Sliced Bananas And Cream Eggs A La Suisse On Toast Coffee

Eggs A La Suisse On Toast

In a flat pan set over hot water melt 1 T butter. Add 1/2 c cream. Break 4 eggs, one at a time, on a wet saucer, and slip carefully into the hot cream. Sprinkle with salt and paprika. When partially set, sprinkle with 2 T grated cheese. Cover and let stand until set. Serve each egg on a round of toast and pour surplus cream around each.

Preparing The Meal

Make the toast and coffee. Start the eggs to cooking, then just before serving the fruit add the cheese. Cover and let stand until read to serve.

Saturday Morning Baking Doughnuts

Cream 1 c sugar, 2 eggs, and 3 T melted butter well together; add 1 t salt and 1/8 t nutmeg. Sift 4 t baking-powder with 2 c flour, then add to the sugar mixture, alternating with 1 c milk or water. Add sufficient flour to roll, probably 1 c or more. Handle dough as little as possible. Roll 1/2 inch thick.. Cut and fry in deep fat.

Note

If sour milk is used, 1/2 t soda and 2 t baking-powder should be used, instead of 4 t baking-powder.

Mock Cherry Pie

Chop together 1 c cranberries and 1/2 c raisins; add 1 c sugar and 2 T flour mixed together, then add 1/2 c cold water. Bake with 2 crusts, following directions given on p. 130 for pastry.

Oatmeal Macaroons

Rub 1 T butter into 1/2 c sugar and mix with 1 well-beaten egg. Stir into the mixture 1 1/2 c rolled oats, 1/4 t salt, I t baking-powder. Drop from a teaspoon about an inch apart on greased pans and bake in a moderately hot oven until crisp and brown.

Egg and Tomato Jelly Salad

Cook 1 pint of tomatoes, a bit of bay leaf, a slice of onion, and a stalk of celery 15 m; soften 1/4 package of gelatine in 1/2 c cold water; add to the tomatoes and strain.

Cut 2 hard-cooked eggs in half, dip in liquid gelatine, press against the sides of 4 chilled cups; when set fill with the tomato mixture. Unmould on shredded lettuce and serve very cold with mayonnaise.

Method Of Work

Immediately after breakfast prepare the filling for the Mock Cherry Pie, then make the pastry and bake the pie. Next make and bake the Oatmeal Macaroons. While making the doughnuts have the fat heating, and when hot enough to brown a bit of bread in 40 seconds, 3600 F. (p. 103), fry the doughnuts, draining them on brown paper.

While frying the doughnuts the tomatoes and eggs for the salad may be cooking. Also the gelatine may be soaking.

When the doughnuts are done finish the salad and set away in a cool place.