COCOANUT DROPS. MRS. DR. FISHER.
Grate the white part of a cocoanut, the whites of four eggs (well
beaten), one-half pound of sifted sugar. Flavor with lemon or rose.
Mix as thick as can be stirred. Make in balls, putting them about one
inch apart on paper on baking tins. Put into a quick oven; take out
when they begin to look yellow.
COTTAGE PUDDING
Beat the yolk of one egg, add one cup of granulated
sugar, one-half cup of milk, one and one-half cups of flour in two
spoons of baking powder, stir in the white of one egg beaten stiff. Bake
in a moderate oven.
~OYSTERS A LA POULETTE
One quart oysters, four level tablespoons
butter, four level tablespoons flour, one-half level teaspoon salt,
one-fourth level teaspoon celery salt, one-half cup oysters liquor, one
cup each of chicken stock and milk, juice one-half lemon. Look over the
oysters, heat quickly to the boiling point, then drain and strain the
liquor through cheesecloth. Melt the butter, add the flour, salt and
celery salt, and when blended add the oyster liquor, chicken stock and
milk, stirring until thick and smooth. Cook for five minutes, then add
the oysters and lemon juice, and serve at once.
Serves 4
This is fried chicken in its simplest form. It’s good enough so that the last time I made it, the grandchildren were making off with pieces almost as fast as I could cook them. Frank’s daughter Anne Oliviero particularly recommends basic fried chicken served cold the next day for picnics. She and her family love to explore some of the islands off the coast of Maine, where they live, and cold fried chicken is just about always on the menu.
1/3 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt or to taste
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper or to taste
1 chicken cut in serving pieces
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
In a large plastic bag combine flour with salt and pepper. Shake chicken in bag with mixture. In a large, deep skillet over medium heat, melt shortening. Cook chicken uncovered, heat for 20 to 30 minutes on each side or until cooked through.
Chicken Recipes - The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
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Serves 4
Recipes don’t get much easier on the cook than this. Anne Nesbit developed it for Perdue Farms. One of her jobs as a Perdue home economist was to translate some of the world’s most successful recipes into ones that were both easy to assemble and quick to prepare. “I’m an admirer of simple recipes,” says Anne. “My heart was in this work because I believed in it. People want food that looks good and tastes good, but they don’t have time to put a lot of work into getting there.” I’ve never met Anne, except over the phone, but from this comment, I know I would like her. The recipe isn’t fancy, and it may be old-fashioned, but it’s a treasure when you’re in a hurry.
1 chicken, cut in serving pieces
dehydrated onion soup mix
Preheat oven to 350oF. Roll chicken in dry soup mix, using about as much mix as you would salt. Place chicken in a single layer, skin side up, on baking sheet. Bake, uncovered for 55 to 65 minutes until cooked through.
Chicken Recipes - The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
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HARICOT BEANS
Soak the haricots over night, if possible; if not, at least for two or three hours. Put them on in plenty of cold water seasoned with salt and an onion, and boil them steadily for three hours. Strain the water off, put them into a vegetable dish, and pour over them some parsley butter sauce. Haricot beans are the most nutritious of all pulse foods, and are a particularly good food for people who work in the open air. They are very nice eaten alone or served with meat. They make an exceedingly delicious dish if boiled for two hours and then put into a nice brown gravy and simmered for about an hour. Serve in the gravy with roast mutton.
BREAKFAST MEAT
1 lb. Cold Meat—3d.
2 oz. Macaroni—1 1/2d.
Pepper and Salt
3 Tomatoes
1/2 gill Stock
Bread Crumbs—1d.
Total Cost—51/2 d.
Time—Half an Hour
Mince up the meat, or any remains of cold hash or mince will do. If there is any cold macaroni it can be used; if not, boil some by directions given, and slice up the tomatoes. Butter a dish in which it can be cooked and served. Place at the bottom a layer of meat, then one of macaroni, then one of tomatoes, season with pepper and salt, and continue this in layers until all the materials are used up. Sprinkle a few bread crumbs on the top, put into the oven, and bake for half an hour. Serve hot.
DEVILED CHICKEN
Split the chickens down the back and broil until
done, lay on a hot dripping pan and spread on a sauce, scatter fine
crumbs over and set in a quick oven to brown. For the sauce beat a
rounding tablespoon of butter light with one-half teaspoon of mixed
mustard, one teaspoon of vinegar and a pinch of cayenne.
RAISED DOUGHNUTS
Scald one cup of milk.
When lukewarm add one-quarter
of a yeast cake dissolved in one-quarter of a cup of lukewarm water, one
teaspoon salt and flour enough to make a stiff batter.
Let it rise over
night.
In the morning add one-third of a cup of shortening (butter and
lard mixed), one cup light brown sugar, two eggs well beaten, one-half
nutmeg grated and enough flour to make a stiff dough.
Let it rise again,
toss on floured board, pat and roll out.
Shape with the biscuit cutter
and work between the hands until round.
Place on the floured board, let
rise one hour, turn and let rise again.
Fry in deep fat and drain on
brown paper.
Cool and roll in powdered sugar.
SCOTCH COLLOPS
1 lb. Lean Steak—2 1/2d.
1 gill Stock
Pepper and Salt
1 oz. Butter—1d.
Quarter of an Onion
Small Sippets of Toast—1d.
Total Cost—41/2 d.
Time—One Hour
Remove all the fat, and cut the meat into very thin and small dice, mince up the onion very finely. Mix together, season with some pepper and salt, and put into a saucepan with the butter. Stir it about for five minutes, then pour on the stock, bring to the boil, and simmer for one hour. Arrange neatly on a hot dish, and put the sippets of toast round.