A Plain Way to Cook a Turkey by Roasting

A Plain Way to Cook a Turkey by Roasting

Ingredients

• Turkey
• Butter
• Flour

Directions

1. Make a dressing to suit you; there are several to choose from in this book, made from bread, or forcemeat.
2. Stuff the turkey, season it with salt, pepper, and a little butter, dredge it with flour and put it in the oven.
3. Let the fire be slow at first, and hotter as it begins to cook.
4. Baste frequently with butter.
5. When the turkey is well plumped up, and the steam draws toward the fire, it is nearly done.
6. Dredge again with flour
7. Baste with more butter until it is a nice brown.
8. Serve with gravy and bread sauce; some like chestnuts stewed in the turkey gravy, and served with it. A very large turkey will take three hours to roast, one of eight pounds will take two hours.

Source — la Cuisine Creole
Prepared by F. F. Hansel & Bro ., Ltd
Louisiana Anthology
July 17, 2022

Bacon Ranch Chicken Taquitos

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package of cream cheese
• 12 slices of cooked, crumbled bacon
• 4 cups of cooked, shredded chicken
• 1 (1 ounce) packet of dry ranch dressing mix
• 2 cups of monterey jack cheese
• 20 flour tortillas
• Salt 
• Nonstick cooking spray

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
2. Cover a large baking sheet with aluminum foil and lightly spray with nonstick cooking spray.
3. Mix cream cheese, bacon, chicken, monterey jack cheese, and dry ranch dressing mix in a large bowl. Mix well!
4. Spoon 2-3 tablespoons of mixture onto a flour tortilla and roll it up.
5. Place taquito seam side down onto the baking sheet.
6. Repeat until all filling is used.
7. Spray the tops of the taquitos with nonstick cooking spray.
8. Sprinkle salt over the top of the taquitos.
9. Cook in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until the tops and/or edges are golden.

Source — My Mom

Prepared by Chiara Digilormo

Louisiana Anthology

July 17, 2022

Cold Meat, to serve

 Ingredients 

• Cold roast beef
• Gravy
• 2 tablespoons of wine or catsup
• Water
• Butter
• Browned flour
• Sliced leek (optional)
• Parsley (optional)

Directions

Gravy

1. Add hot water, a good bit of butter, and wine or catsup into a pot.
2. Add a spoonful of browned flour into the pot.
3. Let it stew gently.
4. Add it on top of meat.

Meat

1. Cut cold roast beef into slices.
2. Put slices onto a plate.
3. Pour enough gravy to cover the meat.

• If liked, add sliced leek and parsley.
• Good served with mashed potatoes

Source — La Cuisine Creole

Prepared by Chiara Digilormo

Louisiana Anthology

July 17, 2022

Maigre, without Meat

Ingredients

• ½ lb butter
• 6 onions
• 2 heads of celery
• ½ head of white cabbage
• Parsley
• 3 rolled crackers
• 8 cups of milk and/or water
• 2 eggs

Directions

1. Melt butter in a stewpan.
2. Slice and chop onions, celery, white cabbage, and parsley.
3. Add chopped onions, celery, white cabbage, and parsley into the stewpan.
4. Let boil for 20 minutes.
5. Stir in rolled crackers.
6. Boil 8 cups of water or milk. If desired, mix the milk and water to your liking just as long as you only use 8 cups.
7. Add boiled water and/or milk to the stewpan.
8. Allow to boil up gently for 30 minutes.
9. Take off the stove.
10. Beat eggs well and add to stewpan.
11. Immediately after adding the eggs.

Source — La Cuisine Creole

Prepared by Chiara Digilormo

Louisiana Anthology

July 17, 2022

Broth, Chicken

Ingredients

• Young fowl

• 4 cups of cold water

• Salt

• Head of lettuce

• Chervel

• 2 tablespoons pearl barley

Directions

1. Cut the fowl into 4 pieces.
2. Wash pieces well with cold water.
3. Fill a stewpan with 4 cups of cold water.
4. Place fowl pieces into the water-filled stewpan.
5. Put a pinch of salt into the stewpan.
6. Boil the chicken until it is skimmed well.
7. Chop up the head of lettuce.
8. Add the white head of the lettuce to the boiling water.
9. Add a handful of chervil to the boiling water.
10. Boil the broth for 1 hour.
11. Strain broth into a bowl.
12. Add the 2 tablespoons of pearl barley.

Source — La Cuisine Creole

Prepared by Chiara Digilormo

Louisiana Anthology

July 17, 2022

Melon Mangoes

Melon Mangoes

Ingredients

• Late, smaller than a teacup, smooth, green melons
• Horseradish
• Very small cucumbers
• Nasturtiums
• Small white onions
• Mustard seed
• Whole pepper
• Cloves
• All spices

Directions

1. Cut out a piece from the stem end large enough to allow you to take the seeds from the Mangos.
scrape out all the soft part
2. cover with the piece cut out and lay them in rows in a stone or wooden vessel as you do them.
3. scrape out all the soft part
4. Cover with the piece cut out and lay them in rows in a stone or wooden vessel as you do them.
5. Prepare the following stuffing: sliced horseradish, very small cucumbers, nasturtiums, small white onions, mustard seed, whole pepper, cloves and allspice; scald the pickles and cull them.
6. Rinse the melons in cold water, then wipe each one dry and fill it.
7. Put a cucumber, one or two small onions, with sliced horseradish and mustard seed, into each melon.
8. Put on the piece belonging to it and sew it with a coarse needle and thread.
9. Lay them in a stone pot or wooden vessel, the cut side up.
10. Strew over them cloves and pepper, make the vinegar (enough to cover them) boiling hot, and put it over them.
11. Cover with a folded towel; let them stand one night, then drain off the vinegar.
12. Make it hot again and pour it on, covering as before.
13. Repeat this scalding four or five times, until the mangoes are a fine green; three times is generally enough.
14. Be sure the melons are green and freshly gathered.
15. The proper sort are the last on the vines, green and firm.
16. If you wish to keep them till the next summer, choose the most firm, put in a jar and cover with cold fresh vinegar. 
17.  Tie thick paper over them.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by F. F. hansell & Bro., Ltd
Louisiana Anthology
July 16, 2019

Tomato Soup with Vegetables. Very Fine

 

Tomato Soup with Vegetables. Very Fine. 

Ingredients

• Three carrots
• Three heads of celery
• Four onions
• Two turnips
• Butter
• Slice of ham
• Soup stock

Directions

1. Cut small, three carrots, three heads of celery, four onions and two turnips
2. Put them into a saucepan with a tablespoonful of butter, a slice of ham and a half cup of water.
Let them simmer gently for an hour.
3. Then if a very rich soup is desired add to the vegetables two or three quarts of good soup stock. (made by boiling a beef bone in three quarts of water until the meat is tender).
4. Let all boil together for half an hour, and then add ten or twelve ripe tomatoes and a half-dozen whole peppers.
5. Cook for another hour or so.
Strain through a sieve or coarse cloth.
6. Serve with toasted or fried bread cut in bits in the tureen. This is an elegant family soup, particularly nice in summer when the vegetables are fresh.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by F.F. Hansell & Bro.,Ltd.
Louisiana Anthology
July 16, 2019