SPAGHETTI ITALIENNE
- ¾ pound spaghetti,
- 3 quarts boiling water,
- 1 tablespoonful salt,
- 2 tablespoonfuls butter,
- ⅛ teaspoonful salt,
- ⅛ teaspoonful white pepper,
- A little nutmeg,
- 1 cup tomato sauce,
- 2 ounces grated Parmesan or Swiss cheese or 1 ounce of each.
Slide spaghetti without breaking it, in the boiling water gradually and boil 25 minutes. Drain, place butter in sauce pan, salt, pepper and nutmeg, let cook a few minutes, add the hot tomato sauce, gently mix with a fork, then add cheese and mix well again with a fork for one minute or longer. Dress on a hot dish and serve.
SPINACH COOKED IN BUTTER
Cook the spinach leaves in a pan with salted water. Wash them freely with water to remove the sand which they may contain completely. Drain them, press out the moisture and chop them up very fine. Heat some butter in a saucepan, add the chopped spinach, stir them up with a long wooden spoon, adding a little butter. This will work out the moisture. Season them to taste with salt and a little scraped nutmeg. Finish by adding an ounce and a half of fine butter.
MACARONI ESCALLOPED
Break half a pound of macaroni into short lengths and cook until tender in plenty of salted water. Make a sauce of two level teaspoonfuls each of Gold Medal Flour and butter mixed together and one cupful of cream cooked together five minutes. Add half a level teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper. Stir in one egg and take from the range at once. Put the macaroni into a buttered baking dish in alternate layers with the sauce and pour over all one-quarter cupful of milk and one-quarter pound grated cheese melted together. Pour this mixture all over the top, so that it will be well distributed through the dish. Cover with fine bread crumbs and brown in a quick oven.
CHILI CON CARNE
One and one-half pounds Mexican Chili beans, 6 good sized onions, 6 cloves garlic, 1 can tomatoes, ½ teaspoonful paprika, a bay leaf, 1½ pounds hamburger, 3 tablespoonfuls of Gebhardt’s Eagle Chili Powder, salt to taste. Soak the beans overnight, then cook until done, add can of tomatoes and paprika, bay leaf, salt, slice the onions and garlic, fry until done.