Choose a quart of large, sound, ripe, green gooseberries, (cost ten cents,) remove the stems and tops, throw them into boiling water for two minutes; drain them, let them lay three...
Put three pints of clarified butter into a deep stewpan; heat it as hot as for fritters, and stir the butter with a stick till it turns round like a whirlpool. Break an egg into th...
Scald bunches of grapes in water till they will peel; when they are peeled and stoned, put them into fresh cold water, cover them up close, and set them over the fire till they beg...
In a quart of milk mix by degrees three spoonfuls of flour of rice, and boil it till it is as thick as pap. As it boils, stir in half a pound of good butter and a nutmeg grated. Po...
Boil a quarter of a pound of sago in a pint of new milk, till it is very thick; stir in a large piece of butter; add sugar and nutmeg to your palate, and four eggs. Boil it an hour...
A Breakfast Dish. 3 ounces mashed potato. 2 ounces bread crumbs. 1 ounce vermicelli or semolina. 1 onion. 1/2 teaspoon mixed herbs. 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind. 1 teaspoon cream...
1/2 pound cooked haricot beans. 1/2 pint fresh green peas. 1 small cauliflower. 6 small onions. 1 pint haricot bean stock. 1 ounce butter. 1/2 ounce flour. The juice of half a lemo...
2 teaspoons butter 1 egg 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk 1-3/4 cups flour Cream well together 2 teaspoons butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 cup milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt and...
Fish. Cod and codlings, turbot, salmon, skate, thornback, smelts, soles, crabs, lobsters, prawns, flounders, plaice, oysters, perch, carp, tench, eels, gudgeons, mullet, and someti...
Three pints of flour, an even teaspoonful of salt, two cakes of compressed yeast dissolved in tepid water and enough milk to make a soft dough. Set in the morning,--it will require...
(Very suitable for children.) 1/4 pint rice. 3 pints water. 1 pint milk. 1 1/2 ounces butter. 1 large turnip. 1 large onion. 1 large potato. 1 teaspoon salt. Place the butter in a...
(Riso alla Milanese con Zafferano) Wash and dry the rice and put it in boiling broth (beef or chicken broth). When the rice is half cooked add half its weight of marrow of beef bon...
Fry until crisp a quarter pound of salt pork. Put into the pan with it a medium-sized onion, minced fine and brown. All this to three cupfuls of boiled rice; mix in two green peppe...
Sift fine Sugar thro' an Hair Sieve, and cover it with Carmine; wet it more than a Candy with Water; boil it pretty fast 'till it is almost at a Candy Height; then put in about thr...
Thoroughly wash two pounds of tripe, (cost sixteen cents,) boil it until tender, about one hour, in plenty of water and salt; then lay it on a clean, dry cloth to drain; put half a...
Mix a quarter of a pound of beef suet, the same quantity of bread crumbs, two drachms of parsley, a drachm and a half of sweet marjoram, or lemon-thyme, and the same of grated lemo...
For each peck of cranberries allow two pounds and a half of brown sugar, and half a pint of molasses. Make a syrup of the molasses, sugar, and a little water. When it boils, put in...
Take carrot, turnip, onion; put them in the bottom of a stewpan; slice some veal and ham, and lay over your carrot, with thyme, parsley, and seasoning; put this over a fire gently;...
1 egg and about 1/2 pint of milk to each person. A teacup of sugar to every quart of milk, and 1/2 pint of best brandy. Beat the yolk, add the sugar, and beat till it is a froth li...
Make a plain omelet, beat six eggs until light, separately; add two tablespoonfuls milk, one of flour, one-fifth teaspoonful baking powder, put in flour and rub with milk, salt to...
Get round steak one and one-fourth inch thick. Cook the same as veal cutlets, only instead of using soup stock use one cup strained tomato juice and a little onion; a few mushrooms...
Cream 2 tablespoons butter; add 1/2 teaspoon Anchovy paste; spread thin slices of fresh toast with this; over that put slices of hard boiled or chopped egg and on top one rolled an...
Take Kirton pippins or royal russets, golden pippins or nonpareils; finely pare and quarter the russets, and pare and take out the core also of the smaller apples. Take the clean t...
Take 3 tablespoonfuls of mustard, mixed quite stiff. Pour on this slowly 1/4 of a pint of best olive oil, stirring rapidly till thick. Then add 3 eggs, and after mixing slightly po...
Remove the tops and stalks from two quarts of ripe, red gooseberries, (cost twenty cents,) put them in a moderate oven till soft enough to rub through a seive; then add to them one...
Boil half a pound of Macaroni for half an hour, in three pints of water slightly salted; add a blade of mace. When done, drain, and cut it into two inch pieces. Put three pints of...
Take the belly-piece and head of pork, rub it well with saltpetre and a very little salt; let it lie three or four days; wash it clean; then boil the head tender, and take off all...
The same quantity of potatoes and suet, and one ounce of hung beef, grated fine with a grater, and mixed and baked as before.
The first is the most extravagant way of cooking meat, as it wastes nearly one third of its substance in drippings and steam; the second also is very wasteful, unless the meat is s...
Have your venison a little salted, and boil it in water. Meanwhile boil six cauliflowers in milk and water; and put them into a large pipkin with drawn butter; keep them warm, and...