Take one pound of lean veal, one blade of mace, two table-spoonfuls of rice, one quart of water; let it boil slowly two hours; add a little salt.
1 qt. chestnuts (Spanish preferred) 1 pint chicken stock 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon sugar salt and paprika to taste Cover chestnuts with boiling water slightly salted. Cook unt...
Put a quart of green peas into a saucepan with a slice of white onion, cover with boiling water and cook until tender. Remove from the fire and press through a puree sieve with the...
Cut the fowl in pieces; put it in some gravy, with a little cream, ketchup, or mushroom-powder, grated lemon-peel, a few oysters and their liquor, and a piece of butter mixed with...
Sift together two cups of corn meal, two cups of white flour, four _heaping_ teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one LEVEL teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt, and one-half a c...
2 gallon crocks of sliced green tomatoes sprinkled with salt. 4 small sliced onions mixed and let stand 2 quarts cider vinegar, heated and added 5 cents' worth mixed spices 2 lbs....
Cut one and one half pounds of veal into thin slices, also one pound of Armour's Star Ham. Season the veal highly with pepper and salt, with which cover the bottom of roaster. Lay...
Pick the currants from the stems, weigh them, and allow three-quarters of a pound of white sugar to a pound of the fruit. Put the currants in a preserving kettle, mash them a littl...
The currants must be fresh and perfectly ripe and picked in dry weather. Wash and put them in either a porcelain-lined or a granite-ware kettle, stir until they are tender, as for...
One cup of granulated sugar, butter the size of an egg, one egg, one cup of milk, two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda. Mix in the usua...
One ounce of butter, one ounce of sugar, twelve grains of ginger, a quarter of a pound of flour, and treacle sufficient to make it into a paste; roll it out thin, and bake it.
1 pint soaked haricot beans. 4 potatoes. 2 large onions. 1/2 ounce butter 1 quart water. 1 teaspoon salt. Prepare and slice the vegetables, place them with the butter, beans, and w...
Mix rice flour with cold water, to a smooth paste, and boil it gently. It answers all the purposes of wheat flour paste, while it is far superior in point of transparency and smoot...
Take one pound of flour, half a pound of fresh butter, and about four table-spoonfuls of pounded white sugar. Knead the paste with the yolks of two eggs well beaten up instead of w...
Put into a saucepan butter size of a pigeon's egg; add 1 pint of soup stock. When very hot add 3 onions, sliced thin, then a full 1/2 teacup of flour, stirring constantly that it m...
Jellies of these fruits are all made in the following manner: Take the berries when ripe, and in their prime, mash them, and let them drain through a flannel bag, without squeezing...
One chicken, smothered; when cold, cut in small pieces; do not use a chopping knife. Prepare as much celery as chicken, two medium-sized cucumber pickles cut up; also, the whites o...
1/2 pint soaked haricot beans. 2 carrots. 2 turnips. 2 onions. 1/2 ounce butter. 1 pint water. 1/2 pint 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1 dozen peppercorns tied in muslin. 1 tablespoon soaked o...
Wash the soap out of a napkin; double it to the required size, and put it wet into a pewter soup-plate. Put into it a pint of cream; cover it, and let it stand twenty-four hours un...
(Pasta Asciutta) The Italians serve the spaghetti or macaroni at the beginning of the meal, in place of soup, and they give it the name of Minestra Asciutta or "dry" soup. Besides...
Fry in plenty of oil or butter or crisco a large sliced onion. When onion is partly done, add a tin of tomato soup or a cupful of stewed strained tomatoes. Cook for a little while...
The usual time and temperature for baking layer cakes is 400 deg. Fah., for twenty minutes. Loaf cakes, made with butter, with or without chocolate, take a temperature of from 350...
A pint of thin cream, two eggs, three spoonfuls of yest, and a little salt. Mix all well together with half a pound of flour. Let it stand to rise before you put it in the oven. Th...
Take six pounds of cod-fish; cut it up into small pieces; chop two red onions; put them in a stewpan with an ounce of butter; let them brown without burning. Now add the fish and f...
1-1/2 cups sugar, 1/2 of butter, 1/2 of milk, 1-3/4 of flour, 1/4 pound of Baker's chocolate, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Scrape the chocolate fine and add 5 tablespoons of...
Chop Suey is made of chopped meat and the gizzards of ducks or chickens, 1 cup of chopped celery and 1/2 cup of shredded almonds. Mix with the following sauce: 1 tablespoon butter...
1/4 peck beans 1 good size onion 1/2 clove of garlic 2 small tomatoes 1 pinch of thyme 1/2 tablespoon butter 1/2 tablespoon bacon fat Salt to taste Cut beans lengthwise very thin....
Add one-half a cup of seeded raisins to one pint of cold water, set over fire, bring slowly to a boil and let simmer, gently, for fifteen minutes. Blend two tablespoonfuls of flour...
1/2 pound mashed potato. 1/2 pound cold greens of any kind. 6 medium-sized carrots. 1/2 pint rich brown sauce. 1 egg. A few bread crumbs. Pepper and salt. Mix well together the pot...
For six people put on the fire two handfuls of sorrel, reduce it to a puree, and add two dessertspoonfuls of cream, a lump of butter the size of a pigeon's egg, pepper, salt. Take...