Bruise some raspberries with the back of a spoon, strain them, and fill a bottle with the juice; stop it, but not very close. Add to a pound of fruit nearly a pound of sugar dissol...
If it is necessary to keep them any length of time, cut off the end of each potato, scrape out the inside, season with salt, pepper, a little butter, a small quantity of cream and...
Put one quart of flour into a bowl; add four level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a teaspoonful of salt, and sift. Rub in two level tablespoonfuls of butter and add sufficient milk...
To half an ox's head put three gallons of water, and boil it three hours. Clean and cut it small and fine; let it stew for an hour with one pint of water, which must be put to it b...
Dissolve two pounds and a quarter of white potash in five quarts of water, then mix it with ten pounds of myrtle wax, or bayberry tallow. Boil the whole over a slow fire, till it t...
Cover a piece of six or eight pounds with water; boil it for twenty minutes or half an hour: then take out the meat, beat it thoroughly, and cut it in pieces, to let out the gravy....
Wipe them very clean, put them into a stewpan with mace, cloves, pepper, and salt, and to every quart of mushrooms put about two large spoonfuls of mushroom ketchup; stew them gent...
Try out small pieces of salt pork in a kettle. Cut up a medium-sized fish, slice thin four or five potatoes; add these to the salt pork in alternate layers; cover with boiling wate...
Mix eight pounds of light sugar-house or New-Orleans molasses, eight pounds of water, one pound of powdered charcoal. Boil the whole together twenty minutes, then strain it through...
three cents;) slice the best part of the mutton remaining from the day before, saving all the scraps and trimmings, dip each slice in a beaten egg, or a little milk, (cost one cent...
Have the birds trussed with their legs in their bodies, but stuffed with forcemeat; parboil and lard them with fat bacon; season with pepper, spices, parsley, and minced chives; st...
Serve a slice of rare roast beef with Horseradish Cream Sauce. Horseradish Cream Sauce.--Beat one tablespoon heavy cream until stiff. As cream begins to thicken, add gradually thre...
The juice of ten lemons, and of two sweet oranges, the peel of an orange cut very thin, and two pounds of powdered loaf-sugar, mixed together. Then take the white of ten eggs, beat...
Take twelve or fifteen tomatas, ripe and red; cut them in half, and squeeze out all the water and seeds; add capsicums, and two or three table-spoonfuls of beef gravy; set them on...
Pound morella cherries with the kernels over-night, and set them in a cool place. Squeeze them through canvas, and to each quart of juice put one pound of powdered sugar, half an o...
6 stewing pears. 3/4 pint water. 1 egg. 6 tablespoons bread crumbs. 24 lumps sugar. 1 inch cinnamon stick. Jam. 1/2 ounce butter. Make a syrup of the sugar and water, peel and holl...
Six medium sized potatoes, washed, peeled and boiled for ten minutes in salted water. Drain and grate them while hot and stir in two heaping tablespoonfuls of butter; mix thoroughl...
Put them in a stewpan, with an onion, and enough cold water to cover them; when come to a boil, skim and set them over a very slow fire till tender; perhaps about three quarters of...
A piece of runnet, the size of half-a-crown, put into a table-spoonful of boiling water over-night, and strained into a quart of new milk, lukewarm, an hour before it is eaten.
Beat the yolks of four eggs half an hour; add five ounces pulverized sugar, then one quart cold, new milk; add a teaspoon lemon extract, fill the cups and set them in a pan half fi...
Mix together two cups of granulated sugar and half a cup of cream, boil until it holds well together in cold water, or can be rolled between the fingers, flavor with oil of pepperm...
Ingredients: Fillet of beef, oil, salt, flour, pistacchio nuts, gravy. Cut a piece of tender beef into little fillets, and put a them in a stewpan with a tablespoonful of olive oil...
Skin the fish; take out all the bones, and cut it in thin slices. Butter the mould well, and throw round it the spawn of a lobster, before it is boiled. Put alternate slices of had...
A quarter of a pound of saltpetre, a large common basinful of coarse sugar, and coarse salt. A leg of pork to lie in it a fortnight.
1 pound cooked semolina. 3 teaspoons sugar. 4 eggs. 1 ounce butter. A little flavouring according to taste. Mix thoroughly all the ingredients, except the butter, and pour into a t...
Three-quarters of a pound of butter, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, one pound of sifted flour, one-half pound of currants washed, one-half pound of raisins stoned and chopped,...
Cut slices of veal about the size of two fingers and at least as long as three; beat them with a cleaver till they are no thicker than a crown-piece; put upon every slice some stuf...
Put two pounds of gravy beef, cut in small pieces, with pepper, salt, some whole pepper, and a piece of butter, the size of a walnut, into a stewpan. When drawn to a good gravy, po...
Take a quart of old peas, three or four cabbage lettuces, two heads of celery, two leeks, one carrot, two or three turnips, two or three old onions, and a little spinach that has b...
Take tart juicy apples--quarter them, and stew them till soft enough to rub through a sieve. To twelve table-spoonsful of the strained apple, put twelve of sugar, the same quantity...