Chop cold boiled tongue very fine. To each cupful stir in two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, dash of red pepper and about one-half teaspoonful of onion juice. Have bread sufficie...
First boil as above directed, then lift into a piepan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, place a small lump of butter in a little hole on top of each, and bake until brown.
Wash and peel enough artichokes to make a pint when cut in slices. Put them in a saucepan with a tablespoonful of butter, let them simmer in this for a few minutes without taking c...
1 pint soaked haricot beans. 1 1/2 pints water. 1 onion. 1/2 ounce each flour and butter. 3/4 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon mixed herbs. 1 inch cinnamon. 1 dozen peppercorns. Boil al...
For each pound of berries, allow a pound of sugar. Put a layer of each alternately in a preserving dish. Let them remain half an hour--then boil them slowly, stirring them frequent...
Into four gallons of water put one pound and a half of coarse brown sugar, two ounces of saltpetre, and six pounds of bay salt; boil and skim as long as any scum rises. When cold,...
Chop fine a quarter of a pound of soft American cheese; put it into a saucepan, add the yolk of one egg beaten with two tablespoonfuls of cream, a saltspoonful of salt, a dash of r...
Another way. 1 pint sauce superbe. 1 onion sliced and fried. 2 teaspoons curry powder. The juice of half a lemon. 1 pound cooked haricot beans. Cooked rice. Place the sauce, curry...
Take some beans cooked as in Mexican Beans No. 1 and mash them to a paste. Then roll out some puff paste very thin--about the sixth of an inch--cut this into rounds with a large pa...
1/2 pint soaked haricot beans. 1 onion. 1 ounce butter. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1 tablespoon vinegar. 1 strip lemon peel. A tiny piece of mace. 1 pint water. 1/2 dozen peppercorns. Diss...
Three egg yolks, a pint and a half of cream, three-quarters of a pound of butter, an even teaspoonful of soda, one pound and a half of sugar, and flour enough to roll. Roll very th...
2 cucumbers. 2 ounces butter. Pepper to taste. 1 gill of water. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1/2 pint sauce piquante. Peel and slice the cucumbers, place them in a stewpan with the other ing...
may be made the same as orange ice, using a quart and a pint of currants, mashed and put through a sieve, and a quarter of a pound more sugar.
To every gallon of ripe currants put a gallon of cold water. When well broken with the hands, let it stand twenty-four hours. Then squeeze the currants well out; measure your juice...
Cut thin slices of rye bread; butter before you take them from the loaf. Spread each slice with a thin layer of limburger cheese. Cut bologna sausage into the thinnest possible sli...
Peel and cut into dice enough fruit, peaches, tart plums, orange and banana to fill a cup and a cupful of crisp celery cut fine; have both ice cold; at serving time mix and cover w...
Run a quart of stewed ripe tomatoes through a colander, place in a porcelain kettle, season with butter, pepper, salt and sugar to taste. Cut thin slices of bread, brown on both si...
Whites of two eggs beaten to a stiff froth, one cup sugar, piece of butter the size of an egg, one cup milk, two and a half cups flour, teaspoon baking powder. Flavor to taste.--Mr...
Pick over six pounds of currants, wash and drain, put into a preserving kettle a few at a time and mash, cook an hour and strain through double thickness of cheese-cloth. Then retu...
Ingredients: Turkey, sausage meat, prunes, chestnuts, a pear, butter, Marsala, salt, rosemary, bacon, carrot, onion, turnip, garlic. Blanch for seven or eight minutes three prunes,...
Turn gradually on to a drachm of the best oil of lemons a couple of ounces of strong rectified spirit. The best method of obtaining the essence of the lemon peel, is to rub all the...
Grape-juice is the most nourishing kind of a fruit drink, and every family ought to put up enough in the fall when grapes are plentiful and cheap to last all winter. First pick the...
(Seasoned.) 3 large tomatoes. Batter. Forcemeat. Proceed as in No. 115, but in addition place on each half tomato a thick layer of forcemeat, or any kind of savoury mixture, of whi...
Eight pounds of salt, six ounces of saltpetre, one pound and a half of brown sugar, four gallons of water; boil all together, skim and put on the beef when cold; the beef to be kep...
Mix a couple of quarts of boiling water with a pint and a half of molasses. Stir in five quarts of cold water, then add ten drops of the oil of sassafras, ten of spruce, fifteen of...
Ingredients: Tagliarelle, lobster, cheese, butter. Boil half a pound of tagliarelle, and cut up a quarter of a pound of lobster. Butter a fireproof dish, and strew it well with gra...
Veal should be boiled well; a knuckle of six pounds will take very nearly two hours. The neck must be also well boiled in a good deal of water; if boiled in a cloth, it will be whi...
Wash and wipe some tart cooking apples, cut in slices a quarter of an inch thick, core and fry them in butter until tender and brown, dredge them with sugar and serve hot.
As many people do not care for the flavor of oil, a nice easy dressing is made by taking two tablespoonfuls butter, rubbed to a cream, to which is added one teaspoonful salt, one-h...
Put a glass of white wine into a stewpan, with half a lemon cut in slices, a little rasped bread, two spoonfuls of oil, a bunch of parsley and scallions, a handful of mushrooms, a...