Wash an anchovy clean; put to it a glass of red wine, some gravy, a shalot cut small, and a little lemon-juice. Stew these together; strain them, and mix the liquor with the gravy...
Rub four ounces of butter, (cost eight cents,) into one pound of flour, (cost four cents;) dissolve four ounces of sugar, (cost three cents,) in half a pint of warm milk, (cost two...
Thoroughly wash a beef's heart, (cost ten cents,) stuff it with half a loaf of stale bread, (cost two cents,) moistened with warm water and seasoned with one teaspoonful of salt, q...
Melt half an ounce of fresh butter in a saucepan; when very hot, add half an onion, chopped fine, and a teaspoonful of caraway seeds. When the onion is slightly browned, add three...
For twenty-four sandwiches take one tureen of foie gras. Remove the fat, and mash the foie gras to a perfectly smooth paste, adding gradually four tablespoonfuls of soft, not melte...
1 cup Lard 1 cup Butter 2 cups Brown Sugar 3 Eggs 2 teaspoons Annise seed (ground) 2 oz. whole coriander seed 1/2 lb. Chopped Almonds 1/2 lb. Mixed Citron 6 cups Molasses 2 teaspoo...
Take an iron kettle, put in two quarts water with one tablespoon salt. Heat and before boiling, slowly pour in your corn meal, stirring continuously until you have it very stiff. P...
Take a Quarter of a Pound of Almonds, blanch and beat them very fine, put them to a Pint of Cream, boil the Almonds and Cream, then sweeten it, and put it in the Whites of two Eggs...
White 1 egg 3/4 tablespoon sherry Sugar Beat the white stiff, add slowly, while beating, the wine and sugar. Serve cold. NOTE.--Have all ingredients cold before blending.
Four hundred quarts of good broth for the poor may be made as follows:--Good beef, fifty pounds weight; beeves' cheeks, and legs of beef, five; rice, thirty pounds; peas, twenty-th...
Break the dates apart, wash and drain them in a colander, shake them well, set in a warm place to dry. Stone and chop enough to make a cupful, and knead into a loaf of white bread...
One round tablespoonful cornstarch, moisten in cold water. Pour over one-half pint of boiling water, boil one minute, add one-half cup sugar and pour while hot over the well-beaten...
Three cups brown sugar, one cup water, one cup cream, one cup nuts cut fine, one teaspoonful vanilla. Boil sugar and water until it forms a soft ball, add cream and boil until it f...
Peel and stew them, with just water enough to prevent their sticking at the bottom of the pan. Shake them occasionally, to prevent their burning. When tender, take them up, and put...
These make a more substantial dish, and are delicious when served with a celery salad: Six oysters, six slices of bacon, fried bread, seasoning. Cut very thin strips of bacon that...
When you have laid out all your Plums that are to be stopt, put white Pear-Plums, or any large black Plums, in an Earthen Pot, and make your Plum-Syrup almost scalding hot; put it...
Never throw away lemon or orange peel; cut the yellow outside off carefully, and put it into a tightly corked bottle with enough alcohol to cover it. Let it stand until the alcohol...
Grate off the rind of two large Seville oranges as far as they are yellow; put them in fair water, and let them boil till they are tender, changing the water two or three times. Wh...
Three cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one-half teaspoonful salt; sift three times; one-half cup butter mixed with flour till like meal. Beat one egg light, add to it a...
Scald 1 pint of milk, boiling hot, add 1/2 cup butter; when melted, add a smooth thickening made of 1 cup of flour, mixed with cold milk. Stir until thick and smooth, being careful...
Ingredients of stuffing: 1/4 cup of melted butter; 1 cup of bread crumbs, 1 teaspoonful of chopped onion; 1/4 spoon of salt; 1/4 spoon of pepper and a few herbs. Bone the smelt, st...
1 cup stale bread toasted 1 cup boiling water Salt Cut bread in thin slices and in inch squares. Dry thoroughly in oven until crisp and a delicate brown. Measure, and break into cr...
3 heads cauliflower 2 quarts cucumbers cut in cubes 1 quart onions cut fine 1 pint green peppers cut fine
Pare three smooth-skinned lemons; squeeze out the juice; cut the peel in small pieces, and put it to the juice. Let it stand two or three hours closely covered, and, when it has ac...
Pare some oranges as thin as possible; boil them till they are soft. Cut and core double the number of good pippins, and boil them to pap, but so as that they do not lose their col...
Take three pounds of flour, six ounces of butter, six ounces of sugar sifted fine, six eggs, both yolks and whites. Beat your eggs till they will not slip off the spoon; melt the b...
Pound some boiled potatoes in a mortar, with the yolks of two eggs, a little pepper, and salt; make them in balls about the size of an egg; do them over with yolk of egg and crumbs...
Peel and wash some potatoes, scoop out into little balls with a potato scoop, which is made for the purpose. Boil for five minutes, put in melted butter in a saucepan until each po...
3 lbs. dried prunes 2 lbs. large chestnuts 1/2 lb. Sultana raisins 1 table spoon butter 1/2 cup of sugar 1/3 cup of vinegar Pinch of cloves 2 tea spoons of flour Peel chestnuts and...
A pint of cream, a pint of strawberry puree and three-quarters of a pound of sugar. Mix the sugar and strawberry puree together and let it stand until the sugar is dissolved, then...