Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-30

both sides, then turn in cup Of
water and simmer for an hour from
the time it comes to a boil Add a
cup of peeled white potatoes sliced
and cook until these begin to
soften, add either a tablespoon OF
minced parsley or green peppers and
cook Ave minutes longer
Celery and Nut Salad.
To a cup Of celery cut in half-inch
pieces, add a cup OF English walnut
meats blanched. Put on lettuce leaves
or shredded cabbage and turn over a
dressing as for Waldorf salad.
Plotted Beef.
Put tile remains OF any kind OF cold
meat, rejecting skin, bone and sinews,
in a saucepan with two or three thin
slices OF bacon, and little water and
cook slowly until very tender, season
with salt and pepper, little summer
savory and horseradish or Worcester
shire sauce. The water should cook
away, leaving the meat tender mass,
which cut and shred fine, adding the
Juice and rind of lemon. Pack in
custard cups, turning melted butter
over the top when cold. This will keep
week or ten days in cold place and
makes savory sandwich spread.
Chocolate Pie.
Have the pie crust ready baked.
For the filing mix half a cup Of
cocoa. half cup Of sugar, a pinch
of salt and pint OF milk in the
double boiler and bring to the scald,
when stir in two tablespoons of corn
starch wet with little cold milk
and cook until it begins toSshicken.
Have three egg yolks beaten smooth,
remove the chocolate mixture from
the FIRE and stir in the yolks, return
to fire for minute to cook egg,
then turn into the prepared crust.
Make meringue with the egg whites,
beating them stiff, then adding two
tablespoons of sugar, pile OH the pie
and put in quick oven for minute
or two>to slightly brown the me-
ringue.
Deviled Crabs.
Canned crab meat OF reliable
brand should be used for these.
Sometimes the shells can be obtained
with the meat. or ramekins or seal
Top shells can be used. Melt quar-
ter OF cup Of butter and stir into
il an equal amount OF -four, tea
spoon OF dry mustard and salt and
pepper TO taste. stir until well blend
ed, then add three-fourths Of cup
OF rich milk and cook for FIVE minutes.
Pick over cup o. crab meat to re-
move any bits oil shell, mix with it
two beaten egg yolks and add to
the sauce, stirring we'll. IT liked add,
teaspoon OF chopped onion. Put jR
shells. sprinkle with buttcred cracker
crumbs and bake brown.
Scrapple.
Any bits OF good sweet fresh pork,
fat or lean. can be used for scrapple.
To two pounds OF such pieces allow
four quarts OF water and cook until
very tender, take out, chop fine, strain
the liquor and return the meat to it.
Season with salt, pepper and sage or
summer savory, bring to the boil and
stir in heaping cupful of cornmeal
which has been wet with cold water to
prevent its Jumping. Stir we'll, cook
for twenty minutes. being careful it
does not burn, then thicken until
hardly stirable with -four. Turn into
well creased square pan and let
stand until very firm When wanted
for use slice about half an inch thick,
dip in cornmcal and fry brown. Scrap
pie will keep week in cold weather.
Banana Tapioca.
Slice the bananas and sprinkle with
the juice of lemon. Cook tapioca
in double boiler. allowing a cup
to three of water until it looks trans
parent. The quick cooking kind
needs no overnight soaking. Add to
It a pinch OF salt, the grated rind OF
the lemon and half cup OF sugar.
Stir tho bananas into the tapioca,
about three will be the right amount,
turn into a buttered pudding dish,
put bits of butter on top and bake
In hot oven until the top is Drowned.
Serve cold or hot with sugar and