Boil a bit of horseradish and anchovy in gravy with a little lemon-peel and mace; add some cream; thicken it with flour and butter. If you have no gravy, ketchup is a good substitu...
Lard the veal with bacon and lemon-peel; boil it with a piece of bacon, cut in slices; put the veal into a dish, and lay the bacon round it. Serve it up with green sauce made thus:...
One quart of water, a pound and a quarter of sugar boiled and skimmed as before, and the juice of one lemon and a large, perfectly ripe pineapple, carefully peeled and shredded fin...
Gather the fruit dry; pick the leaves from it, and to every twenty-five pounds of currants put six quarts of water. Break the currants well, before the water is put to them; then l...
Put a wine glass of good stock jelly, made into broth, into a stewpan, half a spoonful of the best white wine vinegar, a little salt, a few whole peppercorns, and a bit of butter,...
Take two quarts of the juice of oranges and lemons, and dissolve in it four pounds and a half of sugar. Steep one-fourth part of the oranges and lemons in nine quarts of spirits fo...
is called _crême de sauté_. Itself one of the most wholesome of vegetables, watercress combines admirably with potatoes in making soup. Wash, dry, and chop finely four ounces of th...
Strip the currants from the stalks; weigh one pound of sugar to one pound of fruit, and to every eight pounds of currants put one pound of raspberries, for which you are not to all...
Ingredients: Rice, pork, ham, onions, tomatoes, butter, stock, vegetables, Parmesan. Put a small bit of onion and an ounce of butter into a saucepan, add half a pound of tomatoes c...
1/2 pound cooked rice. 1/4 pound mashed potatoes. 2 teaspoons parsley. 2 shalots. 1/4 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon mixed herbs. A little pepper. 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind. Egg...
Fry three medium-sized tomatoes in one and a half ounce of butter. Pass this through a sieve, then boil it up in a bain-marie till it thickens, and add one dessertspoonful of New C...
Boil a quart of milk with half a dozen peach leaves, or the rind of a lemon. When they have flavored the milk, strain it, and set it where it will boil. Mix a table-spoonful of flo...
Rub the edge of the china or glass with the beaten white of an egg. Tie very finely powdered quick lime in a muslin bag, and sift it thick over the edges of the dishes that have be...
A pound of sugar to a pound of fruit: melt the sugar, and bruise the gooseberries with an apple-beater, but do not beat them too small. Strain them through a hair strainer, and put...
2 Tablespoons Dry Mustard 2 " " Salt 2 " " Flour 2 " " Sugar Sift together through fine strainer three times. Put into a double cooker two cups of milk. Beat four eggs thoroughly....
Draw the neck with parsley, and then roast it; and, when almost enough, dredge it with white pepper, salt, and crumbs; serve it with the juice of orange and gravy.
To half a pound of the best flour add the same quantity of butter, two spoonfuls of white sugar, the yolks of two eggs and one white; make it into a paste with cold water.
Put a third part of the clearest and largest quinces into cold water over the fire, and coddle till tender, but not so as to be broken. Pare and cut them into quarters, taking out...
1 large turnip. 1 large carrot. 1 large onion. 1 large tomato. 1 small stick of celery. 1 teaspoon salt. 2 tablespoons pearl barley. 2 ounces butter. 1 1/2 pints water. { 12 pepper...
Boiled or roasted veal makes a nice dish, chopped fine, and warmed up, with just sufficient water to moisten it, and a little butter, salt, and pepper, added. A little nutmeg, and...
Put the celery, cut into pieces about an inch long, and the onions sliced, with a small lump of butter; stew them on a slow fire till quite tender; add two spoonfuls of flour, half...
Butter thin slices of pumpernickel or brown bread; put between each two slices a very thin layer of Swiss cheese, put two together, and cut into triangles; garnish with cress.
Take twenty-four pounds of raisins, of whatever sort you please; pick them clean, chop them small, put them into a tub, and cover them with three gallons of water that has been boi...
Take three or four large white potatoes. Wash and peel them and boil until only half done. Grate them, and take only the part that has passed through the grater--that it may be lig...
Take two quarts of strong broth made of beef; twelve onions; cut these in four quarters, lay them in water an hour to soak. Brown four ounces of butter, put the onions into it, wit...
Take a firm cabbage cut in quarters; slice it; boil your vinegar with ginger and pepper; let it stand till cold; then pour it over your cabbage, and tie it down. It will be fit for...
In making rose sandwiches cover the bread and butter with rose leaves over night. Put a few rose petals between the slices when making the sandwiches.
Take a small stick of cinnamon, and boil it in half a pint of claret; then add as much finely grated bread-crumbs as will make a thick pap; and, after it has boiled thoroughly, swe...
It will take full twenty minutes--gravy sauce to eat with it.
Take equal weights of grated cocoanut and powdered white sugar, (the brown part of the cocoanut should be cut off before grating it)--add the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth...