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Meat substitutes

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.
Take a round loaf of baker's bread ; cut in slices about one'half inch thick; remove any hard or very brown crust and butter well. Line the sides of a deep buttered baking dish with six of the slices and lay the seventh in the bottom. Grate fine one-fourth pound of good cheese. Melt a small piece of butter and stir into one and one' half pints of good milk ; dissolve two tablespoonfuls of flour in a gill of cold milk, add it to the boiled milk and let it cool. Add the cheese, salt, pepper and four well beaten eggsCheese Custard to the milk, and pour it into the baking' dish. The cheese custard should at least reach the top of the upright slices of bread. Bake in a hot oven as you would any bakad custard. Q Baked Rice and Cheese Three cups boiled rice; three cups milk; one'fourth pound grated cheese; three well beaten eggs; one dessertspoonful of butter ; saltBaked Rice and Cheese. Melt the butter and stir lightly into the rice and milk; add the eggs, beat in lightly, and bake in a hot oven one'half hour. Q Baked Peas Soak yellow split peas over night; boil until tender, and then take two and one-haif cupfuls of boiled peas ; one' half cupful of cracker crumbs; one pint of miik; one egg; two'thirds cupful of finely minced celery, or one tea' spoonful of celery salt ; one dessertspoonful butter , salt to taste. Bake thirty'five minutes. 31 "Just as in nature thy proportions be, As full of concord their variety." C[ Baked Beans Baked macaroni and cheese makes a good substitute for the meat dish, as do also baked beans. In baking beans without pork, place a good-sized onion in the bottom of the bean pot The result is not a perceptible onion flavor, but a decided enriching of the beans. A goodly quantity of butterBaked Beans should be added to beans baked with' out meat. A little while before they are done ; or, when the beans having the onion in the bean pot are about half done, stir through them a nut cream, made by dissolving one heaping teaspoonful of peanut butter in a little water, and add ordinary butter as well. Do not use enough nut butter to allow a peanut flavor to pre* vail, but enough to mellow and enrich the beans. Q Ked Kidney Beans Red kidney beans are especially good baked. Indeed, they are so highly esteemed in Boston, the Mecca of the baked-bean lover, that one is obliged to pay more for them there at the cafes and restaurants than for ordinary kinds. The canned red kidney beans are almost as good as the fresh ones, and if you pour off the liquor, rinse the beans, mash a few of them and add cream, you need not fear them, baked or unbaked, because they were canned, and they will form a most palatable addition to your bill of fare. 33 There was once a man who, when the dew was on his strawberry vines, and the wren that had her nesi near his bedroom window had begun her morning thanks, strode out into his little garden. Without losing any of the wren's music, he plucked him a bunch of radishes, cut heads of tender lettuce, picked a pan of strawberries, added a pitcher of milk and a plate of crackers or bread, and breakfast was ready. So the vegetable habit simplifies life. —Good Health. LUNCHEON AND BREAKFAST Enough is ax good as abundance. —Gaelic Proverb. qNut Hash Nut Hash