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Vegetarian Cook Book
Vegetarian Cook Book
By E. G. Fulton PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY Oakland, California [2] Entered According to Act of Congress in the year 1904, by Pacific Press Publishing Company In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. All Rights Reserved...
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WHY I WAS IMPRESSED TO WRITE A COOK BOOK.
WHY I WAS IMPRESSED TO WRITE A COOK BOOK.
It must appeal to the judgment of every thinking man and woman that the human family are more in need of sound, wholesome advice as to what they should eat and drink than ever before. The number of physicians and dentists increases each year at an alarming rate, but the aches and ills of the suffering people do not lessen. Thousands of people find themselves in a deplorable condition, with stomachs almost worn out, having depended largely upon predigested foods and a long list of so-called "dysp
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GOOD COOKING
GOOD COOKING
Good cooking is not the result of accident, a species of good luck, as it were. There is reason in every process; a law governing every chemical change. A course of medical lectures does not make a physician, nor will a collection of choice recipes make a cook. There must be a knowledge of compounding, as well as of compiling; of baking, as well as of mixing; and above all, one must engage in the real doing. Theory alone will not suffice; but experience, which practice only can give, is of the u
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BOILING
BOILING
The term "boiling," as applied to cookery, means cooking in a boiling liquid. Many kinds of food need the action of water or other liquid, combined with heat, to cook them in the best manner, and boiling is one of the most common forms of cookery. When water becomes too hot to bear the hand in it with comfort, it has reached one hundred and fifty degrees, or the scalding point. When there is a gentle tremor or undulation on the surface, one hundred and eighty degrees, or the simmering point, is
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MILK
MILK
In cooking some kinds of food, milk is used instead of water. Milk being thicker than water, less of the steam escapes, and it becomes hot sooner than water, adheres to the pan, and burns easily. At its boiling temperature (214 degrees), the casein contained in milk is slightly hardened, and its fat rendered more difficult of digestion. By heating milk in a double boiler, these dangers are avoided. It then only reaches a temperature of 196 degrees, and is called scalded milk. The process is a fo
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STEAMING
STEAMING
Steaming is a process of cooking food over boiling water. It is a very satisfactory and convenient method, without much loss of substance. It takes a longer time than some other ways of cooking, but requires less attention. There are two methods of cooking by steam: (1) In a steamer, which is a covered pan, with perforated bottom. This is placed over boiling water, and the steam carries the heat directly to the food. (2) By means of a double boiler. By this method the heat is conveyed from the b
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BAKING
BAKING
Baking is cooking by means of dry heat, as in a close oven. The closely-confined heat of the oven develops flavors which are entirely different from those obtained by other forms of cooking. The baking of many kinds of food is as important as the mixing, and every cook should thoroughly understand how to regulate the oven. Nearly all flour mixtures, as bread, cakes, and many kinds of pudding, are more wholesome when baked than when cooked in any other way....
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BROILING
BROILING
Broiling, meaning "to burn," is cooking directly over, or in front of, the clear fire, and is the hottest form of cooking. The intense heat, combined with the free action of the air, produces a fine flavor quite unlike that obtained in any other way. Pan broiling is broiling on a hot surface instead of over hot coals. [13] [14]...
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SALADS
SALADS
All green vegetables that are eaten raw and dressed with acid, salt, and oil, are included in the list of salads, and they should always be served crisp and cool. Wash salad greens carefully, allowing them to stand in cold or iced water until crisp. Drain and wipe dry with a soft towel, taking care not to bruise the leaves, and keep in cool place till serving time. If they are not thoroughly dried, the water will collect in the bottom of the dish and ruin any dressing used. Pare cucumbers thickl
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NORMANDIE SALAD
NORMANDIE SALAD
Place walnut meats in scalding water about fifteen minutes, then remove the skins, and cut into pieces about size of a pea. Scald the French peas, and set aside for a while. Drain the water off the peas, and let them get cold; then mix with the walnuts. Pour mayonnaise dressing over all, and mix thoroughly. Serve on lettuce....
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BRAZILIAN SALAD
BRAZILIAN SALAD
Cut the strawberries and pineapples into small cubes, and add thinly-sliced Brazil nuts that have been marinated in lemon juice. Arrange lettuce in rose-shape, and fill the crown with the above mixture, and cover with a spoonful of mayonnaise or golden salad dressing....
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NESSLERODE SALAD
NESSLERODE SALAD
Pit the cherries, keeping them as whole as possible. Put a layer of fruit in the salad bowl, then a layer of sugar, then another layer of fruit, and so on, till all the fruit is used, finishing with a layer of sugar. Pour over all one-half cup of lemon juice. Shake the bowl gently from side to side, to draw out the juice until it nearly covers the fruit. More sugar may be used if needed. This salad should be made two hours before using, and kept on ice....
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WALDORF SALAD
WALDORF SALAD
Mix apples, celery, and lemon juice well together, and pour mayonnaise dressing over. Serve on lettuce. In making Waldorf salad use only crisp, white, tart apples, and the tender, white heart of the celery. The celery should be cut a little smaller than the apples. Use only white mayonnaise. Drain off the lemon juice before adding the dressing, or it will ruin the mayonnaise....
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PROTOSE AND CELERY SALAD
PROTOSE AND CELERY SALAD
Cut protose into half-inch dice, add a little salt, grated onion, and celery cut into the same size as protose. Set in ice-box, and just before serving pour over some of the oil salad dressing, and mix all together lightly. Serve on lettuce leaves or garnish with celery leaves....
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WATER LILY SALAD
WATER LILY SALAD
Cut crisp lettuce leaves into pointed strips, like the outer leaves of a water lily. Cut the whites of hard-boiled eggs also into strips, to make the petals. Mash all but two or three of the yolks, mix them with the mayonnaise, and fill in the center of the white petals. Take the remaining yolks and put through a fine sieve, and scatter this over the yellow center and white petals to resemble pollen of the flower....
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TOMATO MAYONNAISE
TOMATO MAYONNAISE
Peel the tomatoes, cut them in halves, and press out all the seeds, retaining only the solid, fleshy portion. Chop this fine; press through a sieve and drain. Mash very fine the hard-boiled yolks of the eggs, and add the raw yolk. When thoroughly mixed, add the oil, a few drops at a time. When thick and smooth, add the dry pulp of the tomato, a little at a time. Stir in the onion juice. Serve on sliced protose or nuttolene....
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LIMA BEAN SALAD
LIMA BEAN SALAD
Cook beans till well done, strain off the water, and set aside to cool. Mix nut butter as for table use, and thin it down with the tomato juice. Add the minced parsley and a little salt; turn this mixture on the beans, and stir well without breaking the beans. Mince the yolks of the hard-boiled eggs and sprinkle over the salad. Garnish with lettuce and sliced tomatoes, and serve....
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LETTUCE
LETTUCE
Separate the leaves and carefully wash to remove every particle of grit. Shake the water off the leaves. Place on a plate or in a salad dish, and send to the table for each to prepare as preferred. Dress with lemon, salt, or olive oil. A mayonnaise or lettuce dressing may be provided for the table. If preferred, lettuce may be cut fine before being sent to the table....
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STUFFED BEET SALAD
STUFFED BEET SALAD
Boil the beets whole till tender, selecting those of uniform size. Cut a slice off the bottom, so that they will stand upright, and scoop the inside out carefully. Take pains not only to avoid breaking the shell, but to keep the inside as nearly whole as possible. Peel the shells, and let them get perfectly cold. Cut the centers into tiny cubes, using an equal amount of parboiled potatoes and white celery cut to same size; mix well with mayonnaise or French dressing, and fill the shells, laying
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ASPARAGUS AND PROTOSE SALAD
ASPARAGUS AND PROTOSE SALAD
Wash the asparagus and cut into pieces half an inch long. Boil in salted water till tender. Drain off the water, and when cold put into salad dish with protose cut into dice. Season with salt. Serve on a lettuce leaf with mayonnaise....
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MAYONNAISE DRESSING
MAYONNAISE DRESSING
Into a saucer break the yolk of a fresh egg; add to it a large pinch of salt, and with a fork stir the yolk till it begins to stiffen. Gradually add to the yolk, a drop at a time, cooking oil or olive oil, stirring well after each drop is added. Continue this process till the mixture becomes too stiff to stir, then thin it with lemon juice, and add more salt. The salt helps to stiffen it. Thicken again with oil in the same manner as before, and thin again with lemon juice. Continue this till the
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WHITE DRESSING
WHITE DRESSING
Drop the yolk into a cold bowl, mix lightly, add a small pinch of salt; then add the oil drop by drop. The dressing should be very thick. Stand the bowl in another containing a little cracked ice, so that you may be constantly reducing the color of the egg. Now add slowly the lemon juice, then stir in the whipped cream. This dressing, if properly made, should be almost as white as whipped cream, while having the flavor of mayonnaise. Serve with Waldorf salad....
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BOILED SALAD DRESSING
BOILED SALAD DRESSING
To the yolks add the salt and sugar; beat with an egg whisk until thick and light, then add gradually the melted butter and lemon juice. Cook over hot water until the mixture thickens and falls away from the sides of the pan. Take from stove, put into a glass jar, and when cool cover closely. When ready to use pour into it lightly the rich cream whipped to a stiff, dry froth. If whipped cream can not conveniently be obtained, plain sweet or sour cream may be used in the dressing, but it will not
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CREAM SALAD DRESSING (PLAIN)
CREAM SALAD DRESSING (PLAIN)
Put the lemon juice into a granite dish on the stove, and add the olive oil, sugar, and salt. Put the milk or cream on the stove in another saucepan, and when hot add the beaten eggs. Let cook smooth, but do not allow it to boil or it will curdle. Remove from the stove, and when partially cool beat the two sauces together. This is a very nice dressing for vegetable salads....
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CREAM SALAD DRESSING
CREAM SALAD DRESSING
Put the cream into a double boiler; when scalding hot add the corn starch dissolved in a little cold milk, and cook about five minutes, stirring constantly. Then add the butter. To the yolks of the eggs add the salt and sugar; beat till light and thick, then add alternately the lemon juice and the hot cooked mixture. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites, and set aside to become cold. This dressing may be used the same as mayonnaise....
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NUT OR OLIVE OIL SALAD DRESSING
NUT OR OLIVE OIL SALAD DRESSING
Beat all well together in the dish; set dish in hot water over the fire, and stir constantly till thickened. As soon as it begins to thicken remove from the fire and place in a dish of cold water, stirring until it cools, and set on ice till cold. It is then ready for use....
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GREEN MAYONNAISE
GREEN MAYONNAISE
Make as ordinary mayonnaise. Use two light-colored yolks and six tablespoonfuls of oil. Chop enough parsley to make one tablespoonful; put it into a bowl, and with a knife rub it to a pulp. Then add gradually to the mayonnaise. Add a teaspoonful of the lemon juice. Use for fruit salad, white grapes, and pulp of shaddock. Mix, and serve on lettuce leaves....
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SOUPS
SOUPS
Cream soups are seasonable at any time, using any vegetable in its season. Canned goods may be used when the fresh article is not obtainable. Vegetables that are too tough and old to cook in any other way may be used in soups to advantage. If it can be afforded, a teaspoonful of whipped cream may be dropped into each plate, and will be found very delicious. By a puree is meant a thick soup; it differs but little from cream soup, being perhaps a trifle thicker. If properly made, cream soups and p
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KINDS OF SOUP
KINDS OF SOUP
Observing these proportions and following the foregoing directions, delicious cream soups are made of rice, squash, celery, peas, asparagus, cucumber, spinach, peanuts, potato, corn, lima beans, cauliflower, beets, tomato, salsify, chestnut, mushrooms, onions, baked beans, lentils, macaroni, spaghetti, watercress, string beans, sago, tapioca, barley, carrots, etc. All vegetables should be cooked very tender in boiling salted water, drained, and rubbed through a sieve. Rice, sago, tapioca, and ba
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CREAM SOUPS, FOUNDATION OF
CREAM SOUPS, FOUNDATION OF
Rub one heaping tablespoonful of butter and two of sifted flour to a cream; melt in a saucepan over the fire, and add slowly four cups milk, stirring constantly. When it thickens add salt and whatever seasoning and ingredient is desired to make the soup....
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NOODLES FOR SOUP
NOODLES FOR SOUP
Beat one egg till light, add a pinch of salt and flour enough to make a stiff dough. Roll out very thin; sprinkle with flour to keep from sticking. Then roll up into a scroll, begin at the end, and slice into strips as thin as straws. After all are cut, mix them lightly together, and to prevent their sticking together keep them floured a little till you are ready to drop them into the soup, which should be done a few minutes before serving. If boiled too long they go to pieces....
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MOCK CHICKEN SOUP
MOCK CHICKEN SOUP
Put butter in saucepan with the onion, parsley, and celery; cook it to a golden brown color; add the flour and cook until brown, being careful not to scorch. Now add the milk boiling hot and stir briskly to prevent lumping. Add the nuttolene. Beat the egg with enough flour to make a stiff batter, but thin enough to pour; pour this into the boiling stock, stirring at the same time. This will appear as small dumplings in the soup. Let simmer twenty or thirty minutes; salt, and serve....
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WHITE SOUBISE SOUP
WHITE SOUBISE SOUP
Soak the bread in the milk, boil onions and potatoes in water until well done, and mix with the bread and milk; add salt and flour rubbed in the butter; strain all through a fine sieve; bring again to the boiling point, but do not allow it to boil; serve. If too thick, add a little boiling water....
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JULIENNE SOUP
JULIENNE SOUP
Cook the turnips and carrots together in just enough water to prevent scorching, the potatoes and onions in the same manner, the peas by themselves. When all are done, mix together and add the soup stock, salt, and parsley; reheat, and serve. The water the vegetables are cooked in should be used in the soup....
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WHITE SWISS SOUP
WHITE SWISS SOUP
Boil the rice in the water, and add the onion and potato. When the vegetables are well done add the rich milk and bring to a boil. Beat well the yolk of the egg with the flour and stir in the boiling soup. Let it boil, season with salt, rub through a sieve; reheat, and serve....
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CEREAL CONSOMME
CEREAL CONSOMME
Place in the soup kettle the cooking oil and barley; brown barley till quite brown; add onion, carrot, flour, and brown the vegetables till quite tender; add the protose and boiling water; let simmer very gently for six hours, adding boiling water from time to time. Keep the original amount. Stir often to prevent burning. Half an hour before the soup is done add the caramel-cereal, bay leaf, and salt; press through a fine colander, and simmer to six cups....
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SWISS LENTIL SOUP
SWISS LENTIL SOUP
Put lentils to cook in a large quantity of boiling water; boil rapidly a short time, then simmer without stirring. When they begin to get tender and are yet quite moist, slice an onion and press into the lentils until covered; keep the vessel over a slow, even fire, until the lentils are well dried out. The drying-out may be finished in the oven if the lentils are covered so that they will not harden on top. When well dried add a little boiling water and rub through a fine colander, removing the
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SPRING VEGETABLE SOUP
SPRING VEGETABLE SOUP
Put in the stew-pan the lettuce, onion, parsley, and butter, with the water; let simmer till tender; season with salt; when done strain off the vegetables and put two-thirds of the liquid in the stock. Beat up the yolk with the other third. Put it over the fire, and at the moment of serving add this with the vegetables to the soup....
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TURNIP AND RICE SOUP
TURNIP AND RICE SOUP
Pare a medium-sized turnip, slice, and put with rice and butter into saucepan with sufficient water to cook; let simmer till tender, rub through a fine sieve and return to the saucepan. Mix in enough milk to make of the proper consistency; stir over the fire and let simmer ten or fifteen minutes; then stir in a lump of butter and cream; serve with croutons....
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GERMAN LENTIL SOUP
GERMAN LENTIL SOUP
Boil lentils in the water with the onion, carrot, turnip, and celery; boil gently about one and one-half hours; put through a sieve and return to soup kettle; add nut butter and apple sauce. Bring to a boil, salt, and serve. If necessary, add a little boiling water or rich milk to thin the soup....
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GREEN PEA SOUP
GREEN PEA SOUP
Shell peas and throw into a dish of cold water; break the shells and put them into a kettle with boiling water; set over the fire and simmer half an hour. Remove pods, and add lettuce, spinach, salt and sugar. Let boil till the spinach and lettuce are pulpy, take up, and run through a puree sieve; boil the peas and cucumber in a little water, mash and rub through a sieve; mix with the soup, season with salt and a dash of lemon juice. Serve with croutons....
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RICE SOUP
RICE SOUP
Boil the rice in the water for forty minutes, or until perfectly soft, adding salt; add sufficient boiling water from time to time to keep the original amount; press through a sieve and thicken with well-beaten yolk of egg, milk, flour, and butter. Add a little more salt if necessary; serve with toasted crackers or zwieback sprinkled with crumbs of cottage cheese....
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TOMATO BISQUE NO. 1
TOMATO BISQUE NO. 1
Place butter in pot, add one bay leaf, one small onion; let braize till light brown, add flour, and stir until flour is well mixed; add hot milk, slowly stirring constantly to keep smooth; add nut butter, which should be emulsified first with the tomato, then add slowly stirring briskly; salt, heat thoroughly, strain; reheat, serve....
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ROLLED OATS SOUP
ROLLED OATS SOUP
Into a saucepan put the chopped onion and butter; cook carefully, without browning the butter, until the onion is perfectly soft; then add celery salt, bay leaf, and porridge; stir for a moment, then add water and milk; bring to a boil and strain; add salt, reheat, and serve....
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ARTICHOKE SOUP
ARTICHOKE SOUP
Select prime, green, globe artichokes before they have developed; cut off the stems, trim off the hard leaves round the bottom, and cut off the upper quarter of the artichoke leaves. Put the water in soup kettle; add the artichoke, onions, and protose. Let simmer gently for two hours, then add sage, bay leaf, and lemon juice. Thicken with browned flour. Let all boil together a few minutes, then press through a colander, salt, reheat, and serve....
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PALESTINE SOUP
PALESTINE SOUP
Wash and peel the artichokes, put over them cold water sufficient to cover, add leeks, celery, and salt. Simmer an hour and a half. Press through a sieve, put back on the stove, and beat into it a pint of boiled cream. Add a little nutmeg. Serve with croutons. If too thick, add a little hot milk or cream....
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CHOCOLATE SOUP
CHOCOLATE SOUP
Soak the chocolate in two cups of the water; when soft put to cook; when it boils add the sugar and flour rubbed smooth in the rest of the water. Cook slowly for five minutes and add the hot milk. Strain, stir in the cinnamon and whipped cream. Serve at once with crisps or wafers. Blanched almonds toasted are served with the soup....
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MOCK WHITE FISH
MOCK WHITE FISH
Heat the milk to boiling, stir in the rice, flour, butter, onion, mace, and salt. Cook all ten minutes, stirring frequently. Have the potatoes ready, freshly cooked and mashed; while hot add the rice mixture, and put into a pan to cool. When cool, cut in slices about five inches long, dip in egg and crumbs, put in oiled pan, and bake until nicely browned. Serve with parsley sauce....
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FILLETS OF VEGETARIAN SALMON
FILLETS OF VEGETARIAN SALMON
Cook and mash the eggplant, stir the nuttolene to a cream in a little of the milk, then add the rest of the milk, the eggplant, tomatoes, and salt. Set in double boiler; when scalding hot, add the farina and bread crumbs. Mix thoroughly and let cook fifteen or twenty minutes. Remove from the range, stir in the raw egg and the color, mixing till the color is perfectly blended. Turn into a deep pan to cool; should be about two inches deep. When cold cut into slices, egg, crumb, and bake. Serve wit
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PROTOSE ROAST WITH OLIVE SAUCE
PROTOSE ROAST WITH OLIVE SAUCE
Put the onion, parsley, and butter into the boiling water, and thicken with bread crumbs stiff enough to cut nicely when done. Into this mixture put one hard-boiled egg chopped fine, and break in one raw egg to make it hold together. Salt to taste. Put a layer of this filling into a baking-pan, then a layer of protose cut in thin slices, then a layer of the filling, and another layer of the protose, and last another layer of the filling. Bake in a moderate oven one hour. Serve with olive sauce..
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MOCK TURKEY WITH DRESSING
MOCK TURKEY WITH DRESSING
1. Thoroughly wash the lentils and soak overnight. Boil slowly until tender and run through colander. Add the walnut meats, one egg, and the minced onion browned with the chopped celery in a little oil. Add salt and sage to taste. Thicken with granola or bread crumbs. 2. Dip thin slices of bread in a mixture of one egg and a cup of milk, or thin slices of nuttolene may be used instead. Make alternate layers of 1 and 2....
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DRESSING NO. 2
DRESSING NO. 2
Peel onions and parboil. Drain and chop fine. Soak bread crumbs in the milk; then mix all ingredients together. Stir the mixture over the fire until it is reduced to a thick paste, without allowing it to boil. Serve a slice of the roast with a spoonful of dressing on one end and cranberry sauce on the other....
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ROAST DUCK (VEGETARIAN STYLE)
ROAST DUCK (VEGETARIAN STYLE)
Take lentil pulp, one hard-boiled egg chopped fine, one beaten egg, minced onion, and chopped parsley browned in a little oil, one teaspoonful of butter, and salt to taste. Mix well and put one-half of this mixture in an oiled baking pan, then a layer of the following mixture: Stale bread crumbs soaked in hot water, chopped walnuts, a little grated onion, one egg, and salt and sage to taste. Finish with a layer of the lentil mixture. Bake, and serve with gravy....
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NUTTOLENE ROAST
NUTTOLENE ROAST
Put the nuttolene through a vegetable press, or work smooth with a knife or spoon; add the hot water and beat to a cream. Add salt and sage, and thicken with bread crumbs stiff enough to retain its shape when moulded. Press into a deep buttered bread-pan and bake till nicely browned. Turn out of the pan and slice. Serve with any good brown sauce or walnut gravy....
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ROAST OF PROTOSE
ROAST OF PROTOSE
Cut the protose lengthwise through the center, then cut each half in six pieces. Place in a deep baking-pan, let the first piece lean slantingly against the end or side of the pan, the second against the first, and so on. Sprinkle this with finely chopped onion, and a little powdered sage, and pour over it a nut cream made of two heaping tablespoonfuls of nut butter emulsified, in enough hot water to cover the protose. Add to this the browned flour, rubbed smooth in a little tomato. Salt to tast
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HAMBURGER LOAF
HAMBURGER LOAF
Cook the lentils until tender, then simmer as dry as possible. Put through a colander, brown the onions in oil, and add to the lentils, together with the protose and two of the raw eggs. Mix salt to taste, and add enough bread crumbs so that it will mold nicely. Have the three remaining eggs boiled hard and the shells removed. Put one-half the loaf mixture into a bread-pan, then put the three hard-boiled eggs in a row through the center and cover with the remaining mixture. Press down gently and
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IMPERIAL NUT ROAST
IMPERIAL NUT ROAST
Mix the peas, lentils, and walnuts with salt to taste. Put a layer in a deep bread-pan, then put a layer made of the crumbs, eggs, milk, sage, and salt. This should be just stiff enough to spread easily. Cover with the remaining pea and lentil mixture. Baste with cream, put in the oven, and brown....
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NUT AND TOMATO ROAST
NUT AND TOMATO ROAST
Chop the celery and onions fine, put into a saucepan with enough cooking oil to prevent burning, and cook until a rich brown, stirring occasionally. Add to this one quart of boiling water and the tomatoes. Boil for fifteen to twenty minutes. Then remove and strain as much as possible through a soup strainer. Take three and one-half cups of this gravy and mix with it the granola, eggs, and salt to taste. Have ready the protose and nuttolene cut into thin slices. Put in a layer of the granola mixt
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DRIED PEA CROQUETTES
DRIED PEA CROQUETTES
Cover the peas with water and soak overnight. Drain and cook in fresh boiling water until tender. Drain, press through a colander, add a little salt and olive oil. Mix thoroughly and form into small rolls about three inches long. Dip in beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs, and bake in a quick oven. Serve with tomato sauce....
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EGG MIXTURE FOR CROQUETTES, FILLETS, ETC.
EGG MIXTURE FOR CROQUETTES, FILLETS, ETC.
Break an egg into a bowl or deep saucepan, break up with a fork, add a tablespoonful of hot water to soften the albumen of the egg, and mix till free from lumps, but do not beat in too much air. Dip the croquettes in the egg, roll in crumbs, and bake....
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PROTOSE WITH BROWNED POTATOES
PROTOSE WITH BROWNED POTATOES
Peel and slice potatoes three-fourths of an inch thick. Cut protose in strips same thickness. Place in a pan two slices of potatoes and one of protose, and repeat same until the pan is full. Pour over this vegetable stock sufficient to cover. Bake in the oven till the potatoes are done and nicely browned....
16 minute read
NUT FRICASSEE WITH BROWNED SWEET POTATOES
NUT FRICASSEE WITH BROWNED SWEET POTATOES
Cut some nut food into half-inch cubes and pour over it a thick, brown or white gravy sufficient to cover well. Let it simmer about one hour. Peel and steam or boil potatoes until tender, but not overdone. Put them in a baking dish with a little butter or olive oil, salt, and bake in a quick oven until nicely browned. Serve with the fricassee....
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FRIJOLES WITH PROTOSE MEXICANO
FRIJOLES WITH PROTOSE MEXICANO
Cook the beans in just enough water to prevent scorching. When done, have ready a stock made of the vegetable stock, tomatoes, mace, and salt. Pour over the beans, together with the protose, and let simmer for an hour or more....
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MOCK CHICKEN RISSOLES
MOCK CHICKEN RISSOLES
Put the butter into a saucepan; when hot stir in the flour, and stir until brown; add the hot milk, salt, and mace, and let cook a few minutes. Chop the nut food fine and mix into the sauce. Have ready some tart shells made of rich pie paste; fill with the mixture. The sauce should be cool before adding the nut food....
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NEW ENGLAND BOILED DINNER
NEW ENGLAND BOILED DINNER
Cut the potatoes, carrots, and turnips in three-quarter inch cubes; slice the onions and cut the cabbage into pieces about one and one-half inch square. Boil the potatoes and onions together. The carrots turnips and cabbage may also be cooked together in salted water. When all are done, mix together, and serve with slices of protose or other nut food that has been braized in a tomato or brown sauce....
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NUT AND VEGETABLE STEW
NUT AND VEGETABLE STEW
Put all on, except nuttolene and potatoes, and boil one hour. Then add potatoes and nuttolene and cook slowly until potatoes are done. Salt to taste. Thicken with a little flour, work smooth with a lump of butter. A little protose might also be added....
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STEWED PROTOSE (SPANISH)
STEWED PROTOSE (SPANISH)
Put the butter into a saucepan and add the sliced onion, minced parsley, and cook ten minutes. Then stir in the flour, mix well, and add the tomatoes. Stir well to free from lumps. Cover and cook twenty to thirty minutes. Slice the protose into small pieces and simmer in sauce ten minutes. Salt, and serve....
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PROTOSE FRICASSEE
PROTOSE FRICASSEE
Mince the onion and braize in a little butter or olive oil five minutes; add the minced parsley strained tomatoes, mixed herbs, and vegetable broth. Bring to a boil and add the protose, cut into cubes or diamonds of one-half inch. Cook for a few minutes and thicken with a few spoonfuls of flour rubbed smooth in a little water. Salt to taste, and serve. Just before serving add the beaten yolks....
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PROTOSE STEAK SMOTHERED IN ONIONS
PROTOSE STEAK SMOTHERED IN ONIONS
Cut the protose into twelve slices, lay half of them in an oiled baking-pan; have the onions sliced and lightly browned in the oil. Cook half of the onions over the protose, then put on the rest of the protose, then the remainder of the onions, pouring the vegetable stock over all. Salt to taste. Bake until the stock is reduced to a rich brown gravy....
19 minute read
PROTOSE SMOTHERED WITH TOMATOES
PROTOSE SMOTHERED WITH TOMATOES
Cut protose into twelve slices and cut each tomato in half. Put one slice of tomato in a baking-pan; on this put a slice of the protose, then a slice of tomato on top, and so on, making twelve orders in all. Chop the butter in little pieces and sprinkle over, also the salt and celery salt. Cover and bake until the tomato is nearly done. Then remove the cover and brown very lightly. Serve two slices to each person, garnished with parsley....
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BRAIZED PROTOSE
BRAIZED PROTOSE
Butter a deep pan and sprinkle with the minced onion and sage. On this lay the slices of protose, cut a little less than half an inch thick. Cover the pan and put into the oven to brown, turning the protose once, and watching carefully that the onions do not burn. Remove from the oven and cover with the vegetable stock. Cover and return to the oven, and bake until the stock is reduced to a thick, brown gravy....
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PROTOSE AND TOMATO
PROTOSE AND TOMATO
Cut the protose in rather thick slices and lay in a flat baking-pan (one about two inches deep will answer nicely); boil the tomatoes and thicken with the corn starch; add the salt, and pour over the protose. Bake slowly in a moderate oven. Do not bake too dry. The protose should be nice and juicy with the tomatoes when done. The corn starch may be omitted if desired....
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ESCALLOPED PROTOSE
ESCALLOPED PROTOSE
Slice one-half the potatoes in a baking dish, sprinkle one-half the bread crumbs over them; on the crumbs put half the protose cut into thin slices; pour over some of the gravy to moisten. Add the remainder of the ingredients in the same manner, making two layers. There should be sufficient gravy to cover and cook the potatoes and protose....
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EGGPLANT BAKED WITH PROTOSE
EGGPLANT BAKED WITH PROTOSE
Peel and slice the eggplant in one-fourth inch slices, and cut the protose into twelve slices. Put a layer of the eggplant in an oiled pan, then a layer of protose, and sprinkle part of the onion over all. Make another layer with the remainder and cover with vegetable stock. Salt to taste, cover, and bake. Tomato may be used in place of the stock if desired....
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PROTOSE JAMBALAYA
PROTOSE JAMBALAYA
Put the butter into a saucepan, heat, add the onion and garlic, and brown, then add the flour and brown, add the tomato, and cook a few minutes, stirring to prevent flour from lumping. When nice and brown, add vegetable stock and the seasoning; boil until the ingredients are well blended; add the rice and boil till the rice is tender, stirring often. To this add the minced protose that has been heated in a covered dish in the oven. Mix and serve....
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PROTOSE CUTLETS
PROTOSE CUTLETS
Season with Add a little Make a heavy white sauce with If desired, flour may be rubbed with Add salt to taste. Mix 1 thoroughly with 2. When cool, make into patties, cutlets, or croquettes. Dip into beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs that have been moistened with melted butter, and brown in the oven....
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PROTOSE CHARTREUSE
PROTOSE CHARTREUSE
To the stock add the protose, bread crumbs, the egg unbeaten, and salt. Mix thoroughly. Line a baking-pan with part of the rice, and fill in the center with the protose mixture; cover with the rest of the rice, and press down gently. Bake, and serve with browned sauce....
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PROTOSE STEAK A LA TARTARE
PROTOSE STEAK A LA TARTARE
Put the butter in a saucepan and set on the range. When hot, add the onion and cook until brown; add the minced protose, a pinch of salt, and mix. Form into balls, making a depression in each ball, and drop an egg yolk in each depression. Bake until the eggs are done. Chop the onions and olives, add the mayonnaise, and use as a garnish....
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PROTOSE OR NUTTOLENE CUTLETS
PROTOSE OR NUTTOLENE CUTLETS
Beat the eggs, add the milk and salt, dip the slices of nut food in this, and then in the buttered bread crumbs, and lay in a greased baking-pan. Place the remaining bread crumbs with the milk, add salt, and pour over the cutlets. If not enough to cover, a little milk may be added. Put into the oven and bake till the mixture sets, or it may be placed on the range, and when one side is browned turn and brown the other side....
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LENTIL FRITTERS
LENTIL FRITTERS
Cook lentils until tender, drain, press through a colander, add the milk, butter, flour, salt, and beaten yolk. Mix thoroughly and add the stiffly-beaten white. Drop in spoonfuls on oiled griddle and brown on both sides, or bake in the oven. Garnish with parsley, and serve with marmalade or apple sauce....
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LENTIL PATTIES ON MACARONI
LENTIL PATTIES ON MACARONI
Cook the lentils until tender and put through a colander. To this pulp add the rest of the ingredients, using sufficient bread crumbs to make stiff enough to form into patties. Dip the patties in egg and crumbs. Brown in the oven. Serve on a platter with creamed macaroni....
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LENTIL ROAST
LENTIL ROAST
Cook the lentils in sufficient water to prevent burning. When tender, add the sliced onion, butter, mixed herbs, and salt to taste. Cook with the pot closely covered for twenty-five to thirty minutes longer. Remove from fire, drain, press through a colander, and add the granola, ground walnuts, and eggs. Mix well, press into a baking pan, and bake forty-five minutes or until nicely browned....
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RICE MOLD
RICE MOLD
Wash clean and boil the rice in two quarts of water until done. Drain off the water well. Add, while hot, a custard made of the egg, milk, and sugar. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Form into molds, and serve with stewed prunes, peaches, or any other kind of fruit....
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RICE AND BANANA COMPOTE
RICE AND BANANA COMPOTE
Bring the milk to a boil, thicken with corn starch or flour, and add sugar to taste. Simmer the bananas in this sauce for half an hour. Add vanilla. Rice for bananas: Cook the rice in two and one-fourth cups of water in a double boiler till done. The rice should be soft and each grain standing out separate when done. Make a layer of the rice, and serve the bananas on it....
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SPANISH RICE
SPANISH RICE
Boil the rice until about half done, drain, and finish cooking in the following sauce:— Put the oil in a saucepan, add all the other ingredients except the tomato and flour; set over the fire and stir occasionally, to prevent burning, until brown. Then add the flour and stir till brown. Add the tomato, let cook a few minutes, strain, and add to the rice....
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PROTOSE AND RICE CHOWDER
PROTOSE AND RICE CHOWDER
Put the butter in a deep dish, melt, then add a layer of the protose, sliced quite thin, then sprinkle with mace, salt, and bits of butter. Then add a layer of the sliced potatoes, sprinkle with part of the rice, then a layer of bread, then more salt, bits of butter, and minced onion. Add the remainder in the same order, and pour over all one cup of hot vegetable stock. Cover, set on range, and let simmer one-half hour, then pour over all one cup of hot cream or milk, and serve....
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NOODLES
NOODLES
Whip the egg until light, add the salt, and work in the flour, making a smooth, stiff dough. Roll out thin, in a long narrow strip, sprinkle with flour to prevent sticking, and roll up into a long roll, rolling crosswise. Then with a sharp knife cut into very thin slices and drop into boiling salted water. Cook about twenty minutes. Drain, pour over the melted butter, and serve hot....
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VEGETABLE OYSTER A L'ITALIENNE
VEGETABLE OYSTER A L'ITALIENNE
Take macaroni broken into one-inch lengths, and boiled until tender, and vegetable oyster which has been parboiled twenty minutes, and put in alternate layers in a baking-pan. Pour over this a sauce made from both of the liquors (macaroni and vegetable oyster) thickened with the yolks of the eggs. Sprinkle with granola and bake until browned....
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GREEN CORN CHOWDER (NEW ENGLAND STYLE)
GREEN CORN CHOWDER (NEW ENGLAND STYLE)
Brown the onion in the oil, and add the protose and vegetable stock. When thoroughly heated, add corn pulp, mix all together, heat up well, and salt. Put the sliced potatoes in cold water, drain, and put into a pan of flour; shake the pan so as to cover the potatoes with flour. Put half of the potatoes in a layer in the bottom of a baking-pan, cover with half the corn and protose mixture, sprinkle with bread crumbs and part of the parsley. In the same manner add the remainder of the potatoes and
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BEAN CROQUETTES
BEAN CROQUETTES
Cover beans with water, soak overnight, drain, and cook in fresh boiling water until tender, or about an hour. Drain, press through a colander, add salt and olive oil. Mix thoroughly and roll into cylinder-shaped croquettes; dip into beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs and bake in moderate oven. Serve with tomato sauce....
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BEAN AND NUT LOAF
BEAN AND NUT LOAF
Thoroughly wash the beans and soak overnight. Boil thoroughly, and when done rub through a colander. Add the chopped walnuts, egg, onion braized in oil, sage, and salt to taste. Thicken with granola or toasted bread crumbs. Put into an oiled pan and bake. Serve with gravy....
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OKRA GUMBO (VEGETARIAN STYLE)
OKRA GUMBO (VEGETARIAN STYLE)
Cook the tomatoes and okra in the water. Brown the onion in the butter, add the protose and nuttolene with the seasoning; brown all together a few minutes; then add the tomato and okra; let all simmer for two hours. Serve on platters on tablespoonful of boiled rice. Garnish with the parsley or cress....
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BAKED POT PIE
BAKED POT PIE
Cook the carrots about one hour, then add potatoes, onions, protose, and a little chopped parsley. Simmer in just enough water to keep from burning until potatoes are done. Season with thyme and salt to taste. Put in an oiled pan and cover with a rich pie paste. Bake thirty to forty minutes in a moderate oven....
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BAKED EGGPLANT A LA CREME
BAKED EGGPLANT A LA CREME
Peel the eggplant and cut in slices about three-fourths of an inch thick. Place slices in a pan and cover with sifted toasted bread crumbs or sifted granola. Pour over this the milk; add salt and small piece of butter, and bake. If it becomes too dry, add a little more milk....
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MOCK CHICKEN PIE
MOCK CHICKEN PIE
Put into an oiled baking-pan a layer of the thinly-sliced boiled potato, and over this a layer of nuttolene cut into thin slices. Sprinkle on a little chopped onion and parsley, then a layer of sliced protose. Pour over the nut gravy and let set five minutes. Cover this with the pie crust and bake till done....
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GREEN CORN NUT PIE
GREEN CORN NUT PIE
Braize in a little butter or oil. Add Add to this sufficient bread crumbs to make a batter that will spread easily. Oil a baking-pan, and cover the bottom with one-half of the corn mixture, then put in the nut food mixture and the remainder of the corn to top. Bake till nicely browned....
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VERMICELLI NUT PIE
VERMICELLI NUT PIE
Cook the nuttolene ten minutes in two cups of rich milk, then rub through a strainer. Flavor with celery salt. Cook the vermicelli fifteen minutes, strain, and pour over it while in the strainer two quarts of cold water. When it is well drained, line the bottom of a pie dish with one-half of it. Pour over it the puree of nuttolene and cover with the other half of the vermicelli. Make a custard of two eggs, two cups of milk, and a teaspoonful of salt. Turn this custard over the pie, and with a fo
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BOILED MACARONI (PLAIN)
BOILED MACARONI (PLAIN)
Put two cups of macaroni, broken into inch lengths, into a saucepan, cover with plenty of boiling water, salted, and boil till tender, or about thirty minutes. Stir gently once or twice, to prevent sticking to the bottom. Add enough cold water to stop boiling and let it come to a boil again. Drain in a colander. Boiled macaroni may be served with a gravy or fruit sauce....
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MACARONI A L'ITALIENNE
MACARONI A L'ITALIENNE
Break the macaroni into one-inch lengths; boil in salted water till done; drain. While the macaroni is cooking, boil the milk and thicken with the corn meal. When thoroughly cooked, add the tomatoes, onions, and salt. Pour this dressing over the macaroni, and serve hot....
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MACARONI AND KORNLET
MACARONI AND KORNLET
Break the macaroni in one-inch lengths and boil in salted water till tender. Drain, add the kornlet, cream, and salt. Mix thoroughly, spread in a baking-pan, and bake a light brown. There should be enough kornlet and cream to cover the macaroni smoothly, and it should not be too moist when done....
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MACARONI WITH TOMATO SAUCE
MACARONI WITH TOMATO SAUCE
Break the macaroni into one-inch lengths and boil in salted water till thoroughly done. Boil tomatoes and thicken with flour, rubbed smooth in a little water. Add the cream, which should be hot, and salt to taste. Drain the macaroni, pour the sauce over, mix well, and serve. The cream may be omitted if preferred....
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MACARONI CUTLETS
MACARONI CUTLETS
Boil the macaroni in salted water till done, drain, and chop fine. Boil the milk and thicken with the flour; stir in the well-beaten egg; beat thoroughly. Add the macaroni, protose, and salt, and make stiff with the bread crumbs, so that it can be made into cutlets. Make into any shape desired. Put into an oiled pan and bake till nicely browned. Serve with tomato or cream sauce....
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MACARONI IN CREAM
MACARONI IN CREAM
Cook the macaroni in plenty of boiling water thirty minutes. Turn off the water and wash the macaroni by pouring two or three quarts of cold water over it. Return the macaroni to the saucepan and add the boiling milk. Remove to a cool part of the stove and cook for thirty minutes. Before serving, add the beaten yolk and the boiling cream. Shake the pot to mix the egg with the macaroni. Stir as little as possible. Salt to taste....
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EGG MACARONI
EGG MACARONI
Break macaroni into one-inch lengths and boil in salted water till tender. Drain and wash with cold water. Put into a baking dish and sprinkle over it the hard-boiled eggs chopped fine. Stir into cream gravy, made from rich milk, sprinkle top with bread crumbs. Bake until nicely browned....
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BAKED MACARONI WITH EGG SAUCE
BAKED MACARONI WITH EGG SAUCE
Break the macaroni into inch lengths and boil in salted water thirty to thirty-five minutes. Drain, turn it into a deep pan. Pour over this a custard made with the milk, beaten eggs, and salt. Sprinkle with granola on top, and bake in a moderate oven thirty minutes....
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MACARONI WITH APPLE
MACARONI WITH APPLE
Butter a deep baking-dish and put in a layer of mashed and sweetened apple sauce. Grate a little nutmeg over and add a layer of cooked macaroni. Repeat till the dish is full, finishing with the apple sauce. Bake till the apples are slightly browned. Serve with sweetened cream, seasoned with nutmeg. May be served as a dessert....
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MACARONI AND CHEESE (VEGETARIAN STYLE NO. 1)
MACARONI AND CHEESE (VEGETARIAN STYLE NO. 1)
Break the macaroni into inch lengths and boil in salted water until tender. Drain and mix in a little granola. Add the sour cream or thick sour milk and about one cup of egg sauce. (See egg sauce recipe, page 156.) Season to taste and bake....
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MACARONI AND CHEESE (VEGETARIAN STYLE NO. 2)
MACARONI AND CHEESE (VEGETARIAN STYLE NO. 2)
Break the macaroni and cook in salted water until about half done. Drain and pour over it enough milk to cover, and simmer until done. Add the cottage cheese and butter and mix thoroughly. Pour into baking-pan, sprinkle with bread crumbs, and bake....
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MACARONI CROQUETTES
MACARONI CROQUETTES
Boil the macaroni in salted water until tender, drain, and chop fine. Heat the milk; when boiling, add the butter and flour, that have been rubbed together until smooth; stir until thick, remove from the range, and stir in quickly the beaten yolks of the eggs. Mix this sauce with the macaroni, season with salt, turn out into a flat pan, and let cool. When cold, form into croquettes, egg, crumb, and bake....
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MACARONI (SPANISH STYLE)
MACARONI (SPANISH STYLE)
Cook the macaroni in salted water, drain, and chop fine; have the eggs boiled hard and chopped fine, and the onions grated. Mix all together, sprinkle with toasted bread crumbs, and brown in the oven. Serve with tomato or Chili sauce....
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MACARONI WITH TOMATO
MACARONI WITH TOMATO
Boil the macaroni till tender, drain, and add the stock and tomatoes not strained (they should be put on a sieve and allowed to drain, as the stock will afford sufficient liquid), but chopped, and there should not be enough of them to allow the tomato taste to predominate. Now add to this the hard-boiled eggs, grated or rubbed through a colander. Mix all together, and add a little salt. Pour into a baking-pan about four inches deep, and bake until the mixture is thick. A few lumps of butter spri
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SCALLOPED MACARONI WITH VEGETABLE OYSTERS
SCALLOPED MACARONI WITH VEGETABLE OYSTERS
Boil the macaroni and vegetable oysters separately, and drain. Then place same in alternate layers in a pan. Pour over this a gravy made of the milk, flour, eggs, butter, and salt. Stir carefully so as to get the gravy mixed through thoroughly. Sprinkle a few bread crumbs on top and bake in a quick oven till nicely browned....
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SPAGHETTI IN TOMATO SAUCE
SPAGHETTI IN TOMATO SAUCE
Break the spaghetti into small pieces and boil until well done. Pour over this tomato sauce, made as follows: Brown the minced onion in a little oil, stir in the flour, and add tomatoes, bay leaves, and salt to taste. Let boil, and strain....
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BAKED STUFFED TOMATOES
BAKED STUFFED TOMATOES
Take out the inside of the tomatoes and mix with this the bread crumbs. Then add the other ingredients, and fill the tomatoes, piling mixture up on top. Place small piece of butter on each, and bake in a hot oven, until the tomatoes are cooked. When nearly done, sprinkle chopped parsley over the top. [115] [116]...
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VEGETABLES
VEGETABLES
The term "vegetable," as here used, is applied to such plants (grains, nuts, and fruits excepted) as are cultivated and used for food. The use of a large variety of vegetables in our food assists in promoting good health. To get the best results, they should be judiciously combined with nuts, fruits, and grains. Green vegetables are rich in potash salts and other minerals necessary to the system, and in such a form as to be easily assimilated. Starchy vegetables, as potatoes, supply energy and h
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GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR VEGETABLES
GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR VEGETABLES
Fresh green vegetables should be cooked as soon after being gathered as possible. Those containing sugar, as corn and peas, lose some of their sweetness by standing. Wash thoroughly in cold water, but unless wilted do not soak. It is better not to prepare fresh green vegetables until they are needed; but if they must be prepared some time before cooking, cover with cold water. Most vegetables should be put into fresh, rapidly-boiling water, and if cooked in uncovered vessels, they will retain a
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POTATOES
POTATOES
Pre-eminent among vegetables stands the potato. The solid matter of potatoes consists largely of starch, with a small quantity of albumen and mineral salts. Potatoes also contain an acid juice, the greater portion of which lies near the skin. This bitter principle is set free by heat. While potatoes are being boiled, it passes into the water; in baking it escapes with the steam. New potatoes may be compared to unripe fruit, as the starch grains are not fully matured. Potatoes are at their best i
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BAKED POTATOES
BAKED POTATOES
Potatoes are either baked in their jackets or peeled; in either case they should not be exposed to a fierce heat, inasmuch as thereby a great deal of the vegetable is scorched and rendered uneatable. They should be frequently turned while being baked, and kept from touching one another in the oven or dish. When they are pared, they should be baked in a dish, and oil of some kind added, to prevent their outsides from becoming burned....
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MASHED POTATOES
MASHED POTATOES
Pare and boil or steam six or eight large potatoes. If boiled, drain when tender, and let set in the kettle for a few minutes, keeping them covered, shaking the kettle occasionally to prevent scorching. Mash with a wire potato masher, or, if convenient, press through a colander; add salt, a lump of butter, and sufficient hot milk to moisten thoroughly. Whip with the batter whip, or wooden spoon, until light and fluffy. Heap up on a plate, press a lump of butter into the top, and send to the tabl
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SCALLOPED POTATOES NO. 1
SCALLOPED POTATOES NO. 1
Cut potatoes into even slices, put in a baking-pan, sprinkle with a little salt, and a few small pieces of butter. Pour over the milk and flour mixture, and sprinkle the top with a layer of crumbs. Cover and bake till potatoes are tender. Remove the cover and brown lightly....
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HASHED BROWNED POTATOES
HASHED BROWNED POTATOES
Use cold, boiled potatoes or good left-over baked potatoes. Pare and cut into three-quarter-inch dice or irregular pieces. Put in a shallow baking-pan, sprinkle with salt, pour over sufficient cooking oil, season well, and prevent scorching. Put into the oven, and when they begin to brown, stir continually till all are nicely browned....
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NEW POTATOES AND CREAM
NEW POTATOES AND CREAM
Wash and rub new potatoes with a coarse cloth or scrubbing brush; drop into boiling water and boil briskly till done, but no more. Press the potato against the side of the kettle with a fork; if done, it will yield to gentle pressure. In a saucepan have ready some butter and cream, hot but not boiling, a little green parsley, and salt. Drain the potatoes, add the mixture, put over hot water a minute or two, and serve....
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POTATOES A LA CREME
POTATOES A LA CREME
Heat the milk and stir in the butter cut up in the flour. Stir until smooth and thick. Salt and add the potatoes, sliced, and a very little finely-chopped parsley. Shake over the fire until the potatoes are heated through. Pour into a deep dish and serve....
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POTATOES A LA DELMONICO
POTATOES A LA DELMONICO
Cut the potatoes with a vegetable cutter into small balls about the size of marbles. Put them into stew-pan with plenty of butter and a good sprinkling of salt. Keep the saucepan covered and shake occasionally until they are quite done, which will be in about an hour....
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POTATO CROQUETTES (DELMONICO'S)
POTATO CROQUETTES (DELMONICO'S)
Season the potatoes with salt and butter. Beat the whites of the eggs and work all together thoroughly. Make into small balls slightly flattened. Dip them into beaten yolks of eggs, roll in flour or cracker crumbs, and fry in hot oil....
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ESCALLOPED VEGETABLE OYSTER
ESCALLOPED VEGETABLE OYSTER
Wash, scrape, cut in thin slices, and put into plenty of cold water till ready to use, to prevent discoloration. When ready to cook, boil in enough water to prevent scorching. Salt when they begin to get tender. Boil a few minutes longer, but do not let them get too salty. Drain, or remove with a skimmer, putting a layer in a baking-pan, then a little rich cream sauce, then another layer of each. Sprinkle the top with sifted bread crumbs, and bake a light brown....
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MOCK OYSTERS
MOCK OYSTERS
Grate the corn with a coarse grater into a deep dish; beat the whites and yolks separately, and add the corn, flour, butter, and salt. Drop spoonfuls of this batter into a frying-pan with hot oil, and fry a light brown on both sides. The corn must be young....
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CELERY
CELERY
Cut off all the roots and remove all the decayed and outside leaves. Wash thoroughly, being careful to remove all specks and blemishes. If the stalks are large, divide them lengthwise into two or three pieces and place root downward in a celery glass, which should be nearly filled with cold water....
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STEWED CELERY
STEWED CELERY
Cut the celery into half-inch lengths and cook in boiling, salted water. When tender, drain and pour over this the sauce. Heat well, and serve. The liquid drained from the celery may be thickened, seasoned with a little butter, and used instead of the white sauce if preferred....
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LENTILS (ORIENTAL STYLE)
LENTILS (ORIENTAL STYLE)
Wash the lentils well, soak overnight, and drain. Cook in boiling water till tender; drain again. Put the olive oil in a saucepan, add the onion, and cook till the onion is soft, not brown. Add the lentils and boiled rice, mix, stir over the fire till hot, add the salt, and serve hot....
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LENTILS WITH ONIONS
LENTILS WITH ONIONS
Wash the lentils, put to cook in saucepan with plenty of cold water, and boil till tender; when soft, turn them into a fine colander, and drain thoroughly, saving the water they were cooked in. Peel the onions, cut into thin slices, put in a flat stew-pan with a lump of butter, or a little olive oil, and fry. Put the lentils in the onions and add salt to taste. Moisten with a little of the broth drained from the lentils and allow them to simmer at the side of the fire. Serve....
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ASPARAGUS NO. 1
ASPARAGUS NO. 1
Asparagus, like potatoes, contains a bitter alkaloid, which is drawn into the water in cooking, and often imparts to it a very unpleasant flavor. This may be remedied by blanching the asparagus in boiling water for four or five minutes. Then drain, and add more hot water, and finish cooking....
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ASPARAGUS NO. 2
ASPARAGUS NO. 2
Scrape the stalk ends of the asparagus or break off the tough lower stalks as far as they will snap. Wash well, tie in bundles, and put into enough rapidly-boiling salted water to cover. Allow a teaspoonful of salt to each quart of water; cook uncovered from twenty to thirty minutes, or till perfectly tender. Drain, remove the string, spread with salt and butter, and serve immediately on toast. The asparagus may be neatly arranged on hot toast and covered with white cream sauce, if preferred....
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ASPARAGUS POMPADOUR
ASPARAGUS POMPADOUR
Wash the asparagus carefully, place in a saucepan of boiling salted water, and boil till done. Take them out and cut into lengths of about two inches, and place on a cloth near the fire to dry. Prepare a little sauce made of lemon juice, butter, yolk of an egg, and salt. Place the asparagus on a dish, over which pour the sauce, and serve....
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PEAS
PEAS
The flavor of peas and the time required for cooking depend largely upon their freshness. Very young peas will cook tender in twenty minutes, older peas sometimes requiring an hour or more. A teaspoonful of finely minced parsley cooked with peas imparts to them a very delicious flavor....
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ASPARAGUS WITH EGGS
ASPARAGUS WITH EGGS
Cut the tender tops from a bunch of asparagus, and boil about twenty minutes. Then put into a baking-tin with butter and salt. Beat the whites and yolks of the eggs separately, add the cream and pour this over the asparagus. Bake until the eggs are set....
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ASPARAGUS WITH GREEN PEAS
ASPARAGUS WITH GREEN PEAS
Break the tender parts of the asparagus into one-inch lengths and put with the peas into boiling water enough to cover. Boil till tender; add sufficient rich milk or cream to make a gravy. Thicken with flour, season with salt, let come to a boil, and serve....
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BAKED BEANS
BAKED BEANS
Wash one and three-fourths cups of navy beans and put them into an earthen jar, covering immediately with one and three-fourths quarts of boiling water. Add salt, cover, and put into the oven. When they boil well, draw the jar to the edge of the oven, where they will just simmer. Cook for twenty-four hours. If they get too dry, add a little boiling water. The beans will be nicely colored and have a rich flavor....
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BAKED BEANS
BAKED BEANS
Clean the beans, soak in cold water one hour, season with salt and molasses. Put into a covered jar with plenty of water; bake overnight in a slow oven. When done, the beans should be whole, dry, and mealy, and of a rich brown color. This can only be obtained by baking the beans several hours in a slow oven. If desired, a little chopped protose may be added. Serve the beans plain, or with brown bread....
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SUCCOTASH
SUCCOTASH
Put beans in pot with cold water, rather more than will cover them. Scrape the kernels from twelve ears of young sweet corn. Put the cobs in with the peas, boiling from thirty to forty-five minutes. Take out the cobs and put in the scraped corn. Boil again for fifteen minutes; then season with salt, butter and cream. Serve hot....
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BAKED ONIONS
BAKED ONIONS
Put onions into a saucepan of water, or water and milk mixed in equal proportions; add salt and boil till tender. When done so that they can be easily mashed, work them up with a little butter into a paste. Cover with bread crumbs and bake in a moderate oven....
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SCRAMBLED TOMATOES
SCRAMBLED TOMATOES
Remove the skins from six tomatoes and cut them up in a saucepan. Add a little butter and salt. When sufficiently boiled beat up eggs, and just before you serve turn them into the saucepan with the tomatoes, and stir one way for two minutes, allowing them time to get thoroughly done....
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SPINACH
SPINACH
Trim the spinach and wash in three or four waters to remove the grit. Cook in boiling water about twenty minutes, removing the scum. Do not cover the vessel while cooking. When tender, turn into a colander, drain, and press well. Chop fine, put into a saucepan with butter and salt. Set on the fire and cook till quite dry, stirring it all the time. Turn into a vegetable dish, shape, and garnish with slices of hard-boiled eggs....
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WINTER SQUASH (HUBBARD)
WINTER SQUASH (HUBBARD)
Mashed : Cut the squash, pare, remove seeds, wash, and put into the steamer. Cook until soft, remove and mash or press through a colander. Season with salt, butter, sugar, and a little sweet cream. Beat well, and serve. Baked : Cut into pieces of desired size, remove seeds, sprinkle with a little sugar and salt; bake until done. Serve in the shell, or it may be peeled before baking....
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PUREE OF PEAS
PUREE OF PEAS
Put the peas to cook in boiling water; boil until tender, then simmer slowly, cooking as dry as possible without scorching. When soft and dry, rub through a colander to remove the hulls. Put the butter in a saucepan; when melted stir in the flour, being careful not to scorch; pour in the milk gradually, stirring all the time; and when thoroughly cooked, add the salt and the pulp of the peas. Turn all into a double boiler, heat thoroughly, and serve....
23 minute read
GREEN CORN (STEWED)
GREEN CORN (STEWED)
Husk and clean as for boiling corn; with a sharp knife cut off the top of the grain, being careful not to cut too close to the cob and with the back of the knife press out the remaining pulp. When cut in this way, the corn is much more juicy than when the grains are cut close to the cob. Place the milk in a granite saucepan, and when boiling, add the butter and corn; cook from ten to fifteen minutes, or until it loses its raw taste. Stir frequently, and season to taste with salt and sugar....
28 minute read
GREEN CORN (BOILED)
GREEN CORN (BOILED)
Strip off the husk, remove the silk, put into fresh boiling water, and cook ten to twenty minutes. Cook only till done, for if boiled too long, the corn hardens, and its flavor is impaired. If the corn is not very sweet, add one-fourth cup of sugar to the water in which it is boiled....
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GREEN PEAS (VERY YOUNG AND TENDER)
GREEN PEAS (VERY YOUNG AND TENDER)
Shell the peas and cover with cold water; skim off undeveloped peas which rise to the top of the water and drain. Barely cover with boiling water; cook till tender, then add salt. When done, very little water should remain. Season to taste with butter and add more salt if needed. A little sugar is sometimes an improvement. When the peas are older, half a cup of milk or cream, with sufficient flour to thicken, is considered an improvement....
23 minute read
PLAIN BOILED STRING BEANS
PLAIN BOILED STRING BEANS
Break off the ends of beans and string; wash thoroughly; if large cut them in two; drop into boiling water and boil till tender. Salt and season with olive oil or butter; if preferred, drain off the juice, salt to taste, and add some hot, rich milk....
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BAKED CAULIFLOWER
BAKED CAULIFLOWER
Soak a medium head of cauliflower in cold water with head down for thirty minutes; steam or boil gently till tender; separate into small sprays and pour over them a sauce made of the milk thickened with flour and butter beaten together. Add a little salt. Cover lightly with bread crumbs, which have been moistened with melted butter, and bake until a nice brown. Serve at once....
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CAULIFLOWER WITH TOMATO SAUCE
CAULIFLOWER WITH TOMATO SAUCE
Prepare as for stewed cauliflower, and when done serve with tomato sauce. Sauce: Strain a pint of stewed tomatoes, let come to a boil, and thicken with a tablespoonful of flour rubbed smooth in a little water; add a little olive oil or hot cream; salt to taste. Pour this over the cauliflower, and serve....
16 minute read
BOILED CAULIFLOWER (PLAIN)
BOILED CAULIFLOWER (PLAIN)
Pick off the outside leaves, cut the stalk one inch from the head, split, wash thoroughly in cold water. Put in salted water for one or two hours before cooking. Cook in salted, boiling water (milk added to the water will keep it white). Boil till tender; remove from the fire; let stand in same water till ready to serve. Drain, serve with cream, butter, or egg sauce poured over....
19 minute read
CABBAGE AND CREAM
CABBAGE AND CREAM
Take a well-blanched cabbage, drain, cool, and chop fine; place it in a stew-pan with butter, a little salt, and grated nutmeg; add the flour, stirring well, and then pour in the cream. Stir till the cabbage and cream are thoroughly mixed. Cook about thirty or forty minutes, and serve hot....
14 minute read
BAKED CABBAGE NO. 1
BAKED CABBAGE NO. 1
Wash and chop rather fine the required quantity of cabbage. Put into a stew-pan with boiling water; add a little salt and blanch twenty minutes. Drain, put in a baking-pan, and cover with cream or milk to which has been added the beaten yolk of one egg to each cup of cream. Bake until the custard is nicely set....
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BAKED CABBAGE NO. 2
BAKED CABBAGE NO. 2
Rub sufficient cold, boiled cabbage through a sieve or colander. Mix with it a piece of butter, salt, nutmeg, and the well-beaten egg. Stir thoroughly; butter a pudding dish of suitable size, line with browned crumbs, press in the cabbage, and bake in a moderate oven. Turn out on a hot dish, pour brown sauce around the base, and serve....
17 minute read
CABBAGE STEWED WITH TOMATO
CABBAGE STEWED WITH TOMATO
Slice and wash a good sound cabbage and put into a stew-pan with enough chopped tomato to give it a decidedly tart taste. Add enough salt to season. Add sufficient water to cook and stew slowly till tender. Strained tomatoes may be used if desired....
13 minute read
SCALLOPED CABBAGE
SCALLOPED CABBAGE
Wash and chop the cabbage in rather fine pieces. Put a layer of the cabbage into a baking-pan and sprinkle with a little salt. Cover this with finely-broken, fresh bread crumbs, repeat and pour over sufficient milk or cream to thoroughly moisten and cover the crumbs. Cover and bake in a moderate oven till the cabbage is thoroughly cooked. More milk may be added if necessary....
18 minute read
HOT SLAW
HOT SLAW
Clean a nice young head of cabbage, quarter, cut out the heart, and shred fine. Put in cold, salted water for half an hour; drain, boil till tender; drain partly, leaving enough juice to make the cabbage moist; add lemon juice and a little butter or olive oil; season with salt; serve hot....
15 minute read
LADIES' CABBAGE
LADIES' CABBAGE
Boil a firm, white cabbage fifteen minutes, changing the water; add more from the boiling teakettle; when tender, drain, and set aside till perfectly cold; chop fine and add the beaten eggs, butter, salt, and cream; stir all well together and bake in a buttered dish till brown....
13 minute read
BEETS
BEETS
Select young red beets; cut off the tops half an inch from the root. If cut too close, the roots will bleed and the color will be impaired. Wash and clean carefully with the brush to remove all particles of dirt. They may be boiled or steamed. If boiled, use as little water as possible. Young beets will cook in an hour; old beets require three or four hours, according to age and size. When done, put in cold water, rub off the skins, and they are ready for use....
24 minute read
BEET STALKS WITH BUTTER SAUCE
BEET STALKS WITH BUTTER SAUCE
Take some beet stalks, cut off the leaves, wash thoroughly, tie in bunches, and let steep in cold water two or three hours to make them fresh and crisp. Boil in salted water until tender; cut the band; serve as asparagus on a platter with butter sauce....
14 minute read
BOILED BEETS
BOILED BEETS
Cut off the tops half an inch from the roots; wash and clean carefully to remove all dirt. Boil in as little water as possible. When done, pour a little cold water over them, rub off the skins, and slice into a granite or earthen dish; pour over them equal parts of lemon juice and water. Let stand one or two hours before serving....
18 minute read
BAKED PARSNIPS
BAKED PARSNIPS
Scrape and cut in half lengthwise; boil till tender; put in a shallow baking-pan; put a few pieces of chopped butter or a little cooking oil on top; sprinkle lightly with sugar; pour over sufficient cream to about half cover. Salt to taste and bake a rich brown....
13 minute read
STEWED PARSNIPS
STEWED PARSNIPS
After washing the parsnips, slice them about half an inch thick; put them in a saucepan containing enough boiling water to barely cook them; add a tablespoonful of butter, season with salt, then cover closely and stew them until the water has cooked away, stirring often to prevent burning, until they are soft. When they are done, they will be of a creamy, light straw color, and deliciously sweet, retaining all the nutrition of the vegetable....
21 minute read
HOLLAND BOILED TURNIP
HOLLAND BOILED TURNIP
Boil the turnips till tender in just enough salted water to prevent burning; drain and set in a covered dish on the side of the range, where they will keep hot but not burn. Melt the butter, add the beaten yolk with the eggs, juice of the lemon, and a little salt. Serve a spoonful of this sauce over each order of turnip....
18 minute read
TO DRESS CUCUMBERS
TO DRESS CUCUMBERS
Pare and lay in cold water—ice water if possible—for an hour. Slice very thin. Sprinkle a very little fine salt over each piece. Let stand for an hour. Shake the dish briskly, drain closely, sprinkle with lemon juice, and serve. [147] For Vegetables, Entrees, Puddings, Etc. [148]...
14 minute read
VEGETABLE SOUP STOCK NO. 1
VEGETABLE SOUP STOCK NO. 1
Put into a saucepan and add All to be chopped fine; place on range and cook slowly, stirring occasionally to prevent burning, until vegetables are nicely browned, then add Stir and mix thoroughly, until a rich brown, being careful not to burn. Now add Strain through a fine sieve, and the stock is ready for use....
17 minute read
VEGETABLE STOCK NO. 2
VEGETABLE STOCK NO. 2
Boil some turnips, carrots, celery, and onions in enough water to make half the amount of stock required. When the vegetables are done, drain and add an equal amount of rich bean broth with a little brown flour, nut butter, celery salt, and just enough strained tomato to remove the sweet vegetable taste. This should be of the consistency of broth when done. Use with roast braized protose, etc. Protose may be cooked with the vegetables if it can be afforded. The vegetables should be put to cook i
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OLIVE SAUCE
OLIVE SAUCE
Take one-fourth cup of ripe olives, and after extracting the stones, chop fine. Put on the stove and stew for two or three hours in water enough to cover well. Brown together a little olive oil and flour, the same as for gravy. Strain through a colander and add the stewed olives. Season with salt....
15 minute read
HOLLANDAISE SAUCE
HOLLANDAISE SAUCE
Rub the butter, flour, nutmeg, and salt together until smooth, and add slowly one and one-half cups hot water, stirring constantly. Boil, remove from the fire, and add the lemon juice, olive oil, and the yolks of the eggs, one at a time. Beat slowly and thoroughly together. Strain, and serve....
14 minute read
SAUCE IMPERIAL
SAUCE IMPERIAL
Put the oil, parsley, bay leaves, thyme, and onions into a stew-pan, set on the range and cook until the onion is a golden brown, being careful not to burn; then add the flour, let cook a few minutes, add the lemon and tomato, and let stew half an hour. Strain, salt, and serve. The chopped parsley may be added just before serving, if desired....
18 minute read
WHITE CREAM SAUCE FOR VEGETABLES
WHITE CREAM SAUCE FOR VEGETABLES
Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour, and cook until well blended, but not browned; add the milk gradually, and stir until boiling well; then add the salt. Half milk and half broth of the vegetables may be used if desired, unless the broth has a bitter or otherwise objectionable taste, as is sometimes the case with asparagus....
17 minute read
GERMAN SAUCE
GERMAN SAUCE
Beat the yolks of the eggs about two minutes; put the sugar into a saucepan with the fruit juice (preferably cherry or strawberry); stir it over the fire till hot, then remove it to the side, as it must not be permitted to boil. Stir in the beaten yolks and add the lemon juice. Whisk the sauce at the side of the fire until well frothed and thickened....
19 minute read
TOMATO SAUCE
TOMATO SAUCE
Put the tomatoes into a saucepan over the fire; add the onion and salt; boil about twenty minutes; remove from range and strain through a sieve. In another pan melt the butter, and as it melts sprinkle in the flour; stir till it browns and froths a little. Mix the tomato pulp with it, and it is ready for use....
17 minute read
NUT GRAVY NO. 2
NUT GRAVY NO. 2
Emulsify the butter in the tomato, add to the water, and put in a saucepan over the fire, being careful not to scorch. When it boils, thicken with a little flour rubbed smooth in water, using plenty of salt to season, as it brings out the nice flavor of the sauce....
15 minute read
BROWN SAUCE FOR VEGETABLES AND ROASTS
BROWN SAUCE FOR VEGETABLES AND ROASTS
Put the water, butter, and onion in a saucepan and set on the stove; when it begins to boil, add the protose and let simmer ten or fifteen minutes, then place where it will boil, and thicken with the browned and white flour rubbed smooth in the tomato; the thickening should be thin enough to pour readily. Let cook a few minutes and add salt and celery salt, and serve with vegetables or roasts....
21 minute read
GOLDEN SAUCE
GOLDEN SAUCE
Break the nutmeg into pieces and put in a saucepan with the water, boil, and add the corn starch mixed (sifted) with the sugar. Stir over the fire until the corn starch is cooked, then add the butter. Beat the yolks with one tablespoonful of the sauce, then stir quickly into the remainder, which should be immediately removed, as the yolks will curdle if boiled. Strain, and serve....
19 minute read
ORANGE SAUCE
ORANGE SAUCE
Put the juice of the oranges and the grated rind of one with the sugar into a saucepan. Set on the range and stir till the sugar is melted or dissolved, then strain through a fine sieve to remove the rind. Add the beaten eggs, lemon juice, and butter. Before serving, set in double boiler and stir for a few minutes to melt the butter and thoroughly mix the eggs. Serve hot or cold....
20 minute read
LEMON SAUCE FOR PUDDING NO. 1
LEMON SAUCE FOR PUDDING NO. 1
Add the grated rind and juice of the lemons to the sugar, beat the eggs until light, and add to the sugar, and stir well. Just before serving, add the boiling water and set on the stove, but do not boil. For a richer sauce add one-third of a cup of butter....
16 minute read
LEMON SAUCE NO. 2
LEMON SAUCE NO. 2
Boil the sugar in the water for five minutes, then stir in the corn starch previously mixed with a little cold water. Stir over the fire ten minutes, then add the grated rind and juice of the lemon and the butter. When the butter is melted, the sauce is ready for use....
15 minute read
SAUCE FOR PLUM PUDDING
SAUCE FOR PLUM PUDDING
Put the butter into a saucepan; when it has melted stir in the flour and mix well; then pour in gradually the hot water and stir over the fire till well cooked; then add the sugar, lemon juice and a small quantity of grated nutmeg. [161] [162]...
14 minute read
OMELET SOUFFLE NO. 1
OMELET SOUFFLE NO. 1
Take two eggs, separate whites from yolks, beat whites very stiff, salt, and add yolks, beating just enough to mix yolks with whites. Turn into a hot oiled omelet pan, put in medium hot oven, and bake till done, or to a rich brown. Serve in great haste on being removed from the oven, to prevent falling....
16 minute read
OMELET SOUFFLE NO. 2
OMELET SOUFFLE NO. 2
Beat the yolks of the eggs as light as possible, and add the sugar, a few drops of flavoring, and beat to a cream. Beat the whites until you can turn the plate bottom side up, without their falling. Pour the beaten whites and yolks together and mix thoroughly. Put into an oiled baking dish, and dust with powdered sugar. Bake in a moderate oven till a golden brown. Serve at once. A very delicate souffle is made of whites of eggs beaten stiff, adding a tablespoonful of sugar to two whites, and cho
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PLAIN OMELET (FRENCH)
PLAIN OMELET (FRENCH)
Break eggs into a dish, whip lightly with egg whip or fork, turn into hot oiled skillet, and place on range. As soon as they begin to set, lift edges of omelet, so that the uncoagulated part can run under, next to bottom of the skillet. When light brown, turn, and cook till light brown on the other side. Fold with knife about one-third over; then toss out on hot platter, so that the one-third fold will be underneath. Garnish with parsley and watercress. Serve at once....
24 minute read
PROTOSE OMELET
PROTOSE OMELET
Mince the protose fine, break two eggs, separating the whites, beat the yolks a little, and stir the minced protose into them. Beat the whites into a froth, not stiff, and stir into the protose; add a little minced parsley; put a little oil into the omelet pan, and when hot pour in the mixture. Cook a few minutes. Insert a knife between the omelet and pan, and with a sudden turn of the hand fold the omelet in two. Finish cooking in hot oven two or three seconds. Serve hot....
25 minute read
EGG A LA MODE
EGG A LA MODE
Soak bread crumbs in milk, beat eggs very light, add the soaked bread crumbs, and bake for five minutes. Have ready a hot oiled or buttered saucepan; pour in the mixture, salt, and stir briskly for three minutes. Serve hot on squares of buttered toast or zwieback....
13 minute read
FLOATED EGGS
FLOATED EGGS
Take two fresh eggs, separate whites from yolks, put yolks into a soup bowl of hot water, being careful not to break them. Let set two minutes, then place them, bowl and all, into a larger dish of boiling water, and cook till set as desired,—two minutes for medium, four minutes for hard. Meantime beat whites very stiff, mold them in a soup bowl, then float mold on boiling water two or three minutes till nicely set. Then place them on large platter, place yolk in center, garnish with parsley, and
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BAKED EGGS IN TOMATO CASES
BAKED EGGS IN TOMATO CASES
Take nice, ripe, medium-sized tomatoes, remove the stem and center with sharp paring knife or spoon sufficient to encase an egg nicely. Place them in an oiled granite baking-pan, break an egg into each tomato, salt and sprinkle with chopped parsley, and add a small piece of butter. Set in moderate oven and bake till eggs are medium done. Serve at once....
18 minute read
MUMBLED EGGS
MUMBLED EGGS
Put milk on to heat in agate pan; when it begins to boil, break in the eggs, and with a fork stir rapidly till it thickens. It must not be as hard as scrambled eggs. Split granose biscuit in half and heat them in the oven a few minutes. Serve a spoonful of the mumbled eggs on each half of the biscuits. Do not forget to add salt....
19 minute read
SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH PROTOSE
SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH PROTOSE
Into an oiled skillet containing one tablespoonful of cream or milk break the eggs, slightly whipping them with egg whip or spoon, then add protose. Stir to prevent sticking to bottom, also to thoroughly mix egg with protose. Salt, scramble (soft medium, or hard), as desired. Serve at once on hot platters....
15 minute read
POACHED EGGS
POACHED EGGS
Take nice, fresh eggs, as only fresh eggs poach nicely; break them into a pan of hot water, almost boiling. Let pan set on range so that it will not boil; poach as desired,—soft, two minutes; medium, three minutes; hard, five minutes. Serve on platter, garnish with watercress or parsley. Serve while very hot....
15 minute read
CARAMEL-CEREAL (A Substitute for Coffee)
CARAMEL-CEREAL (A Substitute for Coffee)
For each cup of the beverage required use two tablespoonfuls of the cereal and boil for ten to twenty minutes. Then remove to the side of the range and let steep a few minutes. The strength and aroma of cereal coffee are developed by long steeping....
13 minute read
CHOCOLATE (Sanitas)
CHOCOLATE (Sanitas)
Grate some Sanitas chocolate, place in a saucepan, and to each two ounces allow one cup of cold water. Let it stand until the chocolate is soft, place over the fire, and when it boils, cook one minute. Work it briskly with an egg beater, then serve at once, adding at the last moment a tablespoonful of whipped cream to each cup. It is considered an improvement by some to use two-thirds chocolate and one-third malted nuts. Other chocolate is not recommended, as it contains an injurious alkaloid, w
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FRUIT CUPS
FRUIT CUPS
Put into a dish the juice of the lemons and the rind sliced very thin. Slice the pineapple into another dish and pour over it half a pound of the powdered sugar. Let stand overnight. In the morning strain off the juices and add the rest of the sugar and the water. Stir till the sugar is dissolved, then strain through a coarse cloth, and serve with crushed ice....
19 minute read
LEMONADE NO. 1
LEMONADE NO. 1
The best lemonade is made from lemon syrup. Into the juice of twelve lemons grate the rind of six. Be careful to exclude all seeds and the inner white skin, as they impart a bitter taste. Let stand overnight. Make thick syrup of white sugar, and when cold strain the lemon juice into it. A tablespoonful added to a glass of water makes a perfect lemonade....
18 minute read
CEREALS
CEREALS
Grains may be considered perfect food in themselves, as they contain all the food elements in nearly right proportions. Rice is an exception to this, the starch being in excess. In cooking grains in the form of porridges, they should be introduced into rapidly salted water, beating with a batter whisk so that the grains may be thoroughly mixed with the water and be free from lumps. In cooking coarse grains, as cracked wheat, pearl barley, hominy, etc., keep them boiling, stirring occasionally un
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FARINA
FARINA
Put the milk or water in the inner part of a double boiler, place on the range, and when boiling add salt and farina. Let it boil for two or three minutes, stirring all the time. Then place in a double boiler and cook one hour. If milk is used, it should first be simmered or scalded in a double boiler, and then placed on the range and the milk will boil almost immediately. In this way the milk will not be so liable to scorch as if it was put on the range at first. This rule will apply to all gra
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RICE (SOUTHERN STYLE)
RICE (SOUTHERN STYLE)
Wash rice in two waters, then put into vessel with water and salt. After boiling about ten minutes, strain off all the water except a scant cupful. Cover the vessel and let steam fifteen minutes or more, stirring once or twice. Serve with butter or gravy, the latter being stirred in quickly while the rice is hot....
16 minute read
RICE (WESTERN STYLE)
RICE (WESTERN STYLE)
Wash rice, put in kettle of water, salt, and boil till tender, stirring once or twice to prevent sticking. Drain off all water through a colander and pour over hot water sufficient to wash off the starchy water and separate the grains. Leave in the colander and set into another pan, so that the bottom of colander will not touch. Cover and place in the oven a few minutes....
19 minute read
TOASTS
TOASTS
Toasts are uniformly and properly regarded as a breakfast dish, and when properly prepared are wholesome, nutritious, and appetizing, and far more conducive to health than the fried mushes and griddle cakes with which so many are prone to appease their appetites. Zwieback should be used as the foundation of all toasts, although ordinary toasted bread can be used. In toasting bread, do not expose it to such fierce heat that the bread will be burned or singed. Singed bread is not toasted bread. Ag
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MILK TOAST
MILK TOAST
Heat milk and butter in a saucepan over the fire; when boiling, add salt and flour, moistened with a little milk. Let it boil, remove from the fire, and dip into this slices of toasted bread or zwieback. Pour what remains over the toast, cover, and send to the table hot....
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AMERICAN OR FRENCH TOAST
AMERICAN OR FRENCH TOAST
Beat the eggs thoroughly and add the milk and a little salt. Slice light bread and dip into the mixture, allowing each slice to absorb some of the milk. Then brown on a hot, buttered griddle or thick bottomed frying-pan. Spread with butter, and serve hot....
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NUN'S TOAST
NUN'S TOAST
Put the butter into a saucepan, and when it begins to bubble add the chopped onion. Let the onion cook a little without color, then stir in the flour. Add the milk and stir till it becomes smooth. Then put in the eggs which have been sliced and let them get hot. Pour this mixture over neatly trimmed slices of hot, buttered toast. Season with salt....
18 minute read
NUTTOLENE ON TOAST
NUTTOLENE ON TOAST
Mince half a pound of nuttolene very fine, put in a well-oiled saucepan, and fry over the fire till a delicate brown. Great care must be taken to prevent scorching; shake the pan often. Make two cups of rich cream sauce well seasoned with butter sauce, and desiccated cocoanut. Strain this over the nuttolene, and serve a spoonful on warm toast. This makes six large portions....
18 minute read
BERRY TOAST
BERRY TOAST
Any canned fruit, as strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, etc., may be used for toasts. Strain off the juice, boil, and thicken with corn starch to the consistency of cream. Stir in the strawberries and reheat till the berries are well heated through. Serve as other fruit toasts....
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BANANA TOAST NO. 2
BANANA TOAST NO. 2
Take the desired quantity of bright fruit juice, as strawberry or cherry. Boil and thicken with corn starch. Into this slice some ripe bananas. The juice should not be too thick, but just so that the banana will appear suspended in the juice. Serve on moistened toast....
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APPLE TOAST
APPLE TOAST
Fresh stewed apples, rubbed through a colander and sweetened, make a nice dressing. The apples may be flavored with lemon, or mixed with grape or cranberry sauce. When the apples are put in the colander, the liquid may be poured into a saucepan and boiled into a syrup, and the toast moistened with this. Serve a spoonful or two of the apple sauce over all....
18 minute read
BAKERY AND BREAKFAST DISHES
BAKERY AND BREAKFAST DISHES
Thin batters are about the consistency of thin cream. Thick batters are like cream. Still thicker batters, which may be poured in a continuous stream, are called pour batters. Any batter is a pour batter until it is made so stiff that it breaks or drops in the pouring, when it is called a drop batter. It will remain a batter until too stiff to be beaten, when it becomes a dough. Doughs, like batters, are of varying degrees of thickness, ranging from those just stiff enough to be handled to those
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GEMS OR PUFFS (PLAIN)
GEMS OR PUFFS (PLAIN)
Break the egg into the milk, add salt, and beat thoroughly. Beat into this enough sifted flour to make a batter that will pile slightly when poured in a thick stream. Bake in hot greased gem irons in a brisk oven. A tablespoonful of cooking oil may be added to the milk if a richer batter is desired....
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GRANOSE PUFFS
GRANOSE PUFFS
Beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar until light, then add the cinnamon and salt. Beat again, then add two cups granose flakes. Mix thoroughly and add half of the stiffly-beaten whitest of the eggs, then two more cups granose flakes, and lastly the rest of the whites. Drop in round gem irons, filling them heaping full, and bake a light brown. They may be iced and a little shredded cocoanut sprinkled on top....
21 minute read
POPOVERS
POPOVERS
Mix the salt and flour, pour on slowly half the milk to make a smooth batter; add the eggs, one at a time, beating well, and gradually the remaining milk. Beat vigorously for a few minutes, then turn at once into hot well-buttered gem-pans, filling them about half full. Bake in rather hot oven from twenty to thirty minutes....
16 minute read
CORN BREAD WITHOUT BAKING POWDER NO. 1
CORN BREAD WITHOUT BAKING POWDER NO. 1
Put the meal into the mixing bowl, make hollow in the center, put in butter and salt, and pour the hot milk over all, and stir well. Let cool, and if too stiff, add a little more cold milk. Break the eggs and separate them; add the yolks to the meal and beat five minutes. Beat the whites and add them to the batter. Oil a baking-pan, make it hot, and turn in the batter. Bake in a quick oven thirty minutes....
24 minute read
HOE CAKE
HOE CAKE
Sift corn meal with a little salt, and sugar if desired; scald with sufficient water or milk to make a stiff batter, but soft enough to spread easily with a knife. A tablespoonful of melted butter may be added if desired. Spread on a baking-sheet or pan about one-half inch thick or less and bake slowly till crisp clear through. If the cake bakes fast on the bottom, it may be turned over so that both sides may be evenly baked....
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CORN BREAD NO. 3
CORN BREAD NO. 3
Take three cups of the sponge as set for making wheat bread, measured when light, ready to mix up stiff. Add sugar, eggs, and butter. To this add a mixture of two-thirds corn meal and one-third flour until it is as stiff as will stir conveniently (if made too stiff, the bread will be dry; if not stiff enough, it will be sticky). Put about half an inch deep in greased pans, and let rise till nearly an inch deep and bake in a moderate oven. It may be in deeper loaves, but they are not likely to be
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GEORGIA PONES
GEORGIA PONES
Sift meal with sugar and salt. Pour over this enough boiling milk or cream to make a stiff drop batter. Stir constantly, that the meal may not lump. When perfectly smooth, drop in large spoonfuls on a cold buttered baking-sheet and bake in a brisk oven. The pones should be browned on top....
15 minute read
BOSTON BROWN BREAD
BOSTON BROWN BREAD
Mix meal, flour, molasses, and milk; separate eggs and mix yolks with other ingredients. Beat whites very stiff and fold into mixture, which should not be thick. Put this in the tin dish immediately and steam for three or four hours. [203] [204]...
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LEMON-APPLE
LEMON-APPLE
Pare the apples and remove the core, being careful not to break the apple. Put into a granite or enameled baking-pan of suitable size. Fill the hole made by removing the cores, with the sugar; moisten the sugar with the lemon juice and sprinkle a little of the grated rind on each apple. Pour sufficient water into the pan to half cover the apples. Cover and bake until clear....
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FARINA MOLD
FARINA MOLD
Put the milk into double boiler; when scalding hot, set the inner boiler on range until the milk boils; then stir in the farina, sugar, and salt. Let boil till the farina is set, then set back in outer boiler and cook one hour. Turn into molds previously oiled or dipped into cold water. May be served with cream sweetened and flavored, or with fruit juice....
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BROWN BETTY
BROWN BETTY
Fill a pudding dish with alternate layers of the fruit, crumbs, and butter,—fruit first, finishing bread crumbs on top. Pour over the fruit juice. Set the dish in a pan of hot water; cover and bake in a moderate oven for nearly an hour; then remove the cover and brown lightly. Serve with sweetened cream or lemon sauce....
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STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE
STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE
Warm the cream to about seventy degrees, add the salt, yeast, and about two cups of the flour. Mix thoroughly, cover, and set in a warm place to rise. When well risen and lively, add the rest of the flour, and leave until perfectly smooth. Roll out about half an inch thick. Put in greased pans, brush the top with melted butter, let rise until about double its original size, and bake. Split, and fill with whole or crushed berries, sprinkled with sugar....
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FLOATING ISLAND
FLOATING ISLAND
Make a custard with the milk, the yolks of the eggs, the whites of two, and the sugar. Whip the remaining three whites to a stiff froth with a little sugar and flavoring, same as custard. Pour the custard into individual glass dishes, drop spoonfuls of the whites on the custard so as to form islands, or it may be put on with a pastry tube or paper funnel. Drop a little bright jelly in the center of each island....
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CORN STARCH BLANC MANGE
CORN STARCH BLANC MANGE
Put half the milk in a double boiler and set over the fire. When scalding hot, add the remaining milk in which has been dissolved the sugar and corn starch. Stir till it is thick and there are no lumps. Flavor with lemon, take from the range, and add the stiffly beaten whites. Pour into molds and set in a cool place to get firm. A pleasing effect may be obtained by dividing the mixture after it is cooked, and coloring one-half pink, then filling the mold one-third of one, and filling up with the
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PINEAPPLE TAPIOCA
PINEAPPLE TAPIOCA
Wash the tapioca, and put to cook with the water and sugar in a double boiler; cook until cleared. Pare the pineapple, remove the core, and slice very thin. Put a layer of the pineapple in a deep pan; pour over some of the tapioca, then another layer of pineapple, and so on till all the pineapple and tapioca are used. Serve cold....
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DATES STUFFED WITH MALTED NUTS
DATES STUFFED WITH MALTED NUTS
Wash, dry, and pit the desired quantity of dates, being careful not to break more than are necessary. Fill the cavity made by removing the pit with malted nuts, and press together. Make an icing of the white of an egg, eight or nine tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, a few drops of lemon juice, and one teaspoonful of corn starch. Dip the dates in this, using a sharp toothpick with which to handle them, and place on an oiled paper or plate to dry. Or the icing may be made with less sugar, and afte
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SAGO FRUIT
SAGO FRUIT
Wash the sago through three waters, and simmer in a quart of water with the sugar until transparent and thoroughly done. Peel and slice the oranges, remove the pips, and add to the sago. Cook a few minutes longer, then turn into six or eight individual glass sauce dishes, and put away to cool. Garnish with a little bright colored jelly or jam....
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LEMON OMELET
LEMON OMELET
Mix the corn starch, flour, cream and salt. Beat till smooth; add the beaten yolks of the eggs and the boiling milk. Stir in the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Butter four pudding plates, pour in the mixture, and bake in a quick oven ten minutes. Spread lemon honey on half, fold over, and sprinkle powdered sugar on top. Serve hot....
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STRAWBERRY SOUFFLE
STRAWBERRY SOUFFLE
Put two and a half quarts of the strawberries and the powdered sugar into a saucepan. Put in oven and let it simmer till sugar is melted. Beat the yolks of the eggs in the cream or milk, and sweeten to taste. Set in double boiler over the fire, and stir till thick. Arrange the berries without the juice in glass dishes, so that they will form a sort of wall. Fill the center with custard and meringue the top with the whites. Use the remaining two cups of berries to decorate the meringue with half
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CARAMEL CUSTARD
CARAMEL CUSTARD
Put the butter into a saucepan and set on the range. When melted, stir in the sugar, and let cook until of a dark brown color, stirring frequently to prevent burning. Now add the water, which should be hot, and stir until the caramel (the browned sugar) is dissolved. Beat up the eggs and mix with the milk; add this to the caramel and flavor with the vanilla. Pour into custard cups, set into a shallow pan of water, and bake till the custard is set in the middle....
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TAPIOCA CUSTARD (RICH)
TAPIOCA CUSTARD (RICH)
Wash the tapioca and put to cook with the milk in a double boiler; stir occasionally, and cook till clear. Beat the eggs till light; beat in the sugar, and add to the tapioca. Let cook a minute and remove from the range. Stir in the flavoring, and turn into a pan of suitable size. Serve cold. If desired, the whites of two of the eggs may be used as a meringue, which should be flavored the same as the custard....
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CREAM RICE PUDDING
CREAM RICE PUDDING
Cook the rice in the cream or milk; when nearly done, remove from the range, and stir in the yolks of the eggs. Pour into a pan, and set in another containing water, and bake fifteen or twenty minutes, or till the eggs are cooked. Make a meringue of the whites....
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APPLE NUT PUDDING
APPLE NUT PUDDING
Grate sufficient tart apples to make two cups; then add the sugar, cinnamon or nutmeg, bread crumbs, nuttolene, which has been put through a vegetable grinder, and the beaten yolks of the eggs. Beat well and add the stiffly-beaten whites, put into an oiled pudding-pan set in a pan of boiling water, and bake. Serve with sweetened cream or flavored sauce....
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PRUNE TAPIOCA PUDDING
PRUNE TAPIOCA PUDDING
Put the prunes into enough water to cover them, and let simmer gently till they absorb all the water. Turn onto a plate to cool and remove stones. When tapioca has cooked until clear, put all the seasoning into it, and put a layer into a pudding dish, then a layer of prunes, and so on, having the top layer tapioca. Bake in moderate oven one hour; then allow to partially cool, and serve with cream....
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BREAD PUDDING
BREAD PUDDING
Soak the bread in the milk; beat the yolks and one of the whites of the eggs with the sugar, and flavor. Mix and put into a pudding dish. Set into a pan of hot water and bake until the custard is set. Meringue with the whites. If desired, the top of the pudding may first be marked with jelly, marmalade, or fresh fruit of some kind, and the meringue put over all....
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PRESSED FRUIT PUDDING
PRESSED FRUIT PUDDING
Trim the bread, cutting off all crusts, put four slices in the bottom of a pudding-pan, cover with half the berries, which should have the juice strained off, sprinkle over part of the sugar, then the rest of the bread and the remainder of the berries and sugar. Pour over all the juice that has been drained; there should be enough to moisten the bread thoroughly. If served the same day, put another pan on top of the pudding, with a weight in it, to press the pudding. It is not necessary to press
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SNOW PUDDING
SNOW PUDDING
Set milk, sugar, and salt in double boiler over the fire; when scalding hot, add the corn starch mixed smooth in a little cold milk. When the starch is cooked, remove from the fire, and beat well. When cold, stir in carefully the stiffly-beaten whites and flavor with vanilla. Serve with vanilla sauce....
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APPLE PUDDING (BAKED)
APPLE PUDDING (BAKED)
Stir the butter and sugar to a cream; stir into this the well-beaten yolks of the eggs, the juice and grated rind of the lemon, and the grated apples. Stir in the beaten whites of the eggs, flavor with cinnamon or nutmeg, and bake. Serve cold with cream....
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CABINET PUDDING
CABINET PUDDING
Butter a pudding mold that will hold at least two quarts. Have the citron and raisins chopped fine, the currants well washed, and the cake cut into strips about an inch and a half wide and half an inch thick; sprinkle some of the fruit on the bottom of the mold, then slices of the cake; sprinkle on a little cinnamon and nutmeg, then more fruit, then cake, and so on till the ingredients are all used. Pour over this a custard made of the milk, eggs, and melted butter. Pour this over the cake witho
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CREAM SAGO PUDDING
CREAM SAGO PUDDING
Wash the sago, and with the milk put into a double boiler, and cook until clear. Beat the eggs very light, and add the sugar and flavor. Remove the sago from the range, and allow to cool a little, then pour in the eggs and sugar, beating all the time. Put in a pudding-pan, set in a pan of water, cover, and bake until the custard is set....
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SPONGE PUDDING
SPONGE PUDDING
Put milk into a double boiler. Mix the sugar and flour with a little cold milk; pour this into the scalding milk, and stir till it thickens; then stir it into the well-beaten yolks of the eggs; then add the whites beaten stiff. Pour the mixture into buttered cups or into a pudding dish. Put the cup or dish into a pan of boiling water, place in the oven, and bake twenty minutes. About five minutes before it is done, remove from the pan of water, and finish baking on the grate. Serve in the cups i
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FIG PUDDING
FIG PUDDING
Mix the butter with the corn starch and flour; mix the fig marmalade and the cream; stir in the butter, corn starch, and flour mixture, together with the sugar and the yolks of eggs. Mix well and fold in quickly the well-beaten whites. Pour into a buttered pudding-pan and steam one and one-half hours....
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ADELAIDE PUDDING
ADELAIDE PUDDING
Over the beaten yolks pour a syrup made by boiling the sugar in the water. Add lemon rind and juice, lemon extract, and salt. Beat up well, and mix in slowly the flour and corn starch. Fold in the beaten whites of the eggs, pour into a greased pudding dish, and steam one and one-half hours....
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CEREAL PUDDING
CEREAL PUDDING
Heat milk to boiling and stir in cream of maize or cerealine. Set in double boiler and cook half an hour. Remove from range and stir in the yolks and sugar. Flavor with grated rind and juice of lemon. Pour in a shallow pan, and set within another containing water, and bake till the custard sets. Meringue with the whites. [223] [224]...
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PASTRY DOUGH FOR PIES
PASTRY DOUGH FOR PIES
Chop the butter in the flour, add the water and salt, and without mixing turn upon the board. Roll out and double over three times. Then roll out again and double. Continue this till the crust is smooth; then roll out very thin and roll as for jelly cake. Cut into two pieces, stand each piece on end, and roll out one for the top and the other for the bottom crust....
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SANITAS CHOCOLATE CUSTARD PIE NO. 1
SANITAS CHOCOLATE CUSTARD PIE NO. 1
Save the whites of three of the eggs for meringue; beat together the remainder of the eggs, sugar, and vanilla; dissolve the chocolate in the water and boil for three minutes. When nearly cold, add to the eggs and sugar. Put in pan lined with good pastry and bake; makes two large or three small pies....
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SANITAS CHOCOLATE CUSTARD PIE NO. 2
SANITAS CHOCOLATE CUSTARD PIE NO. 2
Make an ordinary custard pie, flavor with vanilla; put the grated chocolate into a basin on the side of the range, where it will melt, but not burn. When melted, beat into it one egg and sugar to suit the taste. Spread on top of the pie....
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BAKER'S CUSTARD PIE
BAKER'S CUSTARD PIE
Beat the yolks of the eggs to a cream, stir the flour thoroughly into the sugar, and add to the eggs. Then put in the vanilla, nutmeg, and salt; then add well-beaten whites. Mix well and add by degrees the milk that has been scalded and cooled (but not boiled), and turn all into a deep pie-pan, lined with rich paste. Bake from twenty-five to thirty minutes....
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LEMON PIE (SUPERIOR)
LEMON PIE (SUPERIOR)
Put the water and butter into a double boiler and set on the range. Mix the sugar, flour, and corn starch together; grate in the lemon rind, add the juice and beaten yolks of the eggs. When the water in the boiler is scalding hot, stir in the mixture, and cook till of the consistency of cold honey, stirring now and then to ensure even cooking. Remove from the fire; when cool, pour into deep pie tins, lined with good pastry. When done, meringue with the whites of the eggs....
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WASHINGTON CREAM PIE
WASHINGTON CREAM PIE
Beat the yolks of the eggs till very thick; add the sugar, vanilla, and lemon juice. Beat the whites of the eggs very stiff, fold half the whites into the yolk and sugar, then half the flour, then the remainder of the whites and the rest of the flour. Divide this batter into two pie-pans and bake. When cold, split each cake and put in the filling. Put three-fourths of the milk into a double boiler, together with the milk, and set on the range. Beat the eggs very light; add the sugar, flour, and
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APPLE PIE
APPLE PIE
Line a pie-pan with rich paste, sprinkle over the bottom a little flour and sugar. Fill with apples cut in thin slices. The pan should be slightly rounding full. Sprinkle a little flour and sugar, according to the tartness of the fruit. Add two tablespoonfuls of water, and a few small pieces of butter. Moisten the edge of the paste and put on the upper crust, press down the edges, trim, make several perforations in the top to allow the steam to escape, brush the crust with a little milk, and bak
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RHUBARB PIE
RHUBARB PIE
Line a pie plate with paste rolled a little thicker than a dollar. Strip the skin off the rhubarb and cut the stalk into half-inch lengths. Fill the plate an inch deep, and to a quart of rhubarb add a large cup of sugar. Sprinkle a pinch of salt, and a grating of nutmeg on top, with a little flour. Cover with a rich crust and bake in a quick oven until the pie loosens from the dish....
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BLUEBERRY PIE
BLUEBERRY PIE
Line a pie-pan with pie paste. Put in the berries half an inch deep, and to one quart of berries put a teacup of brown sugar; sift a teaspoonful of flour over, a pinch of salt, and a little grated nutmeg. Cover with the top crust, pressing down the edges tightly. Trim and bake in a good oven forty-five minutes. This pie is the typical berry pie. [233] [234]...
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ANGEL CAKE
ANGEL CAKE
Stir the sugar into the whites very lightly and carefully, adding the vanilla, after which add the flour, stirring quickly and lightly. Pour into a bright, clean cake dish, which should not be buttered or lined. Bake at once in a moderate oven about forty minutes. Test it with a broom splint. When done, let it remain in the cake tin, turning it upside down, with the sides resting on two saucers, so that a current of air will pass over and under it....
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SPONGE SHEET
SPONGE SHEET
Use and make the ingredients the same as for Simple Sponge Cake, but bake in a sheet. Before baking, sprinkle a generous quantity of the following mixture on top:— Mix an equal quantity of granulated sugar and chopped almonds and add a small pinch of ground cinnamon. This produces a delicious crust. Bake in a buttered and floured pan, and remove from the pan as soon as done....
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SIMPLE SPONGE CAKE
SIMPLE SPONGE CAKE
To the eggs add sugar, and beat with a wire egg beater till the mixture is thick and light colored. Then add the flour, folding it in gently. Drop by the spoonful in an unbuttered pan, and bake in a moderate oven. When done, invert the pan, letting it rest on cups till the cake is cool, when it can easily be taken out. Thus suspended from the bottom of the pan, the cake is stretched by its own weight, which makes it lighter and more elastic than if left to fall by its weight in cooling. The quan
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FAVORITE SPONGE CAKE
FAVORITE SPONGE CAKE
Sift the flour and sugar four or five times. Beat the whites of the egg to a stiff froth, adding the lemon juice. When half beaten, fold in carefully in regular order the sugar, well-beaten yolks of eggs, and the flour. Bake in a moderate oven....
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NUT SPONGE CAKE
NUT SPONGE CAKE
Beat the yolks of the eggs till thick; boil sugar in water till it spins a thread. Pour this into the yolks, beating all the time till cool. Add the vanilla and lemon extract; mix flour with walnuts; mix all together, and lastly stir in the stiffly-beaten whites. Bake in tins lined with greased paper....
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SPONGE JELLY CAKE
SPONGE JELLY CAKE
Beat the yolks till very thick, add sugar gradually, then the grated rind and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Fold in one-half of the whites of the eggs, beaten very stiff, then one-half of the flour, the other half of the whites, lastly the remainder of the flour. Bake in a large dripping-pan fifteen minutes. Turn onto a cloth, trim the edges, spread the jelly, and roll up. Wrap in the cloth and set aside to cool....
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ALMOND MACAROONS
ALMOND MACAROONS
Beat eggs stiff, add sugar, and beat very stiff; add lemon rind grated; mix and add flour and almond meal. Drop on oiled pans in pieces the size of a walnut, allowing plenty of room between each. Smooth with a knife dipped in water. Bake a light brown. [240]...
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NUT BUTTER
NUT BUTTER
Nut butter can be easily made in the home, but nearly all the prepared nut foods on sale require expensive machinery and a steam plant to produce, hence can not be made in the home. Peanuts and almonds are the nuts most suitable for making nut butter. The other varieties are difficult to blanch and do not make good butter. The best variety of peanuts for making nut butter is the Spanish shelled. They are the most easily blanched. Removing the skins from the nuts after they are shelled is called
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PROCESS NO. 1
PROCESS NO. 1
Put a layer of peanuts about one-half inch deep in a dripping-pan and place on perforated shelf in a moderate oven. Allow them to bake slowly for about one hour. Cook them until they are a light brown or straw color. Shake the pan or stir the peanuts every few minutes. When the kernels begin to crack and pop they brown very quickly and should be watched closely. A splendid way to cook them is to fill a tight-covered dish about two-thirds full, place in the oven, and shake occasionally. When cook
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PROCESS NO. 2
PROCESS NO. 2
Thoroughly heat the nuts in an oven, but do not let them brown. Allow them to cool, then blanch as described in process No. 1. Boil them from three to four hours, until they are tender. Drain, spread out on tins, and thoroughly dry them; then grind them through the mill....
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PROCESS NO. 3
PROCESS NO. 3
Heat and blanch the same as for No. 2. Grind them through a meat chopper or the nut butter mill loosely adjusted. Then cook them in a steam cooker about four hours. When tender, drain, spread on tins, and thoroughly dry them. Then run them through the mill tightly adjusted....
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ALMOND BUTTER
ALMOND BUTTER
Almond butter is more difficult to make than peanut butter, on account of the difficulty in removing the skins. Dry heat does not loosen the skins as it does the peanut. To blanch almonds, soak them in boiling water from two to five minutes; then the skins become loose and can be pinched off by pressing on the nut with the thumb and finger; the skins will crack and the kernel pop out. Dry them in a slow oven until they become thoroughly dry and crisp, taking care not to burn them. Then grind the
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PEANUT MEAL
PEANUT MEAL
Heat the peanuts sufficiently to remove the skins, but do not brown them. Blanch and look over. Boil or steam them until tender, taking care to have them quite dry when done. Drain off all the water possible and put them through a colander. Put on tins suspended over the stove, or in a slow oven, with the door open, taking care not to brown them. When perfectly dry and hard, grind through the mill loosely adjusted. If it is not fine enough, spread out to dry some more, pass through the mill agai
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NUT BUTTER FOR THE TABLE
NUT BUTTER FOR THE TABLE
Put one-half the amount of butter required for the meal into a bowl and dilute with an equal quantity of water, adding a little of the water at a time, beating it thoroughly with a fork until it is smooth and light. Enough water should be used to make it the proper consistency to spread nicely. An egg beater or wire potato masher is an excellent utensil for mixing. A little salt can be added if desired. Nut butter when mixed with water does not keep but a few hours....
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PEANUT CREAM
PEANUT CREAM
Cook the peanuts until they just begin to turn brown. Then make into butter, ground as fine as possible. Emulsify with water until it is the consistency of milk. Then put in double boiler and cook until it has become as thick as ordinary cream. A little salt can be added if desired. Serve it hot or cold as preferred. It can be made into milk by adding a little water. [246] [247] [248]...
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VEGETARIAN RESTAURANTS AND CAFES
VEGETARIAN RESTAURANTS AND CAFES
Vegetarian Cafe , 755 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Vegetarian Restaurant , 44 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, Cal. Vegetarian Restaurant , 317 West Third Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Good Health Restaurant , 616 Third Street, Seattle, Wash. Vegetarian Restaurant , 283 Pitt Street, Sydney, N. S. W. Vegetarian Restaurant , 54 Farrar Street, Detroit, Mich. Vegetarian Restaurant , 607 Locust Street, Des Moines, Ia. Hygeia Dining Rooms , Fifty-eighth Street and Drexel Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Vegetarian R
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DIRECTORY OF SANITARIUMS
DIRECTORY OF SANITARIUMS
Battle Creek Sanitarium , Battle Creek, Mich. Chicago Sanitarium , 28 Thirty-third Place, Chicago, Ill. Pacific Union Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association , Room 203, Parrott Building, 825 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. St. Helena Sanitarium , Sanitarium, Napa County, Cal. San Francisco Branch Sanitarium , 1436 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Sacramento Treatment Rooms , 719½ K Street, Sacramento, Cal. Eureka Branch Sanitarium , Corner Third and J Streets, Eureka, Cal. San Franci
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DIRECTORY OF SANITARIUM FOOD FACTORIES
DIRECTORY OF SANITARIUM FOOD FACTORIES
Battle Creek Sanitarium Food Company , Battle Creek, Mich. Sanitarium Food Company , Sanitarium, Cal. Portland Sanitarium Food Company , West Avenue, Mt. Tabor, Ore. Colorado Sanitarium Food Company , Boulder, Colo. Sanitarium Food Company , 228 Clarence Street, Sydney, N. S. W., Australia. Union College Bakery , College View, Neb....
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