There should be always two soups, white and brown, two fish, dressed and undressed; a bouilli and petits-pates; and on the sideboard a plain roast joint, besides many savoury artic...
1/2 pint sauce Tournee No. 182. The yolks of 2 eggs. Strain the yolks and add them to the sauce; stir carefully over a moderate heat until it simmers, but on no account must it boi...
Two pounds of strained honey, three-quarters of a pound of light brown sugar, three-quarters of an ounce of bicarbonate of potash, pounded very fine and dissolved in a little water...
Make a pint of cream sauce, prepare half a pound of mushrooms as in the preceding recipe, cut into dice, and stew in the sauce until very tender. Have the toast prepared as above a...
These sandwiches may be made precisely the same as fig sandwiches, substituting the orange marmalade for the figs.
A handful of parsley leaves picked from the stalks, shred fine, and a little salt strewed over; shred six young green onions, put them to the parsley, with three table-spoonfuls of...
1 pint tomato juice. 1 carrot. 1 turnip. 1 onion. A very small piece each of mace and cinnamon. 2 tablespoons cooked haricot beans. 2 tablespoons vinegar. 1 teaspoon salt. 1/4 teas...
Cut off the spring of a knuckle of pork, and leave as much skin on the spring as you can, parting it from the neck, and taking out the bones. Rub it well with salt, and strew it al...
Ingredients: Calf's head, calf's brains, cream, eggs, truffles, cinnamon, stock, butter, Parmesan. Boil and bone half a calf's head and fill it with a stuffing made of the calf's b...
One cup pulverized sugar, and one-half cup white butter beaten to a cream, one-half cup milk, one and two-thirds cups flour, one-fourth cup cornstarch, whites of nine eggs beaten t...
Put a layer of ham, then another of the white part of chicken, just as you would any other potted meat, into a pot. When it is cut out, it will shew a very pretty stripe. This is a...
1/2 pound soaked haricot beans. 1 tablespoon cream or milk. Whites of 2 eggs. 2 teaspoons of chopped parsley. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon pepper. 1 pint water. Sauce No. 160. B...
A peck of perfectly ripe tomatoes, two quarts of fine cooking salt, half a pound of ground mustard, one ounce of cloves, two green peppers, two or three onions and one pound of bro...
Melt an ounce of butter, and put to it half an ounce of onion, mixed fine; turn it with a wooden spoon till it takes a light brown colour; stir into it a table-spoonful of mushroom...
Boil lean beef or veal till tender. If you have any beef or veal bones, crack and boil them with the meat, (they should be boiled longer than the meat,) together with a little salt...
Quinces, if very ripe, are best preserved in the following manner: Pare and cut them in slices, an inch thick--take out the cores carefully, so as to have the slices in the form of...
(Plain.) 4 fresh tomatoes. 2 eggs. 2 teaspoons flour. 1/2 pint milk. 1 ounce butter. 1 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Scald and peel the tomatoes, and cut them in half (as one...
Put a quart can of tomatoes in a saucepan over the fire with half an onion, three cloves, a bay leaf, a sprig of parsley, a saltspoonful of sugar, and salt and pepper to taste. Coo...
1 pound soaked lentils. 1 tin tomatoes. 1 onion. 1 egg. 1 1/2 teaspoons salt. 1/2 teaspoon pepper. 1/4 pound bread crumbs. 1 ounce each butter and flour. Boil the lentils and onion...
To a pint of cream put three spoonfuls of sack, half a pint of flour, six eggs, but only three whites; grate in some nutmeg, very little salt, a quarter of a pound of butter melted...
Take those of a full growth, but perfectly green, put them in salt and water, strong enough to bear up an egg. When they have been in a week, take them out, and wipe them carefully...
Mix four table-spoonsful of ground rice, smoothly, with half a pint of cold milk, then stir it into a quart of boiling milk. Put in the grated rind of a lemon, and half the juice,...
6 large Spanish onions. 1 ounce cooked vermicelli. 1/2 ounce bread crumbs. 1/4 ounce oiled butter. 1 egg. 1 teaspoon cream or milk. 1 teaspoon chopped parsley. 1 teaspoon salt. 1/4...
Take the thickest rinded oranges or lemons; pare off the rinds very thin; put into a glass bottle as many of these chips as it will hold, and then as much Malaga sack as it will ho...
Boil four feet in five quarts of water, without any salt. When the liquor is reduced to one quart, strain and mix it with one quart of milk, several sticks of cinnamon, or a vanill...
Peel and cut into slices four cucumbers and one small white onion, put in a saucepan with enough boiling water to cover them, cook until tender, press through a fine sieve and pour...
FIRST COURSE. Scotch Collops, Brown Soup, Ragout of brown. removed by Ham. Fish, removed by Boiled Turkey, white sauce. Vol-au-vent Fricandeau, of Chicken. +----------+ with Spinac...
A bag that is used for boiling puddings, should be made of thick cotton cloth. Before the pudding is turned in, the bag should be dipped into water, wrung out, and the inside of it...
One cup molasses, one egg, butter size of an egg, three cups of flour, one-fourth teaspoon cloves, one-half teaspoon ginger and one of soda. Beat molasses, egg, butter and part of...
Lay one pound of ginger in salt and water for a whole night; then scrape and cut it in thin slices, and lay them in the sun to dry; put them into a jar till the other ingredients a...