The Metropolitan Cook Book

A life insurance company teaching its policyholders to eat: the Metropolitan's own cookbook, given away from the tower on Madison Square.

Meat Substitutes

11 recipes in this part of The Metropolitan Cook Book.

Baked Eggs

Toast circular pieces of bread from which a little of the centers have been removed. Place pieces on a buttered dish. Break an egg and drop…

Baked Eggs with Cheese

Follow directions for baked eggs, sprinkling slices of toast with cheese before eggs are dropped onto them, or slip eggs into buttered egg…

Scalloped Eggs and Ham

4 hard-cooked eggs cup or 1 cup cold chopped ham or meat 1½ cups buttered hard crumbs 1 pint white sauce Chop the eggs, and follow the…

Creamy Omelet

3 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper Make either French or Puffy omelet, using white sauce instead of water. Pour another…

Eggs Florentine

On a bed of cooked and seasoned spinach place eggs which have been poached. Pour over white sauce No. II seasoned with grated Parmesan…

French Omelet

teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper 3 tablespoons butter The general rule is for each egg use 1 tablespoon liquid, tablespoon butter. Season to…

Stuffed Eggs

1 cup white sauce (see teaspoon mustard 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon butter Few grains of cayenne Cut the hard-cooked eggs in halves…

Cheese Dishes

One pound of cheese contains as much fuel value as 2 pounds of meat. Cheese may be added to white sauce and served with boiled rice or…

Cheese Fondu

1 cup milk 2 eggs 1 tablespoon butter 1-21-81-8 teaspoon salt teaspoon mustard teaspoon paprika Mix bread, milk and cheese in a double…

Rarebit

cup milk or cream 2 cups or lb. cheese 2 tablespoons butter 1 egg teaspoon salt. sprinkle cayenne Put milk and grated cheese in upper part…

Cottage Cheese

Heat sour milk to about 100°F. and turn into a strainer lined with cheesecloth. Pour over one quart hot water. Let curd hang in cheesecloth…

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