Many people have the idea that a finely flavored dish must cost a great deal; that is a mistake; if you have untainted meat, or sound vegetables, or even Indian meal, to begin with...
Pare the Quinces, quarter them, and cut out all that is hard; to a Pound of Quinces put in a Pound and a Half of Sugar, and half a Pint of Juice of Barberries, boil'd with Water, a...
Three-fourths pound raw veal, one-fourth pound raw salt-pork, three eggs, nine crackers, three teaspoons salt, one and a half teaspoons pepper, parsley. Chop very fine, and bake on...
Cut off the hard, green stems from two bunches of asparagus and put them in 2 quarts and a pint of water, with 2 pounds of veal (the knuckle is the best). Boil in a closely covered...
Pare the pineapples; pick out the thistle part: take half its weight of treble-refined sugar; part the apple in halves; slice it thin; put it in a basin, with sifted sugar between;...
(Cotognata) The ingredients are about six pounds of quinces and four pounds of granulated sugar. Put on the fire the apples covered with water, and when they begin to crack remove...
Fill a bread steamer about half full of water, and lay the dry bread on it, and set it on the fire, where it will steam the bread from half to three-quarters of an hour; then wrap...
Crust for veal or chicken pie, two teacups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoonful salt, two tablespoonfuls shortening; beat one egg and fill the teacup with milk, a...
Take walnuts when they are fit to pickle, beat them in a mortar, press out the juice through a piece of cloth, let it stand one night, then pour the liquor from the sediment, and t...
Take a pint of milk, four eggs well beaten, three ounces of butter, half a pound of sugar, the peel of a lemon grated; put all together into a kettle, and set it over a clear fire;...
Cut up 2 chickens; fry each piece quickly in bacon fat to a nice brown (not cooking them). Then stew them slowly with gumbo, a little pork, celery and 1/2 an onion till tender. Thi...
Curry may be made of chicken, rabbits, lobster, or of any species of fish, flesh, or fowl. Fry the material with onions, as for mulligatawny, a small piece of garlic, eight almonds...
Lard the duck; lay a slice or two of beef at the bottom of the pan, and on these the duck, a piece of bacon, and some more beef sliced, an onion, a carrot, whole pepper, a slice of...
Cut up the seam in small pieces, put it into a pot with about a gill of water, and set it over a slow fire to melt down, stirring it frequently with a spoon to prevent it from burn...
Take your onions when they are dry enough to lay up for winter, the smaller the better they look: put them in a pot, cover them with spring water, with a handful of salt, and let t...
Beat half-a-pound of finely sifted sugar with the yolks of four eggs until you have a thick batter, stir in lightly six ounces of fine dry sifted flour, then the whites of the eggs...
Cut off a slice, an inch thick, all the length from a to b, and then help. The soft fat, which resembles marrow, lies at the back of the bone, below d--the firm fat must be cut in...
For the plain white boiled icing, simply omit the chocolate from the foregoing recipe, and flavor as desired. After the two white layers have been put into the oven, if she will be...
1 egg 1 tablespoon sugar Speck salt 2 tablespoons Welch's Grape Juice Separate egg. Beat yolk, add sugar and stand aside while the white is thoroughly whipped. Add the grape juice...
1 1/2 pints shelled peas. 2 cabbage lettuces sliced. 1 small onion sliced. 1 tablespoon water. 1 ounce butter. The yolks of 2 eggs. 1 tablespoon cream. 1/4 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teasp...
3 tablespoons cooked haricot beans. 3 tablespoons liquor from ditto. 1 tablespoon mashed potatoes. 3 or 4 eggs. Salt and pepper to taste. 2 teaspoons Worcester sauce. 1 teaspoon fi...
Boil two quarts of cream with a little mace and nutmeg; beat very light ten eggs, leaving out half the whites; put the cream scalding to the eggs, and beat it well. Butter lightly...
Dip sugar in water, and let it boil over a quick fire till it is almost dry sugar again. To half a pound of sugar, when it is perfectly clear, add seven spoonfuls of water; then pu...
Turn new milk from the cow with runnet; press the whey from it; beat the curd in a mortar till it is quite smooth; then mix it with thick cream, and froth it with a froth-stick; ad...
Are nice boiled, and then fried, or boiled and pickled, in the same manner as oysters. Take them out of the shells--when boiled, pick out the hearts, and throw the rest away, as th...
Shred a pound of beef suet very fine; mix it with a pound of flour, a little salt and ginger, six eggs, and as much milk as will make it into a stiff batter. Put it in a cloth, and...
Take Cherries, stone and boil them, breaking them well the while, and boil them very dry; and to a Pound of Cherries put a Pound and a Quarter of Sugar, sifted thro' an Hair Sieve;...
Cut the chicken up in joints; put them into cold water, and set them on the fire till they boil; skim them well. Save the liquor. Skin, wash, and trim the joints; put them into a p...
(Anguille coi piselli) Cook the eels as above with the onion sauce and when it is cooked remove it dry to cook the green peas in the sauce. The pieces of eel should be put back in...
One cup sour milk, one cup sweet milk, two eggs, half teaspoon soda, one small teaspoon baking powder. Mix with flour.--Mrs. Guilbault. * * *