San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-04

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slightly. Drain and put in n baking
dish or two-quart crock. Mix all the
other ingredients with enough water
to cover the beans in the baking dish.
Bake c,veredsfor two or more hours,
then uncovered for two hours, adding
more water TO keep from drying, and
as they brown, turn top under to
brown evenly through and through.
STEAK WITH OYSTERS.
Sirloin steak Il to ID inches
thick.
Oysters (pint or more according to
size). 4
3 tablespoons lemon juice.
3 tablespoons butter.
1 teaspoon Gebhardt's Eagle Chilli
Powder.
2 teaspoons salt.
IL cup boiling water.
. tablespoons minced parsley.
Broil the steak about fifteen min
utes. Put the drained oysters in a
cooking pan and stir over direct heat
to start the juices. Spread these oys-
tiers over the top of the steak, then
pour over the sauce made by blending
the butter. salt. Gebhardt's Eagle Chill
Powder. boiling water and parsley.
Bake in hot oven fifteen minutes
and serve Immediately.
POTATO SALAD.
. cups cold boiled potatoes, diced
IA cup minced sweet onion
4 slices bacon
81 cup vinegar
tablespoon Gebhardt's Eagle Chilli
Powder
Mix diced potatoes and minced
onions. Cut the bacon in threadlike
strips and cook until crisp. Stir Geb-
hardts Eagle Chilli Powder in the hot
fat. then add the vinegar and water.
When it hollis up once, pour IL over the
potato mixture.
PLAIN PASTRY.
8 tablespoons simon pure leaf lard.
. cups pastry flour.
teaspoon salt.
Cold water.
Mix and sft the dry ingredients,
cut in the lard with knife or use
the finger tips. Moisten with cold wa
ter TO make very stiff dough. and
when well mixed. toss on a slightly
floured board and divide. 1t will take
| about one-half cup of cold water. Roll
out lower crust and fit tin. fill. Moist
en- rim with cold wnter. roll out upper
/ crust. make missions on top. cover pie
trim and bake about 45 minutes in
a moderate oven $50 degrees f.
PUMPKIN PIE.
11-2 cups steamed or drained
pumpkin or canned pumpkin.
teaspoon cinnamon.
1-2 teaspoon ginger.
Ia teaspoon nutmeg.
% cup brown sugar.
IL teaspoon salt.
ClOverbloom eggs.
9 cups milk.
tablespoon Cloverbloom butter.
Mix the spices and sugar with
pumpkin. Beat the egg slightly and
add the milk. Stir into pumpkin mix
ture. Melt the butter and add. Pour
into unbaked pastry and bake in 9
medium over $50 degree r. for AZ
minutes or until custard is firm and
pastry is nicely Drowned.
For mince pie. prepare the pastry
as | gave the recipe few minutes
ago, and pour half the contents of Il
jar of veribest mincemeat into the
pastry. Cover with an upper crust,
make missions and bake As minutes
in moderate oven. This makes a most
tempting. festive pie.
CRANBERRY PIE.
11-2 cups cranberries.
IL cup raisins.
/ cup water.
| cup sugar.
IL tablespoons cornstarch.
Cut the raw cranberries into halves.
| place in a sauce pan with the raisins
and water. Bring to boil then add
the sugar mixed with the cornstarch.
| Pour into unbaked pastry, place strips
over the top. Place in hot oven 45l
degrees F.-after five minutes reduce
| to a temperature Of $50 degrees r..
| and bake until filling is firm and pas
try is brown, or about 40 minutes.
BANANAS WITH SAUCE.
bananas.
1 cup boiling water.
Ia cup sugar.
/ tablespoon cOrnstarch.
A few grains of salt.
] tablespoon caramel.
l teaspoon grated lemon rind.
Add sugar and cornstarch. which
has been mixed with little cold wa
ter. to the boiling water; boil fiv'
minutes; add caramel and lemon juic'
and rind. Pour over bananas, whic1
have been scraped and sliced. Set IL
cold place until ready to serve.
To make caramel-put four tee
spoons sugar into small frypan, mel;
until light brown, remove from fire
add onc-half cup water, return to fire
and boil several minutes.
FRENCH FRUIT SALAD.
Peel equal quantities of bananas
pears and apples, and cut the fruit
into dice. Mix then with light may
onnaise sauce enriched with cream
and favored with lemon juice instead
of vinegar. Dish up and decorate with
red currant jelly.
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