Aunt Caroline's Dixieland recipes

BALTIMORE OYSTER STEW 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. CREAM OF PEA SOUP 1 can peas, \yi teaspoons salt, 1 slice onion, Yz teaspoon pepper, Bit of bay leaf, 2 cups boiling water. Sprig of parsley, 2 cups hot milk, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 tablespoons flour. 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. CREAM OF CHICKEN SOUP 3 cups of chicken stock, Salt, 1 slice onion, Yz teaspoon pepper, J4 cup celery tops, 2 tablespoons chicken fat or butter, ^ 1 cup hot milk, 3 tablespoons flour. 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 Ji cup cooked oatmeal, 2 cups hot milk, J4 onion sliced, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 cloves, Yz teaspoon celery salt, y2 bay leaf, y^, teaspoon pepper, 2 cups boiling water, Yi tablespoon butter. 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 GENERAL PICKETT CORN PUDDING One pint of fresh corn, or One can of corn, ^ Two eggs. One cup of sweet milk. One cup of sugar, Butter the size of an egg. Little salt. One tablespoonful of flour. One-fourth teaspoonful of baking powder. 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, ^2 teaspoonful of salt, Butter, the size of a walnut. Pare the potaoes 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. \ SOUTHERN CREAMED SWEET POTATOES To two cups of mashed sweet potatoes add one teaspoonful of cinnamon, on>e cup of sweet milk, one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup of seeded raisins and butter size of an egg. Cook in buttered baking dish and when done, cool, spread the top with mashmallows and brown in oven. STUFFED POTATOES WITH CHEESE