Choose a shoulder of mutton weighing about three pounds, which you can buy at six cents a pound; wipe it thoroughly with a damp cloth, put it into a pot half full of boiling water,...
(Anguille in umido) For this dish it is preferable to have good sized eels that must not be skinned, but cut in small pieces. Chop some onion and parsley, put it on the fire with o...
(Carciofi ripieni) Cut the stalk at the base, remove the small outside leaves and wash the artichokes. Then cut the top and open the internal leaves so that you can cut the bottom...
Beat the white of an egg to a froth--put to it a small lump of butter, and turn the coffee to it gradually, so that it may not curdle. It is difficult to distinguish the taste from...
2 cups chopped bread, 1/2 cup chopped suet, 1/2 cup molasses, 1 egg, 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 of milk, with 1/2 teaspoon soda dissolved in it, 1/2 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon cinna...
1 cup butter, 2 of sugar, 4 of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup molasses, 1 pound currants, 1 of raisins, 1 wine-glass brandy, 1 nutmeg, 2 teaspoons of cloves...
When you have shad for dinner scald the roes ten minutes in boiling water (salted), drain, throw into cold water, leave them there three minutes, wipe dry, and set in a cold place...
A pound of sugar to a pound of fruit, is sufficient to preserve most kinds of fruit. Some kinds of fruit require more, and some will do with less, than an equal weight of sugar. Wh...
6 hard-boiled eggs. 6 teaspoons bread crumbs. 6 teaspoons minced parsley. 6 teaspoons minced tomato. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon pepper. 1 egg. Mince the eggs, parsley and toma...
1/2 pound of seeded raisins, same of currants, well washed and dried, grated rind and juice of 2 oranges, 1/2 a nutmeg grated, 1 tablespoon each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice, 1...
Boil the head until perfectly tender--then take it out, strain the liquor, and set it away until the next day--then skim off the fat, cut up the meat, together with the lights, and...
Roast a shoulder of mutton till it is three parts done, and let it cool; raise the skin quite up to the knuckle, and cut off all to the knuckle. Sauce the blade-bone; broil it, and...
Boil a leg of beef, and a knuckle of veal, with a bunch of sweet herbs, a little mace and whole pepper, and a handful of salt. When the meat is boiled to rags or to a very strong b...
These meats are best when they are put over the fire in cold water, brought gradually to a boil, and then set back from the fierce heat of the fire, so as to keep scalding hot WITH...
Clean the inside of the fish, and season them with salt, pounded mace, and pepper. Bake them, and when nearly cold lay them upon a cloth; then put them into pots, taking off the bu...
(Carciofi fritti) Take two artichokes, cut out the hard part of the leaves and of the stalk, cut them in two. Then cut these halves into section or slices so as to have eight or te...
Pour a pint of boiling milk on two ounces of Rizine, stir over the fire for ten minutes, add half an ounce of butter, the yolks of two eggs, an ounce of castor sugar, and six drops...
Half a pound of maple sugar dissolved in half a cup of cream, or rich milk. If the latter is used add a teaspoonful of butter.
Boil three table-spoonfuls of pearl barley in a pint and a half of new milk, with a few bitter almonds, and a little sugar, for three hours. Strain it; when cold add two eggs; put...
Place a rib roast of beef on a rack in a dripping pan; dredge with flour and sear over the outside in a hot oven, then add salt and pepper and drippings and let cook at a low tempe...
Clean two selected smelts and cut five diagonal gashes on sides of each. Season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Cover and let stand ten minutes. Roll in cream, dip in flour, an...
Half a pound of loaf sugar, half an ounce of Mexican vanilla beans. Cut the beans very fine, pound in a mortar with the sugar; sift and pound again until all is fine. Bottle and co...
Cut a neck of veal into bones; lard one side, and fry them off quick. Thicken a piece of butter, of the size of a large nut, with a little flour, and whole onion. Put in as much go...
(Fegato di vitella alla veneziana) Brown a large onion cut in thin slices in oil and place in the saucepan the liver cut in thin slices. Brown everything on a strong fire. When the...
2 carrots. 2 turnips. 2 onions. 2 potatoes. 2 tomatoes. 1 quart water. 1 teaspoon salt. 2 1/2 ounces butter. 1 ounce flour. Prepare the vegetables, cutting the onions and turnips i...
1/2 pound haricot bean pulp. 6 or 8 button mushrooms. 1 shalot. 2 teaspoons of Worcester or other sauce. 3 eggs. 1 ounce butter. Pepper and salt to taste. To obtain the pulp, rub a...
Pour one quart of boiling water upon the contents of a tin of Nelson's Soup of the above title, stirring briskly. The water must be boiling. A little seasoning of salt and pepper m...
1 cup sugar, 1 of milk, 2 of flour, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in the milk. Melt 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 of milk, yolk of 1 egg, 1/2 cake of chocolate to a smooth cream and add t...
Half-a-teaspoonful of Nelson's Citric Acid dissolved in a quart of water, with a sliced lemon and sweetened with sugar, forms a good lemonade, and is a cooling and refreshing drink...
Take the best part of a leg of veal and of a leg of pork, of each three pounds; skin it well, and cut it into small dice. Take three pounds of the best beef suet (the proportion of...