The Washington herald., 1913-10-03
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Sweet Potato DouEhnuts.
Boil, peel, and mash three medium-sized
sweet potatoes, then press them through
a sieve TO be sure of no Jumps remain
ing Add to the hot mixture piece Of
butter the size of buternut. Beat two
eggs until thick; then add one cupful
sugar and beat until dissolved. Then
stir into the potato and when well mixed
add one cupful sweet milk, four cupfuls
-four sifted with one-half teaspoonful bak-
ing powder and one Level teaspoonful
cinnamon or grated nutmeg. Roll out
half an inch thick, using as little -four
as possible TO do it. Cut into cakes with
a hole in the center and fry rich
brown in deep, smoking hot lard. Drain
on brown paper as soon as the cakes
are lifted from the fat; when cold they
may be rolled in pulverized sugar when
ready TO serve, but not before, as the
sugar collects dampness and ruins their
flavor.
Egg VermiceIIi.
Three hard boiled eggs. five slices
toasted bread, one and one-half cupfuls
milk. two and one-half tablespoonfuls
flour. two and one-half tablespoonfuls
butter; salt and pepper. Make white
sauce with the butter. -four, milk, salt
and pepper. Chop the whites of three
eggs, add them to the sauce and pour
over the toasted bread. Rub the yolks
OF the eggs through a sieve and sprinkle
them over the top. Serve hot.
Baked Apples with Rice.
Pare and core five apples; set them
closely together in a deep baking dish
and fill the hollows from which the cores
were cut with sugar and cinnamon. Fill
in all the spaces to the top OF the dish
with boiled rice, and cover with plate.
Set in the oven. In fifteen minutes, un-
cover and bake fifteen minutes longer
allowing the rice to crust delicately.
Serve warm with thin cream.
GIOrIRed Hamburg steak.
one pound hamburg steak. one-half
cupful bread crumbs, one stalk celery,
one egg, one-lIalf teaspoOnful scraped
onion, six medium-size onions, three
small carrots, a little chopped parsley, |
seasoning of salt, pepper. Put the steak
in a basin: add the celery chopped, the
bread crumbs the egg, parsley, scraped
onion, and salt and pepper to taste; mix
we'll If the mixture seems too dry,
little melted bacon fat may be added.
Form into an oval loaf and place in bak-
ing dish. Slice the carrots lengthwise in
narrow strips, peel the onions and place
the vegetables in the dish around the
meat. Pour in boiling water TO half
cover the loaf. Have the cover tight and
let the contents of the pot simmer at the
back Of the stove for about three hours. |
Season the gravy with salt and pepper
during the last half hour of cooking, and, |
fifteen minutes before serving, the cover
may be removed and the dish placed in |
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ready to serve lift the Drowned loaf to a |
hot platter, arrange the vegetables |
around it and push the dish to a hot |
part of the stove; when the gravy boils |
thicken with a tablespoonful butter and |
flour rubbed together; stirring until |
smooth. Pour the thickened gravy |
around the meat, or, if preferred. serve
separately.
Marthn's Tomato Salad, Sour Cream
Dressing.
Use one nice. large, firm tomato; peel, !
cut into half-inch cubes; add to these
one-half cupful chopped celery, one-half
cUpfuI chopped cabbage, One-hah tea
spoonful salt, one-half cupful cooked car
rots cut in sticks Pour over one-half
cupful sour cream dressing. mix well to-
Eether and serve on lettuce. For the
sour cream to stand twenty-four hours
after beginning to sour. Just before
ready to use, whip very stiff; add one
half tablespoonful sugar and one table |
spoonful lemon juice. Beat sugar and
lemon juice through the cream until the
sugar is all dissolved, then it is ready |
for use. Have the cream icy cold.
Apple Custnrd Pudding.
Two cups pared and quartered apples, |
one cup stale bread crumbs four table
spoonfuls sugar, one tablespoonful -four,
one egg, one-half lemon, one-quarter cup
water Put the apples with the water
in a granite sauce pan and cook until the
fruit mashes easily. Remove from the
fire: add the sugar, butter and grated
rind and juice of lemon. Mix the flour
with the bread crumbs and stir into the
mixture. Beat the egg until it is light
and add it last Turn into a buttered
dish and bake in a moderate oven three
quarters of an hour.
Estimated cost:
Hail pound dateS...-............s..... %
one cup rice lce-.-..-...........s....... "
Sweet milk, cream. am.-..................... 20
Half cup sour cream.................... 90