Ingredients: Cabbage or greens, anchovies, salt, butter, parsley, gravy, Parmesan. Boil two cabbages in a good deal of water, and cut them into quarters. Fry two anchovies slightly...
Pick the flowers before they are too much blown from the stalks, and dry them in the sun, but not when it is very hot. Put a handful of them to a quart of the best white wine vineg...
Shell some large imported chestnuts and put over the fire in boiling water, let them cook for a few minutes, rub the skins off, and cover again with fresh boiling water, boil until...
Two cups New Orleans molasses, one cup sugar, one tablespoon vinegar, a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Boil twenty-five minutes, stirring constantly. Either pull it or pour...
Make a good strong gravy of beef or mutton; let it stand till cold; take off all the fat; pare some turnips and slice them thin; stew them till tender, then strain them through a s...
Melt a small lump of butter in a shallow baking dish and break into it carefully six eggs, pour over them a third of a cup of boiling cream, place in a very quick oven long enough...
is excellent with French dressing.
Ingredients: Anchovies, fennel, flour, spices, parsley, marjoram, garlic, lemon juice, vinegar, cream. Wash three anchovies in vinegar, bone and pound them in a mortar with a teasp...
One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, whites of nine eggs, two and three-fourths cups flour, one-fourth cup cornstarch, one cup milk, one teaspoon baking powder. Flavor with lemon. B...
Take three-quarters of a cup of rich milk, put half of it into a saucepan with an ounce and a half of butter, let it come to a boil, and then stir into it an ounce and a half of dr...
Have the haunch well and finely larded with bacon, and put paper round it: roast and serve it up with sauce under it, made of good cullis or broth, gravy of ham, capers, anchovies,...
Ingredients: Breast of mutton, veal, forcemeat, eggs, herbs, spice, Parmesan. Stuff a breast of mutton with veal forcemeat mixed with two eggs beaten up, herbs, a little spice, and...
Two pounds of tart cooking apples, one pound of sugar, one pint of water, one lemon and some blanched almonds. Stir the sugar and water together and boil it until it strings from t...
Follow the recipe for baking powder biscuits, using kernel or Graham flour instead of white flour. If Graham is used sift twice before adding the baking powder. Roll thin, cut with...
Ingredients: Whiting, onions, parsley, peas, tomatoes, butter, Parmesan, Bechamel sauce. Cut a big whiting into two or three pieces and fry them slightly in butter, add a small bit...
Take two large spoonfuls of capers cut fine, as much parsley, two anchovies, washed and boned, two cloves of garlic, and a little shalot; cut them separately, and then mix them tog...
Boil one cup of vinegar, melt in it a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Beat together one egg, one teaspoon each mustard, sugar, salt, and half teaspoon pepper. Pour the boilin...
One cup C sugar, one-half cup molasses, one cup boiling water, two eggs, one teaspoon each soda, ginger and cinnamon. Flour enough to roll out well.--Mrs. G. B. Harker. * * *
Mix a large table-spoonful of ground rice with half a pint of milk, six lumps of sugar, and a very little nutmeg; stir this in a saucepan on the fire until it has boiled for five m...
Two coffee cups meal, one and one-half coffee cups flour, two eggs, one teaspoon soda, sour milk. Stir well.--Mrs. H. D. Leonard.
Take good vinegar, fill a cask three quarters full, and gather some elder-flowers, nearly or moderately blown, but in a dry day; pick off the small flowers and sprigs from the grea...
Boil two good, fat old chickens until all that is good of them is extracted for the broth. For the noodles, take two eggs, a pinch of salt, three tablespoons sweet milk, flour enou...
Baked tomatoes are made by taking the fresh tomatoes, scooping out the centers and mixing with bread crumbs, seasoning with butter, pepper and salt, and then refilling the shell, s...
Ingredients: Eggs, salt, tomatoes, onion, parsley, butter, pepper. Cut up three or four tomatoes, and put them into a stewpan with a piece of butter the size of a walnut and a clov...
Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, yolks of five eggs, whites of three, two teaspoons baking powder. Bake in layers. Filling.--Whites of two eggs...
Bring to a scald one cup of molasses, and stir in one tablespoon soda; pour it while foaming over one cup sugar, one egg and one tablespoon ginger beaten together; then add one tab...
One cup sour milk, very small teaspoon soda, one tablespoon melted butter, little salt, add flour to thicken, and bake in pie tins. Split the cakes and add berries.--Mrs. Guilbault...
White fish, weak fish, blue fish and similar kinds I like best when large enough to have the bones first removed and the fish then spread, skin down, on a wire broiler, or an oak p...
Half a pound of corn meal, half a pound of butter, seven ounces of granulated sugar, seven eggs, two tablespoonfuls of catalan (brandy). Beat separately the whites and yolks of the...
1 quart of cream 1/2 pound of pulverized sugar 4 ounces of so-called Mocha coffee Grind the Mocha rather coarse, put it in the double boiler with one half the cream, and steep over...