Potato Or Hominy Croquettes

4 cups mashed potatoes or cooked hominy 2 tablespoons cream or milk Salt and pepper Chopped parsley

Onion-juice Nutmeg 2 egg-yolks Egg and crumbs

To the mashed hot potatoes or hominy, add cream or milk, and seasonings. Mix well and beat until light, add the well-beaten yolks of eggs and let stand till cold. Shape into oblong or pear-shaped croquettes, roll in fine bread-crumbs, then in beaten egg, and again in crumbs. Fry at once, until brown, in hot fat (375°-390° F.).

Potato croquettes may be made more, dainty by rubbing the potato mixture through a sieve before adding the eggs. Shorty leafless stalks of parsley thrust into pear-shaped croquettes after the manner of stems will make them very attractive.

Rice Croquettes

1 cup boiled rice 1/4 cup milk 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt

Grated lemon-peel Egg and crumbs

Combine rice, milk, sugar, salt, grateid lemon-peel and the well-beaten egg, and when cold, shape in ovals, roll in egg, then in bread-crumbs or rolled crackers, and fry a rich brown in deep fat (375°-390° F.).

Rice Fan-Tan

1/2 cup rice 2 cups milk 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup candied fruits Egg and crumbs Powdered sugar

Cook rice in milk until very soft. Stir in salt, sugar and well-beaten egg, and remove at once from the fire. Mix in cut up candied fruits - cherries, apricots, pineapple, etc. - and turn into a shallow, well-oiled pan to cool. When firm, cut into strips about one and one-half inches wide and three inches long, dip into egg then into bread-crumbs and brown delicately on both sides in butter or other fat. Drain, dust with powdered sugar and serve hot.

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Fried Or Sauteed Mush

No. 1.

Make mush according to directions given (Index). Turn it into a shallow greased pan, smoothing the surface. When it is cold, turn it from the pan, cut in slices or cubes, dip in fine bread or cracker-crumbs, then in beaten egg, adding three tablespoons of milk to each egg, and then again in the crumbs. Fry in deep fat (375°-390° F.). Drain on soft paper. Serve hot with jelly sauce or sirup.

No. 2 - Cut cold mush into slices about one-fourth of an inch thick, and saute until brown and crisp in a very little fat; if preferred, the slices may be sprinkled with flour, or dipped first in salted beaten egg and then in bread or cracker-crumbs, before sauteing. Hominy and other cereals may be fried in the same way.

Fritters

(For sweet fritters and fritter batter, see Index),

Clam Fritters

24 soft clams

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking-powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

1/2 cup clam liquor

2 eggs

Salt and pepper

Make a batter of flour, baking-powder, salt, milk, clam liquor and well-beaten eggs. Chop the clams, season with salt and pepper and add to the batter. Drop by tablespoonfuls into deep fat (360°-370° F.) and fry two to three minutes.