The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
BREAKFAST ON THE PIAZZA.

The popular summer home is the
kitchenless cottage, whose inmates take
their meals at an adjacent hotel. To be
entirely delightful the freedom from
kitchen responsibilities must be happily
combined with the possibilities of serving
piazza breakfasts. For these have, to be-
gin with, at one end Of the piazza, away
from the wind, place for the kerosene
stove. To be quite at ease, have two stoves,
on the smaller of which the coffee will be
making while the rest of the breakfast
cooks. Oatmeal in any of It's up-to-date
forms is done in jiffy. Just stir it into a
saucepan with milk, little salt and some
butter. While it cooks beat up the eggs
with a little milk. Then off comes the
oatmeal, to keep nice ard hot under cover
while the eggs are scramb led. These
done, will keep hot also, covered and not
dished. Now, ON the vacated stove mount
the oven and pop in the rolls bought OF the
baker. In minute they are hot. Mean
while the coffee has boiled up the required
five times, is now settling" on the turned
down fame and breakfast is ready.
The porridge and eggs, each in its sauce
pan, goes into the oven with the rolls. All
this time-not SO very long elther-the
other folks have been eating their fruit and
shouting directions at the cook, and now
with the coffee-pot in one hand and the
y
breakfast. Hot plates? Of course, moth
ing easier. They were put in the oven for
just the last minute, or they have been
balanced on top of the oven from the time
it went on the flame.
Here are some more dishes that may be
served for piazza meal. Shave off little
curls of breakfast bacon, fry them a golden
brown and serve them heaped around the
dish of scrambled eggs, because dishes can
be served whenever the wind is not so
fresh that it is wiser to keep the breakfast
in the oven. Delicious toast is made by
LAYING slices of bread on an asbestos mat
over the oilstove. Fritters of all kinds are
easily prepared, and if one of the party is
willing to be cook, can be served delight
fully fresh from the kitchen end of the
piazza to the table end.
With some cold boiled potatoes from the
dining-room and a few slivers of fried
onion delicious hash can be made with
canned corned beef and baked in the oven
a few minutes. Canned boned chicken
shredded or cut into cubes, with some
cubes of boiled potatoes and a cream of
milk and butter and little bit of flour for
thickening. is delicious all heated to-
gether. This may lie done in chatting
dish right on the table, or if done in the
skitchen'' can be served in the chatting
dish to keep warm.
There are many ways to make coffee,
but they result in much that is hardly
drinkable, so method that never fails
deserves attention. Take the very finest
grade of coffee to start with. Break a raw
egg and mix it, shell and all, with as much
coffee as it will take up, which is little
more than good-sized cupful. Put the
mixture in an ordinary coffee pot, with
five cups of cold water. Put on the fire
and stir every little while. 1t will soon
take spurts of boiling up, and after that it
will boil steadily. This latter condition
should come after about five "upboils" or
in from fifteen to twenty minutes from the
beginning While it boils turn in half
cup of cold water turn down the lamp and
let the pot stand undisturbed for at least
ten minutes. So managed coffee should
be invariably perfect.