Home › Some Kitchen Kinks › Some Kitchen Kinks: Slip
Some Kitchen Kinks: Slip
Slip little paper frills on the bones, and serve with a spoon of green peas.
A delicious way to cook chops for an invalid is to broil them inside paper cases. Make an envelope of thick glazed note paper and rub it with butter. Slip the chop inside. Fold the paper so there are two sheets covering the meat, put the little case between the wires of the broiler and move about over a clear, hot fire. If it is turned quickly and often, there will be no danger of the paper taking fire. A chop ought to cook in this fashion in five or eight minutes.
It is constantly basted in the butter and its own juices, and is very sweet and tender. Turn out onto a hot plate, being careful that all the gravy is saved. Chicken or birds may be cooked in the same fashion.
Creamed Asparagus. - Wash a few stalks of asparagus and cut off the white part. Divide the tender green portion into pieces an inch long.
Cook in boiling salted water until tender. Arrange on a piece of buttered toast, seasoning with pepper and salt, and pour a little melted butter over it. If the invalid desires, a few tablespoonfuls of white sauce may be used instead of the butter.
Gum-gluten Biscuits.-1 cupful of self-raising gum gluten; dash of salt; 1 tablespoonful of butter; milk.
Sift the dry ingredients, rub the butter into the flour, and add enough milk to make a soft dough. Roll it out, cut into little biscuits, and bake quickly.
Bran Muffins.-l cupful of Hours 2 cupfuls of bran; 1 teaspoonful of soda; 3 tablespoonfuls of molasses; 4 tablespoonfuls of butter; 1½ cupfuls of sour milk; dash of salt.
Mix the dry ingredients, rub the butter between the fingers, add the molasses and sour milk; beat hard for five minutes. Pour into greased, hot pop-over irons, and bake in a quick oven.
Raw-beef Sandwiches. - Meat is often served in this fashion to a patient whose stomach will not retain it when cooked. Take about 2 tablespoonfuls of the raw meat prepared as described in scraped beef, season lightly with pepper and salt, spread it between two slices of buttered bread, and toast the outside delicately. Be careful not to allow the meat to reach the edges of the bread or it may nauseate the patient.