Peel some potatoes and cut in finger lengths, not too thick, cover with ice water, and if they are old it is better to let them stand two hours. Drain, wipe dry, and fry in boiling...
Be careful and get a young one, as they look much handsomer served up, and besides are more tender. First cut in the direction c, b. The throat bread is considered the choicest par...
Cream two tablespoons of butter until soft, add one tablespoon of lemon juice and a little nutmeg, then beat in enough sifted confectioner's sugar to make a light, fluffy mass. Let...
Ingredients: Macaroni, stock, tomatoes, sausage, cheese. Half cook four ounces of macaroni, drain it and put it in layers in a fireproof dish, and gradually add good beef gravy, fo...
Proceed as directed for peas pudding, omitting the egg, and substituting for it an onion chopped and fried in an ounce of drippings; bake as in the previous receipt. The cost will...
One cup of brown sauce, made with Armour's Extract of Beef, one can of Veribest Ox Tongue, split, one half cup of buttered crumbs, one tablespoon of catsup, one teaspoon of Worcest...
Take bran or whole wheat bread cut thin and spread thin with peanut butter. Wash, pare, quarter, core and slice the apples very thin spread between the bread. Or the bread can be b...
Mash red and white currants; strain them through a linen bag; break in as much of the strained currants as will make the juice thick enough of seeds; add some gooseberries boiled i...
Soap without boiling, will float if not too much ham or bacon drippings are used. Into 1 quart of cold water dissolve the contents of one can of Babbits potash or lye. Melt to luke...
Cut off the green part of the asparagus the size of peas, and scald in hot water a few minutes, then put in the saucepan with a little butter, small bunch of parsley and young onio...
Put two jointed oxtails, (cost about ten cents,) over the fire in one quart of cold water, and scald them, to remove the strong flavor; then roll the joints in flour, season them w...
Ingredients: Rump steak, bacon, ham, salt, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, butter, onions, Burgundy. Beat a piece of rump steak to make it tender and lard it well, cut up some bits of fa...
Three-quarters of an ounce of oil of bay, one ounce of loaf sugar, one pint of alcohol, 95 per cent., two quarts of new New England rum and three pints of rectified spirits, 60 per...
Take a piece of a long square of bacon; cut it in thin slices; do the same with veal, and lay the slices on your bacon. Having made a piece of good forcemeat, spread it thin on you...
Scald and split them; put them in vinegar and water, as much as will cover them, with a little pepper and salt, an onion, a slice or two of lemon, and a sprig or two of thyme, and...
2 ounces Brazil nuts. 2 ounces butter. 1/2 ounce brown flour. 3 ounces tomatoes. 1 teaspoon salt. 4 teaspoons curry powder. 1/2 pint brown stock. 3 onions sliced. Shell the nuts an...
Boil half a pound of macaroni, as above, put into a pudding dish in layers with quarter of a pound of cheese, (cost four cents,) grated and mixed between the layers; season it with...
Cut one cup of stale bread into tiny bits, beat the yolks of two eggs, add a pint of milk and the crumbs. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper and one half teaspoon of Armour's E...
1/2 pint soaked haricot beans. 1 pint water. 1 flat teaspoon salt. 1/4 teaspoon pepper. 1 ounce butter. 1/2 ounce flour. 1 carrot. 1 turnip. 1 onion. A sprig of parsley. A strip of...
1 cup bread or cracker crumbs, 1 of raisins, 1 of vinegar, 1 of sugar, 1 of molasses, 1 of water, 1/2 of butter, 1 of currants. Spice to taste.
Take a pound of flour, the same of butter, with five yolks of eggs, the white of one, and as much water as will wet it into a pretty soft paste. Roll it up, and put it into your pa...
Take 2 bunches French carrots, clean and trim; put in a saucepan with salt, pepper, 1 teacup of water, 2 tablespoons of butter, 8 lumps of sugar, cover and boil for half an hour. T...
Take the largest white currants, but not the amber colour; strip them, and to two quarts of currants put a pint of water; boil them very fast, and run them through a jelly-bag to a...
Coffee The coffee-tree is a much-branched tree of the cinchona family, not exceeding twenty feet in height, and much resembling a cherry-tree. Its pale green leaves are about six i...
Two cups sour milk, one cup sweet milk, one-half cup molasses, two cups Indian meal, two cups graham flour, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon soda. Steam five hours. Bake one-half ho...
1/4 Peck Fry in ham or bacon, 1 onion; add 1 cup tomatoes, 1 sprig thyme, 1 clove garlic--parsley. Add beans and 1 cup water. Cook 1 1/2 hours.
This dish may be made of any meat, but mutton is the best. Take a slice from a tender piece, not sinewy, a slice of ginger, and a slice of onion, put them on a silver skewer altern...
6 eggs 3 very large lemons (rind and juice) 2 cups sugar 2 tablespoons water butter size of walnut Mix all together with Dove egg beater and cook until it boils. Watch that it does...
Take the meat out of a boiled lobster as whole as you can. Break all the shells; to these and the remains of the body, the large claws excepted, as they have no goodness in them, p...
Half a pound of raisins stoned, half a pound of suet, good weight, shred very fine, half a pint of milk, four eggs, two of the whites only. Beat the eggs first, mix half the milk w...