Wednesday, August 26, 2015

FRENCH OMELET


For a very small omelet beat 2 whole eggs and the yokes of two more until a full spoonful can be taken up. Add 3 tablespoonfuls of water, ¼ of a teaspoonful of salt, and a dash of pepper, and when well mixed turn into a hot omelet pan, in which a tablespoonful of butter has been melted, lift the edges up carefully and let the uncooked part run under. When all is cooked garnish with parsley.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, and gradually beat into it one cupful of sugar. When this is light, beat in half a cupful of milk, a little at a time, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth. Mix half a teaspoonful of baking powder with two scant cupfuls of sifted flour. Stir the flour and whites of eggs alternately into the mixture. Have three deep tin plates well buttered, and spread two-thirds of the batter in two of them.
Into the remaining batter stir one ounce of  Chocolate, melted, and spread this batter in the third plate. Bake the cakes in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes. Put a layer of white cake on a large plate, and spread with white icing. Put the dark cake on this, and also spread with white icing. On this put the third cake. Spread with chocolate icing.
TO MAKE THE ICING. Put into a granite-ware saucepan two gills of sugar and one of water, and boil gently until bubbles begin to come from the bottom—say, about five minutes. Take from the fire instantly. Do not stir or shake the sugar while it is cooking. Pour the hot syrup in a thin stream into the whites of two eggs that have been beaten to a stiff froth, beating the mixture all the time. Continue to beat until the icing is thick. Flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla. Use two-thirds of this as a white icing, and to the remaining third add one ounce of melted chocolate. To melt the chocolate, shave it fine and put in a cup, which is then to be placed in a pan of boiling water.

STEWED BREAST OF LAMB


Cut a breast of lamb into small pieces, season, and stew until tender in enough gravy to cover the meat. Thicken the sauce, flavor with a wine-glass of wine, pile in the centre of a platter and garnish with green peas.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

BOLOGNA SANDWICH


Take off the skin from a bologna sausage. Rub to a paste. Spread slices of rye bread with butter and if liked, a little French mustard, then a layer of the bologna. Put two slices together.

HUNGARIAN CHICKEN


Joint a fowl as for fricassee; put it on the fire in enough cold water to cover it; bring it to a boil slowly, and cook until tender. Unless the chicken is quite young this should require from 2 to 3 hours. When it has been simmering about an hour put in a sliced onion, 2 stalks of celery, 3 sprigs of parsley, and a teaspoonful of paprika. When the chicken is done, arrange it in a dish, add to the gravy salt to taste and the juice of ½ a lemon and pour it over the chicken.—

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

BEAN CROQUETTES


Soak 1 qt. of white soup beans over night. In the morning, drain, cover with fresh cold water, bring to a boil, drain, and cover with 1 qt. boiling water; boil slowly for about an hour. When the beans are tender press through a sieve then add 1 tablespoonful of vinegar, 2 of molasses, 2 of butter, salt and cayenne to taste, let the mixture get cold, when form into croquettes, dip in egg and in bread crumbs and fry in boiling fat.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

CHERRY NUT BREAD PUDDING

Cherry Nut Bread Pudding:
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup molasses
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped cherries
3/4 cup chopped nuts
1 (16 oz.) loaf raisin bread, cut into cubes
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Mix together the first 5 ingredients; then fold in the cherries and nuts; then the bread. Bake in a greased 8x8-inch pan at 325 F. until set (about 30 minutes). Garnish each serving with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

HUNGARISON CHICKEN

Hungarian Chicken.

Joint a fowl as for fricassee; put it on the fire in enough cold water to cover it; bring it to a boil slowly, and cook until tender. Unless the chicken is quite young this should require from 2 to 3 hours. When it has been simmering about an hour put in a sliced onion, 2 stalks of celery, 3 sprigs of parsley, and a teaspoonful of paprika. When the chicken is done, arrange it in a dish, add to the gravy salt to taste and the juice of ½ a lemon and pour it over the chicken.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

ONION SOUFFLE


Cook 3 tablespoonfuls of flour in four of butter; add ½ a cup of milk, season with salt and pepper. Mix this with 1 cupful of cooked onions put through a sieve; add three eggs beaten very light. Turn into a baking dish and stand in a pan of hot water. Bake ½ an hour.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

BAKED RICE CAKE


One pt. of cold boiled rice, mixed with a cup of cold milk, 1 egg, about ½ a pt. of flour just sufficient to hold it together. Put into a deep pan and bake ½ an hour.

CHOCLATE BISCUT

CHOCOLATE BISCUIT

Cover three large baking pans with paper that has been well oiled with washed butter. Over these dredge powdered sugar. Melt in a cup one ounce of Chocolate. Separate the whites and yolks of four eggs. Add to the yolks a generous half cupful of powdered sugar, and beat until light and firm. Add the melted chocolate, and beat a few minutes longer. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff, dry froth. Measure out three-fourths of a cupful of sifted flour, and stir it and the whites into the yolks. The whites and flour must be cut in as lightly as possible, and with very little stirring. Drop the mixture in teaspoonfuls on the buttered paper. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the cakes, and bake in a slow oven for about fourteen or fifteen minutes. The mixture can be shaped like lady fingers, if preferred.

CHICKEN FRITTERS


Season well, pieces of cold roast chicken. Make a fritter batter, stir the pieces in. Drop by spoonfuls into boiling fat. Lemon juice added to the seasoning is an improvement.