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Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with ..

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Have at hand two poimds of fresh and firm mushrooms. Cut and trim the stalks, pare the heads, and wash them. Put in a saucepan with a little water, four ounces of butter and the juice of two lemons. Cook for five minutes over a brisk fire, occasionally shaking the pan. Take the upper crust of four French roUs, remove the inside, and fry the crust in clarified butter. Mix the gravy the mushrooms were cooked in with three pints of velouté sauce. Add four ounces of butter, the yolks of four eggs, and white pepper to tasteMushrooms à la Bindley. Mix thoroughly and rub through a wet cloth. Pour a little of this sauce in a dish, arrange the crusts, hoUow side uppermost, on the dish, put the mushrooms in the sauce, beat thoroughly, then fili each crust, taking care to have the largest and whitest mushrooms on top. 248 MRS. SBELT'a COOK BOOK Oatmeal Place one cup of oatmeal in a doublé boiler, add one tea* spoonf ul of salt, and one quart and a pint of boiling waterOatmeal. Stir occasionally while it boils over a moderate fire for half an hour, or until the flakes are tender. If too thick, it msj be thinned with boiling water. Stewed Okra with Tornato Sauce Pare both ends and wash the okra. Put in a sauoepan with salt and pepper, a ladlef ul of rich broth, and half a pint of tomato sauce, and one-half pint of Espagnole sauceStewed Okra with Tomato Sauce. Cover and stew slowly for one-half hour. Dish caref uUy without breaking the okra. Sprinkle with parsley and serve. Qlazed Oniona Peel twelve medium-sized white onions and soak them for one hour in cold water, changing the water twice while they are soaking. Drain them on a sieve. Put two ounces of but- ter in a saucepan. Add one teaspoonful of sugar and half a cup of beef broth or stock. Arrange the onions in the pan so they do not touch. Cook over a slow fire until they become tender and the outside is brown. Remove the cover from the saucepan, put a very little beef extract on top of each onion. Then place the pan in the oven for five minutes. When the extract melts and a nice glaze forms on the top of the onions, they are ready to serve as a garnish or vegetable. If served as a vegetable, tìie sauce they were cooked in may be poured over them. Glazed Onions See Baked Calf s Liver, p. 161. Oreamed Onions Having peeled the onions, cook them in salted water till they are quite done to the core, which will be, if they are of VEGETABLES AND FARINACE0U8 FOODS 249 medium size, in an hour, or perhaps an hour and a half . By the time they are tender the water should be pretty well cooked out. Pour over them as they lie in the saucepan enough cream te reach to their middle. Boil up, salt if necessary, dish by tak- ing the onions out one by one with a cooking ladle, having care not to break them, and pour over the hot cream and serve. Btuffed Onions Glazed Onions