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Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with ..

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
VEQBTABLE8 ANB FABINACE0U8 FOODS 266 ougUy, add one pint of boiling milk. Stir with an egg-beater over the fire untU the sauce thickens. Bice Fritters Boil a cup of rice in a pint of milk until the lice is soft and the milk is absorbed. Take from the fire and add the yolks of three eggs, one tablespoon of sug^r, a small spoon of salt, and two tablespoons of butterRice Fritters. When the mixture grows cold, add the whites of the eggs beaten stiff. Drop in large spoonfuls in hot fat and let them cook until they are a golden brown. Spanish Rioe One cup of rice in two quarts of boiling salted water. Boil fifteen minutes. Pour into a fine sieve. Place the sieve over boiling water and steam the rice for thirty minutes. Chop one-half can of Spanish peppersSpanish Rice very fine. Mix with the rice and serve. The dish may be used as a garnish for boiled ham or mutton. Spaghetti with Tornato Sauce Place the ends of a handful of spaghetti in a kettle of boiling salted water. As it softens, bend and coil it round in the ket- tle. Put a cover on and cook fifteen or twenty minutes, or until tender. Drain in a colander. Then return to the kettle with enough tomato sauce to make it quite moist, a third of a cup of grated cheese, — American or Parmesan, — one table- spoonful of butter, and a dash of paprika. Cook slowly until the sauce is about absorbed. Spinach on Toast Boil the spinach in salted water until half done. Pour off the hot water, dash cold water over the vegetable, and having wiped it dry, chop it fine and put it in a saucepan. Make a sauce of one tablespoon of fiour, the same quantity of butter. 256 MB8. SEELT'S COOK BOOK and a cup of cream or bouillon. Mix this sauce well with the spinach. Cover the saucepan and cook until it thickens. Serve on small slices of huttered toast. Spinach mixed with sorrel or young nettles is prepared in this way, except when sorrel is used some sugsur is also added. Spinach Timbale Boil one peck of spinach in just enough water to cover it and add two tablespoonfuls of salt. When tender, drain thor- oughly, chop very fine, and set away to cool. Then put it in a saucepan with one-half pint of Béchamel sauce, one-quarter of a pint of stock, and two ounces of butter. Let this simmer slowly for five minutes. When cool, mix this with six ounces of veal forcemeat, the well-beaten yolks of two eggs, a little black pepper, and more salt if necessary. Place in a well-buttered mould and set in a pan of water. Cover with a buttered paper and bake in oven for forty-five minutes. Boil two potatoes, one tumip, and one carrot. When tender, cut them in fancy shapes and cover with a glaze. Invert timbale on platter and garnish with the glazed vegetables. Sucootash Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce