Entrées and Made-Over Dishes
Patty Cases
Roll puff-paste to the thickness of one-half inch, and shape into circles two and one-half to three inches in diameter, with a…
Bouchées
Small pastry shells or cases filled with creamed meat or game are called bouchées, and are much in vogue for entrées. They provide an…
Timbale Cases
Mix sugar, salt and sifted flour. Add the well-beaten egg, oil and milk. Beat with an egg-beater until perfectly smooth, then strain. This…
Potato Border
Wash the potatoes, boil, drain, dry off and put through the ricer. Add butter, hot milk, salt and the well-beaten yolks of the eggs. Beat…
Rissoles
These are practically little turnovers, filled with a highly seasoned mixture of chopped chicken and ham or other delicate meat moistened…
Chicken Patties
For the filling, use equal quantities of button mushrooms and diced, cooked chicken mixed with one-half the quantity of medium white sauce…
Clam Patties
Fill patties with creamed clams.
Lobster Patties
Follow directions for the filling of chicken patties, substituting lobster for chicken.
Sweetbread Patties
Follow directions for the filling of chicken patties, substituting prepared sweetbreads for chicken.
Minced Chicken with Mushrooms
2 cups cooked chicken, fresh or ½ teaspoon salt canned Chop chicken moderately fine. Cut mushrooms into small pieces, them boil them in…
Sweetbread and Oyster Pie
Prepare sweetbreads. Make a white sauce with fat, flour, cream or milk, and add the egg-yolks, chopped very fine. Add sweetbreads and…
Preparing Peppers for Stuffing
Cut off the tops of the peppers or cut them in two lengthwise, and remove the inner fibers and seeds. Drop into boiling water, remove from…
Peppers with Meat Stuffing
Prepare peppers as directed. Mix the meat with the bread or cracker-crums and moisten with a little milk or cream. Be sure that it is…
Peppers with Cheese Stuffing
Prepare peppers as directed. Mix the crums with the cheese. Then add the butter and salt to taste. Fill the peppers with the mixture and…
Sweetbreads in Pepper Cases
½ cup brown or white stock Prepare the sweetbreads. Melt fat, add flour, salt and pepper. Mix smooth, add stock and cream. Cook until…
Salmon Croquettes
13/4 cups cooked salmon, fresh Salt and pepper or canned Make a white sauce with the fat, flour and milk. Add salt, a little white pepper…
Surprise
To the mashed potato add cream or rich milk, onion-juice and salt and pepper to taste. Beat over the fire until smooth and hot. Remove…
Cheese Croquettes
1 cup cubes fresh mild cheese Egg and crums Make a thick white sauce with the fat, flour and milk. Add the yolks of eggs. Into this sauce…
Chicken
Make a white sauce with the fat, flour and milk. Add fowl, seasoned with celery salt, lemon-juice, onion-juice, parsley, and salt and…
Ham Croquettes
Mix potato, butter or other fat, yolks of two eggs and cayenne, beat until smooth, then set to cool. Chop the ham, mix with the other yolk…
Cheese Cutlets
To the well-beaten egg-yolks, add cream and grated Parmesan cheese, and season with mace, cayenne and salt. Beat until very light and add…
Chicken Cutlets
4 tablespoons chopped mush- 2 tablespoons butter or other rooms fat Mix the chicken, mushrooms, salt, pepper, parsley and the onion and…
Cutlets
Add potato to salmon. Season with salt, pepper and lemonjuice. Shape into cutlets, egg and crum and fry in deep fat.
Rice Fan-Tan
Cook rice in milk until very soft. Stir in salt, sugar and wellbeaten egg, and remove at once from the fire. Mix in assorted candied…
Fritter Batter
Sift dry ingredients, add egg, well beaten, and milk. The batter should be thick enough to completely coat the article it is intended to…
Apple Fritters
To the milk add the well-beaten egg-yolks and the sugar, then the flour mixed and sifted with the baking-powder and the salt. Then fold in…
Banana Fritters
Peel bananas, cut each in two and split each half. Place the pieces in a bowl with sugar and orange-juice and let them stand for one hour…
Corn Fritters
2 cups corn, fresh or canned I teaspoon melted butter Chop the corn very fine and add salt, pepper, well-beaten egg, butter, milk, flour…
Clam Fritters
Make a batter of flour, baking-powder, salt, milk, clam liquor and well-beaten eggs. Chop two dozen soft clams, season with salt and…
Raspberry Fritters
Add beaten egg-yolks and water to flour sifted with bakingpowder and salt. Beat raspberries with egg-beater. Beat eggwhites to a stiff…
Minced Ham in Cider Cups
Soak gelatin in cold water, and pour over it boiling cider to which the sugar and lemon have been added. Strain into border molds. When…
Chicken à La King
I pimiento cut in narrow strips Make a white sauce of the fat, flour, milk, cream, salt and pepper. Add the mushrooms, green pepper…