Title: Recipes Tried and True
Author: Ohio). Ladies' Aid Society First Presbyterian Church (Marion
Release date: October 1, 1997 [eBook #1084]
Most recently updated: April 2, 2015
Language: English
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"We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks."
—OWEN MEREDITH
MARION, OHIO: PRESS OF KELLEY MOUNT. 1894.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1894 by the
LADIES' AID SOCIETY OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MARION, OHIO.
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
To the Mothers, Wives, Sisters and Sweethearts of the Good Men of
America this Book is Dedicated by the "TRUE BLUES."
Although in putting forth this little book we do not claim that we are filling a "Long felt want," yet we do feel that its many tried and true recipes from our own housekeepers will be very welcome. We also believe that it will not only be welcomed by those who recognize the names and merits of the various contributors, but by all housekeepers, young and old. There can never be too many helps for those who, three times a day, must meet and answer the imperative question, "What shall we eat?"
To the many who have helped so willingly in the compilation of this book, the Editorial Committee would extend a grateful acknowledgment.
For the literary part of the work, we would beg your indulgence, since for each of us it is the first venture in the making of a book.
"All the labor of man is for his mouth, And yet the appetite is not filled." —SOLOMON.
Oat Meal. Boston Brown Bread. Boston Baked Beans. Coffee.
Tomato Soup. Boiled Fish. Lemon Sauce. Roast Lamb. Mint Sauce.
Stewed Tomatoes. Sweet Potatoes. Spanish Cream. Coffee.
Bouillon. Boiled Spring Chicken. New Potatoes. New Peas. Lettuce,
Mayonnaise Dressing. Rhubarb Pie. Cheese. Crackers. Coffee.
Roast Turkey, Oyster Dressing. Cranberry Sauce. Mashed Potatoes.
Baked Corn. Olives. Peaches. Pumpkin Pie. Mince Pie. Fruit.
Cheese. Coffee.
Sunday.
Green Corn Soup. Salmon and Green Peas. Roast Beef. Tomatoes. New
Potatoes. Strawberry Ice Cream. Cake. Coffee. Iced Tea.
Monday.
Lamb Chops. Mint Sauce. Potatoes. Escaloped Onions. Cucumber
Salad. Orange Pudding.
Tuesday.
Veal Soup. Fried Chicken. Green Peas. Rice Croquettes.
Strawberries and Cream.
Wednesday.
Broiled Beef Steak. Potato Croquettes. String Beans. Tomato Salad.
Fruit Jelly. Cream Pie.
Thursday.
Potato Soup. Roast Veal. Baked Potatoes. Beet Salad. Asparagus.
Strawberry Shortcake.
Friday.
Boiled Fish. Egg Sauce. Lamb Chops. Peas. Escaloped Potatoes.
Lettuce, Mayonnaise. Raspberry Iced Tea.
Saturday.
Chicken Pot Pie, with Dumplings. Spinach. Cucumber Salad. Radishes.
Lemonade.
Sunday.
Cracker-Ball Soup. Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding. Creamed
Potatoes. Celery. Mince Pie. Apricot Ice Cream. Cheese. Coffee or
Chocolate.
Monday.
Cold Roast Beef. Mashed Potatoes. Cabbage Slaw. Pickles. Plain
Plum Pudding. Cheese. Tea.
Tuesday.
Tomato Soup. Leg of Mutton. Caper Sauce. Baked Potatoes. Stewed
Turnips. Apple Pudding. Coffee or Tea.
Wednesday.
Lemon Bouillon. Baked Fish, with Drawn Butter. Roast Chicken.
Potatoes. Boiled Onions. Pickles or Olives. Cottage Pudding.
Thursday.
Roast Beef Soup. Stewed Tomatoes. Mashed Potatoes. Boiled Rice.
Turnips. Troy Pudding. Egg Sauce.
Friday.
Corn Soup. Chicken Pie. French Peas. Stewed Potatoes. Cream Slaw.
Suet Pudding.
Saturday.
Boiled Corn Beef, with Vegetables. Pork and Beans. Pickles. Indian
Pudding. Cream Sauce.
BREAKFASTS. Fall and Winter.
1. Melon. Fried Mush. Fried Oysters. Potatoes. Rolls. Coffee or Cocoa.
2. Melon or Fruit. Graham Cakes. Maple Syrup. New Pickles. Broiled Steak. Corn Oysters. Coffee or Cocoa.
3. Melon or Fruit. Fried Oat Meal Mush. Syrup. Bacon, Dipped in Eggs. Fried Potatoes. Coffee.
4. Oranges. Warm Biscuit. Jelly. Broiled Oysters on Toast. Rice Balls. Coffee.
5. Oranges. Mackerel. Fried Potatoes. Ham Toast. Muffins.
6. Breakfast Bacon. Corn Griddle Cakes. Syrup. Boiled Eggs. Baked Potatoes.
Spring and Summer.
1. Fruit. Muffins. Ham. Eggs. Radishes. Onions. Coffee.
2. Fruit. Light Biscuit. Breakfast Bacon. Scrambled Eggs. Fried Potatoes. Coffee.
3. Fruit. Corn Meal Muffins. Veal Cutlets. French Toast. Radishes. New Onions. Coffee.
4. Strawberries. Lamb Chops. Cream Potatoes. Graham Muffins. Coffee.
5. Raspberries. Oat Meal and Cream. Sweet Breads. Sliced Tomatoes. Hamburg Steak. Fried Potatoes. Coffee.
6. Berries. Breakfast Bacon, Dipped in Butter and Fried. Sliced Tomatoes. Baked Potatoes. Muffins. Coffee.
1. Tomato Soup. Cranberry Sauce. Roast Pork, with Dressing. Potatoes. Peas.
DESSERT—Fruit and Cake. Coffee.
2. Vegetable Soup. Beef Steak and Gravy. Macaroni, with Cheese.
DESSERT—Cake and Lemon Pudding. Coffee.
3. Clam Soup. Boiled Chicken. Potatoes. Lettuce, Mayonnaise Dressing.
DESSERT—Strawberry Shortcake, with Strawberry Sauce. Coffee.
Crackers. Cheese.
"A hasty plate of soup"
The best soups are made with a blending of many flavors. Don't be afraid of experimenting with them. Where you make one mistake you will be surprised to find the number of successful varieties you can produce. If you like a spicy flavor, try two or three cloves, or allspice, or bay leaves. All soups are improved by a dash of onion, unless it is the white soups, or purees from chicken, veal, fish, etc. In these celery may be used.
In nothing so well as soups can a housekeeper be economical of the odds and ends of food left from meals. One of the best cooks was in the habit of saving everything, and announced one day, when her soup was especially praised, that it contained the crumbs of gingerbread from her cake box!
Creamed onions left from a dinner, or a little stewed corn or tomatoes, potatoes fried or mashed, a few baked beans—even a small dish of apple sauce—have often added to the flavor of soup. Of course, all good meat gravies, or bones from roast or fried meats, can be added to the contents of your stock kettle. A little butter is always needed in tomato soup.
Stock is regularly prepared by taking fresh meat (cracking the bones and cutting the meat into small pieces) and covering it with cold water. Put it over the fire and simmer or boil gently until the meat is very tender. Some cooks say, allow an hour for each pound of meat. Be sure to skim carefully. When done take out meat and strain your liquid. It will frequently jelly, and will keep in a cold place for several days, and is useful for gravies, as well as soups.
Take good soup stock and strain it. When it boils add cracker balls, made thus: To one pint of cracker crumbs add a pinch of salt and pepper, one teaspoonful parsley, cut fine, one teaspoonful baking powder, mixed with the crumbs, one small dessert spoon of butter, one egg; stir all together; make into balls size of a marble; place on platter to dry for about two hours; when ready to serve your soup put them into the stock; boil five minutes.
To a good loin roast add six tablespoons of vinegar and small piece of butter; salt and pepper; stick six cloves in the roast; sprinkle two tablespoons of cinnamon and sift one cup of flour over it. Put in oven in deep pan or kettle with a quart of boiling water; roast until it is about half done and then strain over it three-fourths of a can of tomatoes; finish roasting it and when done add celery-salt to suit the taste, and one cup of sweet cream and some catsup, if preferred.
To one quart of beans add one teaspoon of soda, cover with water, let boil until the hulls will slip off, skim the beans out, throw them into cold water, rub with the hands, then remove the hulls; drain, and rub until all hulls are removed; take two quarts of water to one quart of beans, boil until the beans will mash smooth; boil a small piece of meat with the beans. If you have no meat, rub butter and flour together, add to the soup, pour over toasted bread or crackers, and season with salt and pepper. Add a little parsley, if desired.
Take three pounds of lean beef (cut into small pieces) and one soup bone; cover with three quarts of cold water, and heat slowly. Add one tablespoon of salt, six pepper corns, six cloves, one tablespoon mixed herbs, one or two onions, and boil slowly five hours. Strain, and when cold, remove the fat. Heat again before serving, and season with pepper, salt, and Worcester sauce, according to taste.
A DELICATE SOUP.—Take soup meat, put on to cook in cold water; boil until very tender; season with salt. Into each soup plate slice very fine one hard boiled egg and two or three very thin slices of lemon. Strain the meat broth over this and serve hot, with crackers.
Cover a soup bone with water, and boil one hour. Add some cabbage and onion (cut fine). Boil two hours longer. Add twelve ears of grated sweet corn. Season to taste.
Beat three eggs. Add a pinch of salt, and flour sufficient for a stiff dough; roll into very thin sheets; dredge with flour to avoid sticking; turn often until dry enough to cut; cut very fine, and add to the stock five minutes before serving. Season to taste.
Wash one quart oysters and place on the fire. When they boil, add one quart of boiling milk, and season with salt, pepper, and plenty of butter. Serve with crackers or toast.
Slice four ordinary-sized potatoes into one quart of boiling water. When done add one quart milk; into this slice one onion. Thicken just before serving with one egg rubbed into as much flour as it will moisten. Pepper and salt to taste.
After stewing veal, use the stock. Slice four or five potatoes very thin; lay them in cold water until thirty minutes before serving; add them to the stock, with sufficient salt and pepper. Beat one tablespoon of butter and one tablespoon of flour to cream; add to this one pint milk; stir in the soup just before serving. This can be made without meat by adding more butter and milk.
Take half a can, or six large fresh tomatoes; stew until you can pass through a course sieve. Rub one tablespoonful of butter to a cream with one tablespoonful flour or corn starch. Have ready a pint scalded milk, into which stir one-half saltspoon soda. Put the strained tomato into the soup pot; add the butter and flour, after having heated them to almost frying point; let come to a good boil; add just before serving; season with a little pepper, a lump of loaf sugar, a dust of mace and a teaspoon of salt.
One quart canned tomatoes, one quart of water, a few stalks of celery; boil until soft. Return to stove, and add three-fourths of a teaspoon of soda and allow to effervesce; then add the liquid from one quart of oysters, one quart boiling milk and one cup of cream. Salt, butter, and pepper to taste. Boil a few moments and serve.
Put on soup bone early to boil. Have two quarts of liquor on the bone. When done, remove the bone from kettle; put one can of tomatoes through sieve; add to the liquor; then immediately add one-half teaspoon soda, a small lump butter, one tablespoon white sugar, one heaping tablespoon of flour mixed with a half cup of cream or milk; salt and pepper to taste. After the flour is in let boil up three times, and serve.
One-fourth head cabbage, three large onions, one turnip, three large potatoes, two tablespoons cooked beans; boil all together till tender. Pour off all water; then add one gallon of stock. Add tomatoes, if you like.
Put a veal soup bone over the fire in one gallon of cold water; skim carefully as it comes to a boil; after it has boiled one hour season it with salt and pepper and half teaspoonful (scant) celery seed. In another half hour put in one-half cup rice, one medium-sized potato (cut in dice or thin slices), two good-sized onions (sliced fine); let boil one-half hour longer, and when ready to serve add one egg (well-beaten), one-half cup milk, one tablespoon flour; let come to a boil, and serve.
Three onions, three carrots, three turnips, one small cabbage, one pint tomatoes. Chop all the vegetables, except the tomatoes, very fine. Have ready in a porcelain kettle three quarts boiling water; put in all except tomatoes and cabbage; simmer for one-half hour; then add the chopped cabbage and tomatoes (the tomatoes previously stewed); also a bunch of sweet herbs. Let soup boil for twenty minutes; strain through a sieve, rubbing all the vegetables through. Take two tablespoonfuls butter, one tablespoon flour; beat to cream. Pepper and salt to taste, and add a teaspoon of white sugar; one-half cup sweet cream, if you have it; stir in butter and flour; let it boil up, and it is ready for the table. Serve with fried bread chips or poached eggs, one in each dish.
"Now good digestion, wait on appetite,
And health on both."
—MACBETH.
With boiled fresh mackerel, gooseberries, stewed.
With boiled blue fish, white cream sauce and lemon sauce.
With boiled shad, mushroom, parsley and egg sauce.
Lemon makes a very grateful addition to nearly all the insipid members of the fish tribe. Slices of lemon cut into very small dice, stirred into drawn butter and allowed to come to a boiling point, is a very fine accompaniment.
If the gills are red, the eyes full, and the whole fish firm and stiff, they are fresh and good; if, on the contrary, the gills are pale, the eyes sunken, the flesh flabby, they are stale.
Take large white fish or pickerel, make a dressing as for turkey, with the addition of one egg and a little onion; fill the fish, wrap close with twine, lay in baking pan; put in one-half pint of water, small lumps of butter and dredge with flour. Bake from three-fourths to one hour, basting carefully.
Wash codfish; shred fine with fingers (never cut or chop it); pour cold water over it. Place the dish on the stove and bring the water to a boil. Throw the fish in a colander and drain. Stir a teaspoonful of flour smoothly with water; add two tablespoonfuls of butter and a little pepper; bring to a boil; then throw in the codfish, with a well-beaten egg. When it boils up it is ready for table.
Take a piece of codfish six inches square; soak twelve hours in soft, cold water; shred fine with the fingers; boil a few moments in fresh water. Take one-half pint cream and a little butter; stir into this two large tablespoonfuls flour, smoothly blended in a little cold water; pour over the fish; add one egg, well beaten. Let come to a boil; season with black pepper.
Sliver the codfish fine; pour on boiling water; drain it off; add butter and a little pepper. Heat three or four minutes, but do not let fry.
One pint shredded codfish, two quarts mashed potatoes, well seasoned with butter and pepper—salt, if necessary. Make this mixture into balls. After dipping them into a mixture of two eggs beaten with one-half cup milk, place them in a dripping pan into which you have put a little butter; place them in the oven; baste frequently with eggs and milk; bake till a golden brown.
Wash the fish and dry well. Take one-half pint of flour and one teaspoon salt; sift together, and roll the fish in it. Have lard very hot, and fry quickly. When done roll in a cloth to absorb all grease.
Toast and butter a few slices of bread; lay them in a shallow dish.
Put the liquor from the oysters on to heat; add salt, pepper, and
thicken with a little flour. Just before this boils add the oysters.
Let it all boil up once, and pour over the toast.
Two quarts of oysters; wash them and drain off the liquor; roll some crackers (not too fine). Put in a pan a layer of crumbs, some bits of butter, a little pepper and salt; then a layer of oysters, and repeat until the dish is full. Have cracker crumbs on top; turn a cup of oyster liquor over it; add good sweet milk sufficient to thoroughly saturate it, and bake three-fourths of an hour.
Select large oysters; drain; put on a plate; place in the steamer over a kettle of boiling water. About twenty minutes will cook them. Season with pepper and salt; serve on soft buttered toast.
Cut up a chicken; roll in flour and brown well in a soup-pot, with a spoonful of lard, two slices of ham, one large onion (chopped fine), and a good-sized red pepper. When browned, cover the whole with water and stew until the chicken is perfectly tender. Then add the liquor of four or five dozen oysters, with water enough to make four quarts. When it has again come to a good boil, add the oysters and stir while sifting in one large spoonful of fresh file. Salt to taste. Serve immediately, placing a large spoonful of boiled rice in each soup plate.
"Gumbo File" is made of the red sassafras leaves, dried and ground into a powder.
Make a rich pie crust, and proceed as you would to make any pie with top crust. Have nice fat oysters and put on a thick layer, with plenty of lumps of butter; salt and pepper, and sprinkle over cracker crumbs. Put in the least bit of water, and cover with crust. Bake, and serve with turkey.
For crust make a dough as for baking powder biscuit. Take one quart of oysters; remove a half dozen good-sized ones into a saucepan; put the rest into bottom of your baking dish. Add four spoons of milk; salt to taste, and dot closely with small lumps of butter. Over this put your crust, about as thick as for chicken pie, and place in oven to bake until crust is well done. Take the oyster left, add one-half cup water, some butter, salt and pepper; let this come to a boil; thicken with flour and milk, and serve as gravy with the pie.
Place New York counts in a colander to drain for a few minutes. With a fork remove them separately to a dry towel. Place another towel over them, allowing them to remain until all moisture is absorbed. Have ready the beaten yolks of three eggs and a quantity of rolled cracker, salted and peppered. Dip each oyster separately, first into egg, then into cracker. When all have been thus dipped, have ready a hot spider, into which drop four heaping tablespoons of butter. When butter is melted, place in the oysters, one by one; fry a light brown, then turn. Serve very hot.
Take extra select oysters and very thin slices of nice bacon. Season the oysters with a little salt and pepper. Roll each oyster in a slice of bacon; pin together with a toothpick; roast over hot coals, either laid on a broiler, or fasten them on a meat fork and hold over the coals. Cook until the bacon is crisp and brown. Don't remove the toothpick. Serve hot.
Take a whole fish; stew until tender in salt water; take out, lay on platter. Throw a handful of raisins in the salt water and a few whole cloves, allspice, stick cinnamon, with vinegar enough to give a sour taste, and a tablespoonful of sugar. Thicken with flour to the consistency of gravy; pour over fish. Serve cold. Fish may be served with mayonnaise dressing, cooked in same manner.
Heat them on gridiron; remove the skin and serve with pepper and melted butter.
One small can salmon, four eggs beaten light, four tablespoons melted butter—not hot—one half cup fine bread crumbs. Season with salt, pepper, and parsley. Chop fish fine, then rub in butter till smooth. Beat crumbs into egg and season before putting with fish. Butter your mold and steam one hour.
SAUCE FOR SAME.—One cup of milk, heated to a boil; thicken with one tablespoon of corn starch and one tablespoon of butter, beaten together. Put in the liquor from the salmon and one raw egg, beaten light; add a little pepper. Put the egg in last, and carefully pour over loaf; Serve hot.
Stir in one cup of drawn butter, the yolks of two eggs (well beaten), pepper and salt, and a few sprigs of parsley. Let it boil. Pour over fish when ready to serve.
One-half cup butter, with one-half cup vinegar; let boil, then add two mustardspoonfuls of prepared mustard, a little salt, and one egg, beaten together. Make in the farina kettle. Stir while cooking.
Place good-sized oysters on pie plates; sprinkle well with flour, small lumps of butter, pepper and salt. Cover with strained liquor and a little cold water. Set in a warm oven fifteen or twenty minutes. Nice to serve with turkey.
Open and clean fish (white or bass). Have fish pan spread thick with butter, and lay fish in. Season with salt. Over this pour two well-beaten eggs, and dredge with flour. Bake three-quarters of an hour, and baste with butter and water. Garnish fish plate with parsley.
Pick bones and skin out of one can of salmon, and mince fine. Use as much rolled cracker as you have salmon, a little salt, and cup of cream. Fill sea shells with this mixture, placing a small piece of butter on top of each shell. Bake twenty minutes and serve in the shells.
"And then to breakfast with what appetite you have."
—SHAKESPEARE.
With boiled fowls, bread sauce, onion sauce, lemon sauce, cranberry sauce, jellies, and cream sauce.
With roast turkey, cranberry sauce, currant jelly.
With boiled turkey, oyster sauce.
With wild ducks, cucumber sauce, currant jelly, or cranberry sauce.
With roast goose or venison, grape jelly, or cranberry sauce.
Fricassee your chicken, taking care to brown the skin nicely; season to taste. When done set by to cool; then remove all the bones; put back into the liquor in which it was cooked; chop fine, leaving in all the oil of the fowl. If not enough of the oil, add a piece of butter; then pack closely in a dish as you wish it to go to the table.
One full pint of sifted flour, two even teaspoonfuls of yeast powder, and a little salt. Wet this with enough milk or water to drop from spoon in a ball; remove your meat or chicken; drop in the balls of dough; cook five minutes in the liquor; place around the edge of platter, with the chicken or meat in center; season the liquor and pour over it.
Boil the fowl until the meat will slip easily from the bones; reduce the water to one pint. Pick the meat from the bones in good-sized pieces; leave out all the fat and gristle, and place in a wet mold. Skim all the fat from the liquor; add one-half box of gelatine, a little butter, pepper and salt. When the gelatine is dissolved, pour all over the chicken while hot. Season well. Serve cold, cut in slices.
Kill the fowls the night before; clean, cut and set on ice until needed the next day. Flour and sprinkle with salt and pepper; pour boiling water over it, and stew three-quarters of an hour. Add sufficient butter to fry a light brown.
Take a pair of young, tender chickens and cut them into neat joints. Lay them in a deep pudding-dish, arranging them so that the pile shall be higher in the middle than at the sides. Reserve the pinions of the wings, the necks, and the feet, scalding the latter and scraping off the skin. Make small forcemeat balls of fine bread crumbs seasoned with pepper, salt, parsley, a suspicion of grated lemon peel, and a raw egg. Make this into little balls with the hands, and lay them here and there in the pie. Pour in a cupful of cold water, cover the pie with a good crust, making a couple of cuts in the middle of this, and bake in a steady oven for an hour and a quarter. Lay a paper over the pie if it should brown too quickly. Soak a tablespoonful of gelatine for an hour in enough cold water to cover it. Make a gravy of the wings, feet, and necks of the fowls, seasoning it highly; dissolve the gelatine in this, and when the pie is done pour this gravy into it through a small funnel inserted in the opening in the top. The pie should not be cut until it is cold. This is nice for picnics.
Stew the chicken until tender. Line a pan with crust made as you would baking powder biscuit. Alternate a layer of chicken and pieces of the crust until the pan is filled; add a little salt and pepper to each layer; fill with the broth in which the chicken was cooked; bake until the crust is done. If you bake the bottom crust before filling, it will only be necessary to bake until the top crust is done. A layer of stewed chicken and a layer of oysters make a delicious pie. Use the same crust.
Stew chicken and make a rich gravy with milk or cream. Pour off a part into a separate vessel and thin with water; let it boil, then drop in dumplings made with this proportion: One quart flour, a little salt, one egg, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, and milk to make a stiff batter. Stir, and drop from spoon into boiling gravy. Cover, and let boil gently for five minutes. Try them with a fork. They must be perfectly dry inside when done. Serve with the chicken.
Have prepared for cooking a nice fat fowl about a year old; season with pepper and salt, and boil two hours, or until very tender. When done there should be a quart of broth. If there is not that quantity, boiling water should be added. Beat together very smoothly two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour with the yolk of one egg and one-third pint of cold water; add this to broth, stirring briskly all the time; add one tablespoonful of butter. Have ready a pan of hot biscuit; break them open and lay halves on platter, crust down; pour chicken and gravy over biscuit, and serve immediately .
Prepare the dressing as follows: Three coffeecups of bread crumbs, made very fine; one teaspoonful salt, half teaspoonful pepper, one tablespoonful powdered sage, one teacup melted butter, one egg; mix all together thoroughly. With this dressing stuff the body and breast, and sew with a strong thread. Take two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, two of flour; mix to a paste. Rub the turkey with salt and pepper; then spread the paste over the entire fowl, with a few thin slices of sweet bacon. Roll the fowl loosely in a piece of clean linen or muslin; tie it up; put it in the oven, and baste every fifteen minutes till done. Remove cloth a few moments before taking turkey from oven. A young turkey requires about two hours; an old one three or four hours. This can be tested with fork. Thicken the drippings with two tablespoonfuls of browned flour, mixed with one cup sweet cream.
OYSTER SAUCE TO BE USED WITH THE TURKEY.—Take one quart of oysters; put them into stew pan; add half cup butter; pepper and salt to taste; cover closely; let come to a boil, and serve with the turkey and dressing.
A good-sized turkey should be baked two and one-half or three hours, very slowly at first. Turkey one year old is considered best. See that it is well cleaned and washed. Salt and pepper it inside. Take one and a half loaves of stale bread (bakers preferred) and crumble fine. Put into frying pan a lump of butter the size of an egg; cut into this one white onion; cook a few moments, but do not brown. Stir into this the bread, with one teaspoon of salt and one of pepper; let it heat thoroughly; fill the turkey; put in roaster; salt and pepper the outside; dredge with flour and pour over one cup water.
Boil a turkey in as little water as possible until the bones can be easily separated from the meat; remove all the skin; slice, mixing together the light and dark parts; season with salt and pepper. Take the liquor in which the fowl was boiled, having kept it warm; pour it on the meat; mix well; shape it like a loaf of bread; wrap in a cloth and press with a heavy weight for a few hours. Cut in thin slices when served.
Use any filling you prefer; season with sage and onion, chopped fine; Salt and pepper. (You can use this seasoning with mashed potatoes for a stuffing). Young ducks should roast from twenty-five to thirty minutes; full grown ones for two hours. Baste frequently. Serve with currant jelly, apple sauce and green peas. If the fowls are old parboil before roasting.
Take one-half pint of apple sauce (unsweetened); add one half cup or more of bread crumbs, some powdered sage, a little chopped onion, and season with cayenne pepper. Delicious for roast geese, ducks, etc.
Boil the chestnuts and shell them; blanch them, and boil until soft; mix with bread crumbs and sweet cream; salt and pepper; one cup raisins. Excellent dressing for turkey.
Take stale bread; cut off the crust; rub very fine, and pour over it as much melted butter as will make it crumble in your hand. Salt and pepper to taste. To this you can add one good-sized onion (chopped fine), a cup of raisins, or a little sage.
Make dressing same as above plain stuffing; add one egg and one-half can drained oysters. Strain the oyster liquor and use for basting the fowl.
Chop an onion fine, and boil it in milk; when done, add the gravy from the game, and thicken with pounded cracker.
Pick, soak, and boil the birds with the same care as for roasting. Make a crust as for chicken pie; lay the birds in whole, and season with pepper, salt, bits of butter, and a little sweet marjoram; flour them thickly; then strain the water in which they were boiled, and fill up the vessel two-thirds full with it; cover with the crust; cut hole in the center. Bake one hour and a half.
These may be boiled or roasted the same as chickens, only cover the breasts with thin slices of bacon; when nearly done, remove the bacon, dredge with flour, and baste with butter. They will cook in half an hour.
Rabbits, which are best in mid-winter, may be fricasseed, like chicken, in white or brown sauce. Rabbit pie is made like chicken pie. To roast a rabbit, stuff with a dressing made of bread crumbs, chopped salt pork, thyme, onion, pepper and salt; sew up; rub over with a little butter, or pin on a few slices of salt pork; add a little water, and baste often. Rabbits may be fried as you would steak, and served with a sour sauce made like a brown flour gravy, with half a cup of vinegar added; pour over the fried rabbit, and serve it with mashed potatoes.
"What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?"
—SHAKESPEARE.
With roast beef, tomato sauce, grated horseradish, mustard, cranberry sauce, pickles.
With roast pork, apple sauce and cranberry sauce.
With roast veal, tomato sauce, mushroom sauce, onion sauce, or lemon sauce.
With roast mutton, currant jelly, caper sauce, bread sauce, onion sauce.
With roast lamb, mint sauce, green peas.
For all meats allow from fifteen to twenty minutes for each pound. Skim well. All fresh meats are to be put into boiling water to cook; salt meats into cold water. Keep the water constantly boiling, otherwise the meat will absorb the water. Be sure to add boiling water if more is needed. The more gently meat boils the more tender it will be.
In broiling all meats, you must remember that the surface should not be cut or broken any more than is absolutely necessary; that the meat should be exposed to a clear, quick fire, close enough to sear the surface without burning, in order to confine all its juices; if it is approached slowly to a poor fire, or seasoned before it is cooked, it will be comparatively dry and tasteless, as both of these processes are useful only to extract and waste those precious juices which contain nearly all the nourishing properties of the meat.
The chief secret in preparing the family steak lies in selection. Like cooking the hare, you must first catch it. Choose a thick cut from the sirloin of a mature, well fatted beeve, avoiding any having dark yellow fat. Detach a portion of the narrow end and trim off any adhering inner skin. Place the steak upon a hot spider, and quickly turn it. Do this frequently and rapidly until it is thoroughly seared, without burning. It may now be cooked to any degree without releasing the juices. Serve upon a hot platter. Pour over a scant dressing of melted butter. Season. Whosoever partakes will never become a vegetarian.
Take a flank or round steak and pound well; sprinkle with pepper and salt. Make a plain dressing; spread it on the steak; roll it up; tie closely, and put in a skillet with a little water and a lump of butter the size of an egg; cover closely and let it boil slowly one hour; then let it brown in skillet, basting frequently. When done, dredge a little flour into the gravy, and pour over the meat.
Have a nice tenderloin or porterhouse steak, one inch and half in thickness, well hacked. Over this sprinkle salt, pepper, and a little flour. Have ready a very hot spider. Into this drop plenty of good, sweet butter (a quarter of a pound is not too much); when thoroughly melted, lay in the meat; turn frequently. While cooking, make many openings in the steak to allow the butter to pass through. When done, place on a hot platter and serve immediately.
Have a steak well hacked; over this sprinkle pepper, salt, and a little flour. Into a very hot spider drop one teaspoonful of lard; when melted, lay in steak; pour over this two tablespoons boiling water, and cover steak with four good-sized onions, sliced very thin. Cover quickly and cook five minutes; then turn all over together, and cook five minutes longer. Care should be taken that the onions do not turn. Take up on hot platter; place onions on top of meat, and serve immediately.
Put the steak on to fry, with a little butter. At the same time put the mushrooms on in a different skillet, with the water from the can and one-half cup extra; season with pepper and salt, and thicken with a tablespoonful of flour. Take the steak out, leaving the gravy, into which put the mushrooms, cook for a few minutes, and pour all over the steak.
Take three and one-half pounds of lean beef (raw), chopped; six crackers, rolled fine; three well-beaten eggs, four tablespoonfuls of cream, butter the size of an egg; salt and pepper to taste; mix all together and make into a loaf. Bake one and one-half hours. Serve cold in thin slices.
Take a round of beef, four or five inches thick, and for a piece weighing five pounds soak a pound of white bread in cold water until soft; turn off the water; mash the bread fine; then add a piece of butter the size of an egg, half a teaspoonful each of salt, pepper, and ground cloves, about half a nutmeg, two eggs, a tablespoonful of flour, and a quarter of a pound of fresh pork, chopped very fine. Gash the beef on both sides and fill with half the dressing. Place in a baking pan, with luke-warm water enough to cover it; cover the pan and put into the oven to bake gently two hours; then cover the top with the rest of the dressing, and put it back for another hour and let it brown well. On dishing up the meat, if the gravy is not thick enough, stir in a little flour, and add a little butter. It is a favorite meat, eaten cold for suppers and luncheons. When thus used, remove the gravy.
Always use calf's liver, cut in slices. Pour boiling water over, and let it stand fifteen minutes. Fry some slices of breakfast bacon; take out the bacon; roll the liver in either flour or corn meal, and fry a delicate brown; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Serve with gravy if you like.
Take mashed potatoes, seasoned with salt, pepper, and butter; line a baking dish with it; lay upon this slices of cold meat (any kind), with a little pepper, salt, catsup, and gravy; then another layer of potatoes, another of meat, and so forth till pan is filled, having the last a cover of potatoes. Bake until thoroughly warmed. Serve in the dish in which it is cooked.
Roll out dough very thin; put in it, like a turnover, cold meat, chopped fine, and seasoned with pepper, salt, catsup, and sweet herbs. Make into small turnovers, and fry in lard until the dough is well cooked.
Fry a few slices of breakfast bacon. Dip the cutlets in a beaten egg; roll in corn meal or cracker crumbs; salt and pepper; put in skillet with the fat from bacon; fry slowly until a nice brown.
Three pounds of veal or beef, chopped fine; three eggs, beaten with three tablespoons of milk, butter the size of an egg, one cup of powdered crackers, one teaspoon of black pepper; one tablespoon of salt; mix well together; form into a loaf, and bake two and one-half hours. Baste with butter and water while baking.
Cut four pounds of veal into strips three or four inches long and about one inch thick. Peel twelve large potatoes; cut them into slices one inch thick. Put a layer of veal in the bottom of the kettle, and sprinkle salt and a very little pepper over it; then put a layer of potatoes; then a layer of veal, seasoned as before, and so on until all the veal is used. Over the last layer of veal put a layer of salt pork, cut in slices; cover with potatoes; pour in water until it rises an inch over the whole; cover close; heat fifteen minutes; simmer one hour.
Two cups of stale bread crumbs, one tablespoonful melted butter; pepper and salt to taste; make into a soft paste with cream, and lay over top of roast to brown for about one-half hour before roast is done.
Boil six pounds each of ham and veal. Save the water from boiling the veal, and to it add half a box of gelatine, dissolved in a little cold water. When the meat is cold, run through a sausage grinder, and with the meats mix the gelatinous water. Season the veal with salt, pepper, and sweet marjoram. Put a little red pepper in the ham. Make alternate layers of ham and veal, using a potato masher to pound it down smooth. Set in cold place. It is better to make it the day before using.
Use any kind of meat; put into an iron pot a tablespoonful of meat fryings or butter; let it brown; wash off the roast, and put into the pot. After it begins to fry, pour in enough water to half cover the meat; season with pepper and salt; cover, and stew slowly. As the meat begins to fry, add more water; turn it often, and cook about three hours. A half hour before serving, add either Irish or sweet potatoes, or turnips; let brown with the meat.
Take a leg of pork, and wash clean; cut the skin in squares. Make a dressing of bread crumbs, sage, onions, pepper and salt; moisten it with the yolk of an egg. Put this under the skin of the knuckle, and sprinkle a little powdered sage into the rind where it is cut. Eight pounds will require about three hours to roast. Shoulder, loin, or spare ribs may be roasted in the same manner.
Two pounds pork, two pounds liver, two pounds beef, a small heart; boil all until thoroughly cooked; take up and chop while warm; put back into broth (altogether you will have two and one-half or three gallons); then make quite thick with corn meal. Cook one-half hour. Put in pans to mold. Season meat while cooking with salt, pepper, and sage.
Take five pounds of beef from the shoulder and cover with cold water; boil until very tender; chop fine and season with salt and pepper. Slice four or five hard boiled eggs. Alternate layers of meat and eggs, having a layer of meat on the top. Put an ounce of gelatine and a few cloves into the liquor in which the meat has been boiled; boil this down to one pint; strain it over the meat, which must be pressed down with a plate. Set in a cool place. Slice cold for serving.
Put roast in oven, and cook within an hour of being done; then place a couple of sticks across the pan and rest your roast upon them. Make a batter according to the following rule, and pour it right into the gravy in which the roast has been resting, cook an hour and serve: Four eggs, tablespoon of sugar, one quart of milk, six tablespoons of flour, and a piece of butter the size of a walnut.
Have the bone carefully removed from a rather lean shoulder of mutton, and fill the orifice thus left with a good forcemeat. To make this, chop fine half a pound of lean veal and quarter of a pound of ham and add to these a small cup of fine bread crumbs. Season with a quarter-teaspoonful each of ground mace, cloves, and allspice, and a saltspoonful of black pepper. Stir in a raw egg to bind the mixture together. When the forcemeat has been put into the hole in the shoulder, cover the mutton with a cloth that will close the mouth of the opening, and lay the meat in a pot with the bone from the shoulder, a peeled and sliced onion, carrot and turnip, a little parsley and celery, and a bay leaf; Pour in enough cold water to cover the mutton entirely, stir in a heaping tablespoonful of salt, and let the water come gradually to a boil and simmer until the mutton has cooked twenty minutes to the pound. Let it cool in the broth; take it out; lay it under a weight until cold, and serve. This is also very good hot. The liquor makes excellent soup.
First, parboil it and drain well; then fry a light brown. Make a gravy with milk, a little flour, and a teaspoonful of sugar; pour over the ham.
Chop lean ham (the refuse bits); put in a pan with a lump of butter the size of an egg, a little pepper, and two beaten eggs. When well warmed, spread on hot buttered toast.
The best ham to select is one weighing from eight to ten pounds. Take one that is not too fat, to save waste. Wash it carefully before you put it on to boil, removing rust or mold with a small, stiff scrubbing brush. Lay it in a large boiler, and pour over it enough cold water to cover it. To this add a bay leaf, half a dozen cloves, a couple of blades of mace, a teaspoonful of sugar, and, if you can get it, a good handful of fresh, sweet hay. Let the water heat very gradually, not reaching the boil under two hours. It should never boil hard, but simmer gently until the ham has cooked fifteen minutes to every pound. It must cool in the liquor, and the skin should not be removed until the meat is entirely cold, taking care not to break or tear the fat. Brush over the ham with beaten egg, strew it thickly with very fine bread crumbs, and brown in a quick oven. Arrange a frill of paper around the bone of the shank, and surround the ham with water-cress, or garnish the dish with parsley.
Wash the tongue carefully, and let it lie in cold water for several hours before cooking—over night, if possible. Lay it in a kettle of cold water when it is to be cooked; bring the water to a boil slowly, and let it simmer until the tongue is so tender that you can pierce it with a fork. A large tongue should be over the fire about four hours. When it has cooled in the liquor in which it was boiled, remove the skin with great care, beginning at the tip, and stripping it back. Trim away the gristle and fat from the root of the tongue before serving it. Serve with drawn butter or lemon sauce.
Chop cold veal fine with one-fourth as much salt pork. Season with salt, pepper, and sweet herbs. Make into balls; fry them brown. Eat this way, or drop into soup.
Three pounds of lean veal chopped with one pound of raw salt pork; three eggs, one pint of rolled cracker; one tablespoon of salt, one tablespoon of pepper, one tablespoon of butter, a little sage; mix all together; make into a loaf. Put one-half pint of water in roaster; put in the loaf; sprinkle fine cracker crumbs over it, and some small lumps of butter; bake slowly one hour; if baked in open pan, baste same as turkey.
Parboil them in salt water; remove the skin and tough parts; cut in pieces the size of a large oyster; dip in beaten egg; roll in cracker crumbs, seasoned with salt and pepper; fry in hot butter, or drop in hot lard, as you would doughnuts.
Parboil the sweet breads; cut in small squares; add to them a coffee cup of cream, pepper, salt, and a tablespoon of butter. Cook the peas tender, and add them to the sweet breads. Moisten a tablespoonful of flour with a little milk; add, and boil up once or twice just before serving.
Mix in four gallons of water a pound and a half of sugar or molasses, and two ounces of saltpetre. If it is to last a month or two, use six pounds of salt. If you wish to keep it through the summer, use nine pounds of salt. Boil all together; skim and let cool. Put meat in the vessel in which it is to stand; pour the pickle over the meat until it is covered. Once in two months, boil and skim the pickle and throw in two or three ounces of sugar, and one-half pound of salt. In very hot weather rub meat well with salt; let it stand a few hours before putting into the brine. This draws the blood out.
FOR FIFTY POUNDS.—Saltpetre, one ounce; sugar, one and three-fourths pounds; coarse salt, three and one-half pounds; water, two gallons; boil together; let cool; pour over meat. Keep the meat under the brine.
"Cheerful cooks make every dish a feast."
—MASSINGER.
Always have the water boiling when you put your vegetables in, and keep it constantly boiling until they are done. Cook each kind by itself when convenient. All vegetables should be well seasoned.
Boil the beets in salted water until tender. When cold, skin; cut in thin slices, and dress with white pepper, salt, oil, or butter, and vinegar; or pour over them a French dressing, and toss with a silver fork until every piece is coated with the dressing.
Cook wax beans in salted water with a little salt pork. When the beans are tender, take out and drain. Let a few bits of breakfast bacon brown in a skillet, then put in a half pint of good vinegar and a spoonful of sugar (omit the sugar if you prefer the pure acid); let boil; add an onion, sliced fine; pour over the beans, and mix well before serving.
Pick over and wash well one quart of small white beans; soak over night. In the morning, pour off the water and cover with cold water. After boiling one-half hour, drain them, and cover again with cold water. Boil until cooked, but not broken. Put them in a baking dish. In the center place one pound salt pork (which has been parboiled and well gashed), one tablespoonful of molasses, one dash of cayenne pepper, black pepper to taste, and, if necessary, a little salt. Ordinarily the pork should salt the beans. Cover with part of the liquor in which the pork has been parboiled, and bake three hours.
Slice cabbage fine on a slaw cutter. To a dish of cabbage use one large onion, also sliced fine. Mix with good vinegar; salt, pepper and sugar to taste.
HOW TO BOIL.—Cut a large head of cabbage into quarters; then re-cut the quarters, and wash well in cold water; pour boiling water over it, and cover about five minutes; drain in colander, and add one good-sized onion, a pinch of cayenne pepper, and enough meat broth to cover it; boil until tender. A brisket of beef is best for the broth.
SCALLOPED.—Roll crackers as for oysters. Cut cabbage as for slaw. Put in your pan a layer of crackers, then a layer of cabbage, With salt, pepper, and lumps of butter, until the pan is filled; cover with sweet milk. Bake thirty or forty minutes.
Take twelve ears of green corn (grated), one teaspoon of salt, and one teaspoon of pepper; beat one egg into this, with two tablespoons of flour. Drop into hot butter or lard.
To one quart of grated corn add three eggs, beaten separately; four crackers, rolled fine; salt and pepper to taste. Fry in butter or lard.
Grate and chop one pint of young sweet corn; add one egg, well beaten; one teacupful flour, three tablespoonfuls cream, one teaspoonful salt. Fry like oysters.
Take one tablespoonful of butter, and three tablespoonfuls of flour; mix together on stove, and add two cups milk. Chop fine cold boiled potatoes; put in a baking dish; pour the dressing over, and add enough grated cheese to cover it; bake about thirty minutes.
Take one pint of mashed potatoes; season with one tablespoonful of soft butter, one-half saltspoon of white pepper, one-half teaspoon of salt, one-half teaspoon of celery salt, a few drops of onion juice, and some egg; mix well till light; rub through a strainer; return to the fire and stir till the potato cleaves the dish. When cool, shape into balls, then into cylinders; roil in fine bread or cracker crumbs; dip in beaten egg, then in crumbs again, and fry brown in hot fat.
Instead of mashing in the ordinary way, whip potatoes with a fork until light and dry; then put in a little melted butter, some milk, and salt to taste, whipping rapidly until creamy. Put as lightly and irregularly as you can in a hot dish.
For lyonnaise potatoes chop an onion fine; fry it brown in a tablespoonful of butter; add another tablespoonful to the iron spider after the frying, and let the butter become very hot. Then cut six whole boiled potatoes into thick or half inch slices, and lay them in the spider, which should be ample enough to hold them without lapping over another. Let them fry brown on both sides, tossing them occasionally to prevent them burning. Sprinkle a tablespoonful of parsley over them, and serve at once. They should be very hot when brought on the table.
Pare and slice thin the potatoes; put a layer in your pudding pan one-half inch deep; sprinkle salt, pepper, and bits of butter over it; then put another layer of potatoes, and another sprinkle of salt, pepper, and butter, until you have as many layers as you wish. Fill in with sweet cream or milk until you can just begin to see it. Sprinkle on top one cracker, pulverized. Bake in hot oven from one-half to one hour.
Pare and boil till done; drain, and mash smooth; add milk or cream, and salt; beat like cake, with a large spoon—the more they are beaten the better they become. Put in a baking dish; smooth with a knife dipped in milk; place a lump of butter in the center; sprinkle with pepper, and place in a hot oven for a few minutes.
Pare, and cut in halves. Have in a skillet some hot fryings, in which place potatoes; pour in about one-half pint of water; season with salt and pepper. Cook until tender. Remove the cover, and let brown; take out in dish; throw a spoonful of sugar into skillet, with a little flour and water; let boil up once or twice, and pour over the potatoes.
Boil your potatoes until soft; slice them, and lay in a buttered pudding dish. Sprinkle each layer with light brown sugar; and dot thickly with bits of butter. Over all pour enough water to cover well the bottom of your dish. Set in oven and bake half an hour or more, thoroughly browning the top, and cooking the sugar, butter and water into a rich syrup. Some add, also, a dash of flour between the layers. Serve hot with your meat and other vegetables.
Stew pumpkin as for pie; spread upon plates, and dry in the oven carefully. When you wish to make pie, soak over night; then proceed as you would with fresh pumpkin. Pumpkin prepared in this way will keep well until spring, and pies are as good as when made with fresh pumpkin.
Take one-half cup of rice; wash it twice; cover with water two inches above rice; cook dry; then cover with a cup or more of milk; add butter the size of a walnut, and salt to taste. When cooked dry again, serve hot with cream and sugar.
Take two quarts shelled Lima beans (green), one dozen ears of corn (cut off cob), and one pound pickled pork. Cover pork with water, and parboil it; add beans cooked until they burst; then add corn, two tablespoonfuls sugar, butter the size of a walnut, and pepper to taste. After corn is added, watch carefully to keep from scorching.
Put one-half teacup of butter in your kettle, and let it get hot; then add one tablespoon sugar. Have your turnips sliced fine; put them in your kettle and stir well; add enough water to stew tender; then sprinkle over them one tablespoon of flour and a little rich cream. Stir well, and serve. Sweet potatoes are excellent cooked the same way.
Pare, halve, and slice them on a slaw cutter; boil in clear water. When tender, add a large lump of butter, a teaspoonful of sugar, and pepper and salt to taste. Stir in flour and cream to thicken like peas. Serve in sauce dishes.
Break macaroni in pieces three inches long and boil until tender. Butter a deep dish, and place a layer of pared and sliced tomatoes on the bottom (if canned, use them just as they come from the can); add a layer of the stewed macaroni, and season with salt, pepper, and bits of butter; add another layer of tomato, and so on until the dish is as full as desired. Place a layer of cracker crumbs on top, with bits of butter. Bake about thirty minutes, or until well browned.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the kings horses and all the kings men
Could not set Humpty Dumpty back again.
—MOTHER GOOSE.
Try the freshness of eggs by putting them into cold water; those that sink the soonest are the freshest.
Never attempt to boil an egg without watching the timepiece. Put the eggs in boiling water. In three minutes eggs will boil soft; in four minutes the white part will be cooked; in ten minutes they will be hard enough for salad.
To each pailful of water add two pints of fresh slaked lime and one pint of common salt; mix well. Fill your barrel half full with this fluid, put your eggs down in it any time after June, and they will keep two years if desired.
Put eggs in a bowl or pan; pour boiling water over them until they are well covered; let stand ten minutes; pour off water, and again cover with boiling water. If you like them quite soft, eat immediately after pouring on second water; if you like them harder, leave them in longer. This method makes the white more jelly-like and digestible.
Take eight eggs, well beaten separately; add to the yolks eight tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, one tablespoonful of flour, one teaspoonful of good baking powder, salt and pepper; beat well together, and then stir in lightly at the last the beaten whites. Have ready a skillet with melted butter, smoking hot, and pour in mixture. Let cook on bottom; then put in oven from five to ten minutes. Serve at once.
To the well beaten yolks of five eggs add two teaspoonfuls of corn starch, and a little salt dissolved in one-half cup of milk. Beat whites to a stiff froth, and stir lightly into mixture. Have ready a hot buttered spider, into which turn the whole, and bake to a light brown in a quick oven.
Stir into the well beaten yolks of four eggs one-half tablespoonful of melted butter, a little salt, one tablespoonful of flour mixed smooth in one cup of milk; beat together well, and then stir in lightly the whites, beaten stiff; pour into buttered skillet; cook on top stove for ten minutes, and then place in oven to brown.
Put two tablespoonfuls of boiling water in a sauce pan on the stove; break a fresh egg into it; stir briskly until the egg is slightly set, but not at all stiff; season with salt, and a little pepper. Serve at once on a thin slice of buttered toast.
Boil some eggs hard; remote shells, and cut the eggs oblong; take out yolks, and cream, or mash fine. Then take sardells, and remove the backbone; mash fine, and mix with the yolks of eggs and a little red pepper, and fill the whites of eggs with the mixture. They are fine for an appetizer. Sardells are a small fish from three to four inches long, and come in small kegs, like mackerel.
Boil eggs for twenty minutes; then drop in cold water. Remove the shells, and cut lengthwise. Remove the yolks, and cream them with a good salad dressing. Mix with chopped ham, or chicken, or any cold meat, if you choose. Make mixture into balls, and fill in the hollows of your whites. If you have not the salad dressing mix the yolks from six eggs with a teaspoonful of melted butter, a dash of cayenne pepper, a little prepared mustard, salt, vinegar and sugar to taste.
"To make a perfect salad, there should be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt, and a madcap to stir the ingredients up, and mix them well together." — SPANISH PROVERB
It is said that "Any fool can make a salad," but all salads are not made by fools. "Mixing" comes by intuition, and the successful cooks use the ingredients, judgment, and their own tastes, rather than the recipe.
Any number of salads and fillings for sandwiches for home use, teas or receptions, can be made at little cost and trouble, by using the following simple recipe for dressing. The secret of success of the dressing lies in the mixing of the ingredients:
Powder the cold yolks of four hard boiled eggs; then stir in one tablespoon even full of common mustard, one-half teaspoonful of salt, and two heaping tablespoonfuls of pulverized sugar. When mixed thoroughly, add three tablespoonfuls of good table oil, and stir rapidly for three minutes; then add six tablespoonfuls of good, sharp vinegar, and stir for five minutes. Now you will have dressing sufficient for a dozen or fifteen plates of salad, and one that will keep in a cool place for weeks.
Add to the above dressing just before serving, one pound of crisp lettuce, cut in one-half inch squares, or sliced fine. Garnish the dish or dishes with the white of the egg, chopped fine, to which add the thin slices of two or three small radishes.
Take one pound of fresh or canned lobster, two small onions, one fourth of a lemon (with rind), two bunches of celery, or a like amount of crisp cabbage; chop fine, and thoroughly mix with the dressing. Serve on a lettuce leaf in individual dishes; garnish with the white of the eggs, chopped fine.
Veal, chicken, terrapin, salmon, little-neck clams, scollops, etc., can be utilized by the judicious cook in connection with the dressing.
Take ham, veal, chicken, sardines, etc., with the white of the eggs, chopped exceedingly fine, and mixed with sufficient of the dressing to make a paste the consistency of butter; spread this on thin slices of bread, cut in irregular shapes, and you have most delicious sandwiches.
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Take white and choice dark meat of a cold boiled chicken or turkey, three-quarters same bulk of chopped celery or cabbage, and a few cucumber pickles, chopped well and mixed together. For the dressing take the yolks of two hard boiled eggs, rub to a fine powder; mix with it a teaspoonful of salt, teaspoonful pepper, teaspoonful mustard, two teaspoonfuls white sugar; then add three teaspoonfuls salad oil, and, last of all, one-half cup vinegar. Pour the dressing over the chopped meat, cabbage, etc., and stir all well together.
Take two large chickens; boil tender; pick in small bits. Chop as much celery as you have meat. For the dressing, take six yolks and one whole egg; beat to a froth, mix with two spoonfuls of salad oil, one spoonful mixed mustard, a little pepper and salt, one pint vinegar, heated; before it boils, stir in the other ingredients; cook till thick, stirring all the time. Boil down the liquid in which the chickens were cooked until it forms a jelly. Let all cool. Two or three hours before using, mix meat, celery, liquid, and dressing.
Two chickens, boiled tender and minced fine, five hard boiled eggs, and one raw egg. Take as much chopped cabbage as you have minced chicken; chop the whites of the boiled eggs, and put with the chicken. Mix the cooked yolks with the raw egg; add one teacup of the broth and oil from the chicken; one pint of good vinegar, salt, pepper, mustard, and season to taste. Part celery and part cabbage can be used, if desired. Mix all together.
Thirty chickens, cooked and cut medium fine, fifty heads of celery, two gallons of good strong vinegar, three pounds of light brown sugar, ten cents worth of yellow mustard, three pounds of butter, four dozen eggs, boiled hard. Chop whites, and cream yolks with butter. Boil vinegar and sugar together, and skim; add the creamed butter and yolks; also, mustard, salt and pepper to taste; let stand until cold; then pour over the celery and chicken; mix thoroughly, and add the whites of eggs. If unable to get celery, use crisp cabbage, with ten cents worth of celery seed. If you use celery seed, boil it in the vinegar.
Shred cold boiled chicken, and measure one pint chicken and one pint celery; season with French dressing as below, and keep on ice until ready to serve.
FRENCH DRESSING.—One saltspoon of salt, one-half saltspoon of white pepper, one-fourth teaspoon of onion juice, one tablespoon of vinegar, three tablespoons of olive oil, or melted butter; mix in the order given, adding the oil slowly. When ready to serve your salad, mix it with the boiled dressing given below; arrange it, and garnish with parsley.
BOILED DRESSING.—Mix one teaspoon of mustard, two teaspoons of salt, two tablespoons of sugar, one-fourth saltspoon of cayenne pepper, one heaping teaspoon of flour; mix well; then add one egg, well beaten; and one cup hot water. Put in double boiler, and boil ten minutes. While it is cooking, add one-half cup hot vinegar. When done, add one tablespoon of melted butter, or Lucca oil, if prepared. After it is cooked, turn into a bowl; put on ice until cold; add to salad just before serving. If you like filberts in the salad, pour boiling water on them; let them stand a short time, then throw them into cold water; remove the skins, break into halves; put into salad before you pour on the boiled dressing.
For a company of seventy-five, use six chickens, and six times both recipes for dressing, and three pounds of filberts.
Cold cooked stringed beans, drained and dressed with a simple oil and vinegar dressing, or mayonnaise, make an excellent salad.
Take the juice from a can of tomatoes, and with gelatine make it into a jelly that will mold. Lay a slice of this jelly on lettuce leaves, and serve with mayonnaise.
Two dozen large cucumbers, six white onions, chopped fine; salt well, and drain twelve hours; add white mustard seed and celery seed; cover with strong vinegar.
The yolks of five eggs, five tablespoonfuls vinegar; cook until thick; then, just before using, add three tablespoonfuls melted butter; beat to a cream. Put in pepper, salt, and mustard to taste, one onion (chopped fine), and three-fourths cup of cream. Slice potatoes thin, and pour dressing over.
After frying ham, put one-fourth cup of the hot fryings into a skillet with one cup of good vinegar, one tablespoon of sugar; let boil a moment. Slice hot boiled potatoes into your salad bowl; season with pepper and salt, and one onion, chopped fine. Pour over this the hot vinegar, and mix well. Garnish with hard boiled eggs. Early in the spring young dandelions added to this are very nice.
One gallon cold and thinly sliced good potatoes, six small onions, sliced thin. Sprinkle very freely with salt and pepper.
DRESSING.—Yolks of nine fresh eggs, two teaspoonfuls of ground mustard, a pinch of cayenne pepper, one cup of sugar, one cup of good cider vinegar, one-half cup butter. Boil the above mixture, and add one pint of thick sweet cream when the mixture is almost cold. Two small cucumbers sliced will greatly improve this salad.
One small head of cabbage (cut fine), one pint of good vinegar, butter the size of an egg, three eggs, well beaten with one tablespoon of flour; salt and pepper to taste. Let dressing come to a boil, and pour over cabbage while hot.
Add the well beaten yolks of five eggs to five tablespoonfuls of boiling vinegar; cook until it thickens, stirring constantly. Remove from the fire. Add two tablespoonfuls butter, and stir until cool. Season with one teaspoon mustard, one of salt, one tablespoon of sugar, pinch of cayenne pepper, one cup of cream. Use oil in place of butter, if preferred.
Beat three eggs, and add a teaspoon each of salt, pepper, and mustard; six tablespoons of cream or milk, small half teacup of vinegar, and one-half cup sugar; mix thoroughly and set in top of teakettle, stirring constantly till it thickens.
Yolk of one egg, one tablespoon sugar, one saltspoon salt, one teaspoon mustard, butter size of small egg, one-half cup of vinegar; cook till thick as cream. Add one-half cup of thick cream before using.
Take the yolks of six eggs, one teacup best cider vinegar, one teacup white sugar, one tablespoon pure mustard, one-fourth pound of butter, one teaspoon salt, one pint water, two tablespoons corn starch. Put the water and vinegar in granite iron vessel, and let come to a boil. Beat the rest of the ingredients to a cream; stir this into the vinegar rapidly to prevent burning. Put in self-sealing can, and keep in a cool place.
"The proof of the pudding lies in the eating."
Six good-sized apples, stewed and well beaten; six eggs, beaten separately; one pint of sweet cream; sweeten and flavor to taste. Bake with an under crust. It can be eaten with whipped cream and is excellent.
Mix together one cup flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, a pinch of salt; into this rub one tablespoonful of butter. Beat one egg, and stir into it half a cup of milk; add this to the flour, etc. Pare and slice two sour apples, and press into the dough. Bake about one-half hour. The beauty of this pudding is that you are always sure of success. This recipe makes enough for a family of four.
SAUCE.—One cup of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of butter, two tablespoonfuls of flour, three gills of boiling water; boil three minutes; flavor to taste.
Roll plain pie crust as you would for pie, but a little larger; chop up some apples, and cover this crust; add a layer of sugar, and sprinkle with cinnamon; then add a layer of raisins, and sprinkle with bits of citron, chopped fine. Roll all up; pinch the crust closely together at sides and ends; place in dripping pan with one-half a cup of butter, and one cup of sugar; pour enough boiling water over it to half cover the roll; put in oven and bake three hours; baste every half hour as you would turkey. When done, the roll will have a crust like taffy. Take out, and serve sliced thin. It is delicious.
Pare six or eight large good cooking apples; remove the core by cutting from the end into the middle, so as to leave the apple whole; place them in a deep pie dish, as near together as they can stand, with the opening upward. Make a thin batter, using one quart of milk, three eggs, and sufficient flour; pour this into the dish around the apples and into the cavities. Bake in a quick oven. Serve with butter and sugar.
Mix one pint of rolled crackers, four tablespoonfuls of chocolate, and one quart sweet milk; bake two hours, and serve with this—
SAUCE.—Beat one cup of sugar with butter the size of an egg; flavor with vanilla.
One cup of sugar, one-half cup of milk, one and one-half cups of flour; and one tablespoonful of butter; bake as a cake, and serve with this—
SAUCE.—Two tablespoonfuls butter, one cup white sugar, and one tablespoon flour, wet in cold water; one pint of boiling water. Let boil two or three minutes, stirring all the time. Flavor with lemon.
One egg, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, three tablespoons butter, one-half to three-fourths pint of water, one and one-half teacups of flour, or enough to make a thin batter, one and one-half teaspoons baking powder; mix with fresh fruit or raisins, and steam twenty minutes.
One pint sweet milk, whites of three eggs, two tablespoons corn starch, three tablespoons sugar, and a little salt. Put milk in kettle, and when it reaches the boiling point, add sugar, and the corn starch, dissolved in a little milk. Lastly, add the whites of eggs, whipped to a stiff froth. Beat it, and let cook a few minutes. Set two-thirds in a cool place, flavoring it with vanilla. To the remaining one-third, add half a cake of chocolate, softened and mashed. Put a layer of half the white pudding into the mold; over this the layer of chocolate, and then the remainder of the white. One-half a cocoanut or one-half a pineapple may be substituted for the chocolate.
One-half a cup of molasses, one-half a cup of butter, one-half a cup of sour milk, one and one-half cups of flour, one egg, a pinch of salt, and one-half teaspoonful of soda; mix, and steam two hours. Serve with this—
SAUCE.—One egg, one-half cup butter, one cup sugar, two tablespoons flour, and one pint boiling water. Flavor with vanilla.
One-half cup sour milk, two eggs (beaten stiff), one teaspoonful soda, one cup seeded raisins, two tablespoonfuls molasses, corn meal for a stiff batter; mix, and steam two hours. Serve with this—
SAUCE.—One cup sugar, one-half cup butter (beaten to a cream) one teaspoonful water, yolk of one egg; heat to a scald; add the white of egg, well beaten, with a pinch of salt; flavor with lemon.
Scald one pint of milk; stir into it one-half cup of Indian meal, one-half cup molasses, and a pinch of salt. When this is cold, pour over it, without stirring, one pint of cold milk. Bake in a slow oven about four hours to obtain the color and flavor of the old-fashioned pudding.
Scald one quart of milk; stir in three-fourths cup of Indian meal, one-third cup molasses, and a pinch of salt. Beat two eggs with a half cup of cold milk, and fill the dish. Bake one hour.
One quart of flour, one egg, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful sugar, butter size of an egg, a little salt; mix with milk, and roll as for pie crust; cut into pieces four inches square; in each piece put half of an apple or peach (pared); pinch the corners together; place in a buttered pan. On top of each dumpling put a lump of butter, a little cinnamon, and sugar. Pour into the pan one-half pint of water. Bake, and serve with sweetened milk or cream.
One-half pound figs, one-fourth pound grated bread, two and one-half ounces powdered sugar, three ounces butter, two eggs, one cup milk. Chop the figs fine; and mix first with the butter; add the other ingredients by degrees. Put in a buttered mold, sprinkle with bread crumbs, cover tightly, and boil for three hours.
One egg, six even tablespoonfuls sugar, six heaping tablespoonfuls flour, one heaping tablespoonful baking powder, milk to make batter a little thinner than cake dough. Put fruit in baking dish; pour the batter over it, and bake.
Four cups of flour, four [one?] cups of sweet milk, one-half cup of sugar, one half cup of molasses, three-fourths cup of chopped suet, one cup of raisins, one-half cup of currants, one small teaspoonful of salt, one heaping teaspoon of cinnamon, one heaping teaspoon of cloves, one-half a nutmeg, and one teaspoon of soda; steam three hours. This can be kept any length of time. When ready to use, cut off slices and steam one-half hour.
Seed and slice five large oranges; pour over them a cup of sugar. Take one pint of boiling milk; add yolks of three eggs, one-half cup of sugar, a tablespoon of corn starch; boil until it thickens; when nearly cold, pour over the oranges. Beat whites of the eggs with a little sugar; spread over the top, and brown in oven.
One pint of bread crumbs, one quart of milk, one cup of sugar, four eggs (yolks), butter the size of an egg, grated rind of one lemon; mix, and bake until done, but not watery. Beat the whites of three eggs with one cup of sugar, into which has been stirred the juice of one lemon. Spread over the pudding a layer of jelly and the whites of eggs. Replace in oven until a nice brown. Serve with sauce.
One pint of flour, one heaping teaspoon of baking powder, one egg, a pinch of salt, one-half a cup of butter, one-half a cup of sugar; mix with water or sweet milk to form a thick batter. Fill a pan one-half full of fruit, sweetened with sugar, and pour the mixture over it. Put pan in a steamer, and steam one hour. To be eaten with sauce.
Fill a pudding dish with peaches, cooked and sweetened; pour over them a batter made of one pint of sweet milk, four eggs, one cup of sugar, one tablespoon of butter, a little salt, one teaspoon of baking powder, and two cups of flour. Place in oven, and bake until a rich brown. Serve with cream.
Use a piece of rennet about the size of a half dollar. Take two quarts of good sweet milk, and warm it to the heat of new milk; sweeten to taste; flavor with nutmeg. Soak the rennet in three or four tablespoons of warm water a few moments; then place it in the middle of the pan of milk (with a string attached, and laid out over the edge of the pan, so that it can be removed without breaking the custard); set in a cool place until solid. Serve with cream. This is a very delicate dish for invalids.
POTATO PUDDING. MRS. J. F. McNEAL.
One and one-half pints of mashed potato, one teacup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of flour, one quart of milk, four eggs, and salt to taste. Flavor with lemon, nutmeg, or vanilla. Bake one hour.
QUEEN PUDDING. MRS. T. J. McMURRAY.
One pint of bread crumbs, one quart of milk, one cup of sugar, the yolks of four eggs, the grated rind of one lemon, and a piece of butter the size of a hen's egg. Bake like a custard. When done, cover with the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth with one cup of sugar and the juice of the lemon. Put back in oven, and brown lightly.
Wash a small cup of rice, and put into a quart of milk; season to taste; add one cup of raisins, and set in oven three hours before dinner. When the mixture begins to brown on top, stir up from the bottom, repeating this until the pudding is done. If it becomes too dry, add more milk.
Stew prunes, or any small fruit, sweeten to taste, and while boiling put in a few thin slices of white bread; when the bread is saturated with the boiling juice, put the bread in alternate layers in a deep dish, leaving a thick layer of fruit for the top. Put a plate over the top, and when cool, set on ice. Serve with sugar and cream. Whipped cream is preferable.
Cover one cup of "Farina" tapioca with a pint of water, allowing it to soak until all the water has been absorbed. Open a pint can of peaches, and pour off the liquor; add to this the tapioca, and cook slowly over a moderate fire until the tapioca is clear and tender; then stir in the peaches. Turn into a dish, and serve cold, with powdered sugar and cream. Cherries, unfermented grape juice, or berries can be used instead of peaches, and will make a most delicious dessert.
Soak one teacup of tapioca in water over night. In the morning, set one quart of milk in a kettle of boiling water, and let it come to a boil. Stir the yolks of three eggs into the tapioca, with one cup of sugar; let it boil a few minutes. Beat the whites of the eggs stiff and put on the top of the cream. Serve cold.
Soak one teacup of tapioca and one teaspoon of salt in one and one-half pints of cold water for five hours; keep in a warm place but do not cook. Two hours before dinner, pare and core six large apples; place them in a pudding dish; fill the cavities made by removing cores with sugar and a little grated nutmeg, or lemon peel; add a cup of water, and bake one hour, turning the apples to prevent them drying. When quite soft, turn over them the tapioca. Bake one hour longer. Serve with hard sauce of butter and sugar.
One cup of molasses, one cup of sweet milk, one cup of suet (chopped fine), or a half cup of butter, one cup of raisins, half cup of currants, two and a half cups of flour, and a teaspoon of soda; mix well; add a pinch of salt, one teaspoonful allspice, and one teaspoon of cinnamon. Steam two hours.
One cup of suet (chopped fine), one cup molasses, one cup raisins (seeded), one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, one large teaspoon soda, a little salt; mix, and steam three and one-half to four hours. Serve with drawn butter sauce.
One cup of suet (chopped fine), one cup of sugar, one cup milk, one cup chopped raisins, three cups flour, with two teaspoonfuls baking powder, a little salt; spice to taste; mix, and steam three hours.
SAUCE.—One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter (beaten to a cream), one tablespoonful of water, the yolk of one egg; heat to a scald; add the white of egg, well beaten, with a pinch of salt. Flavor with lemon.
Two cups or suet (chopped fine), two cups of stoned raisins, four cups flour, two eggs, a pinch of salt, milk enough to make a stiff batter; put in a pudding bag, and boil three hours.
SAUCE FOR PUDDING.—One cup of sugar, one half cup water, yolk of one egg, one teaspoonful butter, one teaspoonful flour. Flavor with lemon.
One and a half cups suet, chopped very fine and mixed thoroughly with three cups of flour; one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one cup molasses or sugar, and one cup sour milk. If sugar is used, mix with the flour and suet; if molasses, mix with the sour milk, to which add one rounded teaspoonful of soda. Add, at the last, one large cupful of seeded raisins and one-half cup currants. Steam at least two hours.
One cup of raisins, one cup of New Orleans molasses, one cup of beef suet; one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful each of ground cloves, ginger, and cinnamon, saltspoon of salt; mix; pour in pudding pan, and steam from four to six hours. Serve very hot, with sauce to suit taste. When taken from steamer, set in oven a moment to dry the top. This rule makes three small loaves. It will keep to warm over when needed.
"Who dare deny the truth, there's poetry in pie?"
—Longfellow.
There are plenty of women capable of choosing good husbands (or, if not good when chosen, of making them good); yet these same women may be ignorant on the subject of making good pie. Ingenuity, good judgement, and great care should be used in making all kinds of pastry. Use very cold water, and just as little as possible; roll thin, and always from you; prick the bottom crust with a fork to prevent blistering; then brush it well with the white of egg, and sprinkle thick with granulated sugar. This will give you a firm, rich crust.
For all kinds of fruit pies, prepare the bottom crust as above. Stew the fruit, and sweeten to taste. If juicy, put a good layer of corn starch on top of the fruit before putting on the top crust. This will prevent the juice from running out, and will form a nice jelly throughout the pie. Be sure that you have plenty of incisions in the top crust; then pinch it closely around the edge; sprinkle some granulated sugar on top, and bake in a moderate oven.
With one cup of flour, use one tablespoonful of lard, and a little salt; cut the lard into the flour with a knife; use just enough cold water to stick it together; handle as little as possible. If wanted richer, add some butter when rolling out.
PASTRY.—Take one cup shortening (lard and butter mixed); three cups of flour, a little salt; sift the flour; add the salt, and rub in the shortening. Use enough ice water to hold all together, handling as little as possible. Roll from you. One-third the quantity given is enough for one pie.
FILLING.—Yolks of four eggs, one quart of milk, a little salt, and one-half cup of sugar. Bake with under crust only. Flavor to taste.
Beat thoroughly the yolks of two eggs with one-half cup of sugar; add one heaping tablespoon of flour, and one even tablespoon of corn starch, dissolved in a little milk; pour into one pint of boiling milk, and let cook about three minutes; cool; flavor with extract of orange, and pour into a baked crust. Beat the whites to a stiff froth; add one-half cup of sugar; flavor with extract of orange; spread on top; put in oven and let it slightly brown.
Three-fourths cup of sugar; butter the size of an egg, yolks of three eggs, one tablespoon of flour, one pint of milk; flavor with nutmeg. beat all well together; heat the custard to near boiling; fill pie and bake. Put white of eggs on top; sprinkle with sugar and brown in oven.
One cup of sour cream, one cup of sugar, one cup seeded and chopped raisins, one egg and a pinch of salt. Bake with two crusts.
One cup of milk, one-half cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of corn starch, yolks of two eggs. Cook milk, sugar, and eggs together; then stir in the corn starch, and put into baked crust.
MERINGUE.—Whites of two eggs, well beaten with two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Spread on the pie and bake a light brown.
One tablespoonful of corn starch, two tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of sweet milk, yolks of two eggs; beat all together in a warm crock; stir in a pint of boiling milk; let it boil up once; then add a teaspoon of vanilla or lemon and a pinch of salt; pour this into a baked crust. Beat the white of eggs with a teaspoonful of sugar; put over pie, and brown quickly.
Grate a tablespoonful of Bakers chocolate in a dish; add one tablespoonful of flour, the yolks of two eggs, and one-half cup sugar; beat all together; add one pint sweet milk. Bake with lower crust. Take the whites of eggs for frosting. This will make one large pie.
Grate the rind and squeeze the juice from two lemons; add two and one-half cups of boiling water, three cups of sugar, one-half cup of flour, the yolks of three eggs, and one tablespoon of butter; cook until thick and clear; put in pans prepared with pastry, and bake. Beat the whites of eggs with a little sugar; put over top, and brown lightly.
One lemon, the yolks of two eggs, one heaping cup of sugar, butter the size of a walnut, three cups of water. Grate the rind of the lemon, and squeeze out the pulp and juice; add the other ingredients; put in a stew pan, and let come to a boil; then stir in one large tablespoonful of corn starch, wet with cream. Bake crust first, and turn in filling. Beat up the whites of two eggs, with a little pulver ized sugar added, and put over the top. Put in oven, and brown a little.
Grate the rind of one smooth, juicy lemon, and squeeze out the juice, straining it on the rind. Put one cup of sugar and a piece of butter the size of an egg in a bowl, and one good-sized cupful of boiling water into a pan on the stove. Moisten a tablespoonful of corn starch, and stir it into the water; when it boils, pour it over the sugar and butter, and stir in the rind and juice. When a little coo], add the beaten yolks of two eggs. Butter a deep plate, and cover all over with cracker dust (very fine crumbs). This is the crust. Pour in the mixture, and bake; then frost with the whites (beaten stiff), and brown.
One heaping tablespoon of corn starch, one cup of boiling water, one cup of sugar, one egg, one tablespoon butter, and the juice and rind of one small lemon. Make into custard, and bake with bottom crust.
For one pie, take one lemon, one cup of sugar, yolks of two eggs, one cup of water, and two heaping tablespoons of flour. After the pie is baked, beat the whites of the eggs with one tablespoon of sugar; spread over pie, and brown in oven.
One cup of sugar, one large spoon of flour, the grated rind and juice of one lemon, two eggs, a piece of butter as large as a hickory nut, and two cups of boiling water; make into custard, reserving whites of eggs for the top.
For three pies, take one lemon, one egg, one tablespoonful of corn starch, one and one-half cups of sugar, one and one-half cups of water; boil all together for the custard.
CRUST.—One cup of lard, and a little salt, to three cups of flour.
Beat thoroughly the yolks of two eggs with one-half cup of sugar; add one heaping tablespoon of flour, and one even tablespoon of corn starch, dissolved in milk; pour into one pint of boiling milk, and let cook about three minutes; add to this the juice and grated rind of one lemon, and pour into a baked crust. Beat the whites to a stiff froth; add one-half cup of sugar; spread on top. Put in oven, and let slightly brown.
Chop fine four pounds of good boiled beef (one tongue is better), one pound suet, and eight apples; add two pounds of raisins (seeded), two pounds of currants, two grated nutmegs, two ounces ground cloves, one pound citron (cut fine), two pounds brown sugar, two tablespoonfuls salt, one pint boiled cider. This may be canned like fruit. When ready to bake pies, add a glass of grape jelly, diluted with water, a little butter, a few raisins, and sugar if needed.
Two teacups of sugar, one teacup of molasses, two teacups of hot water, one teacup of chopped raisins, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of vinegar, two eggs, six rolled crackers or bread crumbs; cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and nutmeg to taste.
Three and a half pint bowls of chopped meat, two and a half bowls of suet, four bowls of apples, three bowls of raisins (half of them chopped), two bowls of currants, half a pound of citron (chopped very fine), seven teaspoons even full of salt, four teaspoons cloves, six teaspoons cinnamon, five teaspoons of mace, three nutmegs, four bowls of granulated sugar; mix with sweet cider.
Two tablespoonfuls of cooked pumpkin, one egg, one-half cup of sugar, one-half pint of milk, cinnamon and nutmeg to taste, and a pinch of salt. This is enough for one pie.
One coffeecup of mashed pumpkin, reduced to the proper consistency with rich milk and melted butter or cream, one tablespoonful of flour a small pinch of salt, one teaspoon of ginger, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one half nutmeg, one half teaspoon of vanilla, one half teaspoon of lemon extract, two-thirds cup of sugar.
PUFF PASTE.—One third cup of lard, a little salt, mix slightly with one and one half cups of flour, moisten with very cold water, just enough to hold together; get into shape for your tin as soon as possible. Brush the paste with the white of egg. Bake in a hot oven until a rich brown.
Steam Hubbard Squash, or good sweet pumpkin, until soft, and put through a colander. Put one-half cup of butter into an iron frying pan over the fire. When it begins to brown, add one quart of strained pumpkin; let it cook a few moments, stirring all the time; put into a large bowl or crock; add two quarts of good rich milk, eight eggs, beaten separately, two large cups of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, one of pepper, one of ginger, one of cinnamon, one of cloves, one grated nutmeg, and one tablespoonful of vanilla. Bake in moderate oven, with under crust only. Brush the crust with white of egg before filling. This will make five pies.
One quart of pumpkin, one cup of Orleans molasses, one cup of brown sugar, one pint of milk, three eggs, one tablespoon each of nutmeg, ginger, and cinnamon, and one teaspoon of salt. This will make two large, or three small pies.
One lemon; grate the yellow rind and squeeze the juice. One scant cup sugar, two tablespoons of flour (rounded full), the yolks of two eggs, beat until light; then add one and a half cups of boiling water, in which has been melted a heaping tablespoonful of butter; lastly, add three drops of vanilla extract. When baked, cover with the whites of two eggs, beaten to a stiff froth with four tablespoonfuls of sugar. Return to the oven until it is a very delicate brown. This makes two small pies, or one large one.
Make a puff paste; roll about twice the thickness you would for pie. Bake in forms cut with the lid of a pound baking powder can; score in eight parts about one-half inch deep; turn every other one to the center; pinch them together to hold the filling.
FIG FILLING FOR TARTS.—One-half pound figs; soak, and cut out the stems; mince very fine. To each cup of minced figs, put one cup of sugar, and one-half cup of water; boil until it jells. Fill the shells, and put on top a soft frosting.
One cup of white sugar, one grated lemon, whites of three eggs beaten to a froth, and butter the size of a walnut. Put on stove; let come to a boiling heat, but not boil. Stir in whites of eggs the last thing, and put in tart shells.
One-half pint of stewed pumpkin, one pint of hot milk, one cup of brown sugar, one egg, one large tablespoonful of flour, one-half large tablespoonful of butter, one-half teaspoonful of ginger, one-half teaspoonful of vanilla.
Line a pan with puff paste; put in a layer of Damson plums; sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Put in the oven, and let it bake until the crust is done; take from the oven; put on top a batter made from three eggs, one cup of sugar, three tablespoons of cold water, one cup of flour, one teaspoon of baking powder. This is sufficient batter to cover three pies. Serve warm.
One cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of cold water, one-half cup of butter or lard, four cups of flour, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, and one teaspoonful of soda. Bake in crust as you would custard pie.
One teacupful of raisins (seeded and chopped), one cup of sugar, the juice of one good-sized lemon, one cup of boiling water; set this on stove; let come to a boil; then add four heaping teaspoonfuls of flour, wet in a little cold water; after it boils again, put in a small piece of butter and a little grated nutmeg; let cool before making into pies. This makes one very large pie. By doubling the amount, you can make three good-sized pies. The filling will keep for some time.
"I will make an end of my dinner;
There's pippins and cheese to come."
—SHAKESPEARE
One-half pint of grated soft cream cheese and one-half cupful of cream, melted together in a sauce pan; add a little salt, mustard, cayenne pepper, a teaspoonful of butter, an egg, or yolks of two. Stir until smooth, and pour over the toast.
Cut up one pound of cheese in small pieces, and place in a dish, seasoning with salt and pepper; stir until melted. Have ready toast on a hot dish; cover slices with the melted cheese. Serve hot, as a relish. This is used as a course before serving a dinner.
Two scant cups of milk; add three eggs, beaten lightly; season with one teaspoon of butter, salt, red pepper, and a pinch of soda, dissolved in a little hot water; then add one cup of dry and fine bread crumbs, and one-half pound of grated cheese. The bread and cheese should both be dry before grating it. Put in a buttered dish, with dry crumbs on the top, and bake in rather a hot oven. Serve at once.
Heat two cups of milk and one of grated cheese; then add two cups of fine bread crumbs, half teaspoonful of mustard, pepper and salt; mix it well. Spread thickly between thin slices of buttered toast.
One cup of grated cheese, one cup of flour, a small pinch of cayenne pepper, butter same as for pastry; roll thin; cut in narrow strips. Bake a light brown in a quick oven. Serve with salads.
One cup of flour, two cups of grated cheese, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of baking powder, and water enough to roll out like pie dough; roll thin, and cut with pastry wheel in long, narrow strips. Bake in quick oven.
Take salted wafers, butter them on one side, and sprinkle thickly with grated cheese. Place in a dripping pan; put into a warm oven about fifteen minutes, and serve with meats or salad.
"With weights and measures just and true,
Oven of even heat,
Well buttered tins and quiet nerves,
Success will be complete."
In making cake, the ingredients used should be of the best quality—the flour super-fine, and always sifted; the butter fresh and sweet, and not too much salted. Coffee A, or granulated sugar is best for all cakes. Much care should be taken in breaking and separating the eggs, and equal care taken as regards their freshness. One imperfect egg would spoil the entire lot. Break each egg separately in a teacup; then into the vessels in which they are to be beaten. Never use an egg when the white is the least discolored. Before beating the whites, remove every particle of yolk. If any is allowed to remain, it will prevent them becoming as stiff and dry as required. Deep earthen bowls are best for mixing cake, and should be kept exclusively for that purpose. After using, wash well, dry perfectly, and keep in a dry place. A wooden spoon or paddle is best for beating batter. Before commencing to make your cake, see that all the ingredients required are at hand. By so doing, the work may be done in much less time.
The lightness of a cake depends not only upon the making, but the baking, also. It is highly important to exercise judgment respecting the heat of the oven, which must be regulated according to the cake you bake, and the stove you use. Solid cake requires sufficient heat to cause it to rise, and brown nicely without scorching. If it should brown too fast, cover with thick brown paper. All light cakes require quick heat, and are not good if baked in a cool oven. Those having molasses as an ingredient scorch more quickly, consequently should be baked in a moderate oven. Every cook should use her own judgment, and by frequent baking she will, in a very short time, be able to tell by the appearance of either bread or cake whether it is sufficiently done.
One cup of white sugar, one-half cup of butter, whites of four eggs (well beaten), one-half cup of sweet milk, two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, and one-half teaspoonful of soda. Flavor with lemon.
One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour, whites of five or six eggs, two teaspoons of baking powder. This is easy to make, and very good.
Two cups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, the whites of seven eggs (well beaten), two thirds cup sweet milk, three cups flour, three teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in square or round tins.
Whites of five eggs, two cups of sugar, two-thirds cup of butter, two and one-half cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, two and one-half teaspoons of baking powder. Flavor to suit taste.
Two cups white sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one cup corn starch, whites of six eggs, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Flavor to taste.
One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup milk, one and one-half cups flour, one teaspoonful baking powder, whites of four eggs. Flavor to taste.
Whites of five eggs, two cups of white sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, two and a half cups of flour, one cup of corn starch dissolved in some of the milk, half teaspoonful of soda, and one teaspoonful of cream tartar.
Whites of eight eggs, two cups of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup of milk, one cup of corn starch, two cups of flour, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix corn starch, flour, and baking powder together; add the butter and sugar alternately, then the milk; add the whites of seven eggs last. Flavor to taste.
The yolks eight eggs, one whole egg, one-half cup of butter, one and one-half cups of sugar, three-fourths of a cup of milk, two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, and one-half teaspoonful of soda.
The whites of ten eggs, one and a half tumblers of granulated sugar, one tumbler of flour; a heaping teaspoon of cream tartar, a pinch of salt. Put through the sieve twice. Take one-half of eggs, and stir in one-half the sugar; beat until they have a gloss; then add the other half of eggs, and the rest of the sugar. Beat again; then add the flour and cream tartar. Stir up lightly. Flavor with almond. Bake one hour in slow oven.
Whites of nine large or ten small fresh eggs, one and one-fourth cups sifted granulated sugar, one cup sifted flour, one-half teaspoonful cream tartar; a pinch of salt added to eggs before beating. After sifting flour four or five times, measure and set aside one cup; then sift and measure one and one fourth cups granulated sugar; beat whites of eggs about half; add cream tartar and beat until very, very stiff. Stir in sugar, and then flour, very lightly. Put in pan in moderate oven at once, and bake from thirty-five to fifty minutes.
Whites of eleven eggs, one cup of flour, one and one-half cups of granulated sugar, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, one teaspoonful of almond extract, one-half teaspoonful of salt. Sift sugar once; flour three times; add cream tartar to flour, and sift three times. Bake forty minutes.
Whites of seven small eggs, yolks of five eggs, one cup of granulated sugar, two-thirds cup of flour, one-third teaspoon of cream tartar, and a pinch of salt. Sift the flour and sugar five times; measure, and set aside, as for angel cake. Beat yolks of eggs thoroughly; then, after washing beater, beat the whites about half; add cream tartar, and beat until very, very stiff. Stir in sugar lightly; then the beaten yolks thoroughly; then add flour and flavoring, and put in tube pan in the oven at once. It will bake in thirty-five to fifty minutes.
One and one-half cups of sugar, one-quarter cup of butter, two and one-half cups of flour, two eggs, one cup of water, two teaspoons of baking powder. Flavor with vanilla or lemon.
Longest established in Marion—Jennie Thomas, milliner.
Two cups of butter, four cups of pulverized sugar, two cups of sweet milk, two scant cups of corn starch, four heaping cups of flour, whites of twelve eggs, one tablespoon of lemon extract, three heaping teaspoons of baking powder. Cream the butter and sugar; add the well beaten whites; then the milk, the corn starch, and the flour in which baking powder has been sifted. This should be as stiff as pound cake. Bake in a moderate oven. It makes a very large cake, or two moderate-sized ones. Sometimes you will have to use more or less flour, according to the size of your eggs.
The yolks of four eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of flour, four tablespoonfuls of cold water, one teaspoonful of baking powder; add the whites of four eggs. Bake in a quick oven, but not too hot.
One cup of sugar, one and a half cups of flour, three eggs, two tablespoons of water, one heaping teaspoon of baking powder.
Four eggs, one and a third cups of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of water, and two cups of flour, through which has been sifted two small teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor with lemon extract.
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One cup of sugar, one cup of flour, three eggs. Beat altogether fifteen minutes; add one-half cup of milk, and one teaspoonful of baking powder.
Three cups of powdered sugar, and one cup of butter rubbed to a cream. Stir in the yolks of five well-beaten eggs. Dissolve one teaspoon of salaratus in a teacup of milk; add this, and then the juice and grated rind of one lemon, and the whites of the eggs. Sift in as lightly as possible four teacups of flour, and put in pan. Bake about one-half hour.
MARBLE CAKE. MRS. C. H. WILLIAMS AND MRS. ELIZABETH McCURDY.
LIGHT PART.—One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar, whites of four eggs, two and one-half cups flour.
DARK PART.—One cup brown sugar, one cup molasses, one-half cup butter, one half cup milk, one-half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar, two and one-half cups flour, yolks of four eggs, one-half tablespoon each of ground cloves, allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
When both parts are ready, drop a spoon of light and then one of dark in the pan.
One pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one pound of flour (sifted), ten eggs (beaten separately), one-half teacup of rose water, one nutmeg (grated), one pound of citron. Wash the citron; chop it fine. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the rose water and nutmeg, then the yolks of eggs, and part of the flour; then the whites of eggs and remainder of the flour; lastly, the fruit, lightly floured. Bake in a moderate oven about two or two and one-half hours. Line the pan with white paper.
One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, three-fourths cup sweet milk, three cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, two eggs, one cup hickory nut meats.
One and a half cups of brown sugar, two eggs, one teacup of sour cream, one even teaspoon of soda, about two and a half cups of flour. If sour cream is not used, take instead one cup of milk, and one-half cup of butter.
One pint bread dough; one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one egg, one-half teaspoonful baking powder. Spice, raisins, and citron to taste.
Mix one pint of milk with two quarts of flour and one cup of yeast, let stand in a warm place all night. In morning, beat until very light four eggs, one pound of sugar, three-eighths pound of butter, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon cinnamon, half a nutmeg; mix with the dough thoroughly, and beat for a long time. When raised again, dredge with flour, a cup of seeded raisins, half a pound of currants, one-fourth pound of citron; add to dough; put into the pan, and let stand to rise again for half an hour. Bake in an oven suitable for bread. This cake will keep a long time.
Two cups of brown sugar, one scant cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, four eggs, one and one-half teaspoons of baking powder, three cups of flour, one teaspoon each of cinnamon and cloves, one pound of raisins. This makes two cakes. Pour boiling water on the raisins, and let stand a few minutes before stoning them.
Take three cups of dried apples, and soak over night; then chop them fine, and cook slowly for three hours in three cups of baking molasses, stirring often; let cool over night. Then take two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three eggs, four cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, two teaspoons of ground cinnamon, two teaspoons of ground cloves, one grated nutmeg, two cups of raisins, one cup of citron (cut fine), and one pound of figs (chopped). Lastly, add the cooked apples. Stir all together, and bake as you would other fruit cake for two hours or longer in rather slow oven.
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One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, two eggs, one teaspoon of soda, three and one-half cups of flour, two cups of raisins, two cups of dried apples, soaked over night, chopped fine, and then stewed in two cups of molasses. Beat butter and sugar to a cream; add milk, in which dissolve the soda; then the beaten eggs, the flour, and lastly, stir in well the raisins and apples. Bake one and a half hours.
One cup brown sugar, one cup molasses, one cup boiling coffee, one-half cup lard, one-half cup butter, one egg, one teasponful soda, one teaspoonful salt, one tablespoonful cloves, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one tablespoonful allspice, one tablespoonful vanilla, one tablespoonful lemon, one nutmeg, one cup chopped raisins, four cups flour.
One cup brown sugar, one cup molasses, one-half cup butter, one cup strong liquid coffee, one or two eggs, four cups flour, one teaspoon soda, one tablespoon cinnamon, one teaspoon cloves, one nutmeg, one pound raisins, one-half pound currants, citron as you like. Mix the cake part, adding soda last. Dredge the fruit with flour before putting in. Bake in one large loaf, or two smaller ones.
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One cup butter, two cups brown sugar, one cup liquid coffee, six eggs, one cup currants, one cup raisins, two teaspoons ground cinnamon, two teaspoons ground cloves, one teaspoon soda, and three cups flour.
One cup butter, two cups sugar, five eggs, one cup sweet milk, one pint hickory nut meats, one pound raisins or currants, one pound flour, one heaping teaspoon baking powder.
Two cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, two and a half cups of flour, three teaspoons of baking powder, two eggs, and one pint of nut kernels.
Three cups bread sponge, three cups sugar, one cup butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little water, one pound raisins, one teaspoonful each of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice; flour enough to stiffen.
One pound of brown sugar, one pound of browned flour, three-quarters of a pound of butter, one cup of molasses, twelve eggs, two pounds of stoned raisins, two pounds of currants, one-half pound of citron cut in strips, one-half pound of figs chopped fine, one-half pound of almonds chopped fine, two wine glasses of boiled cider, two ounces of vanilla, one tablespoon of ground cinnamon, one small tablespoon of ground cloves, one tablespoon of ground mace, one grated nutmeg, a little pepper, and three teaspoons of baking powder. Bake three hours.
One cup butter, one cup brown sugar, two-thirds cup molasses, three cups flour, one-half cup sour milk, one cup raisins, one cup currants, one teaspoon soda in milk, four eggs, citron and spice to taste.
One pound flour, one pound brown sugar, one pound citron, two pounds raisins, two pounds currants, three-fourths pound butter, one pound almonds, one ounce mace, one cup molasses, one-half teaspoon soda stirred in molasses, ten eggs. Stir sugar and butter to a cream; then add whites and yolks of eggs, beaten separately. Stir in flour gradually, and molasses and spices; lastly, the fruit. This makes three loaves. Bake in a moderate oven.
Two cups butter, two and one-half cups sugar, two and one-half cups molasses, eight cups flour, two cups sour milk, eight eggs, two teaspoonfuls soda, three pounds raisins, three pounds currants, one pound citron, one pound figs, two lemons (grate the rind and squeeze the juice), two glasses of jelly, cloves, mace, cinnamon, and nutmegs. Mix flour and fruit alternately. Bake three and one-half hours.
One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, three cups flour, one cup water, two eggs, one teaspoonful baking powder, one pound seeded and chopped raisins; nutmeg, cinnamon, and citron to taste.
One cup butter, one and one-half cups brown sugar, one cup molasses, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder sifted into flour, five well beaten eggs, two pounds raisins, one pound currants, one-half pound chopped citron, one-half teaspoonful ground allspice, one-half teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half a nutmeg. Put flour in oven, and brown—be careful not to burn. Dredge fruit, and add last.
Cream one pound butter and one pound powdered sugar together; to this add the beaten yolks of twelve eggs, one pound sifted flour, and two teaspoons baking powder. Grate one cocoanut, blanch and chop one half pound almonds; slice one and one-half pounds citron; add to batter and stir in beaten whites of eggs. Put in a pan lined with greased paper, and bake two hours. When cold, ice.
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Beat two cups of sugar and three-fourths cup of butter to a cream, and then add three-fourths cup of water, three heaping cups of flour, the whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth, three teaspoons of baking powder, and one teaspoon of vanilla. Bake in layer pans, and put together with frosting.
Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, four cups sifted flour, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of four eggs. Flavor to taste.
One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup milk, one and one-half cups flour, one-half cup corn starch, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, three eggs (separate whites). Flavor to taste.
Two-thirds cup of butter, one full cup of brown sugar, one cup of blackberry jam, one-half cup of sweet milk, three eggs, two cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, one teaspoon each of cinnamon and allspice, one-half teaspoon of cloves, one-quarter cup of chopped citron, one cup of either walnuts or hickory nuts, vanilla flavoring. Bake in layers and fill between with either frosting or fig paste.
One cup coffee A or light brown sugar, one-half cup butter, two cups flour, one cup blackberry jam, three eggs, three tablespoons sour cream, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cinnamon, one-half a nutmeg. Put in the ingredients in the order given. Bake in layers, and finish with boiled icing.
One cup brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup jam, one-half cup seeded raisins, two cups flour, three eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, four tablespoons sweet milk, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half nutmeg. Bake like jelly cake, with icing between layers.
This may be made like blackberry jam cake, only substituting grape jam for the blackberry.
One cup brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, two eggs, two cups flour, one teaspoon soda dissolved in a little warm water and then added to the milk.
Make a cream of one cup grated chocolate, two-thirds cup brown sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, yolk of one egg, and one teaspoon vanilla. Cook up until like cream, and mix into above cake. Bake in slow oven in two layers, or in one shallow pan; frost with a white frosting, or the following—
CHOCOLATE FROSTING.—Put enough water over a cup of white sugar to dissolve it; grate into it two squares of chocolate, and boil until thick enough to spread. Put on cake when cool.
One scant cup butter, two cups sugar, two cups flour, one-half cup sweet milk, three eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon vanilla; add a small quarter cake of chocolate, grated and dissolved in one-half cup boiling water. Allow this to cool before adding it to the cake. Leave out the white of one egg for icing between the layers of cake.
Grate one-half cup chocolate; mix with one-half cup milk, yolk of one egg, one cup pulverized sugar, one teaspoon vanilla. Boil until chocolate and sugar are melted. Let this cool while making cake from one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup milk, two cups flour, two eggs, two teaspoons baking powder; add to this the boiled chocolate, and bake in layers.
FILLING.—Boil two cups granulated sugar and six tablespoons water until it threads; then stir into it the whites of two eggs, well beaten. Flavor with vanilla.
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Three-fourths cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, three scant cups flour, three teaspoonfuls baking powder; lastly, the whites of five eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Bake in layers.
ICING.—Boil two cups of sugar to a taffy; add the white of one egg, beaten to a stiff froth and one ten cent cake of German chocolate, grated. Beat the icing continually while stirring in the white of egg and until it is almost cold.
One and one-half cups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, one teaspoonful vanilla, two thirds cup milk, two cups flour, three level teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of five eggs, well beaten.
ICING.—One and one half cups sugar, one half cup milk (or a little more), a lump of butter the size of a walnut, one teaspoonful vanilla. Boil until waxy; remove from fire; beat until stiff. Spread melted chocolate on bottom and top of layers, and put the cream icing between.
One cup sugar, three eggs, one and one-half cups flour, three tablespoons water, two teaspoons baking powder, flavoring to taste. Bake in about three layers and put between them this—
CREAM.—Three-quarters pint milk, one egg, two tablespoons corn starch, three tablespoons sugar. Put milk on to boil; mix other ingredients together; put in milk, and boil until it thickens. Flavor to taste when cool.
Two tablespoons butter, two teacups sugar, three eggs, one-half teacup sweet milk, two tablespoons cold water, two teacups flour, two teaspoons baking powder. Bake quickly in three or four round tins.
CREAM.—One-half pint milk, one-half teacup sugar, a small piece butter, one egg, one tablespoon corn starch, boil until very thick. When nearly cold, flavor with vanilla. When the cakes are cool, put them together with it.
Two cups white sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, one cup corn starch, two cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of seven eggs, beaten and added last.
FILLING.—Whip one pint cream; sweeten and flavor to taste, and spread between layers.
Two cups granulated sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups sifted flour, three teaspoons baking powder sifted in the flour, the well beaten whites of eight eggs. Bake in three layers.
One pint rich sweet cream, whipped with one small teacup sugar.
Flavor to taste, and put between layers.
Four eggs, one and one-half cups sugar, two tablespoons water, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder.
FILLING.—One egg, one-half pint sweet milk, one-half cup sugar, two tablespoons flour, butter size of hickory nut. Flavor to taste.
One-half cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, three eggs (yolks and whites beaten separately), three cups flour, three teaspoonfuls baking powder.
FILLING.—One cup sugar, two teaspoonfuls butter, two eggs, and the grated rind and juice of two lemons; mix all together, and boil to consistency of jelly. Spread between layers, and dust powdered sugar on top.
One cup butter rubbed with two cups white sugar to a cream, one cup sweet milk, three and one-half cups flour, three level teaspoons baking powder, and whites of eight eggs. Bake in jelly tins, and put together with boiled icing flavored with orange.
Four eggs (yolks and whites beaten separately), one and one-half cups sugar, one and one-half cups flour, two tablespoonfuls water, one-half teaspoonful baking powder mixed with the flour. Bake in dripping pan; spread with jelly, and roll.
Yolks of three eggs, and one cup of sugar, well beaten; one cup of flour, one heaped teaspoon of baking powder; about one-half cup of water, a little salt, whites of three eggs, well beaten.
JELLY.—Juice and grated rind of one lemon, one cup of sugar, one egg, one cup of water, one tablespoon of corn starch dissolved in part of the water. Put all together, and boil in a pail of water until it thickens.
Whites of six eggs, two cups white sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, three scant cups flour.
FILLING.—One pound cut figs, one pint cream, whipped and sweetened.
Put a layer of fig; then one of cream.
DARK PART.—One cup brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup molasses; one-half cup strong coffee, two eggs, two and one-half cups flour, one cup raisins, one teaspoon each of soda, cinnamon, and cloves, one and one-half teaspoons mace.
WHITE PART.—Two cups sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one cup corn starch, white of two eggs, one teaspoon baking powder.
One cup sugar, two tablespoonfuls butter, two eggs (leaving out the white of one), three-fourths cup cold water, two and one-half cups flour, three teaspoonfuls baking powder.
FROSTING.—One-half cup maple syrup or sugar; boil to a taffy; pour over the beaten white of one egg.
One and a half cups sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, one and one-half cups flour, half cup corn starch, teaspoonful baking powder, whites of six eggs; bake in two cakes, putting a frosting between and on top. Grate cocoanut all over.
Two cups darkest brown sugar, one-half cup butter, two eggs, one-half cup sour milk, three cups flour, one pinch salt; mix thoroughly together. Take one-half cup boiling water; stir into this one teaspoon soda, and one-half cup grated Baker's chocolate; stir into batter.
FILLING.—Two cups dark brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk or cream. Cook until it threads.
One-half cup of butter, two cups of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, three cups of sifted flour, the whites of eight eggs, beaten stiff. Cream the butter and sugar; add the milk; then the flour; beat thoroughly; then add the eggs; and flour, with vanilla.
FILLING.—Two cups of maple or brown-sugar, one cup of milk, a lump of butter the size of a walnut, a tablespoonful of vanilla, or any flavor. Boil till it gets like candy; beat to a cream.
One and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of water, one and one-half cups of flour, one-half cup of corn starch, two teaspoons of baking powder, the whites of six eggs. Flavor with lemon. Bake in layers.
FILLING.—Two cups of light brown sugar, one-half cup of water. Boil until it threads, and stir in the whites of two eggs, beating until it creams; them stir in one pound of English walnuts, chopped fine.
Two cups of coffee A sugar and one cup of butter creamed together; add slowly one cup of sweet milk, three full cups of flour, in which three teaspoons of baking powder have been stirred, and the whites of eight eggs. Flavor to suit taste. Bake in layers, and put together with boiled frosting and chocolate creams, or stir into the frosting one pound of seeded raisins, or a glass of currant jelly. Any one of these will make a delicious cake.
Beat one cup butter to a cream; add one and one-half cups flour, and stir thoroughly together; then add one cup corn starch, and one cup sweet milk, in which three teaspoons baking powder have been dissolved; lastly, add the whites of eight eggs, and two cups sugar, beaten together. Flavor to taste. Bake in sheets, and put together with icing.
Two-thirds cup butter, two small cups sugar, one cup milk, three teaspoons baking powder, the yolks of five eggs, three small cups flour. Bake in jelly tins.
FILLING.—Whites of three eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, juice and grated rind of one orange, sugar to give the right consistency to spread between the layers; put white frosting on the top.
One egg, one cup sour cream, one-half teaspoon soda in one pint flour, butter the size of half an egg, one cup sugar.
CARAMEL DRESSING.—One pint light brown sugar, butter the size of an egg, one-half cup sweet milk. Cream the butter and sugar; then add milk, and cook until it hardens in water like taffy; beat until cool enough to spread smoothly.
One small half cup of butter, one cup of sugar, two eggs, two-thirds cup of water, two cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder. Take out two layers in tins; leave enough for a third layer, and put in it one teaspoon of cinnamon, and one teaspoon of cloves. Bake; put dark layer in middle, and icing between all.
JELLY CAKE. MRS. ELIZABETH McCURDY.
One cup sugar, two tablespoons butter, five tablespoons sweet milk, three eggs, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cream tartar. Flavor with lemon. Bake in layers, and spread with jelly.
Three coffee-cups sugar, one heaping coffee-cup butter, and the yolks of six eggs, beaten together to a cream; five even cups sifted flour, four teaspoonfuls baking powder; one and one-half cups sweet milk; the whites of the six eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and added last; with one teaspoonful lemon flavoring. Bake in layers.
ALMOND SAUCE FOR FILLING.—Three pounds almonds, blanched and pounded to a paste, one and one-half coffee-cups fresh, pure sour cream, one and one-half coffee-cups sugar, four eggs (whites and yolks beaten thoroughly together). Stir all together, and add vanilla enough to drown the taste of sour cream.
One-half cup butter, two cups sugar, whites of five eggs, one cup milk, two and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon vanilla.
One cup sugar, one cup grated pineapple, one heaping teaspoon corn starch, a pinch of salt; stir together well; add a small cup boiling water. Set on the stove, and boil until quite thick. Let it cool before using.
Beat together three cups of four X sugar; add the white of one egg, beaten stiff; thin it with milk, so it will spread; melt one-fourth cake of Bakers chocolate, and stir into the icing.
One cupful of granulated sugar, five tablespoonfuls of milk. Boil four or five minutes till it threads from the spoon. Flavor as desired. Stir till right thickness for spreading. This is fine grained, white, and delicious.
Stew one-half pound of chopped figs in a syrup made of one-fourth cupful of water and half cupful of sugar. Spread this when it is quite thick. It is excellent. Another nice filling may be made by using raisins instead of figs, treating them in the same way.
Lemon jelly, to spread between layers of cake, or on the top of sago or custard pudding, is made by grating the rinds of two lemons and squeezing out the juice; add a heaping cup of sugar, a tablespoonful of butter. Stir these together and then add three eggs, beaten very light; set the basin or little pail in which you have this in another of boiling water; stir it constantly until it thickens. When it is cold, it is ready for use.
One and one-half cups Orleans molasses, one cup brown or granulated sugar, one-half cup lard, one cup boiling water, one teaspoon soda dissolved in the water, two teaspoons ginger, one teaspoon each of cloves and cinnamon, three cups flour, one egg. Put all in the vessel, excepting the water and egg; beat well; then add the water and soda; after stirring this well together, add the beaten egg. Bake in quick oven. Put greased paper in pan before pouring in the mixture. Let cool in the pans.
One quart of flour, one cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of butter, one cup of sour milk, two teaspoonfuls of soda, three eggs, one tablespoon of ginger, one teaspoon of cinnamon.
One cup New Orleans molasses, one teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon soda, one tablespoon melted butter; stir this together; then pour on half a cup boiling water, and stir in one pint flour. Be sure and have the water boiling, and beat well. Pour into the pan one inch deep.
One-half cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup molasses, two and one-half cups flour, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful ginger, one teaspoonful cloves, two eggs, two teaspoonfuls soda in a cup of boiling water (put this in last).
One cup molasses, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup butter or lard, one-half cup sour milk, two and one-half cups flour, two eggs, one teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon soda dissolved in the milk. Bake in a moderate oven about half an hour.
One and a half cups Orleans molasses, half cup brown sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, teaspoon soda, teaspoon allspice, half teaspoon ginger; mix all together; add three cups sifted flour, and bake in shallow pans.
Six tablespoons sweet milk, five tablespoons molasses, one tablespoon of sugar, one-half scant teaspoon soda, one and one-fourth cups flour.
One cup molasses, one-half cup shortening, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, just a pinch of ginger, flour to make as stiff as sponge cake.
Two cups of coffee A sugar, a small teaspoon of lard, one-half teaspoon of ginger; rub all together; add two eggs, one cup of sweet milk, three teaspoons of baking powder. Mix in enough flour so you can work it nicely on the board. Cut out with cutter having hole in the center. Have your lard hot when you drop cakes in, and do not turn but once.
One cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, two eggs, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, two tablespoonfuls melted butter, flour enough to roll and cut.
One cup sugar, one cup sour milk, one level teaspoon soda in milk, two eggs, butter or lard the size of a small egg, a little nutmeg, and a pinch of salt, flour to roll out. Cut in rings and fry in hot lard.
One cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, two eggs, butter size of a small egg, one teaspoonful baking powder, a little salt. Mix in enough flour to roll in your hand. Always put a piece of apple or potato in the lard when frying doughnuts.
Yolks of four eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, a little nutmeg, two teaspoons of baking powder; mix soft; cut out, and fry.
Two quarts flour, one cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, butter size of a small egg, four eggs, five heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder. Flavor with nutmeg.
One and one-third cups skimmed sweet milk, one cup sugar, two eggs, four teaspoons melted butter, four teaspoons baking powder. Roll and cut.
One cup sugar, two eggs, one pint equal parts sour cream and buttermilk, one teaspoon soda, cinnamon and nutmeg to taste, flour sufficient for a soft dough. If sour cream is not at hand, use sufficient shortening to make it equal.
One and one-half cup sugar, two eggs, three tablespoonfuls melted lard, one cup milk, one teaspoon soda.
One cup sweet milk, one cup sugar, four eggs, two teaspoons baking powder. Beat the eggs and sugar well; then add milk and flour. Mix soft, not stiff. Fry carefully.
One cup sugar, three eggs, one-half cup milk, butter the size of a walnut, three teaspoonfuls baking powder. Fry in lard.
One and one-half cups sugar, one cup milk, two eggs, butter the size of an egg, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Mix in enough flour to roll out soft. Fry in hot lard.
One cup of molasses, one cup of sugar, one cup of lard or butter, four cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of ginger, two teaspoons of soda, one tablespoon of cinnamon. Bake in gem pans. Add soda the last thing; beat well.
One cup of brown sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of lard, one and a half cups of boiling water, one tablespoon of soda, one tablespoon of ginger, four cups of flour; mix, and drop from a spoon into a dripping pan.
One teaspoonful of baking powder mixed in flour, two cups of white sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the milk, one cup of chopped hickory nuts. Take enough flour to mix very stiff, and bake in a quick oven.
Two cups sugar, one cup butter, two eggs, one teaspoon soda in two tablespoons boiling water, flavoring to taste, flour sufficient to roll.
One cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup cold water, one teaspoonful of saleratus, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, two eggs, flour enough to roll, and no more.
Two cups of sugar, three eggs, one cup of butter, one-half cup of lard, four tablespoons of water, one teaspoon of soda, one teaspoon of cream tartar, a pinch of salt, and nutmeg, or vanilla.
Two cups of light brown sugar, one cup of shortening (butter and lard mixed), four eggs, one-half cup of boiling water, one teaspoon of soda dissolved in water, flour to thicken, and roll.
Two cups sugar, one-third cup lard, and two-thirds cup butter; mix like pie crust. Three eggs, three tablespoons water, one small teaspoon soda sifted with sugar; add enough flour to roll. Roll very thin.
One egg, one cup sugar, one cup thick sour cream, a pinch of salt, one teaspoon each of saleratus and cream tartar; mix soft, and bake in a quick oven.
Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda in milk, yolks of two eggs, one teaspoonful baking powder in flour. Flavor to taste. Flour enough to roll thin.
Two eggs, one and one half cups brown sugar, one cup butter, three tablespoons sour milk or cream, one teaspoon soda, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half teaspoon lemon extract, flour enough to mix soft.
One coffee-cup butter, one coffee-cup sugar, four eggs, four tablespoonfuls sweet milk. Flavor with nutmeg; mix soft. Beat butter and sugar to a cream first. [RB: 2 teaspoons baking powder?]
One cup granulated sugar, one cup coffee A sugar, one-half cup butter, two level teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one-half level teaspoonful cloves, one-half small nutmeg; cream together carefully; add two well beaten eggs. Sift the flour, and begin with one pint, and two slightly heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder; add more flour as you beat. When thick enough to handle, take a small piece in the hand, make into a ball, and roll; then place in buttered pans. Bake light brown in a moderate oven.
Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, teaspoon soda, one teaspoon vanilla, one pinch salt, just enough flour to roll them out.
One and one-half cups granulated sugar, one cup butter, three eggs, one-fourth cup sweet milk, one-half teaspoon soda dissolved in milk, flour enough to roll out thin; sift granulated sugar on top, and gently roll it in.
One cup butter, one pint sugar, three eggs, three tablespoons water, two pints flour, two teaspoons baking powder, nutmeg to taste.
Three eggs, two cups sugar, one cup butter and lard, two-thirds cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cream tartar. Flavor with vanilla. Use flour enough to roll. Stir only with a spoon.
Whites and yolks of two eggs (beaten separately), one cup brown sugar, one cup melted lard and butter, one cup New Orleans molasses, one dessert spoon of ginger, one dessert-spoon soda, four tablespoons boiling water, flour to stiffen. Do not roll too thin.
Two cups molasses, one cup sugar, one cup shortening, one tablespoonful soda in a little milk, ginger to taste, flour to stiffen, and roll.
One cup molasses (scalded), one cup brown sugar, one cup butter, one tablespoon ginger, two even teaspoons soda dissolved in one-fourth cup water, flour to roll out stiff.
One pint of molasses, one cup of sugar, one cup of lard, one pint of sour milk, one tablespoon of soda, one tablespoon of ginger, one tablespoon of cinnamon, three eggs.
One pint New Orleans molasses, and one cup butter; let come to a boil; take from fire, and cool, then dissolve an even tablespoonful soda in hot water. Pour into molasses, and stir. Mix in enough flour to roll, and two tablespoons ginger.
One cup brown sugar, one pint molasses, one-half pint lard, one-half ounce alum, one-half pint warm water, one ounce soda, two tablespoons ginger, flour enough to stiffen, and roll. Beat an egg well, and spread on the top of cakes just before baking.
One cup butter, two cups sugar, three eggs, one teaspoon soda, one tablespoon ginger.
One pound corn starch, one-half pound butter, one pound sugar, eight eggs, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; then add one egg and a little corn starch alternately until the whole is in. Bake a light brown in patty pans, in a quick oven. They are improved by frosting.
Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one-half cup sour cream, one-fourth teaspoon soda, two eggs; mix as soft as you can; roll thin, and bake quick. Make an icing of whites of four eggs, one pound of sugar, and as much grated or desiccated cocoanut as you can stir in. Spread on cookies after they are baked.
Three cups of sugar, one cup of lard, one pint of sweet milk, two eggs, five cents worth of lemon oil, five cents worth of baking ammonia. Pound the ammonia fine, and pour on it half a teacup of boiling water. Mix as stiff as bread; roll out, and cut.
One cup of nut kernels (chopped fine), one cup of light brown sugar; rub well together one-half cup flour, one egg (beaten light); mix well, and drop with a spoon on buttered dripping pan. Bake with a slow fire.
Mrs. Josie Yager adds to this a pinch of baking powder.
Two eggs, two coffee-cups brown sugar, two cups flour, two tablespoons water, one-half teaspoon baking powder, two cups hickory nut meats.
Two-thirds cup white sugar, one-half cup water; boil as for candy; remove from the fire; stir in one-half pound crystallized cocoanut; then add by degrees the beaten whites of three eggs. Mix thoroughly with a spoon; drop and spread in small cakes on buttered tins; bake until slightly browned.
One cake German sweet chocolate, one egg, one cup sugar, one-half cup milk, one lump butter size of a walnut.
Two cups coffee A sugar, three eggs, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, one pint nut kernels (chopped fine), two large teaspoonfuls baking powder, one tablespoon vanilla, flour to roll out. Bake in moderate oven.
Two cups brown sugar, two eggs, one-fourth cup butter, two cups hickory nuts, three tablespoons water, one teaspoon baking powder, flour to stiffen very stiff.
One cup meats, one cup sugar, one and one-half cups flour, one egg, a pinch of baking powder; roll thin, and cut into small cakes. Bake in quick oven.
Two cups water boiled with one cup butter, one and one-half cups flour; let stand until cool; then stir in five eggs, one at a time; drop on tins by the spoonful, and bake. Open one side, and put in this—
CREAM.—Two cups milk, one cup sugar, three eggs, and one-half cup flour. Cook like custard, and flavor with lemon.
White of one egg (beaten stiff), one teaspoonful of baking powder to the white of an egg; thicken with powdered sugar to drop from the spoon; add one small cup of nuts. Flavor to taste. Drop on buttered pans, and bake until light brown on top.
"Custards for supper, and an endless host of other such lady-like
luxuries."
—SHELLEY.
To one quart apples, stewed and well mashed, put whites of three eggs (well beaten), and four heaping tablespoons of sugar; beat together for fifteen minutes. Serve with cream.
One pint milk, one tablespoon corn starch, yolks of two eggs. Beat yolks, and add one tablespoon cream, one cup coffee A sugar. Flavor when cool.
Put two quarts of milk into a tin bucket, and place in a kettle of boiling water. While waiting for milk to boil, take the yolks of four eggs, beat, and add one tablespoonful of cream or milk, one cup of coffee A sugar, two teaspoonfuls of sifted flour; beat this to a creamy mixture. When the milk boils, take some of it, stir into the mixture, and then slowly pour this mixture into the rest of the boiling milk, stirring all the time. Put on the lid of the bucket; let boil for a few minutes. Flavor with vanilla. When cool, put in dish. Take the whites of four eggs; beat stiff; add granulated sugar; beat quite a while. Flavor with vanilla. Spread this over the top of the float, and on top of this put bits of jelly.
A very nice recipe for charlotte russe made with gelatine is as follows: Use one pint of cream whipped till light, one ounce of gelatine dissolved in one gill of hot milk, the well beaten whites of two eggs, one small teacupful of powdered sugar, and any flavoring preferred. Mix the eggs, sugar and cream together, and then beat in the dissolved gelatine. The milk should be quite cold before it is added to the other ingredients. Line a dish with slices of sponge cake, or with lady fingers, and fill with cream. Set it on ice to cool.
One-half box gelatine, juice of three lemons, one pint of cold water, one-half pint of hot water, two teacups of sugar, whites of three eggs. Soak one-half box of gelatine in one pint of cold water ten minutes; then dissolve over the fire, adding the juice of the lemons with the hot water and sugar. Boil all together two or three minutes; pour into a dish, and let it remain until nearly cold and beginning to set; then add the whites of eggs, well beaten, and whisk ten minutes. When it becomes the consistency of sponge, wet the inside of cups with the white of egg, pour in the sponge, and set in a cold place. Serve with thin custard, made with the yolks of four eggs, one tablespoonful of corn starch, one-half teacup of sugar, one pint of milk, teaspoonful of vanilla. Boil until sufficiently thick, and serve cold over the sponge.
One-half box gelatine, one-half pint cold water, one-half pint boiling water, one-half cup sugar, juice of two lemons.
Take six large, juicy oranges, one lemon, one pound loaf sugar, one-half ounce gelatine. Dissolve the sugar in one-half pint of water. Pour one-half pint boiling water over the gelatine, and when dissolved, strain it. Put the sugar and water on the fire. When it boils, add the gelatine, the juice of the oranges, and the lemon, with a little of the peel. Let come to a boil; then strain in molds to cool.
Soak one box gelatine in half pint cold water until soft, add one cup boiling water, juice of one lemon, one cup sugar, one pint orange juice; stir until sugar is dissolved; then strain.
Pare and slice eight oranges, boil one cup sugar, one pint milk, three eggs, one tablespoon corn starch. As soon as thick, pour over the oranges; beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth; sweeten; put on top, and brown in oven. Serve cold.
Take half a box of gelatine, and cover with eight tablespoonfuls of cold water, and soak a half hour. Stand the gelatine over the teakettle for a few minutes to melt; then add it to a pint of orange juice, and a cup of sugar, and strain. Turn this mixture into a dish, and stand in a cool place, watching carefully, and stirring occasionally. Whip a pint of cream to a stiff froth. As soon as the orange gelatine begins to congeal, stir in the whipped cream; turn into a mold, and stand it over in a cold place. Served with angels food, it makes a most delicate dessert.
One can shredded pineapple, and one cup sugar; let come to a boil; one-half box gelatine dissolved in a cup of warm water. When milk becomes warm, stir gelatine into pineapple, and add one pint of whipped cream. Whip all together thoroughly, and set away in a cold place.
Fill a saucer with fresh peaches, finely sliced, or strawberries, carefully picked and selected; over this, place a measure of ice-cream, vanilla flavor. Cover all with powdered sugar to the depth of one-fourth inch. Eat with spoon (if your income is over twenty thousand dollars, you can use a strawberry fork). Serve with angels food, or almond macaroons.
Soak two-thirds box gelatine in one-half cup cold water; stand until dissolved; pour one-half teacup hot water over the dissolved gelatine. Take the juice of two lemons, two oranges, one and one-half cups sugar. Separate one orange into smallest dimensions, removing the seeds. Lay bananas, cut in small pieces, and malaga grapes with the oranges in the bottom of mold; strain the liquid over these, and set to cool.
Take one ounce box of gelatine; put to soak in a pint of cold water for an hour. Take the juice of three lemons, and one orange, with three cups of sugar; add this to the gelatine, and pour over all three pints of boiling water; let this boil up once, stirring all the time. Take two molds of the same size, and pour half your jelly into each. Stir into one mold half a cup of candied cherries, and into the other one pound of blanched almonds. The almonds will rise to the top. Let these molds stand on ice, or in a cool place until thoroughly set—twenty-four hours is best. When ready to serve, loosen the sides, and place the almond jelly on top the other, on a fruit platter. Slice down, and serve with whipped cream.
Remove the rind of two lemons, and cut the lemons in small pieces; add two cups of sugar, one pint of boiling water, three tablespoons of corn starch; mix with a little milk; put them all together, and boil slowly for five minutes. Cut into small bits four oranges; put in a deep dish, ready for the table, and sprinkle over them a little fine sugar; pour the lemon compound over them. When cold, whip whites of two eggs; add a very little sugar. Flavor with lemon extract. Put in ice box to cool.
Place a layer of sliced oranges in the bottom of a glass dish; then a layer of bananas; one of pineapple; sprinkle confectioners sugar between layers; continue this until the dish is nearly full; then pile high with fresh grated cocoanut.
Two oranges, two peaches, two bananas, a few slices of pineapple, one-half pound of mixed nuts, one-fourth pound of figs, candied cherries, juice of three lemons, one-half box of gelatine, one pint of boiling water, two cups of sugar, whipped cream to make clear; avoid stirring.
CUSTARD.—Two quarts milk, six eggs, two tablespoons corn starch, one cup sugar, a pinch salt, one tablespoon vanilla; add to this one quart whipped cream, one pint each candied or preserved cherries, pineapple, and strawberries. Let custard cool before adding cream and fruit. Freeze as ice-cream.
One pint new milk, one pint sweet cream, one cup sugar, one quart peach pulp (peeled ripe or canned peaches, and put through the colander). Let cream and milk come to a boil; add sugar, and cool; add peach pulp, and freeze.
FROZEN ORANGES. Rub the rinds of four oranges in a pound of loaf sugar; peel one dozen oranges; take out the pulp; add it to sugar with the juice of three lemons; set it on ice two hours; then a quart of ice water, and freeze hard, and serve in glasses.
Frozen fruit makes a dainty and acceptable dessert for dinner or lunch during the summer, and is prepared by mixing and freezing, the same as water ices, then working and cutting the fruits, and using without straining.
Stone one quart of acid cherries; mix them with two pounds of sugar, and stand aside one hour; stir thoroughly; add a quart of ice water; put in the freezer, and stir rapidly until frozen; heat smooth; set aside half an hour, and serve. That is the way to make frozen cherries.
To make frozen ambrosia, pare and slice a dozen sour oranges; lay in a bowl; sprinkle with sugar; cover with grated cocoanut; let stand two hours; mix all together; freeze. Take up in a large glass bowl; lay over the top thin slices of orange; sprinkle with cocoanut and sugar.
Pare a dozen and a half ripe, soft peaches. Remove the skin and seeds from a quart of sour plums; mash, and add to the peaches. Work the kernels of both to a paste; add them to the sugar and fruit; let stand two hours; then add a quart of ice water; stir, and freeze. This is a delicious dish.
Pare, and remove the eyes from two good-sized pineapples; then chop into bits, and sprinkle with one-half pound of sugar; let the whole stand until quite soft; then mash, and strain through a fine sieve. To one quart of juice so obtained, add one quart of water and twelve eggs, which have been rubbed to a cream with one and one-half pounds of sugar. Put the mixture in a farina kettle, and cook till it assumes the thickness of soft custard; then strain, and beat briskly till cold. Freeze, and serve with sweet cream, flavored with fruit juice.
Put in a farina kettle one quart of good sweet cream, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, and one tablespoonful of vanilla extract, and allow the mixture to cook till the water in the outer kettle boils; then remove from the fire. Brown two ounces of macaroons in a moderate oven; cool, and roll to a fine powder; stir into the cream, and when cold, freeze.
To one quart of sweet milk, add one pint of sugar, the well beaten whites of two eggs, and the juice of three lemons. Add the lemon juice after it commences to freeze.
To one quart of water, add four cups of sugar; let this come to boiling point; let cool; strain through a cloth; add the juice of six lemons, and juice of two oranges; beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth. Put the syrup in the freezer; then add the beaten whites. Freeze same as ice-cream. Stir constantly until sufficiently frozen.
Make syrup same as lemon ice; add one can of apricots (mashed fine), three lemons, and juice of one orange, if wanted. Freeze same as lemon ice.
One tablespoon of gelatine, one pint of cold water, one cup of sugar, six oranges or one pint of juice, one-half cup of boiling water. Soak the gelatine in one-half cup of cold water ten minutes. Put the sugar and remainder of cold water in a large pitcher; squeeze the juice into the pitcher; add it to the gelatine after it is dissolved; strain into the can, and freeze.
"Sweet meats, messengers of strong prevailment in an unhardened
youth."
—SHAKESPEARE.
Put them into cold water, and allow it to come to a boiling point; then remove the skins, and throw them into cold water a few moments to preserve the color.
For salted almonds, prepare as above; put into a dripping pan with some lumps of butter; set into a moderate oven until nicely browned. Sprinkle over them some salt, and toss until thoroughly mixed.
Peanuts may be prepared in same manner.
Two pounds XXXX confectioners' sugar, one-fourth pound grated cocoanut, one tablespoonful vanilla, a pinch of salt, whites of three eggs (beaten very stiff); mix all together, and roll into small balls; let stand one-half hour; then dip into the chocolate, prepared thus: One-half cake Bakers chocolate (grated fine), two tablespoonfuls butter. Warm the butter; mix in the chocolate. When cool, dip the creams in, and set on a buttered plate to harden.
Three cups of granulated sugar, one cup of cold water, three tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Cook without stirring until it threads; add one tablespoonful of vanilla; let cool; pull until white; cut into small squares.
Three cups brown sugar, one cup water, one cup white sugar, one tablespoonful vinegar. When nearly done, add one tablespoonful vanilla. Pour into buttered tins.
One cup of sweet milk, two cups of brown sugar, two cups of molasses, one pint of water, a tablespoon of butter. Flavor to taste. Two ounces of chocolate just before taking from the fire.
Take one quart of molasses (maple is best); boil until it is crisp when put in water; then stir in one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little warm water; stir until well mixed. Pour into buttered pans. Pull part until white, and make into sticks. In the remainder put roasted corn, peanuts, walnuts, almonds, or hazelnuts.
Grate the white part of a cocoanut, the whites of four eggs (well beaten), one-half pound of sifted sugar. Flavor with lemon or rose. Mix as thick as can be stirred. Make in balls, putting them about one inch apart on paper on baking tins. Put into a quick oven; take out when they begin to look yellow.
Two cups brown sugar, two cups molasses, two tablespoonfuls butter, two tablespoonfuls vinegar. Boil until it threads; then pour into shallow pans to harden.
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
—MOTHER GOOSE.
Make a brine of cold water and salt strong enough to bear up an egg; heat boiling hot, and pour over pickles; let stand twenty-four hours; then take out, and wipe dry. Scald vinegar, and put over; let stand twenty-four hours; then pour off, and to fresh vinegar add one quart brown sugar, two large green peppers, one-half pint white mustard seed, six cents worth ginger root, six cents worth cinnamon and allspice, one tablespoon celery seed, alum size butternut. Scald, pour over, and tie up in jars.
Pour enough boiling water over pickles to cover them, and let stand twenty-four hours; measure water so that you may know what quantity of vinegar to use. Take them out of water, wiping each one separately with dry towel; place in close layers in stone jar. To one gallon of vinegar, add one cup of salt, two tablespoons of pulverized alum, same of cloves, allspice, mustard, and cinnamon; put all in vinegar, and let come to boil; pour this over pickles. When cool, place plate over, and add a weight. Pickles prepared in this way will keep nicely a year.
One quart green cucumbers (cut lengthwise), one dozen small cucumbers (whole), one dozen small onions, one large cauliflower, one quart small green tomatoes. Put the cucumbers in brine for three days; the rest scald in salt and water; add pepper and other spices to taste. Two and one-half quarts vinegar, two and one-half cups sugar, one cup flour, six tablespoonfuls mustard. Scald the vinegar, sugar, flour, and mustard. Pour this over the whole bottle; and seal.
Two quarts small cucumbers, two quarts small onions, two cauliflowers, six green peppers; cut all, and put in salt and water four hours; then scald, and drain.
PASTE.—Six tablespoonfuls mustard, one tablespoonful turmeric, one and one-half cups sugar, one cup flour. Mix all well together; add cold vinegar to wet it up; pour into two quarts of boiling vinegar.
Pour this on pickles; mix thoroughly, and put in cans.
Peel small white onions, and boil them in milk and water ten minutes; drain off the milk and water, and pour over the onions scalding spiced vinegar.
Wipe ripe but hard peaches until free from down; stick a few cloves into each one; lay in cold spiced vinegar. In three months, they will be nicely pickled, and retain much of their natural flavor.
[In this recipe, the term "mango" refers to green bell peppers.] Use either small muskmelons or sweet peppers; take out the insides, and lay them in strong salt water twenty-four hours; drain well. For filling, cut cabbage fine; salt it; let it stand one hour; wash with clear water, and drain well; add celery seed and ground cinnamon to taste. Fill the mangoes; tie closely; pack in stone jars. Then to one gallon of good cider vinegar, add three pounds of brown sugar; heat, and pour over the mangoes; repeat the heating of vinegar two or three mornings in succession.
Two hundred little cucumbers, fifty large cucumbers, three tablespoonfuls black mustard seed, three tablespoonfuls white mustard seed, three tablespoonfuls celery seed, one dozen red peppers, two pounds sugar, one quart French mustard, one bottle English chow-chow, one quart little onions, vinegar to cover. Cook slowly for one hour.
One-half peck green tomatoes, two large heads of cabbage, fifteen onions, twenty-five ripe cucumbers, one pint of grated horseradish, one-half pound of white mustard seed, one ounce of celery seed, one-half teacup each of ground pepper, turmeric, and cinnamon. Cut tomatoes, cabbage, onions, and cucumbers in small pieces, and salt over night. In the morning, drain off the brine; put on vinegar and water, half and half; let stand twenty-four hours; drain again; put in the spices. Boil two gallons of vinegar with three pounds of brown sugar; pour over while hot; do this three mornings; then add one-half pound of mustard; stir in when nearly cold.
Four heads of cabbage, one peck of green tomatoes, one dozen large cucumbers, one-half dozen sweet peppers (red), one-half dozen sweet peppers (green), one quart of small white onions; cut all these in small pieces, and let stand in brine over night; wash in cold water, and drain. Cut six bunches of celery in small pieces.
DRESSING FOR THE PICKLE.—Two gallons of good cider vinegar, five pounds of brown sugar, five cents worth of turmeric, five cents worth of white mustard seed, one-half pound of ground mustard, one-half cup of flour, a tablespoon of whole cloves, and the same of stick cinnamon.
Let the vinegar, sugar, and all the spices come to boiling point; add the chopped vegetables, and one hundred small cucumber pickles that have been in brine over night. Cook one-half hour; then add the turmeric, ground mustard and flour mixed to a paste; cook five minutes longer. Bottle, and eat when your stomach craves it.
One gallon each of chopped (very fine) cabbage, celery and sweet peppers; one cupful of salt over peppers after being chopped; mix well; let stand two hours; wash thoroughly till water is clear to prevent coloring cabbage and celery. Mix together cabbage, celery, and peppers; to this add one tablespoonful of salt, one pint of white mustard seed (not ground), four pints of sugar, hot peppers to suit the taste. Put in jars for immediate use; in sealed cans to keep. Be fore putting away, add one gallon of good cider vinegar, cold.
Slice one peck of green tomatoes, and four green peppers; place in a stone jar in layers, sprinkling each layer thickly with salt; cover with boiling water; let stand over night; drain in the morning through a colander, and add four large onions sliced, with an ounce of whole cloves, one ounce of cinnamon, two pounds of brown sugar. Place all together in a preserving kettle; nearly cover with vinegar; boil slow until tender. Set away in a jar. Next day, if the syrup seems thin, drain off, and boil down. Cover top of jar with a cloth before setting away.
Wash your cucumbers; then pour boiling water on them, and let them stand eighteen hours. Take them out, and make a brine of one pint of salt to one gallon of water; pour on boiling hot; let stand twenty-four hours. Then wipe them dry, and pack them in your jar. Put in slips of horseradish, and what spices you like. Cover with cold cider vinegar. Put grape leaves on the top. They are ready to use in twenty-four hours, and if the vinegar is pure cider vinegar, will keep indefinitely.
One peck green tomatoes, one dozen red sweet peppers, chopped fine; cover with salt water; let stand twenty-four hours; drain dry; add one head cabbage, one bunch celery chopped fine, one pint grated horseradish, one teacupful cloves, one teacupful black mustard seed, salt to taste, one pint or more very small cucumbers, or one-half dozen ordinary cucumbers cut into small strips; cover with cold cider vinegar. If desired to keep, seal in self sealers.
Five quarts juice, three pounds sugar; boil juice and sugar until it thickens; then add one pint vinegar, tablespoon ground cinnamon and cloves, teaspoon each of salt and pepper; bottle for use. You can use grape juice.
Use medium-sized cucumbers; wash clean, and lay in jars. Make a brine of water and salt—one teacup of salt to a gallon of water; boil, and pour over the cucumbers; move brine nine mornings in succession; boil, and pour over; then wash in hot water, and put to drain. When cool, place in stone jars, one layer of pickles, and then a layer of grape leaves, some horseradish, and a few sliced onions, if you like the taste of onion. When your jars are full, make a syrup of good vinegar and sugar, sweetened to taste, and add stick of cinnamon, a little celery seed; boil, and pour over the pickles. Invert a plate or saucer, and put on a small weight; tie up closely. They will keep the year round, and are very palatable.
One gallon strained tomatoes, one quart good vinegar, one tablespoon each cloves, mustard, and cinnamon, a little salt, one teaspoon red pepper; cook one hour, and bottle.
Two and one-half gallons ripe tomatoes; rub through a sieve; eight cups cider vinegar, one and one-half cups salt, two and one-half cups brown sugar, nine teaspoonfuls mustard, four teaspoonfuls ginger, five teaspoonfuls allspice, five teaspoonfuls cloves, five teaspoonfuls black pepper, four teaspoonfuls cayenne pepper.
One peck of tomatoes, sliced fine; sprinkle with salt lightly, and let stand two hours; rub through coarse sieve or colander; to this, add one-half pint grated horseradish, one large cup salt, one and one-half cups white mustard seed, one tablespoonful black pepper, one quart fine chopped celery, one large teacupful chopped onions, one and one-half cups sugar, one tablespoonful ground cloves, one tablespoonful ground cinnamon, three pints good cider vinegar. Mix cold, and use immediately, or can, and it will keep for years.
Cut up tomatoes, skins and all; cook thoroughly. When cool, rub through a sieve. To one gallon of tomato juice, put a tablespoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of pepper, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, and one quart of good cider vinegar. Cook until thick.
Six quarts berries, nine pounds sugar, one pint vinegar, one tablespoonful each of cloves, cinnamon, and allspice. One-half the vinegar put on berries at first. When nearly done, strain, and add rest of the vinegar, and spices. Boil three or four hours.
One pound of fruit, one-half pound of sugar, one pint of vinegar, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, two teaspoonfuls of cloves, one teaspoonful of allspice. Cook pulp and skins separately.
To one gallon of moderately strong vinegar, add a small handful of cloves (not ground), several sticks of cinnamon, sugar enough to make vinegar quite sweet. Take small pears, and with a small pointed knife remove all blemishes, but do not pare them. Put vinegar on the stove. When it comes to a boil, fill kettle as full of pears as will boil; set on back of stove, and boil slowly for three and one-half hours; fill your cans, and seal while very hot.
Nine pounds peaches, three pounds sugar, three quarts good cider vinegar. Peel the peaches; then put them with the sugar and vinegar in a porcelain lined kettle; cook for five to ten minutes; put two cloves in each peach; add a little whole allspice.
Wash the bunches carefully. Use two or three gallon jars. Put a thick layer of brown sugar on bottom of jar; then a layer of bunches of grapes; sprinkle on a few whole cloves, allspice, and stick cinnamon. Alternate layers of sugar and grapes as above until jar is full. Turn plate on top; put on weight; tie cloth closely over top; put in cool place. The grapes are nice served with cold meats. The syrup can be used for cake, puddings, mince pies, etc. Towards spring, strain all that is left in the jar through a flannel cloth; bottle it, and use through summer; use for dysentery. A few spoonfuls in ice water makes a pleasant drink for hot days.
Six quarts berries, nine pounds sugar. Cook one and one-half hours; then add one pint vinegar, one teaspoonful cloves, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one tablespoonful allspice.
Twenty-four ripe tomatoes, eight onions, twelve green peppers, four tablespoons salt, eight tablespoons sugar, two tablespoons cinnamon, two tablespoons ginger, one tablespoon cloves, four teacups vinegar; boil slowly two hours.
"Will't please your honor, taste of these conserves?"
—Shakespeare
For peaches, for instance, set on the stove a kettle of cold water—just enough so the can will not tip over; into this kettle, put one-half dozen nails to keep the can from touching the bottom; then fill the can full of peaches, cut in halves; then fill the can with cold water; add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and set in kettle to boil; let boil until the fruit is tender, but not enough to break while cooking. When done nicely, put the top on the can, and set away.
Weigh equal parts of fruit and sugar. Put the fruit into a preserving pan, and mash with a silver or wooden spoon; let boil up; then add the sugar; stir all the time while cooking. Strawberry or blackberry jam is made the same way. Thirty or forty minutes is sufficient time for cooking.
Take equal portions of peaches and sugar; pare, stone, and quarter the fruit. Put the sugar with the peaches; let stand over night. In the morning, boil slowly in preserving kettle one hour and three-fourths; skim well.
Pare and core. Be sure you get out all the seeds. Boil the skins and cores one hour; then strain through a coarse cloth; boil your quinces in this juice until tender; drain them out; add the weight of the quinces in sugar to this syrup; boil, and skim until clear; then put in the quinces. Boil three hours slowly.
To one quart of tomato, add one pint of apple; put both through sieve; one quart of sugar, some ground cinnamon; cook until it begins to look like a preserve.
To eighteen ripe oranges, use six pounds best white sugar. Grate the peel from four oranges; reserve for marmalade. (The rinds of the remainder will not be used). Pare the fruit, removing the white skin as well as the yellow; slice the oranges; remove all seeds. Put the fruit and grated peel into a preserving kettle; boil until reduced to a smooth mass; rub quickly through a colander; stir in the sugar; return to the stove; boil fast, stirring constantly, one-half hour, or until thick. Put in glasses, or jars; cover closely when cold.
A FRENCH CONFECTIONERS RECIPE.—Allow one pound of sugar to one pint of juice. Boil the juice five minutes, and add the sugar, which has been previously well heated; boil one minute, stirring carefully. Always a success.
Weigh the currants on the stems. Do not wash them, but carefully remove all leaves; or whatever may adhere to them. Put a few of the currants into kettle (porcelain lined or granite iron); mash them to secure juice to keep from burning; add the remainder of the fruit, and boil freely for twenty-five minutes, stirring occasionally; strain through a three-cornered bag of strong texture, putting the liquid in earthen or wooden vessels (never in tin). Return the strained liquid to the kettle without the trouble of measuring; let it boil well for a moment or two; add half the amount of granulated or loaf sugar. As soon as the sugar is dissolved, the jelly is done. Put in glasses.
Peel, grate, and weigh the apple. Put pound to pound of pineapple and sugar. Boil it in a preserving kettle thirty or forty minutes.
Boil the apples, with just enough water to cover them, until tender; mash with a spoon, and strain out the juice. Take a pint of juice to a pound of sugar; boil thirty minutes, and strain through a hair sieve.
Drop one large or two small leaves of rose geranium plant into a quart of apple jelly a few moments before it is done, and you will add a novel and peculiarly delightful flavor to the jelly.
Boil the apples in a kettle until soft, with just enough water to cover them; mash, and strain through a coarse sieve. Take a pound of apple to a pound of sugar; boil half an hour, and put into jars.
One pound of sugar to each pint of juice; boil, and skim. Test by dropping a little into cold water; when it does not mingle with the water, it is done.
Ten quarts of sour apples, stewed very soft in sufficient water to cover the fruit; drain over night through a flannel bag, without pressing; add one pint of sugar to each pint of juice, and three sliced lemons; boil twenty minutes; strain into glasses or bowls.
EXCELLENT FOR TARTS.—Pare and core, then boil the pears to a pulp. Take half their weight of sugar; put it into the kettle with a little water; boil until like taffy; skim while boiling; add the pulp of the pears, about four drops of essence of cloves; boil up once or twice.
Use one pound of granulated sugar to each quart of berries. Make a syrup of the sugar, and sufficient water to moisten it. While boiling, drop in the berries, and let them boil ten minutes. Skim out the fruit, and put it on a platter. Boil the syrup ten minutes longer; then pour it over the berries, and set where it will get the sun for two days. Put in jelly glasses, and seal. Made in this way, the fruit retains both color and flavor.
Put pound to pound of sugar and fruit; let stand over night. In the morning, boil all together fifteen minutes. Skim out the berries; boil the syrup till thick and clear; pour over the fruit.
For millinery go to Jennie Thomas, the oldest and best.
For every quart of strawberries, take one pint of sugar; add a tablespoonful or two of water. Let sugar dissolve; then add fruit, and let boil. Can immediately in air-tight glass cans.
Pare the quinces; cut in small squares; cover with water, and stew until tender; pour into a colander, and drain. To each pint of the juice, add three-fourths pint of sugar. Let boil, and skim well for ten or fifteen minutes; then put in the quinces; cook until the syrup begins to jell. Put in glasses, and seal same as jelly.
Take equal measurements of shredded pineapple and sugar. Place in a crock alternately, a layer of shredded pineapple and one of sugar; let this stand over night. In the morning, drain off the juice, and to three cups of juice, add one cup of water. After this mixture comes to a boil, put in the pulp of your pineapple, and let boil up (not cook). Seal in self sealing jars.
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"Polly, put the kettle on."
Two teaspoonfuls arrow root wet with a little cold water, three tablespoonfuls white sugar, juice of half a lemon, and a small piece of rind; stir quickly while you fill a quart pitcher with boiling water. This is a cooling and nutritious drink for the sick.
To nine quarts of mashed berries, add one quart of good vinegar; let stand from four days to a week; then squeeze out the juice. Add one quart of sugar to each quart of juice. Boil fifteen minutes; then bottle tightly.
Scrape fine two ounces (two squares) unsweetened chocolate. Use Walter Baker & Co.s No. 1 chocolate. Put into a granite ware pan, add a small cup or sugar, a pinch of salt, and two tablespoons of hot water; let this boil, stirring it constantly, until it is smooth and glossy, like a caramel; then add one large pint of good rich milk, and one pint of hot water; let this come to a boil, stirring constantly; add a tablespoon of corn starch dissolved in a little cold milk or water. When this boils, serve at once, with whipped cream, flavored with a little vanilla.
If you cannot have the whipped cream, pour your chocolate from one pitcher into another, or beat with a whisk until frothy. If you have to use skimmed milk, take more milk and less water. Never omit the salt, as it is very essential to the flavor.
Allow one tablespoonful to each cupful. Moisten with whole or half well beaten egg; pour on half pint cold water; let this come to boiling point; then fill up with boiling water. Stop up the nose of the coffee pot, and let stand on stove fifteen to twenty minutes.
Three cups warm water, one cup baking molasses. Take as much fresh, new bran as this will moisten (not wet); mix thoroughly, and brown in oven exactly like coffee, and to this two pounds of mixed ground Rio and Java coffee; then stir in three well beaten eggs. You will have about ten quarts of mixture when done.
FOR USING.—Take one tablespoonful of this mixture to a cup of boiling water; let boil from fifteen to twenty minutes.
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A large handful of hops put into one quart of water; cover, and let boil five minutes; strain over one pint of flour; beat until your arm aches, and the batter is smooth. When cool, add a cake of good yeast. When perfectly light, mix stiff with white corn meal, and a little flour; roll out on the kneading board; cut in cakes, and dry. Turn them often.
Four good-sized perfect potatoes; pare and grate them quickly. Pour boiling water over the grated potato until it thickens like starch; let cool a few moments; then stir in flour to thicken. When milk warm, put in one or two cakes of dry yeast, previously dissolved in a cup of water; let stand twenty-four hours. Use one pint of this with four pints of water for four loaves of bread. Make the sponge either at bed time, or early in the morning. Will keep in a cool place two weeks.
Boil four large potatoes in two quarts of water. When done, mash the potatoes, and add one cup of sugar, one-half cup of salt, one-half cup of flour. Boil one pint of hops in the water in which the potatoes were boiled until strength is out; then strain in the jar with other ingredients; stir well. When cool, add one cup of yeast, or one cake of dry yeast; let raise, and put in jar. Keep in cool place.
Take six good-sized potatoes; cook until very soft; take from the water, and mash until creamy; turn the water over the potato scalding hot, and stir in flour until the consistency of cake batter. When cool, stir in one cup of good yeast dissolved in a little warm water; let rise over night. First thing in the morning, heat two quarts of water milk warm; add to the yeast; then stir in flour to make a thick sponge; let rise; then work to a stiff dough; let rise again; knead down; let rise again; make into loaves. When light, bake from three quarters to one hour. This makes a large baking.
FOR THREE LOAVES.—Take three medium-sized potatoes; boil, and mash fine; add two tablespoons of flour; scald with potato water; add one tablespoon of salt, one of lard, and two of sugar. Have one quart of this, and when lukewarm, add one cake of yeast, dissolved. Prepare this at noon; let stand till morning, stirring two or three times. In the morning, have the flour warm; mix till stiff enough to knead on the board, and knead thoroughly for half an hour; rub melted lard over top, and set in a warm place to rise. When light, make into loaves, handling as little as possible; rub melted lard over top, and let rise again. Bake fifty minutes. When taken from the oven, rub the tops of loaves over with butter. This will keep the crust soft.
When the bread is ready for the pans, leave about what you would use for one loaf in the bowl; into that, work one-half cup butter, one-half cup sugar, the yolks of two eggs, and the white of one egg; work thoroughly; set to rise. When light, handle carefully; don't work or roll it; make into cakes with the hands; put into pie plates; grease the tops with butter; sprinkle on fine bread crumbs, sugar, and cinnamon, mixed. When perfectly light, bake twenty or twenty-five minutes.
FOR FOUR LOAVES OF BREAD.—Peel five good-sized potatoes; boil until soft, and mash through a colander; then two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one of salt; and five pints of water. When about cold, add one-half medium-sized cakes of yeast, which have been well soaked. Let this stand in a warm place twenty-four hours. In the morning, mix stiff; knead well; let it rise until light; mold into loaves, and when raised again, bake in a moderately hot oven one hour.
Take one pint flour, one-half teaspoonful baking powder, a little salt, a teaspoonful butter; rub all together, and then put in enough water to make a stiff dough. Cut dough in two pieces; roll to thickness of heavy pie crust; lay on white paper, and cut into strips one-fourth inch wide. Bake between papers in slow oven.
Take flour as for making biscuit; add a cupful of yeast sponge, two well beaten eggs, a quart of luke-warm water, and a cupful of sugar. Salt and knead same as light dough and set to rise. When it is ready to make out, roll into thin cakes; place in well buttered pans and let it rise again. Bake to a light brown on top, and when done, spread a cream over it, as follows: White of an egg beaten to stiff froth; add teaspoonful of ground cinnamon, and a tablespoonful of granulated sugar. When this is done, put the bread again in the oven to dry the cream. This is delicious.
Two cups graham flour, one cup buttermilk, one-half cup sugar, one egg, one teaspoonful soda, one tablespoonful butter, a pinch salt.
One cup sponge, one cup warm water, one-fourth cup molasses, two tablespoons melted butter. Thicken with equal quantities of graham, and flour just enough to form a loaf; then raise.
Three cups of sweet milk, three cups of graham flour, one and one-half cups of corn meal, one cup of molasses, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of soda. Steam for three hours in four one pound baking powder cans, with the covers on.
One and one-half pints sour milk, one cup baking molasses, two teaspoonfuls soda (one in the milk, one in the molasses); beat well before putting together. One teaspoonful salt, four cups graham flour, one teaspoonful baking powder in the flour. Steam two and one-half hours; remove the lids, and set in the oven one-half hour. Five canfuls.
One and one-half pints sour milk, one cup baking molasses, scant teaspoon soda in each; foam separately. Pour cups graham flour, one teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoon salt. Put in one pound baking powder cans; steam two and one-half hours, and bake half hour.
Mix together one and two-third cups corn meal, one-third cup flour, one-fourth cup sugar, one teaspoonful salt. Beat two eggs until light, and add to them one cup sour milk, and one cup sweet milk in which one teaspoonful soda has been dissolved; mix thoroughly. Have the frying pan very hot, with two tablespoonfuls butter; pour the batter into it; then pour into this mixture another cup of sweet milk, but do not stir the cake. Place pan into hot oven, and bake one-half hour.
Two heaping cups corn meal, one heaping cup flour, two teaspoons baking powder sifted with flour, whites and yolks of three eggs beaten separately, two and one-half cups sweet milk, one tablespoon melted butter, one tablespoon white sugar, one teaspoon salt. Bake steadily in a moderately hot oven.
One and one-half pints corn meal, one-half pint flour, one tablespoonful sugar, one teaspoonful salt, two heaping teaspoons baking powder, one tablespoonful lard, one and one-fourth pints milk, two eggs. Sift together corn meal, flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder; rub in lard cold; add the egg; mix to a moderately stiff batter. Bake in rather hot oven thirty minutes.
Two cups sweet milk, one egg, one and one-half teacups wheat flour, two teacups Indian meal, two tablespoonfuls sugar, a little salt, four teaspoonfuls cream tartar put in with flour, two teaspoonfuls soda dissolved in warm water; add this last. Bake in gem pans in a quick oven.
Darmody & McClures Premium Corn Meal should be used with these recipes.
One pint buttermilk, one pint corn meal, one pint flour, one teaspoonful salt, two teaspoonfuls soda in milk, six tablespoonfuls molasses, one egg. Bake in slow oven thirty minutes.
Two cupfuls new milk, two cupfuls Indian meal, one and one-half cupfuls flour, two-thirds cupful New Orleans molasses, one scant teaspoon soda. Mix flour, meal, and salt together thoroughly; then add milk, and beat till smooth. Dissolve soda in molasses; add to mixture; then put in buttered pan; steam three hours, setting steamer over cold water. Put in oven fifteen minutes.
Six good-sized potatoes cooked soft and then mashed, one-half cup butter and one-half cup lard mixed, one cup sugar, one-half cup cooled potato water, two tablespoons flour, one cup yeast. Mix the above; let rise, and then beat three eggs; put in, and work up.
One large potato. Make sponge same as bread in the evening. In the morning, add one pint of sweet milk, one cup white sugar, one-half cup butter, and more flour. Let rise again; knead out soft; let rise again; cut out; put in pans; let rise once more. Bake fifteen minutes.
Best results obtained by using "ELECTRIC LIGHT FLOUR."
One pint sweet milk, one half cup butter, one tablespoonful sugar, one tablespoonful yeast, a little salt, whites of two eggs beaten stiff. Make the sponge at supper time. At bed time, work in flour to make a stiff dough. Put in warm place to rise over night. In the morning turn it out on the kneading board. Smooth out with the hand about one inch thick; cut in small cakes; let stand five minutes; put in oven; bake fifteen minutes. Delicious for breakfast.
One quart flour, one heaping tablespoonful lard, water to make stiff dough, a little salt. Beat well with rolling pin; work into flat biscuit; make a few holes in each with a fork. Bake in quick oven.
One quart of bread sponge, one coffee-cup white sugar, one teacup butter, two eggs, one pint sweet milk, a little salt. Beat the sugar and eggs well before adding the milk. Flour to knead well.
Rub one-half teaspoon of lard and one-half of butter into two quarts of sifted flour. Into a well in the center of flour, one pint cold boiled milk, and add one-half cup yeast or one cake dry yeast, dissolved in one-half cup warm water, one-half cup sugar, and a little salt. Set at one o'clock [ten p.m. for dinner next day?]; make up at two o'clock, and put in pans at half past four for six o'clock tea. Keep in warm place.
To one pint of flour, add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; sift together; add one heaping tablespoon of butter, and a pinch of salt. Use enough sweet milk to make a very soft mixture. Work the butter through the milk in the center of flour. Do not roll out on board, as the mixture is too soft, but make out by hand as you would light rolls. Avoid kneading. Bake in quick oven.
Two tablespoonfuls butter, two tablespoonfuls sugar, two eggs. Beat the three articles all together; add a little salt, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, three teaspoonfuls baking powder. Grease a large dripping pan with butter. Drop a tablespoonful in each place. Bake twenty minutes.
One egg, one cup milk, one tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon butter, two teacups flour, three teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon salt. Mix yolk of egg, butter, and sugar; add then the flour, baking powder, and salt, sifted together; then white of egg, beaten well. Bake ten minutes in quick oven. Much of the success in baking depends upon having the iron muffin ring well heated on the top of stove before putting the batter in them.
Three eggs beaten separately, one-half cup of sugar, two-thirds cup of butter, one pint of sweet milk, two heaping teaspoons of baking powder; add flour to make it as thick as cake batter.
MUFFIN OR SHORTCAKE DOUGH. MRS. DR. McMURRAY.
Two pints of flour, three tablespoons of sugar, one tablespoon of melted butter, one egg, one pint of sweet milk, three teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in a quick oven in muffin rings, or drop the dough from the end of your spoon as you do for drop cake. To be eaten hot. Try with a broom splint, as cake. Enough for four or five large persons.
One cup flour, one heaping teaspoon baking powder, one egg, two tablespoons melted butter, a little salt; mix all together; before stirring them, add sufficient water to make a stiff batter. Bake in hot oven about fifteen minutes.
One cup sweet milk, one-half cup butter, one egg, one tablespoonful sugar, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, two and one-half cups flour, a pinch salt.
"ELECTRIC LIGHT FLOUR" is guaranteed pure winter wheat flour.
To each cup of flour, add two teaspoons of baking powder, large pinch of salt; moisten with sweet milk to the consistency of drop dough. Have muffin pans hot, with a teaspoonful of butter in each. Bake ten minutes in hot oven.
Make just as you do wheat muffins, using one-half wheat flour, and one-half corn meal.
Graham muffins are made in the same manner, using equal parts wheat and graham flour.
One pint bread-crumbs. One pint milk; scald, and pour over bread crumbs at night to make a batter. Four eggs, two cups or less flour, one-half cup or less butter. Bake like buckwheats.
One pint rich sour milk, one well beaten egg, one large tablespoon flour, teaspoon soda, meal enough to make the mixture not quite as thick as for flour cakes.
One and one-half pints sour milk, one good teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful salt, one pint corn meal, one-half pint flour, one egg.
One egg, one pint of sour milk, one-half teaspoonful soda, pinch salt, one-half cup flour, corn meal to make not too stiff a batter.
To three quarts of boiling water, add salt to taste. Stir in gradually sufficient corn meal to make it quite thick. Boil slowly one hour. Stir often, and beat well; that will make it light and smooth. Eat with cream, milk, and butter, or syrup. To fry when cold, cut in thin slices, and fry in lard and butter, mixed.
Fry slices of bacon; remove the meat; drop in the mush by spoonfuls, and fry delicate brown.
Stir germicelli into two quarts of boiling water until as thick as mush; add salt. Boil five or ten minutes, stirring constantly. Just before serving, you can stir in a cup of sweet milk, if you wish. When cold, slice, and fry same as corn mush.
Two cups oat meal (rolled oats is best), three cups flour, one cup shortening, one cup sugar, one cup water, one teaspoonful salt, three teaspoonfuls baking powder; roll very thin.
Two and three-fourths cups of granulated sugar, one cup of butter, one pint of sweet milk, one cup of lard, three eggs, five cents worth of lemon oil, five cents worth carbonate of ammonia, a pinch of salt. Mix stiff, and roll thin; stick with a fork, and bake in a quick oven.
Boil one quart of milk; stir into it two tablespoonfuls butter, mixed with one tablespoonful flour, and a saltspoonful salt. Let the whole boil five minutes. Have ready a dish of toasted bread; pour the milk over it, and serve hot. Nice for breakfast.
Separate four eggs; beat the yolks until light; add to them one quart of sweet milk, a little salt. Beat the whites very stiff; stir in one quart of flour, and the whites, half and half, with one teaspoonful of baking powder. In a tablespoonful of batter, place a slice of nice sour apple; drop into hot lard, and fry nice brown on both sides. Serve hot, with butter and syrup.
Make oyster fritters the same way, using fine large oysters in place of apples.
ORANGE FRITTERS.—Made in same way, using slices of orange instead of apple.
PINEAPPLE FRITTERS.—Made in same manner, only stir into the batter a pineapple, grated or chopped fine.
Cut the soft of bread into pieces two or three inches long and one inch thick. Take one pint and a half of sweet milk; sweeten to taste; add six well beaten eggs, a little salt; dip the pieces of bread in the mixture; let them become well saturated. Fry in hot lard until a delicate brown.
To five pints green corn, add three pints water; cook five minutes; then dissolve three level teaspoons tartaric acid, and add to corn; cook a few minutes longer; then it is ready to can in new or nearly new tin cans.
When preparing for table, drain off liquid; add a very little water; season and sweeten to taste. When boiling, add one level teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water.
One gallon of sour milk; scald until crumbly; let drip until whey is separated from curd; mash fine; salt to suit the taste; add one pint of rich sour cream; stir till all is thoroughly mixed together.
The old reliable milliner—Jennie Thomas, 121 S. Main.
"Simple diet is best, for many dishes bring many diseases."
—PLINY.
One quart of water, one handful of hops; boil these together, and strain; put in this fluid a cup of sugar, and boil to a syrup; cut a lemon into it, and bottle for use.
One ounce flax seed, one ounce slippery elm, one ounce boneset, one ounce stick liquorice, one and one-half pounds loaf sugar, one pint Orleans molasses. Put first three ingredients in thin muslin bag, and boil one hour in sufficient water to cover well. Dissolve the liquorice in one pint of water; then boil all together a few moments.
DOSE.—One teaspoonful every hour or two, as the case may require.