Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-07-11
Keeping TAD on The Teaspoon.

Keeping Tab on the teaspoon.
Timbales for Two.)
"When there isn't anything to cook,
cook timbales," giggled the little school
ma'am from her perch on the Kitchen
table.
Il was after the evening cooking les
son. She thumbed over the pages Of
her newly-made note book, and swung
her feet oontentedly.
"Timbales-s'teen kinds," she COM
meuted, "and moro to follow. I'll be
always inventing timbales, new kinds;
you'll see, Aunt Milliel And you'll be
to blame-for starting me out 90 beauti-
fully"
blithely, and carefully tucked behind one
pink ear the stray curly lock OF brown hair
that the vagrant breeze, coming In
through tbs open window, teasingly
tossed In her eyes.
"There's such . fascination about
timbale making; it's easy to have them
different; and the foundation IL always
the same. For two people, "-paraphras-
ing from her note book cup OF milk
and an egg we'll beaten together and
properly sailed and peppered. That's
the foundation. And / can put In . bit
more milk and stretch 1t to make tim
bales for three people, on occasion, only
the set won't be quite 80 firm"
The little schoolma'am's eyes ran
down the page.
suppose It's to be cheese timbales:
butter my little individual earthenware
molds-so brown on the outside and 80
white within land put In each heap
ing teaspoouful of chopped or grated
'Tillamook'- short for American,
Aunt Millis-cheese, and pour over 1t
the beaten egg.milk mixture. Then /
set them in q pan of boiling water, cover,
and set over the Gre till the contents be-
gin to set; when pull them back where
they won't boil but will keep hot until
uutil-we're ready to eat them! Which
won't be long. And one egg for two
people!"
The little schoolma'am made a merry
grimace. :.
"But II I have dried beef and don't
have cheese, I'll shred the beef real fine
with fork and use It instead OF the
cheese. But mustn't use both at once;
1t spoils the flavor. Though can use
little left over macaroni with either, or
can use It alone. especially II scalloped
| with tomatoes. Timbales appropriate
left-overs with the best Of grace.
| "And here's another kind-chickeu
timbales, I've got them labeled. Chop
up the cold chicken and use 1t a. I did
| the cheese in the first ones, only / can
be more generous with the chicken, II
want to. Or / can use chopped cold
tongue for change; or / can use faxed
fish-salmon Is especially nice In this
way. But always the beaten egg.milk
| mixture for foundation. And here's
one made with cold leftover peas with
sprinkle of parsley on top. And with
any of them may use Q tablespoonful
of flpe bread or cracker crumbs, occa'
sionally. 1t changes the consistency Of
the custard. But If they are meant to
be very, very firm, 80 can turn them
out on hot platter and serve with
sauce and top with parsley, why I'd
better put in an extra egg-yolk. Pm tc
use the one left after making cake icine
with the white-Oh, yes, Aunt Millie,
remember; I've covered 1t With cold
water 80 1t would keep, II I made the
icing the day before. Or II there ISM
any egg yolk, can use teaspoonful Of
corn starch beat up with the egg.milk
mixture.
Job, but timbales are snap, Aunt
Mile! And good-oh, my! And I'LL
ing,-why, they're pretty nearly q whole
luncheon alone. But they're to be serv
ed with toast. And I'm to stand the
little hot molds on pretty plate with 9
little crochefed mat under them; and
we're to eat them with spoon right ou'
of the timbale cup they're cooked in
that Is, we'll do that way for common
There now; / know my lessonP' Tht
little schoolma'am laughed and slid
down from the table. "And now I'm
going ont in the garden to-weed onions
And invent new kind of timbaleP'
Dropping the notebook on the table
she danced over to where Aunt Mile
sat, and STOPPING swiftly printed fresh
young kiss on her cheek; then she was
through the door and down the steps
swinging q sunbonnet by Its strings. ,
Lovingly Aunt Miles eyes followed
the girl; absently she picked up the dis
carded notebook. 1t opened at the frs,
page. There, penned in the school
ma'am's best Spencerian, stood. forth {
motto, artistically embellished:
"a woman can throw out with . tea
spoon faster than man can bring in with 9
shovel"
And underneath, scribbled In pencil
with little sppreciative jabs:
81 won't be q teaspoon woman
thanks to Aunt Millier'