The quantities given here can be doubled, and the carrots cooked in
a large baking dish as an addition to the main course of a luncheon
or dinner.
GLAZED CARROTS
For this, the carrots must be cut into even cones or ovals, and it
is convenient to use the imported carrots in glass bottles. If these
are used they are already boiled; if fresh carrots are used scrape
and wash them and cut out the little shapes with a patent cutter,
then boil slowly until tender, but not quite done, and put 2 or 3 cups
of them in a frying pan with 2 tablespoons of butter, which has been
melted, sprinkle with fine sugar, and stir over a hot fire until they
begin to brown; then add 2 tablespoons of the stock they boiled in,
continue to stir them, add more stock if needed, and continue stirring
until the carrots are nicely glazed. Serve alone or as a garnish.
CARROTS DELMONICO
Scrape and cut in dice enough carrots to fill a small baking dish;
cover with boiling water in which is 1 tablespoon of sugar, and
1 tablespoon of butter, and let cook for half an hour, or until
tender. Drain and let them cool, and then arrange them in the baking
dish with the following sauce: Melt 3 tablespoons of butter, add 3
tablespoons of flour, and when this is smooth stir into it, using a
little at a time, 1 cup of the stock in which the carrots were cooked,
1/2 cup of cream or milk containing the beaten yolks of 2 eggs;
when smooth add 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice, and salt and pepper
well. Sprinkle the top with finely rolled crumbs and let brown in
the oven.
CARROT SOUFFLÉ
Mix 2 cups of boiled, mashed carrots, 2 tablespoons of chopped onion,
fried for five minutes in 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 cup of milk
or cream in which 3 egg-yolks are beaten, 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg,
salt and pepper, and when well blended add lightly with a fork the
stiffly beaten whites of the 3 eggs. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and
bake to brown about fifteen or twenty minutes.
CAULIFLOWER
Leave all the green that looks fresh and palatable on the cauliflower,
and wash it and let it stand from fifteen minutes to half an hour in
salted water. Then put it in a saucepan, stem downwards, with the
top barely covered with boiling water, and, if the saucepan is not
too large, it will keep the cauliflower upright, so that the delicate
top will not cook to pieces before the green stalk is tender. A small
cauliflower will take half an hour to cook, and the lower part can
be tried with a fork to see when it is tender. Leave the saucepan
uncovered in cooking cauliflower, and the odour from the cooking will
be very much lessened and the cauliflower more delicate in taste.
CREAMED CAULIFLOWER
Boil and drain a cauliflower and serve over it 1 cup of white sauce.
CAULIFLOWER AU GRATIN
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