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Identifier: americancookery19unse_4 (find matches)
Title: American cookery
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) : Whitney Publications (etc.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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scoop out centers, leaving handle on top,to make pretty baskets. Let these standin the oven with the door open, to keephot. Prepare two cups of well-seasonedwhite sauce, and add to this two cups ofcold chicken, cut in small pieces. Addtwo well-beaten eggs, and the juice ofone-half a lemon — this must be stirredrapidly into the creamed chicken so as crabs. Cover, and cook fifteen minutes.Add fifteen large oysters with the juice,cook until gills separate and crinkle;stir in one-fourth a cup of rich cream, andserve at once. Coffee Cake Dissolve one cake of compressed yeastin one-fourth a cup of lukewarm water.Add to one-half a cup of scalded-and-cooled milk. Stir one cup and one-halfof flour into this liquid and beat untilthe batter is smooth. Set aside in awarm place to become light. (About onehour.) Then add two eggs, one tea-spoonful of salt, one-fourth a cup of butter(softened), one-fourth a cup of sugar, therind and juice of one lemon, one-eighth SEASOXABLK-AXD-TKSTED RECI PES 517
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COFFEE CAKE a teaspoonful of nutmeg, about three cupsof flour. Knead thoroughly and againset aside to become double in bulk.Then toss on board, roll into a roundsheet one-fourth an inch thick, a littlebroader than it is long. Spread withsoftened butter. Through the broadestwidth make a deep crease with the bluntedge of the blade of a large knife. Par-allel with crease sprinkle a few raisinsand a little sugar and cinnamon in thecenter of each half-sheet of dough. Rollthe dough over the raisins, sugar andcinnamon. Using the crease as a hingebring the edges of the two rolls together.Place in a buttered dripping-pan. Ar-range the cake in a crescent shape, withthe rolls on the outside curve. Coverand set in a warm place to become light.While rising the top roll will shrink a little away from the lower. Bake in amoderate oven. Just before it is doneremove from oven and brush over withbeaten white of egg. Return to oven forfive or ten minutes. Baked Potatoes, Paprika Scrub the potatoes with

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