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Cheese Dishes Served with Salads.


Method.—Make a sauce of the butter, flour and milk; add the yolks, slightly beaten, and beat thoroughly; add the grated cheese, and, when melted, remove from the fire; add the seasonings and cubes of cheese. Spread in a shallow pan to cool. Cut in any shape desired, dip in crumbs, then in egg, and again in crumbs; fry in deep fat and drain on brown paper.


Cheese Aigrettes.

Ingredients.

  • ½ a cup of water.
  • ¼ a cup of butter.
  • ½ a cup of flour.
  • 2 eggs, with yolk of a third.
  • A few grains of cayenne and salt.
  • 2 ounces (¼ a cup) of grated Parmesan cheese.
  • Hot fat.

Method.—Boil the water and butter, sift in the flour with the salt and cayenne; stir and cook until the mixture cleaves from the side of the pan. When the mixture has slightly cooled, add the eggs, one at a time, beating in each egg thoroughly before another is added. Lastly, add the cheese. Drop, by teaspoonfuls, into hot fat and fry a golden brown. Drain on soft paper and serve piled on a folded napkin.


Cheese d'Artois.

Ingredients.

  • 2 tablespoonfuls of butter.
  • White of 1 egg.
  • Yolks of 2 eggs.
  • Salt and paprica.
  • 2 ounces of grated Parmesan cheese.
  • ½ a pound of plain or puff paste.

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