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Kirmess cook book

1907

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Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Procure eighteen fresh chicken livers; cut away the gall, dry them well with a clean doth, season with half a pinch each of salt and pepper, and cut each liver in two. Now prepare six slices of lean bacon, broil them for one minute, then cut each slice into six pieces. Take six silver skewers, run a skewer through the center of the liver, the same with a piece of bacon, and con- tinue the same process until the six skewers are each one filled with a piece of liver and a piece of bacon. Boll them on a dish with one tablespoonful of good oil, dip them in fresh bread crumbs, and put them on a moderate fire to broil for five minutes on each side. Arrange them on a hot dish, pour a gill of mattre dTi6tel butterCHICKEN LIVERS EN BROCHETTE WITH BACON over, and serve with a little watercress around the dish. STUFFED GBEEN PEPPERS (sWEBT). Miss Hellerman. Make a forcemeat of any cold meat, which you may have in the ice chest, chicken is most desirable, and mix with some cold ham. Chop very fine and add about one tablespoonful of chopped onion, a few sprigs of parsley, some rice if you have it. Cut the tops from the peppers with a sharp knife, remove seeds and fill with mixture. Put a piece of butter on top of each and place top on pepper. Fill a baking pan with tliem and put a little water in bottom of pan. Bake about forty-five minutes and serve hot. ENTREES. 119 STUFFED PEPPERS. Mrs. Page, New Rochelle^ Eight peppers, one pint of meat chopped fine, one- half pint grated bread, one-half pint water or stock, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one-fifth teaspoonfnl of sa- vory, one-fifth teaspoonfnl of thyme, one-fifth teaspoon of sage, three tablespoonfuls of butterSTUFFED GREEN PEPPERS (SWEET). Cover peppers with boiling water and simmer for one-fourth hour. Fill with stuffing and bake fifteen minutes. GBEEN PEPPEBS, STUFFED WITH NUTS. Excellent. Remove the seeds from peppers, pour boiling water over them, and let them stand for five minutes. Pill with the following: two-thirds chopped English wal- nuts, one-third fine bread crumbs, season with salt, paprika and make very soft with creamGREEN PEPPERS, STUFFED WITH NUTS. Fill the pep- pers and stand in pan of hot water and bake twenty minutes. GREEN PEPPERS WITH CHICKEN. Excellent. Remove the seeds from pepper, pour boiling water over them and let stand five minutes. Chop cold boiled chicken very fine, and cream as for croquettes, only have cream sauce very stiflf. Fill pepper with mixture, moisten top with beaten egg, sift bread crumbs over topGREEN PEPPERS WITH CHICKEN, stand in pan of hot water and brown in oven twenty minutes. 120 KIRMESS COOK BOOK. SPANISH EGGPLANT. Mertie, Mrs, Oould's Cook, Take a small egg plant, peel and cut in slices half an inch thick and let them stand in salted cold water for two hours. Then scald and peel four tomatoes and cut in pieces; place in a stew pan with three green peppers cut in small pieces half the size of wooden tooth pick, two small onions sliced thin, two teaspoonfuls of salt, let these simmer for one and a half hours. Wipe egg plant dry and fry in hot butter, then lay a slice of cook- ed egg plant on platter. Take a perforated ladle full of the tomato mixture, draining from all juice, and place on slice of egg plant; continue this until three slices of egg plant* are used. Scramble two eggs and place on top layer of eggplant. Sprinkle with chopped olives and chopped Spanish peppers. Garnish with parsleySPANISH EGGPLANT. CHICKEN CASSEROLE. CHICKEN CASSEROLE