FoodNetArchive

The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book

1907

Page 28 · 6 recipe records on this page

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Put top ground vegetables, peas, beans, etc., into salted boiling water, those which grow below ground into boiling water without salt. Add a pich of soda for beans and a little sugar to peas? onions and squash. FRIED APPLES. Slice unpared apples about one-half of an inch thick. Fry slowly in butter or good drippings. When done sprinkle with sugarFried Apples and serve very hot. Nice at breakfast, or served with pork. APPLES FRIED IN BATTER. Beat three eggs well; add a tablespoonful of sugar and three of flour; slice the apples; dip them in the batter and fry in butter ; take them up, sprinkle with powdered sugarApples Fried in Batter and serve hot. * ARTICHOKES. Cut off stems and rough outer leaves, wash well. Put in sauce pan head down with water to cover, with salt and small pinch of soda, boil from one-half to three-quarters of an hour till tender. Drain, butter and pour over a white sauce.Artichokes Boiled artichokes may be made into croquettes, omelets, au gratin or fried, first dipping in batter. VEGETABLES 6 1 ASPARAGUS ON TOAST. Cut asparagus in small pieces. Boil in salted water. When done dress with cream; or milk and butter, and pour over well buttered hot toast. ASPARAGUS ON TOAST. Mrs. J. B. Brown. (With Sauce Mousseline). Wash well a fresh bunch of asparagus. Separate stalks, tying in small bundles about four inches long. Cook about twenty minutes in boiling water, to which has been added, one-half tablespoon of salt. When done, drain at once, as they quickly become water soaked. Have ready squares of toasted bread, which may be dipped slightly and quickly into the hot salted water drained from the asparagus. Arrange on plat- ter, one bunch of asparagus on each souare of toast, and serve at once with the following sauce : Yolks of three eggs in small sauce pan in double boiler, stew with wooden spoon. As soon as it begins to thicken, add one at a time six teaspoons of butter, stirring all of the time. Add little by little a pint of whipped, creamAsparagus on Toast, stirring constantly, and last salt and pepper. Put on asparagus or serve from gravy boat. ASPARAGUS PATTIES. Mrs. Mabel Ahelenius, Galesburg. Make the shells of a rich puff paste and fill with as- paragus boiled until tender in a little water seasoned with pepper and salt, and surrounded with a sauce made of butter, flour and a little cream. FRIED BANANAS. Prepare a batter with one-half a cupful of flour, one teaspoonful of sugar, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter of a cupfull of cold water, the beaten yolk of one egg, and one teaspoonful of melted but- ter. Beat, then add the white of the egg whipped to a stiff froth, and set the batter aside for a couple of hours.. Cut bananas in half -length wise, and then cut each half in two crosswise ; sprinkle with powdered 62 VEGETABLES " sugar and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, and let stand for half an hour. Then drain, dip in the batter and fry in deep, smoking hot fat a rich brown. Drain on unglazed paper, dust with powdered sugar and serve with a liquid sauce. Bananas may be baked by cutting in slices and putting ordinary lemon sauce over each layer until dish is full, cover with buttered cracker crumbs. BOSTON BAKED BEANS. Mrs. H. H. Pattee. Boston Baked Beans