Arizona republican., 1921-08-21

Baltimore has claims for more original, distinctive culinary tri- umphs than any other city in Amer ica. Who has not longed for Chick en la Maryland. Terrapin Mary | land or Baltimore Jockey Club, oysters on the half shell and 20 other ways. soft shell crabs fried in but ter, hard shell crabs deviled, Mary land beaten biscuit and fresh corn fritters with green peppers without thinking of the city where these dishes originated and where they are served better than any other place? Hotels. cafes and inns vie with each other in their service of these truly wonderful gastronomic de- lights, the cooks who prepare them have been trained from childhood
 whose parents were cooks in the same houses where they now work. We have made many, many friends among the catering frater- nifty and have partaken of some of
 the above dishes served by them, | the recipes which 1 will give in this
 letter.
 Chicken a Ia Maryland
 | Clean and split young chicken down the back, lay in fresh milk for
 one hour, dust with flour, dip in
 beaten egg and milk, then cover with cracker crumbs. Season with salt and fresh ground black pepper. Place in 1 a frying pan six tablespoons of but ter and when the butter is hot lay in
 the chicken! cover and fry a golden 1 brown, be very careful not to burn it. 1 It will take about fifteen minutes for
 a young chicken. While the chicken
 is cooking prepare a white cream
 sauce with one cup of table cream, a i tablespoon of butter and one egg. I Pour the sauce over the bottom of a
 hot platter, lay on the fried chicken and garnish with strips of broiled bacon and corn fritters. On each
 end of the platter place two potato
 crocNttes and a sprig of water cress. I Green Corn Fritters
 For the corn fritters grate eight
 ears of fresh corn and add to the il grated corn half cup Of finely
 chopped green pepper, a well beaten
 egg and a seasoning of salt. Drop
 by spoonfuls into hot butter and turn
 same as hot cakes.
 Imperial Deviled Crab
 Crabs are at their best here and
 all, cafes serve them One of the
 most popular crab dishes is called
 Imperial Deviled Crab and is made by removing the meat from the body and claws of large hard crab after
 steaming. Make a sauce by blending four tablespoons of butter with ons
 tablespoon of flour and one cup O
 rich milk, when well mixed place or
 the fire and stir constantly unti
 thick and smooth, now add one wei
 beaten egg, mixed with a little coll
 water, one teaspoon of mustard, hal
 a cup of finely chopped fried onion
 a seasoning of salt and nutmeg. Mi.
 the sauce with the crab flakes ant
 add half cup of fine bread crumbs
 Place the mixture into the cleanet
 crab shell, dot with butter, sprinkl
 with chopped parsley and brown il
 the oven.
 , Another tasty crab dish is calle, Crab Ravigote. This is made b, | mixing one finely chopped green pep per, one finely chopped fresh pimento | two chopped tomatoes and one table spoon of chopped parsley with tw, II cups of fresh cooked crab meat. Ad, | I half cup of lemon mayonnais | dressing and a seasoning of salt am Il paprika. Place in cleaned crab shell or scallop shells and garnish witt lemon and pickle slives. A very tast addition to this dish can be made b 4 laying on top of each shell two fillet Il of anchovies.
 II Crab Flake Cocketails
 H These are served in the best place l by placing a small deep dish, like " dessert dish, in a larger dish file III with cracked ice, in the center of tn H small dish place a small glass file 1 with a good oyster cocktail and hea Il up around the gass cold cooked era II flakes. Garnish with lemon slice H and serve with an oyster fork. H Original Lady Baltimore Cake III One of the many very fine inn H to which we owe some of these re k cipes. serves what they claim is tn H original Lady Baltimore. Cake an K the lady manager was kind enough 1 H give me the recipe. For this cak II beat to a cream three cups of suga II with two and a quarter cups of but II ter, now add one at a time thre H eggs, beating vigorously as each ee III is added. Sift five cups of flol HI three times, then measure so as N have five cups after sitting the la