Mix rice, nut meats, cracker crumbs; then add egg well beaten, the milk, salt and pepper.
Turn into b.u.t.tered bread pan; pour over b.u.t.ter, cover and bake in a moderate oven 1 hour.
Put on hot platter and pour around same this sauce:
Cook 3 tablespoons b.u.t.ter with slice of onion and a few pimentos, stirring constantly. Add 3 tablespoons flour; stir, pour in gradually 1 1/2 cups milk.
Season and strain.
"I am in earnest. I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--AND I WILL BE HEARD."
WM. LLOYD GARRISON.
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Nut Hash
Nut hash is a good breakfast dish. Chop fine cold boiled potatoes and any other vegetable which is on hand and put into b.u.t.tered frying pan, heat quickly and thoroughly, salt to taste, and just before removing from the fire stir in lightly a large spoonful of peanut meal for each person to be served. To prepare the meal at home, procure raw nuts, sh.e.l.l them and put in the oven just long enough to loosen the brown skin; rub these off and put the nuts through the grinder adjusted to make meal rather than an oily mixture. This put in gla.s.s jars, and kept in a cool place will be good for weeks. It may too, be used for thickening soups or sauces, or may be added in small quant.i.ties to breakfast m.u.f.fins and griddle-cakes.
Potato soup, cream of pea, corn or asparagus and bean soup may be made after the ordinary recipes, omitting the b.u.t.ter and flour and adding four tablespoons of peanut meal.
Nut Turkey
Nut turkey for Thanksgiving instead of the national bird, made by mixing one quart of sifted dry bread crumbs with one pint of chopped English walnuts--any other kind of nuts will go--and one cupful of peanuts, simply washed and dried, and adding a level teaspoon of sage, two of salt, a tablespoon of chopped parsley, two raw eggs, not beaten, and sufficient water to bind the ma.s.s together. Then form into the shape of a turkey, with pieces of macaroni to form the leg bones. Brush with a little b.u.t.ter and bake an hour in a slow oven and serve with drawn b.u.t.ter sauce.
A dinner roast made of nuts and cheese contains the elements of meat.
Cook two tablespoons of chopped onion in a tablespoon of b.u.t.ter and a little water until it is tender, then mix with it one cupful each of grated cheese, chopped English walnuts and bread crumbs, salt and pepper to taste and the juice of half a lemon; moisten with water, using that in which the onion has been cooked; put into a shallow baking dish and brown in the oven.
Hickory nut loaf is another dish which can take the place of meat at dinner. Mix two cups of rolled oats, a cupful each of celery and milk, two cups of bread crumbs and two eggs, season and shape, then bake 20 minutes. Serve with a gravy made like other gravy, with the addition of a teaspoon of rolled nuts.
Nut Sc.r.a.pple
On a crisp winter morning a dish of nut sc.r.a.pple is very appetizing and just as nutritious as that made of pork. To make it, take two cupfuls of cornmeal, one of hominy and a tablespoon of salt and cook in a double boiler, with just enough boiling water until it is of the consistency of frying. While still hot add two cupfuls of nut meats which had been put through the chopper; pour into b.u.t.tered pan and use like other sc.r.a.pple.
Peanut omelet is a delicious way to serve nuts. Make a cream sauce with one tablespoon of b.u.t.ter, two tablespoons of flour and three-quarters of a cupful of flour and three-quarters of a cupful of milk poured in slowly. Take from the fire, season, add three-quarters of a cupful of ground peanuts and pour the mixture on the lightly beaten yolks of three eggs. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites, pour into a hot baking dish and bake for 20 minutes.
Nut Roast
3 eggs (beaten with egg beater) 2 cups English Walnut meats milk to moisten it 4 cups of bread crumbs (grated) 1 small tablespoon b.u.t.ter pinch salt.
1 1/2 cups of walnut meats will do. 1/4 lb. of the meats is 1 1/2 cups.
A 1/4 lb. of the meats equals 1/2 lb. in the sh.e.l.ls and the labor of sh.e.l.ling is saved.
Melt b.u.t.ter and pour over mixture, salt, then add enough milk to moisten, so as to form the shape of a loaf of bread. Too little milk will cause the loaf to separate, likewise, too much will make it mushy.
Chop walnuts exceedingly fine. Bake between 20 to 30 minutes in b.u.t.tered bread pan or baking dish. A small slice goes very far as it is solid and rich. Serve with hot tomato sauce.
This makes a delicious luncheon dish, served with peas and a nice salad.
Oatmeal Nut Loaf
Oatmeal nut loaf can be served cold in place of meat for Sunday night tea. Put two cups of water in a sauce pan; when boiling add a cupful of oatmeal, stirring until thick; then stir in a cupful of peanuts that have been twice through the grinder, two tablespoons of salt, half a teaspoon of b.u.t.ter, and pack into a tin bucket with a tight fitting lid and steam for two hours; slice down when cold. This will keep several days if left in the covered tin and kept in a cool place. A delicious sandwich filling can be made from chopped raisins and nuts mixed with a little orange or lemon juice. Cooked prunes may be used instead of raisins.
Rastus: "So you wife am one of dem Suffragettes?
Why don"t yo show her de evil ob sech pernicious doctrine by telling her her place am beside de fireside?"
Sambo: "Huh! She dun shoot back sayin" dat if it wasn"t foh her takin" in washin" dere wouldn"t be any fireside."--Puck.
VEGETABLES
Cream Potatoes
Bake the potatoes in a slow oven. When perfectly cold slice rather thin.
Put into a pan, sprinkle on a little flour and toss the potatoes about with your hand until some flour adheres to each piece. Cover these floured potatoes with small bits of b.u.t.ter. If the b.u.t.ter is put in in one piece the potatoes get broken before the b.u.t.ter reaches them all.
Sprinkle in a little salt and put in enough cream so that they are about half covered. If you use more cream they will cook too tender and be mushy before the cream is cooked down. Stand by them. Stir with a knife blade lifting them from the bottom but not turning them over.
When they begin to glisten lift them to a hot serving dish and put them where they will keep warm but will not cook any further.
If you have not cream add a little more b.u.t.ter but the cream is better than the b.u.t.ter.
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, President, Ohio Women"s Suffrage a.s.sociation.
Warren, Ohio.
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French Fried Potatoes
Wash and pare the potatoes and cut into any desired shape. Drain well.
Fry in smoking fat until nicely browned, then drain on browned paper.
Season well and serve.
Potatoes Au Gratin
Cut cold boiled potatoes into cubes and make a cream dressing. b.u.t.ter the baking dish, put in a layer of potatoes and then a layer of the dressing, then sprinkle with a little parmesan cheese; now a layer of potatoes and then a layer of dressing and then cheese, put in oven and allow them to brown.