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1891

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Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
all the meat, and mince it fine with a sharp knife, chopping with it two hard-boiled eggs. Stir this into a cup of gravyChicken Mince, or, if you have none, use instead a cup of white sauce made as directed in "Shad Eoes in Ambush." Season to taste, fill a pudding- dish or scallop-shells with the mixture, and serve very hot. Oreen-Com Fritters, — Two cupfuls green corn cut from the cob, two eggs, two table- spoonfuls milk, one tablespoonf ul melted but- ter, flour enough for thin batter. Whip the eggs light, beat into these the corn and the other ingredients, adding the flour last of all. Bake on a griddle. 4. Black Raspbemes. Wlieaten Grits. Broiled Salt Mackerel, Cream Sauce. . Stewed Potatoes. Graham Pop- Overs. Broiled Salt Mackerel, — Soak your fish overnight in cold water, and wipe it dry before putting it on the gridiron. Broil over a clear fire, lay on a hot platter, and pour the sauce over it. 61 WHAT TO EAT — HOW TO SERVE IT Cream Sauce, — Make like white sauce given above, doubling the quantity of butter, seasoning to taste, and using half milk, half creamCream Sauce, if you have the latter. Graham Pop- Overs. — Three eggs, one and a half cups Graham flour, half cup white flour, two cups milk, pinch saltGraham Pop-Overs. Beat the eggs very light, whites and yolks together. Add the milk and salt, and sift in the flour rather slowly, to pre- vent lumping. Strain the batter through a sieve, and fill heated gem -pans. Bake in a quick oven, and eat immediately. o. Melons. Moulded Oatmeal. Sardines au gratin. Fresh Eggs, boiled. Sally-Lunn. Cocoa. Coffee. Sardines au gratin. — Open a box of sar- dines ; take them out carefully and lay them in a small pie-plate ; squeeze a few drops of a lemon on each fish, sprinkle lightly with fine crumbsSardines au Gratin, and brown in the oven. Sallij-Lunn. — Two eggs, two tablespoon- 62 FAMILY BREAKFASTS FOB SUMMEB fuls melted butter, one cup milk, pinch salt, half yeasts cake, two cups flour. Beat the eggs light ; stir in the butter, salt, and milk, then the flour, and last the yeast cake, dis- solved. Let it rise at least six hours in a very well-greased tin; bake, turn out, and eat hot. 0. Graham Flakes. Baked Omelet. Parisian Potatoes. Quick Biscuit. Blackberries and Cream. Coffee. Cocoa. m Baked Omelet. — Five eggs, half cup milk, quarter cup fine bread-crumbs, tablespoon- f ul melted butter ; pepper and salt to taste. Soak the crumbs in the milk ten minutes; beat the eggs very light, the whites and yolks separately; stir the soaked crumbs, the milk, the butter, and seasoning into the yolks, and mix the whites in lightly. Pour into a well-greased pudding-dish, and bake in a quick oven. Parisian .Potatoes. — From peeled and washed white potatoes scoop out httle balls with the cutter that conies for this 63 WHAT TO EAT — HOW TO SERVE IT % purpose. Boil them for five minutes, then put them in the frying-pan with two table- spoonfuls of melted butter. Stir them about until every ball is well coated with the butter, pour into a colander, and set them in the oven until brown. Sprinkle with salt and a little minced parsley before serving. Quick Biscuit. — Two cups flour, one tablespoonful mixed lard and butter, one cup milk, one heaping teaspoonful baking- powder, pinch salt. Handle little, roll out and cut quickly, and bake in a steady oven. Boiled Rice. Fried Pickerel. Stewed Potatoes. Cocoa. Coffee. Pe£jcli Short-Cake. Peach Sluyrt-Cake, — Make a dough as for quick biscuit, doubling the materials. Roll two thirds of the dough into a sheet to fit the bottom of a baking-pan, spread thickly with sliced peaches, sprinkle with sugar, and lay over these a crust made of the remaining 64 FAMILY BREAKFASTS FOB SUHMES dough. Bake in a steady oven. Split, but- ter, and eat hot. 8. Farina Porridge. Barbecued Ham. Water-cress. Butter Cakes. Huckleberries. Tea. Coffee. Baked Omelet