Green Pea Timbales
Press one pint cooked peas through a sieve; add four tablespoons milk or soup stock, few drops of onion juice, salt, pepper, cayenne, and the whites of three eggs, beaten until stiff. Press into buttered timbale molds, set in a pan of hot water, and bake in a slow oven until firm. Unmold, serve on hot platter. Garnish with a piece of parsley on the top of each timbale and [Béchamel Sauce].
Egg Plant baked in Shell
Boil four egg plants twenty minutes. Cut in halves lengthwise. Scoop out center. Drain in cheese cloth. Mix one half cup bread crumbs, one quarter cup minced chicken, one quarter cup egg plant, two tablespoons butter, salt, paprika, and cayenne, and one egg.
Fill egg plant shells with this mixture, cover with buttered and seasoned crumbs, and bake in a slow oven about one hour.
Broiled Mushrooms
Wash, scrub, sprinkle with salt and pepper, twelve large fresh mushrooms. Broil over a clear fire. Place on twelve rounds of bread toasted on one side. Sauté in two tablespoons butter, one cup chopped mushrooms; season with salt and pepper and add one fourth cup heavy cream. Reheat and pour over mushrooms on toast.
Baked Mushrooms
Wash, scrub, sprinkle with salt and pepper, twelve large fresh mushrooms. Remove stems, sauté in butter, add one cup chicken stock or cream, simmer fifteen minutes. Place on rounds of bread, on a buttered platter; cover and cook in oven fifteen minutes, basting once during cooking with melted butter. A few gratings of nutmeg is considered by many an improvement.