(Sprinkle over everything in the pan) 1 tumbler acetic acid (well shaken)
A little vitriol will add a delightful tang and a string of nonsense should be dropped in at the last as if by accident.
Stir all together with a sharp knife because some of the tid bits will be tough propositions.
--_Ebensburg Mountaineer Herald._
Husband (Angrily) "Great guns! What are they Lamb Chops, Pork Chops or Veal Chops?"
Wife (serenely) "Can"t you tell by the taste?"
He: "No, I can"t, nor anybody else!"
She: "Well, then, what"s the difference?"
Giblets and Rice
Boil 2 or 3 strings of chicken giblets (about 1 pound) until quite tender, drain, trim from bones and gristle and set aside.
Boil one cup rice in one quart water for fifteen minutes. Drain, put in double boiler with broth from giblets and let boil 1 hour. Brown 1 tablespoon flour in 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter and 1 teaspoon sugar, add 1 chopped onion, and boiling water until smooth and creamy, then add some bits of chopped pickles or olives, salt, pepper, teaspoonful of vinegar and lastly giblets, cover and let simmer for twenty minutes. Put rice into a chop dish, serve giblets in the center. May be garnished with tomato sauce or creamed mushrooms or pimentos.
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Sam"l Johnson.
Savory Lamb Stew
Take two pounds spring lamb and braise light with b.u.t.ter size of a walnut. Add 3 cups boiling water, 3 onions, salt and pepper, and let simmer slowly for 1/2 hour. Then add six peeled raw potatoes and small head of young cabbage (cut in eighths) cover closely and allow at least an hour"s slow boiling. This can be made on the stove, in the oven, or in fireless cooker.
The flavor of this dish can be varied by the addition of two or three tomatoes.
Squab Ca.s.serole
3 eggs boiled hard 1 teaspoon parsley, cut fine b.u.t.ter seasoning to taste 1 teaspoon parmesan a few little onions few potato b.a.l.l.s bread crumbs
Clean the squab and dry thoroughly. Cut eggs fine, add parsley, parmesan cheese and seasoning. Now stuff each squab with this stuffing, putting a small piece of b.u.t.ter in each bird and sew up.
Place in a baking pan with a lump of b.u.t.ter and brown nicely on all sides. Now add a little water and cover and cook slowly until well done.
While they are cooking add little onions and potato b.a.l.l.s to the gravy.
I have sent but one recipe to a cook book, and that was a direction for driving a nail, as it has always been declared that women do not know how to drive nails. But that was when nails were a peculiar shape and had to be driven in particular way, but now that nails are made round there is no special way in which they need to be driven. So my favorite recipe cannot be given you.
As for my effort in the culinary line--I have not made an effort in the culinary line for more than at least thirty years, except once to make a clam pie, which was p.r.o.nounced by my friends as very good. But I cannot remember how I made it. I have a favorite recipe, however, something of which I am very fond and which I might give to you. I got it out of the newspapers and it is as follows:
Spread one or two rashers of lean bacon on a baking tin, cover it thickly with slices of cheese, and sprinkle a little mustard and paprika over it. Bake it in a slow oven for half an hour and serve with slices of dry toast.
Now that is a particularly tasty dish if it is well done. I never did it, but somebody must be able to do it who could do it well.
Faithfully yours, ANNA H. SHAW.
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Daube
Brown a thick slice from a round of beef in a hot pan and season carefully, adding water to make a pan gravy; add also a pint of tomato juice and onion juice to taste; cover and simmer gently for at least an hour and a half; turn the meat frequently, keeping the gravy in sufficient quant.i.ty to insure that the meat shall be thoroughly moist and thoroughly seasoned.
When served, it should be, if carefully done, very tender. The gravy may be thickened or not, according to individual taste.
MRS. SAM"L SEMPLE.
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Liver a la Creole
Take a fine calf liver. Skin well and cut in thick slices. Season with salt and pepper. Fry in deep fat and drain.
Chop fine two tablespoons parsley. Melt two tablespoons b.u.t.ter, toss in parsley and pour at once over liver and serve.
Chicken Croquettes
1 pound of chicken 3 teaspoons chopped parsley 1 1/2 cups cream 1 small onion 1/4 pound b.u.t.ter 1/4 pound bread crumbs season to taste 1 pinch of paprika
Grind meat twice. Boil the onion with the cream and strain the onion out. Let cool and pour over crumbs. Add parsley and b.u.t.ter, and make a stiff mixture. Now add seasoning.
Mix all together by beating in the meat. If too thick add a little milk and form into croquettes, and put in ice box.
When cool dip in beaten egg and then in crackers or bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat.
Nuts as A Subst.i.tute for Meat
Although many are trying to eliminate so much meat from menus on account of its soaring cost, the person who performs hard labor must have in its place something which contains the chief const.i.tuents of meat, protein and fats, or the body will not respond to the demands made upon it because of lowered vitality from lack of food elements needed.
Scientific a.n.a.lyses have proven that nuts contain more food value to the pound than almost any other food product known. Ten cent"s worth of peanuts, for example, at 7 cents a pound will furnish more than twice the protein and six times more energy than could be obtained by the same outlay for a porterhouse steak at 25 cents a pound.
One reason for the tardy appreciation of the nutritive value of nuts is their reputation of indigestibility. The discomfort from eating them is often due to insufficient mastication and to the fact that they are usually eaten when not needed, as after a hearty meal or late at night, whereas, being so concentrated, they should const.i.tute an integral part of the menu, rather than supplement an already abundant meal, says the Philadelphia Ledger. They should be used in connection with more bulky carbohydrate foods, such as vegetables, fruits, bread, crackers, etc.; too concentrated nutriment is often the cause of digestive disturbance, for a certain bulkiness is essential to normal a.s.similation.
Pecan Nut Loaf
1 cup hot boiled rice 1 cup pecan nut meat (finely chopped) 1 cup cracker crumbs 1 egg 1 cup milk 1 1/4 teaspoons salt pepper to taste 1 teaspoon melted b.u.t.ter