Madder makes a good durable red, but not a brilliant color. To make a dye of it, allow for half a pound of it three ounces of alum, and one of cream of tartar, and six gallons of w...
The shoulder of veal can usually be bought at the market for eight cents a pound. Choose a fresh one weighing about seven pounds, and costing about sixty cents; from this we shall...
One pint milk and one pint sugar; warm slightly, add one-half cup yeast, raisins and some flour. Let set over night, and in the morning add salt, three beaten eggs, one heaping cup...
(Pollo alla contadina) Take a young chicken and make some little holes in the skin in which you will put some sprigs of rosemary and a clove of garlic cut into five or six pieces....
Turn a quart of alcohol gradually on to the following oils: a couple of drachms of the oil of rosemary, two of the oil of lemon, or orange-flower water, one drachm of lavender, ten...
Half a pound of sugar, a quarter of a pound of butter, a couple of eggs, half a nutmeg, a tea-spoonful of saleratus, half a tea-cup of milk. Stir the butter and sugar together, the...
1 cup sugar 1/2 cup sweet milk 3 eggs 1/2 cup butter 2 teaspoons baking powder flour to stiffen One large cup chopped hickory nuts and sprinkle a little salt and flour with them. T...
Mix a quarter of a pound of ivory black, six gills of vinegar, a table-spoonful of sweet oil, two large spoonsful of molasses. Stir the whole well together, and it will then be fit...
One-half pound grated almonds, one-half pound sugar, one lemon, whites of two eggs. Blanch and chop the almonds, add eggs and sugar, with the juice of lemon. Drop a small quantity...
In my little book on "FIFTEEN CENT DINNERS," I decidedly advocate the substitution of milk or milk and water as a drink at meal times, for tea and coffee, on the score of economy;...
This acid exists in the juice of many fruits, such as the orange, currant, and quince, but especially in that of the lemon. It is chiefly made from the concentrated juice of lemons...
Wash and peel one quart of potatoes, (cost three cents,) peel and slice about six ounces of onions, (cost one cent,) skin and bone two bloaters or large herrings, (cost five cents,...
Follow the above recipe, using a cupful of pure juice of the fruit desired and the juice of either a half or whole lemon.
1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon butter 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs 2 1/2 cups rolled oats Cream butter, add sugar and eggs. To this add vanilla and baking powder, an...
1 tablespoon Horlick's Malted Milk 1 tablespoon crushed fruit 1 egg 20 drops acid phosphate 1 tablespoon crushed ice 3/4 cup ice water Mix the malted milk powder, crushed fruit and...
The best kind of pork is fresh and pinkish in color, and the fat is firm and white. The second quality has rather hard, red flesh, and yellowish fat. The poorest kind has dark, coa...
Blanch and pound fine, with a table-spoonful of rosewater, four ounces of almonds. Boil them four or five minutes in a quart of milk, with sufficient white sugar to sweeten the mil...
Stir into a quart of boiling milk, (cost eight cents,) quarter of a pound of Indian meal, (cost one cent,) one level teaspoonful of salt, the same of spice, and one ounce of butter...
Cut sponge cake into narrow strips, or use lady fingers, to line a glass bowl or individual glass cups as preferred. Fill center with whipped cream, for which directions are given...
Two heaping cups flour, yolks of four eggs, one cup sugar, one and a half cups butter, one and a half cups sweet milk, one and a half teaspoons soda, one teaspoon cream tartar. Fla...
One fourth teaspoon of Armour's Extract of Beef, one can of Veribest Tomato Soup, one half package of gelatine, three hard-boiled eggs, and chopped olives. Heat the soup with an eq...
Boil one ounce of hops in three quarts of water until reduced to about three pints. Pour it upon one pound of flour; make it into a batter; strain it through a colander, and, when...
Cut a penny loaf or French roll into thin slices of bread and butter, as for tea; butter the bottom of the dish, and cover it with slices of bread and butter; sprinkle on them a fe...
The codlings should be the size of large walnuts; put vine leaves in the bottom of your pan, and lay in the codlings, covering with leaves and then with water; set them over a gent...
Ingredients: Almonds, sugar, lemon juice, butter, castor sugar, pistachios, preserved fruits. Blanch half a pound of almonds, cut them into shreds and dry them in a slow oven until...
Chop sufficient cold boiled chicken to make a half pint. Rub together one tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour; add a half cupful of cold milk, and stir over hot...
Ingredients: Fillet of beef or rump steak, bacon, olive oil, salt, nutmeg, anchovies, herbs, stock, garlic. Put a piece of very tender rump steak or fillet of beef into a stewpan w...
(Carne alla Genovese) Take thick slices of good lean veal, weighing about a pound, beat it and flatten it well. Beat three or four eggs, season them with salt and pepper, a pinch o...
Slice bananas lengthwise; put them in a buttered pan and brown in oven; or they can be dipped in butter and fried; or sliced and served cold with cream.
One cup sweet milk, two teaspoons baking powder sifted in flour, one small teaspoon salt, lard size of a walnut, moulded with flour. Mould well.--Mrs. J. M. Raymond. * * *