Beat six eggs separately, add a cupful of bread
crumbs, a small onion chopped fine, a teaspoonful of
chopped parsley, and a teacupful of fresh sweet milk
to the yolks; stir in the whites, salt and pepper to
taste. Set in the oven until well browned; serve im-
mediately.
THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK 209
Cheese Souffle
3 tablespoonfuls butter V2 teaspoonful paprika
% cupful American cheese V2 cupful bread crumbs
(grated) 1 cupful milk
1 teaspoonful salt 4 eggs✪ Cheese Souffle
Melt the butter in a double-boiler top, add the
cheese, paprika, crumbs, salt, and milk, and cook the
mixture until the cheese has melted. Then separate
the eggs, beat the yolks until lemon-colored, add the
crumb mixture, and fold the whole into the egg whites,
whipped until stiff. Transfer to a medium-sized bak-
ing dish, which has been lightly rubbed with butter,
and bake about thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven.
Cheese Omelet, No. 1
Put two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese in a half
pint of sweet milk. Let stand while the yolks of four
eggs are beaten light. Then add two tablespoonfuls of
bread crumbs to milk and cheese, stir slowly into the
yolks. Salt and pepper to taste✪ Cheese Omelet, No. 1. Beat the whites, stir
in and cool quickly on long griddle. Cut and roll in
two pieces. Butter and serve in a warm covered dish.
Cheese Omelet, No. 2 ^
One teacupful of grated cheese, half teacupful of
grated bread crumbs, a teacupful of hot water and a
pinch of salt. Stir until like cake batter, then beat
in two eggs and bake quickly.
Vegetable Omelets
Half a teacupful of cold boiled Irish potatoes,
chopped fine, with parsley or any vegetable liked, may
be added to a plain omelet and fried or baked.
210 THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK
VEGETABLES
IRISH POTATOES
Potatoes, Roasted in Ashes
Put the potatoes down in the ashes, cover well
and let stay until done. The length of time required
will depend on the size of the potatoes.
The skin protects the potato during cooking, and
the salts of potash, which are dissolved and lost when
the potato is peeled and boiled, are retained, to the
great improvement of the flavor.
Irish Potatoes
Scrape medium sized potatoes. Cut them as you
peel an apple, being careful not to break them. Place
them in very cold salt water for a few minutes, drain
over a cloth and fry in hot lard until crisp. These are
nice to serve with fried fish.
Saratoga Chips
Pare perfectly sound potatoes, cut them in very
thin slices and stand them in cold salt water for thirty
minutes. Dry and fry in boiling lard, drain them in a
colander or on a piece of soft, brown paper ; put in the
oven a minute to dry.
Duchess Potatoes
One quart of mashed potatoes, one ounce of butter,
a teaspoonful of salt, a half teaspoonful of pepper✪ Saratoga Chips, and
the yolks of two raw eggs. When the potatoes are
hot mash them through a colander, add the butter,
salt, pepper, and a little nutmeg; then the raw yolks
of the eggs; mix all together; then form into cakes
two inches long and one inch wide, put them on a
buttered tin, and brush them over the top with the
white of ^gg\ put them in a moderate oven to brown
delicately.
THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK 211
French Fried Potatoes ✪ French Fried Potatoes
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Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Beat six eggs separately, add a cupful of bread crumbs, a small onion chopped fine, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, and a teacupful of fresh sweet milk to the yolks; stir in the whites, salt and pepper to taste. Set in the oven until well browned; serve immediately.
Cheese Souffle
3 tablespoonfuls butter V2 teaspoonful paprika
% cupful American cheese V2 cupful bread crumbs
(grated) 1 cupful milk
1 teaspoonful salt 4 eggs
Melt the butter in a double-boiler top, add the cheese, paprika, crumbs, salt, and milk, and cook the mixture until the cheese has melted. Then separate the eggs, beat the yolks until lemon-colored, add the crumb mixture, and fold the whole into the egg whites, whipped until stiff. Transfer to a medium-sized baking dish, which has been lightly rubbed with butter, and bake about thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven.
Cheese Omelet, No. 1
Put two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese in a half pint of sweet milk. Let stand while the yolks of four eggs are beaten light. Then add two tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs to milk and cheese, stir slowly into the yolks. Salt and pepper to taste. Beat the whites, stir in and cool quickly on long griddle. Cut and roll in two pieces. Butter and serve in a warm covered dish.
Cheese Omelet, No. 2 ^
One teacupful of grated cheese, half teacupful of grated bread crumbs, a teacupful of hot water and a pinch of salt. Stir until like cake batter, then beat in two eggs and bake quickly.
Vegetable Omelets
Half a teacupful of cold boiled Irish potatoes, chopped fine, with parsley or any vegetable liked, may be added to a plain omelet and fried or baked.
VEGETABLES
IRISH POTATOES
Potatoes, Roasted in Ashes
Put the potatoes down in the ashes, cover well and let stay until done. The length of time required will depend on the size of the potatoes.
The skin protects the potato during cooking, and the salts of potash, which are dissolved and lost when the potato is peeled and boiled, are retained, to the great improvement of the flavor.
Irish Potatoes
Scrape medium sized potatoes. Cut them as you peel an apple, being careful not to break them. Place them in very cold salt water for a few minutes, drain over a cloth and fry in hot lard until crisp. These are nice to serve with fried fish.
Saratoga Chips
Pare perfectly sound potatoes, cut them in very thin slices and stand them in cold salt water for thirty minutes. Dry and fry in boiling lard, drain them in a colander or on a piece of soft, brown paper ; put in the oven a minute to dry.
Duchess Potatoes
One quart of mashed potatoes, one ounce of butter, a teaspoonful of salt, a half teaspoonful of pepper, and the yolks of two raw eggs. When the potatoes are hot mash them through a colander, add the butter, salt, pepper, and a little nutmeg; then the raw yolks of the eggs; mix all together; then form into cakes two inches long and one inch wide, put them on a buttered tin, and brush them over the top with the white of egg; put them in a moderate oven to brown delicately.
French Fried Potatoes
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Cheese SouffleCheese Omelet, No. 1Saratoga ChipsDuchess PotatoesOnions Au GratinFrench Fried Potatoes