Hellebore, rubbed over with molasses, and put round the places that cockroaches frequent, is a very effectual poison for them. Arsenic, spread on bread and butter, and placed round...
1 vegetable marrow. 10 or 12 floury potatoes. 1 egg. 1 1/2 ounces butter. Pepper and salt. Peel the potatoes, boil until tender, strain, and dry them well. Mash with a large fork,...
For six common sized loaves of bread, take three pints of boiling water, and mix it with five or six quarts of flour. When thoroughly mixed, add three pints of cold water. Stir it...
As cooked fruits are such nourishing food, let the child prepare some kind while the biscuits are baking--apples, for instance. The oven being hot, it is best to bake them, so show...
Beat the whites of four eggs to a froth, then stir in half a pound of preserved raspberries, cranberries, or strawberries--beat the whole well together, then turn it over the top o...
Half a pound of butter beaten to a cream, then add three-quarters of a pound of sugar, three egg yolks beaten light, half a cup of cream, two ounces of almonds chopped very fine, h...
To a pint of water put a tea-spoonful of powdered cloves and cinnamon. Set it where it will boil--then separate the whites and yelks of three eggs, and beat the yelks with a large...
Put three-quarters of a cup of milk in a saucepan with butter the size of an egg, let it come to a boil, and stir into it one large cup and a half of rice that has been boiled in s...
Pick over the berries, measure, wash and then crush. Put on to boil, and cook ten minutes, stirring to keep from sticking to the pan. Then add three-quarters the amount of heated s...
Take half a pint of good beef broth, three table-spoonfuls of cream, one onion sliced fine, a middling sized stick of horseradish scraped, seven or eight peppercorns, three or four...
1/2 pint soaked haricots. 1 onion. 1 carrot. 1 turnip. 1 teaspoon salt. 2 teaspoons curry powder. 1 quart water. Juice of 1/2 lemon. 1 teaspoon Worcester sauce. 1 1/2 ounces butter...
Clean your pike; gut and scale it; cut it into bits, and lay it in oil, with salt, cayenne pepper, parsley, scallions, mushrooms, two shalots, the whole shred very fine; grate brea...
Dissolve a tea-spoonful of saleratus in a wine glass of milk, strain it on to a little sifted flour, beat three eggs with a tea-cup of rolled sugar, mix them with the above ingredi...
Put a scant half cup of rice to soak in water for an hour, then boil in salted boiling water for twenty minutes. While it is cooking put three cups of rich milk and half a cup of s...
Scalloped oysters make a fine supper dish on a cold night, and there are several ways they can be prepared. The one I like best I will give first. The child should butter a number...
Put one ball of pot cheese, such as is sold at a creamery for five cents, in a mixing bowl, break it up with a spoon, and add to it a heaping tablespoonful of butter, the well beat...
Follow the recipe for sweet pickled peaches.
Pour boiling water on the prunes, and set them where they will keep hot, with a lemon, cut in small pieces. When swelled out to nearly the original size, put to each pound of the p...
Rub three-quarters of a pound of butter into a pound of sifted flour and mix in half a pound of brown sugar, add six tablespoonfuls of ginger, one teaspoonful of powdered cloves, a...
Ingredients: Potatoes, flour, salt, Parmesan and Gruyere cheese, butter, milk, eggs. Boil two or three big potatoes, and pass them through a hair sieve, mix in two tablespoonsful o...
Slice three medium sized potatoes, boil until tender, but not soft, chop very fine an even teaspoonful of onion with three zepherettes or small square crackers, then add the hot po...
Spread the bread, and cut the slices about half an inch thick. Then cut a German or Holland cucumber into very thin slices; put these slices all over the bread. Take the center fro...
Shell the nuts and pour boiling water over them; let them stand a minute, then throw them into cold water; rub between the hands and the dark skin will come off. * * *
10 turnips. 2 onions. 2 potatoes. 1 small stick of celery. 1 pint milk. 3 pints water. 2 ounces butter. 2 teaspoons salt. 1 teaspoon peppercorns. Dissolve the butter in a large sau...
These preparations are so frequently mentioned in modern cookery, that we shall give the receipts for them, although they are not appropriate for the Jewish kitchen. Velouté is a f...
These are very nice to serve with a fish course in place of bread or rolls and a salad. Slice the cucumbers very thin and soak them in ice water for one or two hours. They must be...
When the currants, or barberries, (which should be maiden barberries) are stoned and tied up in bunches, take to one pound of them a pound and a half of sugar. To each pound of sug...
Scald a quart of sifted Indian meal with sufficient water to make it a very thick batter. Stir in two or three tea-spoonsful of salt--mould it with the hand into small cakes. In or...
Ingredients: White stock, eggs, butter, peas, white beans, carrot, onion, leeks, celery, cream croutons. Soak one pound of white beans for twelve hours, then put them into a stock...
For a small family, soak one pint of the small navy beans over night, and next morning boil gently until nearly tender. Drain, throw away that water, and add a teaspoonful of salt,...