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1921

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Presented as published in 1921. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
HOLLANDAISE SAUCE. One-half cup butter, yolks of two eggs, one and one-half tablespoonful lemon juice, one-fourth teaspoonful salt, one-sixteenth teaspoonful cayenne, one-half cup boiling water. Cream the butter and add the yolks one at a time and beat well. Add lemon juice, salt and pepper. Just before serving, add boiling water and cook in a double boiler to consistency of cream. Serve immediately. — Miss Eunice Chaplin, (Domestic Science Teacher at the Durham High School.) BROILED FISH. Take shad or any kind of fish you like, and open down the back and remove bone. Use butter and salt and just a little flour, broil until good and brown. Then use a sauce made of three yolks of eggs, butter the size of an egg, juice of one lemon and one cup boiling Avater, salt and pepperBroiled Fish, pour over fish and garnish Avith lemon and parsley. — Mrs. H. E. Seeman. ESCALLOPED OYSTERS. Remove bits of shell from one pint of oysters. Line a baking dish Avith a thin layer of cracker crumbs crushed fine, then a layer of oysters. Put bits of butter OA'er oysters, also pepper and salt. Use alternate layers until dish is full. Add SAveet milk enough to moisten thoroughlEscalloped Oystersy and bake half hour. This dish goes very nicely Avith baked chicken. — Mrs. E. G. Belvin. PANNED OYSTERS WITH CRACKER CRUMBS. One pint oysters, one tablespoonful butter, tAvo cups cracker crumbs, one-fourth teaspoonful black pepper. Wash and dry oysters. Have pan very hot, drop in oysters, add butter, milk and pepper; as soon as oysters puff or curl, add cracker crumbs, stir in and add saltPanned Oysters with Cracker Crumbs. Serve hot AAdth buttered toast or saltines. — Mrs. R. E. L. Skinner. CORN OYSTERS. One can corn, three eggs, one-fourth cup SAveet milk, one-fourth cup butter, cracker meal sufficient to make a stiff batter. Season Avith pepper and saltCorn Oysters. Drop from tablespoon into hot deep fat, should rise and broAvu quickly. — Mrs. W. H. Boone. CREAMED SALMON. One and one half tablespoonfuls Crisco or butter, tAvo heaping tablespoonfuls flour, tAvo and one-half cups SAveet milk, tAvo cupfuls canned salmon, salt and pepper to taste. Make a cream sauce Avith first three ingredients, add salt and pepper; mix thoroughly Avith the fish, turn into a baking dish, cover AA'ith buttered crumbs, set in a pan of hot AA'ater in the oven and bake until the crumbs are a golden broAvn. Serve in the dish in Avhich baked. — Mrs. M. N. Garrard. FISH IN SHELLS, OR RAMEKINS. One can Tuna fish picked fine. Make a cream sauce of one pint scalded milk, one tablespoonful butter, tAvo heaping tablespoonfuls flouCreamed Salmonr, one-half teaspoonful salt, little pepper. Cook till thick and smooth and add fish. Cover Avith cracker crumbs and dots of butter Avhen in shells and bake in oven till broAvn. — Mrs. Annie Whitmore Andrea;vs. 42 USE DAN VALLEY SUPERLATIVE FLOUR For Dainty Delicious Desserts use KNOX GELATINE Salads Bestrewed with lettuce and cool salad herhs." FEOZEN TOMATO SALAD. Open one quart can tomatoes and let stand one hour. Add three tablespoonfuls sugar and season highly with salt and cayenne, then run through a sieve. Turn in small cocoa boxes, cover tightly, pack in salt and ice, using equal parts of salt and ice, and let stand about three hours. Kemove from mold and arrange on lettuce leaves, serve with mayonnaise. — Mrs. Annette Markham.