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Jane Hamilton's recipes

1909

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Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
cold water, and let it soak for two hours; then boil it in the same water in which it has been soaking. It should be boiled in the clearest of vessels; cover the vessel in which you cook it and let it boil twenty minutes with the cover on, then take off the cover and let it simmer until the re- maining water is sufficiently evaporated to make the rice dry enough; have a dish heated by the fire, put in the rice, put on two or three ounces of butter, cover the dish, and serve it up immediately. If rice is boiled in a bag in water all the nutritous part of the rice is boiled out, and nothing but dry, tasteless grains remain. 999 RICE CROQUETTES. Boil the rice in the usual manner. When it is cold make it into cakes the size of a beaten biscuit, or rather more than half an inch thick. Have a thin batter of flour and milk or flour and egg; dip the cakes in it and put them in a frying-pan of the proper (68) JANE HAMILTON'S RECIPES heat with sufficient sweet lard; fry them to a crisp brown on one side, then turn and fry on the other. Rice may be mixed with the eggs well beaten and stirred up with the rice so as to make all a light yellow, and fried in cakes without any batter. 999 SALSIFY, FRIED AND STEWED. Scrape the salsify until all the peeling or outer covering is taken off, then boil it in water until it is soft. Take it out of the water, cut it up and wash it. If it is to be stewed, put it on in a skillet with a pint of milk to a quart of salsify, and let it stew about fifteen minutes; season with salt and black pepper, and after taking it off the fire put in a large slice of butter. If the salsify is to be fried, mash it after it is sufficiently boiled, season with salt and pepper, and make it into little cakes. Have a batter of flour, milk, and two eggsSalsify, Fried and Stewed for a quart of salisfy; dip the cakes into it, and fry them. Salsify should be boiled immediately after (69) JANE HAMILTON'S RECIPES it is washed and scraped. It is put on to boil in boiling water. 999 TOMATOES, DRESSED. Peel the tomatoes and cut them in two or three pieces. The large cherry tomato is the best kind for every purpose. To one quart of peeled and cut tomatoes put a gill or, if you like them wet, a gill and a half of brown sugar, and two rolls crumbled to pieces and seasoned with salt and pepper. Let them stew for about an hour, and when, they are served up stir in a large spoonful of batter. If you like the tomatoes baked, put thin slices of buttered bread in a dish with layers of tomatoes, alternately, the same proportion of sugar that you put to stewed tomatoes, and bake them. To dress the raw tomatoes take two dozen perfectly ripe cherry tomatoesTomatoes, Dressed of even size, peel them, and cut them into thin slices. To this quan- tity put one and a half gills of brown sugar and the same quantity of good vinegar, and (70) JANE HAMILTON'S RECIPES season highly with salt and black pepper. Spread a layer of tomatoes, then put on some of the vinegar and sugar, salt and pepper, and continue in this manner until all are in the dish. Some add mustard and sweet oil to tomatoes dressed in this man- ner, which makes a good sauce. SALADS SALADS CHICKEN.