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time required to cook the eggs as desired. 213.—CREAMY EGGS ON TOAST
4 eggs 2 cups hot milk 2/3 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon butter 1/8 teaspoon pepper 4 slices toast

Beat eggs slightly, add salt and pepper, and stir into the hot milk; cook over hot water, stirring constantly until mixture is thick and creamy. Add butter, and serve on toast.

214.—CREOLE EGGS
1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon chopped onion 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon chopped green pepper 3 eggs 2 cups tomato 2 tablespoons cheese

Cook onion and pepper in butter for five minutes; add tomato and seasonings, and when thoroughly heated add the eggs unbeaten; pick up with a fork until eggs are nearly cooked; add cheese, and cook about one minute. Serve on toast, or with a border of boiled rice.

215.—EGGS WITH CHEESE AND SPAGHETTI
2½ tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 4 tablespoons flour ½ teaspoon onion juice 2 cups hot milk ½ cup cheese cut fine ¼ teaspoon paprika 1 cup cooked spaghetti ½ teaspoon salt 3 hard-cooked eggs sliced

Melt butter, add flour; when well blended add milk gradually and stir until smooth; add seasonings and cheese, and stir until cheese melts; add spaghetti and eggs, cook two minutes, and serve on toast or crackers.

216.—EGGS WITH HAM AND TOMATO
½ can tomatoes 3 beaten eggs 1 slice onion 1/8 teaspoon pepper 4 cloves ½ teaspoon salt ½ cup chopped cooked ham

Cook tomatoes, onion, and cloves fifteen minutes, and rub through a sieve; add ham, eggs, and seasonings, and cook three or four minutes, stirring all the time. Serve on toast or crackers.

217.—BREAD OMELET
2 tablespoons bacon fat ½ teaspoon salt ¾ cup soft stale bread crumbs ¼ teaspoon paprika ¾ cup hot milk 3 eggs

Melt fat in frying pan, add bread crumbs, and stir until crumbs begin to brown; add hot milk, and let stand five minutes; add salt and paprika, and the yolks beaten until thick and light; fold in the stiffly beaten whites, pour into a hot greased omelet pan, and cook the same as Light Omelet (see No. 222).

218.—CREAMY OMELET
3 eggs 1/3 teaspoon salt 1 cup White Sauce (see No. 207) 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Beat yolks until thick and light; add to sauce and mix well; add salt and pepper to whites of eggs, beat until stiff and dry, and fold into sauce; pour into a hot greased omelet pan, and cook slowly until well risen and firm; put on oven grate for a minute or two to dry the top; fold, and turn on a hot platter.

219.—FRENCH OMELET
1 tablespoon butter or bacon fat 1/8 teaspoon pepper 4 eggs 1/3 cup hot water ½ teaspoon salt

Heat fat in the omelet pan; beat the eggs until yolks and whites are well mixed, but not light; add seasonings and hot water, pour into hot pan and cook slowly; pick up with fork while cooking, letting the uncooked mixture run into the place of the cooked; when firm and lightly browned, fold double, and serve plain on a hot platter; or spread before folding with left-over bits of meat chopped, such as ham, bacon, or sausage, or with grated cheese or jelly.

220.—FRENCH CHEESE OMELET
4 eggs slightly beaten ½ cup hot water ½ teaspoon salt ½ cup grated cheese 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Mix in order given, pour into a hot greased omelet pan; as mixture thickens, pick up with a fork, letting the uncooked part take the place of the cooked; when firm, fold, and serve on a hot platter.

221.—HAM OMELET
½ cup stale bread crumbs 1/8 teaspoon pepper ½ cup hot milk 3 eggs 1 tablespoon butter ½ cup cooked ham finely chopped ½ teaspoon salt

Mix crumbs, milk, butter, and seasonings, and let stand five minutes; add egg yolks beaten until thick and light; add the meat, and fold in the whites of eggs beaten stiff; pour into a hot greased omelet pan and cook slowly until firm; fold, and serve at once. A white sauce or tomato sauce may be served around it. A few pieces of cooked bacon chopped fine may be used instead of ham.

222.—LIGHT OMELET
1 tablespoon bacon fat 1/8 teaspoon pepper Yolks of 4 eggs 1/3 cup hot water ½ teaspoon salt Whites of 4 eggs

Put fat in omelet pan; beat yolks until light and thick, add seasonings and hot water; fold in the stiffly beaten whites, and pour into the hot omelet pan; cook slowly until well risen and firm, or about twelve minutes, placing the pan on the upper grate in the oven for the last two minutes. When firm in the center, fold double, turn on a hot platter, and serve at once, either plain or with sauce. The omelet must be cooked slowly so that it will be firm throughout, and not fall.

White Sauce (see No. 207), either plain or with bits of cold meat, oysters, peas, or other left-over vegetables, or Brown Sauce (see No. 185) with a few mushrooms or chopped kidneys (see No. 164), or almost any savory sauce, improves an omelet, and also makes it go further.

223.—SALMON OMELET
1 tablespoon butter ½ teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons flour ½ can salmon ½ cup milk 2 eggs

Melt butter, stir in flour, add milk, and stir until smooth; add salt; rinse salmon with hot water; flake, and add to sauce; beat yolks of eggs until light and thick, and add to sauce; fold in whites of eggs beaten very stiff. Pour into a hot greased omelet pan, and cook slowly until well risen and firm; finish cooking on top grate of oven for a minute or two; fold, and serve on a hot platter.

224.—SCALLOPED EGGS WITH CHEESE
4 hard-cooked eggs ½ cup cheese cut fine 2 cups White Sauce (see No. 207) ½ cup Buttered Crumbs (see No. 472)

Cut eggs in eighths lengthwise; put half of them into a greased baking dish, cover with half of sauce, and sprinkle with half of cheese; repeat; cover with crumbs, and bake about fifteen minutes, or until crumbs are brown. Bacon or sausage fat may be used in making the white sauce.

225.—SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH SAUSAGES
4 small sausages ¼ teaspoon salt 3 eggs 1/3 cup water

Cut sausages in half-inch bias pieces, and cook in a frying pan until brown; beat eggs until light, add salt and water, pour over sausages, and scramble until firm. Garnish with toast points and parsley.

226.—SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH TOMATO
½ can condensed tomato soup 4 eggs slightly beaten 1/8 teaspoon soda 6 slices buttered toast

Heat soup in an omelet pan; add soda, and stir while foaming; add eggs, scramble slowly with a fork until firm, and serve on toast. Garnish with toast points.

227.—SHIRRED EGGS

Grease individual egg shirrers or a platter which can be put in oven; cover bottom of dish with white sauce or left-over gravy, sprinkle with left-over vegetables or bits of meat chopped; carefully break an egg into dish for each person, dust with salt and pepper; sprinkle with buttered crumbs, and bake in a moderate oven until egg is set.

228.—SHIRRED EGGS WITH HAM
1 cup finely chopped cooked ham ½ cup Buttered Crumbs (see No. 472) 1 cup soft bread crumbs 4 eggs ½ cup milk Salt and pepper

Mix ham, soft crumbs, and milk, and spread in four buttered egg shirrers; make a hollow in the middle, break an egg into it, season lightly with salt and pepper, cover with buttered crumbs, and bake until egg is set.

229.—SOUFFLÉED EGG WITH HAM TOAST

For each person cut a round of bread three inches in diameter; spread with finely chopped ham moistened with milk, stock, or gravy; add a few grains of salt to the white of an egg, and beat very stiff; mound on ham, make a depression in the center, put in the yolk, dust lightly with salt and pepper, and bake in a moderate oven until egg is firm. When several pieces of toast are to be made, keep the yolks in separate dishes until needed, but beat the whites together.

230.—SHIRRED EGGS WITH POTATO AND HAM

See recipe for Baked Ham and Potato (No. 171).

CHAPTER XII CHEESE AND NUTS 231.—CHEESE CROUSTADES
1½ cups cheese cut fine ¼ teaspoon paprika ¼ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon Brand's A 1 sauce ¼ teaspoon mustard 3 tablespoons milk or cream

Mix in order given; fill Croustades (see No. 473), and put in a hot oven until cheese melts. Serve immediately, before cheese toughens.

232.—CHEESE CUSTARD
1 cup soft bread crumbs ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup cheese cut fine 1/8 teaspoon soda ¼ teaspoon mustard 1 egg slightly beaten ½ teaspoon paprika 1 cup hot milk

Mix in order given, turn into a greased baking dish, and bake in a slow oven twenty-five minutes.

233.—CHEESE FONDUE
½ cup dried bread crumbs 1/3 teaspoon paprika ¾ cup boiling water 1 teaspoon mustard 1 tablespoon butter ½ cup milk 1 cup cheese cut fine Yolks of two eggs 1/3 teaspoon salt Whites of two eggs

Mix in the order given, beating the yolks until thick and light, and the whites until very stiff; pour into a greased baking dish, bake twenty-five minutes in a slow oven, and serve at once.

234.—COTTAGE CHEESE
1 quart thick sour milk ½ tablespoon soft butter 1 quart boiling water 1/3 teaspoon salt

Put milk in a large bowl, add boiling water, and let stand five minutes; pour into cheesecloth bag, and drain over night or for several hours. Mix cheese with butter and salt, press into a small bowl, and chill. A sweet red pepper (canned) may be pressed through a sieve and mixed with cheese.

235.—CRACKERS AND CHEESE BAKED IN MILK

Split butter crackers, spread with butter and grated cheese, sprinkle with salt and pepper, put in a buttered baking dish, cover with milk, and bake about twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

236.—CHEESE PASTE
½ pound American cheese 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce 1 cake cream cheese ¼ teaspoon salt 2 pimientos ¼ cup cream

Chop American cheese and pimientos, using the finest cutter in the food chopper; add cream cheese and seasonings, and blend with cream until smooth.

237.—BAKED RICE WITH CHEESE
2 cups cooked rice 1/8 teaspoon pepper ¾ cup grated cheese ¾ cup hot milk 1/3 teaspoon salt

Arrange rice and cheese in layers in a greased baking dish; sprinkle with salt and pepper, cover with milk, and bake in a moderate oven about fifteen minutes.

238.—SCALLOPED TOAST AND CHEESE
4 slices of toast 1 egg beaten 1 cup cheese cut fine ¼ teaspoon salt 1½ cups milk ¼ teaspoon mustard

Butter toast, cut each slice into four pieces, and arrange in a baking dish in layers sprinkled with cheese; mix milk, egg, and seasonings, pour over toast, and let stand fifteen minutes. Bake in a moderate oven about twenty minutes.

239.—TOMATO RAREBIT
1 can condensed tomato soup ½ pound cheese cut fine ½ cup soft bread crumbs ¼ teaspoon mustard

Heat soup, add bread crumbs, cheese, and mustard; stir until cheese melts, and serve on toast or crackers.

240.—WELSH RAREBIT
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