Part 8

LYSTER FLOUR AND BRAN MUFFINS

1 ounce (30 grams) Lyster flour 1 level tablespoon (15 grams) butter 1 ounce (30 c.c.) 40% cream 1 egg white 1 whole egg may be substituted for 1 egg white 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup washed bran

Method as in previous recipe. Bake in six muffin tins.

Total food value:

Protein, 18 grams. Fat, 25 grams. Carbohydrate, 1 gram. Calories, 310. One muffin = Protein, 3 grams. Fat, 4 grams. Carbohydrate, trace. Calories, 50.

In order to guard against a monotonous diet, some recipes for special dishes suitable for diabetics are given, most of which can be used in the diets of moderate caloric value. They are taken from "Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent" by Fannie Merritt Farmer.

Lyster's Diabetic Flour prepared by Lyster Brothers. Andover, Mass. Barker's Gluten Flour, Herman Barker, Somerville, Mass.

Note.--In the three preceding recipes one whole egg may be substituted for one egg white. The food value will be slightly increased but the texture of the finished article is improved.

RECIPES.

BUTTERED EGG.

Put one teaspoon butter into a small omelet pan. As soon as the butter is melted break one egg into a cup and slip into the pan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and cook until white is firm, turning once during the cooking. Care must be taken not to break the yolk.

EGGS AU BEURRE NOIR.

Put one teaspoon butter into a small omelet pan. As soon as butter is melted, break one egg into a cup and slip into the pan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and cook until white is firm, turning once during the cooking. Care must be taken not to break the yolk. Remove to hot serving dish. In same pan melt one-half tablespoon butter and cook until brown, then add one-fourth teaspoon vinegar. Pour over egg.

EGG À LA SUISSE.

Heat a small omelet pan and place in it a buttered muffin ring. Put in one-fourth teaspoon butter, and when melted add one tablespoon cream. Break an egg into a cup, slip it into muffin ring, and cook until white is set, then remove ring and put cream by teaspoonfuls over the egg until the cooking is accomplished. When nearly done sprinkle with salt, pepper, and one-half tablespoon grated cheese. Remove egg to hot serving dish and pour over cream remaining in pan.

DROPPED EGG.

Butter a muffin ring, and put it in an iron frying-pan of hot water to which one-half tablespoon salt has been added. Break egg into saucer, then slip into ring allowing water to cover egg. Cover and set on back of range. Let stand until egg white is of jelly-like consistency. Take up ring and egg, using a buttered griddle-cake turner, place on serving dish. Remove ring and garnish egg with parsley.

DROPPED EGG WITH TOMATO PURÉE.

Serve a dropped egg with one tablespoon tomato purée. For tomato purée, stew and strain tomatoes, then let simmer until reduced to a thick consistency, and season with salt and pepper and a few drops vinegar. A grating of horseradish root may be added.

EGG FARCI I.

Cut one "hard boiled" egg into halves crosswise. Remove yolk and rub through a sieve. Clean one-half of a chicken's liver, finely chop and sauté in just enough butter to prevent burning. While cooking add a few drops of onion juice. Add to egg yolk, season with salt, pepper, and one-fourth teaspoon finely chopped parsley. Refill whites with mixture, cover with grated cheese, bake until cheese melts. Serve with one tablespoon tomato purée.

EGG FARCI II.

Prepare one egg as for Egg Farci I. Add to yolk one-half tablespoon grated cheese, one-fourth teaspoon vinegar, few grains mustard, and salt and cayenne to taste; then add enough melted butter to make of right consistency to shape. Make into balls the size of the original yolks and refill whites. Arrange on serving-dish, place in a pan of hot water, cover, and let stand until thoroughly heated. Insert a small piece of parsley in each yolk.

BAKED EGG IN TOMATO.

Cut a slice from stem end of a medium-sized tomato, and scoop out pulp. Slip an egg into cavity thus made, sprinkle with salt and pepper, replace cover, put in a small baking pan, and bake until egg is firm.

STEAMED EGG.

Spread an individual earthen mould generously with butter. Season two tablespoons chopped cooked chicken, veal, or lamb, with one-fourth teaspoon salt and a few grains pepper. Line buttered mould with meat and slip in one egg. Cook in a moderate oven until egg is firm. Turn from mould and garnish with parsley.

CHICKEN SOUP WITH BEEF EXTRACT.