The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-17
TABLE DELEGATES.
RECIPES FOR SOME SIMPLE AP.
PETIZING DISHES.
Fish Outlets Make q Welcome Change
in the Mcmillan Eelairs-ln-
gradients in Preparation Of
Hash au Gratin.

Fish Cutlets.-These outlets are
made from cold boiled fish that has
been freed from bones and faxed.
Make a sauce from one cup OF hot
milk, one and one half level teaspoons
of butter, and three level tablespoons
of -four. Cook three minutes, season
with salt and pepper, add the beaten
yolk of an egg and a teaspoon Of finely
chopped parsley. Turn into two cups
of faxed fish and stir. Cool the mix
ture or shaping by hand. Dip in beat
en- egg and form into outlets, using
the tin form, then in fine bread
crumbs and fry in deep hot fat. Drain
on brown paper and garnish with
parsley.
Jam Eclairs.-Cook together one
cup of water and one-Quarter cup OF
butter, and as soon as the boiling
point is reached stir in ali at once
one cup Of flour and keep stirring un-
til a ball is made that cleaves free
from the sides of the saucepan. Set
aside to cool, then add, one at time.
four eggs, beating the batter well be-
tween each addition. Drop the bat
ter in long narrow strips two inches
apart on buttered tin and bake In
a moderate oven about half an hour.
Open a door few minutes after they
are done before taking them from the
oven. If they are slowly and well
cooked they will not fall. When cool
cut open the side and fill with any
kind Of jam. Spread little white
frosting on the top of each.
Baked Liver.-Wash and wipe the
liver dry. Cut a dozen match-like
strips of salt pork and insert in cash.
es cut in the liver or use a larding
needle. Dredge the liver with flour,
sprinkle on a little salt and bake half
an hour in hot oven.
Thin Sugar Cookies.-Mix four
slightly rounding tablespoons of sugar
with three tablespoons of melted but
ter, two tablespoons of milk, one egg,
two level teaspoons of baking powder
and -four enough to roll out very thin.
Cut in shape and bake.
Corn Sponge Cake.-Sift together
two cups of cornmeal one cup of -four
and one level teaspoon each of salt
and soda. Beat three eggs with one
level teaspoon of sugar. add the egg
mixture to the -four, pour in two cups
of sour milk and mix well. Bake in
one loaf.
Hash au Gratin.-Chop cold cooked
beef fine, season with salt and pepper
and mix in the proportion Of one cup
of mashed potato to two cups of the
meat. For this amount put half cup
of meat gravy in a saucepan, add a
saltspoon of mixed mustard and q
teaspoon of pepper. Heat and put in
meat and potato and stir until heated
thoroughly. Turn into buttered bak-
ing dish, cover thickly with fine bread
crumbs, dot with butter and brown
slightly in the oven.
6lueberry Meringue Pie.-Stir one
rounding tablespoon of -four into one
cup of sugar, add one tablespoon of
lemon juice and the beaten yolks OF
two eggs, saltspoon OF salt. Mix
well, then add three cups of blueber.
ries and mix all lightly together. Fill
a pie plate lined with good crust and
bake in a moderate oven. When done
cool a little, then frost with the
whites of two eggs beaten stiff with
two heaping teaspoons Of sugar, and
brown lightly.
Vegetarian Mince Pie.-Wash, core
and chop fine, IL apples, add one cup
OF water, little cinnamon and nut
meg, grated rind of lemon, one cup
of sweet cider, one cup of sugar, but.
ter the size of an egg, one cup Of
seeded raisins, cook till tender, let It
cool, then fill the pies and bake till
The crust is brown.