=Stuffed Vine Leaves or Dolmas.=--Choose tender vine leaves and scald
them, after which roll a little of the following stuffing in each leaf,
making it round and firm so that the stuffing will not come out when the
balls are boiled. Chop three onions, put a teacupful of good salad oil
in a stewing-pan, and, when it is boiling hot, throw in the chopped
onion. As soon as this begins to cook, add a small cupful of Carolina
rice, some chopped parsley and mint, salt and pepper and a tablespoonful
of currants and mix well on the fire till the rice begins to brown.
Then take a vine leaf in your left hand and wrong side upward and put a
little of this prepared rice into it. Put some of the coarse vine leaves
at the bottom of the paper bag and arrange each little ball beside its
neighbor, packing them rather tightly. When this is done, put in
sufficient water just to cover the dolmas, add a little oil, seal the
bag and bake till the rice is soft and the water is all absorbed. This
is a very delicate and characteristic dish, but will be a failure if the
vine leaves are not tender or the oil is rancid. Serve with lemon.
CHAPTER XVIII.
WARM BREADS, BISCUITS, MUFFINS, ETC.
=Baking Powder Bread.=--SIFT together, five times over, four quarts of
flour, six rounded teaspoonfuls baking powder and four level
teaspoonfuls salt. Have the oven quite hot. Add to the sifted flour
enough milk and water in nearly equal proportions, to make a moist, not
wet, dough, stiff enough to handle, then divide into four portions,
mould lightly into shape and put into brick shaped pans. Brush over the
tops with milk, put into bags and bake an hour.
=Bannocks.=--Sift together one pint of corn meal, one tablespoonful of
sugar and a teaspoonful of salt. Pour over the mixture enough milk or
milk and water to moisten. Let stand until cool, then add three
well-beaten eggs, spread half an inch thick in well-greased bag. Seal
and bake in hot oven. Cut into squares, split and serve hot and
well-buttered.
=Baking Powder Biscuits.=--Sift together three times over one quart of
flour, two rounded teaspoonfuls baking powder, and a teaspoonful of
salt. Rub in with the tips of the fingers one rounding tablespoonful
vegetable shortening or butter, and when the flour feels mealy, add
slowly a cup and a half of milk or milk and water mixed. Mix lightly
with little handling, turn out on board, roll into a sheet half an inch
in thickness, stamp out with small round cutter and lay in greased bag.
Brush the top of each biscuit with milk. Seal and bake twenty minutes in
a very hot oven.
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