English Monkey

Ingredients

• 1 cup stale bread crumbs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/2 cup soft cheese
• 1 egg slightly beaten
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• a few grains of cayenne pepper

Method

1. 1

   Soak stale bread crumbs in milk for 15 minutes.

2. 2

   Melt butter in double boiler and add soft cheese cut in small pieces.

3. 3

   When cheese has melted, add soaked crumbs, beaten egg, salt and cayenne pepper.

4. 4

   Cook 3 minutes and pour over toast or toasted crackers.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from War cook book (1918) by Mary E. Sweeney, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ENGLISH MONKEY. Soak 1 cup stale bread crumbs broken fine but not rolled in 1 cup milk, 15 minutes. Melt in double boiler 1 tablespoon butter and ^ cup soft cheese cut in small pieces. When cheese has melted, add soaked crumbs, 1 egg slightly beaten, y^ teaspoon salt and a few grains of cayenne pepper. Cook 3 minutes and pour over toast or toasted crackers. CHEESE AND NUT ROAST. 1 cup cheese 1 cup ^English walnuts 1 cup bread crumbs 2 tablespoons chopped onion 1 tablespoon butter juice of half of lemon salt and pepper Cook the onion in the butter or other fat and a little water until tender. Mix the other ingi'edients and moisten with the water in which the onion has been cooked. Pour into a shallow dish and brown in the oven. 58 WARCOOKBOOK LIMA BEAN LOAF. 1 cup dried Lima beans 1 onion 1 carrot 1 cup rice 1 teaspoon salt 1 egg, slightly beaten 3 tablespoons oil }i teaspoon mustard ^ cup boiling water 1 tablespoon catsup Soak beans over night in cold water ; drain ; cover with boiling water, add onion, carrot, rice and cook until beans are tender. Drain, retain water for soup stock. Put bean mixture through meat chopper ; add remaining ingredients, mix well, pack in greased bread pan and bake a half hour. BEAN ROAST. 2 cups cooked pink beans }i pound cheese 5 canned pimentos 1^4 cups bread crumbs 1 teaspoon salt y2 cup white sauce Put cheese, beans and pimentos through a meat chopper. Mix all the ingredients together. Place in an oiled baking dish and bake slowly twenty minutes. WARCOOKBOOK 59 BAKED SOY BEANS. 2 cups soy beans 2 cups cold water 1 teaspoon soda 2 cups hot water 1 1-3 tablespoons vinegar 2 cups boiling water 1 or 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons molasses 2 teaspoons salt 1 small onion 1 pod red pepper yi lb. salt pork cut in cubes of 1 inch 1 cup water Soak the beans in 2 cups cold water over night. To this add 2 cups hot water containing the soda and bring to a boil and cook for 1 hour. This will soften the cooking of the beans. Pour the water off and add 2 cups boiling water and the vinegar and boil briskly 1 hour. Transfer the beans to a bean pot. Add cup of water and the Worcestershire sauce, molasses, salt, onion, pepper and pork. Place in slow oven and bake. CURRY OF KIDNEY BEANS. 2 cups kidney beans 2 cloves 2 cups tomato 1 onion minced 1 teaspoon curry powder 1 teaspoon salt

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