Remove the pimentos from the can, and with a sharp knife cut them
open on one side and open them out. Arrange the flat pieces thus made
on a large plate or board, with the inner part up, and spread with
finely chopped onion, sprinkle with salt and celery salt, and roll
into firm rolls. Place these in a well-buttered tin, add a little hot
water, cover, and set in a hot oven for ten minutes; then uncover,
add 1 tablespoon of butter, and when it melts baste the pimentos with
it. Let them cook five minutes more, and serve with the melted butter
poured over them, or with parsley butter.
PIMENTOS WITH OKRA
Split the pimentos with a sharp knife, salt the inner part, then
roll each around a pod of freshly boiled or canned okra. Place in a
well-buttered pan, add a little hot water, and let cook ten minutes
covered, and five uncovered. Add more butter during the last five
minutes, baste the rolls, and serve with the butter poured over them,
or with tomato sauce.
PIMENTOS WITH TOMATO
Lay the large flat pimentos from a can on a platter, and slide into
each a slice of tomato which has been sprinkled with salt and celery
salt. Fry in a covered pan for five minutes, and serve plain or with
caper sauce.
POTATOES
Between the good cooks who contend that a potato is never properly
"boiled" if it is boiled at all, and those who either cook potatoes
in a steamer, or put them in cold water which is carefully watched to
see that it does not actually boil, cooking thus until the potatoes
are tender, and those who drop them into rapidly boiling salted
water, letting them boil hard until done, there is wide latitude for
individual preference. I would advise those who do not have potatoes
served on the table which are white and floury and thoroughly cooked
through, to see that one of the above-mentioned ways of cooking
potatoes is carried out in their kitchens. Potatoes put in boiling
water, or put in a covered steamer over rapidly boiling water, will
cook in from twenty minutes to half an hour, the time depending, of
course, upon the size and age of the potatoes; they should always be
carefully scrubbed and cooked in their skins, and peeled afterwards.
MASHED POTATOES
Having boiled or steamed the required number of potatoes, peel them as
expeditiously as possible and break them up in a hot saucepan; mash and
then beat them vigorously with a wooden spoon or a fork, add a generous
piece of butter, dredge with salt and a little pepper, and beat them
until they are light; then moisten slightly with a very little hot
milk or cream, beat them for a moment more, and serve very hot.
POTATO SOUFFLÉ
Put into a saucepan 3 or 4 cups of warm mashed potato and 1 tablespoon
butter. Add the yolks of 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons cream (or milk), salt
and pepper, and stir over fire until well mixed. Remove from the fire
and add the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Heap in a buttered baking
dish and let brown on the top in the oven.
MASHED POTATO SOUFFLÉ IN CASES
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