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One hundred-portion war time recipes

1918

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Presented as published in 1918. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Mix all ingredients thoroughly, add extra moisture if needed. Pack into greased pans, and brown in hot oven. Any cooked meats or combination of meats may be used, and the product called Meat and Potato Hash. Chopped peppers may be added for seasoning. ROAST BEEF CROQUETTES Cooked beef . . 14 lbs. Onions .... 5 oz. Mashed potatoes 14 lbs. Pepper .... 1 tsp. Cream sauce . . 2 qts. Salt 4 tbsp. Grind meat and onions, mix with potatoes, add other ingredients, mould, two and one-quarter oz. each. Roll in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. Serve two croquettes to the order with Tomato Sauce or Gravy. Any cooked meat may be used, and the mixture named for that meat. The seasoning may be varied by omitting the peppers and onions or by adding poultry seasoning, etc. BRAISED BEEF HEARTS WITH VEGETABLES Beef hearts . . 22 lbs. Salt 13^ oz. Stock . . . Carrots, diced Green peas . Onions . . . Q}/2 qts. Pepper. . 2J^ qts. Rice flour 13^ qts. Cornstarch 6 oz. Cold water Moz. 6 oz. 6 oz. 1 qt. Clean hearts carefully in a dish of water, drain and wipe dry. Brush generously with melted fat, and put into a hot oven 15 to 30 minutes or until brown. Cook in kettle of water to which onions have been added two to three 12 MEATS hours, or until tender. Cook carrots and use one qt. of the water with five and one-half qts. of strained stock from hearts for the gravy. Add the vegetables after the gravy is thickened. SUce the hearts and serve the vegetable gravy over them. STUFFED HAMBURGER ROLL Groimd beef . . 21 lbs. Pepper H oz. Salt 5 oz. Potato stufl5ng . 7 lbs. Mix salt and pepper with the meat and work mixture until it is smooth and pasty feehng. Divide into three pound portions. Flatten each portion into ten inch squares and spread one pound of stuffing onto each, leaving one and one-half inches on all sides. Loosen from board by using a spatula under the meat and roll rather loosely, pressing all edges together firmly. Bake in a moderate oven one to one and one-quarter hours. Serve with Gravy or Tomato Sauce. oz. POTATO STUFFING Mashed potato . 5 qts. Salt Onions, ground . K cup Fat, ham or but- Sage, ground . . 34 oz. terine .... 4 oz. Celery salt ... ^ oz. Eggs 10 Beat egg sUghtly, add to the potato with seasonings, mix thoroughly, and pack into greased pans. Brown in the oven or use for stuffing meats or fowl. MEXICAN STEW lbs. Tomatoes 4 qts. 1}4 tsp. 10 oz. 10 10 oz. oz. Kidney beans . . 5 Beef, cut in cubes 15 lbs. Red pepper Water 9 qts. Rice flour Salt 6 oz. Cornstarch Onions 12 oz. Fat . . . Green peppers . 2 lbs. Soak beans overnight, drain, add water and salt, and when boiling add meat. Cook two and one-half hours, add other ingredients and tomatoes. Cook one-half hour and thicken. Serve six portions to a quart. MEATS 13 BRAISED SHORT RIBS OF BEEF Ribs of beef . 25 lbs. Water . . . . . 10 qts. Carrots, diced. 3 lbs. Rice flour . . . 8 oz. Turnips, diced 3 lbs. Cornstarch . . . 8 oz. Onions, sliced. Mlb. Salt .... . . 4 oz. Potatoes, diced 12 lbs. Pepper. . . . . 13^tsp.