World's Fair Souvenir Cook Book - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...add first the yolks and then the whites, turn the mixture into a baking-dish, and bake in a quick oven until a nice brown. CORN FRITTERS Score twelve ears of sweet corn and press out the pulp. Add to it a half-cup of milk, the same quantity of flour, and three eggs well-beaten. Season with salt and pepper. Fry in smoking hot lard or drippings. Brown on one side, then turn and brown the other. Drain on brown paper, and serve very hot. LADY'S CABBAGE Put one quart of chopped white cabbage in a kettle of boiling water, add a teaspoonful of salt, and boil twenty minutes, drain, turn into a heated dish, pour over Cream Sauce, and serve. Delicious. More delicate than cauliflower. COLD SLAW Put one quart of finely cut cabbage into a bowl. Put two lablespoonfuls of vinegar in a saucepan to boil. Beat two eggs until light, add to them a half-cup of sour cream and an ounce of butter. Stir this into the vinegar and cook until boiling hot and slightly thickened, add salt and pepper, pour over the cabbage, mix, dish and stand aside until cold. Sweet milk may be used in the place of the sour cream, but the dressing is not so rich. TO BOIL SWEET CORN Husk the corn just before the time of boiling. Have a large kettle full of boiling water, throw in the corn and boil five minutes after it begins to boil, and serve immediately on a corn cloth. Do not salt the water in which it is boiled. CAULIFLOWER Trim off the outside leaves of a nice fresh cauliflower, tie it in a piece of cheese-cloth, and put it into well salted boiling water; boil for twenty or thirty minutes. Be careful to take it out as soon as tender, or it will fall into pieces Serve either with Drawn Butter or Cream Sauce. CAULIFLOWER au GRATIN Boil as in preceding recipe. Drain and separate the...