Take some pepper and salt, with a little cayenne and a little cream; thicken with butter and flour. To do them white, cut out all the black inside.
Cut off the tender green tips of asparagus about an inch and a half long, cover with boiling water and cook until tender. Add salt just before they are done. Drain and put the poin...
Remove the pits from a large cup of stewed prunes and chop fine. Add the whites of three eggs and a half cup of sugar beaten to a stiff froth. Mix well, turn into a buttered dish a...
2 eggs 1 quart of milk 1 quart of flour a little salt 1 tablespoon molten butter 1 teaspoon sugar Beat the eggs very light; then gradually mix in the milk, flour and salt; add melt...
This Soup is called of "Cappelletti" or "little hats" on account of the shape of the "Cappelletti". First a thin sheet of paste is made according to the following directions: The b...
9 tomatoes. 1 large onion. 1 large turnip. 1 large carrot. 1 small stick of celery. 1 1/2 pints water. 1 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon pepper. 2 ounces butter. 1 ounce brown flour. S...
(Sedano per contorno) The following are three ways to prepare celery to be served as seasoning or seasoning for meat dishes. For the first two make the pieces about four inches lon...
Boil one pound of sugar with one-half pint of water until it ropes; then add one-half cup of vinegar and boil until it hardens. Dip in fruit, orange slices, nuts or green grapes wi...
1 pint cold hominy, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon rice flour, small piece of butter. Bake in pans, like corn cake.
Take those that are ripe, and perfectly fresh--pare off the rind, and cut the apples in slices an inch thick. Powder the same weight of white sugar as you have pine apples--lay the...
Boil, separately, one chicken and four pounds of corned beef. The next day remove meat and fat from both kettles of liquid, combine liquids, season with salt (if needed) and pepper...
Boil as directed above and press through a sieve. To one quart take two tablespoons of butter blended with two tablespoons flour and cooked until smooth and frothy, add the straine...
One ounce of salt; half an ounce of mustard; a quarter of an ounce of allspice; black pepper ground, and lemon-peel grated, half an ounce each; of ginger and nutmeg grated, a quart...
(Rognone alle acciughe) Take a veal kidney, remove the fat, cut it open and cover with boiling water. When the water has cooled, remove the kidney, wipe with a cloth, and pass thro...
You can generally buy a pig's brain and haslet at the slaughter house for about ten cents; wash them thoroughly; slice the heart, liver, and lights, and fry them light brown in a c...
Dissolve a third of a cake of compressed yeast in a little tepid water; take a quart of milk, fresh from the cow, or warmed to blood heat, and add to it a tablespoonful of sugar an...
1 tablespoon soaked lentils. 1/4 pint water. 2 tablespoons soaked sago. 1/2 ounce butter. 1 turnip. 1 carrot. 1 shalot. 1/2 teaspoon salt. Paste for crust No. 207. Slice the carrot...
(Maccheroni all'olio) After the macaroni have boiled drain them and put them in a saucepan in which some good olive oil has already boiled, with a clove of garlic chopped fine. Let...
Take a Pound of Kernels or Almonds beat very fine with Rose-Water; take a Pound of sifted Sugar and the Whites of five Eggs beat to a Froth, mix them well together, and set them on...
(Trota all'alpigiana) These are many ways to prepare this delicious fish, found in abundance in the many streams of clear water that run from the Alps and the Apennine mountains. O...
Make a mush of yellow cornmeal, and mould in cylindrical moulds, such as baking powder boxes or brown bread moulds. Let stand until next day, and cut into slices. Arrange the slice...
Have a frying-pan, with sufficient liquor to cover your chicken cut into pieces; half of the liquor to be white wine and water. Take one nutmeg sliced, half a dozen cloves, three b...
Skin and prepare two chickens as for a fricassee; wash them very clean, and stew them in a pint and a half of water for about five minutes. Strain off the liquor, and put the chick...
Boil twelve eggs fifteen minutes. Line a dish with very thin slices of bread and fill with layer of eggs cut in slices, strewing them with a little grated bread, pepper and salt; r...
When you have stalked and stoned your cherries, put to them an equal weight of sugar: make your syrup, skim it, and take it off the fire. Skim it again well, and put in your cherri...
Two cups of granulated sugar, half a cup of cold water, a tiny pinch of cream of tartar. Boil ten minutes without stirring, let the sugar melt slowly that it may not burn. Add eigh...
Take a pound and a half of butter; beat it to a cream with your hand or a flat stick; beat twelve eggs, the yolks in one pan and the whites in another, as light as possible, and th...
1/2 pint white sauce. 2 tablespoons mashed potatoes. 2 ounces bread crumbs. 2 eggs. 1/2 ounce butter for dish. 1 teaspoon mixed herbs. 1 medium-sized onion. 1 teaspoon salt. 1/2 te...
In the first place, talk over with her and decide about the number to be entertained, and then settle on the menu. Get her to express her opinions, and if they are good let her see...
Season your tongues with pepper, salt, and nutmeg; lard them with large lardoons, and have them steeped all night in vinegar, claret, and ginger. Season again with whole pepper, sl...