Part 5 (1/2)

[Ill.u.s.tration: ”Eat yourself full of what we got”]

Sc.r.a.pPLE

lb. chopped raw meat (beef or pork) 1 teaspoons salt ? teaspoon pepper 1 cup corn meal 1 medium onion chopped 1 qts. water

Brown onion slowly in a little fat. Add meat, seasoning and water. Cook at simmering point 20 minutes. Add to corn meal and boil for 1 hour.

Turn into a mold, cool, cut in slices and fry in fat until brown. Serve with gravy or tomato sauce.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH CHICKEN AND OYSTER PIE

1 stewing chicken 1 pt. oysters lb. b.u.t.ter salt and pepper a little flour pastry crust

Stew chicken until tender, season with lb. b.u.t.ter, salt and pepper.

Line deep dish with pastry crust. Pour in the stewed chicken and cover loosely with a crust in the center of which a hole the size of a tea cup has been cut. Prepare separately 1 pt. oysters, heating the liquor with a little flour and water. Season with salt, pepper and 2 tablespoons of b.u.t.ter. When it comes to a boil, pour over oysters. 20 minutes before pie is done, lift the top crust and put the oyster mixture in.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH

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Vegetable Dishes

LANCASTER COUNTY BAKED CORN

To 1 cup of dried corn (ground in food chopper) pour on 2 cups of hot milk and let stand about an hour. Then add 2 beaten eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter, 2 tablespoons sugar and salt to taste. Bake hour in oven of 350 to 360 degrees.

SEVEN-MINUTE CABBAGE

2 cups milk 2 teaspoons flour salt and pepper 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter 2 cups chopped cabbage

Heat the milk to boiling. Add b.u.t.ter and the cabbage. Cook seven minutes. Thicken with the flour, mixed with a little cold water.

SCALLOPED SWEET POTATOES _and_ APPLES

6 medium-sized sweet potatoes cup brown sugar 1 cups sliced apples 4 tblsp. b.u.t.ter tsp. salt 1 tsp. mace

Boil sweet potatoes until tender. Slice in inch pieces. b.u.t.ter baking dish and put a layer of sweet potatoes in bottom, then a layer of apples. Sprinkle with sugar, salt and mace, and dot with b.u.t.ter. Repeat until dish is filled, having the top layer of apples. Bake in moderate oven (350-f) for 50 minutes.

SWEET POTATO CROQUETTES

1 pt. mashed sweet potatoes 1 tblsp. b.u.t.ter 1 tsp. salt 1 tblsp. sugar 1 egg white bread crumbs

Mash sweet potatoes very fine and add salt, sugar and melted b.u.t.ter.