(Sciroppi) The syrups of acidulated fruits, diluted with ice water are refreshing and pleasant beverages, greatly appreciated during the summer months. It is well, however, not to...
1 egg, 1/2 a cup of milk; 1 cup of grated cheese, salt, cayenne pepper and mustard to taste. Heat the milk in a double boiler; melt the cheese. Add the egg, and pour all over squar...
Whites of twelve eggs, three cups sugar, small cup butter, cup sweet milk, four small cups of flour, half cup cornstarch, two teaspoons baking powder. Flavor to taste. A cup of thi...
Ingredients: Veal cutlets (fowl or turkey cutlets), forcemeat, truffles,
Take six fine anchovies well washed and picked, put them in a stewpan, add to them four spoonfuls of vinegar, eight spoonfuls of water, one large onion sliced, two or three blades...
Take green pippins, pears, plums, apricots, or peaches; put them into a preserving-pan; cover them with vine-leaves, and then with clear spring water. Put on the cover of the pan,...
Sprinkle a small fillet of halibut with salt and pepper, brush over with melted butter, place in pan and bake twelve minutes. Remove to serving dish and pour over it the following...
For two hams, take half a pound of bay salt, two ounces of saltpetre, two ounces of sal prunella, half a pound of brown sugar, half a pound of juniper berries, half a pound of comm...
3 cups sugar, 3/4 cup butter. Boil together seven or eight minutes. Remove from the fire, and stir in 1/8 teaspoon cream tartar, 1/4 drachm of oil of peppermint. Beat until cool en...
1 cup suet, 1 of milk, 1 of molasses, 2 of raisins, 4 of flour, 1 teaspoon saleratus. Steam four hours. Serve with rich sauce.
(Lingua di bue in stufato) Clean a fresh tongue of beef; put it in a plate, salt it generously and put it back in the ice-box or in the pantry, until the following day. After twent...
(Pesce a taglio in umido) The fish that can be used for this dish are the tunny, the umber or grayling, the sword fish and any piece of fish of large size and good savor. A pound m...
Take nice, smooth tomatoes and remove part of the insides. Chop 1 small onion, 2 green peppers and some of the tomato that was removed. Add cracker crumbs and soup stock to moisten...
1 gallon tomatoes strained through a sieve, 3 tablespoons salt, 3 of ground mustard, 1 of allspice, 1 of cloves, 1 of red pepper. Simmer slowly three or four hours. Let cool, then...
Take two pounds of bay salt, three quarters of a pound of saltpetre, three pints of spring water, and a very little bole armeniac, to grate on the liquor to give it a colour; it mu...
Six bunches of asparagus, cooked thoroughly and pressed through a sieve; one quart of milk, half pound butter, and four tablespoons flour. Mix flour and butter together, and let bo...
This is a brown fricassee of chicken, and is an excellent dish. No doubt the reason it is so seldom given is that, although easy enough to do, it requires care and attention in fin...
Wash and peel the celery roots, cut them into dice and cook until tender in as little water as possible, and when nearly done add a little salt. Make a sauce of two tablespoonfuls...
To twelve eggs, beaten very much, put a pint of sack, or any other strong rich white wine. Stir them well, that they may not curd; put to them three pints of cream and half a pound...
Shred very fine all sorts of garden-herbs, thyme, sage, parsley, chervil, half a clove of garlic, and two shalots; dilute the whole with a small tea-spoonful of mustard, salad oil,...
(Trota alle acciughe) Scale, clean wash and wipe the trouts. Cut the sides and place to pickle with salt, pepper berries, garlic, parsley and onions chopped fine; with mushrooms ch...
Mix well together eight ounces of dried and sifted bread crumbs, (cost three cents,) two ounces of very finely chopped suet, (cost two cents,) two ounces of currants, two eggs, and...
(Trota fritta) Small and young trouts are best for frying. Scale, clean, wash and wipe. Then dip in flour and fry like the other fish in oil or in butter. Serve with browned parsle...
(Pastella per fritto) Dilute three teaspoonfuls of flour with two teaspoonfuls of oil. Add two eggs, a pinch of salt, and mix well. This mixture will take on the aspect of a smooth...
Put a layer of strawberry jam at the bottom of a trifle dish. Dissolve a half-pint tablet of Nelson's Raspberry Jelly, and when it is set break it up and strew it over the jam. Upo...
(Rognone di vitello affettato) Cut in thin slices one or two veal kidneys, removing the granulous part that is to be found in the middle, and put the slices in a saucepan with a pi...
Take four turnips, two potatoes, three onions, three heads of celery, two carrots, four cabbage lettuces, a bunch of sweet herbs, and parsley. The vegetables must be cut in slices;...
Take one hundred walnuts, picked in dry weather, and bruise them well in a mortar. Squeeze out the juice; add a large handful of salt; boil and skim it well; then put into the juic...
(Lingua di bue lessa) The tongue is boiled like the beef. When half cooked remove the skin, which is not nice to see and has no nutritious elements, although it is served with a pu...
2 cups sugar, 2/3 cup milk, 3 eggs, beaten separately, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake in layers. WHITE FILLING.--1-1/2 cups...