Toast

Ingredients

• bread

Method

1. 1

   Cut bread into slices, toast over red coals without flames, then brown both sides.

2. 2

   Butter and serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl (1905) by Caroline French Benton, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

toast, cut into strips, and put in the oven to keep hot. Cut up both liver and bacon into pieces the size of a fifty-cent piece and put them on the skewers, first one of the liver and then one of the bacon, and so on, about six of each. Put these in the hot frying- pan and turn them over till they are brown. Then lay one skewer on each strip of toast, and put lemon and parsley around. You can also put large oysters on the skewers with pieces of bacon, and cook in the same way. Broiled Steak See that the fire is clear and red, without flames. Trim off most of the fat from the steak, FOR A LITTLE GIRL 37 and rub the wires of the broiler with it and heat it over the coals. Then put in the meat and turn over and over as it cooks, and be careful not to let it take fire. When brown, put it on a hot platter, dust over with salt and a very little pepper, and dot it with tiny lumps of butter. Put parsley around. Steak ought to be pink inside; not brown and not red. Put a fork in as you did with the chops, and twist in a little, and you can see when it gets the right color. Steak with Bananas Peel one banana and slice in round pieces, and while the steak is cooking fry them in a little hot butter till they are brown. After the meat is on the platter, lay these pieces over it, ar- ranging them prettily, and put the parsley around as before. Bananas are very nice with steak. Frizzled Dried Beef Take half a pound of dried beef, shaved very thin. Chop it fine and pull out the strings. Put a large tablespoonful of butter in the fry- ing-pan, and when it bubbles put in the meat. Stir till it begins to get brown, and then sprinkle 38 A LITTLE COOK BOOK in one tablespoonful of flour and stir again, and then put in one cup of hot milk. Shake in a little pepper, but no salt. As soon as it boils up once, it is done, and you can put it in a hot covered dish. If you like a change, stir in some- times two beaten eggs in the milk instead of using it plain. Veal Cutlet Wipe off the meat with a clean wet cloth, and then with one that Is dry. Dust it over with salt, pepper, and flour. Put ;i tablespoonful of nice dripping in a hot frying-pan, and let it heat till it smokes a Little. Lay in the meat and cook till brown, turning it over twice as it cooks. Look in the inside and sec if it is brown, for cutlet musl not be eaten red or pink inside. Put in a hot own and cover it up while you make the gravy, by putting one tablespoonful of flour into the hot fat in the pan, stirring it till it. is brown. 'Then put in a cup of boiling water, half a teaspoonfu] of salt, and a very little pepper; put this through the wire sieve, pressing it with a spoon, and turn over the meat. Put parsley around the cutlet, and send hot to the table. FOR A LITTLE GIRL 39 Margaret's father said he could not possibly manage without potatoes for breakfast, so some- times Margaret let Bridget cook the cereal and meat, while she made something nice out of the cold potatoes she found in the cupboard. Creamed Potatoes Cut cold boiled potatoes into pieces as large as the end of your finger; put them into a pan on the back of the stove with enough milk to cover them, and let them stand till they have drunk up all the milk ; perhaps they will slowly cook a little as they do this, but that will do no harm. In another saucepan or in the fry- ing-pan put a tablespoonful of butter, and when it bubbles put in a tablespoonful of flour, and stir till they melt together; then put in two cups of hot milk, and stir till it is all smooth. Put in one tcaspoonful of salt, and last the potatoes, but stir them only once while they cook, for fear of breaking them. Add one teaspoonful of chopped parsley, and put them in a hot covered dish. You can make another sort of potatoes when you have finished creaming them in this way, by putting a layer of them in a deep buttered baking-dish, with a layer of white sauce over the top, and bread

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