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Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

1882

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Presented as published in 1882. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
BAKED ONIONS. Wash, but do not peel the onions. Boil i hour in boiling water, slightly saltBaked Onions, changing the water twice in the time. When tender drain on a cloth, and roll each in buttered tissue paper. Twist at the top and bake an hour in a slow oven. Peel and brown them. Serve with melted butter. 252 DOMESTIC GUIDE. BAKED CABBAGE. Cook as for boiled cabbage, after which drain and set aside until cold. Chop fine and add: Eggs 2 beaten. Butter I table-spoonfuL Pepper and salt. Rich cream 3 table-spoonfulsBaked Cabbage. Stir well and bake in a buttered dish until brown. Eat while hot. BROWNED POTATOES. Boil, and ^ of an hour before a roast of beef is taken from the oven put them in the dripping-panBrowned Potatoes, after skimming off the fat from the gravy. Baste them frequently, and when quite brown drain on a sieve. ESCALLOPED ONIONS. Boil till tender 6 large onions. Afterwards sep- arate them with a large spoon, and then place a layer of onions and a layer of grated bread crumbs alternately in a pudding dish. Season with pep- per and salt to taste, and moisten with milkEscalloped Onions. Put in the oven to brown. CRACKED WHEAT. Stir 5 large heaping table-spoonfuls of the crushed white wheat sold by grocers into a quart of boiling waterCracked Wheat, and set the tin pail holding it into a pan of boiling water to boil 20 minutes. This prevents it burning, and is a cheap and easy sub- stitute for a farina kettle. Salt well, and when the kernels swell and burst like pepper-corn it is done. COOKING DIVISION. 283 Serve it plain to eat with meat and gravy like rice, or add half a tea-spoonful of cinnamon, a pinch of ground cloves, a handful of raisins or currants, and half a cup of sugar when boiling, and you have a savory breakfast dish. It may be served plain in saucers, with a dust of cinnamon on the top, and sugar and butter or cream, as German pan-cakes are eaten. EGGS. BOILING EGGS. Put the eggs in some vessel that can be closely covered, and when the tea-kettle boils pour in wa- ter enough to cover themBoiling Eggs. Close the vessel and put it on the back part of the stove, and let it re- main 10 minutes. If you wish to be very exact, use a thermometer, and keep the water for lo min- utes at the temperature it was when poured in. This process is far superior to the old, of letting the eggs boil 3 or 4 minutes, as then the white is cooked hard and the yolk not at all. This way bobh are cooked alike. POACHED EGGS. Place a frying of salted boiling water on the fire filled with as many small muffin-rings as it will holdPoached Eggs, boil them 3 minutes, remove the rings and take up the eggs singly in a strainer. Serve on half slices of nicely browned and buttered toast, 284 DOMESTIC GUIDE. put a small piece of butter on each egg, pepper slightly and garnish with spiigs of parsley. Serve hot. OMELET. Omelet