as not to
get the flavor too strong. Drop by the teaspoonful upon waxed paper,
being careful not to put the drops so close together that they will run
into each other. A candy dipper is even better for this purpose than a
teaspoon.
AFTER DINNER MINTS
2 cups of sugar,
¹⁄₃ cup boiling water,
¹⁄₄ cup molasses,
4 drops oil of spearmint.
Put sugar and molasses into a smooth, clean saucepan, and add boiling
water, heat gradually to the boiling point, and boil to 258 degrees
F., or until candy becomes brittle when tested in cold water, add
flavoring, pour on an oiled slab or platter and when cool enough to
handle pull until nearly white; pull into long strips about half an
inch in diameter, and cut in small pieces with scissors; roll in
powdered sugar, and keep in a covered jar for several days before using.
Put sugar, peanut butter and milk on to cook. Let it cook until it will
form a soft ball when tried in cold water. Add vanilla, remove from
stove and beat until creamy. Pour into buttered plates and cut into
squares when cold.
CHOCOLATE FUDGE
Put sugar and water on to cook. When it begins to boil, add butter, and
let it cook until it will form a soft ball when tried in cold water.
Add vanilla, remove from stove, and beat in the chocolate. Beat until
creamy, then pour into buttered plates. Cut into squares when cold.
SEA-FOAM CANDY
Put sugar and water on to cook. Let it cook until it spins a thread.
Then add vanilla, remove from stove, and pour slowly into whites
of eggs beaten stiff. Beat until stiff and then drop from spoon on
buttered paper. Add nuts just before candy gets creamy and hard.
Meats
Cut a young tender dressed fowl into small pieces. Salt well and let
stand several hours. Then wash and drain, dip each piece of chicken
into flour, to which has been added salt and black pepper, and fry a
golden brown in deep hot fat. Let chicken fry slowly.
Grind or chop the veal, salt, and stir into the rice with the dressing;
beat the eggs, add milk, and stir all together. Drop a tablespoonful
spread out thin on the griddle, and fry as you would griddle-cakes.
Pork, or lamb may be used instead of veal.
Put ham, including the fat, through meat chopper; add crumbs, water,
eggs, and seasoning; mix well, and bake in a small bread pan, in a slow
oven, an hour and a half; or cook in steamer two hours.
Wash rice, place in greased baking dish; add liquid, ham, vegetables,
and salt if necessary. Bake slowly for three hours; stirring
occasionally during the first hour. Ham stock or corned beef stock may
be used, and any cooked meat substituted for ham. Serve with boiled
spinach or dressed lettuce.
Moisten with cold coffee or strong tea. Cook slowly two hours.
Put the fish into a piece of cheese-cloth, let cold water run over it,
and squeeze dry. Mix ingredients all together. Take a little flour
in the hand and roll half a tablespoonful of the mixture between the
palms, to the size of a small peach. Fry in deep fat.
LIVER FRICASEE
1 pound liver,
4 tablespoons flour,
2 cups boiling water,
³⁄₄ teaspoon salt,
2 tablespoons bacon fat,
¹⁄₄ teaspoon paprika,
1 tablespoon grated onion,
6 slices toast.
Cut liver into half-inch cubes, and soak in cold salted water fifteen
minutes; drain; cover with the boiling water, and simmer six minutes;
cook bacon fat, onion and flour until brown; add seasonings, and stock
in which liver was cooked; stir until smooth; add liver, and pour over
toast or small, thin baking powder biscuit.
6 chops,
1 egg,
¹⁄₂ cupful of milk,
1 cupful of bread crumbs,
Pinch of salt.
Beat the egg and milk together, adding the salt. Dip the chops into
this mixture, then into the crumbs. Fry in hot fat. Veal cutlets can be
served in the same way.
SALMON CROQUETTES
One can of salmon, the yolks of six hard boiled eggs. Mix and season
to taste with salt and pepper. Beat into the mixture one raw egg. Add
three or four grated crackers and brown in hot lard.
CREAMED OYSTERS
Cook oysters in their own liquor until plump; drain and measure the
liquor; melt butter, add flour, and blend well; add oyster liquor,
and enough milk to make two cups; stir until smooth, add seasonings
and oysters, and serve on toast. Garnish with toast points and sliced
pickles.
DEVILED CRABS
One pint of crab meat; two hard boiled eggs, two tablespoonsful melted
butter, three tablespoonsful vinegar, pepper, salt, and mustard to
taste, one raw egg, well beaten. Drain the liquor from the crabs, cream
the yolks of the eggs with the butter, add seasoning, then stir in the
raw egg, then the chopped whites of the eggs and mix well with the crab
meat. Wash the shells and fill them lightly, put grated bread crumbs
over the top and pour over each two tablespoonsful of melted butter.
Place in pan and bake until light brown.
Melt butter in sauce pan; stir in flour, add chicken stock, season and
bring to boiling point. Add chicken and cook slowly for five minutes.
Fill patty shells and serve at once.
BAKED FISH
Clean, rinse and wipe dry a white fish or any fish weighing three or
four pounds. Rub the fish inside and out with salt and pepper, fill
with a stuffing like that for poultry, but drier; put in a hot greased
pan, dredge with flour and cover the top with bits of butter. Bake an
hour and a half.
DEVILED EGGS
Cut hard boiled eggs in two the long way; remove the yolks and mash
very fine. Add vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper and mustard to taste,
also a little butter, mix well, put back into the whites and serve on
lettuce leaves or garnished with parsley. For a change, ground olives,
chicken or boiled ham may be used with the yolks.
3 tablespoonsful shortening,
¹⁄₄ teaspoon paprika,
¹⁄₃ cup bread flour,
¹⁄₄ teaspoon mustard,
1 cup hot milk,
Few grains cayenne,
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt,
1 cup cheese cut fine.
Melt shortening, add flour; add hot milk, and stir until smooth and
thick; add seasonings and cheese, and pour into a shallow dish to cool.
Shape into small pyramids, roll in sifted crumbs, dip in egg, and again
in crumbs, and fry in deep fat until brown. Serve immediately.
OYSTERS WITH MACARONI
Arrange two cups of cooked macaroni and one pint of small oysters in
layers in a buttered baking dish; season each layer with salt and
pepper, and dredge with flour; cover with buttered crumbs and bake in a
hot oven twenty minutes. One-fourth cup of grated cheese may be added.
SCALLOPED OYSTERS
Cut beef in small pieces, cover with boiling water, let stand five
minutes and drain; melt butter, add beef and stir until hot; add flour
and milk and stir until smooth; add cheese and ketchup, and stir until
cheese is melted. Serve with baked potatoes.
CHEESE STRAWS
Mix flour, cheese, salt, butter, pepper and baking powder. Mix with
iced water to make stiff dough. Cut in long slender strips. Place in
greased pans and bake in quick oven.
CHICKEN A LA KING
Boil a chicken until tender and when cool cut in dice. To diced chicken
add strips of pimentos and green peppers and a can of mushrooms. Season
with salt and pepper and mix with cream sauce. Serve hot on buttered
squares of toast.
SOUTHERN HASH
4 raw potatoes,
³⁄₄ cup of water,
2 green peppers,
1¹⁄₂ cups cold chopped beef,
2 tomatoes,
Salt and pepper,
1 onion,
Toast points.
Put vegetables through the meat chopper, using coarse cutter; cook in
the stock, covered, until tender; add beef, salt, and pepper, and when
hot turn on a platter and garnish with toast points. If corned beef and
stock are used, use salt with care.
Mix well together three pounds of finely chopped veal, with one-half
pound pork. Add to this one-half cup of grated bread crumbs, two
beaten eggs, a little onion, salt and pepper to taste. Roll into a
loaf and pour the juice of a can of tomatoes over the loaf and two
tablespoonsful of butter, cook in oven for one hour and half.
CHICKEN CROQUETTES
Boil chicken until tender, then chop very fine. Season with a little
parsley chopped fine, salt and red and black pepper to taste. Mix with
cream sauce and shape into croquettes. Roll croquettes in beaten egg,
then in bread crumbs and fry in deep hot fat.
CREAM SAUCE
PERLEAN
Dress and cut up one chicken as for frying. Boil until very tender,
then add two cups of rice, half a cup of butter, some salt and plenty
of pepper. Cook until it can be eaten with a fork.
Pickles, Relishes
Chop fine one-half gallon of green tomatoes, one pint of onions, one
pint of green and red peppers with seeds taken out, and one gallon of
cabbage. Mix well and sprinkle two tablespoonsful of salt over it and
let stand all night. Add three quarts of vinegar, two pounds of sugar,
three teaspoonsful of celery seed, three of mustard seed, two of spice,
and one of cloves. Let simmer two hours.
Chop one head of cabbage, one gallon of green tomatoes, and one quart
of onions. Add one-half cup of salt, put in a bag and let it drain for
twenty-four hours.
Then put in kettle and add about two pounds of brown sugar, one cup of
white mustard seed, and one-half cup of celery seed. Cover with good
apple vinegar and cook until done, about three or four hours. To the
above add one or two pods of chopped red pepper.
Cut rinds and soak over night in water to which has been added one cup
of lime to a gallon of water. Rinse in four full waters and boil until
tender in tea made of one-half gallon of water and four tablespoonsful
of ginger. Then cook in the following syrup:
APPLE RELISH
Chop the raisins and put them into a porcelain lined kettle, add the
apples, chopped and unpeeled, the juice and the chopped peel of the
oranges, the sugar, vinegar and spices. Boil steadily for half an hour.
CORN RELISH
18 ears of corn,
1 onion,
1 cabbage,
¹⁄₄ pound of mustard,
1 pint of vinegar,
4 cupsful of sugar,
¹⁄₂ cupful of salt,
2 peppers.
Cut the corn from the cob, chop, onion, peppers and cabbage, add sugar,
salt and vinegar, and cook slowly three-quarters of an hour. Ten
minutes before taking from the fire, add a very scant fourth of a pound
of dissolved mustard. Seal in glass jars.
Cut the peppers and onions into small pieces, sprinkle with salt and
cover with boiling water. Let stand until cool, then drain, place in a
kettle, and add the vinegar, and sugar. Cook for twenty minutes. Put
into jars, seal and set away until needed. Serve with cold meats.
Soak tomatoes, onions and cabbage in salt water one-half hour, wash and
drain, add other ingredients and boil twenty minutes.
CUCUMBER PICKLE
PICCALLI
Grind in coarse meat chopper, cover with one cup of salt and let stand
over night. Next morning squeeze and put on to cook with sugar, vinegar
and spices. Cook about half an hour or longer.
STUFFED PEPPERS
Wash as many fresh green peppers as desired. Then remove the tops from
the peppers, scoop out the seeds, and fill with grated ham mixed with
cream sauce. Cover with bread crumbs and bits of butter and bake until
ready in a hot oven.
PEACH PICKLE
Peel peaches and put in stone jar. To seven pounds of fruit, use three
and one-half pounds of sugar and one quart of vinegar. Boil sugar and
vinegar together awhile and pour over fruit and flavoring, cinnamon,
spice, ginger, cloves, nutmeg and mace may be used, put in little
sacks. Do this for seven or eight mornings.
CHILI SAUCE
Peel tomatoes and onions, chop very fine, add chopped peppers, and the
other ingredients and boil one and one-half hours.
Chop peppers, onions and cabbage fine and soak in one and a half cups
of salt all night. Then cover well with vinegar and put equal parts of
sugar. Add seasoning and cook about two and one-half hours.
Chop all fine and let stand over night, sprinkling them with salt. Do
not put cabbage with onions and tomatoes. Next morning squeeze out
the cabbage, onions and tomatoes, and put on in kettle. Add three
quarts of vinegar, four pounds of brown sugar, one package of seedless
raisins, one-half ounce of ground red pepper, eight tablespoonsful
of white mustard seed, four tablespoonsful each of celery seed, one
tablespoonful each of allspice, ginger, cloves and tumeric. Mix well
together and cook about one hour.
CHESS PIES
Three eggs,
Two-thirds cup of sugar,
One-half cup of butter,
One-half cup of milk.
Cream butter and sugar and add to the well beaten yolks. Then add milk
and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Mix well and bake on a nice crust. When
done, spread with the whites and three tablespoonful of sugar and a
little flavoring. Return to oven and brown.
HEAVENLY HASH
Sweeten, flavor and whip stiff one pint of cream. Add to cream one-half
pound of marshmallows cut into small pieces. Set on ice to chill.
Then add one-half pound of blanched almonds chopped fine and garnish
with maraschino cherries. Line bowl in which cream is put after being
whipped, with powdered lady fingers or macaroons.
Beat whites of three eggs stiff and add one heaping teaspoonful of
baking powder and the above ingredients. Cut the dates and almonds into
small pieces. Put mixture in a pudding pan set inside of a pan of water
and bake in oven one hour. Cover while cooking. Serve with cream.
SYLLABUB
Sweeten the cream and when the sugar has dissolved, stir in the
wine carefully. Add the vanilla and beat to a stiff froth. Serve in
glasses.
U. D. C. PUDDING
Add a tablespoonful of sugar to each egg, beat well, leaving out the
whites. To the yolks and sugar add one cup of sherry wine and cook to
a thick custard in double boiler. To the custard while hot add one
tablespoonful of gelatine dissolved in one-half cup of water, then
whip in lightly the beaten whites. Roll out macaroons or Social Teas
into dust. Into a bowl begin to lay cracker dust, pineapple, nuts and
cherries. When you have used half the ingredients, pour over it the
other half of the fruits and custard, sprinkling the top with cracker
dust. Put into refrigerator to congeal. Serve with whipped cream (no
sugar or flavoring in cream).
RHUBARB PIE
1 pint of Rhubarb,
1 tablespoonful of flour,
1 cupful of sugar,
¹⁄₄ teaspoonful of soda.
Remove the skin, and cut into small pieces enough rhubarb to fill a
pint bowl. Add the soda, and pour over it boiling water to cover. Let
stand fifteen minutes and pour off the water. Line a deep plate with a
rich crust. Put in the rhubarb, sugar and flour, cover with crust. Bake
twenty minutes or half an hour.
CREAM PUFFS
Stir one-half pound of butter into a pint of warm water, set it on the
fire in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil, stirring often. When it
boils put in three fourths of a pound of flour and let boil one minute,
stirring constantly. Take from the fire and turn into a deep dish to
cool. Beat eight eggs light, and whip into this cool paste, first the
yolks, then the whites. Drop in great spoonsful on buttered paper so as
not to touch or run into each other, and bake ten minutes. Split them
and fill with the following cream:
Stir while boiling and when thick, add a teaspoonful of butter. When
cold, flavor.
BROWN BETTY
Pare and slice apples thin. Put alternate layers of apples and bread
crumbs sprinkled with cinnamon, bits of butter, and brown sugar in
buttered baking dish. Then add one cup of water and bake until apples
are thoroughly done and brown on top.
6 apples,
Grated rind and juice of one lemon,
¹⁄₂ cup of sugar,
1 teaspoon cinnamon,
2 macaroons rolled,
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt,
2 tablespoons butter,
2 eggs slightly beaten.
Pare and slice apples, add one-quarter cup of water; cook until soft,
and rub through a sieve; add other ingredients in order given. Line a
deep plate or patty tins with rich paste, fill, and bake about forty
minutes. Cake crumbs may be substituted for macaroons.
CARAMEL CUSTARD
Line a pie plate with nice pastry. For one custard allow one egg
well beaten, one cup of brown sugar, four teaspoonsful of milk, one
tablespoonful of flour or starch and a piece of butter the size of an
egg. Pour this in the crust and bake. After baking make a meringue and
bake a delicate brown.
PALMETTO MARMALADE
Put all together on to cook and cook until thick and a pretty red
color.
Six eggs,
One and one-half cups of sugar,
Two tablespoonsful of butter,
Three lemons,
Two tablespoonsful of flour,
One-half teaspoonful of baking powder,
One cup of milk.
To well beaten yolks add sugar, flour, milk, butter, baking powder,
juice and grated rind of three lemons. Cook in double boiler until
thick and then bake on a nice crust. After baking, make a meringue of
the whites and bake a delicate brown.
NUT BREAD
Beat egg and sugar together, then add milk and salt. Sift the
baking-powder into the dry flour, and put all the ingredients together.
Add the nuts last, covering with a little flour, to prevent falling,
and bake in a moderate oven one hour.
CHOCOLATE PUDDING
Pour hot water on the stale bread and let soak until soft. Then add
other ingredients and bake for three hours in a moderate oven. If eaten
cold, serve with hot sauce. If eaten hot, serve with cold sauce.
Add lemon juice and grated rind to the raisins. Then add one cup of
sugar and two tablespoonsful of water. Bake between upper and lower
crusts.
Add one-half cup of cream or milk and five tablespoonsful of wine. Stir
constantly while cooking until dissolved and creamy. Flavor to taste
with vanilla or nutmeg.
CRANBERRY SURPRISE
Crumble three lady fingers into a baking dish, cover with a thin layer
of cranberry preserves or jelly. Dot with small lumps of butter and add
a sprinkle of cinnamon. Beat three eggs separately very light and add
two cups of milk. Pour over the fruit and cake. Bake as a custard and
serve with whipped cream.
Mix well the yolks of two eggs, one cup of molasses, one scant cup of
sugar, one cup of buttermilk with pinch of soda and two tablespoonsful
of flour. Flavor with cinnamon and vanilla. Cook in double boiler until
thick, then bake on a rich pie crust. Use the whites for meringue.
JELLIED APPLES
Put on four cups of sugar and four cups of water with six cloves and
bring to boiling point.
Peel and core apples and drop them into boiling syrup. Cover kettle and
let apples steam slowly until they are clear and tender. Pour last of
syrup over fruit and serve.
Grate three medium sized potatoes. Beat together one cup of sugar,
three eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, one pint of milk, and add to
the grated potato.
Pour in a buttered pan, drop bits of butter on top and bake one hour in
a moderate oven. Flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla.
RAISIN ROLLS
Beat the egg, add sugar, salt, lemon juice and grated rind. Roll
cracker fine, chop raisins and mix all together. Roll the crust thin,
cut into rounds. Put a spoonful of filling between two rounds and pinch
the edges together. Prick top crust with fork. Bake in iron pan for
twenty minutes.
Mix in order given, sifting dry materials together before adding. Turn
into a greased bread pan, let stand fifteen minutes, and bake in a
moderate oven one hour.
Take rich pie crust, roll thin as for pie and cut into rounds as large
as a tea plate. Pare and slice fine, one small apple for each dumpling.
Lay the apple on the crust, sprinkle on tiny bit of sugar and nutmeg,
turn edges of crust over the apple and press together. Bake in a hot
oven for twenty minutes. Serve hot with cold sauce.
Beat eggs and sugar carefully together while milk is scalding. Then
add gradually scalded milk, put back on stove and cook until thick,
stirring constantly to prevent lumping. When cool, add any flavoring
desired.
Sift one quart of flour and into the flour put one pound of raisins,
one pound of currants, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one pound of
sugar, one grated nutmeg, one teaspoonful of ground spice. Beat four
eggs and add after mixing the fruit well in the flour, and mix with
enough water to make a stiff batter as for fruit cake. Boil or bake and
serve with sauce. Cook for about two hours.
Force potatoes through a ricer; beat the eggs and mix with potatoes;
add other ingredients, pour into buttered baking dish or cups, and bake
in a slow oven until firm.
BANANA CUSTARD
Cook in double boiler until thick. When cool, add one teaspoonful of
vanilla. Bake on a nice crust. When cool, cover pie with thin slices of
banana, then the meringue, and bake a delicate brown.
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
Make regular pie crust and roll it into two sheets, each about one-half
inch thick. Bake in well-greased pan, laying one sheet on top of the
other. When done and while warm separate them. When cold put between
the crusts a thick layer of strawberries well sprinkled with powdered
sugar. Arrange largest berries on top. Cut in wedge-shaped pieces and
serve with sweetened whipped cream.
TAPIOCA CUSTARD
One quart of milk and one cup of soaked and drained tapioca should be
placed in a double boiler and cooked until the tapioca is transparent;
then add one cup of sugar and the yolks of three well beaten eggs. Let
it cook for a few minutes, flavor as desired and pour into a bowl.
Cover the top with the whites of the eggs beaten stiff and sweetened.
BAVARIAN CREAM
One quart of sweet cream whipped with two cups of sugar as stiff as
for syllabub, two-thirds of a box of gelatine dissolved over the fire
in two cups of milk, stirring constantly. Let cool. Flavor cream to
taste, then beat in the milk and gelatine. If desired, fruits, nuts,
and maraschino cherries may be added.
CRANBERRY SNOW
Whip stiff the white of one egg and add alternately and gradually three
tablespoonsful of sugar and a cup of cranberry sauce. Continue to whip
until it has reached at least a pint and a half in quantity, for it
swells surprisingly. Finely chopped nuts may be added if desired.
CHOCOLATE PIE
Beat yolks together with butter, sugar, milk and flour. Cook in double
boiler until thick, then bake on a nice crust. Use whites for meringue.
PUMPKIN PIE
Boil one large chicken until tender and when cold cut in dice. To diced
chicken add four hard boiled eggs mashed fine, one and a half bunches
of celery chopped fine and salt and pepper to taste. Mix well with oil
dressing and the juice of one lemon.
POTATO SALAD
Five medium sized, cold, boiled Irish potatoes, diced; three hard
boiled eggs and a few pieces of parsley chopped fine, and one cup of
diced celery. Season with salt, black and red pepper and mix well with
oil dressing.
Beat yolks until thick; then add salt, pepper, mustard and part of
lemon juice. Lastly add the oil one drop at a time at first, then
slowly until dressing is thick, and then the remainder of the lemon
juice.
TOMATO JELLY
Cover one-half box of gelatine with one and one-half cups of cold
water. Stew one quart can of tomatoes until tender and strain. Season
with salt, pepper and sugar to taste and bring to boiling point. Pour
hot tomato juice into the melted gelatine and add to this one hard
boiled egg sliced thin. One small bottle of stuffed olives sliced thin
and one-half cup of nuts. Pour into small molds wet with cold water and
serve on lettuce with oil dressing.
FRENCH DRESSING
Put the ingredients in a pint preserve jar; fasten the cover, chill
and shake well before using. Keep in the ice-box and use as needed.
For use with fruit salad, omit mustard, Curry, Brand’s A1 sauce,
Worchestershire sauce, tomato ketchup, or similar condiments may be
added in small amounts to vary the flavor.
WALDORF SALAD
Two cups of apples peeled and diced. Two cups of celery and one cup of
nuts. Mix well together with oil dressing.
SHRIMP SALAD
For each person allow two lettuce leaves, one slice of pineapple and
three dates stuffed with cream cheese. Cut the pineapple in cubes and
place on the lettuce; cut dates in halves lengthwise, remove stones,
stuff with cream cheese and arrange on pineapple; sprinkle cheese with
paprika and dress all with French Dressing.
Cut the white of each egg into six long petals. Arrange the pieces in
circular form on the lettuce. Form the center of each Lily by putting
in the yolks, well mixed with mayonnaise.
MARSHMALLOW SALAD
Whip the cream, sweeten and flavor to taste. Mix the cream and the
dressing. Put in the fruit, but do not use the juice of the fruit. Pack
the mixture in coffee or baking powder cans and let them remain in the
ice four or five hours. A small tub can be used to set the cans in and
pack ice and salt around them.
Soups
Boil one chicken and one rabbit or squirrel in two or three quarts of
water. When about half done add one quart of lima beans, one quart of
tomatoes, one quart of corn and butter the size of two eggs. Season to
taste with salt and pepper and cook until thick enough to eat with a
fork.
Pick over and wash two-thirds of a cupful of white beans. Put on the
back of the stove in cold water. Let these boil slowly, while the
dinner is cooking. When the boiled dinner has been taken up, put
these beans into the liquor in which the dinner was cooked. Boil one
hour. Wet three tablespoonsful of flour with water, and stir in while
boiling, to thicken. Serve hot, adding a little milk, if you like.
Three stalks of celery, chopped fine, one slice of onion, three cupfuls
of milk. Boil for twenty minutes, then add three tablespoonsful of
melted butter. Thicken with three tablespoonsful of flour dissolved in
a little milk. Add salt and pepper to taste, then one cupful of cream
and serve hot.
TOMATO BISQUE
Put a quart of tomatoes in a kettle and boil for about twenty minutes
or until juice is thick. Season with salt, pepper and sugar to taste,
then add one-half teaspoonful of soda. Strain and add to hot strained
juice one pint of scalded milk. Boil a few minutes and serve with
oyster crackers or squares of toast.
Put tomatoes, onion, parsley, salt and pepper on to cook. When cooling
add flour and butter which have been creamed together. Cook until thick.
4 potatoes,
3 pints of milk,
Piece of butter size of an egg,
Small piece of onion.
Take four large potatoes, boil until done and mash smooth, adding
butter and salt to taste. Heat the milk in a double boiler, cook
the onion in it a few minutes and then remove. Pour the milk slowly
on the potato, strain, heat and serve immediately. Thicken with one
tablespoonful of flour.
CREAM OF TOMATO
25 oysters,
1 teaspoonful of flour,
1 quart of milk,
Butter,
Salt.
Take twenty-five oysters, with their liquor and put these into an agate
dish on the stove with salt to taste, in a pint of cold water. Boil
five minutes. Stir into this one heaping teaspoonful of flour, which
has been wet with two tablespoonsful of cold water. Add one quart of
milk. Let it come to a boil, but be sure not to have it boil. Remove
from the fire, and add a piece of butter the size of an egg. This is
sufficient for eight people.
Rinse the peas with cold water, and reserve one-fourth cup; simmer
the remainder with seasonings and hot water for twenty minutes, and
press through a sieve; thicken the milk with butter and flour blended
together, and add to peas. Add the whole peas just before serving.
Cook stock, onion, and celery for fifteen minutes, and strain; add hot
milk and seasonings, and thicken with chicken fat and flour blended
together. The amount of salt will depend upon the quantity in the
stock. Celery salt may be used in place of celery tops.
OATMEAL SOUP
Cook oatmeal, onion, cloves, and bay leaf in boiling water for twenty
minutes, and press through a sieve; add milk, seasonings, and butter,
and serve with croutons.
Vegetables
Mix well together, leaving out whites for meringue. Pour into baking
dish and cook in hot oven. When cool, beat whites of eggs stiff,
sweeten and flavor, spread on top of pudding and bake a delicate brown.
DIXIE POTATOES
4 or 5 baked potatoes,
1 pint of milk,
¹⁄₂ teaspoonful of salt,
Butter, the size of a walnut.
Pare the potatoes and cut into small pieces. Put them on the stove,
in an agate dish, salt and cover with milk. Let them cook fifteen or
twenty minutes, then thicken with one tablespoonful of flour, stirred
with half a cupful of water; put in the butter and serve hot.
Select large Irish potatoes and bake. When done cut in half, take meat
of potato from shell, mix with little salt, pepper and grated cheese.
Put back in shell, put butter on top and bake light brown.
Cut raw potatoes into small cubes and put into baking dish. Add salt,
pepper and pieces of butter. Cover with sweet milk and cook in the oven.
STUFFED TOMATOES
Peel large ripe tomatoes and cut in quarters, place in the center of
each tomato one tablespoonful of ground stuffed olives, one teaspoonful
of ground, hard boiled egg, one teaspoonful of English walnuts or
pecans. Serve on lettuce with oil dressing and grated cheese sprinkled
on top of dressing.
SCALLOPED TOMATOES IN SHELLS
Put macaroni on to boil in water with a little salt. When tender drain
off water. Put in a baking dish first a layer of macaroni, then cheese,
crumbs and butter. Pour milk over it and bake.
Beat together until smooth, and add two well beaten eggs and one cup of
sweet milk. Pour into a baking dish, bake quickly and serve immediately.
STEWED CELERY
Wash 4 heads and take off the green leaves. Cut into pieces 3 or 4
inches long, put into a stew-pan with ¹⁄₂ pint of meat broth, stew
till tender. Add a little cream and seasoning; also a little flour and
butter, and simmer together.
BAKED TOMATOES
Take out from the top the inside of large tomatoes, with this mix bread
crumbs, butter, pepper, salt, a little sugar and some chopped onions.
Fill the tomatoes with this, set them in a deep dish or plate and bake
slowly for ¹⁄₂ hour.
Boil 6 small sized sweet potatoes, peel them and lay on a shallow plate
or pan. Put a teaspoon butter on each potato, sprinkle on them ¹⁄₂ cup
of brown sugar, 2 tablespoons water in pan, cook slowly and baste as
you would meat. Cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and lemon peel improve the
flavor.
BOILED TURNIPS
Cut the corn off the cob, boil in a little water 15 or 20 minutes. When
done, add a cup of milk or cream, a little butter, and season to taste.
Mash some mealy potatoes smooth, season, and add butter and cream till
quite moist; make up into balls, dip in beaten eggs, roll in bread
crumbs, and fry in butter to a nice brown.
POTATO CHIPS
Pare the potatoes, shave them very thin, soak for ¹⁄₂ hour in ice-cold
salted water; drain in a colander, and spread upon a dry towel; fry a
few at a time in very hot fat, 1 minute being sufficient to cook and
brown them properly, sprinkle lightly with salt, and when needed at
table, heat quickly in the oven.
4 large potatoes,
³⁄₄ teaspoon salt,
4 tablespoons grated cheese,
¹⁄₄ teaspoon paprika,
¹⁄₄ cup hot milk,
4 slices bacon.
Wash potatoes and bake in a hot oven forty-five minutes; cut in halves
lengthwise, remove potato, and force through potato ricer; add cheese,
seasonings, and hot milk; beat vigorously, and refill potato skins;
place half a slice of bacon on top of each, and put on the upper grate
of a hot oven until bacon is crisp.
One qt. sweet potatoes, peeled and grated; pour over the grated potato
1 pint boiling water, stir it well; add 1 tea-cup brown sugar, 2
tea-cups molasses, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 heaping tablespoon powdered
ginger, 1 tea-cup milk; pour into a baking dish and bake slowly for
about 2 hours.
SCALLOPED POTATOES
Butter a baking-dish, pare and slice potatoes in small pieces. Put into
the dish with salt, pepper and a little butter. Fill the dish with
milk, sprinkle over the top cracker, or bread crumbs, and cheese if you
like it. Bake in the oven for an hour and a half or two hours.
Cut cold boiled sweet potatoes into eighths lengthwise, fry in deep fat
until brown, drain on soft paper, and sprinkle with salt.
Cut a small egg plant in one-third-inch slices; pare; cut each slice
in quarters; soak in cold salted water for half an hour; drain; season
with pepper and salt, dip in crumbs, then in egg, and then in crumbs
again; and fry in deep fat about three minutes. Or dip in flour and
sauté in butter.
Transcriber’s Notes
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tablesponful” changed to “one tablespoonful”
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