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Pea Soup
1 can Marrowfat peas
1 slice onion
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons butter
1 pint cold water
2 tablespoons flour
1 pint milk
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
Drain peas from their liquor, add sugar and cold water, and simmer twenty minutes. Rub through a sieve, reheat, and thicken with butter and flour cooked together. Scald milk with onion, remove onion, and [...]
Cocoanut Rice.
Take a cup of rice, mix it into half a grated cocoanut. A ten-cent tin
of Baker’s cocoanut does very nicely if one doesn’t care to prepare the
fresh cocoanut. Boil the rice and cocoanut together, being sure to add
to the water the cocoanut milk. There should be about three inches of
liquid above the rice. Color [...]
Kornlet Soup
1 can kornlet
1 tablespoon chopped onion
1 pint cold water
4 tablespoons flour
1 quart milk, scalded
11/2 teaspoons salt
4 tablespoons butter
Few grains pepper
Cook kornlet in cold water twenty minutes; rub through a sieve, and add milk. Fry butter and onion three minutes; remove onion, add flour, salt, and pepper, and stir into boiling soup.
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Beef or Mutton Pullao.
Very delicious pullao may be made from the cheapest cuts of beef and
mutton. Get about two pounds of beef or mutton, cut in bits. Cook until
it is very tender. Boil with this a little bag of mixed spices and two
onions. Unless the meat has a good deal of fat, use crisco, or [...]
Swiss Potato Soup
4 small potatoes
1/2 onion
1 large flat white turnip
4 tablespoons butter
3 cups boiling water
1/3 cup flour
1 quart scalded milk
11/2 teaspoons salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
Wash, pare, and cut potatoes in halves. Wash, pare, and cut turnips in one-quarter inch slices. Parboil together ten minutes, drain, add onion cut in slices, and three cups boiling water. Cook [...]
Armenian Kidgeri.
Soak a cup of split peas for several hours, then fry with two
thinly-sliced onions and a cup of rice. When slightly brown, cover with
water and boil. The water should be three inches above the peas and
rice; also add a little bag of mixed spices. Fry some meat in a separate
pan. It may be either [...]
Leek Soup
1 bunch leeks
21/2 cups potatoes
1 cup celery
2 tablespoons butter
21/2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 quart milk
Salt and pepper
Cayenne
Cut leeks and celery in very thin slices crosswise and cook in two and one-half tablespoons butter, stirring constantly, ten minutes. Add milk, and cook in double boiler forty minutes. Cut potatoes in slices and cut slices in [...]
Split Pea Soup.
Soak a cup of peas over night and boil in three cups of water. Cook
until peas are soft, then mash them quite smoothly. Then dilute with
stock. This stock may be made from bones and cold meat or fresh meat.
Fry an onion and add to the soup, and when ready to serve add minced
mint [...]
Vegetable Soup
1/3 cup carrot
1 quart water
1/3 cup turnip
5 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup celery
1/2 tablespoon finely chopped parsley
11/2 cups potato
1/2 onion
Salt and pepper
Wash and scrape a small carrot; cut in quarters lengthwise; cut quarters in thirds lengthwise; cut strips thus made in thin slices crosswise. Wash and pare half a turnip, and cut and slice same as [...]
Kabobs.
This is a very popular dish among the Mohammedans. Kabobs are usually
cooked by the roadside and served piping hot to pedestrians. They are
also cooked on the platform of railway stations and handed out to
passengers on the train. Season a pound of minced meat with pepper and
salt or any desired spices. Mix with a little flour [...]
Squash Soup
3/4 cup cooked squash
3 tablespoons flour
1 quart milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 slice onion
Few grains pepper
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 teaspoon celery salt.
Rub squash through a sieve before measuring. Scald milk with onion, remove onion, and add milk to squash; season, and bind.
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Spanish Steak.
Pound thoroughly by means of a saucer a half cup of flour with a pound
of round steak. Then over a hot fire quickly fry the steak and remove.
In the same pan fry two good-sized onions, thinly sliced, and half a
dozen good-sized tomatoes and one large mango pepper. If the pepper is
mild, add cayenne pepper. [...]
Tomato Soup
1 quart tomatoes, raw or canned
2 teaspoons sugar
1 pint water
1 teaspoon salt
12 peppercorns
1/8 teaspoon soda
Bit of bay leaf
2 tablespoons butter
4 cloves
3 tablespoons flour
1 slice onion
Cook tomatoes, water, seasonings, and sugar twenty minutes; strain, and add salt and soda. Brown butter and flour cooked together; bind, and strain into tureen.
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Bird Nests.
Stew a pound of boiling meat with two sliced onions until the meat is
tender. Remove the meat and onions, and when cold pass through the meat
grinder. Season rather highly, add egg and breadcrumbs, and work all
together as though for cutlets. If flour is worked well into it, no egg
or crumbs will be required.
Boil six [...]
Cream of Tomato Soup
1/2 can tomatoes
1 slice onion
2 teaspoons sugar
4 tablespoons flour
1/4 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 quart milk
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/3 cup butter
Scald milk with onion, remove onion, and thicken milk with flour diluted with cold water until thin enough to pour, being careful that the mixture is free from lumps; cook twenty minutes, stirring constantly [...]
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