Wash and peel two large summer squash, cut in small pieces and remove the seeds, cover with boiling water and cook until tender. Drain in a colander and press gently as much of the...
Green corn "on the cob" must first have the husks and silk carefully removed and then be dropped into boiling salted water and kept boiling (under a cover) for from ten to twenty m...
Five ounces of plain boiled potatoes put through a patent vegetable strainer or mashed very fine. Add three ounces of butter and a slightly heaping tablespoonful of Groult's potato...
Put a quart of rich milk in a double boiler over the fire with a third of a vanilla bean, split in half, and sugar to taste. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth, add three...
Prepare a bunch of asparagus in the usual way for cooking, cut off the points about an inch in length and put aside. Cover the stalks and half an onion cut in slices, with boiling...
Two roots of salsify and one large celeriac. Wash and scrape them well. Cut in pieces and cover with vinegar and water and let them stand one hour--this will prevent them from turn...
Put two gallons of strong alegar to a peck of the pips of elder-flowers, set it in the sun in a stone jar for a fortnight, and then filter it through a flannel bag; when you draw i...
Press with the fingers the pulp from grapes--Muscat or Concord grapes make the best jam--seed and measure them, allowing a cup of sugar to each cup of fruit. Put the skins on and c...
If the mother prefers, she can have the child take these little balls (peeled after they are cooked), cut them up fine, and fry them as follows: In a hot pan melt two tablespoonful...
Put a pint of rich milk in a double boiler, sweeten with two tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar. While the milk is coming to the boiling point beat the yolks of four eggs until lig...
Wash and peel a dozen artichokes, selecting them as nearly the same size as possible. Cover with boiling water and cook until tender, drain at once and pour over them a cream sauce...
Eight ounces of yellow beeswax, two quarts of spirits of turpentine, one quart of Venetian turpentine. Cut the wax in small pieces and pour the spirits over it--it will soon dissol...
Put over the fire in a saucepan three-quarters of a cup of rich milk and three ounces of butter, let them come to a boil, then add three ounces of dried and sifted bread crumbs and...
Ingredients: Breast of veal, butter, onions, sugar, stock, red wine, mushrooms, bacon, salt, flour, bay leaf. Roast a bit of breast of veal, then glaze over two Spanish onions with...
Peel them, cut in slices and pour on just enough boiling water to cook them. Cook until tender. When nearly done add salt. Make a cream sauce, season with white pepper, salt and a...
One and a half pounds figs chopped fine; boil down with half a cup of water. Cool, then fill the cake.--Mrs. Guilbault. * * *
TWO CAKES OF THREE LAYERS. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, four eggs, one cup milk, four cups flour, two heaping teaspoons baking powder. CREAM FILLING--One cup milk, half cup...
Rub together one ounce of butter and one teaspoonful of flour. Melt this in a saucepan and add salt, mace and cayenne. Stir gently a few minutes, until smooth. Then add slowly four...
Take one and a quarter pounds of light dough, a teacup of sugar, one of butter, three eggs, a teaspoon of soda, one pound of raisins, nutmeg or cinnamon to the taste. Bake one hour...
Boil bay salt, ale, and vinegar together, and make a strong brine; skim it, and let it stand till cool, and steep the venison for a whole day. Drain and press it dry: parboil, and...
Ingredients: Hare, vinegar butter, onion, ham, stock salt, sugar, chocolate, almonds, raisins. Cut up a hare and wash the pieces in vinegar, then cook them in butter, chopped onion...
Scalloped potatoes are very nice for a supper dish, as they can be prepared early in the day and set away until needed. The little cook, after washing and peeling her potatoes, nex...
One cup sugar, one tablespoon butter, two eggs well beaten, one cup sweet milk, one and a half teaspoons baking powder. Flour enough for pretty thick batter. One teaspoon lemon or...
Ingredients: Onion, butter, Burgundy, mushrooms, truffles, parsley, bay leaf, Espagnole sauce (No.1), blond of veal, essence of fish, anchovy butter, crayfish or lobster butter. Cu...
Put a quart of water and half a pint of vinegar into an earthen dish; skin and clean a pair of soles; put them into vinegar and water, let them remain there for two hours. Dry them...
Put on in hot water, simmer for half an hour, then place in cold water to loosen shells. When cold, cut in half, remove yolks, mash, and season with salt, pepper, a dash of prepare...
For a fruit jelly in winter, line the bottom of the mold or individual cups with pieces of banana, orange, or preserved cherries, fill up with the liquid lemon jelly and set away t...
Rice cups are made by lining small well-greased baking-cups with the rice half an inch thick and filling with any kind of cold meat, chopped fine and seasoned. A thin layer of the...