Beat the egg and add to the cream sauce, mixing thoroughly.
Rub the bread crumbs through a sieve and add the onion and mace. Boil for a few minutes in the vegetable stock, add the butter, and serve.
Beat the butter and sugar together until white and creamy, then add the nutmeg.
Break the nutmeg into pieces and put in a saucepan with the water, boil, and add the corn starch mixed (sifted) with the sugar. Stir over the fire until the corn starch is cooked, then add the butter. Beat the yolks with one tablespoonful of the sauce,then stir quickly into the remainder, which should be immediately removed, as the yolks will curdle if boiled. Strain, and serve.
Thicken the cream with the flour and stir in the beaten yolks. Cook a few minutes, stirring all the time. Add sugar to taste. When cool, add the beaten whites, and flavor with vanilla.
Put the juice of the oranges and the grated rind of one with the sugar into a saucepan. Set on the range and stir till the sugar is melted or dissolved, then strain through a fine sieve to remove the rind. Add the beaten eggs, lemon juice, and butter. Before serving, set in double boiler and stir for a few minutes to melt the butter and thoroughly mix the eggs. Serve hot or cold.
Add the grated rind and juice of the lemons to the sugar, beat the eggs until light, and add to the sugar, and stir well. Just before serving, add the boiling water and set on the stove, but do not boil. For a richer sauce add one-third of a cup of butter.
Boil the sugar in the water for five minutes, then stir in the corn starch previously mixed with a little cold water. Stir over the fire ten minutes, then add the grated rind and juice of the lemon and the butter. When the butter is melted, the sauce is ready for use.
Put the butter into a saucepan; when it has melted stir in the flour and mix well; then pour in gradually the hot water and stir over the fire till well cooked; then add the sugar, lemon juice and a small quantity of grated nutmeg.
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Omelets may be made with asparagus, cauliflower, lima beans, onions, peas, lentils, granose, gluten, rice, nuts, etc.
Boil the vegetables till tender, chop fine, then beat with the eggs and proceed as with plain omelets.
Take two eggs, separate whites from yolks, beat whites very stiff, salt, and add yolks, beating just enough to mix yolks with whites. Turn into a hot oiled omelet pan, put in medium hot oven, and bake till done, or to a rich brown. Serve in great haste on being removed from the oven, to prevent falling.
Beat the yolks of the eggs as light as possible, and add the sugar, a few drops of flavoring, and beat to a cream. Beat the whites until you can turn the plate bottom side up, without their falling. Pour the beaten whites and yolks together and mix thoroughly. Put into an oiled baking dish, and dust with powdered sugar. Bake in a moderate oven till a golden brown. Serve at once.
A very delicate souffle is made of whites of eggs beaten stiff, adding a tablespoonful of sugar to two whites, and chopped apricots or peaches. Any kind of marmalade may be used in place of fruit.
Break eggs into a dish, whip lightly with egg whip or fork, turn into hot oiled skillet, and place on range. As soon as they begin to set, lift edges of omelet, so that the uncoagulated part can run under, next to bottom of the skillet. When light brown, turn, and cook till light brown on the other side. Fold with knife about one-third over; then toss out on hot platter, so that the one-third fold will be underneath. Garnish with parsley and watercress. Serve at once.
Mince the protose fine, break two eggs, separating the whites, beat the yolks a little, and stir the minced protose into them. Beat the whites into a froth, not stiff, and stir into the protose; add a little minced parsley; put a little oil into the omelet pan, and when hot pour in the mixture. Cook a few minutes. Insert a knife between the omelet and pan, and with a sudden turn of the hand fold theomelet in two. Finish cooking in hot oven two or three seconds. Serve hot.
Same as plain omelet, adding one tablespoonful of gluten to eggs and cream before whipping. Serve at once on a hot platter.
Same as plain omelet, only adding one tablespoonful of cooked rice to eggs and milk before beating. Serve on a hot platter at once.
Same as plain omelet. Serve with a tablespoonful of well seasoned apple sauce, mixed with equal amount of beaten white of egg on side of platter.
Same as plain omelet, adding two tablespoonfuls of cream instead of milk, and one or two tablespoonfuls of granose, before whipping.
Prepare a plain omelet, and when ready to fold, put a layer of baked ripe tomatoes on one half, and fold the other half over it. Serve with or without a tomato gravy as preferred.
Make as for plain omelet, placing one dessertspoonful of lightly braized onion on the omelet just before you fold, folding the one-third over the onion. Serve on hot platter at once.
Make as for plain omelet, folding one tablespoonful French peas with a little thick cream sauce over them. Serve at once on hot platter.
Make as for plain omelet, folding in one tablespoonful of asparagus tips, which have been nicely seasoned. Serve on hot platter at once.
Soak bread crumbs in milk, beat eggs very light, add the soaked bread crumbs, and bake for five minutes. Have ready a hot oiled or buttered saucepan; pour in the mixture, salt, and stir briskly for three minutes. Serve hot on squares of buttered toast or zwieback.
Bring a kettle of water to a boil, set at back ofrange for two minutes, then drop in two eggs for each person, and leave for eight minutes. Serve in cups.
Cook the same as curdled eggs, leaving eggs in fifteen minutes instead of eight.
Oil a small platter or granite egg dish, break in fresh eggs, being careful not to break the yolks. Sprinkle with minced parsley, salt, and add a bit of butter. Set in oven and bake till cooked as desired. Serve at once.
Prepare eggs as for shirred eggs, omitting parsley. Pour about one tablespoonful of rich cream over them, salt, set in oven, and bake as desired. Serve at once.
Take two fresh eggs, separate whites from yolks, put yolks into a soup bowl of hot water, being careful not to break them. Let set two minutes, then place them, bowl and all, into a larger dish of boiling water, and cook till set as desired,—two minutes for medium, four minutes for hard. Meantime beat whites very stiff, mold them in a soup bowl, then float mold on boiling water two or three minutes till nicely set. Then place them on large platter,place yolk in center, garnish with parsley, and serve. In removing whites from bowl, take bowl in left hand, knife in right, dip bowl about one-third in water, then slip knife under edge of mold in the water. The water will get under eggs and float them out easily. This makes a nice dish for the sick, if yolks be boiled hard and whites are cooked rare.
Take nice, ripe, medium-sized tomatoes, remove the stem and center with sharp paring knife or spoon sufficient to encase an egg nicely. Place them in an oiled granite baking-pan, break an egg into each tomato, salt and sprinkle with chopped parsley, and add a small piece of butter. Set in moderate oven and bake till eggs are medium done. Serve at once.
Put milk on to heat in agate pan; when it begins to boil, break in the eggs, and with a fork stir rapidly till it thickens. It must not be as hard as scrambled eggs. Split granose biscuit in half and heat them in the oven a few minutes. Serve a spoonful of the mumbled eggs on each half of the biscuits. Do not forget to add salt.
Prepare as for scrambled eggs with protose, using nice, tender corn in place of protose. Salt and serve at once on hot platters.
Prepare as for scrambled eggs with protose, using one teaspoonful of lightly braized onion in place of protose. Salt, and serve on hot platters at once.
Into an oiled skillet containing one tablespoonful of cream or milk break the eggs, slightly whipping them with egg whip or spoon, then add protose. Stir to prevent sticking to bottom, also to thoroughly mix egg with protose. Salt, scramble (soft medium, or hard), as desired. Serve at once on hot platters.
Prepare as for scrambled eggs with protose, omitting protose and substituting minced parsley.
Serve poached eggs on nice light brown slices of zwieback, or fresh toast if preferred, that has beenslightly moistened, not soaked, with hot cream, milk, or water.
Take nice, fresh eggs, as only fresh eggs poach nicely; break them into a pan of hot water, almost boiling. Let pan set on range so that it will not boil; poach as desired,—soft, two minutes; medium, three minutes; hard, five minutes. Serve on platter, garnish with watercress or parsley. Serve while very hot.
Heat some granose in the oven a few minutes; put a few spoonfuls on a plate and place poached eggs on top. A small piece of butter may be added to each egg.
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For each cup of the beverage required use two tablespoonfuls of the cereal and boil for ten to twenty minutes. Then remove to the side of the range and let steep a few minutes. The strength and aroma of cereal coffee are developed by long steeping.
Grate some Sanitas chocolate, place in a saucepan, and to each two ounces allow one cup of cold water. Let it stand until the chocolate is soft, place over the fire, and when it boils, cook one minute. Work it briskly with an egg beater, then serve at once, adding at the last moment a tablespoonful of whipped cream to each cup.
It is considered an improvement by some to use two-thirds chocolate and one-third malted nuts.
Other chocolate is not recommended, as it contains an injurious alkaloid, which in the Sanitas brand is removed by a special process.
For every eight parts of fruit juice used add one part of lemon juice and sweeten to taste. A combinationof fruit juices, as grape, cherry, and raspberry, makes a very nice nectar, always using the lemon juice. The nectar should be served ice cold.
Mix the strawberries, water, and lemon together, and let stand in glass or earthen jar for two hours; strain through coarse cloth and add the powdered sugar. When sugar is dissolved strain and keep on the ice until served.
Boil sugar and water twenty minutes; crush mint and pour over it one cup boiling water. Let stand five or ten minutes, strain, and pour into the syrup. To this add strawberry, raspberry, and lemon juices. Serve ice cold.
Put into a dish the juice of the lemons and the rind sliced very thin. Slice the pineapple into another dish and pour over it half a pound of the powdered sugar. Let stand overnight. In the morning strain off the juices and add the rest of the sugar and the water. Stir till the sugar is dissolved, then strain through a coarse cloth, and serve with crushed ice.
The best lemonade is made from lemon syrup. Into the juice of twelve lemons grate the rind of six. Be careful to exclude all seeds and the inner white skin, as they impart a bitter taste. Let stand overnight. Make thick syrup of white sugar, and when cold strain the lemon juice into it. A tablespoonful added to a glass of water makes a perfect lemonade.
Three lemons to a pint of water makes a strong lemonade. Sweeten to taste.
Boil sugar and water together ten minutes to make a syrup; then add the orange juice and let it cool. When cold, pour into goblets half filled with cracked ice.
Mix the lemon juice, rind of the lemons, and sugar together and add Apollinaris water. Serve in goblets of cracked ice.
Boil the sugar and water together ten minutes, and then add lemon juice and freshly-grated pineapple. Let this cool, then strain carefully, and add ice-water, about four cups.
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Grains may be considered perfect food in themselves, as they contain all the food elements in nearly right proportions. Rice is an exception to this, the starch being in excess.
In cooking grains in the form of porridges, they should be introduced into rapidly salted water, beating with a batter whisk so that the grains may be thoroughly mixed with the water and be free from lumps. In cooking coarse grains, as cracked wheat, pearl barley, hominy, etc., keep them boiling, stirring occasionally until the grain does not sink to the bottom, but hangs suspended in the water. If the inner part of a double boiler has been used, it may now be set into the outer boiler, which should be placed on the range where the water will boil rapidly. Replenish the water in the outside boiler from time to time with boiling water.
By setting the grain in boiling water, the indigestible outer portion or cellulose is more completely broken up, and the starch granules are more thoroughly acted upon by the water, the object being to cook the starch and the gluten as thoroughly as possible. If the grains are cooked in a double boiler, they will not need to be stirred after they are set, except when cooked in a very large quantity. The cooking should be continuous and the length of time varies according to the varying proportionof gluten in the grain. The larger percentage of starch, the shorter the time required in cooking. Grains combine nicely with fruits, and may be cooked or served with either fruit or fruit juices.
Put water into a double boiler, place on the range, and when boiling add oatmeal. Boil until it thickens and finish in double boiler. Cook five hours.
Put water into a double boiler, place on the range, and when boiling add rolled oats. Boil until it thickens and finish in double boiler. Cook four hours.
Put water into the inner double boiler, place on the range, and when boiling add salt and cracked wheat. Boil rapidly until grains do not sink when the dish is lifted from the range. Place in the outer boiler and cook constantly for four or five hours.
Boil water in the inner double boiler, add pearl wheat, and salt. Place in the outer boiler and cook five or six hours.
Put cold water into double boiler and add pearl barley. Heat slowly and cook about six hours.
Put the milk or water in the inner part of a double boiler, place on the range, and when boiling add salt and farina. Let it boil for two or three minutes, stirring all the time. Then place in a double boiler and cook one hour. If milk is used, it should first be simmered or scalded in a double boiler, and then placed on the range and the milk will boil almost immediately. In this way the milk will not be so liable to scorch as if it was put on the range atfirst. This rule will apply to all grains cooked with milk.
Wash rice in two waters, then put into vessel with water and salt. After boiling about ten minutes, strain off all the water except a scant cupful. Cover the vessel and let steam fifteen minutes or more, stirring once or twice. Serve with butter or gravy, the latter being stirred in quickly while the rice is hot.
Wash rice, put in kettle of water, salt, and boil till tender, stirring once or twice to prevent sticking. Drain off all water through a colander and pour over hot water sufficient to wash off the starchy water and separate the grains. Leave in the colander and set into another pan, so that the bottom of colander will not touch. Cover and place in the oven a few minutes.
Put in an enameled pan, cover, and steam one hour.
Rice may be browned in the oven until of a yellow straw color, then cooked as any rice, but preferably steamed. Care must be taken in browning that it does not scorch or get too brown.
Into the salted water stir corn meal till it begins to thicken, and finish cooking in a double boiler. Cook three or four hours.
Stir the flour into boiling water and beat till perfectly smooth; set in a double boiler, or in another vessel containing boiling water, and cook one hour.
Set as for plain graham porridge; after it has cooked one-half hour, beat in the desired quantity of washed, seeded, and chopped dates; let it cook half an hour longer, and serve.
Cook fifteen minutes, and serve with cream.
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Toasts are uniformly and properly regarded as a breakfast dish, and when properly prepared are wholesome, nutritious, and appetizing, and far more conducive to health than the fried mushes and griddle cakes with which so many are prone to appease their appetites.
Zwieback should be used as the foundation of all toasts, although ordinary toasted bread can be used. In toasting bread, do not expose it to such fierce heat that the bread will be burned or singed. Singed bread is not toasted bread. Again, the fire should be hot enough to more than simply dry the bread. It should be toasted as far through as possible, and should be crisp and brittle, not hard. In using zwieback for toast it may be moistened by hot milk, if for cream, gravy, or egg toast; or with hot salted water, if for fruit. In either case the toast should be dipped quickly in and out again so as not to absorb too much liquid and become mushy. Under this head a few kinds of toasts will be given, inexpensive and otherwise. While it is not an exhaustive list, it will include sufficient to suggest others equally good.
Heat milk and butter in a saucepan over the fire; when boiling, add salt and flour, moistened with a little milk. Let it boil, remove from the fire, and dip into this slices of toasted bread or zwieback. Pour what remains over the toast, cover, and send to the table hot.
Heat cream to boiling, dip slices of zwieback into hot milk for an instant, place on saucer, pour hot cream over, and serve.
Beat the eggs thoroughly and add the milk and a little salt. Slice light bread and dip into the mixture,allowing each slice to absorb some of the milk. Then brown on a hot, buttered griddle or thick bottomed frying-pan. Spread with butter, and serve hot.
Toast two slices of bread, trim and cut in two lengthwise, making four pieces. Place these evenly on top of one another and cut again cornerwise, into long triangular pieces. Arrange artistically on a platter, and serve with cream sauce.
Put the butter into a saucepan, and when it begins to bubble add the chopped onion. Let the onion cook a little without color, then stir in the flour. Add the milk and stir till it becomes smooth. Then put in the eggs which have been sliced and let them get hot. Pour this mixture over neatly trimmed slices of hot, buttered toast. Season with salt.
Dress moistened toast with nut gravy as given under sauces.
Beat the whites very stiff and stir in the hot prune pulp and sugar. Serve on slices of zwieback which have been dipped in hot water.
Prepare as for apricot toast, using prune marmalade.
Prepare as for prune toast, except that the dates should be steamed, not boiled.
Mix and heat thoroughly; when boiling hot spread over slices of
Dipped in hot salt water, and well buttered. Take
Cut in halves, remove yolk, and fill hole with
And place on top of the protose.
Mince half a pound of nuttolene very fine, put in a well-oiled saucepan, and fry over the fire till a delicate brown. Great care must be taken to prevent scorching; shake the pan often. Make two cups of rich cream sauce well seasoned with butter sauce, and desiccated cocoanut. Strain this over the nuttolene, and serve a spoonful on warm toast. This makes six large portions.
Any canned fruit, as strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, etc., may be used for toasts. Strain off the juice, boil, and thicken with corn starch to the consistency of cream. Stir in the strawberries and reheat till the berries are well heated through. Serve as other fruit toasts.
Peel and rub some nice bananas through a fine colander; sweeten and beat up with a little cream, and serve on moistened toast. Serve cold.
Take the desired quantity of bright fruit juice, as strawberry or cherry. Boil and thicken with corn starch. Into this slice some ripe bananas. The juice should not be too thick, but just so that the banana will appear suspended in the juice. Serve on moistened toast.
Prepare same as date toast, then serve with walnut meat on each corner and one in the center.
Dress moistened toast with tomato sauce, as given under sauces; or use strained tomatoes thickened with flour or corn starch.
Prepare as for stewed asparagus. Moisten and butter a piece of toast, lay four or five pieces of asparagus on it, pour a spoonful of white sauce on the bottom end of the stalks, and serve.
Fresh stewed apples, rubbed through a colander and sweetened, make a nice dressing. The apples may be flavored with lemon, or mixed with grape or cranberry sauce. When the apples are put in the colander, the liquid may be poured into a saucepan and boiled into a syrup, and the toast moistened with this. Serve a spoonful or two of the apple sauce over all.
In making apricot marmalade, save the juice by itself and boil it down into a syrup. Moisten the toast, pour over some of the syrup, and some of the marmalade over all.
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Thin batters are about the consistency of thin cream. Thick batters are like cream. Still thicker batters, which may be poured in a continuous stream, are called pour batters. Any batter is a pour batter until it is made so stiff that it breaks or drops in the pouring, when it is called a drop batter. It will remain a batter until too stiff to be beaten, when it becomes a dough.
Doughs, like batters, are of varying degrees of thickness, ranging from those just stiff enough to be handled to those which may be rolled thin as paper. Generally speaking, one full measure of flour to one scant measure of liquid makes a pour batter. Two full measures of flour make a drop batter; and three full measures make a dough; although, for various reasons, these proportions are subject to many modifications.
If the ingredients in batters were simply mixed and cooked slowly, the resulting substances would be hard and compact, unfit for human digestion. Hence, to obviate this, and to make them light and porous, we must resort to other processes. This is accomplished by means of the expansion of incorporated air, by the generation of gas within the mixture, or by a combination of both methods, supplemented by quick cooking before the gas has a chance to escape.
Air at seventy degrees expands to about threetimes its volume when exposed to the temperature of a hot oven. Consequently, as a mixture heats in cooking, incorporated air expands, giving the desired lightness. Air is incorporated or enclosed in batters by beating the mixture thoroughly, as in making whole-wheat gems; by adding eggs to the beaten mixture, as in popovers; and by the gas obtained by the union of an acid with an alkaline carbonate, as in the use of baking powders. In batters made light by the admixture of air, one must exercise care in beating to actually incorporate and retain the air. When eggs are added to the mixture, the glutinous consistency of the albumin they contain assists in retaining the entangled air.
Break the egg into the milk, add salt, and beat thoroughly. Beat into this enough sifted flour to make a batter that will pile slightly when poured in a thick stream. Bake in hot greased gem irons in a brisk oven. A tablespoonful of cooking oil may be added to the milk if a richer batter is desired.
Make same as plain gems, but use one-fourth corn meal and a little sugar.
Use one-fourth to one-third whole wheat or graham flour.
Beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar until light, then add the cinnamon and salt. Beat again, then add two cups granose flakes. Mix thoroughly and add half of the stiffly-beaten whitest of the eggs, then two more cups granose flakes, and lastly the rest of the whites. Drop in round gem irons, filling them heaping full, and bake a light brown. They may be iced and a little shredded cocoanut sprinkled on top.
Mix all together thoroughly, and add sufficient
To make a thick pour batter. To this add the
Beat up thoroughly and add the
Bake on soapstone griddle. Be careful not tohave the milk scalding hot, as it renders cakes soft and sticky.
Mix thoroughly and bake on soapstone griddle.
Warm the butter and stir through the corn; beat the eggs with the milk, add the salt, and mix with the butter and the corn. Turn into a pan and bake until set. Should be light brown.
Mix the salt and flour, pour on slowly half the milk to make a smooth batter; add the eggs, one at a time, beating well, and gradually the remaining milk. Beat vigorously for a few minutes, then turn at once into hot well-buttered gem-pans, filling them about half full. Bake in rather hot oven from twenty to thirty minutes.
Put the meal into the mixing bowl, make hollow in the center, put in butter and salt, and pour the hot milk over all, and stir well. Let cool, and if too stiff, add a little more cold milk. Break the eggs and separate them; add the yolks to the meal and beat five minutes. Beat the whites and add them to the batter. Oil a baking-pan, make it hot, and turn in the batter. Bake in a quick oven thirty minutes.
Sift corn meal with a little salt, and sugar if desired; scald with sufficient water or milk to make a stiff batter, but soft enough to spread easily with a knife. A tablespoonful of melted butter may be added if desired. Spread on a baking-sheet or pan about one-half inch thick or less and bake slowly till crisp clear through.
If the cake bakes fast on the bottom, it may be turned over so that both sides may be evenly baked.
Mix and add
sufficient to make stiff dough; let cool, then stir in
and lastly the
Take three cups of the sponge as set for making wheat bread, measured when light, ready to mix up stiff. Add sugar, eggs, and butter. To this add a mixture of two-thirds corn meal and one-third flour until it is as stiff as will stir conveniently (if made too stiff, the bread will be dry; if not stiff enough, it will be sticky). Put about half an inch deep in greased pans, and let rise till nearly an inch deep and bake in a moderate oven. It may be in deeper loaves, but they are not likely to be so satisfactory.
Sift meal with sugar and salt. Pour over this enough boiling milk or cream to make a stiff drop batter. Stir constantly, that the meal may not lump. When perfectly smooth, drop in large spoonfuls on a cold buttered baking-sheet and bake in a brisk oven. The pones should be browned on top.
Mix meal, flour, molasses, and milk; separate eggs and mix yolks with other ingredients. Beat whites very stiff and fold into mixture, which should not be thick. Put this in the tin dish immediately and steam for three or four hours.
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Pare the apples and remove the core, being careful not to break the apple. Put into a granite or enameled baking-pan of suitable size. Fill the hole made by removing the cores, with the sugar; moisten the sugar with the lemon juice and sprinkle a little of the grated rind on each apple. Pour sufficient water into the pan to half cover the apples. Cover and bake until clear.
Put the milk into double boiler; when scalding hot, set the inner boiler on range until the milk boils; then stir in the farina, sugar, and salt. Let boil till the farina is set, then set back in outer boiler and cook one hour. Turn into molds previously oiled or dipped into cold water. May be served with cream sweetened and flavored, or with fruit juice.
Fill a pudding dish with alternate layers of the fruit, crumbs, and butter,—fruit first, finishing bread crumbs on top. Pour over the fruit juice. Set the dish in a pan of hot water; cover and bake in a moderate oven for nearly an hour; then remove the cover and brown lightly. Serve with sweetened cream or lemon sauce.
Warm the cream to about seventy degrees, add the salt, yeast, and about two cups of the flour. Mix thoroughly, cover, and set in a warm place to rise. When well risen and lively, add the rest of the flour, and leave until perfectly smooth. Roll out about half an inch thick. Put in greased pans, brush the top with melted butter, let rise until about double its original size, and bake. Split, and fill with whole or crushed berries, sprinkled with sugar.
Put a layer of granose in a deep pan of sufficient size; cover with a layer of crushed berries and sugar; repeat till the pan is full. Press lightly. Serve with cream.
Make a custard with the milk, the yolks of the eggs, the whites of two, and the sugar. Whip the remaining three whites to a stiff froth with a little sugar and flavoring, same as custard. Pour the custard into individual glass dishes, drop spoonfuls of the whites on the custard so as to form islands, or it may be put on with a pastry tube or paper funnel. Drop a little bright jelly in the center of each island.
Put half the milk in a double boiler and set over the fire. When scalding hot, add the remaining milk in which has been dissolved the sugar andcorn starch. Stir till it is thick and there are no lumps. Flavor with lemon, take from the range, and add the stiffly beaten whites. Pour into molds and set in a cool place to get firm.
A pleasing effect may be obtained by dividing the mixture after it is cooked, and coloring one-half pink, then filling the mold one-third of one, and filling up with the other. When turned from the mold they will look like small, white pyramids capped with pink, or pink with white. A custard to be served with this blanc mange is made of two cups of milk, the yolks of three eggs, and half a cup of sugar. Flavor same as blanc mange.
Stir the granose flakes into the boiling milk; then add the beaten eggs and sugar. Let boil two minutes, and pour into molds. Serve with vanilla sauce.
Wash the tapioca, and put to cook with the water and sugar in a double boiler; cook until cleared.Pare the pineapple, remove the core, and slice very thin. Put a layer of the pineapple in a deep pan; pour over some of the tapioca, then another layer of pineapple, and so on till all the pineapple and tapioca are used. Serve cold.
Same as pineapple tapioca, but use bananas instead of pineapples. Milk may be substituted for water, and two eggs used if desired.
The tapioca may be flavored and colored if desired.
Wash, dry, and pit the desired quantity of dates, being careful not to break more than are necessary. Fill the cavity made by removing the pit with malted nuts, and press together. Make an icing of the white of an egg, eight or nine tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, a few drops of lemon juice, and one teaspoonful of corn starch. Dip the dates in this, using a sharp toothpick with which to handle them, and place on an oiled paper or plate to dry. Or the icing may be made with less sugar, and after they are dipped, roll them in powdered or Victor sugar.
Wash the sago through three waters, and simmer in a quart of water with the sugar until transparent and thoroughly done. Peel and slice the oranges, remove the pips, and add to the sago. Cook a few minutes longer, then turn into six or eight individual glass sauce dishes, and put away to cool. Garnish with a little bright colored jelly or jam.
Mix, and stir over the fire till well blended; when cold, form into patties, roll in beaten white of egg, and then in bread crumbs moistened with melted butter. Bake. Serve hot with sweetened cream, flavored with nutmeg.
Mix the corn starch, flour, cream and salt. Beat till smooth; add the beaten yolks of the eggs andthe boiling milk. Stir in the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Butter four pudding plates, pour in the mixture, and bake in a quick oven ten minutes. Spread lemon honey on half, fold over, and sprinkle powdered sugar on top. Serve hot.
Put the juice, sugar, and butter in a double boiler over the fire; while it is melting, beat the eggs and add to them the grated rind of the lemon. Add this to the sugar and butter, cooking and stirring till it is thick and clear like honey.
Put two and a half quarts of the strawberries and the powdered sugar into a saucepan. Put in oven and let it simmer till sugar is melted. Beat the yolks of the eggs in the cream or milk, andsweeten to taste. Set in double boiler over the fire, and stir till thick. Arrange the berries without the juice in glass dishes, so that they will form a sort of wall. Fill the center with custard and meringue the top with the whites. Use the remaining two cups of berries to decorate the meringue with half or whole berries. Serve hot or cold.
Beat the eggs till light, and stir in the milk, sugar, and salt. Bake in a pudding-pan; set in a pan of hot water. Bake until the center of custard is set.
Put the butter into a saucepan and set on the range. When melted, stir in the sugar, and let cook until of a dark brown color, stirring frequently to prevent burning. Now add the water, which should be hot, and stir until the caramel (the browned sugar) is dissolved. Beat up the eggs and mix with the milk; add this to the caramel and flavor withthe vanilla. Pour into custard cups, set into a shallow pan of water, and bake till the custard is set in the middle.
Wash the tapioca and put to cook with the milk in a double boiler; stir occasionally, and cook till clear. Beat the eggs till light; beat in the sugar, and add to the tapioca. Let cook a minute and remove from the range. Stir in the flavoring, and turn into a pan of suitable size. Serve cold. If desired, the whites of two of the eggs may be used as a meringue, which should be flavored the same as the custard.
Put all together and bake about two hours. Stir with a fork three or four times during first hour to prevent sticking. Should it get too dry, add a little more milk.
Cook the rice in the cream or milk; when nearly done, remove from the range, and stir in the yolks of the eggs. Pour into a pan, and set in another containing water, and bake fifteen or twenty minutes, or till the eggs are cooked. Make a meringue of the whites.
Soak bread crumbs in hot milk, add eggs, sugar, and chocolate. Beat the eggs and mix all the ingredients thoroughly. Put into a buttered can, and steam two hours.
See note under "Beverages, Sanitas Chocolate."
Grate sufficient tart apples to make two cups; then add the sugar, cinnamon or nutmeg, bread crumbs, nuttolene, which has been put through a vegetable grinder, and the beaten yolks of the eggs. Beat well and add the stiffly-beaten whites, put into an oiled pudding-pan set in a pan of boiling water, and bake. Serve with sweetened cream or flavored sauce.
Put the prunes into enough water to cover them, and let simmer gently till they absorb all the water. Turn onto a plate to cool and remove stones. When tapioca has cooked until clear, put all the seasoning into it, and put a layer into a pudding dish, then a layer of prunes, and so on, having the top layer tapioca. Bake in moderate oven one hour; then allow to partially cool, and serve with cream.
Stir the beaten whites of the eggs with the prune pulp, and add the chopped prune meats and sugar. Bake till lightly browned, and serve with cream.
Soak the bread in the milk; beat the yolks and one of the whites of the eggs with the sugar, and flavor. Mix and put into a pudding dish. Set into a pan of hot water and bake until the custard is set. Meringue with the whites.
If desired, the top of the pudding may first be marked with jelly, marmalade, or fresh fruit of some kind, and the meringue put over all.
Trim the bread, cutting off all crusts, put four slices in the bottom of a pudding-pan, cover with half the berries, which should have the juice strained off, sprinkle over part of the sugar, then the rest of the bread and the remainder of the berries and sugar. Pour over all the juice that has been drained; there should be enough to moisten the bread thoroughly. If served the same day, put anotherpan on top of the pudding, with a weight in it, to press the pudding. It is not necessary to press the pudding if not used the same day it is made. Serve with sweetened cream or sweet sauce.
Set milk, sugar, and salt in double boiler over the fire; when scalding hot, add the corn starch mixed smooth in a little cold milk. When the starch is cooked, remove from the fire, and beat well. When cold, stir in carefully the stiffly-beaten whites and flavor with vanilla. Serve with vanilla sauce.
Stir the butter and sugar to a cream; stir into this the well-beaten yolks of the eggs, the juice and grated rind of the lemon, and the grated apples. Stir in the beaten whites of the eggs, flavor with cinnamon or nutmeg, and bake. Serve cold with cream.