The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
JACKETS OR NO JACKETS.
This Is Not n Fashion Article, but Is
Interesting to Womankind.

This Is Not n Fashion Article, but Is
Interesting to Womankind.
1t is rarely in this country that pota-
toes are boiled before they are peeled,
OF, in the old-fashioned way of express
ing it, in their Jackets" and yet in
Ireland the very headquarters of this
vegetable, such a thing is scarcely
known as pre-peeling them. Those who
have never tried them IN this way are
advised to do so some day, when they
can make sure they are brought to the
table the moment they are done, and
not allowed to stand any length of time
before they are eaten. Select those of
equal size, allow them, after washing
and scrubbing thoroughly, to stand
covered with cold water for half an
hour then throw into plenty of boiling
water, and after boiling twenty min
utes prick to the heart with a two
pronged fork; if not soft, cook a little
longer, drain, sprinkle with salt, return
to the range, and when the saucepan is
hot, toss them, to allow the salt to
shake evenly through and to dry well,
place in warm napkin on a red-hot
plate and serve with good, sweet but
ter. The flavor of the snowy, fleecy
morselS, taken from the jackets and
buttered as they are eaten, will be
found to be much better than if peeled
before boiling; indeed, epicures declare
they can detect the difference at once,
and as the most nutritious part of po-
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lost.
Potatoes in their jackets make suit
able adjunct to oysters baked and
served in the shell. Wash and scrub
the oysters, put them in a large baking
pan in a hot oven, and in five minutes
or less they will begin to open and must
be sent to the table at once, six apiece
on hot plates. 1t is we'll to have a
small red doiley at each plate with
which to grasp the oyster while open
ing. Grilled sardines are also particu-
larly good with these same potatoes;
they are very savory, yet easily pre-
pared. Grilling is merely another name
for broiling, and unless one possesses a
perforated broiler, not expensive, how
ever, shaped like a waffle iron, which
comes on purpose to cook articles that
would slip through the ordinary grid
iron or broiler. they may be cooked
easily, quickly and satisfactorily by
proceeding as follows: Make the frying
pan or chatting dish sizzling hot, drop
in teaspoonful of sweet butter, or use
the oil in which the sardines are pack
ed as preferred. The pan must be kept
very hot, when the fish will brown al
most instantly on one side, then turn
ed, Drowned on the other, and they are
ready to be served on toasted crackers
or squares of toast softened with bouill-
ion.
The butcher will supply marrow
bones on purpose for grllling, and they,
too, fit in eXcellently with potatoes in
their jackets. as would scallops, done
to a golden brown in boiling olive oil,
fried shrimps, roasted crabs and the
like.
People who have an open CRATE with
a glowing fire Of hard COAL possess the
means, with the addition Of a chafing
dish, that make possible the most saw
ory suppers imaginable, and may de-
light their friends by novel invitations
to sup, with the words potatoes in
their jackets" added, instead of "Ganc'
ing" "cards," or what not.