Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness — John Shaqi
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
=Broiled Ham.=—Cut in _thin_ slices, and soak fifteen minutes in hot
water. Pour off this and soak again as long. Wipe dry and broil over
a quick fire, and then pepper it. Ham that is already cooked rare is
best for broiling.
=Broiled Sweet-breads.=—The best way to cook sweet-breads is to broil
them thus: Parboil them, and then put them on a clean gridiron for
broiling. When delicately browned, take them off and roll in melted
butter on a plate, to prevent their being dry and hard. Some cook them
on a griddle well buttered, turning frequently; and some put narrow
strips of fat salt pork on them while cooking.
=Broiled Veal.=—Cut it thin, and put thin slices of salt pork on the
top after it is laid on the gridiron, and broil both together. When
turning, put the pork again on the top. When the veal is thoroughly
cooked, brown the pork a little by itself, while the veal stands on a
hot dish.
=A good Pork Relish.=—Broil thin slices of fresh pork, first pouring
on boiling water to lessen saltness. Cut them in small mouthfuls, and
add butter, pepper, and salt.
FRIED MEATS AND RELISHES.
The most slovenly and unhealthful mode of cooking is frying, as it
usually is done. If the fat is very hot, and the articles are put in
and taken out exactly at the right time, it is well enough. But fried
fat is hard to digest, and most fried food is soaked with it, so that
only a strong stomach can digest it. Almost every thing that is fried
might be better cooked on a griddle slightly oiled. A griddle should
always be oiled only just enough to keep from sticking. It is best to
fry in lard not salted, and this is better than butter. Mutton and beef
suet are good for frying. When the lard seems hot, try it by throwing
in a bit of bread. When taking up fried articles, drain off the fat on
a wire sieve.
=A nice Way of Cooking Calf’s or Pig’s Liver.=—Cut in slices half an
inch thick, pour on boiling water, and then pour if off _entirely_;
then let the liver brown in its own juices, turning it till it looks
brown on both sides. Take it up, and pour into the frying-pan enough
cold water to make as much gravy as you wish; then sliver in a _very_
little onion; add a little salt and nutmeg, and a bit of butter to
season it; let it boil up once, then put back the liver for a minute
longer.
=Beef Liver.=—Cut it in slices half an inch thick, pour boiling water
on it, broil it with thin slices of pork dipped in flour, cut it in
mouthfuls, and heat it with butter, pepper, and salt for three or four
minutes.
=Egg Omelet.=—Beat the yolks of six eggs, and add a cup of milk,
half a tea-spoonful of salt, and a pinch of pepper. Pour into hot
fat, and cook till just stiffened. Turn it on to a platter brown
side uppermost. Some add minced cooked ham, or cold meat chopped and
salted. Others put in chopped cauliflower or asparagus cooked and cold.
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