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A bachelors cupboard

1906

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Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
a " zabajone a la Milanaise," and fancy eating it while Enrico sings an impassioned love song from '' II Trova- tore " or " Carmen " ! But of course the two don't go together, so the average person will have to sample either by itself. Take for six persons five yolks of eggs and beat them, with a Dover egg beater until they are thick, adding for each egg one and one-half tea- spoonfuls of powdered sugar. Cook this in a double boiler, beating constantly, until the mixture is light and fluffy. Then add drop by drop one half egg-shell full of Marsala wine for each two eggsZabajone a la Milanaise. Serve at once in cups or punch glasses. Care should be taken not to cook this until it curdles, or to put in too much wine. It should be of the consistency of whipped cream. NORWE- Superintending the building of an Irriga- GIAN BUT- tion ditch in the Big Horn Basin of Wyo- TERED ming has been a young Norwegian civil engineer, one O. J. Midthun by name, and '' Mid " for short. " Mid " is an epicure of the deep- est dye, and patrons of the hotel Irma at Cody will not forget the sanguinary struggle between the clerk and the chef — and all because "Mid " inaugurated the cus- tom of cognac with coffee after dinner in Buffalo Bill's big hotel. But this is digressing, for I was about to give " Mid's " recipe for buttered eggs as served in his Norwegian home at high tea, but which may be served as a luncheon dish or a snack after the play. Four new-laid eggs are required, and two ounces of 1 06 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Bachelor Bonnes Bouchees butter, a small onion, and chopped parsley. The eggs, well beaten, are poured into the blazer. In which the butter has been melting, together with chopped onion and the parsley, salt, and pepperButtered Eggs. Keep stirring one way until the mixture is thick, and serve hot — and there you have the favorite bonne bouchee from Christiania. SAUSAGES When Prince Henry was feted In New AND York nothing pleased him more than a CELERY breakfast dish of sausages and celery which was served him. His Prussian palate was tickled so delightfully by this dainty that it is doubt- less still being served him on his Highness's royal yacht. To do them, prick as many small sausages as you think the appetites of your party demand. This prevents them from bursting. Put in the blazer and cover with a quarter-cup of boiling water, and cook until all the water is evaporated. Uncover and brown, adding a little butter, or better still, some bacon fat. Two or three minutes before they are done add two tablespoonfuls of chopped celerySausages and Celery and cook just long enough to be tender, but not enough to lose the fresh cel- ery taste. Serve either on slices of brown bread or toast. A SUBLIME Out in the Canadian Rockies, not many SAND- miles from Banff the Beautiful, there is a WICH member of the Northwestern Mounted Police force, the scion of a titled English family, with a house In Belgravia and a superb estate In Cumberland, who loves the free, wild life of the hills in the new coun- try, and lives it In preference to the hothouse existence 107 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Bachelor Bonnes Bouchees