The Washington herald., 1913-09-05
Chipped Beef and Tomatoes.


Peel two solid ripe tomatoes and cut
into inch pieces, dust with salt, pepper
and -four, and put them into a saucepan
containing a tablespoonful of melted but
ter. Cook about five minutes, then add
about a quarter of pound of dried beef
Clipped very thin. Stir beef and toma-
toes about with a fork, cover, and let
simmer for ten minutes. Add half tea
spoonful minced parsley, and serve
SuccotnsIi.
Take six ears of sweet corn and score
each row of grains with a sharp knife,
and then cut from the cob. Place in
stewpan a half pint Of lima beans and
just enough boiling water to cover them'
and boil half an hour. Then add the corn
and boil fifteen minutes. Drain of the
water. and add a cup Of milk When
this boils up, stir in a tablespoonful flour
and butter rubbed together. Season to
taste with salt and pepper. Let simmer
ten minutes and serve.
Apple Float.
Pare and core a dozen tart cooking
apples and place over the lire with JUST
enough water to cover, and cook until
tender enough TO put through sieve.
Drain of every drop OF water anG mash
the apples through a sieve and set aside
beaten to a stiff white froth. Sweeteu
the apples to taste and season with
grated nutmeg; then beat them into the
egg. a spoonful at a time. Place in the
refrigerator until needed
Baked Bean Sandwiches.
Rub a cup of baked beans to a smooth
paste. Add a teaspoOnful OF chopped
parsley, a teaspoonful of onion juice,
,F nf made
tard. and a little minced celery. Spread
between slightly buttered slices of brown
bread.
White Loaf Cake.
Cream together half a cup OF butter
and one and a half cups of sugar. Add
half cup of milk. a scant teaspoonful
almond extract, and two cups of sifted
-four mixed with two teaspoonfuls baking
powder Mix to a smooth batter and
then fold in the whites of four eggs and
beat slightly. Bake in moderate oven
in a loaf pan about forty-tive minutes.
CandIcd Sweet Potatoes.
Steam medium-sized sweet potatoes un-
til tender, or slice them raw, and cook
in boiling water for ten minutes. Drain
and place in bottom of baking dish,
and sprinkle with sugar and dot with
bits of butter. Add a dash OF grated
Fill up your dish in this way with plenty
of butter and sugar on top. Pour over
them enough of the water they were
boiled in to barely cover them, and bake
in a hot oven for half an hour, uncovered.
EEgs n In Newport.
Soak a pint of bread crumbs in a pint
of milk until soft. Beat up eight eggs
very light. and stir into the crumbs and
milk and beat for five minutes. Have
ready a saucepan in which is heated two |
tabIespoonfuls of butter. Pour in the
mixture sprinkle with salt and pepper |
as the mixture is scrambled quickly with |
point of silver knife, for three minutes, |
or until the eggs are cooked to a soft |
mound on a heated platter, andNgarnish |
with parsley.
Mullins.
Take two cups yellow corn meal, one |
cup white -four, four teaspoonfuls sugar, |
half teaspoonful salt, two teaspoonfuls |
baking powder, one tablespoonful butter, |
two eggs, one and half cups Of milk, |
and a cup of apples or peaches, peeled |
and sliced. Bake in a hot oven for twen- |
ty-five minutes in muffin tins.
Lamb Kidneys n In Terrnpin.
Take six lamb kidneys and cut in |
halves Throw into cold water and al |
low to boil for fifteen minutes. Make |
a white sauce with two level tablespoon
fuls each of butter and flour, a cup Of /
milk, and salt and pepper to taste. Cut |
the kidneys into smaller pieces with one |
hard-boiled egg chopped fine half tea
spoonful salt, a teaspoonful minced pars-
ley. and more pepper, if needed Add to
tHe hot sauce and cook two minutes.
livers are delicious cooked in
this manner.
Eggs n In Caracas.
Chop quarter of a pound of dried beef
fine, one tablespoonful minced onion. one
cup stewed tomato. four raw and two
hard-boiled eggs, two tablespoonfuls but
ter, two tablespoonfuls grated cheese,
quarter teaspoonful salt, and dash of
cayenne. First put the onion in the
melted butter, then the tomatoes, then
The chopped beef. eggs, cheese, and sea-
soning, each in quick succession. Stir
ike scrambled eggs. Serve on very
1aky crackers or toast squares, garnish
with hard-boiled eggs, sliced.
Pench Delight.
Pare good ripe peaches and cut in
halves, leaving a few of the pits in place.
Put into an agate pudding dish a layer
If peaches and layer Of sugar until you