1 or 2 tablespoons pimiento cut in strips
1 or 2 tablespoons green pepper cut in strips
2 tablespoons ripe olives cut in strips, and
Juice of 1 lemon. Keep hot over hot water or electric grill and serve
in patty shells reheated in the oven, or on toast. Serve with
Spiced figs.
BOILED FOWL
Clean a
4 pound fowl and cook slowly for 1 1/4
hours, or until tender, in
1 quart boiling water with
6 slices carrot
2 stalks celery
2 slices onion
Sprig of parsley
2 teaspoons salt and
1/8 teaspoon pepper. Cool in the
stock.
Fowl cooked in pressure cooker under 20 pounds pressure will become tender in from 30 to 40 minutes.
Fowl, if nearly covered with boiling water and boiled 5 minutes, will become tender if cooked in fireless cooker for 5 or 6 hours.
SPICED FIGS
Wash
1/2 pound pulled figs, and soak 1 hour
in
Cold water to cover. Drain, put in
saucepan with
1 cup vinegar and
1 1/2 cups sugar. Put in a cheesecloth
bag
1 tablespoon whole cloves and a
12-inch stick of cinnamon broken in pieces,
and cook all for 50 minutes
or until figs are tender.
SPICED JELLY
Put in saucepan
1 cup syrup strained from spiced figs
or other spiced or sweet pickled
fruit. Bring to boiling point, add
1/4 cup commercial pectin, boil 1/2 minute
and turn into glasses or
individual molds.
WAFFLES
Sift together
1 1/2 cups pastry flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon soda; add slowly
1 1/4 cups sour cream or rich sour milk
or a mixture of the two, and
3 egg yolks, well beaten. Fold in
3 egg whites, beaten stiff. Use 1
large spoonful of mixture for each
waffle. Cook on hot waffle iron.
An aluminum electric waffle iron should not be greased. An iron one should be well greased.
STAR CHICKEN SALAD
Mix together
1 cup white meat of cooked chicken or
fowl cut in dice
3 whites hard-cooked eggs cut in dice,
and marinate with
2 tablespoons salad oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt and
1/8 teaspoon pepper. Cook
1 cup peeled white mushroom caps in
White stock until tender, then drain,
chill and cut in small pieces. Add
1 cup celery cut lengthwise and crosswise
in small pieces and
1 cup shelled Brazil nuts, peeled and
cut in small pieces. Soak
1 tablespoon gelatin in
1/4 cup cold water, dissolve over hot
water and add slowly to
1 cup mayonnaise dressing. Mix with
other ingredients and pack in
star-shaped mold. Chill, turn out on bed of
Lettuce leaves. Fill center and cover
outside with
Mayonnaise dressing and sprinkle with
3 yolks hard-cooked eggs rubbed through
strainer.