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Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking

1915

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Presented as published in 1915. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
What should be done with small dry pieces of bread? They may be toasted and cut into little squares for soup, or they may be kept in a clean muslin bag, until thor- oughly dry and crisp (they may be dried out in the oven) then crush and roll into fine crumbs, and put in glass cans ready for scalloping, crumbing, or using in various ways. What may well be substituted for meat at luncheon, or at supper? Bean soup, or a cream soup made with milk and peas or potatoes, etc., or a cheese souffle, or macaroni with cream and cheese dressing, or baked beans, or lentils, or egg salad (the eggs must be cooked below the boiling point) or scrambled eggs, or cheese sand- wiches, or graham sandwiches with nut filling or nut bread, or graham muffins with cocoa. Efficiency in Home Making DESSERTS WITHOUT MILK. 73 Fresh fruits. /Prunes. ~ , ] Peaches. Stewed < . ) Apricots. Figs. Baked apples. Dates and crackers. Orange jelly. Apple tapioca pudding. Brown Betty. Gingerbread. Carrot plum pudding. Boiled rice with hard sauce. i offee jelly with cream. Rolled griddle cakes with lemon sauce. Graham crackers with hot cocoa. Crackers and cheese. Nuts and raisins. DESSERTS WITH MILK. Boiled custard. Baked custard. Floating island. Baked chocolate custard. Baked coffee custard. Tapioca lloat. Snow pudding. Rice custard pudding (baked). Rice pudding without eggs. Bread pudding. A'anilla. Junket < Coffee. Gineer. Delmonico pudding. Cereal pudding. Baked Indian meal pudding. Steamed Graham pudding. Spiced pudding. Tapioca pudding. Cottage pudding, hard, vanilla, chocolate or jam sauce. Dropped cookies. A'anilla ice cream. Strawberry ice cream. Frozen (Peach ice cream. Lemon sherbet. . Coffee mousse. 74 Efficiency in Home Making HINTS ON MARKETING. In marketing, what is a great saving of time and annoy- ance? Going early, as one can be waited on much more promptly. This saves a good deal of time if purchases are made at several places. It is most annoying to have to wait for the delivery of marketing, and as one should allow a reasonable length of time for delivery, it is a great help to go to market early. MEATS. From what part oi the animal are the tenderest cuts of meat? From the middle of the hack, as this is the part least exercised. Which are the toughest, cheapest pieces? Those from the parts exercised the most. The legs, especially the Front ones, and the neck and shoulders. What general rule prevails? The cuts decrease in price from the center of the hack both back and front and downward. Mow should good beef look? It should be dark red when first CUt, and grow brighter after exposure to the air a short time. The fat should be yellowish white. What should he the color oi the fat oi mutton and lamb? It should be white and firm, the lamb meat pink. Is there much water in meat? ddie tlesh oi the larger animals is tw 0 thirds water. Does the fore quarter or shoulder have more hone than the hind quarter or leg? Yes; always, this increases souii-wh.it the lower cost oi the fore-shoulder. Should there he a Strong odor to meat when in good condition? No. Is meat better if well marbled with fat? Yes. Wdiat can the neck he used for? For mince meat, and broth.