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My mother's cook book

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
When done take them from the fat, place them for a moment upon a piece of kitchen paper to drain, arrange them neatly in a napkin folded in cup shape, and garnish with parsley. Rice Croquettes.— One quart of milk, three-quar- ters pounds of rice, three ounces of sugar, one teaspoon- ful of lemon juice, two eggs, four tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, one-half saltspoonful of salt. Wash the rice thoroughly, put it into a saucepan and pour over it the milk. Cover the saucepan closely, and putting it over the fire without having stirred the contents let aU simmer slowly for twenty minutes. At the end of this time remove the saucepan from the fire, Stir in the yolks of eggs, lemon juice, salt, and ^half of the sugar, beat all thoroughly together and turn out, when mixed, the compound into a bowl and let it stand until it becomes thoroughly cool. When this mixture is quite cold, mould it into small equal-sized balls, beat the whites of egg until quite light, and dip the balls therein. Roll them in the bread crumbs which must have been placed upon a sheet of kitchen paper for this pur- pose, and throwing the croquettes from this into hot clari- i'led fat or lard, let them fry for two minutes. When done take them from the fat, place them upon a sheet of kitchen paper to drain for a moment, and serve them in a folded napkin with the remainder of the sugar sprinkled over them. NOTKS — If it is preferred, these croquettes can be made without the sugar, and if so done a little more salt may be used. It must be observed that the rice is not to be stirred when boiled I2S CHOQUMTTES AND PRITTSRS. for this preparation, otherwise the grains will be broken and the dan- ger be incurred of its sticking fast to the bottom of the saucepan, and so scorching. Crab Croquettes. — Two crabs, three ounces of butter, three ounces of flour, one-half pint of milk, one teaspoonful of Anchovy sauce, four tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, one egg, one-half teaspoonful of pepper, one teaspoonful of salt, one grain of cayenne. Throw the crabs into boiling water and let them boil for fifteen minutes. Remove the meat from the shells- and chop it coarsely. Melt the butter in a saucepan, stir into it the flour and add to this by degrees the milk. When this is brought to the boilirig point let it boil for two minutes thereafter, and take it from the fire. Throw into the saucepan the meat from the crabs, add to the mixture thus formed, the cayenne, salt, pepper and Anchovy sauce, and when thoroughly mixed turn it out upon a plate and allow it to cool. When quite cold form the compound into small equal rolls three inches in length, beat the egg and dip each roll therein, after which they must be placed upon the bread crumbs which must be prepared upon a sheet of kitchen paper for the purpose, and rolled therein from side to side until each croquette is blanketed with the crumbs. Drop them into hot clarified fat or lard and fry them for two minutes ; taking them from the fat drain them for a moment upon a sheet of kitchen paper, serve them in a folded napkin garnished with sprigs of parsley. Croquettes of Shad-Roe. — Four medium sized shad-roe, two boiled potatoes, one ounce of butter, one CROQ, UE TTES OF SALMON. \ ig ounce of flour, one gill of cold water, one tablespoonful of chopped parsley, one teaspoonful of salt, one-half tea- spoonful of pepper, one teaspoonful of lemon-juiceRice Croquettes, two hard boiled eggs, one raw egg, four tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs.