Wipe one quart of sound, ripe damsons, (cost ten cents,) with a clean, dry cloth, drop them, one by one into the following syrup: make a syrup by melting one pound of loaf sugar (c...
Take the currants before they are very ripe, and put them into water, scarcely enough to cover them; when they have boiled a little while, strain them through a woollen bag; put a...
This is the genuine English Apple Pie--they would call ours an apple tart. It is made in oval baking-dishes of thick yellow ware, about two and one-half or three inches deep, and w...
To every pound of white amber gooseberries, when heads and tails are picked off and well bruised in a mortar, add a quart of spring water, which must be previously boiled. Let it s...
Take equal parts of cold mashed potatoes and flour. Work together into a paste and roll out in circles about four inches in diameter. Place in each of circles a spoonful of salmon...
(Fagiuolini in salsa d'uovo) Take less than a pound of string beans, cutting off the two points and removing all the strings, and then cook them partially in water moderately salte...
One quart milk, three squares Baker's chocolate melted in the milk, two eggs, four large spoons cornstarch, three large spoons sugar. Beat sugar, eggs and cornstarch together, add...
6 pounds figs, 3 of sugar, 2 lemons, sliced, 1/2 cup sliced green ginger root. Boil three hours.
(Maccheroni con salsa d'acciughe) After the paste is drained thoroughly it is to be put into the hot dish in which it is to be served and the anchovy sauce poured over it and well...
Beat eight eggs to a froth--the whites and yelks should be beaten separately, then mixed together, and a pound of powdered white sugar stirred in gradually. Beat the whole well tog...
Three ounces of butter to something less than a pound of flour and the yolk of one egg; the butter to be thoroughly worked into the flour; if you use sugar, there is no occasion fo...
Half a pound of butter, put in a stewpan over the fire, and let it brown. Cut two or three onions in slices, two or three heads of celery, two handfuls of spinach, a cabbage, two t...
Boil a pint of milk, and stir into it, while boiling, a table-spoonful of arrow root, mixed smooth, with a little cold milk. Stir it in well, and let the whole boil three or four m...
Soak over night a pint of black beans in a quart of water. In the morning drain, and cover with fresh water, set the saucepan on the stove; when the water comes to a boil drain it...
Take Demarara--Bean Dutch coffee--in preference to Mocha coffee; wash it well. When it is very clean, put it in an earthen vessel, and cover it close, taking great care that no air...
1/2 pint soaked haricot beans. 1 pint water. 2 tablespoons mashed potato. 1 dozen Brussels sprouts. 3 onions. The yolks of 2 eggs. 1 gill of rich sauce. 1 teaspoon salt. 12 small r...
(Fegato di maiale fritto) Cut in to thin slices some pork liver, sprinkle with flour and fry in good lard. It must be served with its sauce. Squeeze in a lemon while it is frying.
Ingredients: Beetroot, eggs, Parmesan, milk or cream, nutmeg, spices, salt, flour, gravy. Wash a beetroot and boil it, and when it is sufficiently cooked throw it into cold water f...
Boil a quarter of a pound of Patna rice in water with salt; drain it, toss it up in a stewpan with two ounces of fresh butter, and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Put a quarter of the r...
Batter No. 197. Sausage mixture No. 102. Well butter a baking tin, lay in as many sausages as are required (they should not be too close together), pour the batter round them, and...
(Pollo ripieno) For a middle-sized fowl use the following ingredients: two sausages, the liver and giblets of the fowl, eight or ten chestnuts well roasted, some pieces of mushroom...
(Pagnottelle ripiene) Take some rolls, and by means of a round opening on the top, as large as a half dollar piece or less, extract nearly all the crumb, leaving the crust intact,...
Ingredients: Sponge-cake, jam, brandy or Maraschino, cream, pine-apple. Make a medium-sized sponge-cake; when cold cut off the top and scoop out all the middle and leave only the b...
Remove the meat from six hard-boiled crabs; mix it with four tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise dressing; put it between slices of bread and butter and press two together; trim off the c...
Fish. Turbot, trout, mackerel, mullet, salmon, salmon trout, soles, smelts, eels, lobsters, crabs, crawfish, prawns, and shrimps. Game and Poultry. Spring fowls, and chickens, gees...
1 quart of milk, 1 tablespoon rice, 1 of sugar, 1/2 saltspoon of salt. Bake slowly, stirring once or twice.
A Tartare Sauce or Sauce Tartare is merely a mayonnaise dressing with pickles chopped into it, a tablespoonful, each, or more, of chopped cucumber, cauliflower, and olives, with a...
They should be put into boiling water, and if you wish to have them soft, boil them only three minutes. If you wish to have them hard enough to cut in slices, boil them five minute...
The first day make a brine strong enough to bear an egg, and pour boiling hot on the pickles; cover and let them stand twenty-four hours. The second day drain from the brine and ma...
Pare the melon, cutting away all of red portion; cut in fancy shapes. Salt in weak salt and water over night. In the morning rinse in cold water; add lump of alum as big as a small...