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
When Margaret found a cupful of tomato in the refrigerator, she
would take that, add a half-teaspoonful of salt, two shakes of
pepper, and a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, and simmer it all
on the fire for five minutes; then she would cook half a teaspoonful
of minced onion in the butter in the hot frying-pan as before,
and turn in the eggs, and when they were beginning to grow firm, put
in the tomato. In summer-time she often cut up two fresh tomatoes
and stewed them down to a cupful, instead of using the canned.
Scrambled Eggs with Chicken
Chop fine a cup of cold chicken, or any light-colored meat, and
heat it with a tablespoonful of water, a half-teaspoonful of salt,
two shakes of pepper, and a teaspoonful of chopped parsley.
Cook a half-teaspoonful of minced onion in the butter you put in
the hot frying-pan, and turn in the eggs, and when they set mix in
the chicken.
Sometimes Margaret used both the tomato filling and the chicken in
the eggs, when she wanted to make a large dish.
Creamed Eggs
Cook six eggs twenty minutes, and while they are on the fire make
a cup of white sauce, as before: one tablespoonful of butter,
melted, one of flour, one cup of hot milk, a little salt; cook
till smooth. Peel the eggs and cut the whites into pieces as large as
the tip of your finger, and put the yolks through the potato-ricer.
Mix the eggs white with the sauce, and put in a hot dish, with the
yellow yolks over the top. Or, put the whites on pieces of toast,
which you have dipped in part of the white sauce, and put the yolks
on top, and serve on a small platter.
Another nice way to cream eggs is this: Cook them till hard,
and cut them all up into bits. Make the white sauce, and into it
stir the beaten yolk of one egg, just after taking it from the fire.
Mix the eggs with this, and put in a hot dish or on toast.
You can sprinkle grated cheese over this sometimes, for a change.
Creamed Eggs in Baking-Dishes
Cut six hard-boiled eggs up into bits, mix with a cup of white sauce,
and put in small baking-dishes which you have buttered. Cover over
with fine, sifted bread-crumbs, and dot with bits of butter, about
four to each dish, and brown in the oven. Stick a bit of parsley
in the top of each, and put each dish on a plate, to serve.
Birds' Nests
Sometimes when she wanted something very pretty for breakfast,
Margaret used this rule:
Open six eggs, putting the whites together in one large bowl, and
the yolks in six cups on the kitchen table. Beat the whites till
they are stiff, putting in half a teaspoonful of salt just at the
last. Divide the whites, putting them into six patty-pans, or small
baking-dishes. Make a little hole or nest in the middle of each,
and slip one yolk carefully from the cup into the place. Sprinkle
a little salt and pepper over them, and put a bit of butter on top,
and put the dishes into a pan and set in the oven till the egg-whites
are a little brown.
Omelette
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