Slice boiled salsify and put in layers in a buttered baking-dish, sprinkling each layer with crumbs and seasoning with salt, pepper, and butter. Have crumbs on top. Fill the dish with milk and bake until brown.
ESCALLOPED SALSIFY
Mash boiled salsify through a sieve, season with salt, cayenne, butter, and celery salt, and moisten with milk. Put into a buttered baking-dish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake in a pan of hot water until brown; or, use sliced boiled salsify alternately with Cream or Drawn-Butter Sauce and seasoned and buttered crumbs. Have sauce on top. Cover with crumbs, wet with cream, and bake brown.
FRIED SALSIFY
Prepare according to directions given for Boiled Salsify, drain, marinate in French Dressing, and saute in very hot fat. Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce if desired; or, boil, drain, dip in egg and crumbs or seasoned flour, and fry in deep fat.
SPAGHETTI a L'AMeRICAINE
Cook spaghetti until tender, drain, and add a can of tomato paste.
Simmer for twenty minutes, season to taste, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, and serve with grated cheese.
SPAGHETTI a LA TOMASO
Fry six pork chops brown with three sliced onions, adding a little butter or oil if the chops are not fat enough to fry. Pour over two cans of tomatoes and add three whole cloves of garlic peeled and sliced, and salt and paprika to season. A seeded and chopped green pepper is an improvement. Simmer slowly until the meat is in rags, adding boiling water if required. When the sauce is thick and dark, rub through a coarse sieve, pressing through as much of the meat pulp as possible. If it is not thick enough, simmer until it reaches the consistency of thick meat gravy. This sauce will keep for a day or two. Have ready a kettle of salted water at a galloping boil. Put in a handful of imported spaghetti without breaking, coiling it into the kettle as it softens. Cook for twenty minutes, or more if necessary, stirring to keep from burning. Drain in a colander, rinse thoroughly with fresh boiling water, and spread on a platter. Add olive-oil to moisten if desired. Mix with part of the sauce and sprinkle with freshly grated Parmesan cheese. Pass sauce and cheese with it. Fried green peppers or fresh mushrooms may be mixed with the spaghetti, or a handful of soaked dried Italian mushrooms may be cooked with the sauce.
ESCALLOPED SPAGHETTI WITH OYSTERS
Put into a buttered baking-dish in layers drained oysters and boiled spaghetti cut into small pieces. Season each layer with salt, pepper, and dots of butter. Pour over enough Cream Sauce or milk to moisten, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake until brown.
GREEK SPAGHETTI
Chop a small onion fine, fry in butter, and mix with a pound and a half of lean beef chopped fine and fried in butter, highly seasoned with black and white pepper. Fill a baking-dish with alternate layers of the meat and boiled spaghetti, seasoning each layer with grated Parmesan cheese. Bake until brown.
BOILED SPINACH
Cook a peck of well-washed spinach, uncovered, with a cupful of boiling water for ten minutes. Drain, pressing out all the liquid.
Chop fine, rub through a sieve, season with salt, pepper, butter and sugar, and moisten with stock, gravy, Brown Sauce, or Cream Sauce.
Garnish with hard-boiled eggs or croutons. It may be reheated without chopping and seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, and vinegar.
BUTTERED SPINACH
Cook two quarts of spinach according to directions previously given.
Drain, and serve with melted butter; or, chop fine, press out all the liquid, reheat in Cream Sauce, season with a little grated nutmeg and at the last add two tablespoonfuls of butter.
BOILED SQUASH
Peel, remove the seeds, boil until tender, drain, and serve with melted butter or White Sauce; or, peel, seed, and quarter a squash, and cook in stock to cover, seasoning with salt, pepper, butter, and a little sugar. Or cook it in milk, seasoning with salt, pepper, and powdered mace.
BOILED SUMMER SQUASH
Cut into small pieces and cook for an hour in boiling water, then drain and mash, seasoning with salt, pepper, and butter. Moisten with a little cream, and serve.
CREAMED SQUASH
Steam or boil small pieces of squash, drain, and reheat in Cream Sauce.
FRIED SUMMER SQUASH
Cut the squash in slices, dredge with seasoned flour, and saute in butter or dip in crumbs, then in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat.
It may be parboiled for five minutes before frying; or, prepare according to directions given for Fried Eggplant.
ROASTED SQUASH
Peel and cut into long strips. Cook in the pan with a roast, basting with the drippings.
BROILED TOMATOES
Peel and slice large tomatoes, season with salt and pepper, and broil, basting with oil; or, dip in seasoned crumbs or corn-meal before broiling. Sprinkle with minced parsley if desired.
BROILED TOMATOES WITH SAUCE
Season Cream Sauce with a little mace, and salt and pepper to taste.
When smooth and thick add a well-beaten egg and pour it over broiled tomatoes; or, serve broiled tomatoes with highly seasoned melted butter mixed with lemon-juice.
BAKED TOMATOES
Peel the tomatoes and put into a baking-dish. Sprinkle thickly with sugar and bake until the sugar has become a thick syrup; or, stuff tomato shells with seasoned crumbs, dot with butter, and sprinkle with sugar and bake.
BAKED TOMATOES a LA CReOLE
Peel and cut in two, three large tomatoes. Chop fine a green pepper and an onion and spread over the tomato. Sprinkle with salt, dot with butter, and bake, basting with the pan-gravy. Add half a cupful of cream or milk to the pan-gravy, thicken it with flour cooked in butter, and pour the sauce over the tomatoes. Serve on toast.
CREAMED BAKED TOMATOES
Make a Cream Sauce, seasoning with celery salt and onion-juice. Put a tablespoonful of the sauce into a ramekin, add a small peeled tomato, and cover with the sauce. Spread buttered crumbs over the top and bake in a pan of boiling water for half an hour. Serve in the ramekins.