The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-01-30
Novel Lunches.


For the soup use the stock in which afoW
has been cooked, after having removed the
fat. Heat it and add one-half cup of oatmeal
fine or coarse, or tt e same quantity of bar
ley might be used. Cook an hour then rut
through strainer. Add pint of milk anC
thicken with a teaspoonful of butter anC
-four cooked together. Add salt and pepper
to the taste but do not use much pepper
Serve with large cubes OF bread Drowned
in the oven.
Drowned crackers are simply common
crackers, split and spread with butter, allow
ing one quarter of a teaspoOnful of butter tC
each half cracker. Put into dripping par
and brown delicately i'll the oven. 1t is moi
best to use too much butter as child's
stomach will not bear it well.
The little chicken baskets make an at
tractive dish. To three cups of mashed po
tato add tablespoonful of butter. scam
teaspOOnful of salt and the yOlkS of two eggs
and beat We'll with fork. Shape this sea
soned potato like little basket or nest
brush over with the beaten white of an egg
chicken. Use pint of chicken cut in dice
not chopped, and sauce of two tablespoon
fuls OF flour and two of butter to pint oil
cream or milk Season with salt and pep.
per. Make handles to the baskets of sprigs
of parsley.
Cook cup of macaroui, broken in inch
pieces in boiling sailed water for twenty
minutes. Drain and pour cold water over
it to prevent pieces from adherlng. Add
three fourths cup of cream, salt it to taste
and then reheat in the top of double boiler.
Garnish with the yolks and whites of hard
boiled eggs, The eggs should be cooked by
standing in water at $50 degrees for half an
hour then put into cold water to prevent
discOlOratiOn. The macaroni made in
Europe has Is or 20 per cent gluten but that
made in this country is not as rich in gluten
A novel sandwich is made with filling oil
figs and peanuts. Use either thin slices OIL
bread or crackers like the zephyrets. Stew
one half pound of figs until very soft and
spread on the slices of bread and cover WI
peanuts chopped as fine as meal, then la,
O1 GuS OCueI SllC0 VI UrcdO OF cracker an(
serve the sandwiches On doiley. One-hal
a lemon may be stewed with the figs if liked
Cut the bread for these sandwiches in Leart
or rounds.
The pudding was made in small individ
ual mOlds. Carameize two thirds of poun
of sugar by melting it in small pan an
allowing it to brown. Pour some into eac
mold and then make custard to be poure
over that. Beat three eggs slightly, add tw
tablespoonful of sugar and one-half sal
spoonful of salt. Add gradually pint
scalded milk, strain and turn into the mold
Set the mOlds in a pan with water aroun
them. Bake until firm then cool and tur
out onto dish for serving. Be sure to bu
ter the molds.
Some very good cookies are made with
little oatmeal add"d to the flour. Beat a
egg well and add quarter cup each OF suga
cream and milk. Mix thoroughly two cul
of flour, one half cup of fine oatmeal tW
, tablespoonful of baking powder and te
spoonful OF salt. Add this to first mixtur,
Put this dough on Toured board, roll OF
thin and cut in shape. Bake in mOdera
oven. The pan should be creased for tir
baking but will not need il afterwards. LIE.
sugar may be used if preferred.