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The Dinner Year-Book

Chapter 1845: Baked Potatoes.
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A practical, year‑round guide to planning family dinners, offering weekly menus arranged for four weeks each month and tailored to seasonal ingredients and the average American market. The author emphasizes variety, economy, and the tasteful reuse of leftovers, providing techniques for stretching meats and transforming cold cuts, crumbs, gravies, and other odds‑and‑ends into attractive meals. Guidance includes larder and refrigerator management, balancing thrift with hospitality, and simplifying company dinners so everyday good cooking will suffice for entertaining. The tone is instructional and focused on achieving consistent, well‑cooked meals without waste or extravagance.

Giblet Soup.

Boil the turkey-giblets in a quart of water. Take them out; add the water to the entire contents of your stock-pot, and simmer at the back of the range for one hour, adding water if it should boil down. Strain and season. Have ready the giblets—the gizzard chopped fine, the liver pounded with half a cupful of turkey-stuffing. Cook all together fifteen minutes, and pour out.

Turkey Scallop.

Cut the meat from your cold turkey. Break the bones, cover them with two quarts of cold water; boil one hour, season and put into a bowl. Chop the meat and season with pepper and salt. Put a layer of buttered crumbs in the bottom of a bake-dish; cover with the mince; moisten with gravy; more crumbs buttered and wet with milk. Having filled the dish in this way, cover with cracker-crumbs, seasoned, wet with oyster-liquor (or milk) and beaten light with two eggs. Strew butter on top; bake, covered, half an hour; then brown.

Boiled Rice.

Skim the fat from the cooled broth made by boiling your turkey-bones. Put into a saucepan with a cup of soaked rice, and cook until the latter is soft, shaking the pot from time to time. Drain off the liquor, and put into your stock-pot; serve the boiled rice in a deep dish, and pass grated cheese with it.

Stewed Tomatoes.

See Thursday, Second Week in November.

Baked Potatoes.

Wash, and bake soft in a moderate oven. Wipe, and serve wrapped in a napkin.

Apple Méringue Pie.

Beat into some good, sweet apple-sauce a little melted butter, and season to taste with nutmeg. Fill a shell of pie-paste with this; bake, and when done, spread with a méringue made of the whites of three beaten eggs and a little sugar. Shut up in the oven a few minutes, to “set.” You can keep raw paste in a cold place from Saturday to Monday, and spare yourself the trouble of making it to-day.