Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-14

| take one cup finely chopped cooked meat,
one tablespoon butter, melted one-quarter
cup cream seasoning to taste. Cut the eggs
in halves, carefully take out the yolks put
them through press, and mix to a smooth
paste with the melted butter Add the meat
and the seasoning; mix with the cream
gradually, as it may not all be needed.
When the mixture is of the proper consist
ency to stuff the eggs, season, fill each half
carefully and make it even on the top. Rub
a little raw white of egg over the pieces
and press them together. Roll in egg and
bread crumbs and fry in smokinghot fat.
Serve with a cream sauce.
Shortcake.-One quart flour. one teaspoon
salt and two of baking powder sifted with
the flour one cup butter or half lard, half
butter, one large cup hot milk. Rub the
butter into the flour. Add the milk, and
roll out the dough. cutting in small square
cakes and baking to a light brown. For a
strawberry or peach Shortcake have three
tin pie plates buttered. roll the dough to fit
them. and bake quickly. Fill either when
done with one quart Strawberries or rasp-
berries, mashed with one cup sugar with
peaches cut fine and sugared, and serve hot.
Spring Vegetables
Spinach in Florentine Style.-Wash and
pick over one-half peck spinach, stripping
the leaves from the stems and midribs and
cooking only the leafy part. Boil in sailed
water till tender about one-half hour. Some
cooks prefer to put the spinach in a double
boiler with water in the inner vessel
and cock it thus by steam When DONE
chop it fine and rub it through a coIander.
Mix with it then half of large-sized Phila-
delphia cream cheese; season to taste with
salt and pepper. Form the mixture into
balls about the size of an egg. drop these
carefully into boiling water and cook ten
minutes. Take from water with split
spoon draining each ball thoroughly, ar
range them on a hot platter, and put on
each one lump of butter the SEE of
hickory nut. When this has partly melt ed
sprinkle the balls with Parmesan cheese
and set the dish in the oven two or three
minutes before serving.
Caulifiower with Tomato Sauce-Boi
cauliflower in the ordinary fashion: drain it
and lay on a hot dish Prepare a tomato
sauce by cooking together a tablespoon each
of butter and -four till they bubble pouring
upon them one-half pint strained toma to
liquor, and stirring until the tomato sauce
is thick Season with a saltSpoon of salt
and little white pepper, and pour over
the caulifiower.
Chocolate Cakes
Dark Loaf.-Two cups pulverzed sugar
one and a half cups chocolate grated four
eggs, one cup flour, one teaspoon vanilla
Cook the chocolate to a smooth paste in
little cream or milk, beat the yolks of eggs
and sugar to a cream, add the chocolate,
the -four by degrees, the milk, and the beat
en- whites. Bake in a square, shallow pan.
Frost with white frosting. This cake. cut
in two-inch squares with white sponge cake,
makes a pretty appearance.
Frosted Ioaf.-One full cup butter, two
cups sugar, three and one-half cups sifted
flour, one scant cup milk, five eggs. leaving
out whites of two, three teaspoons baking
powder. Rub the butter and sugar to
cream, add the milk then the eggs well
beaten, and the flour lastly, with the baking
powder sifted in. Bake in a dripping pan.
The cake should be about an inch thick
when done. While hot turn on to a perfect
ly fiat surface and spread with chocolate
frosting.
Poor Man's-One-half cup butter scant
one cup sugar one-half cup hot water, one
and one-half cups -four, two eggs, two tea
spoons baking powder. Bake in a square
tin. Spread chocolate icing over the top.
Cut in squares.
Layer-One cup butter, one cup milk, two
cups sugar, three cups flour, four whites of
eggs, one and one-half teaspoons baking
powder. Bake in two fiat tins 5x10 inches,
or in large dripping pan, and divide in
two croSswiSe when done.
F'rosting.-Take one cup grated chocolate
and dissolve in a dish over a kettle of hot
water. Take the beaten yolks of two eggs
one-half cup milF and one and one-half
cups sugar Boil seven minutes. Take off
and add the melted chocolate stir well to-
gether, spread between and over the cakes