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TX745 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DDDDESllSa? ' *V^*'^ • ' ^^^..-L-^'/'^c y ' copy ETitry J | XXC., NO. ^ V Copyright 1907 by I • Sarah Tyson Rorer All Rights Reserved Printed by George H Buchanan Company Philadelphia CONTENTS Sauces .... English Drawn 5 6 Butter Sauce Hollandaise Anchovy Sauce 6 . 7 . Plain Ravigotte Sauce 7 Sauce Bechamel 8 . 8 Tarragon Sauce Horseradish Sauce 8 Cream or White Sauce Brown Butter Sauce 9 9 Sauce Perigueux lo Tomato Sauce II Paprika Sauce II Curry Sauce 11 Spanish Sauce 12 Cooking of Eggs To Preserve Eggs 13 Shirred Eggs 17 i6 Eggs Mexicana Eggs on a Plate Eggs De Lesseps Eggs Meyerbeer 17 i8 19 19 Egg Timbales 2o Eggs Coquillicot 21 Eggs Suzette Eggs Steamed in the Shell 21 . 22 %& CONTENTS Cooking of Eggs —Continued To Poach Eggs Eggs Mirabeau Eggs Norwegian . Eggs Prescourt . Eggs Louisiana Eggs Richmond . Hungarian Eggs Eggs Nova Scotia Eggs Lakme Eggs Malikoff . Eggs Virginia Japanese Eggs To Hard-boil Eggs Eggs Creole Curried Eggs Eggs Beauregard Eggs Lafayette Eggs Jefferson Eggs Washington Eggs a la Martin Eggs au Gratin Devilled Eggs Eggs a Eggs la Tripe a r Aurora Eggs a la Suisse Eggs a la Dauphin Eggs with Nut-brown Butter Eggs Broulli CONTENTS Sauces There sauces, a certain philosophy of the is when understood, which, ables one to make en- from quite a variety the materials usually found in every household. The measurements, are rounded as the spoon. If, urements are spoonfuls or as given here, much above however, easier, as below level allow meas- two two tablespoonfuls each one given in these recipes. tea- for MANY WAYS O FOR ENGLISH DRAWN BUTTER 2 tablespoonfuls of butter Yi. I pint of boiling water tablespoonful of flour Yz teaspoonful of salt A dash of pepper Rub one the tablespoonful of butter and together, flour slowly water, add until stir the boiling boiling, the salt and pepper; take from the add the butter remaining and it is must not be boiled is tablespoonful ready for use. add fire, of It after the last butter added. SAUCE HOLLANDAISE Make add to it, English when Drawn Butter done, the yolks of and two eggs beaten with two tablespoonfuls of water; cook until thick and jelly- COOKING EGGS like, take from the tablespoonfiil fire 7 and add one of tarragon vinegar or the juice of half a lemon. ANCHOVY SAUCE Rub two teaspoonfuls of anchovy essence with the butter and flour and then finish the same as English Drawn Butter. PLAIN RAVIGOTTE SAUCE I Chili, chopped I tablespoon ful of tarragon vinegar I teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce I tablespoonful of chopped parsley- Make English Drawn Butter and then add the above ingredients. MANY WAYS » FOR SAUCE BECHAMEL tablespoonful of butter I The yolk Yz I of one egg cup of milk saltspoonful of pepper tablespoonful of flour cup of stock Yz teaspoonful of salt I Yz Rub the butter and flour together, add the stock and the milk and until boiling; take from the add the fire salt stir and pepper, and add the beaten yolk of the tgg, heat for a over hot water, and it is moment ready for use. TARRAGON SAUCE Add two tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar to an English Drawn Butter Sauce. HORSERADISH SAUCE Make an English Drawn just at serving time, Butter, and, add a half cupful COOKING EGGS 9 of freshly grated horseradish. you If are obliged to use that preserved in vinegar, press it perfectly dry before adding. CREAM OR WHITE SAUCE tablespoonful of butter pint of milk I tablespoonful of flour Yz teaspoonful of salt I saltspoonful of pepper I ^ Rub the butter and flour together, add the milk cold and stir until ing; add the pepper and salt and boilit is ready for use. BROWN BUTTER SAUCE 6 tablespoonfuls of butter I teaspoonful of mushroom catsup I tablespoonful of vinegar 4 tablespoonfuls of stock Melt the skim; pour butter, it brown carefully it into and then a clean MANY WAYS lO FOR saucepan, add the vinegar, catsup and stock, boil a minute, and it is ready for use. SAUCE PERIGUEUX 4 tablespoonfuls of butter Yz pint of stock I glass of white wine Yz teaspoonful of salt I tablespoonful of flour 1 bay leaf 2 chopped truffles I I saltspoonful of pepper teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet Chop the truffles and put them with the bay leaf and wine in a saucepan on the back of the stove. butter stock, and stir flour Rub together, until boiling half the add and add one teaspoonful of Kitchen Bouquet, salt the and pepper, and then the the truffles; cook ten minutes, add the remaining quantity of butter and use at once. COOKING EGGS II TOMATO SAUCE Rub together two level tablespoon- and two of fuls of flour Add butter. a half pint of strained tomatoes. until boiling. Add Stir a teaspoonful of onion juice, a half teaspoonful of and a saltspoonful of pepper. and salt Strain use. PAPRIKA SAUCE Rub together two level tablespoon- fuls of flour and two of butter, Add tablespoonful of paprika. pint of chicken stock. ing. Add and strain. vv^ith a a half Stir until boil- a half teaspoonful of salt, This sauce may be used over chicken as well as eggs. CURRY SAUCE Chop two soft. fine one onion. Cook it with level tablespoonfuls of butter until Do not brown. Add two level MANY WAYS 12 of curry teaspoonfuls FOR powder and a Mix and add half teaspoonful of salt. a half pint of boiling water. boiling, and Stir until strain. SPANISH SAUCE Chop carrot sufficient tablespoonful. Add it make to a to one chopped Place them in a saucepan with onion. three level tablespoonfuls of butter, a bay leaf and a blade of mace. the pan over the fire until bles are slightly browned. the butter and add to spoonfuls of good stock, flour, it a two half Shake the vegeta- Drain off level table- cupful of a half cupful of strained tomatoes, and bring to a boil. Add a half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of Cayenne. Strain. strain again Stir until boiling, and add four tablespoon- fuls of Sherry. Cooking of Eggs Any single food containing the all elements necessary to supply the re- quirements of the body complete or typical called is Milk and food. eggs are frequently so a called, because they sustain the young animals of their kind during a period of rapid growth. Nevertheless, neither forms a perfect adult. diet of for foods these the human Both are highly nutritious, but incomplete. Served with bread or rice, they form an admirable meal and one that is nutritious and easily digested. The white of eggs, almost pure albumin, is nutritious, water at and, 170° when cooked Fahrenheit, in requires MANY WAYS 14 less time for perfect digestion than a The white raw egg. egg FOR is of a hard-boiled tough and quite yolk, however, if The insoluble. the boiling has been done carefully for twenty minutes, mealy and easily digested. eggs, no matter what fat is hard, tough and insoluble. is Fried used, are The yolk of an egg cooks at a lower temperature than the white, and for this reason an egg should not be boiled unless the yolk alone is Ten eggs to be used. are supposed to weigh a pound, and, unless they are unusually large or small, this Eggs is quite correct. contain from 72 to 84 per cent, of water, about 12 to 14 per cent, of albuminates. The yolk is fat; the white deficient. quite rich in They also contain mineral matter and extractives. 5 COOKING EGGS To 1 without breaking hold your hand it, around the egg toward a bright or and sun the the white clear, on it its in a bucket of side, it is it is beware of Or, water and fresh. If it fairly fresh, but, if it. The you if it falls sort of standing on topples in the water, end, it. quite round and fresh. it is light through look If the yolk appears put egg ascertain the freshness of an it shell of a fresh As looks dull and porous. it its floats, egg begins to age, the shell takes on a shiny appearance. If an egg time, a portion of is kept any length of its which leaves a space the egg will rattles may water evaporates, in the shell, "rattle." An egg that be perfectly good, and not absolutely fresh. and still 6 ; MANY WAYS 1 FOR TO PRESERVE EGGS To preserve eggs it is only neces- sary to close the pores of the This may shells. be done by dipping them in melted paraffine, or packing them in down; or pack them salt, small ends in a keg and cover them with brine; or pack them down and keg, cover them with lime water but acts as a germicide. Eggs should not be packed earlier Where than the first of May April. large quantities of the yolks may are used, the whites and for win- middle of ter use later than the or ends small only protects them from the this not air, a in kept in glass be evaporated bottles or jars. Spread them out on a stoneware or granite plate and allow ate at the mouth of them to evapor- a cool oven. When 7 COOKING EGGS the mixture away. is 1 dry, perfectly This powder is put it capable of tak- ing up the same amount of water that has been evaporated from and may it, then be used the same as fresh whites. SHIRRED EGGS Cover the dishes with a fresh dish bottoms of individual butter and a few little bread crumbs; drop into each two fresh eggs; stand this dish in a pan of hot water and cook in oven Put a until the whites are set. the tiny bit of butter in the middle of each, and a dusting of salt and pepper. EGGS MEXICANA Put two tablespoonfuls of butter a saucepan. Add in four tablespoonfuls of finely chopped onion and shake until MANY WAYS l8 the onion is FOR but soft, not brown. Then add four in strips, a dash of red pepper and a half pint Spanish peppers cut of tomatoes; the tomatoes Add should be in rather solid pieces. a seasoning of pepper and this Let salt. cook slowly while you shir the When desired quantity of eggs. the eggs are ready to serve, put two tablespoonfuls of this sauce at each side of the dish, and send at once to the table. EGGS ON A PLATE Rub the bottom of a baking dish with butter. Dust and pepper. Break eggs as required. it lightly with salt in as many fresh Stand the dish in a basin of water and cook in the oven five minutes, or until the whites are While these are cooking, put set. two COOKING EGGS I9 tablespoonfuls of butter in a pan and shake over the When fire until it browns. them the eggs are done, baste with the browned butter, and send to the table. EGGS DE LESSEPS Have Shir the eggs as directed. ready, carefully calves' brains; two boiled, cut them sets into of slices; put two or three slices between the eggs, and then pour over browned butter. EGGS MEYERBEER To each half dozen eggs allow three lambs' kidneys. Broil the kidneys. Shir the eggs as directed in the recipe. When first done, put half a kidney on each side of the Sauce Perigueux. plate, and pour over MANY WAYS 20 FOR EGG TIMBALES Butter small timbale moulds or custard cups, dust the bottoms and sides with chopped tongue and finely chopped Break into each mould mushrooms. Stand the mould in a one fresh egg. baking-pan half filled with boiling water, and cook in the oven until the eggs are Have ready set. nicely toasted rounds of bread, one for each cup, and a well-made tomato or cream sauce. Loosen the eggs from the cups with a knife, turn each out onto a round of toast, heated platter, platter arrange neatly on a fill the bottom of the with cream or tomato sauce, garnish the dish with nicely seasoned green peas and serve at once. COOKING EGGS 21 EGGS COQUILLICOT Grease small custard or timbale cups and put inside of each a cooked Spanpepper. ish Dust egg. Drop it in the pepper one lightly with salt, stand the cups in a pan of boiling water and cook in the oven until the eggs are set. Toast one round of bread for each cup and make a half pint of cream sauce. When of the eggs are the serving set, fill sauce, loosen the peppers the bottom with platter cream from the cups and turn them out on the rounds of toast. Stand them in the dust on top of each a cream sauce, little chopped parsley and send to the table. Bake as EGGS SUZETTE many potatoes as you have persons to serve. When done, cut off the sides, scoop out a portion of the MANY WAYS 22 FOR potato, leaving a wall about a half inch Mash thick. add to it a the scooped-out portion, little pepper, and put Put a little salt, it hot milk, salt and into a pastry bag. pepper and butter into each potato and break in a fresh egg. Press the potato from the pastry bag through a star tube around the edge of the potato, forming a border. Stand these in a baking-pan and bake until the eggs are Put a tablespoonful set. of cream sauce in the centre of each, and send to the table. EGGS STEAMED IN THE SHELL Eggs put away from into hot water the fire are and kept much better than eggs actually boiled for only a short time. The greater the number of eggs to be cooked, the greater the COOKING EGGS amount of water To that 2^ must be used. cook four eggs, put them into a kettle, pour over them two quarts of water, cover the kettle and allow them to stand for ten minutes. from the water, put them bowl, them Lift into a large cover with boiling water, and send at once to the table. The whites will be coagulated, but should be soft and creamy, while the yolks perfectly cooked. six eggs to this If will you should add volume of water, lengthen the time of standing. single egg, be A dropped into a quart of water, must stand eight minutes. TO POACH EGGS Take for this a shallow frying pan, and partly fill it The eggs must be with boiling water. perfectly fresh. The MANY WAYS 24 white of an egg is FOR sealed in a brane which seems to lose after the egg ^^ when dropped ^SSy is its tenacity Such three days old. water, spreads out; that retain its mem- shape. When eggs, take the required boiling into is, does not it ready to poach number to the The water must be boiling hot, but not actually bubbling. Break an stove. egg into a saucer, slide it quickly into the water, and then another and another. Pull the pan to the side of the stove, where the water cannot possibly With boil. a tablespoon, baste the water over the yolks of the eggs, they They happen to be exposed. must be entirely covered with a thin veil of the white. Have ready sired quantity of toast ter, lift if the de- on a heated each egg with a slice plat- or skim- COOKING EGGS 25 mer, trim off the ragged edges and slide them salt at once on the toast. Dust with and pepper and send to the table. EGGS MIRABEAU Cut a number of rounds of sufficient bread, toast them carefully them with pate de and cover foie gras, put on top of each a poached tgg, pour over Sauce Perigueux, and send to the Cover rounds of toasted bread first table. EGGS NORWEGIAN with paste, butter and then with anchovy- put on top of each a poached egg, pour over Anchovy Sauce, and send at once to the table. MANY WAYS 26 FOR EGGS PRESCOURT Toast slices of bread, put thin slices of chicken on each, on top of this a poached egg, cover with Sauce Bernaise, and serve at once. EGGS COURTLAND Mince make a of sufficient half cupful. cream sauce, chicken cold Make add a half pint the minced chicken, a half teaspoonful of salt a dash of red pepper. cient to Toast a quantity of bread, put it and suffi- on a heated platter, pour over a small quantity of the minced chicken and cream sauce, then put on each a poached egg, cover with the remaining sauce, dust with parsley and serve with a garnish of green peas. COOKING EGGS 27 EGGS LOUISIANA Make toast a half pint of tomato sauce, sufficient a quantity of bread, butter the bread and put on each slice a poached Qgg; cover with the tomato sauce. EGGS RICHMOND Chop sufficient cold chicken to make a half cupful, add an equal quantity of finely chopped mushrooms, add a half pint of cream sauce. this to Add one unbeaten egg to a pint of cold boiled season rice, make hot with salt and pepper, into round, flat cakes, and fry in Arrange these on a heated fat. platter, egg, it put on top of each a poached and pour over the cream sauce mixture. MANY WAYS 28 FOR HUNGARIAN EGGS Boil a cup of rice until tender and dry. Sauce. Make a Turn pint half Paprika of the rice into the centre of a platter, smooth it down, cover the top with poached eggs, pour over the Paprika Sauce and send at once to the table. EGGS NOVA SCOTIA Put a poached egg on top of codfish cake, pour over a flat cream tomato sauce, and send to the or table. EGGS LAKME Cut any cold chicken or turkey into very thin slices, water, in a dish, and stand until it in hot heated; toast a sufficient quantity of bread, butter the slices, put on each a slice of chicken or turkey, dust lightly with salt and COOKING EGGS On pepper. poached 29 top of each slice place a Tarragon with cover egg, Sauce, and send to the table. EGGS MALIKOFF Toast rounds of bread, cover them with caviar which has been seasoned with a little onion and pepper. Put on top of each a poached Qgg, cover with Horseradish Sauce, and send to the table. EGGS VIRGINIA Add Grate six ears of corn. half cupful of milk, a half cupful of flour and two eggs, beaten separately. Add Mix. a half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of pepper. Drop the mixture in large tablespoonfuls in hot brown on one the other. side, fat. turn and When brown on Drain and arrange neatly on MANY WAYS 30 a large platter. Put a FOR poached egg on the top of each cake, cover with cream sauce and send to the table. This dish, with green peas, makes quite a complete meal. JAPANESE EGGS Carefully boil one cup of Make dry. add to it a half pint of rice, drain cream sauce, a teaspoonful of grated onion and a teaspoonful of chopped celery. Poach the desired number of eggs. Put the rice in the centre of a platter, cover it with the eggs, pour over the sauce. Dust the dish with once to the dish may sardines salmon. table. parsley, and send The edge at of this be garnished with broiled or carefully broiled smoked 1 COOKING EGGS 3 TO HARD-BOIL EGGS Put the eggs in warm water, bring the water quickly to the boiHng point, then push the kettle to the back of the where the water stove, remain at will 200° Fahrenheit, for twenty minutes. If these are to be used for throw them dishes, made over once into cold at water, remove the shells, or the yolks will lose their color. EGGS CREOLE Put two tablespoonfuls of butter and four of chopped onions into a saucepan, cook until the onion not is soft, Then add four brown. but peeled fresh tomatoes that have been cut into pieces, and three peppers. and add Cook a finely this level chopped green fifteen minutes, teaspoonful of MANY WAYS FOR 32 salt. Have cut into dish, the the eggs hard-boiled, and Put them slices. baking into a pour over the sauce, re-heat in and serve with a dish of oven, boiled rice. CURRIED EGGS Peel, and cut into onions. Put them slices, in a two tablespoonfuls of over hot water onions are soft. and Add three large saucepan with Stand butter. cook until the a teaspoonful of curry powder, a clove of garlic mashed, a saltspoonful of ground ginger, half teaspoonful of salt spoonful of flour; and a mix thoroughly and add a half pint of water. boiling. Have ready eggs, cut them a table- six Stir until hard-boiled into slices, arrange over a dish of carefully boiled them rice, on COOKING EGGS 33 a hot platter, strain over the sauce, send at once to the table. made more attractive and This dish is by a garnish with sweet Spanish peppers, cut mto strips. EGGS BEAUREGARD Hard-boil five eggs. whites from the yolks. through a through sieve. a them very press, Make cream sauce, season whites. Put the yolks Put the whites either vegetable fine. Separate the Have ready it a sufficient platter, chop and add the of toast, carefully buttered. on a heated or a half pint of amount Put this cover over the cream sauce and the whites, dust the tops with the yolks, then with salt and pepper. Garnish the edge of the dish with finely chopped parsley, and send at once to the table. MANY WAYS 34 FOR EGGS LAFAYETTE Hard-boil six eggs, chop them, but not Make fine. Sauce. haK a pint of Curry Put the chopped eggs over bed of carefully boiled rice, a cover with the Curry Sauce, garnish with strips of Spanish pepper and serve. may be changed by in place of the using This dish Tomato Sauce Curry Sauce. EGGS JEFFERSON Select the desired sized tomatoes, person. Cut number of good- allowing one to each off the blossom end, scoop out the seeds, stand the tomatoes in a baking pan in the are partly cooked. oven until they Put a half spoonful of butter and a dusting of teasalt and pepper into the bottom of each, and break in one egg. Put these back COOKING EGGS in the oven until the 35 eggs are set. Have ready a round of toasted bread for each tomato, stand the tomato in the centre of the bread, fill the bottom of the dish with cream, sauce, and send to the table. EGGS WASHINGTON Add a half pint of crab meat to a half pint of salt cream sauce. Season with Have ready and pepper. either bread pates or pates made from puff paste. Put a tablespoonful of the crab mixture in the in the an egg. egg Stand is set. eggs and bottom of each. slide in the oven Break until Or you may poach them into the pate. the Pour over the remaining quantity of crab- meat sauce, and send table. at once to the MANY WAYS 36 FOR EGGS A LA MARTIN Make a half Put half of dish it pint of in the cream sauce. bottom of a baking or into the bottom of ramekin dishes or individual Break cups. on top of the cream sauce, fresh eggs dust with a little on each a tiny salt and pepper, put pour over bit of butter, the remaining cream sauce, sprinkle the top with grated cheese, and bake in a moderate oven until browned. Serve in the dish or dishes in cheese the is which they are cooked. EGGS AU GRATIN Make boil a pint of six eggs. Put them cream sauce. Cut them into in the baking-dish with the cream sauce. Hardslices. and cover Dust thickly with cheese, and brown quickly in the oven. COOKING EGGS 37 DEVILLED EGGS Hard-boil twelve eggs. Cut the eggs shells. wise. Take out sieve. fuls of finely or ham. salt, a the into halves, cross- yolks the breaking the whites. through a Remove without Press the yolks Add four tablespoon- chopped chicken, tongue Add a half teaspoonful of saltspoonful of pepper and two Rub tablespoonfuls of melted butter. the mixture. Form it into balls the size of the yolks and put them into the places yolks in the whites Put two halves were taken. together, roll them from which the in tissue paper that has been fringed at the ends, giving each a twist. If these balls are made the size of the yolk, and put back into the whites, they may be placed on a MANY WAYS 38 platter, and served on heated, with Cream Sauce much FOR ; toast, then they are very Hke the eggs Bernhardt. EGGS A LA TRIPE Hard-boil eight eggs. shells, thick eggs cross-wise cut sHces. cover rings, water and drain, water and Separate them them with boiling cover minutes; them with the fresh boil until they are tender; drain again, but save the water. mix rather in rapidly ten boil then the Cut three small onions into very thin sHces. into Remove eggs and onions without breaking. Put two Now carefully, level table- spoonfuls of butter and two of flour into a saucepan. Mix. Add a grat- ing of nutmeg, a saltspoon of black pepper, the juice of a lemon, and a half- ; COOKING EGGS which the onions pint of the water in were boiled. point, 39 Bring boiHng the to add two tablespoonfuls of cream When then add the eggs and onions. thoroughly hot, dish them in a conical form, garnish with triangular pieces of and serve. toast, EGGS A LA AURORE Hard-boil six eggs, cut them into halves length-wise, take out the yolks, keeping them whole. Add to it Cut the whites Make into fine strips. a cream sauce. two tablespoonfuls of chopped sardines or finely finely chopped lob- ster or crab, a tablespoonful of tarra- gon vinegar. eggs, and, Add when the whites of the quite hot, add the Turn yolks, without breaking them. this at once into a heated dish, garnish MANY WAYS 40 FOR the dish with triangular pieces of toast, and send make the sauce, season layer into the a through a eggs. of layer sieve, having the it if you like, and put a bottom of the baking- dish, then a layer of then Or, to the table. Parmesan the cheese, pressed yolks, and so on, alternating, last layer of the yolks of the Dust over a few bread crumbs, put here and there bits of butter, and brown quickly in the oven. EGGS A LA SUISSE Cover the bottom of a baking-dish with about two tablespoonfuls of butter cut into bits. slices of top of this, very thin Swiss cheese. Break over some fresh eggs. To On Dust with salt and pepper. each half dozen eggs, pour over a half cup of cream. Then cover the COOKING EGGS 4I top with grated Swiss cheese and bake in the oven melted until the cheese is and the eggs Send set. with a plate of dry this to the table toast. EGGS A LA DAUPHIN Remove boiled the shells eggs, cut from them six hard- into halves, lengthwise, take out the yolks, them through tablespoonfuls Add a sieve. press four level of melted butter, half a teaspoonful of salt, and a grating of nutmeg and two tablespoonfuls of Parmesan cream cheese. Add half a cupful of to a half cupful of sifted bread- Mix this with the yolks, rub until smooth, then add one well-beaten crumbs. egg, and the yolk of one egg. Cover the bottom of the baking dish with the remaining preparation, raising the MANY WAYS FOR 42 whites of the eggs In sort of tiers in pyramid form and have an egg crown the whole. Have ready two extra hard-boiled eggs, take out the yolks, press them through a sieve, all over the Garnish the edges of the dish top. with triangular pieces of toasted bread, cover the whole with Cream brown and serve in the oven, Sauce, at once. EGGS WITH NUT-BROWN BUTTER These may eggs poached and served on two tablespoon fuls of or frying pan. slightly them until at once broiled ham. it toast. Put butter in a saute As soon heat, break into or shirred be as it begins to the eggs and cook the yolks are set; dish on toast or thin slices of Now put two more table- spoonfuls of butter in the pan, let it COOKING EGGS 43 brown, and add two tablespoonfuls of vinegar; boil it up once and pour over the eggs. Beat EGGS BROULLI four eggs. Add to them tablespoonfuls of stock, four four table- spoonfuls of cream, a saltspoonful of salt and half a saltspoonful of pepper. Turn them a into a saucepan, stand in pan of hot water, stir with an egg- beater until they are thick like. Turn at and jelly- once into heated dish, garnish with toast and send to the table. PLAIN SCRAMBLED EGGS Put two tablespoonfuls of butter a shallow frying pan. Add in a table- spoonful of water to each tgg. Six eggs are quite enough for four people. Add a half teaspoonful of salt, and a ; MANY WAYS Z^4 saltspoonful of pepper. three beats —enough FOR Give two or to break the eggs turn them into the frying pan, into the Constantly scrape from the hot butter. bottom of the pan with a fork, while they are cooking. Serve with a garnish of broiled bacon and toast. BIRDS' NESTS Separate the eggs, allowing one to Beat the whites to a each person. froth. dishes, centre. stiff Heap them into individual make a nest, or hole, in the Drop into this a whole yolk. Stand the dish and cook in the minutes. in a pan of water, cover, oven about two or three Dust lightly with salt and pepper, put a tiny bit of butter in the centre of each, and send at once to the table. of all This egg is one of the most sightly dishes. COOKING EGGS 45 EGG FLIP This dish child or an is exceedingly nice for a Separate one tgg, invalid. beat the white to a stiff froth, yolk and beat again. Heap add the this in a pretty saucer, dust lightly with pow- dered sugar, put in the centre a teaspoonful of brandy, and serve at once. Sherry or Madeira may be substituted for the brandy. EGGS A LA RORER Toast rounds of bread, one for each person. Butter them. Heat, in boiling water, the choke of a French artichoke, one for each slice of bread. Make Sauce Hollandaise, and put one artichoke bot- tom on each platter. Put slice of bread on a heated in the centre a poached tgg and pour over the Sauce Holland- MANY WAYS 46 FOR Garnish the dish with nicely aise. cooked French or fresh green peas. EGGS BENEblCT two Separate yolks, Break eggs. the add a cupful of milk, a half spoonful of salt, tea- one and a half cupfuls of flour and a tablespoonful of melted butter. Beat well, add two level tea- spoonfuls of baking powder and fold Bake on in the well beaten whites. griddle in large muffin rings. thin slices of Chop landaise. required ham. Make eggs. muffins, put a square of Broil a Sauce Hol- a truffle. number of a Poach the Dish the ham on each, then a poached egg and cover each egg nicely with Sauce Hollandaise. with truffle and serve at once. Dust COOKING EGGS 47 EGGS EN COCOTTE Chop Cook one fine good-sized over hot water, in two level it, When tablespoon fuls of butter. onion is onion. soft the add a quarter of a can of mushrooms, chopped two fine, level tablespoonfuls of flour and one cupful of stock. Add Stir until boiling. a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a half teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful Put a tablespoonful of of pepper. this sauce in the bottom of individual cups. Break into each cup one egg. Pour Stand over the remaining mixture. the cups in a pan of hot water and" bake in a moderate oven about five minutes. is, perhaps, OMELET A plain French omelet one of the most to make ; that is, difficult it is of all things the most difficult MANY WAYS 48 to have well made vate house. Failures FOR in the ordinary pri- come from ing the eggs until they are too beatlight, or having the butter too hot, or cook- ing the omelet too long before serving. In large families, where it is neces- sary to use a dozen eggs, the omelet will be better egg omelet is if made in two. quite easily handled. not use milk for an omelet a shallow frying pan. kept especially for omelets. it is wash. used rub Dust it until ; it An the eggs while cooking. is A salt Do toughens omelet pan It should be Each time dry, but with six do not and rub it with brown paper until perfectly clean. To make an omelet : First, put a tablespoonful of butter in the middle of the pan. Let it heat slowly. Break the eggs in a bowl, add a tablespoonful COOKING EGGS 49 of water to each egg and give twelve good, vigorous beats. To each six eggs allow a saltspoonful of pepper, and, you like, a of tablespoonful chopped parsley. if finely Take the eggs, a limber knife and the salt to the stove. Draw the the pan over the hottest part of fire, turn in the eggs, and dust over a half teaspoonful of salt. Shake the pan so that the omelet moves and folds itself over each time you draw the pan Lift the edge of the towards you. omelet, allowing the thin, uncooked portion of the tgg to run underneath. Shake again, Have until the omelet is set. ready. heated a platter, fold over the omelet and turn it out. with parsley, and send to the Garnish table. MANY WAYS 50 If omelet, many make one can it may FOR plain a French be converted into many, kinds. OMELET WITH ASPARAGUS Make a plain omelet from TIPS six eggs, have ready a half pint of Cream Sauce, and either a can or a bundle of cooked asparagus. Cut off the tips, preserv- ing the lower portions for another dish. When the omelet turned is on the heated platter, put the asparagus tips at them with Cream the ends, cover Sauce, pour the Sauce in the rest platter, of the not Cream over the omelet. OMELET WITH GREEN PEAS Make a six egg omelet. Have ready one pint of cooked peas, or a can of peas, seasoned with salt, pepper and 1 COOKING EGGS Just before folding the omelet butter. put 5 tablespoonful a centre, fold, in the and turn out on a heated Pour platter. peas of the remaining quantity of peas around the omelet, and send at you you may once to the table. pour over, also, a half pint of If like, Cream Sauce. HAVANA OMELET Put two tablespoonfuls of butter and two chopped onions over hot water and thoroughly until the onion cooked. Peel four tomatoes, cut them into Then is soft halves and press out the seeds. cut each half into quarters, add four Spanish peppers cut in level teaspoonful of salt red pepper. soft. Make Cook strips, a and a dash of until the tomato a six egg omelet. is Turn MANY WAYS 52 it FOR onto a heated platter, put the tomato mixture at the ends, and send at once to the table. OMELET WITH TOMATO SAUCE Make a plain omelet with six eggs. Pour over a half pint of tomato sauce, and send to the table. OMELET WITH OYSTERS Drain, wash, and drain again twentyfive oysters. Throw them into a hot saucepan and shake until the Rub gills curl. together two level tablespoon fuls of flour and two of butter. Drain the oysters, put the liquor into a half-pint cup, add Add this to the butter boiling, sufficient milk to and fill the cup. flour. add the oysters, a When level tea- spoonful of salt and a dash of red pepper. Make a six tgg omelet, turn it COOKING EGGS 53 onto a heated dish, arrange the oysters around the omelet, pour over the Cream Sauce, and send to the table. OMELET WITH SWEETBREADS This is a very good way to sweetbreads do double duty. make Boil a pair of sweetbreads until they are tender. Remove into slices; the make a membrane, cut them Cream the sweetbreads, and, if you like, can of chopped mushrooms. six Add Sauce. Qgg omelet, arrange the a half Make slices a of sweetbread around the omelet and pour over the Cream Sauce. OMELET WITH TOMATOES Beat six eggs. Add a half pint of rather thick stewed tomatoes, a level teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper. Beat the eggs and toma- MANY WAYS 54 toes together, FOR and make precisely the Do how- same as a plain omelet. ever, add water, as the tomatoes answer not, the purpose. OMELET WITH HAM Mix a half cup of chopped ham with the eggs after they have been beaten with the water, and finish the same as a plain omelet. OMELET WITH CHEESE Beat six eggs until they are thor- Add oughly mixed. thick cream, four a half cupful of tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, a saltspoonful of black pepper and a half teaspoonful of Mix and omelet. finish the same as salt. plain COOKING EGGS 55 OMELET WITH FINE HERBS Beat mixed. eggs six Add thoroughly until a half cupful of cream, a tablespoonful of finely chopped pars- and a saltspoonful of pepper ley, half teaspoonful same of Finish the salt. as a plain omelet. a Serve on a heated platter and put over a little thin Spanish Sauce. SPANISH OMELET Beat six eggs. of fuls of water. pepper, a Add Add six tablespoon- a saltspoonful tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley, a teaspoonful of onion juice. Put six thin the omelet pan. the fat is tried bacon slices of Cook slowly out. in until all Remove the bacon, add a tablespoonful of chopped onion. Cook until the onion is slightly MANY WAYS 56 brown, turn same in the FOR eggs and finish the Turn onto a as a plain omelet. heated platter, garnish with red and green peppers, and, if you add two like, tablespoonfuls of stewed tomatoes, one end of the omelet. at each OMELET JARDINIERE Chop sufficient tablespoonful. a parsley, chives Add little this a a tablespoonful of tablespoonful chopped onion, and, make to if of you have of the green tops of celery. finely it, a Mix with six eggs, add six tablespoon- fuls of water and beat. Make the same as a plain omelet. OMELET WITH FRESH MUSHROOMS This of all is one of the most delicious the luncheon dishes. Put two a pound of tablespoonfuls of butter, COOKING EGGS mushrooms, sliced, a half and a teaspoonful of pan. twenty minutes. omelets. cup of milk salt into a sauce- and cook Cover '57 slightly Make two Turn them, side by six for egg on side, a large heated platter, pour over the fresh mushrooms and serve at once. OMELET O'BRIEN Put two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan with four tablespoonfuls of chopped onion. is tender. Cook until the onion Then add four chopped Spanish peppers, two tablespoonfuls of thick tomato, or one whole raw tomato cut into bits, four sliced cooked okra, a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper. Let these cook twenty minutes. a six egg Make plain omelet, using bacon fat instead of butter for the cooking. Re- MANY WAYS FOR 58 move the slices of bacon before they are too hard, as they must be used for a garnish. Turn onto a the omelet heated platter, pour around it the pep- per mixture, garnish with the bacon, and send Canned mush- to the table. rooms may be added, if desired. SWEET OMELETS OMELET A LA WASHINGTON Put three eggs into a bowl, and three Add into another bowl. three table- spoonfuls of water to each, and beat. Have two omelet pans, in which you have melted butter. into one bowl, a little salt and Grate an apple into the other put and pepper. Stand two tablespoonfuls of jelly in a dish over hot water while you Proceed as for make plain the omelet. omelets. The COOKING EGGS 59 one to which you have added the apple, turn out on a plate. Before folding the put in the centre the softened other, currant then fold jelly, it and turn it out by the side of the other omelet. Dust both with powdered sugar, and send at once to the table. OMELET WITH RUM Make turn with it a plain omelet with six eggs, on a heated powdered platter. Dust and score sugar, across the top wath a it red-hot poker. Dip four lumps of sugar rum and put them on it into Jamaica Put the platter. over the omelet four tablespoon fuls of rum; touch match a to the table, burning. with the tirely rum burned to it, and carry Baste the omelet until the alcohol off. it is en- MANY WAYS 66 FOR SWISS SOUFFLE Allow one egg Have to each person. everything in readiness. The maras- chino cherries must be drained from the Beat the Separate the eggs. liquor. whites until they are stiff. Add a level tablespoonful of powdered sugar to each white, and beat until dry and glossy. Add the yolks Add quickly. Mix of three eggs. the grated rind of one lemon and a tablespoonful of lemon juice. Heap Make a tiny and put in a this into individual dishes. little hole in the centre maraschino cherry, leaving the hole large enough to also hold a when tablespoonful of the liquor omelet is ready to serve; dust powdered sugar, bake in a about three minutes, take it the with quick oven it from the oven, pour in the maraschino juice and 1 6 COOKING EGGS send at once to the fall if table. These baked too much; they stand a moment, but, when will will not well made and served quickly, are one of the daintiest of desserts. OMELET SOUFFLE This difficult is, of perhaps, one of the most all dishes to make. preceding recipe, the last moment and Like the must be made it sent directly to the table. at from the oven The eggs must be beaten to just the right point and the oven must be very hot. Get every- thing in readiness before beginning to make the souffle. When, however, you have accomplished this art, you have one of the most satisfactory desserts. Select a bowl, perfectly clean, and arrange the star tube and pastry bag, MANY WAYS FOR 62 if you are going to use get out a baking dish. one. If not, Sift six table- spoonfuls of powdered sugar. Put three of the yolks rate six eggs. aside (as Sepa- you will only use three), and beat the other three until creamy. Beat the whites until they are very stiff but not dry or broken. Now three tablespoonfuls of the sifted dered sugar. utes. add pow- Beat for fully ten min- Then add the beaten yolks, the grated rind of a lemon and at the last a tablespoonful of lemon juice. carefully Put four or in the dish. Mix and quickly, but thoroughly. five tablespoonfuls bottom of a Put the platter, or remaining of this baking quantity quickly in the pastry bag, and press it out into roses. It is easier to make it in small rosettes all over the foundation. COOKING EGGS 63 Dust quickly with the remaining three tablespoonfuls of sugar. oven until about To five Bake in a quick golden brown. This will take Serve immediately. minutes. be just right, this must be hot to the very centre, crisp on underneath. moment If the top top, moist baked too long, the is touched it will fall, becoming stringy and unpalatable. Omelet flavored souffles with rum, mixed with the sugar. are which frequently must be Sometimes they are sprayed with sherry just as they are taken from the oven. built They may be up into different forms, and gar- nished with candied or maraschino cherries, or chopped nuts. s A List of Mrs. Rorer^s Cookery Books Published by Arnold and Company 420 Sansom Mrs. NEJV Street, Philadelphia Rarer'* Cook Book This book marks the highest point of develop- ment in results Domestic Science, and represents the of hard work of the best years of Mrs. Rorer's hfe. It is not a mere recipe book, but tells of those things one needs to know concerning cooking, living, health and best way of housekeeping. 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In the list we find white wheat bread, whole-wheat bread, French and Graham bread, 19th Century, Gol- den Loaf, Swedish, etc. Then there are the Small Breads, such as Vienna Rolls, Pocket Book Rolls, Crumpets, Muffins, German Horns, Nuns' A chap- ter Puffs, etc. on Second Cooking of Bread gives us Zwieback, Toasts, Pulled Bread, etc., followed by Quick Breads, Steamed Breads and Sweet Breads, W 289 <' ^J. • • • • .^^ ' J C^ •" %,^^ /^ .^^... ^^0^ =5^^ ,4< -^ ^ •• " ^ WERT SpOKBINOrNC Gfanrviiie, Pa Sept-Oct 1988 « A^^*^ "r^». •