To one pound of flour take about half a pound of beef suet chopped very small; pour boiling water upon it; let it stand a little time; then mix the suet with the flour, taking as l...
Take a quart of cream with a slice or two of lemon-peel, to be laid to soak in the cream. Take half a pint of sack and six spoonfuls of white wine, dividing it equally into your sy...
Mix into one quart of boiling water enough Indian meal to make a thin batter, about a quarter of a pound, (cost one cent;) when it has cooled, stir into it one pound of wheat flour...
(Polpettone) Take one pound of veal, without bones, clean it well taking away all skins and tendons and then chop it together with a slice of ham. Season moderately with salt peppe...
1/2 lb. prunes 2 cups cold water 1 cup sugar 1 inch piece stick cinnamon 1 1/3 cups boiling water 1/3 cup corn starch 1 tablespoon lemon juice Pick out and wash prunes; then soak 1...
1 pint milk, scalded, and a small piece of butter. When cool, add a little salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1/2 cake compressed yeast, 1 egg, and sufficient flour to make a stiff batter....
Prepare rice as above, and mingle with white sauce; add half a cup of chopped nuts--pecans or hickory nuts preferred; sprinkle a few chopped nuts over surface, and brown in quick o...
Chop celery, English walnuts and apples, mix with mayonnaise. Serve on lettuce leaves.
Yolks of 2 eggs 3 tablespoons of sugar 2 tablespoons of tarragon vinegar 1 pinch of salt Beat well; cook in double boiler. When cold and ready to serve, fold in 1/2 pint of whipped...
Wipe and wrap them one by one in a vine-leaf: boil crab verjuice, and pour it boiling hot over the walnuts, tying them down close for fourteen days; then take them out of the leave...
Skin the chestnuts and cover with cold water, let them cook gently until tender, when a large needle can be run through them easily. Drain and drop them in cold water. After two ho...
Make a pint of cream very sweet, and add the paring of one lemon; let it just boil; put the juice of one large lemon into a glass or china dish, and, when the cream is nearly cold,...
Boil three or four laurel-leaves in one pint of cream, and strain it; when cold, add the yolks of three eggs beaten and strained; then sweeten it; put in it a very little brandy; s...
Clean and cut chicken and cover with water; add a couple sprigs of parsley; 1 bayleaf and a small onion. When chicken is almost done add salt and pepper to suit taste. When chicken...
6 ounces cooked vermicelli. 6 ounces mashed potato. 2 shalots, or a small onion. 2 eggs. 1 teaspoon salt. 1/4 teaspoon pepper. 2 tablespoons tomato juice. 1 ounce butter. Boil the...
Take the gooseberries very green; just cover them with water, and, when they are boiled and mashed, strain them through a sieve or woollen bag, and squeeze it well. Then boil up a...
(Arselle in salsa d'uovo) A good washing with fresh water is sufficient for mussels that do not have any sand to be cleaned away. Put them on the fire with a sauce of oil, garlic,...
Spread some puff-paste about half an inch thick. Cut out six pieces with a small tea-cup. Rub a baking sheet over with a brush dipped in water, and put the pates on it at a little...
To three quarts of fresh, ripe raspberries, put one of good vinegar. Let it remain a day--then strain it, and put to each pint a pound of white sugar. Boil the whole together for h...
2 large young carrots. 4 fresh tomatoes. 3 or 4 new potatoes. 1 shalot. A pinch of sweet herbs. 2 eggs. Pepper and salt. 2 ounces butter. 2 ounces bread crumbs. Melt the butter in...
Sardines, one hard boiled egg, brown bread, parsley. Cut the brown bread into strips and butter them. Remove the skin and the bones from the sardines and lay one fish on each finge...
Two pounds sugar, one pint pale sherry, one pint cold water, one package Cox's gelatine, juice of two lemons, one quart boiling water, small stick cinnamon. Soak the gelatine in co...
Tie up the finest maiden barberries in bunches; to one pound of them put two pounds and a quarter of sugar; boil the sugar to a thick syrup, and when thick enough stir it till it i...
Cut the bread into dice, and when the milk boils add the bread and stew gently fifteen minutes. The proportion is about a cup of milk to one of bread.
Melt two pounds of fresh butter in tin or silver; let it stand twenty-four hours; then rub into it four pounds of fine flour, dried. Mix in eight eggs, and whip the whites to a fro...
A cheap and excellent dish is made by filleting the tail of cod, egging and crumbing the pieces and frying them. Get about a pound and a half of the tail of a fine cod; with a shar...
2 tablespoons coffee infusion 1 tablespoon water 2 tablespoons heavy cream 1 egg yolk Few grains salt 3/4 teaspoon granulated gelatin soaked in 1 teaspoon cold water. 1 grain sacch...
Choose a quart of large, sound, ripe, green gooseberries, (cost ten cents,) remove the stems and tops, throw them into boiling water for two minutes; drain them, let them lay three...
Scald bunches of grapes in water till they will peel; when they are peeled and stoned, put them into fresh cold water, cover them up close, and set them over the fire till they beg...
1/2 pint oysters 3 eggs salt and pepper to taste 2 1/2 tablespoons butter Drain oysters. Put butter in pan and cook oysters until they curl. Beat eggs lightly and put over oysters;...