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Cooks in clover

1889

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Presented as published in 1889. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Carrots With Cream Sauce. — Scrape, wash and cut into cubes, enough carrots to make a quart, put into a stew pan with two quarts of boiling water, cook one hour, and pour off all the water except half a gill. Add one teaspoon of sugar, and one of salt, and boil rapidly until all the water evaporates. Add the sauce and serve at once. Saaee: — Boil three gills of milk, add two table- spoons of butter beaten to a froth with a tablespoon of flour, half a teaspoon of salt and a little pepper, cook for three minutes before pouring over the carrots, ( ) Green Corn. — .Strip off the coarser husks, leaving VEGKTABLES. 37 on the fine ones next the ear, pull these down and pick off all the silk ; replace the inner husks and tie at the top; then drop the corn into boiling salted wa- ter. Cook fifteen minutes and send to the table wrapped in a napkin on a flat dish. Do not let it stand in the pot after it is cooked. * * * Baked Stuffed Tomatoes. — Take ripe, firm to- matoes, cut a small piece off the top and remove the pulp, leaving enough to make a firm cup to hold the stuffing. Chop the pulp with bread crumbs and an onion, (one onion to six tomatoes), season with pepper and salt, and put into the to- matoes, with a small piece of butter on each. Bake in a pan until they are lightly browned on top. The quantity of bread crumbs depends upon the size and juiciness of the tomatoes✪ Baked Stuffed Tomatoes. Mrs. G. D. Anderson. Boiled String Beans. — To each half gallon of ) water, allow one heaping tablespoon of salt and a very small pinch of soda. This vegetable should ( always be eaten young, as, when allowed to grow (too long, it tastes stringy and tough when cooked. J Cut off the heads and tails, and a thin strip on each side of the bean, then divide each bean into four or I six pieces according to size, cutting them length- ') ways in a slanting direction, and, as they are cut drop them into cold water with a small quantity of i salt dissolved in it. Have ready a saucepan of boil- ; ing water, with salt and soda in the above propor- j tion ; put in the beans and keep them boiling quickly ( with the lid off. When tender, which may be ascer- ( tained by their sinking to the bottom of the sauce- (pan, take them up, throw them into a colander, and I when drained, dish, and serve with plain white (sauce. Mrs. A. R. Burt^ess. J Preserved String Beans. — Late in August or ) early in September procure a bushel of fresh young 38 COOKS IN CLOVER. beans. vString carefully and cut in inch lengths, or j Egg Plant. — Peel, cut in dice, boil tender in in slender strips the entire length of the bean, — the salted boiling water, and serve in white sauce on latter plan will take more time, but will make a toast. This is a palatable novelty. G. H. much more attractive looking dish on the mid-winter \ ✪ Preserved String Beans