Manuscript Cookbook 203

Macaroni and Cheese

3/4 c macaroni 3/4 c grated cheese 1 1/2 c medium white sauce. 2 c buttered crumbs

Break macaroni into inch pieces and cook in a large quantity of boiling water salted in same manner as for boiled rice. When tender pour into a colander and run cold water through it. Make sauce using half milk and half macaroni water. Add cheese and macaroni to it. Pour into buttered baking dish. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake until brown.

Cottage Cheese.

1 qt thick sour milk 1/4 t salt cream, tsp milk or butter.

pour at least 2 qts of boiling water into the sour milk and allow mixture to stand until curd separates from the whey. Strain mixture into cloth pressing the cloth until curd is dry or allow to drip for several hours or over night. Put curd into bowl and add salt and a little cream, tsp milk or butter and mix throughly. Serve lightly heaped or molded into balls.

Welsh Rarebit

1 T butter 1/2 lb or 2 c grated cheese. 1/4 c milk 1/2 t salt 1/2 t mustard Spk cayenne 1 egg

Beat egg. add dry seasoning and mix well. Put butter into a double boiler. When melted, add milk and cheese and stir constantly When melted and smooth add egg mixture and stir constantly until lather thickens. Serve on bread which has been toasted on one side only. Untoasted side up.

Deep Fat frying. Fats and oils. Kinds and charastics Corn, coton and peanut oil Olein - peanut oil, corn and cotton. palmatine . cocoa butter Sterin . butter. Beef tallow and mutton tallow contain palmatine. neutritive value All very high as heat producers. digestion - Hard. Effect of Heat. high heat changes fat to acrolein.

Danger In Deep Fat Frying is fire. Temperature of fat for cooked and uncooked purposes. When fat foams or bubbles it reaches the temperature of about 300 F. If the fat is to cool the food will be soaked. Cooked foods and foods needing but little cooking require a higher temperature than batters or other uncooked foods. If a piece of bread is browned in 40 seconds, the is of proper temperature for cooked foods and oysters. If a piece of bread is browned in 60 sec the