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La cuisine creole

1885

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Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Boil or steam them af ter peeling ; when they are quite tender, you must mash them like potatoes, and season with pepper, sait and butter. ONIONS BOILED AND FRIED. Trim and peel them, and boil them in water untll quite tender, then dish them. Season with sait, pepper and butter. Many like them eut in slices and fried a light brown; they are good on a beef steak when washed in two or three waters after being sliced, then put înto hot lard and some of the beefsteak gravy, fried gently until a light color, and served around the steak. GREEN CORN ON THE COB. G et it as fresh froni the field as possible, and if you désire it boiled on the cob you must (when it is well silked) throw it into boiling salted water. Corn re- quires only fifteen minutes boiling; too long boiling takes ont the sweetness f rom the grain. STEWED GREEN CORN. Take a dozen fresh, tender, ears of corn; eut it ofl the cob, and put it in a stew pan with a quart of cold water. No sait at first. Let it cook half an hour and then stir în a lump of fresh butter, a spoonful of flour, and sait and pepperStewed Green Corn to taste. If too dry, add a cup of sweet mîlk, or water, if the milk is not convenient. « ^ LA CUISINE CREOLE. 85 GREEN CORN FRITTERS. Beat three eggs with a cup of milk ; to this add a pint of boiled greeu corn grated; throw in flour enough to make a batter tliick enough to drop f rom a spoon ; sait and pepper to taste, beat it very hard, and drop into boîlîng lard one spoonful at a tîme. This is a great luxnry and a good substitute for oysters during the hot season. SUCCXXTASH^ OR CORN AND BEANS MIXED. Boil for half an houp two pînts of green shelled beans, or the same amount of string beans; then pour oflf the water, eut the corn from two dozen ears, put it in the pot among the beans; add sait and pepper, and cover them with boiling water. Let it boil for half an hour, and add a lump of butter as big as a hen's egg, roUed in flour ; let this boil up once and it is done. CORN OYSTERS. One pint of grated green corn, one cup of flour, one dessert spoonful of sait, one teaspoonful of pepper and an eggCorn Oysters. Mix ail together, and drop and fry in hot lard. This is a nice breakfast dish. ROASTING EAR PUDDING. Cut as much corn from the cob as you require; a dozen ears make a large pudding. To every three ears allow an egg, a spoonful of butter, a little pepper and sait, to suit your taste ; fiU and cover it with sweet milk. Let this bake an hour. OKRA AND CORN FRICASSEE. Put a pint of cut okra in a f rying pan in which there is a cupf ul of hot lard, or the fat of side méat ; let it fry a 86 LA CUISINE CREOLE. little, then eut into it a pint and a half of corn ; f ry it untîl it is thoroughiy cooked, pour oflf some of the grease^ and dredge in a little flour^ and a half-cup of milk; pepper and sait, to taste, must be added just be- fore dishing it up. i A NICE WAY TO OOOK OKRA OR GOMBO. Take a pint of young tender okra, chop it up fine, add to it half as much skinned, ripe, tomatoes, an onion eut up in slices, a tablespoonful of butter, a little sait and pepper, and a spoonful of water; stew ail together till tender, and serve with méat or poultry. SALSIFY FBIED IN BATTEB. Scrape the salsify, throw it for a few moments into cold water, then parboil it, drain it and eut into lengths of three inehes; allow it now to steep until eold, in a bowl with two tablespoonfuls of olive oil, one of Frenelf vin^ar, pepper and sait ; let it remain in this, oceasion- ally turning it until ready to f ry it. Then make a battei* with eggs, milk, and flour ; dip the salsify in this batter, and f ry in hog's lard ; f ry parsley with it and serve. TOMATOES STUFFED. Tomatoes Stuffed