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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.
Scrambled Eggs. — Nine eggs, one tablespoon of ;' Egg Vermicelli.— Three eggs boiled twenty butter, half a teaspoon of salt, a little pepper, half a'! minutes, four slices of bread toasted and cut in teacup of milk. Break the eggs in a bowl with the ) squares and triangles, one cup of milk, one teaspoon milk, and beat them until light. Put the butter in \ of butter, and one heaping teaspoon of flour. Melt a frying pan and set it on the range ; as it melts \ the butter, and stir in the flour, boil the milk, and add pepper and salt. When it hisses, pour in the | mix the butter and flour with it, adding half a tea- COOKS IN Cl.OVEU. spoon of salt, and one salt spoon of pepper. Chop the whites of the eggs, put them in the sauce, and pour this over the squares of bread; over this mash the yelks through a strainer. Garnish the edges with the squares and jiarslcy. J/rs. £. C. Gin. Egg Toast. — Four hard boiled eggs, boiled twenty minutes; one pint of drawn butter; delicate toast with all the crust removed. Chop the whites of the eggs fine and add to the warm drawn butter; this is poured over half a dozen pieces of toast. Then through a wire basket sift the yelks of the eggs like ^gold dust, till it is all thoroughly covered. Edge I the dish with parsley. Mrs. P. E. Kipp. I Egg Nests. — Six eggs, one tablespoon of butterScrambled Eggs, ( one teaspoon of salt, and pepper if desired. Beat \ the whites to a stiff froth and put the salt into them. I Keep the yelks in the shell, being careful not to \ break them; form the whites on the toast, leaving a cavity in the center for the yelks ; before slip- ping in the yelks, place a little butter, and if wished, some chopped ham on the toast. Place in the oven and bake two and a half minutes. Serve on but- tered toast. Miss Fannie Gray. Bread, Biscuit, &c. Wheat Bread, I. — Take three pints of lukewarm water, and sufficient flour to make a batter not quite stiff enough to allow a spoon to stand in it ; add two even teaspoons of salt. Dissolve one compressed yeast cakeWheat Bread I in a little warm water; mix thoroughly, and set to rise over night ; if the weather is cold, be sure to stand it in a warm place. In the morning add flour, and knead about twenty minutes; set it at one side to rise again for about one hour, and w'hen ready, knead fifteen minutes more; mould and put into pans ; when risen to the top, place in a moderate oven, and bake one hour. This will make three loaves. Mix the sponge about nine o'clock in the evening. Af. E. Wheat Bread, II. — About six o'clock in the even- |ing boil two potatoes in half a pint of water; put half ! a pint of flour in a bowl, pour the potatoes and I water through the colander, and mash them ; stir \ well, and let it get lukewarm. Dissolve one cake I of Baker's safe yeast in a little warm water, stir this 'into the batter, set in a warm place and cover. Place three pints of flour and one pint of water in a ibowl, stir well, pour it in the sponge, and set it in ; a warm place until morning. Then add a little lard, a teaspoon of sugar and a tablespoon of saltWheat Bread, II; ; stiffen with flour, turn out and knead for half an hour. Put it back in the bowl and allow it to rise ; until twice its size, then knead until it is round, and ' cut into loaves ; place them in the pans and let them