This section is from the book "Food Facts For The Home-Maker", by Lucile Stimson Harvey. Also available from Amazon: Food facts for the home-maker.
Soak I cup of dried bread crumbs in fresh milk. Beat into this 3 eggs, add I tablespoon of butter and 1/2 pound of grated cheese. Strew upon the top sifted bread crumbs and bake in oven until a delicate brown.
3 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup flour 2/3 cup milk Yolks 2 eggs
1 1/2 cups mild cheese, grated Salt and pepper Few grains cayenne
Make a thick white sauce, using butter, flour, and milk; add yolks of eggs and stir until well mixed, then add cheese. As soon as grated cheese melts, remove from fire and season with salt, pepper, and cayenne. Spread in shallow pan and cool. Turn on a board, cut in small squares or strips, dip in crumbs, egg, and crumbs again, fry in deep fat, and drain on brown paper.
1 cup crumbs
2 tablespoons butter 1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon paprika
1/4 pound cheese, grated 1 1/2 cups milk, hot 2 eggs
Melt butter, stir in crumbs, and mix thoroughly with grated cheese. Beat eggs together, add slowly the hot milk, and pour the mixture on the crumbs and cheese; season and pour into buttered molds. Set in hot water in moderate oven till set like a custard.
Individual recipe
I rounding tablespoon grated cheese 1/2 teaspoon melted butter 1 scant teaspoon milk 1 teaspoon egg Salt Paprika
Large recipe
1/2 pound 1 tablespoon 1 tablespoon 1 egg
1/2 teaspoon
Mix all to a smooth paste. Make patty cases as follows: Have slices of bread one inch thick; shape with large round cutter, then with smaller round cutter cut part way through the slice and dig out center. Spread lightly with butter and brown in oven. Fill case with cheese and place in oven just long enough to soften cheese.
Toast circular pieces of bread, sprinkle with a thick layer of grated cheese, season with salt and cayenne. Place on a tin sheet and bake until cheese is melted. Serve at once.
Spread circular pieces of toast with a thin layer of French mustard and proceed as in Canapes I.
 
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