=Chicken Croquettes.=--To one solid cupful of meat chopped as fine as
powder, add one half teaspoonful of salt, and a half saltspoonful of
white pepper. Make a pint of thick cream sauce, allowing to two level
tablespoonfuls of butter, two heaping tablespoonfuls of cornstarch
cooked together diluted with a pint of hot milk or cream and stirred and
cooked until smooth and thick. Season with salt and pepper and add
enough to the chicken to make stiff enough to handle when cold. When
cold shape into balls, roll in fine, dry bread crumbs and beaten egg
diluted with a little water, then crumb again and place in well-greased
bag. Seal and cook ten minutes.
=Mock Fried Oysters.=--To two cupfuls cold boiled rice, add one tin of
sardines, from which all bone and skin have been removed. Roll this
coarse paste into flat, circular cakes, put into well-greased bag and
bake fifteen minutes in moderate oven.
=Turkey Croquettes.=--Chop the fragments of turkey or other left over
meats very fine, adding for seasoning a small portion of bologna, ham or
tongue together with a bit of fine minced onion or onion juice, salt,
pepper and parsley. Make a thick cream sauce, allowing for a pint of the
chopped and seasoned meat the following portions:
Put into a saucepan a heaping tablespoonful butter and two level
tablespoonfuls of flour. As soon as blended, pour in a cupful of hot
milk stirring until thick and smooth. Salt to taste. Add the meat and
beat until well mixed.
Season more highly if desired, then set away in a cold place until cold
and stiffened. Form into cones. Dip in beaten egg, roll in fine crumbs
and place in a cold place again until quite dry. Bake in well-greased
bag and stick a little sprig of parsley in the end of each cone before
serving.
=Edinboro Hot Pot.=--You will need for this one pound of cold meat
sliced and browned in sweet drippings, one large onion sliced and
browned in the same drippings, a half tin of tomatoes, a half dozen cold
boiled or baked potatoes sliced and a little good stock made from the
bones and seasoning. Put a layer of meat in the well-greased bag or in
one of the oval wood cookery dishes made specially for the purpose. On
top of the meat put some of the onions, tomatoes and potatoes. Season
with salt, pepper and butter or vegetable shortening and pour over all
about a cupful of good stock. Seal the bag and bake for a half hour in
a moderate oven.
=Individual Meat Pies.=--Chop fine any cold cooked meat. Season highly
with mustard, pepper sauce and catsup, salt and pepper; add one egg;
moisten with liquor of oysters. Make a rich biscuit crust, roll out to a
quarter of an inch thickness, and cut in squares. Fill half of each
square with one tablespoonful of the prepared meat. Fold remaining half
of square over, first moistening edges with oyster liquor, and press
closely together. Put in buttered bag and bake twenty minutes in hot
oven, reducing the heat after the first ten minutes.
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