1/2 pound cooked rice. 1 pint water. 1 carrot. 1 turnip. 1/2 ounce each flour and butter. 1 potato. 1 onion. 1/2 teaspoon salt. A little curry powder or Worcester sauce, if liked....
Take several kinds of cold boiled vegetables in equal quantities, such as green peas, string beans, flowerettes of cauliflower, asparagus points, a small potato and a French carrot...
Put the desired number of eggs into a kettle and cover with boiling water. Cover the kettle and let stand ten minutes. Drain off the water, put eggs into a bowl, cover again with b...
Mix a large spoonful of salt, a table-spoonful of powdered white-sugar, and one of saltpetre. Work this quantity into six pounds of fresh-made butter. Put the butter into a stone p...
1/2 pound mushrooms. 3 shalots. 1 gill tomato sauce. 1 gill of good brown stock. 1 teaspoon chopped parsley. 1 tablespoon vinegar. 1 small lump of sugar. Pepper and salt to taste....
Wash half a pound of nice, fresh mushrooms, peel them and cut off the stems, cut the flaps into dice, and put the skins and stems in a saucepan with a cup of water, and cook for te...
(Risotto alla Milanese) Melt a small piece of butter in a saucepan. Brown in the butter a medium sized onion, cut in thin slices. When the onion is browned, take it away from the s...
A most important thing necessary to the enjoyment of life, and an actual aid to digestion and the preservation of health, is that each person should make up his or her mind to forg...
One-third cup stale bread crumbs, one-third cup fine chopped suet, one-third cup prune puree, one level teaspoonful baking powder, one egg beaten light, one-third cup flour, one-th...
Let the crust be made a good standing one; the wall and bottom must be very thick. Take a turkey and bone it, a goose, a fowl, a partridge, and a pigeon, and season all well. Take...
To one pint of calves' foot or hartshorn jelly add four ounces of almonds blanched and beaten very fine with rose and orange-flower water; let half an ounce of the almonds be bitte...
Put in a bowl the yolks of four eggs and three whole eggs and six and a half ounces of sugar; beat together for fifteen minutes, then add six and a half ounces of almonds blanched...
Take the legs, wings, brains, and rump, and put them into a little white wine vinegar and claret, with some fresh butter, the water of an onion, a little pepper and sliced nutmeg,...
1 cup fresh milk Yolk 1 egg 1 tablespoon sugar Speck salt Few grains nutmeg 1 tablespoon rum Beat yolk, add sugar, salt and nutmeg; add milk and rum. NOTE.--For consumptives, taken...
Add one grated pineapple to a tumbler of peanut butter, mix thoroughly, add a tablespoonful of lemon juice, a dash of cayenne, a half teaspoonful of paprika. Put this between thin...
Put a bit of butter in your stewpan with a little flour; keep stirring this over the fire, but not too hot, till it turns of a good gold colour, and put a little of it into your gr...
Take out one dozen oysters for the gravy first; then take one pint of oysters (pour off most of the liquor and save to put in the gravy); one pint of cracker crumbs rolled but not...
Boil the birds in abundance of water; if they are large, they will require three quarters of an hour; if small, about half an hour. For sauce--stewed white celery, thickened with c...
1 cup of mashed boiled rice, 1 cup of corn meal, 2 eggs, well beaten, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of butter, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, sufficient milk to make a thin batter...
Artichokes should be laid about six hours in a very strong brine of salt and water. Then put them into a pot of boiling water, and boil them till you can draw the leaves from the b...
Wash and scrape two stalks of celery, add an equal quantity of shredded cabbage, and six walnut meats broken in pieces. Serve with cream dressing.
Take the largest and finest bunches of currants you can get; beat the white of an egg to a froth; dip them into it; lay them, so as not to touch, upon a sieve: sift double-refined...
(Scaloppine di carne battuta) Take some good lean beef, clean it well, removing all little skins and tendons, then first chop and after grind the meat fine in the grinder. Season w...
This is formed by the leg and part of the loin, cut so as to resemble a haunch of venison, and is to be helped at table in the same manner.
Two pounds and a half of flour, a pint and a half of milk, half a pound of butter, six ounces of sugar, one even teaspoonful of cardamom seeds pounded fine, and one cake of compres...
Pare your oranges very thin, and lay them in water two or three days, changing the water twice a day; then take them out, and dry them with a linen cloth. Take their weight in suga...
1 pound mashed potatoes. 1 middling-sized head of celery. 1 ounce butter or frying oil. 1/2 teaspoon salt. A little pepper. Wash the celery well, cut into pieces and stew in just s...
1 cup carrots, grated 1 cup potatoes, grated 1 1/2 cups white sugar 2 cups flour 1 cup raisins 1 teaspoon soda Salt, cinnamon, lard and nutmeg to taste. Steam three hours. Serve wi...
Take a quart of cream, put to it a gill of new milk; boil one half of it and put it to the other; then let it stand till it is of the warmth of new milk, after which put in a littl...
Currants and gooseberries are the best for pies when of a full growth, just before they begin to turn red--they are tolerably good when ripe. Currants mixed with ripe raspberries o...