The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps

The pattern people's household book, 1927 — five hundred recipes, then how to lay a table, take out a stain and stock a first-aid cabinet.

Entrées and Made-Over Dishes

32 recipes in this part of The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps.

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…

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