Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-04-16
A Wedding Spread.
cHIcKEN MAYoNNAIsE.

water, and add four slices carrot, one
onion stock with eight cloves, two stalks
celery, bit of bay leaf, one-half teaspoon
peppercorns, and one tablespoon salt.
Cover, bring quickly to the boiling point,
and let simmer until meat is tender.
Remove meat from bones and finely
chop; there should be two and one-half
cups. Reduce stock to one cup, cool,
and remove fat. Soak one and one
fourth teaspoons granulated gelatine in
two teaspoons cold water and dissolve
in stock which has been reheated. Add
to meat and season with salt, pepper,
celery salt, and onion juice. Pack
solidly in slightly buttered one-half
pound baking powder tins, and chill.
Remove from molds, cut in thin slices,
arrange on lettuce leaves, and garnish
with mayonnaise dressing.
FISH TIMBALEs, BECHAMEL SAUCE.
Cook two pounds halibut in boiling,
salted water, drain, and rub through q
sieve. Season with one and one-half
teaspoons salt, three teaspoons lemon
juice, and few grains cayenne. Add
twO-thirds cup heavy cream, beaten until
stiff, and the whites of six eggs beaten
until stiff. Turn into buttered individual
molds, put in pan, half surround with
hot water, cover with buttered paper,
and bake twenty minutes in moderate
oven. This quantity will make eighteen
timbales. Remove from molds, garnish
with parsley, and pour the sauce around
the timbales.
SOMERSET SANDWICHES.
Remove salmon from can, rinse thor
oughly with hot water and separate In
flakes one-half of the contents of the
one pound can. Pound fish in mortar
and work in creamed butter until the
mixture is Of the right consistency to
spread, the amount required being about
two and one-half tablespoons. Season
with salt, paprika, and lemon juice.
Cut white loaf bread in as thin slices as
possible, spread one-balf the pieces with
the mixture, cover with remaining pieces,
remove crusts and cut in triangles,
inger-shaped pieces, or as desired. Ar
range on a plate, covered with a dolly.
| RECEPTION ROLLS.
Add two tablespoons sugar, four table
spoons butter and one teaspoon salt to
two cups scalded milk; when lukewarm
add one east-cake, dissolved in one
fourth cup lukewarm water and three
cups -four. Beat thoroughly, cover, and
let rise until light; cut down and add
enough flour to knead, the quantity re-
Iquired being about two and one-half
cups. Cover, let rise again, toss on a
lslightly Toured board. Knead and
shape in small biscuits. Place in rows
On slightly Toured board, cover with
Icloth and pan, and let rise until light and
well-puffed. Flour handle of wooden
spoon with which make deep crease in
middle of each biscuit, take up and
press edges thus made closely together.
Place closely in buttered pan, cover, let
rise, and bake fifteen minutes in hot
loven.
| STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM.
Wash and hull two quart boxes straw
berries, sprinkle with two cups sugar,
cover, and let stand two hours. Mash
land squeeze through cheese-cloth; then
add few grains salt. Freeze three pints
thin cream or rich Jersey milk to q
mush, then add gradually the fruit juice
and continue the freezing. In freezing,
use three parts finely crushed ice to one
part rock salt to insure smooth fine,
Igrained cream.
SPONGE DROPS.
Beat the whites of three eggs until
lstiff and dry and add gradually, while
beating constantly, one-third cup
powdered sugar. Add the yolks of two
eggs beaten until thick and lemon-color.
lored, and one-fourth teaspoon vanilla
Cut and fold in one-third cup flour mix.
ed and sifted with one-eighth teaspoon
salt. Drop mixture from tip OF spoon
on unbuttered paper arranged on a tin
sheet. Sprinkle with powdered sugar
and bake eight minutes in q moderate
}oven.
WEDDING CAKE.
Cream one pound butter and add
Igradually, while beating constantly, one
pound brown sugar. Separate yolks
Iyolks until thick and lemon-colored
Add to first mixture, then add one pound
-four excepting one-third cup, reserved
to dredge fruit) mixed and sifted with
four teaspoons cinnamon, four teaspoons
allspice, one and one-half teaspoont
mace, one nutmeg, grated, and one tea:
spoon salt; three pounds raisins, seeded
and cut in pieces, two pounds Sultana
raisins, one and one-half pounds citron
thinly sliced and cut in strips, and one
pound currants 1.-THE fruit to be dredged
with reserved tlour), one cup brandy
four squares melted unsweetened choco
late and the whites of twelve eggs beaten
stiff. Just before putting into pans, add
one-fourth teaspoon soda dissolved in
one tablespoon hot water. Put in but
tered pans, cover with buttered paper
and steam four hours. Finish the cook
ing by leaving in warm oven over
night. Let stand at least three weeks tc
become seasoned.-Ex.