Eggs Suzette

From "Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by Mrs. S.T. Rorer

Bake as many potatoes as you have persons to serve. When done, cut off the sides, scoop out a portion of the potato, leaving a wall about a half inch thick. Mash the scooped-out portion, add to it a little hot milk, salt and pepper, and put it into a pastry bag. Put a little salt, pepper and butter into each potato and break in a fresh egg.

Press the potato from the pastry bag through a star tube around the edge of the potato, forming a border. Stand these in a baking pan and bake until the eggs are "set." Put a tablespoonful of cream sauce in the center of each, and send to the table.

German Pancake Recipes

From a Jewish cookbook published in 1919.

GERMAN PANCAKES, No. 1

Beat two eggs very thoroughly without separating the yolks and whites; add one-half teaspoon of salt, sift in two and one-half tablespoons of flour, add one cup of milk gradually at first, and beat the whole very well. Melt one tablespoon of butter in a large frying-pan, turn mixture in and cook slowly until brown underneath. Grease the bottom of a large pie plate, slip the pancake on the plate; add the other tablespoon of butter to the frying-pan; when hot, turn uncooked side of pancake down and brown. Serve at once with sugar and lemon slices or with any desired preserve or syrup. This pancake may be served rolled like a jelly roll.

GERMAN PANCAKES, No. 2

Beat two eggs until very light, add one-half cup of flour and one-half teaspoon of salt and beat again; then add one cup of milk slowly, and beat thoroughly. Heat a generous quantity of butter in a frying-pan and pour all the batter into this at one time; place on a hot stove for one minute; then remove to a brisk oven; the edges will turn up on sides of pan in a few minutes; then reduce heat and cook more slowly until light, crisp and brown, about seven minutes. Take it out, slide it carefully on a hot plate, sprinkle plentifully with powdered sugar and send to the table with six lemon slices.

GERMAN PANCAKES, No. 3

Beat the yolks of four eggs until very light, then add one-half cup of milk and stir in three-quarters cup of sifted flour, one-eighth teaspoon of baking-powder, a pinch of salt, and lastly, just before frying, add the stiffly-beaten whites of eggs and mix well together. Put on fire an iron skillet with a close-fitting top; heat in two tablespoons of rendered butter; when very hot, pour in enough of the batter to cover the bottom of the skillet, cover at once with the top, and when the pancake is brown on one side, remove the top and let it brown on the other side. Take it up with a perforated skimmer, lay on a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar and some lemon juice. Serve at once. Pancakes must only be made and fried when ready to be eaten, as they fall from standing.

Omelet Recipes from the Canadian Provinces

The following is excerpted from "Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools", 1918, from the The Minister of Education for Ontario. The manual was "issued for the purpose of encouraging the introduction and furthering the progress of Household Science in the rural schools of this Province".

Creamy Omelet

1 egg
1/4 tsp. salt
Pepper
1/2 tsp. butter
1 tbsp. milk

Beat the egg slightly, add the milk and seasonings, put the butter in the hot omelet pan and, when melted, turn in the mixture. As it cooks, draw the edges toward the centre until the whole is of a creamy consistency, brown quickly underneath, fold, and turn on a hot platter. Serve at once. Serves one.

Foamy Omelet

1 egg
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. milk or water
1/2 tsp. butter
Cayenne or white pepper

Beat the yolk of the egg until creamy, add seasoning and milk. Beat the white until stiff, but not dry, cut and fold into the yolk carefully. Heat an omelet pan, rub the bottom and sides with the butter, and turn in the omelet, spreading it evenly on the pan. Cook gently over the heat until the omelet is set and evenly browned underneath. Put it into a hot oven for a few minutes, to dry slightly on top, fold, and serve immediately. Serves one.

A Simple Salmon Breakfast Dish

From "The Salmon Cook Book, How to Eat Canned Salmon", the Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915

Put a can of Salmon into a saucepan and cover with boiling water, cook ten minutes, remove Salmon from can and drain off liquid into a separate dish. After separating the skin and bones from the Salmon, place in a hot dish and pour over and around the fish the following sauce: One cup of milk, two level tablespoonfuls of corn starch, the Salmon liquid, one level tablespoonful of butter, one egg well beaten, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt, pinch of pepper. Heat the milk to boiling, thicken with corn starch, add the butter, salt, pepper, Salmon liquid and egg.

Serve at once.

Editors Note: You can purchase a reproduction in Adobe PDF format (on CD-ROM) of the original cookbook. It is a beautiful old cookbook with charming illustrations, one of which is shown here.

Strawberry Pancakes.

From "The Pilgrim Cookbook", by the The Ladies' Aid Society, Pilgrim Ev. Lutheran Church, Cuyler Avenue and N. Lincoln Street, Chicago, 1921.

Beat the yolks of 2 eggs and add a batter made of 1 cup flour, into which has been stirred 1 teaspoon baking powder, a large pinch salt, 1 cup milk and 1 teaspoon butter, melted. Beat all together, add 1 cup strawberries cut in halves and dredged with flour. Just before beginning to bake cakes fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

Bake on a well greased griddle and serve with butter and powdered sugar.

-- Mrs. F. Schoenwolf.

Omelet with Fried Tomatoes

From "The Pilgrim Cookbook", by the The Ladies' Aid Society, Pilgrim Ev. Lutheran Church, Cuyler Avenue and N. Lincoln Street, Chicago, 1921.

Wipe and peel 2 tomatoes ; cut in two slices ; three if large. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Fry 1 teaspoon onion in 1 tablespoon butter, till yellow ; draw it to one side and quickly fry the tomatoes, adding more butter if needed.

Place on a hot platter and then make a plain omelet with 2 to 4 eggs, according to size desired. Beat the eggs slightly with a fork, add a dash of pepper and 1 tablespoon hot water to each egg. Turn into hot buttered frying pan, and as itthickens draw the cooked part to the center; when nearly all thick shake on a little salt. Let it color slightly, turn out on platter having the tomatoes arranged around it.

— Mrs. H. G. Tischer.

German Egg Pancakes

From "Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking"

5 eggs, separated
1/2 cup milk
1 cup flour, sifted

Put the yolks of 5 eggs in a bowl and beat until very light. Add the milk and flour gradually and mix into a smooth batter which is not too thick. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Drop large spoonfuls on a hot greased griddle. Serve hot sprinkled with sugar or spread with currant or other tart jelly or jam.