FoodNet

The Cook County cook book

1912

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Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
CREAMED PARSNIPS.— Peel, cut fine, and boil in salted wa- ter the desired amount of parsnips. Drain and pour into a vegeta- ble dish, and cover with a cream sauce made with 1 cup milk, lump of butter size of a walnut✪ Creamed Parsnips. — Mrs. Lighthart, 811 N. 19th Ave.., Maywood, 111. PARSNIP CROQUETTES.— Mash up left-over parsnips, add a little mashed potatoes, and mix with cracker or bread crumbs✪ Parsnip Croquettes. Form and drop into hot fat. — Jane Parker, 803 S. 2nd Ave., May- wood, 111. DELICIOUS PARSNIPS.— Peel parsnips, wash, cut into cubes, and boil in sufficient water to cover them until tender. Place in the oven a dish, in which put a good-sized lump of butter, let gradually melt, and when parsnips are cooked, drain, season with pepper and salt✪ Delicious Parsnips, place in a vegetable dish, and pour over them the melted butter, and serve hot. — Fred A. Daley, 6361 Sheridan Road, Chicago, 111. FRIED PARSNIPS.— Boil parsnips until tender in salt water, or use cold, left-over parsnips, roll in tz% and cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat✪ Fried Parsnips.— Mrs. C. K. Wurtz, 216 S. 2nd Ave., Maywood, 111. 406 VEGETABLES PARSNIP FRITTERS.— Boil the parsnips, and when tender take oflf the skin and mark them fine; add a tablespoon of flour, and a beaten egg', make into small cakes with a spoon, and put into boiling hot lard or beef drippings✪ Parsnip Fritters in a hot frying-pan. When fried a delicate brown, put on a dish, pour a little of the fat over, in which they were fried, and serve hot. — Mrs. Amelia Edison, 4356 Berkeley Ave., Chicago, 111. ESCALLOPED PARSNIPS.— Mash enough boiled parsnips to make a pt. Add 2 tablespoons each of butter and cream, 1 egg, well beaten, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Put into a buttered baking-dish, alternate layers of parsnip and crumibs, having crumbs on the top. Melt a tablespoon of butter in 54 of a cup of milk, season with salt and pepper, and pour over the parsnips. Bake un- til brown, an<l serve in the baking-dish. The layers of crumbs and the milk may be omitted. — Mrs. F. C. Harris, 2910 Evanston Ave., Chicago, 111. PARSNIPS STEWED WITH BACON.— Peel ^ a doz. pars- nips and boil with 6 thin slices of bacon. - Let the water boil away, and fry down to a rich brown. Serve with bacon. — Mrs. Emma Jenkins, 6352 Monroe Ave., Chicago, 111. BAKED PEAS. — Stew or saute 1 onion in 2 tablespoons of fat, or cooking oil, butter, or equal parts butter and lard. Add a qt. of green peas, with water or milk to cover. If canned peas are used, take their own liquor. Season with salt, pepper, and celery tops. Bake 1 hr. — Ma^bel Sturtevant, 105 S. Dearborn St.i Chicago, III. GREEN PEAS AND CARROTS.— Take the green peas, after shelling and cleaning, and to 1 qt. of peas, take }4 a qt. of young carrots, cleaned, and cut into small pieces. Boil together in water enough to cover, add butter and salt to taste, a very little flour to thicken it, and some fine cut parsley at the last. — Mrs. Lee L. Lamping, 801 S. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, 111. DRIED PEA CROQUETTEiS.— Put 1 cup of dried peas in cold water or broth, let cook for 1^4 hrs., or until tender, then strain and mash. Add to them 1 finely minced onion, which has been fried 10 minutes, in 1 tablespoon of butter, salt, pepper, 2 tablespoons of flour, 2 eggs, and breadcrumbs, made stiff enough COOK COUNTY COOK BOOK 407 ✪ Escalloped Parsnips