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The Henderson cook book

1914

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Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Six apples, peeled, cored and sliced, 1 cup sugar✪ Apple Dumplings. Line 6 cups well greased, with the paste rolled out thin, wet edges, fill with apples, some of the sugar, cover with more paste; put in shallow stewpan large enough to contain them, with boiling water to reach halfway up the cups; steam thus 45 minutes; turn out on dish, sift sugar over them. Serve with spice sauce. PEACH DUMPLING. Make a rich biscuit dough and cut in small squares. Pare peaches and cut in halves, extracting the seeds and putting sugar in the cavities✪ Peach Dumpling and covering with other half of peach with a little sugar on top. Pinch the edges of the dough carefully over the peach and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. Serre hot or cold with sugar and cream. DESSERTS 139 CREAM PUFFS. Heat together 1 cupful of water and l1/^ cupful of butter until they boil. Add l1/^ cupful of pastry flour all at once and beat it until smooth; let it cook 5 minutes, stirring it all the time. When cool, add 5 eggs✪ Cream Puffs, 1 at a time, stirring the unbeaten egg into the dough until it is smoothly blended before adding another. Place a rounding tablespoonful of dough on a greased tin, shaping it slightly to make it round, or dragging it between two knife blades into a long shape if for eclairs. Bake them in a moderate oven for about 25 minutes. Cool and fill with cream filling. Eclairs should be frosted on top. Put 2 cupfuls of milk to scald in a double boiler. Mix l/o cupful of flour, y8 cupful of sugar and % teaspoonful of salt well together, and add the hot milk,- stirring out all the lumps. Return it to the fire and let it cook for 10 minutes, then stir in 1^ teaspoonful of butter and 2 eggs, beaten until yolks and whites are mixed. Let this cook for about 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool and add the vanilla. To fill the puffs use a pastry bag and tube, making a small hole for the tube, or make a cut in the side and insert the filling by teaspoonfuls. COLD COFFEE SOUFFLE. Cook !/2 CUP of ground coffee in 1 pint of milk in a double boiler for 20 minutes. Strain on to the beaten yolks of 3 eggs ; return to the boiler and cook until thickened. Add % cup of sugar, 14 teaspoon salt and % teaspoon of gelatine which has soaked in 1-3 cup of cold water✪ Cold Coffee Souffle. Strain, add the stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs ; turn into mold ; chill and serve with whipped cream. CHARLOTTE RUSSE. One pint cream, 2-3 cup sugar, ^ box gelatine, 1 tea- spoon vanilla, 4 tablespoons sherry✪ Charlotte Russe. Cover gelatine with i/o 140 * DESSERTS cup water. Dissolve over hot water. Add sugar while whip- ping cream. Stir 4 tablespoons of milk in gelatine and strain over cream. Stir until it begins to thicken, then pour in a mould lined with sponge-cake. Delicious. — Mrs. J. C. Kittrell. CHARLOTTE RUSSE. One pint thick cream, y2 cup wine, 2 cups sugar, whites of 4 eggs frothed, 1-3 box gelatine dissolved in a cup of milk. Blanched almonds if desired. — Mrs.. J. H. Parham. TUTTI FRUTTI JELLY. ✪ Tutti Frutti Jelly