A little cook book for a little girlBenton, Caroline French
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A little cook book for a little girl
Benton, Caroline French
Cooking -- Juvenile literature
Mix all together. Have a hot frying-pan, and in it put a
tablespoonful of butter or nice fat, and when it bubbles shake it
all around the pan. Put in the hash and cook it till dry, stirring
it often and scraping it from the bottom of the pan. When none of
the soup or water runs out when you lift a spoonful, and when it
seems steaming hot, you can send it to the table in a hot dish,
with parsley around it. Or you can let it cook without stirring
till there is a nice brown crust on the bottom, when you can
double it over as you would an omelette. Or you can make a pyramid
of the hash in the middle of a round platter, and put poached eggs
in a circle around it.
Many people like one small cold boiled beet cut up fine in corned
beef hash, and sometimes for a change you can put this in before
you put it in the frying-pan.
Broiled Bacon
Margaret's mother believed there was only one very nice way to
cook bacon. It was like this: Slice the bacon very, very thin,
and cut off the rind. Put the slices close together in a wire
broiler, and lay this over a shallow pan in a very hot oven for
about three minutes. If it is brown on top, then you can turn the
broiler over, but if not, wait a moment longer. When both sides
are toasted, lay it on a hot platter and put sprigs of parsley
around. This is much nicer than bacon cooked in the frying-pan
or over coals, for it is neither greasy nor smoky, but pink and
light brown, and crisp and delicious, and good for sick people
and little children and everybody.
Broiled Chops
Wipe off the chops with a clean wet cloth and trim off the edges;
if very fat cut rather close to the meat. Rub the wire broiler
with some of the fat, so that the chops will not stick. Lay in
the chops and put over a clear, red fire without flame, and toast
one side first and then the other; do this till they are brown.
Lay on a hot platter, and dust both sides with salt and a tiny bit
of pepper. Put bits of lemon and parsley around, and send to the
table hot.
Panned Chops
If the fire is not clear so that you cannot broil the chops, you
must pan them. Take a frying-pan and make it very hot indeed; then
lay in the chops, which you have wiped and trimmed, and cook one
side very quickly, and then the other, and after that let them cook
more slowly. When they are done,--you can tell by picking open
a little place in one with a fork and looking on the inside,--put
them on a platter as before, with pepper and salt. If they are
at all greasy, put on brown paper in the oven first, to drain,
leaving the door of the oven open. Be careful not to let them
get cold.
Liver and Bacon
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