Who's going to scrub the kitchen?
Not I, of course. It is getting pretty
dirty by this time, the stove, too. House-
keeper comes along casually as it were,
and looks, and looks. She does not say
anything; she will never say anything,
but some people can look a whole vol-
ume. I suppose she had everything
dreadful nice and clean at the Water
Cure Home at Campmeetingville in the
Great Frying Pan Valley.
When I first came here I was allowed
my choice of four of the hired girls to
take one to be my second cook. Was
fool enough to choose the prettiest and
smartest. Guess she will think herself
too nice to scrub. Don't like to ask her.
Wish I could swap her off for my old
Mike or Slim lirn, or Reddy; they were
the boys could sling a scrub broom and
\were not afraid of a kettle of boiling lye
— except when they had new boots on,
'Which was about once a month, poor
l)oys, for hot lye is awful hard on boots
Supper.
Beefsteak (16 2-oz steaks,^ 2 lbs loin
net, 40 cents.)
Potatoes baked (15, 3 cents.)
French rolls (30, 14 cents.)
Rhubarb sauce (9 cents.)
Butter sponge cake, warm frosted
(No. 561—1^ pounds, 15 cents.)
Milk and cream (20 cents.)
Butter (table and steak, i lb, 20 cents.)
Coffee tea (5 cents.)
$1 26; 20 persons, litde over 6 cents a
plate.
561 — Sutter Sponge Cake.
One of the best and most useful cakes*
I cup sugar— 8 ounces.
^ cup butter, large— 4 ounces.
4 eggs (use 5 if they are cheap.)
% cup milk.
I large teaspoon baking powder.
3 cups flour✪ Butter Sponge Cake.
Beat the sugar and eggs together a
few minutes, melt the butter and beat it
in, add the milk, then the powder and
flour and beat up thoroughly. Good to
bake in a shallow tin and frost over with
No. 3 9r for layer cakes or with currants
and raisins mixed in. About two pounds;
costs 10 cents a pound.
Breakfast.
July 7-
Liver and bacon, a la brochette (livtr
9, ^^•'con 7, 16 cents.)
Beefsteak broiled (7 steaks, i 11> com-
mon 15 cents.)
Lyonaise potatoes (5 cents.)
Rolls, bread and toast (16 cents.)
Batter cakes (i qt, 8 cents.)
Syrup do cents.)
Butter, milk, cream, coffee, tea (40
cents.)
$1 20; 20 persons, 5^ cents a plate.
562— Calf's Liver a la Brochette.
Take a thin slice of liver and one of
breakfast bacon for each j^erson and cut
them into little square pieces as nearly
of one size as may be and place them on
tin skewers, a piece of liver and a piece
of bacon alternately till the skewers are
full. Dredge with pepper, place them
in a dripping pan in the oven, turn
them over two or three times while they
are cooking and when done place the
liver and bacon on long pieces of but-
tered toast already in a dish, hold in
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place with a tork while you draw out the
skewers, then send it in.
As only about half the people will take
liver when there is other meat, and as
each slice weighs but an ounce, three
quarter pound of liver and half pound
bacon serves for 20 persons* orders,
Brochette is French for spit or skewer.
563— Lyonaise Potatoes. ✪ Lyonaise Potatoes
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Who's going to scrub the kitchen? Not I, of course. It is getting pretty dirty by this time, the stove, too. Housekeeper comes along casually as it were, and looks, and looks. She does not say anything; she will never say anything, but some people can look a whole volume. I suppose she had everything dreadful nice and clean at the Water Cure Home at Campmeetingville in the Great Frying Pan Valley.
When I first came here I was allowed my choice of four of the hired girls to take one to be my second cook. Was fool enough to choose the prettiest and smartest. Guess she will think herself too nice to scrub. Don't like to ask her. Wish I could swap her off for my old Mike or Slim Jim, or Reddy; they were the boys could sling a scrub broom and were not afraid of a kettle of boiling lye — except when they had new boots on, 'Which was about once a month, poor boys, for hot lye is awful hard on boots
Supper.
Beefsteak (16 2-oz steaks, 2 lbs loin net, 40 cents.)
Potatoes baked (15, 3 cents.)
French rolls (30, 14 cents.)
Rhubarb sauce (9 cents.)
Butter sponge cake, warm frosted (No. 561—1^ pounds, 15 cents.)
Milk and cream (20 cents.)
Butter (table and steak, i lb, 20 cents.) Coffee tea (5 cents.) $1 26; 20 persons, little over 6 cents a plate.
561— Butter Sponge Cake.
One of the best and most useful cakes.
I cup sugar— 8 ounces.
^ cup butter, large— 4 ounces.
4 eggs (use 5 if they are cheap.)
% cup milk.
I large teaspoon baking powder.
3 cups flour.
Beat the sugar and eggs together a few minutes, melt the butter and beat it in, add the milk, then the powder and flour and beat up thoroughly. Good to bake in a shallow tin and frost over with No. 3 9r for layer cakes or with currants and raisins mixed in. About two pounds; costs 10 cents a pound.
Breakfast.
July 7-
Liver and bacon, a la brochette (liver 9, bacon 7, 16 cents.)
Beefsteak broiled (7 steaks, i 11> common 15 cents.)
Lyonaise potatoes (5 cents.)
Rolls, bread and toast (16 cents.)
Batter cakes (i qt, 8 cents.)
Syrup do cents.)
Butter, milk, cream, coffee, tea (40 cents.)
$1 20; 20 persons, 5^ cents a plate.
562— Calf's Liver a la Brochette.
Take a thin slice of liver and one of breakfast bacon for each j^erson and cut them into little square pieces as nearly of one size as may be and place them on tin skewers, a piece of liver and a piece of bacon alternately till the skewers are full. Dredge with pepper, place them in a dripping pan in the oven, turn them over two or three times while they are cooking and when done place the liver and bacon on long pieces of buttered toast already in a dish, hold in
place with a tork while you draw out the skewers, then send it in.
As only about half the people will take liver when there is other meat, and as each slice weighs but an ounce, three quarter pound of liver and half pound bacon serves for 20 persons* orders, Brochette is French for spit or skewer.
563— Lyonaise Potatoes.
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