Evening star., 1927-11-11
Easily Prepared Dishes
There are Many Ways of Providing Savory
Food with Minimum Expenditure of
Labor in the Kitchen

Pancakes make delicious savories
when filled with finely chopped meat
poultry or game we'll seasoned and
mixed with a suitable and rather
thick sauce. Cooked tomatoes. mush
rooms and asparagus points also make
good filings, as does almost any kind
Of cooked fish. If used for savories
the pancakes must be made very small
and should be served very hot.
; Made with herbs: Make an ordinary
pancake batter with four ounces OF
flour, one egg and one-haf pint OF
milk. When well beaten add one hall
a teaspoonful of finely chopped herbs
and one teaspoonful OF chopped pars.
ley. Season with salt and pepper and
let the batter stand for at least half
an hour. Fry in the usual way. If
onion Is liked. one-half a teaspoonful
of very finely minced onion may be
added to the batter also.
With meat or cheese: Add a table
spoonful of finely chopped ham or
tongue and a teaspoonful of chopped
parsley to the batter. A tablespoonful
of grated cheese added to the batter
makes cheese pancakes. After roll
ing, sprinkle the pancakes with lit
tie more grated cheese.
Mix some finely minced meat, poultry,
or game with a thick sauce or the
and when the pancakes are made,
spread a little of the mince over, then
roll them. Vegetables should be cook
ed, minced, mixed with a suitable
sauce and make hot before using
them as pancake filings.
Many Uses for Celery.
This very useful vegetable is equal
ly good cooked or raw. Every part
of q head of celery can be used. The
green leaves and root will flavor stock,
stews sauces and gravies. The out
side stalks may be used for stewing
fer soups or sauces, while the best por-
tions are delicious eaten raw with
cheese or as savories, either alone or
mixed with other vegetables. Celery
seeds tied in muslin make a good fla
voring agent when fresh celery Is not
procurable.
To curl celery, cut the tops into fine
strips with small sharp knife to the
depth Of two inches. Put them in cold
water when they curl over. To use
celery as a garnish, cut some good
stalks of celery into four-inch pieces
and cut both ends of these into fringe
like strips, leaving about an inch of
the celery in the center. After soak
both sides and make very pretty
decoration.
To make delicious entree. cut some
cooked celery into Pinch pieces.
Drain on a cloth, then coat with thick
curry sauce, dip into frying butter and
fry in deep fat. Drain on soft paper
and sprinkle with salt mixed with
little curry powder. Serve very hot.
If the pieces of celery are kept small,
about one inch in length, this dish
could be used as savory.
Celery can be stored for some time
II it is fresh and crisp. Cut off the
root and leaves and leave it in a cur
rent of air in a dry place for three or
four days, then put it in a cool, frost
proof cellar carefully packed in sand.
Quickly Prepared Dishes.
Use alternate slices of potato and
onion with a little thin, streaky bacon |
on top and a little stock poured over. |
Cover and bake. Heat in pan some |
onions and tomatoes that have been |
fried, some cold faxed fish, boiled rice
and stock. The fish can be omitted If 7
not liked.
Hot sayory boiled rice with fried |
eggs and fried bananas on top makes |
an appetiZing dish.
Try alternate, layers Of sliced hard |
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with a little good stock added. Bake
In the oven.
Savory pudding can be made like a
beef olive with chopped meat or sau-
sage meat, bread crumbs, butter and
egg to bind them. Steam and serve
with potatoes.
Cut some rare meat in pieces, then
add slices Of raw potato and shredded
onions with some stock. Put crust
on top and bake.
Mutton and potato pie or mutton
and potato pudding are either one
good with a little onion added il liked.
Eggs may be baked in fireproof
dishes with a little butter and tomato
or chopped meat, or cooked peas, or
beans. and little more butter, or with
diced boiled ham, or cooked sausage or
grated cheese. -,
Scrambled eggs are good with a
sayory addition, such as tomatoes,
chopped meat, potted meat or faxed
Ash stirred in.
Fish pudding, consisting Of layers
ar fiaked cooked fish. mashed potatoes
and tomato, may be either baked or
steamed. 4'*'Es