Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-04
EVERY DAY BILLS OF FARE.
BY MARION HARLAND.
Copyrighted, 1886.
BREAKFAST.

BY MARION HARLAND.
ECoDyrtgbtsd, 1885,.
BREAKFAST.
Cracked Corn.
Porterhouse Steak. with Tomato Sauce.
Fried Potatoes.
Raw Tomatoes.
Dreamed Toast.
Fruit. Tea. Coffee.
CRACKED CoRN.-One pint Of cracked
and hulled corn. known as "large homi-
| n.y.; one quart OF water, with a tiny bit
of soda in it for soaking; another quart
| for cooking; teaspOonful OF salt; soak
the hominy four or five hours, drain, put
it on In cold, salt water, and boil Ii for
three hours; next morning set it in pot
| OF boiling water and heat, stirring it OIL
ten. Eat with cream and sugar.
PORTERHoUsE STEAK, WITH TOMATO
SAUCE.-Boil in the usual way and serve
on hot chatting dish; stew and strain
half dozen tomatoes through a colander;
mix with this sauce a to tablespoonful OF
chopped marrow, instead of butter; mince
hall an onion and add with little sugar,
salt and pepper; tbcken with a table
spoonful OF Drowned flour; boil three min
utes and pour over the steak.
DREAMED ToAsT.--Heat a quart of
milk III "A farinR kettle, beat a tablespoon
full Of butter light with teaspOonful Of
| arrowroot, and add, gradually, the hot
| milk. When this is done return to the
kettle with a teaspeouful of salt; cut
thick slices OF stale bread, pare of the
crust and toast evenly, scrapIng away
| the burned edges. AS each comes from
| the toaster dip in hot, sailed milk for
second, and lay in a hot, deep dish; put
| bit of butter on every slice; pile one on
| the other, and when all are in remove the
| ''skin" from the thickened hot milk and
| pour it over the toast. Set in boiling
water for five minutes before sending to
the table.
LUNCHEON.
Ragout OF Beef.
Saimagundi.
Toasted Crackers and Cheese.
Bread and Butter.
Peach Trifle and Cream.
Cake.
RAGOUT OF BEFF.-Cut cold under
done beef into neat dice, lay in pot with
minced onion, parsley and enough gravy
or broth to cover it. Cook very slowly at
the side of the range until tender, stir in
lump of butter the size of a walnut
rolled in tablespoonful of Drowned flour,
the Juice of half lemon. a teaspo0nful OF
Worcestershire sauce and half glass Of
wine: simmer one minute and turn out
on squares of fried bread. il you nave
no gravy ready made make it out of the
refuse bits of SKIN, grlstly pieces. etc.
SALMAGUNDI.-Cut into neat strips
three cold boiled potatoes, one carrot, one
large beet, One-half Of q small cuu!iflower
all boiled and cold. Pile in attractive
order on fiat dish; chop cucumber
pickle fine and stTew over the pile, and
cover with raw tomatoes, pared and
sliced; surround with crisp lettuce leaves
nd me
naise dressing over all. Pass boat OF
dressing with the salad; also, toasted
crackers and cheese. The disn Is far bet
ter than might be imagined from reading
the receipt.
PEACH TRIFLE.-Two cups of milk.
yolks of three eggs and the whites of four.
one cupful of sugar, two tablespoOnfuls
OF corn starch, pinch OF salt, two cups
OF pared and quartered peaches Heat
the milk and stir in the corn starch wet
with cold water, until it thickens well.
Take it off and let IL get cold Mean.
while, beat the yolks and the white OF one
egg light, and the sugar and salt and
whip into the cooled paste; lay the
peaches in the bottom of a bake dist, pour
the custard over them aud bake fifteen
minutes In good oven. Draw to the
oven door, spread on the surface a me.
ringue made of the whipped whites OF
Bake until this is trm--two minutes
should do it--and set away tn get cold
Keep on ice until wanted, and eat with
cream and cake.
DINNER.
Vegetable PURGE.
Baked Red Snapper.
Boiled Chicken and Tongue.
Succ0tash.
Potatoes with SaVory Sauce.
Crumb Eritters.
Rum Sauce.
Coffee.
VEGETABLE PUREE,-One quart OF soup
stock. skimmed; one turnip, one onion,
one carrot, six (parbOIled) potatoes, foar
tablespoOnfuls Of minced cabbage, tour
tomatoes, peeled and sliced; cup OF
milk, two teaspOonfuls OF butter rolled
in one OF fiour,a tablespoonful OF chopped
parsley, teasrOonful Of salt and half as
much pepper, a teaspoonful OF sugar.
Pare and slice the vege tables, put over
the fire in the stock and stew slowly TO
pieces. Rub through cOlander, return \
to the fire and season with sugar, salt,
pepper and parsley, and reheat 10 a bub.
bling boil, stirring often TO prevent burn
ing. Have ready in another vessel the
milk, heated; Stir into this the buttered