Ingredients: Calf's head, eggs, Parmesan, ham, pepper, butter, croutons. A good rechauffe' of calf's head may be made in the following manner: After the head has been well boiled i...
Ingredients: Asparagus, butter, nutmeg, salt, supreme sauce (No. 16) gravy, lemon, Parmesan. Cut some asparagus into pieces about an inch long and cook them in boiling water with s...
them in butter over a slow fire, so that the balls may be well cooked through, and when they are the right colour dry them in a napkin and serve very hot. These bodini may be made...
Ingredients: Any sort of fish, celery, parsley, carrots, garlic, onion, anchovies, almonds, capers, mushrooms, butter, salt, pepper, flour, tomatoes. Chop up a stick of celery, a s...
Ingredients: Potatoes, white stock, salt, butter, peas, asparagus, sprouts, beans Choose some big sound potatoes, cut them in half and scoop out a little of the centre so as to for...
Ingredients: Cucumber, cream, salt, Bechamel sauce, butter, Parmesan, cayenne pepper. Cook a cucumber as in No. 165, braize it for five minutes, add to it a good rich Bechamel (No....
Ingredients: Calf's brains, stock, Bechamel sauce, eggs, butter, lemon, forcemeat of fowl, flour. Boil a calf's or sheep's brain in good stock, wipe it well, and cut it up. Reduce...
First the child should measure her flour while her cup is dry, and adding the baking-powder, sift it on to a paper or in an extra bowl, and set it aside, ready for use. Next she ca...
Almost all kinds of fruit are used in salads. Bananas and oranges, alone or together, are served on lettuce with the cream salad dressing, as are also the skinned and seeded white...
Ingredients: Cucumber, butter, cheese, gravy, salt, cayenne. Cut a cucumber into slices about half an inch thick, boil for five minutes in salted water, drain in a sieve, and fry s...
Ingredients: Potatoes, butter, salt, tomatoes, lemon, stock. Peel three or four raw potatoes, cut them in slices about the size of a five-shilling piece, then put them into a stewp...
Instead of always serving the ordinary crackers, teach the child how to prepare some simple little extras for nice soups. Plain square crackers spread with butter, salted and then...
Ingredients: Oysters, parsley, celery, thyme, pepper, garlic, oil, lemon. Prepare the oysters as above, but rub each shell with a little garlic. Put on each oyster a mixture made o...
Good white sauce is needed for so many different kinds of vegetable, fish and meat dishes, that a child should be taught it at the beginning of her work. Have her melt one tablespo...
Wipe a small piece of halibut, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Put in a buttered pan, cover with a thin strip of fat salt pork gashed several times, and bake twelve to fifteen m...
Tie some parsley, sage, mint, thyme, and basil, in a bunch; put them into a saucepan of boiling water, and let them boil about a minute; take them out, squeeze the water from them,...
Ingredients: Brussels sprouts, butter, pepper, stock, Bechamel sauce, Parmesan, croutons. Take off the outside leaves of half a pound of Brussels sprouts, wash and boil them in sal...
Ingredients: Fish, flour, butter, Villeroy. Any sort of fish will do, turbot, sole, trout Cut it into fillets, flour them over and cook them in butter in a covered stewpan; then ma...
Spread thinly sliced brown bread with butter first, then with raisins, seeded and chopped.
Parboil sliced potatoes, or slice cold boiled ones, line the bottom of a baking dish, sprinkle with salt, pepper, a little flour, grated cheese, and dots of butter. Repeat until th...
At a time when other fruits are very high, the plain apple jelly, so delicate in flavor itself, can be mixed when ready to pour with any kind of preserved fruit, ready to be put up...
Ingredients: Espagnole sauce, stock, burnt sugar, vinegar, raisins, pine nuts or almonds. Mix two spoonsful of burnt sugar with one of vinegar, and dilute with a little good stock....
the garlic in longer than ten minutes.
Ingredients: Sweetbread, bread crumbs, Parmesan, butter. Blanch as many sweetbreads as you require, and then roll them in bread crumbs mixed with grated Parmesan, salt, and pepper;...
Ingredients: Beetroot, white sauce, Parmesan, Cheddar. Boil a beetroot till it is quite tender, peel it, cut into slices, put it in a fireproof dish, and cover it with a thick whit...
A halibut steak is fine when, after washing thoroughly, it is put in a dripping pan, seasoned with salt and pepper, covered with boiling water and cooked in the oven until done,--f...
Ingredients: Fowls' or turkeys' livers, flour, butter, parsley, onions, salt, pepper, stock, Chablis. Cut the livers in half, flour them, and fry lightly in butter with chopped par...