Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-24

an even golden brown, with no burned
edges.
Perfect toast should not be thick and
soft inside, but thin and crispy
Make 1t round a little larger than
! the egg, butter ii slightly and moisten
with hot milk or hot sailed water.
| For the egg have the water boiling;
put salt in 1t, and a creased muffin
ring.
Drop the egg inside the muffin ring
| (Which will keep the white together).
Put a cover over the pan and let 1t
stand Ave or six minutes, or till the
] egg is set. Then remove the muffin
ring. Take a skinner or spoon and
SCOOP out the egg. After the water
has drained off put 1t on the toast.
and garnish with few pieces OF
parsley
The egg should have a white dlm
over the top, and the yellow showing
through.
With the green of the parsley 1t
looks good enough to eat.
If soft-cooked egg in the shell Is
desired, have the water boiling; drop
the egg into it; remove from the fire
and let Ii stand covered six minutes.
The white will be set and jely-like,
and much more digestible than a
boiled egg.
For an omelet, get a small frying
pan ready first and put one-half tea
spoon butter in it.
Separate the white and yolk of one
egg; beat the white till stiff; then beat
the yolk and put in it one tablespoon OF
water, one fourth teaspoon salt. Care
fully and quickly fold the yolk of egg
into the white. Put inv the fryingphn
and cook very slowly. The omelet will
rise and become set on the edges. Their
put it in the oven till the top is dry.
With a knife loosen the omelet, fold in
| hot TIa CarniGE
with parsley. Put hot bowl over the
omelet, and take 1t at once to the
patient.
1t is very important to have the tray
ready as these dishes cool off quickly
and are not good when cold.
Tea and coffee are stimulating and
should not be given without the doc
| tors consent
Cocoa is nourishing. 1T should be
carefully made and we'll cooked.
Long cooking develops a better flavor
land makes 1t more digestible.
One level tablespoon cocoa one-half
cup water, two teaspoons sugar, one
cup milk. Mix the cocoa and sugar,
add the water and boil directly over the
Are five minutes. Then add the hot
milk. cook in a double boiler one-half
hour.
The cocoa will taste much better If 1t
is cooked long time.
| Have 10c water lISSlliy OOllCds as
water that has boiled long time be-
comes fiat to the taste.
Scald out the teapot. Put in one tea
| spoon of tea to one cup OF boiling
water. Let stand few minutes and
serve. (Do not boil ito
First scald the coffee pot. Two level
tablespoons coffee, one tablespoon cold
water, one-half egg shell crushed. one
cup boiling water.
Mix the coffee, colo water and egg
she'll Then add the boiling water and
boil three minutes. Add teaspoon
cold water and let stand to settle.
Do not pour the coffee out till the
patient is ready to drink it.
The tray should be neatly set with
clean cover, napkin, knife and fork. two
spoons, salt shaker. cup and saucer, a
glass of water, plate for the grapefruit,
sugar and cream, hot plate ready for
the omelet or egg and a flower. Be at
tentive to the patients wants, but do
not watch every swallow. 1t is very
hard to eat with a pair of anxious eyes
following the descent of every morsel.
-Maude Rhodes.