Mock Sweet Breads

Ingredients

• 2 sets brains
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1/2 lb. bacon
• 2 tbls. butter
• 1 can mushrooms
• 6 eggs
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. 1

   Clean brains — removing outside membrane, cook in cup of boiling water about 20 minutes, crisp bacon, break in small pieces, add with eggs hard boiled and chopped.

2. 2

   Mix in mushrooms, stir all together in cream sauce (made from ingredients column 2).

3. 3

   Melt butter in small pan over slow fire, add flour, blend to a paste, stir in the scalded milk, beat till sauce is creamy.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Atlanta women's club cook book (1921) by Atlanta woman's club, page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

11/2 cups milk. ■ 6 strips broiled bacon. 3 tbls. butter. 1 cup toasted bread crumbs. 1/2 t-spoon salt. "Put sliced hard-boiled eggs in buttered casserole, alternating with bread crumbs, until dish is filled, then pour over hot milk with melted butter. Cover with bread crumbs moistened in melted but- ter, bake and serve hot. CARAMEL CUSTARD. 11/2 tbls. white sugar. 1 pt. scalded milk. 3 eggs. 1 tbls. water. 1 cup brown sugar. 1/2 t-spoon vanilla. Melt brown sugar; stir constantly; beat eggs slightly; stir melted sugar into boiling milk, add eggs white sugar and flavoring. Bake in quick oven and serve cold. MRS. THOMAS' RECIPES 195 RABUN POTATOES. 14 lb. breakfast bacon. 1/2 cup bread crumbs. 3 green peppers. 1 tbls. butter or bacon drip- 6 large Irish potatoes. pings. Cream SaucQ For Same. 114 cups milk. 1 tbls. butter or bacon drip- 2 tbls. flour. pings. 1/2 t-spoon salt. Boil and slice potatoes ; broil bacon. Place in casserole in layers, the potatoes, bacon, peppers cut in strips, the cream sauce, alternating until dish is filled. Place on top the cream sauce, butter (or drippings) and bread crumbs. Bake and serve hot in casserole. CHICKEN A LA "WOMAN'S CLUB." (Serves 25). 1 large hen. 1 can pimentos. 4 sets brains. 1 lb. breakfast bacon. 1 bottle stuffed olives. 1 can mushrooms. Salt and pepper to taste. 1 cup rice. Clean brains, removing outside membrane. Cook in boiling water about 20 minutes, drain and cut fine. Boil chicken until meat is very tender, cut in small pieces, crisp bacon, cut in pieces, cut pimentos fine, olives each into 3 pieces, cook rice about half done, finish cooking in chicken broth, then add above ingredients- cook slowly until mixture is fairly thick. Cream sauce may be added if there isn't enough chicken broth. Serve in timbals or on rounds of toast. CUCUMBER ASPIC. 2 cucumbers (fresh). 1 can sliced pineapple. 3 lemons (juice). 2 tbls. gelatine. 3 tbls. sugar. 1 pint hot water. 1 tbls. green coloring. Add sugar and lemon juice to hot water, stirring gelatin which has been previously dissolved in Yi cup cold water then add juice of pineapple, coloring, then cool. Mix in pineapple cut in small pieces, cucumber peeled and grated fine (if seeds of cucumber are large and tough discard them). Mixture may be poured in fancy molds or large square pan and cut in any desired shape. Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise. Mrs. I. Thomas. DELICIOUS DATE AND NUT SQUARES. 1 package dates. l^ cup flour. 1 cup pecan (meats). 1 tbls. water. 1 cup sugar. 2 t-spoons baking powder. 1 tbls. butter. 1 t-spoon vanilla. 1 ^'g%- Combine %%%, sugar, water and flour. Add baking powder, nuts then dates which have been cut in 4 pieces (stones discarded). 196 ATLANTA WOMAN'S CLUB COOK BOOK This mixture will be very thick, add flavoring. Put butter in shal- low-baking pan to prevent sticking. Bake in moderately hot oven, placing vessel of hot water under pan to keep mixture moist while cooking. When cooked to golden brown cut in squares. SUGARED PECANS. 1 cup pecan (meats). 1 cup granulated sugar. % cup water. 1 cup sugar X X X X. Boil granulated sugar and water to soft ball degree, drop pe- cans (one at a time) in hot syrup, dip out, roll separately in pow- dered sugar which has been sprinkled generously on a marble slab — lay on waxed paper. MOCK SWEET BREADS. Delicious Filling For Timbals. 2 sets brains. l-i/o cups milk. i/o lb. bacon. 2 tbls. butter. 1 can mushrooms. 2 tbls. flour. 6 eggs. Salt and pepper to taste

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