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Hominy Croquettes

From The art of cookery, 1899

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The art of cookery (1899) by Emma P. Ewing, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hominy Croquettes. — To a cupful of granulated or fine hominy, well cooked, add a fourth of a cupful of sweet milk, a tablespoonful of sugar, a teaspoonful of butter, and the unbeaten white of one ^%%. Mix well, and fry and serve in the same manner as rice cro- quettes. Fresh Fish Croquettes — To a cup of any kind of cold fresh fish, from which the bones and skin have been removed, add half a cup of fine bread crumbs that have soaked for half an hour in half a cup of sweet milk, a teaspoonful of melted butter, salt and pepper to taste, and the unbeaten white of an Q.^g, mix well together, fry by the spoonful in hot grease, drain on cheese-cloth, and serve with poached eggs or breakfast bacon. Lobster Croquettes. — To a cup of picked up lobster add half a cup of bread crumbs softened in half a cup of sweet milk, salt and pepper to taste, a dust of mus- tard, and the unbeaten white of an ^%%. Mix well to- gether, fry in spoonfuls in hot fat, drain on cheese-cloth, and serve. 144 '^^^ -^^^ ^f Cookery. Shrimp Croquettes. — Prepare like lobster, omitting the mustard, and fry and serve in the same manner. Codfish Balls. — To a cup of salt codfish, cut in small pieces, freed from skin and bone, and well washed in cold water, add a cup of raw potato cut also in small pieces. Put in a sauce-pan, cover with boiling water, and simmer gently until the potato is cooked. Then drain, dry off carefully, mash the codfish and potato to- gether, add a dust of white pepper, a tablespoonful of sweet milk, a teaspoonful of butter, and the unbeaten whites of two eg
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