CHEESE

The shells of Edam, or pine-apple cheese, after all the available cheese

has been scooped out, will be used as a baking dish for stewed spaghetti

or macaroni or rice. If care is taken, one shell may be used for three or

four bakings.



Boil the macaroni in plain water until tender; then drain,

cut it into small pieces and add it to cream sauce. Pour this into the

cheese shell, stand the shell on a piece of oiled paper in a baking pan

and run into a moderate oven for fifteen or twenty minutes. Lift the shell

carefully, put it on to a heated dish, and send at once to the table.



After the macaroni has been taken out, the shell will be cleaned and put

aside in a cold place for the next baking. There is just enough cheese

imparted by the toasting of this shell to give ah agreeable flavor to the

macaroni.



Plain boiled rice may be heaped into the shells and steamed, or

baked in the oven for a few moments.



Any scraps or bits of common cheese, when too hard and dry to serve on the

table should be grated, put into a jar and put aside for cheese balls to

serve with lettuce, cheese soufflé, for baked macaroni, or spaghetti, or

for croquettes, cheese sauce, or Duchess soup.





Cheese Soufflé



Put one cup of stale bread crumbs with a gill of milk over the fire for

just a moment; take from the fire, add the yolks of three eggs, six

tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, a half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of

red pepper; stir in the well-beaten whites of the eggs; put into

individual baking dishes; bake in a quick oven about eight minutes and

send at once to the table.





Cheese Balls



Grate or chop sufficient common cheese to make a half pint; add to it one

pint of stale bread crumbs, a half teaspoonful of salt, a dash of red

pepper and the whites of two eggs slightly beaten. Form these into small

balls the size of an English walnut; dip in egg and then in bread crumbs

and fry in smoking hot fat.



These may also be made into small

cylinder-shaped croquettes, and served with cream sauce.