Cooking for profit

, A large chicken can be cut or chopped into 18 pieces for stew or pie but such pieces are not able to make you any reputation. If the back bones and necks are left out to be used in soup or other ways it may take another chicken to make the pie large enough but after all you will not have to work so hard to find a piece of the breast for the few fastidious people who can't eat anything else. no Cut up five chickens making 6 choice cuts of each without counting the back or neck ; allow about ^ pound salt pork cut in stiips, a heaped tablespoon minced onion, same of salt, a teaspoon of white pepper, some chopped parsley, flour to thicken the liquor and about 3 pounds short pie crust. Boil the chickens in water enough to coyer, time according to age; young chicken's less than y^ hour ; old fowls 3 hours; with the seasoning of salt, pork and onions. Thicken the liquor, add parsley, dip the chicken into a baking pan dredge over with pepper and flour and cover with a thin pie crust. Bake J^ hour. Cut in squares. There should not be gravy enough in the pan to drown the crust before it can bake — the gravy can be poured in afterwards. Baking powder crust can be made good with care but seldom is, for it rises too thick and absorbs all the sauce. A short paste is better. 851—Birds Nest Pudding. An egg batter pudding with apples. Probably gets its name from its appearance when baked in round pan. 1 large cup flour — 5 ounces. 3 cups milk — I J^ pints. 2 heaped tablespoons sugar. Butter size of an egg. 3 eggs. Little salt. Apples enough for a 4 quart pan. Sugar, butter and cinnamon or nutmeg for the apples. Pare and core the apples — enough to cover the pan bottom; fill core holes with sugar and some butter, water to barely wet the pan, cover with greased paper and bake until done and the syrup dried down. Mix the batter smoothly, as if for batter cakes, pour it over the apples and bake about y^ hour more . Pure cream sweetened is a good sauce, any other will answer if cream is not to be hid. y^ cup flour. 6 yolks of eggs . Put the sugar in a saucepan and grate lemon rinds into it, squeeze the juice, add the pint of water and boil. Mix the 2 ounces flour with water and thicken the boiling syrup . Take it off and pour it gradually to the beaten yolks. Fill three pies and bake. Whip the 6 whites, add 6 tablespoons siigar, spread over the pies while they are still hot in the oven and bake light-colored, A richer appearance may be given by dredging granulated sugar over the frosting before baking; it makes a crust . Too much baking will spoil the frosting, causing it to fall; also, be caretul to get about a tablespoon of sugar to each white of an egg. 852—Lemon Pie Meringued. Rule : One lemon and two eggs to each pie. 1 cup sugar. 2 cups water or milk. 2 lemons or 3 if small. 853—Galantine en Bellevue A galantine (not gelatine as it often mistakenly appears in printed bills) is a boned fowl or bird of any sort; it is en bellevue when it is encased in jelly and ornamented. Galantines are made the same of either chickens or turkeys, according to the following directions.