Stir into a quart of sour or butter-milk a couple of tea-spoonsful of saleratus, a little salt, and sifted Indian meal to render it a thick batter--a little cream improves the cake...
Cut long thin slices from the tail to the end, viz.: from a to b, beginning close to the back bone. If a large joint, the slice may be divided. Cut some fat from the sides.
Flake cold boiled salmon, or open a can of salmon, drain it free from oil and break the fish apart in good-sized flakes; sprinkle them with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Butter sli...
Pick and lay it in strong brine, cold; let it remain twenty-four hours, boil the brine once on a quick fire, and pour it immediately on the samphire. After standing twenty-four hou...
Put your butter into a frying-pan over a slow fire; when it is melted, dust in some flour, and keep stirring it till it is thick and brown: then thicken some with it.
Cut slices of bread in crescent-shaped pieces, butter one side and toast. Have ready two hard-boiled eggs, remove yolks, put them through sieve, chop whites very fine, and spread t...
Take any left-over boiled or stewed lentils and press them through a sieve. To each half cupful of this mixture add a half cupful of chopped pecans, a level teaspoonful of curry an...
But if she finds that she has a small quantity of cold meat on hand, beef, veal or chicken, she can put one layer of that through the middle of the macaroni, and she will have a su...
Take water, salt, half a pint of vinegar, a sprig of thyme, a small onion, and a little lemon peel; boil them all together, then put in your fish, and when done enough take them ou...
A glass of small beer, two anchovies, a little thyme, parsley, an onion, some savory, nutmeg, and lemon-peel; cut all these together, and, when the steaks are ready, pour the fat o...
Take green tomatoes, turn boiling water on them, and let them remain in it a few minutes--then strip off the skin, cut the tomatoes in slices, and put them in deep pie plates. Spri...
Cut in pieces some lean beef, according to the quantity of gravy you may want; put it into a stewpan, with an onion or two, sliced, and a little carrot; cover it close, set it over...
Melt together a quarter of a pound of sealing-wax, the same quantity of rosin, a couple of ounces of bees' wax. When it froths, stir it with a tallow candle. As soon as it melts, d...
Put your mushrooms into water; rub them very clean with a piece of flannel; put them into milk and water, and boil them till they are rather tender. Then pour them into an earthen...
1 ounce bread crumbs. 1/2 ounce parsley. 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind. 1 small shalot. The yolk of one egg. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon pepper. 1/2 teaspoon curry powder. Cho...
Bake a dozen good cooking apples, scrape out the pulp, boil this with half-a-pound of sugar to a pound of pulp, until it becomes stiff. It must be stirred all the time it is boilin...
To every gallon of water put one pound and a half of brown sugar and one ounce of bruised ginger, and to each gallon the white of an egg well beaten. Stir all together, and boil it...
Beat together the yelks of ten eggs, with a pound of powdered white sugar--beat to a stiff froth the whites of the eggs, and stir them into the yelks and sugar. Beat the whole ten...
Boil them in salt and water with a little vinegar. Fennel sauce is good to eat with them, and also coddled gooseberries.
1 turnip. 1 carrot. 1 onion. 1 tomato. 1/2 ounce flour. 2 ounces butter. 1 pint water. 1/2 teaspoon salt. Prepare the vegetables, slice them, and fry in an ounce of butter for five...
To a quart of pickled shrimps put two ounces of fresh butter, and stew them over a moderate fire, stirring them about. Add to them while on the fire twelve white peppercorns and tw...
Make a strong tea of the thoroughwort--strain it, and when cool, put to a couple of quarts of it half a pint of French brandy, the peel of two or three fresh oranges, cut into smal...
Arrange slices of cold duck on a platter. Shell and blanch 1 qt. of chestnuts, then boil until soft, drain and put them through a colander. Add a tablespoonful of butter, salt and...
Take the remains of cold roasted beef, and chop very fine; put it into a bowl; to each half pint of meat, add a half teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of tomato catsup, a teaspo...
Cut it in slices, steep it in a little sweet butter, salt and pepper, and broil it, basting it with butter while doing. When done, serve over it any of the fish sauces, as describe...
To a gallon of wine put three pounds of lump sugar; clarify this with the white of an egg to every gallon. Boil it an hour, and when the scum rises take it off; when almost cold, d...
Half a large or one small pineapple grated, two ounces of butter, three of granulated sugar, an ounce and a half of grated bread crumbs, the yolks of three eggs and the whites of f...
Ingredients: Rice, beef or veal, onions, parsley, butter, stock, Parmesan, sweetbread or sheep's brains. Cut up a small onion and fry it slightly in butter with some chopped parsle...
Salted nuts, used so much, are usually placed on the table when it is set, and passed during the meal. They are very expensive if bought ready for use, but quite inexpensive made a...
Beat a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream; add two tablespoonfuls of onion juice, the same of lemon, a saltspoonful of paprika, and gradually four tablespoonfuls of caviar. Sp...