SAUCE PIQUANTE.
Melt a heaping tablespoonful of b.u.t.ter in a spider and when it bubbles stir into it a heaping tablespoonful of flour, cook until it turns a dark brown, taking care not to let it burn, add to it enough well-seasoned vegetable stock to make the sauce the proper consistency, then pour it into a granite-ware saucepan and add one small cuc.u.mber pickle, two olives and a few capers, all chopped very fine; season with salt and pepper to taste.
Sandwiches.
CHEESE SANDWICHES.
Half a pound of grated cheese, one tablespoonful of b.u.t.ter, the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs mashed very fine and a teaspoonful of mayonnaise dressing. Mix the ingredients thoroughly; b.u.t.ter before cutting from the loaf some slices of brown or white home-made bread; spread with the mixture and fold together.
CELERY SANDWICHES.
Use dainty little baking powder biscuits freshly baked but cold, or white home-made bread for these sandwiches. Only the very tender part of celery should be used and chopped fine and put in iced water until needed. Add a few chopped walnuts to the celery and enough mayonnaise dressing to hold them together; b.u.t.ter the bread before cutting from the loaf, spread one slice with the mixture and press another over it. If biscuits are used, split and b.u.t.ter them. They should be small and very thin for this purpose and browned delicately.
NUT AND CREAM CHEESE SANDWICHES.
Boston brown bread b.u.t.tered on the loaf and cut in very thin slices; spread with a filling of cream cheese and chopped walnut meats; press a b.u.t.tered slice over it. They may be cut in fingers, rounds or half-moons. The proportion is three-quarters of a cup of nuts to a ten-cent package of Philadelphia cream cheese. This quant.i.ty will make a large number of sandwiches.
NUT SANDWICHES.
Graham, rye, and Boston brown bread make very nice sandwiches. b.u.t.ter the loaf and cut in very thin slices, sprinkle with chopped nuts and fold together.
WHOLE WHEAT BREAD AND PEANUT SANDWICHES.
Chop the nuts very fine, b.u.t.ter the bread before cutting from the loaf, sprinkle the nuts thickly over the b.u.t.ter, press two slices together.
Boston brown bread with raisins is also nice for these sandwiches.
OLIVE SANDWICHES.
Prepare the bread and b.u.t.ter as for other sandwiches. It may be cut in squares, rounds or triangles to suit the fancy. Stone and chop as many Queen olives as needed and mix with them enough mayonnaise dressing to hold together, spread half the number of bread slices with the mixture and cover with the other half.
Brown, rye, whole wheat or white bread may be used. Home-made is preferable, but it must be twelve hours old. Sandwiches may be sweet or savory, may be cut round, square, or in triangles.
Sundries.
CRACKERS AND CHEESE TOASTED.
b.u.t.ter some zepherettes and sprinkle thickly with grated Parmesan cheese, bake in a quick oven, or toast on a gridiron; serve hot.
CRACKERS WITH CREAM CHEESE AND GUAVA JELLY.
Spread zepherettes with cream cheese and dot with Guava jelly.
WELSH RAREBIT.
Half a pound of American cheese, two b.u.t.ter b.a.l.l.s, two eggs, half a teaspoonful of mustard, a saltspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne pepper, half a cup of milk and an even saltspoonful of soda. Cut the cheese fine, melt the b.u.t.ter in a chafing dish or spider, stir the mustard, salt and pepper with it, then add the cheese and milk; when the cheese is dissolved add the eggs slightly beaten and stir until it thickens. Serve on toast.
CHEESE SOUFFLe.
Melt one tablespoonful of b.u.t.ter in a spider, add to it a slightly heaping tablespoonful of flour and one cup of hot milk, half a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne pepper and one cup of grated Parmesan cheese; then add the yolks of three eggs beaten light, remove from the fire and let it cool; then add the whites of eggs beaten stiff, turn into a pudding dish, bake twenty-five minutes and serve immediately.
CHEESE STRAWS.
Take two ounces of flour and three ounces of Parmesan cheese grated (it is better to buy the cheese by the pound and have it grated at home), and two ounces of b.u.t.ter. Rub the b.u.t.ter into the flour, add the cheese and a little salt and cayenne pepper, and make into a paste with the yolk of an egg; roll the paste out in a sheet about an eighth of an inch thick and five inches wide and cut in narrow strips; bake in a hot oven about ten minutes.
PaTE a CHOU FOR SOUPS.
Put a gill of milk and an ounce of b.u.t.ter into a saucepan over the fire; when it comes to the boiling point add two ounces of sifted flour; stir with a wooden spoon until thick and smooth, then add two eggs, one at a time, beating briskly; remove from the fire and spread out thin, cut in pieces, the size of a small bean, put them in a sieve, dredge with flour, shake it well and fry in boiling fat until a nice brown. Add to the soup after it is in the tureen.
A FILLING FOR PATTIES.
Break two eggs in a bowl, add a little salt and white pepper, a few drops of onion juice and four tablespoonfuls of cream, beat slightly; turn into a b.u.t.tered tin cup, stand in a saucepan with a little boiling water in it on the stove, cover and cook until stiff--about three or four minutes--remove from the fire, turn out of the cup. When ready to use cut in half-inch slices and then into stars or any fancy shape preferred, or into dice. Make a cream sauce thicker than for other uses, that it may not run through the pastry; put them in the sauce, bring to the boiling point and fill the patties just as they are to be served.
GRUEL OF KERNEL FLOUR OR MIDDLINGS.
Put a pint of boiling water in a saucepan over the fire; mix two heaping teaspoonfuls of the flour with a little cold water and stir into the boiling water. Let it boil twenty minutes, add a little cream to it and salt. Very nutritious.
KOUMYSS.
Dissolve a third of a cake of compressed yeast in a little tepid water; take a quart of milk, fresh from the cow, or warmed to blood heat, and add to it a tablespoonful of sugar and the dissolved yeast. Put the mixture immediately in beer bottles with patent stoppers, filling to the neck, and let them stand for twelve hours where bread would be set to rise--that is, in a temperature of 68 or 70 degrees--then stand the bottles upside down on ice until wanted.
HOME-MADE BAKING POWDER.
Procure from a reliable druggist one-half pound of the best bicarbonate of soda, one pound of cream of tartar and one-half pound of Kingsford"s cornstarch. Mix thoroughly and sift three times, put up in small tins.
The best baking powder.
VANILLA EXTRACT.