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No. 2 of the New Cooking Series by the
Best Cook on the American Stage
Analyzes the Government’s Latest
Culinary Effort, “The Mutton Book
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By May Irwin
The Best Cook on the American
Stage.
I HAVE just received au advance
copy of I'ucle Sum's newest cook-
iiijJt book. He calls It the Mutton
Book, and It Is about to be issued by
the Department of Agriculture—tbe
authors being Dr. C. Ford Lang
worthy, the Government’s chief die
tary expert, and Miss Caroline L.
Hunt.
Among other matters, the book
contains recipes for quite a number
of mutton dishes, of which most peo
ple have not even heard. As it says,
’’all are worthy of trial, since the
ability to make many dishes with
any given foodstuff is au easy way
of securing variety in the diet.” In
cidentally the book tells how the
housewife who wishes to economise
can make many savory preparations,
palaluble as well as wholesome,
from cheap cuts.
Is is also so extremely useful and
interesting that 1 am going to cut out
m.v own recl|>eg for this week and
give you some of the “Mutton
Book.”
Mutton is very digestible, and for
this reason is commonly used in the
diet of invalids.
Mutton readily absorbs odors and
flavors, and on this account the
housewife should take special care
of the cuts she buys. As soon as it
arrives, it should be wiped thor
oughly with a damp cloth, and if any
IKUrtlons have the slightest unpleas
ant odor, they should be promptly
removed.
While the forequarter is tougher
and contains more bone than the hind
quarter, it has the very great ad
vantage of a better flavor and more
of it—for which reason it is espe
cially suitable for making broths,
soups or fricassees.
Mutton fat is usually thrown away,
liucldently I never throw it away,
nor does any reul cook) but the Mut-
• ton Book points out how it can
be utilized to advantage in many
way8 in the household. One way
of employing it for frying and other
culinary purposes is in the form of a
savory fat- which may be easily pre
pared. For each pound of carefully
“rendered” mutton fat, allow an
onion, a sour apple, and a table
spoonful of ground thyme or mixed
herbs tied up in a small piece of
cloth. Cook these in the fat, on
top of the stove or at a low temper
ature in the oven, until the on'—
and apple are thoroughly browned
Then strain off the fat- which will
be found well seasoned and may be
used in place of butter foV seasoning
01 for warming of vegetables.
Following are some of the newest
and most interesting recipes given in
the Mutton Book:
1 Saddle. 2—Leg. 3—Fillet. 4—Square. 5—Chop*. 6—Breast.
7—Shoulder. -8—Neck. 9—Head. 10—Feet.
BEAN POTROAST.
fT AKE 3 pounds of mut
ton from the should
er, 1 cup of potatoes
cut into small pieces,
1 cup of carrots cut into small pieces, |4 cup
of sliced onion, 2 tablespoonfuis of flour salt.
Put the meat into the bean-pot and cover
with boiling water. Place the cover on the pot,
and let the meat cook in a moderate oven two
hours. Add the vegetables and salt, cover
again and cook one hour. Reduce the liquid
in which the meat and vegetables have been
cooked to one cup, and thicken with the
flour.
SYRIAN STEW.
T AKE 2 cups of raw mutton cut into
cube*; 2 tablespoonfuls of fat, 3 table
spoonful* of flour, 2 cup* of string
beans, 2 cups of tomatoes, 2 onions, salt and
water.
Dredge the meat with the flour, and brown it
in the fat. Put all the ingredients in a stew-
pan, scraping from the frying pan all of the
flour and fat, and add enough water to barely
cover. Cook slowly until the meat is tender.
MONTANA STEAK.
T AKE 1 pound of lean mutton free from
bone, 1 egg, cup of milk, 1 teaspoon
of salt, 1-3 teaspoon of pepper, add a
few drops of onion juice.
Chop the meat fine, add the other ingredi
ents, form into small cakes, !md either boil or
fry them. This dish is more delicate, if the
egg and milk are used, but it can be made
without them.
MUTTON AND TOMATO PIE.
A N excellent way to use cold mutton is to
bake it with tomatoes, using alternate
lawers ot tomatoes and meat. Place in a
baking dish, a layer of fresh tomatoes, or of
cooked tomatoes, which have been either
drained or reduced in volume by boiling. Add
a layer of meat, dredge with flour, salt and
pepper, and add small bits of Butter until the
materials are used, arranging to have a layer
of tomatoes on top. Cover this with a layer of
buttered bread-crumbs or cracker crumbs, and
bake until the crumbs are brown. The toma
toes, butter and flour should be used in the pro
portions of two level tablespo'ons each of butter
and flour for each cup of tomatoes.
MUTTON AND POTATO PIE
T AKE 1 pound of mutton from the shoulder
1 onion, i/2 CU P of fl° ur > 1 carrot, 6 me
dium sized potatoes, 1 teaspoqnful of
baking powder, 1 tablespoon of butter.
Cook the onions, carrots ana meat together
in water enough to cover. Boil the potatoes
separately. Reserve enough of the latter to
make a cup of mashed potatoes. Cut the re
maining potatoes and the other vegetables and
meat into small pieces, and place in a baking
dish. Cover with some of the broth thickened
with the flour. Mash the remaining potatoes.
Add butter and salt. Mix this with the flour
which has been thoroughly sifted with tbe bak
ing powder Spread this mixture over the in
Mrs. May Irwin, Who Is Writing; a Series of Her Newest Cooking
Recipes for This Newspaper
gredients in the baking dish, anu bake in a hot
oven until the crust Is brown.
MOCK VENISON.
C UT cold mutton into thin slices and re
heat in a sauce made in the following
way: Take 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 cup
of water or etock, 2 tablespoons of flour, l/ 2 cup
of red currant jelly, 1 tablespoon of catsup or
other meat sauce.
Make a brown sauce out of the butter, flour
and water or stock. Add the jelly and other
flavorings.
MUTTON AND EGGPLANT PIE.
C OOK together in a baking pan alternate
layers of eggplant and of chopped mut
ton fried in its own fat. A little tomato
juice may be added or a few sliced tomatoes.
Should be baked until well browned.
MUTTON AND CABBAGE-LEAF ROLLS.
U SE 1 cup of raw chopped mutton, 2 table
spoons of fat, 13 cup of raw rice, 2 table
spoons of salt, / A teaspoon of pepper, 1
lemon. 1
Throw cabbage leaves of suitable size into
boiling water, and let them stand until they are
wilted. Mix the remaining ingredients (except
the lemon), and form into rolls, each containing
about one tnblespoonful. Wrap each roll in a
cabbage leaf. Hack these toUb closely into a
baking dish, and cover with water or stock
Hake one-half hour. Just before serving,
squeese the juice of the lemon over them.
MUTTON SAUSAGE.
T AKE half pound of mutton free from bone,
half pound of fresh pork fat, one-eighth
teaapoonful of black pepper half tea
spoonful of salt, quarter teaspoonful each of
marjoram, thyme and sage.
Put the meat through a sausage or meat
grinder and mix thoroughly with the other
ingredients. Pack in a bag about two and a
balf inches in diameter, and keep in a very cool
place unless it is to be used immeuiaiely. Cm
into slices and fry.
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opals to “keep them from getting sea
sick" and Insure them a safe pas
sage while on the water, and the
people most successful ovef there at
the races ail wear opals at the course,
and those people who are most suc
cessful in speculating at Monte Carlo
and the race tracks in Europe gen
erally attribute their good fortune to
wearing a precious opal at the time
they are taking a long chance with
their good money.
A jeweler once interested me very
much by relatin' what, he called a
little story. He said the wife of one
of his best customers bought (for a
Christmas present to her husband I an
opal scarf pin. It was a marvellous
stone. At that time there was a
heavy mortgage on their home. Hit;
business—he was a coffee broker and
had been fooling with the wrong end
of the market—was in a desperate
condition; he was threatened with
appendicitis, and things were going
wrong with him generally. Pretty
soon coffee began to rise. It kept go
ing up and carried this man right
along with it. He got his business
into good shape, paid off his mort
gage and went along swimmingly.
Now, here's the most remarkable
part of the story. Some one slipped
the pin out of his scarf one day in a
crowd. The very next, day he fell
downstairs and broke two ribs; his
wife upset a bottle of purple ink all
over his new Summer clothes; his
little boy played truant from school
and got arrested for tying a pack of
firecrackers to a dog's tail; the par
lor maid smashed the new chandelier
to flinders with a step-ladder; one of
the carriage horses developed glan
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banana peel and broke his leg. Dur
ing the next week a shutter fell off
the front of his house and hit a po
liceman on the head; the electric
meter in his house brought him in
debt for electric light for $1,200 for
one month alone. His cook left be
cause there was not a piano ordered
for her room, and the moths were
discovered In the new parlor carpet.
When things came to this pass the
man saw that he would have to draw
the line. He sent for the be3t detec
tives known and told them to get that
opal back if it took all the money In
New York. The next day they found
the opal in a pawn shop, and, do you
know, that man just got his opal
back in time to get out of the coffee
market before the panic, and if he
had not got out lie would have
gone higher than a kite. There’s
nothing in the world like an opal.
Horseshoes and lour-leaved clover
are nothing to it.
A child fell out of a six-story win
dow of a Harlem flat the other day.
After catching on to four different
clothes lines it struck on the back of
a cat, and the contact killed the cat.
The child got up and walked away.
It is claimed that the child was wear
ing an opal necklace.
This magnificent gem is composed
of silicia in an amorphous state,
mixed with water, and is in reality
the same mineral as quartz, with the
addition or 6 or 7 per cent of
water. There » are many varieties,
the precious, or harlequin, and the
black opal (always the most sought
afterj, the fire or reddish opal, which
has also, occasionally, a fine play of
colors, and several others. The opal
is infusible before the blowpipe, but
gives off water and Monies opaque.
This quantity or x^Wor of water
varies greatly different va
rieties of opal^BppamUlj when a
gentle heat i^^Hied to the mineral
the brillian^^Hts hues is increased,
either frou^Hppo-aiion of its water
or some^^PEtural change. But if
applic^l^^P- too prolonged, or the
heat^^^Kitense. the hues of the
stoo^^Vmh. never to oe recalled by
scJ^^Pr The same results from the
oflJHs of beat are noticeable in
other gems of greater density and
hardness, a* the emerald, the topaz,
etc. This mineral has been a wonder
and a perplexity to the philosophers.
and au object of delight and pleasure
to the fashionable world lor centu
ries.
The localities where the precious
opal is now found are but few, and
uone of them were probably known
to the ancients. Ail record of oid
opal mines is now lost, but there
were undoubtedly deposits of the
mineral in Arabia, Syria and in Asia,
whence the ancients derived their
gems. The precious opal is found in
claystone porphyry in Hungary, but
these famous mines were not discov
ered until late in the fifteenth cen
tury, aad the country was quite un
unknown to the Romans. It is also
iound near Frankfort, and in Hon
duras, while in the enchauted little
Isla de Flores (Isle of Flowers), two
thousand miles out in the Atlantic,
the writer has seen some very beau
tiful gems.
The best opals in the market to
day come from Australia. The pre
cious opal is one of the most beauty
ful gems in existence. When held
between the eye and the light it ap
pears of a pale, milky, reddish blue,
but when seen by reflected light it'
displays all the colors of the rainbow,
in flakes, flashes or specks; in fact,
all the colors of the most beautiful
gems are here united in one.
When the colors are in small
flakes, distributed over the surface,
it is termed by jewelers "harlequin”'
opal, on account of its resemblance'
to the motley tints of the harlequin’s
dress. This marvellous play of col;
ors is thought to be occasioned by
nearly invisible fissures, and also by
thin films of air filling cavities in the
interior. Opals are generally cut on
cabochou, or tallow drop shape oh
both sides, and the true beauties of
the gem only display themselves
when the stone is moved about, as
then a fine opal really appears to
have actual life within itselt. They
are much more brilliant on a warm
lay. A dealer in gems, aware of this
peculiarity, invariably holds an opal
in his hand before showing it, in or
der to impart warmth to the gem.
True stones of large size are, rareljq
found. ki
Sir Walter Scott, aware thu* the
stone loses its beauty when exposed,
to water, has alluded to this fact in'
“Anne of Geierstein," although in
that romance he ascribes it to super-?
natural agency. Stiange to. sa>, after;
the publication of the brilliant nove)-,
ist’s fiction, the belief that ops s w ere
unlucky obtained such currency ihat
they quickly went out of fashion for
a time. Of late years they have again'
come into vogue and promise lo lie- 1
come, as they have always deserved-,
to be, universal favorites, and now
each day the demand for fine opals
increases, and really fine stones coni
maml big pikes.
it is generally conceded thai the
opals found in any part of America*
are less hard than those found in
vther localities, tint they are no less,
nrilliant, and some of them withstand
atmospheric effect, arid the wear of'
lime quite as well. Others again
fade and become translucent anti
opaque in course, of time, or accord*
ing to the degree of exposure.
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