Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Cooking; Home economics
=A Simple and Excellent Veal Hash.=—Chop cold veal very fine; butter a
pudding-dish, and make alternate layers of veal and powdered crackers
till the dish is full, the first layer of meat being at the bottom.
Then beat up two eggs, and add a pint or less of milk, seasoned well
with salt and pepper, and two or three spoonfuls of melted butter.
Pour this over the meat and crackers; cover with a plate, and bake
about half an hour. Remove the plate awhile, and let the top brown a
little. This is the best way to cook veal, and children are very fond
of it.
=Rice and Cold Meats.=—Chop remnants of fresh meats with salt pork, or
cold ham. Season with salt and pepper and a little sugar; add two eggs
and a little butter. Then make alternate layers with this and slices
of cold boiled rice, and bake it half an hour.
=Bread-Crumbs and Cold Meats.=—Take any remnants of cooked fresh
meats, and chop them fine with bits of ham or salt pork. Season with
salt and pepper; add three eggs and a little milk, and then thicken
with pounded bread-crumbs. Bake it as a pudding, or warm it for a
hash, or cook it in flat cakes on a griddle.
=A Meat Hash with Bread-Crumbs.=—One tea-spoonful of flour, (or potato
or corn-starch,) wet in four tea-spoonfuls of cold water. Stir it
into a tea-cupful of boiling water, and put in a salt-spoonful of
pepper, two tea-spoonfuls of salt, a tea-spoonful of sugar, and two
table-spoonfuls of sweet butter. Use cold gravy instead of butter, if
you have it. Set this in a stew-pan where it will be kept hot, but not
fry. Chop the meat very fine, and mix with it while chopping half as
much dried bread-crumbs. Put this into the gravy, and let it heat only
ten minutes, and then serve it on buttered toast. Tomatoes, one or
two, improve this.
=A Hash of Cold Beefsteak alone or with Potatoes and Turnips.=—Make
a paste with a heaping tea-spoonful of flour in two tea-spoonfuls
of water. Stir it into a tea-cup and a half of boiling water, with
a salt-spoonful of black pepper, a half tea-spoonful of sugar, and
two tea-spoonfuls of salt. Let it stand where it will be hot but not
boil. Cut the beef into mouthfuls, and also as much cold boiled
potatoes and half as much boiled turnips. Mix all, and then add two
table-spoonfuls of butter, (or some cold gravy,) and a table-spoonful
of tomato catsup, or two sliced tomatoes. Warm, but do not fry, for
ten minutes.
When beef gravy is used, take less salt and pepper.
This is a good recipe for cold beef without vegetables.
=A Hash of Cold Mutton (or Venison) and Vegetables.=—Prepare as in the
preceding recipe, but add one onion sliced fine, to hide the strong
mutton taste. If onion is left out, put in a wine-glass of grape or
currant jelly. If the vegetables are left out, put in a little less
pepper and salt.
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