Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
BY MISSIS PHYLLIS.

THERE comes a. time in every house
wife's life when she simply doesn't
know what under the sun to get for
dinner She's sick of the stove and
sick of cooking and sick of deciding
what the family ought to eat. She can't
find anything new and she's tired OF
the old things.
On such days it is a good thing for
you just to turn over the leaves of your
own cookbook-not any of those bound
volumes on your shelf. even though
there are loads of recipes there you
have never trled-but the cookbook that
you have prepared from a collection OF
recipes cut from newspapers and maya
zines, written from radio directions or
acquired from your friends.
Let's turn the pages of the home
made cookbook today for few minutes
and see what we stir up.
Shrimps, New orleans style, are al
ways good. They require 2 tablespoons
butter, cup canned shrimpS, cup hot
boiled rice. x cup heavy cream, u tea
spoon salt, "a teaspoon celery salt,
onion juice, and Il cup tomato sauce.
Melt butter. add shrimpS and cook 3
minutes. Add cream, rice and season.
ings. Heat we'll and serve on triangles
of toast gaTnished with pimento strips
or circles of green pepper.
Cream of lettuce soup is excellent for
the children. Since most grown-ups
fail to eat enough green stuff. it is also
good for them. For 1t you will need 2l2
cups milk or white stock, l head let
tuce chopped. 2 tablespoons rice, Il cup
cream, a tablespoon chopped onion.
tablespoon butter, yolk l egg, dash OF
nutmeg, salt and pepper.
Cook onion 5 minutes in the butter.
Add milk. lettuce and rice. Cook slowly
till rice is soft. Add cream egg yolk
slightly beaten, salt, pepper and nutmeg.
An apple muffin recipe contains 4
tablespoons shortening, 8 tablespoons
sugar, eggs Cseparated), l cup milk, 2
cups -four, 3 teaspoons baking powder,
a teaspoon salt and y cup finely
chopped apples.
Cream the shortening and add the
sugar. Beat the yolks of the eggs and
add. Mix and sift dry ingredients and
add alternately with the milk. Beat till
smooth. Fold in the well beaten whites
and the chopped apples. Fill creased
muffin tins half full and bake from 20
to 25 minutes in a slightly hotter than
moderate (400) oven. Serve hot. These
are especially nice for the bread of a
meal in which pork or ham is to be
served. Or for breakfast when SausageS
and scrambled eggs are the main dish.
Creole eggs are interesting. You will
need l finely chopped onion, green
pepper, A tablespoons butter, 2 table
spoons flour, Ia cups tomatoes, and 3
hard cooked eggs.
Brown the onion and pepper in the
butter, cooking slowly and being sure
not to let the vegetables burn. Add
flour and tomatoes, which should be
chopped fine, or sifted, if you prefer
Stir until all is thickened. Then add
the eggs, sliced. Serve on toast points.
Baked bacon and lima beans have a
recipe which consists of one cupful dried
ina beans, half teaspoonful salt, pepper,
two tablespoonfuls corn sirup and sliced
bacon.
Soak the beans in cold water over
night. In the morning cook slowly for
about two hours. Add seasoningS before
the last half hour of cooking. Put into
baking dish and add strip. Cover top
with slices of bacon and bake till bacon
is crisp and beans are Drowned. This
is a good Saturday night dinner dish.
French pancakes are made from one
cupful -four half teaspoonful salt, two
teaspoonfuls baking powder, two eggs,
one cupful milk and jelly or jam.
Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add
beaten eggs and milk. Beat till smooth.
Fry one cake at time in skillet, allow
ing the batter to cover the whole pan