20 very small new potatoes. 1 egg. 2 ounces bread crumbs. 1/4 teaspoon salt. 1/4 teaspoon pepper. A pinch each of powdered mace and sweet herbs. Boil the potatoes twenty minutes, t...
Six oranges, whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth, two quarts of water, two cups of sugar. Freeze same as ice cream.--Mrs. Paxton. * * *
Salted nuts, used so much, are usually placed on the table when it is set, and passed during the meal. They are very expensive if bought ready for use, but quite inexpensive made a...
Two legs of veal, put on with boiling water and skimmed; when skimmed, add butter. Prepare rice by boiling. When the soup is done, remove bone and meat, strain, add rice, and let c...
Take sixty cloves, two nutmegs sliced, and eight cloves of garlic, to a quart of vinegar.
Two cups graham meal, two cups flour, three cups sour milk, two large spoons sugar. Salt. Soda according to condition of the milk.--Mrs. C. H. Bailey. * * *
Ingredients: Fowl, butter, fat bacon, ham, mushrooms, truffles, herbs, spice, gravy. Cut up a fowl and cook it in a fricassee of butter, bacon, ham, herbs, mushrooms, truffles, spi...
A pint of old mushroom ketchup, a pint of old walnut pickle, six anchovies finely pounded, six cloves of garlic, three pounded, three not, and half a tea-spoonful of cayenne pepper...
Cut three pounds of beef and one pound of veal in slices and beat it. Put half a pound of butter and a piece of bacon in your pan, brown it, and sprinkle in half a spoonful of flou...
Have a sufficient quantity of good strong broth as for any other soup, taking care that it is not too strongly flavoured by any of the roots introduced into it. Peel a good quantit...
Mix together three-quarters of a cup of rye meal and a quarter of a cup of white flour and a saltspoonful of salt. Beat two egg yolks and stir into it a cup of sweet milk and one t...
One quart milk, one cup white meal or gold dust, one cup sugar, two eggs. Salt. Scald the meal in milk, and bake about two hours slowly. * * *
Soak half a pound of prunes over night, then stew half an hour and sweeten with half a cupful of sugar. When cool, cut in small pieces or put through the colander, and stir in to t...
Make a sauce of one ounce and a half of butter, one ounce of flour, a scant half cup of rich milk, half a teaspoonful of sugar, a grating of nutmeg, if liked, and salt and pepper t...
A loaf of stale sponge cake--one that has been baked in a border mould looks pretty. Saturate the cake with orange juice to which has been added a little lemon. Stick the cake over...
This is excellent for sauce. Into a pint of vinegar put two cloves of garlic, two spoonfuls of red pepper, two large spoonfuls of India soy, and four of walnut pickle, with as much...
Take a quarter of a pint of vinegar, the same of white wine, a quarter of an ounce of mace, the same of cloves, pepper, and six large anchovies, a stick of horseradish, an onion, a...
Boil three pounds of veal with a handful of sweet herbs, and a little mace; when well boiled strain it through a sieve, skim off all the fat. Pare twenty-five onions; boil them sof...
A pint of new milk, the yolk of two eggs, well beaten, two ounces of butter, well mixed with flour; mix it all together in a saucepan, and, when it boils, add two spoonfuls of mush...
Cut slices of stale home-made bread about half an inch thick, shape them like chops, soak the slices in a rich, well seasoned vegetable stock until nearly saturated with it--don't...
Another way. 2 tablespoons of bread crumbs. 2 tablespoons of chopped parsley. 2 shalots. 1 egg. 1/2 teaspoon pepper. 1 teaspoon salt. Chop the shalots and mix with the other ingred...
Dissolve a tea-spoonful of saleratus in a wine glass of wine, or milk--strain it on to three tea-cups of raised dough. Work into the dough a tea-cup of lukewarm melted butter, two...
3/4 pint tomato juice. 3 eggs. 1 shalot. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon pepper. 1/2 ounce butter for dish. Beat the yolks, and add to them the tomato juice (tinned will do), the s...
Take one large yellow turnip, peel, wash and wipe dry, cut in oblong pieces. Brown a good lump of butter in a spider, simmer the turnip slices in this until nicely browned, taking...
Pare, core and quarter half a dozen fine, large cooking apples, put them in a double boiler with the grated rind of half a large lemon, cook until tender, and press through a sieve...
Stew ten cents worth of fruit and four ounces of sugar together; make some pastry according to the directions in the receipt for BAKED APPLE DUMPLINGS; line deep pie-plates with th...
One pound of common salt, half a pound of bay salt, four ounces of saltpetre, two ounces of black pepper; mix them together, and rub the ham very well for four days, until the whol...
Ingredients: Salmon, oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, nutmeg, herbs. Cut a piece of salmon into fillets, marinate them in oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and herbs for two h...
Flake cold boiled white fleshed fish, dust it with salt and pepper and sprinkle it with lemon juice. Butter thin slices of brown bread; do not trim off the crusts. Put on one slice...
Grate the rind of one lemon, add one tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in a little cold water, one teacup boiling water, one whole egg and the yolks of two. Take the whites of two eg...