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 Hash of Corned Beef.=—Chop the meat very fine, fat and lean
together; add twice as much cold potatoes chopped fine. For each
tumblerful of this add butter half the size of a hen’s egg melted in
half a tea-cup of hot water, a salt-spoonful of pepper and another of
salt. Heat very hot, but do not let it fry. Some would add parsley or
other sweet herb.
=A Hash of Cold Ham.=—Chop, not very fine, fat and lean together.
Add twice the quantity of bread-crumbs chopped, but not fine. Heat
it hot, then break in two eggs for every tumblerful of the hash. A
tea-spoonful of sugar improves it, and a salt-spoonful of pepper.
=Meats warmed over.=—Veal is best made into hashes. If it is liked
more simply cooked, chop it fine, put in water just enough to moisten
it, butter, salt, pepper, and a little juice of a lemon. Some like a
little lemon-rind grated in. Heat it through, but do not let it fry.
Put it on buttered toast, and garnish it with slices of lemon.
Cold salted or fresh beef is good chopped fine with pepper, salt,
and catsup, and water enough to moisten a little. Add some butter
just before taking it up, and do not let it fry, only heat it hot. It
injures cooked meat to cook it again. Cold fowls make a nice dish to
have them cut up in mouthfuls; add some of the gravy and giblet sauce,
a little butter and pepper, and then heat them through.
=A nice Way of Cooking Cold Meats.=—Chop the meat fine, add salt,
pepper, a little onion, or else tomato catsup; fill a tin bread-pan
one third full, cover it over with boiled potatoes salted and mashed
with cream or milk, lay bits of butter on the top, and set it into a
Dutch or stove oven for fifteen or twenty minutes.
=A Hash of Cold Meat for Dinner=, (very good.)—Peel six large tomatoes
and one onion, and slice them. Add a spoonful of sugar, salt and
pepper, and a bit of butter the size of a hen’s egg, and half a pint
of cold water. Shave up the meat into small bits, as thin as thick
pasteboard. Dredge flour over it, say two tea-spoonfuls, or a little
less. Simmer the meat with all the rest for _half an hour_ and then
serve it, and it is very fine.
Dried tomatoes can be used. When you have no tomatoes, make a gravy
with water, pepper, salt, and butter, or cold gravy; slice an onion in
it, add tomato catsup, (two or three spoonfuls,) and then prepare the
meat as above, and simmer it in this gravy _half an hour_.
=Souse.=—Cleanse pigs’ ears and feet and soak them a week in salt and
water, changing the water every other day. Boil eight or ten hours
till tender. When cold, put on salt, and pour on hot spiced vinegar.
Warm them in lard or butter.
=Tripe.=—Scrape and scour it thoroughly, soak it in salt and water a
week, changing it every other day. Boil it eight or ten hours, till
tender; then pour on spiced hot vinegar and broil it.
CHAPTER VI.
BOILED MEATS.
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