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Mar 5, 2019 — 4 min read

The Second Email We Sent Today, March 5, 2019

Good morning! The first email we sent out today was the HMM WEEKLY PREMIUM NEWSLETTER, now distributed strictly to the members, supporters, and patrons of Hmm Daily. If you're getting this, and if we configured our email account settings right, you are on the Hmm Daily mailing list but not among our members, supporters, or patrons. We're glad to correspond with you regardless, but if you'd like to read the full HMM WEEKLY PREMIUM NEWSLETTER, please join our paying community. Thank you for your interest!

Hmm Weekly readers are now up to No. 8 in our series of 19 Folktales, "The Discontented Butterfly."

Although we have reserved our newly written newsletter content for HMM WEEKLY, we present here for your diversion several recipes from The New Lucile Cook Book by Acker, Merrall & Condit Company, published in 1906, and now in the public domain:
BANANAS FRIED WHOLE.
Peel and cut off the tip at each end; sprinkle with pepper and salt, roll in beaten egg, then in fine crumbs, again in egg, and again crumb them. Leave them upon ice for an hour or two, and fry in deep, boiling cottolene* or other fat to a delicate brown. Serve very hot.

FRIED RIPE TOMATOES.
Cut firm tomatoes into thick slices, but do not peel them. Sprinkle each slice with salt, dip into a beaten egg and then in fine cracker dust. Set in a cold place for an hour and fry in boiling cottolene* or other fat, or in butter.

BROILED EGGS.
Toast as many half slices of bread as the number of eggs required; butter the toast, break an egg carefully and put one on each piece. Hold a hot salamander, or a hot shovel over each egg until the white is set. Also sprinkle each egg with a little salt, white pepper, and a few drops of lemon juice. Serve at once.

* Cottolene was a brand of shortening made of beef suet and cottonseed oil produced in the United States from 1868 until the early 20th century. (Wikipedia)
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