Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-21
TESTED COOKING RECIPES.
COOKING OF SMALL BIRDS.

COOKING OF SMALL BIRDS.
SINCE, draw, wipe and truss the
quail. Fry slice of fat pork in a
sauce pan, add one-half small carrot
and one-half of a small onion cut in
slices, and the quail season with
teaspoonful of salt and saltspoonful
of pepper. When brown add a cup
of white stock and cook in a covered
saucepan twenty minutes. Pour Gel
cry sauce around the bird and serve.
Do not wash small birds by soak
ing them in cold water as this takes
away the delicate flavor, wipe them
with a wet cloth inside and outside.
BY frying the birds in the onion and
carrot they become well favored.
CELERY SAUCE MAY BE SERVED
with many dishes and is appropriate
with small birds.
Clean we'll one head of celery and
cut in dice, cook an hour in boiling
water, drain and rub through sieve.
Make pint Of white sauce with two
tablespoonfuls of butter, two table
spoonfuls of -four and a pint of hot
white stock or water; season with a
teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful
of pepper. Add the celery and pour
round the birds. In cooking the Gel
cry be careful that it does not cook
dry.
OYSTERS.
Clean a pint of oysters and parboil
in their own liquor five minutes (;
then drain. Make cup of white
sauce with tablespoonful of butter,
one heaping tablespoonful OF -four,
three fOurths cup of white stock, or
hot milk, and one fourth cup of the
oyster liquor; season with one>half
tablespoonful of salt, one-half salt
spoonful of pepper and slight grating
of nutmeg. Add the oysters, fill
shells and cover with buttered crumbs
aud brown in a hot oven.
Be sure in preparing oysters to re-
move all bits Of shell and in parboil-
ing them do not cook them too long.
This dish is really nothing more than
scallOped oysters nicely prepared and
baked in the scallop shells, real or
imitation instead Of large dish.
CHEESE CREAM TOAST.
Toast six slices of bread and cover
slightly with grated cheese. Make a
cream sauce with a rounding table
spoonful OF cornstarch, and one tea
spoonful of salt and a pint of milk.
Place the toast and cheese in oven for
few moments pour over them and
serve. Ordinary cheese may be used
ifsufficiently dry; otherwise get the
English cheese. Do not toast the
bread as dry as if for an invalid; let
it be slightly moist inside when
Drowned on the outside.
EXCELLENT COOKIES.
One cup thick sour cream, one cup
fine granulated sugar, three-fourths
teaspoon of soda dissolved in one
tablespoon cold water; flour to roll
Add caraway seeds or any fiavoring
desired.
/ use a round cutter with hole in
center, and sprinkle the dough light
ly with sugar and dessicated cocoa.
nut before cutting, pressing in gently
with the rolling-pin. Grease the
dripping-pan, and place the cakes {
good distance apart that they may
not run together.
GRAHAM CRACKERS.
One~third of a cup of butter, ont
cup of sugar, white of one egg, al
well beaten together. One teaspoon
cream tartar, One>half teaspoon sodi
dissolved in half cup of warm wa
ter, and graham flour enough t
knead. Roll thin, cut out, pricl
with fork, bake quickly until don,
crisp.
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