Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
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physicians are recommending bacon diet
to children having a weak constitution or
where there is danger Of ricketts,. Bacon
and gluten of wheat are said to feed the
bone tissues and give vitality to the whole
system. English mothers give their chill
dren liquid bacon fat on their bread IN
lieu of butter. There Is great difference
in the curing of bacon. In this country
the Boston bacon is now reckoned best,
being the nearest to the celebrated Irish
bacon. While most people find frying the
NEST handy method of serving bacon in
small quantities, care Is necessary to keep
the rashers cooking evenly. slice of lean
needs to be turned over on to the fatter
part to prevent it's getting too dry. with
q gas stove there Is no better or easier way
to cook bacon than in the oven. Cut the
rashers with mathematical precision, and
lay them in a sheet iron spider or baking
tin. one slice overlapping the other, so that
each strip of lean rests on the fat Of the
rasher underneath. Put in the oven and
leave until cooked.
Bacon and Green Peppers.-At this sea-
son bacon and green peppers make an APP
petizing breakfast dish. Select firm green
peppers, cut into rings, removing all the
seeds. Soak for twenty minutes in salted
ice water. Drain and dry and fry in the
pan in which the bacon has cooked crisp.
Keep the bacon hot meanwhile when Tue
peppers are tender heap them up in the
center of small platter and arrange the
slices of bacon around them.
Tongue Toast-Tongue toast makes an
excellent meat dish for breakfast and ut1l-
ICES the root and ragged pieces that can
not be served cold. Mince boiled. smoked
tongue very fine, heat cream to the boiling
point and make thick with the tongue.
Season to taste with pepper, nutmeg, par
sley or chopped green peppers and when
hot stir in a beaten egg and remove from
the fire at once. Have ready as many
slices of buttered toast as are required.
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at once. If you have no cream, make q
cream sauce. using tablespoonful each OF
butter and flour and cup of milk.
Hash and Hash-Hash is one of our
American dishes and one that is not to be
despised. At it's best it is made of corned
beef. one part of meat to two of potatoes,
using one-fourth part fat meat. Chop very
fine, rejecting every bit of bone gristlc
and skin Season to taste with salt and
pepper. Put a little hot water or beef
stock in the bottom of a spider add
tablespoonful of butter and as soon as
melted turn into the hash. Simmer slowly
until it has absorbed the water and formed
a soft brown crust. Do not let it get too
dry, but do not stir. Fold like an ONE
lette, or, If preferred, serve in round
DISH crust uppermost. Variations in hash
are roast beef instead of corned, cooked
without a crust, mounded in dish and
crowned with poached eggs, serve on small
squares of toast, or with bacon. 1t may
addition of fried onions, chopped green or
red peppers-the pimentos-chopped celery
or parsley: 1t may be made into balls.
covered with egg and fine bread crumbs
and fried, in deep fat, or heated with milk
or cream in place of water.
Eggs and Tomatoes.-While tomatoes are
still plentiful they should be used freely for
breakfast. One of the incest ways of the
myriad nice ways in which they may be
prepared is this: Select as many round
firm, ripe tomatoes as there are persons to
be served Wash them, cut a thin slice
from the top of each for cover, and scoop
out sufficient space to admit an egg. Put
In each little butter, drop in the egg, TAX
ing care not to separate the white and yolH,
season with salt and pepper, place dot
parsley on the butter. Replace the cover
and bake about twenty minutes in aot
oven. Grated cheese may be used in place
of the parsley.
Sausage.-While sausage is not to be COM
mended for steady diet, good sausage
and then, especially on a swapping
cold morning, is not an unwholesome brea <
fast dish. Link SauSageS are nice covered
with water boiled a few moments and then
Drowned in the oven. Another aDpetizlng
way is to pick the sausage apart, then COOK
it in cream sauce like dried beef. SauSa ge
and onion make a good combination. Allow
a tablespoonful of chopped onion TO each
pound of sausage; brown 1t In the saucepan
with the sausage and sprinkle over the
sausage. Fried apples or apple sauce are
also excellent additions to sausage.
Nut Scrappel-This is a new dish, but
one commended by an ardent vegetarian.
Sift together two cups Of Indian meal, one
cup of hominy and teaspoonful or SAT-
Add boiling water and cook in douple
boiler until of q consistency suitable Tor
frying. Take from the fire ana sur IN Two
full cups OF ground hickory nut meats Pour
into a buttered dripping pan and set where
II will keep cold. Sliced and fried, th1s
takes the place OF meat.
Jentil Croouettes-Boil half a point OF
split lentils that have been soaked over
night until tender and run through pures
sieve. Cook a sliced onion in butter until
yellow add a chopped tomato and salt ana
nnenner to season. Mix these ingredients
with the lentils, and let the mixture GET
cold. When quite firm shape the croque.leS'
din in egg and bread crumbs and Try rlch
golden color These are nourlshing ana
Sustaining, yet very cheap
Bishop Williams Corn Bread.-Hot
breads are always appreciated tor pae q, n,
GoestihIe Here is The recipe lor de-
Iicjous corn bread: Sift together one cup
of cornmeal, one of flour, three Tablespoon
f,,1s of sugar half teaspoonful saIt, one
teaenoonful of cream of tartar and a half
tea snoonful of soda. Add one cup OF sour
cream and two eggs, beat vigorously, ana
hake twenty minutes in hot oven. II sour
cream is rot attainable use sweet milk and
two tablespoonfuls of melted butter.
Germ Wheat Gems Cream together, as
foY cake. 2 quarter cup of butter, one-third
cun of sugar and one egg. Beat into cup
and a half of sour milk, a teaspoonful OF
soda and add to the creamed butter and
sugar Now stir in meal about as thlck
as for griddle cakes, turn into hot, well
creased gem tins, and bake In not oven
about twenty minutes.
Fruit for Breakfast.-Fruit should never
be omitted from the breakfast card. 1t may
be served first or last or at any stage of the
game as desired. While fresh fruit is usual
ly preferred stewed fruit, jams and marina
ladies' have each their place and welcome.
Baked apples with whipped cream are de-
Fcious. California prunes cooked alone or
with French chestnuts and iced are excel
lent, while a breakfast salad made of a
melange OF fruit is especially popular. An
excellent combination row is sliced pears
and peaches, with just enough lemon juice
to bring cut the flavor.
A Posy for the Breakfast Table.-Lastly
II you have the least bit of a garden or
even a few shade trees to draw on don't
neglect to have a fresh posy or cluster OF
pretty leaves on the breakfast table. Even
a confirmed hypochondriac must find his
| day grown brighter with q newly opened
morning glory smiling into his face. -Four
| or five morning glories, with their curling
| tendrills climbing over slender vase in
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