Dinner Menu: Mrs. B.'s Corn Soup, Smothered Chicken, Stuffed Tomatoes, Beets, and Cottage Pudding


Atlanta Woman's Club Cook Book (1921)

Have an Old-Fashioned Dinner Night From 1878

The Dinner Year-book (1878)
Marion Harland

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Mrs. B.’s Corn Soup.
Smothered Chicken. 
Stuffed Tomatoes.
Scalloped Potatoes. 
Beets.
Cottage Pudding.

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Mrs. B.’s Corn Soup.

15 ears of corn
Bullion or bones for broth
1 onion
1 cup milk
1 spoonfuls of butter
Flour
Salt
Pepper

15 ears of corn, grated from the cob as close as the grater will take off the grains; the bones and other “trimmings” of yesterday’s roast beef, both raw and cooked; 1 onion; 1 cup of milk; 2 great spoonfuls of butter, rolled in flour; pepper and salt; 3 quarts of water.

Put the empty cobs, the bones, etc., with the onion, on in the water, and stew two hours. Strain off the water, and put the grated corn into it with pepper and salt. Stew gently one hour; add the floured butter; simmer ten minutes, and pour into the tureen. Add the milk, boiling hot; stir up and serve.

Smothered Chicken.

2 young chickens
Salt and pepper

Split a pair of young, but well-grown chickens down the back, as for broiling. Lay flat in a dripping-pan; pour a cup of boiling water over them, and invert another pan over them so as to cover closely. Roast half an hour, and baste very freely with butter and water. Ten minutes later baste with gravy from the pan. In five more, with melted butter, profusely. Bake until the fowls are tender and well colored. Dish, salt and pepper them; thicken and season the gravy; pour some over the chickens and send up the rest in a boat.

Stuffed Tomatoes.

Tomatoes
Cold beef
Bread-crumbs
Beef gravy
Sugar, pepper, and salt

Choose large, smooth tomatoes; cut a piece from the top of each; take out the inside, taking care not to cut the skin. Chop up the tomato-pulp with a little cold beef; add one-fourth as much bread-crumbs as you have pulp, and wet all with beef-gravy, seasoning with a little sugar, pepper, and salt. Fill the tomatoes with this force-meat; put on the top slices; pack the stuffing that remains between the tomatoes, and pour gravy upon this; cover and bake from forty to forty-five minutes.

Scalloped Potatoes.

2 cups mashed potatoes
3 tablespoons of cream
2 tablespoons of butter
4 egg yolks from hard-boiled eggs
1 raw egg beaten
Handful of breadcrumbs
Pepper and salt

Beat up the hot potatoes light with butter, cream, raw egg and seasoning. Put a layer in the bottom of a bake-dish; cover with thin slices of yolk; salt and pepper; put on more potato, and go on thus until the dish is full. Cover the top layer of potato with crumbs, and bake, covered, half an hour, then brown quickly. Serve in the bake-dish.

Beets.

Beets
Vinegar
Pepper and salt

Cut off the tops, taking care not to scratch the skins. Boil at least one hour in hot salted water; scrape and slice. Put into a deep dish and season with a few spoonfuls of hot water mixed with as much vinegar and a little pepper and salt.

Cottage Pudding.

1 cup of milk
1 tablespoonful of butter rubbed in a cup of sugar
2 eggs
3 cups of prepared flour
a little salt.

Beat the yolks into the butter and sugar; add the milk, then the flour, alternately with the whisked whites. Bake in a cake-mould; turn out hot upon a plate, cut in slices, and eat with sweet sauce.





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