Foods that will win the war and how to cook them (1918)Goudiss, C. Houston (Charles Houston)
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Foods that will win the war and how to cook them (1918)
Goudiss, C. Houston (Charles Houston)
Cooking, American; Food conservation; Menus
Cook slowly, covered, for 1/2 hour. Add 1 pint of boiling milk and 1
dozen water crackers.
BAKED FINNAN HADDIE
1/2 cup each of milk and water, boiling hot
1 fish
Pour over fish. Let stand, warm, 25 minutes. Pour off. Dot with fat
and bake 25 minutes. One tablespoon chopped parsley on top.
FISH CROQUETTES
1 cup of cooked fish
1-1/2 cups mashed potato
1 tablespoon parsley
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Shape as croquette and bake in a moderate oven 25 minutes.
CLAMS A LA BECHAMEL
1 cup chopped clams
1-1/2 cups milk
1 bay leaf
3 tablespoons fat
3 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Yolks of 2 eggs
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
Scald bay-leaf in milk. Make sauce, by melting fat with flour; add dry
ingredients, and gradually add the liquid. Add egg. Add fish. Put in
baking dish. Cover top with breadcrumbs. Bake 20 minutes.
SCALLOPED SHRIMPS
1/4 cup fat
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
1 cup cooked shrimps
1/2 cup cheese
1/2 cup celery stalk
1 cup milk
Melt fat, add dry ingredients, and gradually the liquid. Then add fish
and cheese. Bring to boiling point and serve.
ESCALLOPED SALMON
1 large can salmon
1/2 doz. soda crackers
2 cups thin white sauce
Salt, pepper
1 hard-boiled egg
Alternate layers of the salmon and the crumbled crackers in a
well-greased baking dish, sprinkling each layer with salt, pepper,
the finely chopped hard-boiled egg, and bits of butter or butter
substitute, moistening with the white sauce. Finish with a layer of
the fish, sprinkling it with the cracker crumbs dotted with butter.
Bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes, or until the top is well
browned.
Fish for Frying.--Brook trout, black bass, cod steaks, flounder
fillet, perch, pickerel, pompano, smelts, whitefish steak, pike,
weakfish, tilefish.
Fish for Boiling.--Cod, fresh herring, weakfish, tilefish, sea bass,
pickerel, red snapper, salt and fresh mackerel, haddock, halibut,
salmon, sheepshead.
Fish for Baking.--Black bass, bluefish, haddock, halibut, fresh
mackerel, sea bass, weakfish, red snapper, fresh salmon, pickerel,
shad, muskellunge.
Fish for Broiling.--Bluefish, flounder, fresh mackerel, pompano,
salmon steak, black bass, smelts, sea bass steaks, whitefish steaks,
trout steaks, shad roe, shad (whole).
CHEESE AS A MEAT SUBSTITUTE
CHEESE AND BREAD RELISH
2 cups of stale breadcrumbs
1 cup of American cheese, grated
2 teaspoons of salt
1/8 teaspoon of pepper
2 cups of milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons of fat
Mix well. Bake in a greased dish in moderate oven for 25 minutes.
WELSH RAREBIT
1 cup of cheese
1 cup of milk
1/4 teaspoon of mustard
1/8 teaspoon of pepper
2 tablespoons of flour
1 teaspoon of fat
1 teaspoon of salt
1 egg
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