Chapter 2

Pain d'Oeufs 184 Bread Crumbs and Omelette 185 Egg Patties 185 Florentine Egg in Casseroles 186 Cheese Souffle 186 Oyster Omelette 187 Potato Omelette 187

CREAMS, CUSTARDS, ETC.

Strawberry Shortcake a la Mode 191 Frozen Custard 191 Stewed Apples 192 Cinnamon Apples 193 Fire Apples 194 Candied Cranberries 195 Apple Rice 195 Jelly Whip 196 Pineapple Parfait 197 Rice 197 Pittsburgh Sherbet 198 Lemon Sherbet 198 Fruit Cocktails 199 Synthetic Quince 200 Grape Juice Cup 201 Peppermint Cup 202 Amber Marmalade 203 Grape Juice 203

PRESERVES, PICKLES, ETC.

Sour Pickles 204 Sweet Pickles 204 Lemon Butter 205 Kumquat Preserves 205 Prunes and Chestnuts 207 Heavenly Hash 207 Apple Butter 208 Orange Marmalade 208 Rhubarb and Fig Jam 209 Brandied Peaches 210 Cauliflower Pickles 211 Mustard Sauce 211 Relish 212 Chili Sauce 212 Pickles 213 Tomato Pickle 213 Corn Salad 214 Tomato Catsup 214

CANDIES, ETC.

Rose Leaves Candied 215 Childhood Fondant 215 Fudge 215 Taffy 216 Creole Balls 216 Chocolate Caramel 217 Sea Foam 217

MISCELLANEOUS

Good Coffee 218-219 Cottage Cheese 221 Albuminous Beverages 222-233 Starchy Beverages 234-239 The Cook Says Beverages 240-243 Economical Soap 244

Editress Suffrage Cook Book:

Our hired girl, she's 'Lizabuth Ann; An' she can cook best things to eat! She ist puts dough in our pie-pan, An' pours in somepin' 'at's good an' sweet; An' nen she salts it all on top With cinnamon; an' nen she'll stop An' stoop an' slide it, ist as slow, In th' old cook-stove, so's 'twon't slop An' git all spilled; nen bakes it, so It's custard-pie, first thing you know! An' nen she'll say "Clear out o' my way! They's time fer work, an' time fer play! Take yer dough, an' run, child, run! Er I cain't git no cookin' done!"

My best regards JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

Indigestion is the end of love.

SOUPS

Asparagus Soup

4 bunches asparagus 1 small onion 1 pint milk 1/2 pint cream 1 1/2 tablespoon sugar 1 large tablespoon butter 1 1/2 tablespoon flour pepper to season

Wash and clean asparagus, put in saucepan with just enough water to cover, boil until little points are soft.

Cut these off and lay aside. Fry onion in the butter and put in saucepan with the asparagus. Cook until very soft mashing occasionally so as to extract all juice from the asparagus.

When thoroughly cooked put through sieve. Now add salt, sugar and flour blended.

Stir constantly and add milk and cream, and serve at once. (Do not place again on stove as it might curdle. Croutons may be served with this).

Spinach Soup

1/2 peck spinach 2 tablespoons butter 1 1/2 tablespoon sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 small onion 1 pint rich milk 2 tablespoons flour 1/2 cup water

Put spinach in double boiler with the butter and water. Let simmer slowly until all the juice has been extracted from the spinach.

Fry the onion and add. Now thicken with the flour blended with the water and strain. Add the milk very hot. Do not place on the fire after the milk has been added.

Half cream instead of milk greatly improves flavor.

Crab Gumbo

3 doz. medium Okra 1 doz. Crabs cleaned 2 onions fried

Add the Crabs, then small can tomatoes. Thyme, parsley, bay leaf.

Tomato Soup

1 large can tomatoes or equivalent of fresh tomatoes. 1 small onion 1 tablespoon salt dash paprika 2 1/2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon butter 2 1/2 tablespoons flour 2 cups hot milk 1 pint water

Put tomatoes with 1 pt. water to boil, boil for at least half hour. Fry onion in butter and add to soup with sugar and salt. When thoroughly cooked thicken with the flour blended with a little water. Now strain. Have the milk very hot, not boiling. Stir constantly while adding milk to soup and serve at once.

Do not place on the stove after the milk is in the soup. 1 cup of cream instead of 2 cups of milk greatly improves the soup.

Vegetable Soup

2 1/2 lbs. of beef (with soup bone) 3 quarts of water 1 tablespoon sugar salt to suit taste a few pepper corns 1 cup of each, of the following vegetables diced small carrots Potatoes Celery 2 tablespoons onion cut very fine 1/2 head cabbage cut very fine 1/2 can corn (or its equivalent in fresh) 1/2 can peas (or its equivalent fresh) 2 tablespoons minced parsley 1/4 cup turnip and parsnip if at hand (not necessary) 1/2 can tomatoes (or equivalent fresh)

Put meat in large kettle and boil for an hour; now add all the other ingredients and cook until soft. Ready then to serve.

This soup can be made as a cream soup without meat and is delicious. In this case you take a good sized piece of butter and fry all the vegetables slightly, excepting the potatoes. Now cover all, adding potatoes with boiling water and cook until tender.

When done season and add hot milk and 1 cup cream. This is very fine.

In making this soup without meat omit the tomatoes and use string beans instead.

Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are. Brillat Savarin.

Chestnut Soup

1 qt. chestnuts (Spanish preferred) 1 pint chicken stock 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon sugar salt and paprika to taste

Cover chestnuts with boiling water slightly salted. Cook until quite soft and rub through coarse sieve, add stock, and seasoning; then thicken with flour blended with water.

Let simmer five minutes and serve at once.

In case stock is not available milk can be used with a little butter added.

Peanut Butter Broth

1 pt. fresh sweet milk 1 pt. water 1 1/2 tablespoons peanut butter 1 tablespoon catsup Salt, pepper or other season to taste.

Pour liquid with peanut butter into double boiler; dissolve butter so there are no hard lumps. Do not let milk boil but place on moderately hot fire.

Just before serving add the catsup and seasoning.

Soup for Invalids

Cut into small pieces one pound of beef or mutton or a part of both. Boil it gently in two quarts of water. Take off the scum and when reduced to a pint, strain it and season with a little salt. Give one teacupful at a time.

Peanut Soup

Peanut soup for supper on a cold night serves the double duty of stimulating the gastric juices to quicken action by its warmth and furnishing protein to the body to repair its waste. Pound to a paste a cupful of nuts from which the skin has been removed, add it to a pint of milk and scald; melt a tablespoon of butter and mix it with a like quantity of flour and add slowly to the milk and peanuts; cook until it thickens and season to taste.

Chestnuts, too, make a splendid soup. Boil one quart of peeled and blanched chestnuts in three pints of salt water until quite soft; pass through sieve and add two tablespoons of sweet cream, and season to taste. If too thick, add water.

Mock Oyster Soup

The oyster plant is used for this delicious dish--by many it is known as salsify. Scrape the vegetable and cut into small pieces with a silver knife (a steel knife would darken the oyster plant). Cook in just enough water to keep from burning, and when tender press through a colander and return to the water in which it was cooked. Add three cups of hot milk which has been thickened with a little butter and flour and rubbed together and seasoned with salt and white pepper. A little chopped parsley may be added before serving. 1/2 cup cream instead of all milk greatly improves taste.

French Oyster Soup

1 quart oysters 1 quart milk 1 slice onion 2 blades mace 1/3 cup flour 1/3 cup butter 2 egg yolks salt and pepper

Clean oysters by pouring over 3/4 cup cold water. Drain, reserve liquor, add oysters, slightly chopped, heat slowly to boiling point and let simmer 20 minutes; strain.

Scald milk with onion and mace. Make white sauce and add oyster liquor. Just before serving add egg yolks, slightly beaten.

Split Pea Soup (Green or Yellow)

1 1/2 pints split peas (green or yellow) 2 1/4 quarts water 2 small onions 1 carrot 1 parsnip (if at hand) 1 cup milk 1/2 cup cream 1 teaspoon salt (more if liked) Pepper and paprika to taste 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar

Soak 1 1/2 pints of split peas over night; next day add 2 1/4 quarts water and the vegetables, cut fine; also the sugar, salt and pepper and cook slowly three hours; now mash through sieve. If it boils down too much add a little water. After putting through sieve place on stove and add hot milk and cream. If it is not thin enough to suit add more milk.

Stock may be used if same is available.

Black Bean Soup

One pint of black beans soaked over night in 3 quarts of water.

In the morning pour off the water and add fresh 3 quarts. Boil slowly 4 hours. When done there should be 1 quart. Add a quart of beef stock, 4 whole cloves, 4 whole allspice, 1 stalk of celery, 1 good-sized onion, 1 small carrot, 1 small turnip, all cut fine and fried in a little butter.

Add 1 tablespoon flour, season with salt and pepper and rub through a fine sieve.

Serve with slices of lemon and egg balls.

Carrot Soup

One quart of thinly sliced carrots, one head of celery, three or four quarts of water, boil for two and one-half hours; add one-half cupful of rice and boil for an hour longer; season with salt and pepper and a small cupful of cream.

Veal Soup

Knuckle of veal 2 1/2 pounds 2 raw eggs 3 quarts water 2 tomatoes cut fine 1/2 onion salt and pepper to season a little flour 1/2 cup vermicelli or alphabet macaroni 2 eggs, beaten very light 1 1/2 tablespoons parmesan cheese

Put veal in stewing pan and allow it to cook until thoroughly done. Now chop meat and add cheese, flour, salt and pepper if needed and form into little balls about the size of a marble. While preparing these, drop in macaroni and cook until tender. Now add the meat balls.

If too thick use a little water. Beat the eggs lightly and add while boiling.

War Not Only Kills Bodies But Ideals MRS. HENRY VILLARD, President of Women's Peace Conference.

Must the pride with which women point to the life saving character of the work of the numberless charitable agencies throughout the country--with a resultant lowering of the death rate in our great cities--be offset by the slaughter of our best beloved ones on the field of battle or their death by disease in camps?

No longer ought we to be called upon to be particeps criminis with men to the extent of being compelled to pay taxes which are largely used for the support of the army and navy.

Moreover, a recourse to war as a means of righting wrongs is full of peril to the whole human race. Not only are bodies killed, but the ideals which alone make life worth living are for the time being lost to sight. In place of those finer attributes of our nature--compassion, gentleness, forgiveness--are substituted hatred, revenge and cruelty.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.--Swift.

Virginia Fried Oysters

Make a batter of four tablespoons of sifted flour, one tablespoon of olive oil or melted butter, two well-beaten whites of eggs, one-half teaspoon of salt, and warm water enough to make a batter that will drop easily. Sprinkle the oysters lightly with salt and white pepper or paprika. Dip in the batter and fry to a golden brown.

Drain, and serve on a hot platter, with slices of lemon around them.

Creamed Lobster

2 tablespoons butter 1 1/2 pints milk 2 tablespoons flour season to taste

When cooked beat in the yolk of an egg.

Pick to pieces 1 can of lobster, juice of 1 onion, juice of 1 lemon, stalk of celery chopped fine, paprika, sweet peppers, cut fine. Mix all together and serve in ramekins. Serve very hot. Serves 12 people.

Salmon Croquettes

Fresh salmon or 1 can of salmon 2 eggs 1/2 cup butter 1 cup fine bread crumbs 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 cup of cream 1 pinch of paprika salt to season

Mix well and form into croquettes. Roll in egg and cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat.

Partial suffrage has taught the women of Illinois the value of political power and direct influence. Already the effect of the ballot has been shown in philanthropic, civic and social work in which women are engaged and the women of this state realizing that partial suffrage means so much to them, wish to express their deepest interest in the outcome of the campaign for full suffrage which eastern women are waging this year.

So we say to the women in the four campaign states this year: "You are working not only toward your own enfranchisement but toward the enfranchisement of the women in all the non-suffrage states in the union. Your victory means victory in other states. You are our leaders at this crucial time and thousands of women are looking to you. You have their deepest and heartiest co-operation in your campaign work for much depends upon what you do in working for that victory which we hope will come to the women of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts in this year of 1915."

JANE ADDAMS.

Broiled Salt Mackerel

Wash and scrape the fish. Soak all night, changing the water at bed time for tepid and again early in the morning for almost scalding hot. Keep this hot for an hour by setting the vessel containing the soaking fish on the side of the range. Wash next in cold water with a stiff brush or rough cloth, wipe perfectly dry, rub all over again with salad oil and vinegar or lemon juice and let it lie in this marmalade for a quarter of an hour before broiling. Place on a hot dish with a mixture of butter, lemon juice and minced parsley.

Shrimp Wriggle

1 pint fresh shrimps 1 heaping cup hot boiled rice 1 medium size green pepper 1 tablespoonful Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons tomato catsup 1 scant pint cream with heaping teaspoon flour butter size of egg paprika and salt to taste.

Dissolve flour in cream, add shrimps, rice, pepper (chopped), pour in cream, add butter, add condiments, add just before serving 1 wineglass sherry or Madeira.

HELEN RING ROBINSON.

Chop Suey

Chop Suey is made of chopped meat and the gizzards of ducks or chickens, 1 cup of chopped celery and 1/2 cup of shredded almonds.

Mix with the following sauce: 1 tablespoon butter and 1 teaspoon arrow root stirred into 1 cupful broth. Add 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce and simmer all for twenty minutes.

Veal Kidney Stew

1 veal kidney 1 small onion 1 tablespoon butter 2 tomatoes cut fine 1 small can mushrooms 1/2 tablespoon parsley 4 tablespoons raw potatoes cut in small pieces Seasoning to taste

Wash, clean and cut fine a veal kidney. Fry onion in butter until light brown, add kidney, tomatoes, mushrooms, parsley, potatoes, seasoning and water, and cook until tender.

MEATS, POULTRY, ETC.

Baked Ham (a la Miller)

1 ten or twelve pound ham 1 1/2 lb. brown sugar 1 pint sherry wine (cooking sherry) 1 cup vinegar (not too strong) 1 cup molasses cloves (whole)

Scrub and cleanse ham; soak in cold water over night; in morning place in a large kettle and cover with cold water; bring slowly to the boiling point and gradually add the molasses, allowing 18 minutes for each pound. When ham is done remove from stove and allow it to become cold in the water in which it was cooked.

Now remove the ham from water; skin and stick cloves (about 1 1/2 dozen) over the ham. Rub brown sugar into the ham; put in roasting pan and pour over sherry and vinegar. Baste continually and allow it to warm through and brown nicely. This should take about 1/2 hour. Serve with a garnish of glazed sweet potatoes. Caramel from ham is served in a gravy tureen. Remove all greases from same.

This is a dish fit for the greatest epicure.

Man is a carnivorous production and must have meals, at least one meal a day. He cannot live like wood cocks, upon suction. But like the shark and tiger, must have prey. Although his anatomical construction, bears vegetables, in a grumbling way. Your laboring people think beyond all question. Beef, veal and mutton, better for digestion. Byron.

Daube

4 lb. rump (Larded with bacon) 2 large onions 2 tablespoons flour 1 small can tomatoes 1 cup water 1 clove garlic 2 sprigs thyme--1 bay leaf 1/4 sweet pepper several carrots parsley

First fry meat, then remove to platter. Start gravy by first frying the onions a nice brown; then add flour and brown; drain the tomatoes and fry; add rest of ingredients; put meat into this and let it cook slowly for five to six hours.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR CHILDREN'S BUREAU WASHINGTON

November 24, 1914.

Editress Suffrage Cook Book:

Your letter of November 21st is received.

Will the following be of any use for the Suffrage Cook Book?

Is it not strange how custom can stale our sense of the importance of everyday occurrences, of the ability required for the performance of homely, everyday services? Think of the power of organization required to prepare a meal and place it upon the table on time! No wonder a mere man said, "I can't cook because of the awful simultaneousness of everything."

Yours faithfully, JULIA C. LATHROP.

Glen Ellen, Sonoma Co., California. YACHT ROAMER November 5, 1914.

Editress Suffrage Cook Book:

Forgive the long delay in replying to your letter. You see, I am out on a long cruise on the Bay of San Francisco, and up the rivers of California, and receive my mail only semi-occasionally. Yours has now come to hand, and I have consulted with Mrs. London, and we have worked out the following recipes, which are especial "tried" favorites of mine:

Roast Duck

The only way in the world to serve a canvas-back or a mallard, or a sprig, or even the toothsome teal, is as follows: The plucked bird should be stuffed with a tight handful of plain raw celery and, in a piping oven, roasted variously 8, 9, 10, or even 11 minutes, according to size of bird and heat of oven. The blood-rare breast is carved with the leg and the carcass then thoroughly squeezed in a press. The resultant liquid is seasoned with salt, pepper, lemon and paprika, and poured hot over the meat. This method of roasting insures the maximum tenderness and flavor in the bird. The longer the wild duck is roasted, the dryer and tougher it becomes.

Hoping that you may find the foregoing useful for your collection, and with best wishes for the success of your book.

Sincerely yours, JACK LONDON.

Veal Loaf

3 pounds Veal 1/4 lb. Salt Pork 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Of the following mixture 1/4 teaspoon sage, thyme, and sweet marjoram 2 eggs 1 cup stock. If not procurable use 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup milk 3/4 cup bread crumbs

Have meat ground fine as possible. Then mix thoroughly with the herbs, 1 egg, pepper and salt, 1/2 cup stock and 1/2 cup crumbs.

Form a loaf and brush top and sides with the second egg. Now, scatter the remaining 1/4 cup of crumbs over the moistened loaf.

Place in a baking pan with the 1/2 cup of stock and bake in a moderate oven three hours, basting very frequently, and adding water in case stock is consumed.

Ducks

Take two young ducks, wash and dry out thoroughly; rub outside with salt and pepper--lay in roasting pan, breast down. Cut in half one good sized onion and an apple cut in half (not peeled). Lay around the ducks and put in about one and one-half pints hot water. Cover with lid of roasting pan and cook in a medium hot oven.

In an hour turn ducks on back and add a teaspoon of tart jelly. Leave lid off and baste frequently.

In another hour the ducks are ready to serve. Pour off fat in pan. Make thickening for gravy (not removing the onion or apple).

For the filling, take stale loaf of bread, cut off crust and rub the bread into crumbs, dissolve a little butter (about one tablespoon), add that to the crumbs. Salt and pepper to taste and as much parsley as is desired. Mix and stuff the ducks.