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Pan-Pacific cook book

1915

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Presented as published in 1915. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Cut a flank steak into cubes. Chop an onion, a chile pepper and a tomato fine, and fry slowly in a large spoon of lard with the meat, adding a little water, from time to time, to keep from burning. When brown add enough boil- ing water to make a pint of gravy and simmer until the beef is tender ; then season with salt and a teaspoon of chile powderTamale Loaf. Skim out the meat and pass through a fine chopper, return to the gravy and thicken with white corn- meal — enough to make it like thick mush. Press it into a greased bread tin with a weight on it and when cold cut in thick slices and frv. Serve with chile sauce (No. 117). 335. TAMALE PUDDING— MEXICAN Remove fat and bones from two pounds of fresh pork cut into small pieces and simmer until tender. Strain from the broth and brown slightly in a large spoon of color (No. 119). Add a cup of the broth, salt, and a tablespoon of chile powder and cook slowly. Heat a can of kornlet with a little milk, salt and a teaspoon of sugar. Add a table- spoon of melted lard and a beaten egg. Spread a layer on a pudding dish ; then a layer of the meat, and sprinkle with ripe olives, slicedTamale Pudding— Mexican, and repeat until the dish is full. Bake for an hour in a slow oven, sprinkling with water if too dry. Chicken can be used instead of pork. 336. TOAD IN THE HOLE— AUSTRALIAN Cut a pound of round steak into finger lengths nearly an inch thick, and fry for a few minutes in dripping with half a 04 ENTREES AND LUNCH DISHES minced onion ; then add barely enough water to cover and simmer until tender. Drain and roll each piece in a mix- ture of salt, pepper, and chopped parsley; then place in a greased pudding dish irregularly, with some of the pieces standing on end. Heat the pan very hot and pour over the meat a batter made of two eggs, well beaten, a cup of milk, three tablespoons of flour sifted with a teaspoon of baking powder, a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of melted butterToad in the Hole—Australian. Beat all very hard and, in pouring it into the pan, take care that several pieces of the meat stick out of the batter. Bake about half an hour in a quick oven. 337. TORTAS DE CARNE— SPANISH Mix a cup of finely minced meat with one of cooked vege- tables of any kind. Season with onion juice, salt and paprikaTortas de Carne—Spanish; form into round flat cakes which dip into batter (No. 446), and fry in deep lard. Serve with tomato sauce (No. 143). 338. TORTAS DE TERNERA— PERUVIAN Chop a pound of veal very fine, mix it with half a cup of almonds — blanched, chopped and pounded — a hard egg, cut up, and half a cup of sliced olives. Put all in a saucepan with a cup of broth, salt and pepper to taste. Stew until the veal is cooked; then add a tablespoon of brown rouxTortas de Ternera—Peruvian (No. 138), or enough to make the mixture quite thick. Spread on a platter to cool, form into flat cakes, dust with flour and fry until brown in a little lard. Serve with Span- ish sauce (No. 141), or tomato sauce (No. 143). 339. TRIPE— MEXICAN Tripe—Mexican