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1906

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Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Strawberry Sauce. — Cream half a cup of butter with one and one-half cups of powdered sugar ; add the yolk of one egg ; add a cupful of crushed berriesStrawberry Sauce just at serving time. Any fruit in season may be used in this way for either steamed or baked pudding. Maple Nougat. — A delectable touch to ice cream is maple nougat. Boil two cupfuls of grated maple sugar, half a cupful of cream and a walnut of butter until thick and waxy when dropped into cold water, then add one cupful of chopped nutsMaple Nougat, preferably English walnuts. Pour while hot over portions of cream ready for serving. Foamy Sauce. — Beat the yolk of one egg very light and the white until dry. Gradually beat one-half a cup of sugar into the yolk ; then fold in the white ; add one teaspoonf ul of va- nilla extract and one cup of hot milkFoamy Sauce. — Mix thoroughly and serve at once. — Boston Cooking School. Sauce for Pudding. — Cream one-half a cup of butter ; gradu- ally beat in one cup of sugar and then the whites of two eggsSauce for Pudding, beaten stiff; flavor with vanilla, mace or brandy. — Boston Cooking School. Grape Juice Sauce. — Pass through a sieve, together, three or four times, one cup sugar and three level tablespoons of corn starch or flour; pour over one pint boiling grape juice; stir 212 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. and cook until the mixture is smooth and boiling, then let sim- mer ten minutes. When ready to serve beat in three or four tablespoons butter, a little at a time; a tablespoon of lemon juiceGrape Juice Sauce added last. — Boston Cooking School. FRUIT. The utensils for stewing fruit should be porcelain lined, or of granite ware; fruit cooked in tin loses much of its flavor; while if it be acid, and the tin of poor quality, there is always danger that the acid of the fruit acting upon the metal will form a poisonous compound. Use only silver knives in preparing fruit and silver or wooden spoons for stirring. Evaporated Fruits. — Wash fruits carefully, put to soak all night and cook in the same water next morning, in a covered vessel. Prunes may be cooked the same way. Crystalized Apples. — Put on the stove one cup of sugar and two cups of water; let it boil until almost ready to "hair" or "thread"; then drop in the apples which have been pared and cored and left whole ; cook until clear and tender, turning them over if needed. When cold stick full of halves of blanched almonds. — Mrs. J. L. Nelson. Hot Grape Juice. — Grape juice served hot in bouillon cups with whipped cream on the top is very nice served in the be- ginning of a dinner. Fruits in Season— One quart alcohol, 120 grains salicylic acid, put in a two gallon stone jar. Beginning with strawber- ries put in two pounds fruit and two pounds sugar; cherries, peaches, raspberries, pears and pineapples afterwards as they come in, are added to the alcohol, two pounds of each and two HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 213 American Lady Shoe Latest Models. Style 6001 A patent kid but- ton bootsdull upper with seamless in- step, waited sole, mil e tary hez' perforated tip. " Vassal-" Toe '.menean «ady SHOE Latest Models. $3.50 MADE BY Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. ST. LOUIS, U. S. A. of sugar. Stir from the bottom each time it is added to. When used you can add nuts and grapes or any fresh fruits. To be served with a meat course.