As there are many days, especially in summer, when macaroni can well take the place of meat, it is desirable that the small maid be taught how to prepare it attractively. The macar...
Cut a small cucumber in halves lengthwise. Scoop out centres and cut boat-shaped. Cut cucumber cut from boats in small pieces and add one and one-half olives finely chopped. Moiste...
Prepare egg same as for Egg Salad I, adding to yolk three-fourths tablespoon grated cheese; season with salt, cayenne and a few grains of mustard; then moisten with vinegar and mel...
1/4 cup cream 2 tablespoons cold water 1/2 grain saccharine dissolved in 1/2 teaspoon cold water 4 drops lemon juice Few grains salt Mix ingredients in order given and freeze.
After your potatoes are nicely boiled and skinned, grate them, and to every large table-spoonful of potatoes add one egg well beat, and to each egg a small spoonful of cream, with...
Soak three-quarters of a pound of prunes in water to cover them over night, cook until soft in the water they were soaked in, drain, take out the stones and press through a puree s...
Boil all the ordinary strawberries you can spare in the water in which you mean to put the sugar to make the syrup for the strawberries. Take three quarters of a pound of the fines...
Make your olives as directed in the receipt for making olives; put them into a crust; fill the pie with water: when baked, pour in some good gravy, boiled and thickened with a litt...
Boil a pint of new milk--beat three eggs, and stir into the milk while boiling. When it boils up, take it from the fire, put in half a wine glass of wine, separate the curd from th...
Dissolve an ounce of Nelson's Gelatine, previously soaked in half-a-pint of cold milk, in a pint-and-a-half of boiling milk; when it is nearly cold stir into it an ounce of rice, w...
Chop cold, cooked tongue very fine; season it with two tablespoonfuls of olive oil and a dusting of pepper; spread it over the top of a round of toasted bread; garnish the edge wit...
Then to make the finest kind of perfectly clear soup, stir into each two quarts of cold stock the beaten white and crushed shell of one egg, place on the fire and keep stirring unt...
Butter some zepherettes and sprinkle thickly with grated Parmesan cheese, bake in a quick oven, or toast on a gridiron; serve hot.
Cut cucumber in small cubes and leeks in very thin slices. Mix, using equal parts, and serve with French dressing.
(A Breakfast Dish.) 1 medium-sized beet. 2 ounces butter for frying. 1 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon pepper. 2 teaspoons flour. 2 tablespoons vinegar. 1 tablespoon water. Peel the be...
Beat the white of one egg, (cost one cent,) with two tablespoonfuls of cold water; pick over a quart of fine ripe raspberries, (cost ten cents,) dip them one by one into the egg, a...
Half a pound of rice in two quarts of boiling water, a pint and a half of milk, and a quarter of a pound of beef or mutton suet, shred fine into it. Bake an hour and a half.
1 quart soaked lentils. 1 carrot. 1 turnip. 1 onion. 1 teaspoon Worcester sauce. 2 teaspoons salt. 1 ounce butter. Forcemeat. Simmer the lentils gently in three pints of water for...
Ingredients: Beef, oil, salt, pepper, vinegar, parsley, capers, mushrooms, olives, vegetables. Cook a fillet of beef (or the thin end of a sirloin), which has been previously marin...
Prepare smelts same as for smelts with cream, and serve with maitre d'hotel butter.
Prick a pound and a half of sausages, (cost eighteen cents,) lay them in hot water for three minutes, roll them in flour, put them in a hot frying pan, and fry them brown; take the...
Take a quart of tomata pulp and juice, three ounces of salt, one ounce of garlic pounded, half an ounce of powdered ginger, and a quarter of an ounce of cloves; add two ounces of a...
1 pint steamed apples, 1 tablespoon melted butter, half a cup of sugar, whites of 6 eggs, yolks of 3, and a slight grating of nutmeg. Stir into the hot apple the butter, sugar and...
1 shalot or small onion. 3 sprigs of parsley. 24 peppercorns. 1 pint milk. 1 ounce butter. 1 ounce flour. 1 bay leaf. 1 teaspoon sweet herbs. A very little mace. 1/2 teaspoon salt....
Take half a calf's head, cover it with water in a large saucepan, and boil it till the meat comes from the bone. Cut it into pieces; put it into some of the liquor in which the hea...
Beat one egg slightly, add one-fourth cup cold water, two tablespoons heavy cream, one tablespoon melted butter, one tablespoon grated cheese and a few grains salt. Turn into an in...
1/2 pound sugar, 2 tablespoons water, boil, 1/2 pound grated cocoanut. Stir till boiled to a flake. Put in buttered tins, and cut in squares, when cold.
Mix a pint and a half of wheat flour with a pint of milk--beat six eggs to a froth, and stir them into the flour--grate in half a nutmeg, then add a pint of cream, a couple of tea-...
Wipe the cucumbers clean with a coarse cloth, and put them into a jar. Take some vinegar, into which put pepper, ginger, cloves, and a handful of salt. Pour it boiling hot over the...
After the little daughter has mastered this popular dish, show her how to make it into a fancy one by adding various things. A small quantity (half a cupful) of chopped ham stirred...