Gather your peas, when neither very young nor old, on a fine dry day. Shell, and let two persons holding a cloth, one at each end, shake them backward and forward for a few minutes...
Tie up cream in a fine napkin, and then in a coarse cloth, as you would a pudding: bury it two feet under ground; leave it there for twelve hours, and when you take it up it will b...
One pint of fresh milk, three ounces of chocolate, grated, two pounds of granulated sugar, half a teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Stir until melted, then add half a pint of cream,...
1 quart of cream 1/2 pound of sugar 1/4 pound of Jordan almonds 1 teaspoonful of almond extract 1 teaspoonful of vanilla Yolks of six eggs Grated rind of one lemon Put half the cre...
Ingredients: Mushrooms, butter, eggs, bread crumbs, Parmesan, marjoram, garlic. Clean four or five mushrooms, cut them up, and put them into a frying-pan with one and a half ounces...
Put into a stewpan a shalot, parsley, scallions, a little bit of garlic, two anchovies, some capers, the whole shred very fine. Dilute it with a little mustard, oil, and vinegar, a...
This may be begun at either end, or by cutting in the middle. It is usual to inquire whether the outside or inside is preferred. For the outside, the slice should be cut down to th...
To half a cup of thick sour cream, add half a teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of sugar, a dash of black pepper, and two teaspoonsful of strong vinegar.
Put a slightly heaping tablespoonful of butter, a tablespoonful of cream, and half a teaspoonful of sugar into a saucepan on the stove, mix well, and when it boils add a heaping ta...
Prepare the spinach as in recipe for spinach pudding, butter a border mould, dust it with bread crumbs, and press the spinach mixture into it, put the mould into a pan of hot water...
Break the dates apart, wash in cold, then in hot water, drain them and cover with cold water; cook until tender--a very few minutes--take out the fruit, add a little sugar to the w...
Apples for preserving should be tart and mellow--pare them, and take out the cores with a small knife. Allow for each pound three-quarters of a pound of sugar, a tea-spoonful of po...
Fish for boiling or broiling are the best the day after they are caught. They should be cleaned when first caught, washed in cold water, and half a tea cup of salt sprinkled on the...
Shell and blanch a pint of large French chestnuts. Put them in a saucepan and almost cover them with boiling water, cook until tender. Before they are quite done add a little salt....
Take three large carrots, wash and scrape and cut them into slices, put them in a saucepan with half an onion, a stick of celery, and a bay leaf, more than cover with boiling water...
A quarter of a pound of portable soup, that is, one cake, in two quarts of boiling water; vegetables to be stewed separately, and added after the soup is dissolved.
Equal quantities of fresh strawberries and bakers' stale bread grated. Begin with a layer of the berries, sprinkle well with sugar, then a layer of bread crumbs, dot with bits of b...
Five ounces of Groult's tapioca, two cups of boiling water, two cups of strawberry juice, four heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar and a dash of salt. Hull and wash the berries, mash w...
Ingredients: Haddock or lemon sole, carrots, anchovies, lemon, pepper, butter, onions, flour, white wine, stock. Stuff a haddock (or filleted lemon sole) with some slices of carrot...
Peel the squash, slice thin, put in a saucepan and add boiling water to come nearly to the top of the squash. When nearly tender add an onion, a bay leaf and several sprigs of pars...
On thin slices of buttered bread lay a fresh leaf of lettuce, and spread with salad dressing, before adding top slice.
For delicious maple fudge, take one and one-half cupfuls of light-brown sugar, one cupful of maple sirup, half a cupful of milk, and a level teaspoonful of butter. Boil slowly unti...
Soak the prunes over night, stew and stone and slightly chop them and proceed as in the other puddings. Any kind of dried or fresh fruit may be used for this very wholesome and nut...
Put one cup of Bayo or Mexican red beans to soak over night, in the morning drain off the water and put them in a saucepan with plenty of fresh water, let them cook for two hours,...
Three eggs, two-thirds cup brown sugar, fill up the cup with molasses, half cup butter, half cup sour milk, three cups sifted flour, one teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and soda,...
Sift a pound of flour, mix it with a pound of rolled sugar. Beat eight eggs to a froth, and stir the flour and sugar in very gradually. Season it to the taste with essence of lemon...
Ingredients: Pheasant, macaroni, gravy, butter, Parmesan, tomatoes. Lard a pheasant, roast it, and serve it on a layer of macaroni cooked with good reduced gravy, two ounces of but...
Ingredients: Celery, rice, stock. Cut up a head of celery and remove all the green parts, then boil it in good stock and add two ounces of rice, and boil till it is well cooked.
One-half peck tomatoes, three pints of good vinegar, three-fourths cup salt, three-fourths cup ground mustard seed, three peppers, handful celery seed, one tablespoon grated horse-...
Cover cranberries with water and cook until soft; mash through a colander. To one pint of juice add one pound of sugar. Return to stove and boil one-half hour. Pour the hot liquid...