The Cook County Cook Book | by The Associated College Women Workers
the Cook County Cook Book, contains almost twice the number of tested, practical recipes to be found in the average cook book on the market selling for one-half the price
| Title | The Cook County Cook Book |
| Author | The Associated College Women Workers |
| Publisher | McElroy Publishing Co |
| Year | 1912 |
| Copyright | 1912, Mabel E. Sturtevant |
| Amazon | Larousse Gastronomique |
Compiled By The Associated College Women Workers, From Recipes Contributed By Cook County Ladies
Dedicated: In tbe housewives of book county, Illinois, to whose loyal support the success of this book is due
Introduction- THE Associated College Women Workers is an organization formed by college students and graduates who know from personal experience the needs of girls with limited means who arc ambitious for a college...
- How To Cook Cereals. A General Rule For Cooking Cereals
- Add a teaspoon of salt to a qt. of water boiling directly over the fire; into this stir about a cup of the cereal and when the mixture boils, after all the cereal has been added, set over hot water an...
- How To Cook Cereals. A General Rule For Cooking Cereals. Continued
- Oat Groats Take a quantity sufficient for 2 or 3 days, soak 7 or 8 hrs. in lukewarm water, or until sufficiently softened, drain thoroughly and serve with thick cream. Salt a little if desired. A d...
- How To Make Porridge
- Meal And Flour Porridge Mix together 2 tablespoons of Indian meal and the same quantity of flour, wet them with cold water and stir into a cup of boiling water. Cook in a double boiler for half an ...
- How To Make English Pea Porridge
- 1 pt. split peas, 3 qts. water, 6 leeks or 2 good sized onions, 1 stalk of celery or teaspoon celery seed, 2 ounces bread, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 pt. mashed potatoes, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 saltspoon pep...
- How To Make Indian Meals
- Indian Meal Gruel Take 1 qt. of boiling water, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons of corn meal, 1 tablespoon of flour, 4 tablespoons cold water. Place the meal and flour in the cold water, rub them s...
- How To Make Gruel
- Cracker Gruel Mix together 4 tablespoons of powdered crackers, 1 cup of boiling water, 1 cup milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt. Boil up once and serve. - 'Mrs. C. F. Adams, Franklin, 111. Cream Of Whe...
- How To Cook Panada
- Sprinkle salt between soda or graham crackers, or hard pilot biscuit, a teaspoon to 2 crackers. Place the crackers in a bowl and pour on just enough boiling water to soak them well. Set the bowl in a ...
- How To Make Oatmeal
- This recipe will apply to all forms of rolled oats, Friends', Mother's, Heckers oatmeal and the Rolled or Flaked sold in bulk. All oatmeal is improved by soaking over night. Put oatmeal into the i...
- How To Make Baked Apple With Oatmeal (Left Over)
- Core apples, fill the space from which the core was taken with the oatmeal porridge left over from breakfast. Stand the apples in a baking dish, sprinkle them with flour, 1 tablespoon sugar; add to th...
- How To Cook Rice As Cerials
- Wash a cup of rice in 2 waters, then drop it slowly into 2 qts. of salted boiling water. The water should be at a galloping boil. Do not stir the rice once during the 20 minutes in which it must cook ...
- How To Make Graham Mush Or Hominy
- Graham Mush Stir graham flour in boiling water slowly until it makes a thick batter. Set on the back part of the stove 10 minutes, beat 2 minutes, and turn into the dish. Serve with fruit juice or ...
- How To Make Farina
- This is a meal or flour obtained from cereals, potatoes or Indian corn. In the morning, stir it into boiling water, slightly salted, and cook half an hour, stirring up well from the bottom. - Mrs. Jul...
- How To Cook Eggs
- Anchovy Eggs Bone anchovies, warm them in a little oil and cut each in two lengthwise. Cut hard boiled eggs lengthwise and cross two pieces of anchovy over each half egg; set the halves on hot butt...
- How To Cook Eggs. Part 2
- Eggs A La Buckingham Have as many slices of toast as there are persons to be served. Either dip the crusts of the toast in hot water or pour hot salted milk over them. Make a cream sauce and cover ...
- How To Cook Eggs. Part 3
- Cuban Eggs Use 8 eggs for 6 people. Cook 4 tablespoons of sausage meat and 1 onion together over a hot fire for 5 minutes; beat the eggs thoroughly and add seasoning to taste; put the pan on a cool...
- How To Cook Eggs. Part 4
- Egg A La Espagnole Chop very fine 2 small cloves of garlic and half a green pepper. Dice 2 small tomatoes or 1 very large one. Put in a saucepan a piece of butter the size of an egg; when melted, p...
- How To Cook Eggs. Part 5
- Egg A La Havana Boil 8 eggs 10 minutes, cut them into slices, chop 2 small Spanish onions and 6 tomatoes, season with pepper and salt, and fry them with 1/2 cup of bread crumbs in 2 oz. of butter. ...
- How To Cook Eggs. Part 6
- Eggs Maitre D'Hotel Slice and fry Spanish onions in butter, but do not let them brown. Add a little flour, hot milk, chopped parsley, salt and white pepper, and let thicken. Cut the eggs that have ...
- How To Cook Eggs. Part 7
- Eggs Mornay Break egg and slip into buttered egg-shirrers, allowing 1 or 2 eggs to each shirrer, according to size. Cover with white sauce, seasoned with 1/3 cup grated cheese, paprika, and yolks o...
- How To Cook Eggs. Part 8
- Egg Pie Cut in rings 6 hard-boiled eggs and put in a baking dish with alternate layers of bread crumbs, butter, salt and pepper. Beat 1/4 doz. eggs, and 1 pt. milk and pour over the pie. Bake till ...
- How To Cook Eggs. Part 9
- Eggs And Shrimps (A Cuban Dish) Make a white sauce of 1 large tablespoon of butter and 1 of flour; when it bubbles add a teaspoon of onion juice and twice as much green sweet pepper, minced fine, w...
- How To Cook Eggs. Part 10
- Eggs A La Tarcat Cut 6 hard-boiled eggs in half lengthwise; remove yolk and rub smooth with 1/4 lb. of ham, 1/4 onion, chopped fine, 1/4 teaspoon prepared mustard, 1 teaspoon salt and a little red ...
- How To Make Egg Souffle
- 1 cup cream, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, a few grains of cayenne. Cream 2 tablespoons butter, add 2 tablespoons flour and pour on gradually 1 cup scalded milk and cream, cook in double boiler 5 minutes a...
- How To Make Sardine Eggs
- Boil 6 eggs hard and throw into cold water. Remove the shells and cut the eggs in halves, removing the yolks. Pound these yolks to a paste with a tablespoon of salad oil, and work into this paste 8 sk...
- How To Make Eggs Sur La Platte
- Little stone dishes come expressly for this mode of serving eggs, but individual vegetable dishes or teacups which have lost their handles will answer the purpose. Heat and butter as many dishes as th...
- How To Make Eggs A La Parisienne (Moulded Eggs)
- Sprinkle the inside of buttered moulds with finely chopped parsley. Break an egg into each mould, dust with salt and pepper, set on a folded paper in a pan of hot water and let poach, covered, on the ...
- How To Make Lyonnaise Eggs
- Cook 1 chopped onion in 2 tablespoons of butter for 10 minutes, then add 1 tablespoon of flour and cook till the mixture is smooth and frothy, stirring constantly. Gradually pour in 1 cup of milk and ...
- How To Make Japanese Eggs
- 1/2 pt. of cream sauce, 6 eggs, 1 table- . spoon of chopped parsley, a suspicion of onion, 1 tablespoon of soy. Hard boil the eggs. Carefully boil 1 cup rice, drain and turn it into the center of a me...
- How To Make Eggs In Forcemeat
- Shell and cut 4 hard-boiled eggs in two and rub the yolks through a sieve or strainer; rub 1 teaspoon of flour and 2 tablespoons of butter together, add 1 cup of soup stock seasoning, 1 slice of onion...
- How To Make Eggs Brouille
- Cut 2 mushrooms into dice, and fry them for 1 iminute in 1 tablespoon of butter. Beat together 6 eggs, salt, pepper and 1/2 cup milk or cream, and put them in a saucepan, add 3 tablespoons of butter a...
- How To Make Snow Eggs
- Take 2 level tablespoons of sugar to each white of egg. Beat the whites until nearly dry, then continue beating, adding the sugar meanwhile, until half has been used; beat until the mixture is very fi...
- How To Make Eggs A La Suzanne
- Bake as many potatoes as you have persons to serve, and allow 1 egg for each potato. When the potatoes are done, cut a slice from the side of each, scoop out a portion of the potato, leaving a wall ha...
- How To Make Eggs Beauregard
- 1/2 pt. milk, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 salt-spoon pepper, as many slices of toast as eggs. Remove shells from the required number of hard-boiled eggs, separate the whites and the yolks; put the yolks throug...
- How To Make Egg Coquelicot
- 1 can pimentoes, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 1/2 pts. milk, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon salt, as many eggs, and slices of toast as there are persons to serve. Trim the tops from 1 can of pimentoes to ...
- How To Make Scotch Or Savory Eggs
- Savory Eggs Dissolve a pinch of soda in a cup of cream and heat the cream. In another vessel heat a pt. of stock Turn into the stock 6 beaten eggs, season to taste with salt, pepper and minced pars...
- How To Make Whirled Eggs
- 1 qt. of boiling water, salted with a dessertspoon of salt; keep the water at a fast boil, stirring with a ladle or spoon in one direction until it whirls rapidly. Break the eggs one at a time, into a...
- Eggs A La Martin
- For the sauce take 1 heaping tablespoon of butter, and a heaping tablespoon of flour, put them in a pan over the fire till both are combined there. Add the milk and stir till it boils, season with a p...
- How To Make Fricaseed Eggs
- Allow 1 hard-boiled egg for each person, cut in halves lengthwise. Stand them around the sides of a small meat dish and pour over them a sauce made of 2 large spoons of flour, moistened with enough mi...
- How To Cook Columbus Eggs
- Cut hard-boiled eggs in halves crosswise, cut a slice off of each end to make them stand up. Remove the yolks and chop and mix with minced veal, chicken or other delicate meat. Add a little cream and ...
- How To Cook Eggs, Hungarian Style
- Hungarian Egg Place a piece of butter size of a walnut in a pan (after having boiling water to heat the pan); let it melt, add an onion chopped fine, and cook until soft. Add 1 pt. strained tomatoe...
- How To Make Moulded Eggs
- Prepare a round of toast for each egg. Butter same number of small teacups or individual moulds, and sprinkle each with a little finely chopped parsley. Break each egg gently into a saucer and slip in...
- How To Make Eggs Au Gratin
- Cut hard-boiled eggs in slices and lay them in a deep dish in close circular rows. Make a sauce of a tablespoon of butter, the yolks of 4 eggs, a little grated cheese and 1/2 cup of sweet milk. Stir t...
- How To Make Creamed Eggs
- May be served on toast or in tureen. Cut 3 hard-boiled eggs lengthwise in 4 silces, place on a hot, shallow vegetable dish, set in oven or range closet to keep warm. Make a cream sauce of 1 tablespoon...
- How To Boil Eggs
- Have enough fast boiling water in a saucepan to cover the number of eggs wanted and to allow the water to continue boiling as the eggs are dropped in. Lay the eggs you wish to boil in warm water, for ...
- How To Make Curried Eggs
- Make a sauce of a tablespoon of butter in which an onion has been simmered until done, but not brown, stir in 1 tablespoon of flour until it is smooth, add a teaspoon of curry powder, rub all to a smo...
- How To Make Deviled Eggs
- Have as many hard-boiled eggs as desired, remove shells and halve each egg lengthwise, slipping the egg yolks into a bowl, Mash and mix with salad or mayonnaise dressing until free from lumps, make in...
- How To Cook Eggs In A Nest
- Pile the beaten white of an egg on a round slice of toast, giving it the form of a nest; drop in the yolk and let cook in a moderate oven until set. In this case the toast takes the place of water. If...
- How To Make Fried Eggs
- Have enough clear boiling fat in a frying pan to cover an egg broken in, if dripping is used strain the fat and return it to the clean pan. Break the eggs separately into a cup; drop each carefully in...
- How To Make Plain Omelette
- 1 egg to each person and 2 for the pan. Beat lightly with egg beater, add 1 tablespoon of sweet milk for each egg used, season with salt and pepper to taste, fry in hot butter till rich brown. While f...
- How To Make Omelette
- Almond Omelette Beat yolks of desired number of eggs until thick and lemon colored, add salt and pepper, and cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff and dry. Put 3/4 tablespoon of butter ...
- How To Make Omelette. Part 2
- Fish Omelette Add a cup of any kind of cold fish, flaked fine, cream enough to moisten it, 1 tablespoon of butter, and pepper and salt to taste. Make a plain omelette and spread in the fish mixture...
- How To Make Omelette. Part 3
- Meat Omelette Make a plain omelette with 4 eggs. Chop fine left-over cold meat of any kind, game, poultry or fish; put the meat in a frying pan with a little butter and stir until it begins to brow...
- How To Make Omelette. Part 4
- Omelette A La Poulard Melt a teaspoon of butter in an omelette pan over a clear moderate fire, and when warm pour in 5 well beaten eggs and season with salt. Let the eggs set, then shake it gently ...
- How To Make Spanish Omelette
- 1 onion, 1/2 saltspoon of salt, 6 tablespoons of water, 1/4 lb. of bacon. Cut the bacon into very thin slices, put into a frying pan, add a 1/2 cup of water, cook until the water evaporates; then fry ...
- How To Make Rich Omelette
- 2 1/2 tablespoons of flour, 3/4 teaspoons of salt, 1 cup of milk, 3 tablespoons of butter, as many eggs as desired. Mix salt and flour and add the milk gradually. Beat eggs and flour until thick and l...
- How To Make Left-Over Omelette
- Any cold meat, fish, fowl, or vegetables may be used up in this manner. Free it from the skin, gristle and fat; mince it or pound it to a paste in a mortar. Use 1 tablespoon of -meat to every 4 eggs; ...
- How To Make Creamy Omelette
- Beat number of eggs desired lightly with a spoon until you can take up a spoonful. Add a scant 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/2 a saltspoon of pepper, 4 tablespoons of milk or cream, and mix well. Butter a h...
- How To Make Cake Or Cookie Omelette
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of grated and sifted crumbs and soak in milk, water, cream, white wine, gravy, lemon juice, brandy or rum, according to flavor and sweetness desired. Thoroughly beat together 4 eg...
- How To Make Bread Omelette
- Beat the yolks of 3 eggs and add 1/2 cup milk, a piece of butter the size of a walnut, 1/2 cup bread crumbs, salt and pepper to taste. Stir into this carefully the beaten whites and mix very lightly. ...
- How To Make Rum Or Savoury Omelette
- Rum Omelette Put a little fresh lard in an omelette pan and heat. Be careful that it does not burn or the color of the omelette will be spoiled. Whisk 3 eggs thoroughly until they are very light. B...
- How To Make Baked Or Boiled Omelette
- Baked Omelette Have the oven hot. Put 2 tablespoons bacon or ham drippings or butter into a medium sized cast-iron frying pan, and place where it will get hot without burning. Beat 4 eggs without s...
- How To Make Oyster, Mussel Or Clam Omelette
- Oyster Omelette Chop a dozen oysters into tiny bits. Stir together over the fire a large spoonful of butter and 1 of flour. When smooth and bubbling, draw to the side of the range, and add, gradual...
- How To Make French Omelette
- Scour a medium sized omelette pan with salt to make sure it is smooth. Put 3 teaspoons butter in and stand where the butter will soften but not melt. Break 3 eggs into a bowl, and beat them with a for...
- How To Make Steamed Or Stirred Eggs
- Steamed Eggs Place egg in a steamer over boiling water, steam 5 minutes for a soft yolk; break the egg in a cup and serve hot. - Mrs. D. C. Allen, Arlington Heights, 111. Steamed Eggs In Cup...
- How To Make Shirred Eggs
- Eggs A La Shearer Boil 5 fresh eggs 3 minutes: remove shells, without breaking whites; put eggs in a shallow baking dish. Make a cream sauce with 1 pt. sweet milk, 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 teas...
- How To Make Eggs In Tomato
- Add 1 small onion, cut in small pieces, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, 1 pt. tomato in a frying-pan, stew very slowly for 10 minutes, and add the salt and pepper. Set the pan back, break ...
- How To Make Scrambled Eggs
- Break eggs all together in a bowl, scatter a tablespoon of butter over the bottom of a frying pan and pepper it ligthtly and sprinkle on a scant teaspoon of salt. Put the pan on the fire, as the butte...
- Scrambled Eggs With Anchovies Or Sardines
- - Drain the anchovies or sardines to free them from the oil of the can. then remove skin or scale and bones and pick the fillets into small pieces. If salted anchovies be used, soak in milk or water 6...
- How To Make Stuffed Eggs
- Cut 6 hard-boiled eggs in halves. Take out the yolks and Mash them fine. Add 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 teaspoon of cream, 2 or 3 drops of onion juice, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix all thoroughly...
- How To Make Poached Eggs
- eggs for this purpose are best when two days old. The whites of new-laid eggs are milky, easily dissolved, and separated in water, but on the other hand, if too stale, the cell walls do not remain fir...
- How To Make Poached Eggs. Part 2
- Poached Eggs On Cheese Make patties of bread or cracker crurmbs moistened with milk and yolk of eggs, seasoned with salt and pepper. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of cheese on each ball and set in the oven u...
- How To Make Poached Eggs. Part 3
- Hygienic Poached Eggs Add a few grains of salt to the white of an egg, beat until dry and turn into a buttered glass, or a china bowl; form a nest on the top for the yolk. Set the glass on a trivet...
- How To Make Poached Eggs. Part 4
- Poached Eggs On Rice Take steamed or boiled rice and mix with the beaten yolk of an egg and a little flour; form into balls and fry. left-over meat may be minced and mixed with it if desired, or wa...
- How To Bake Eggs
- Break 8 eggs into a well buttered dish, taking care that each is whole and does not encroach upon the others enough to mix or disturb the yolks; season with pepper and salt and bits of butter, 3 table...
- Home Made Yeast
- Cover 1 cup hops with water and steep until the strength has been well extracted. Peel and grate 6 large potatoes, add 1 cup of flour, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 tablespoon ginger, 1 tablespoon salt; mix th...
- How To Bake Bread
- Crush a cake of yeast and put in a small basin with a teaspoon of sugar and 1/2 pt. of lukewarm water and milk, and set in a warm place to rise. When risen, pour in a pan with 1 qt. of warm water in w...
- How To Bake Bread. Part 2
- Buttermilk Bread 1 qt. of sour buttermilk, 1 large tablespoon sugar, 2 even teaspoons soda, 3 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 3/4 Qts. flour. Heat the buttermilk to the boiling point, stirri...
- How To Bake Bread. Part 3
- Entire Wheat Bread (From Compressed Yeast) With 1 qt. of lukewarm water dissolve 1 cake of compressed yeast, 3 tablespoons of New Orleans molasses, 2 teaspoons of salt and 2 tablespoons of 'butter....
- How To Make Salt-Rising Bread
- The following is the recipe of the good old-fashioned salt-rising bread so commonly known in the days of our grandmothers: Pour 1/2 a pt. of water on 2 tablespoons of cormmeal and a generous pinch of ...
- How To Make Corn Bread
- Corn Bread, Indian Bread Or Johnny Cake To 2 cups cornmeal add 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon soda. Sift these ingredients well, then add 1/2 cup melted lard and enough buttermilk or sour m...
- How To Make German Bread
- To 2 cups light bread dough add a scant 1/2 cup butter and lard mixed, 1 cup sugar, 2 cups milk in which dissolve 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon and vanil-la, and 1 cup of seeded raisi...
- How To Make Currant Bread
- Mix together 2 cakes of yeast dissolved in lukewarm water, 1 tablespoon of sugar, let foam till it comes to top. A package of each of raisins and currants. 1/2 lb. of sugar, 2 eggs. 1 qt. of water, st...
- How To Make Brown Bread
- Mix together 2 cups of graham flour, 1 cup cornmeal, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup molasses and 2 cups sour milk in which has been dissolved 1 teaspoon of soda. Bake in a moderate oven. - Mrs. C.K.Wurtz, 2...
- How To Make Graham Bread
- Take 4 heaping cups of graham flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 heaping teaspoon of saleratus, dissolved in hot water and stirred in 1/2 cup of molasses until it foams. Add enough milk to make the dough as...
- How To Make Nut Bread
- Mix together 3 1/2 cups flour, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup chopped walnuts, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 egg. Let stand 1/2 hr. Bake 25 or 30 minutes. - Mrs. Frank Cres...
- How To Make Buns
- Set in the evening a pt. of warm milk, butter the size of an egg, 1/2 an yeast cake, and flour enough to make a thick batter. Add yeast and flour, then add 2 eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, enough flour to roll ...
- How To Make Rice Bread
- Put 1 qt. milk and water over the fire to . boil; add 1 teaspoon of salt and when boiling stir in 1/2 pt. ground rice (wet with a little milk). Boil up 2 or 3 minutes, stirring repeatedly; pour it int...
- How To Make Bakers' Buns
- Take bread sponge ready to mould into loaves, put it on a plate and set it away to rise for about 4 or 5 hrs., then add 1 cup bread dough, 1/2 cup sugar, lard the size of an egg, 1 beaten egg, 1 cup l...
- How To Make Chelsea Buns
- Mix with milk 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 teaspoons shortening, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, salt, roll out a little over 1/4 of an inch thick, and spread over 1 tablespoon granulated sugar and ...
- How To Make Scotch Currant Bun
- 3/4 lb. flour, 1/2 lb. sugar, 3 lbs. blue raisins, 2 lbs. currants, 1/4 lb. orange peel, 1/4 lb. almonds, 1/2 oz. ground ginger, 1/2 oz. cinnamon, 1/2 oz. Jamaica ginger, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, 1 ...
- How To Make Spanish Bun
- Cream together 2 eggs, keeping out white of 1 for icing, 1 cup brown sugar, butter size of an egg, 1 level teaspoon cinnamon, a little nutmeg, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream, tartar; add 1 cup mil...
- Baking Powder Biscuits
- 4 level cups flour, 1 level teaspoon salt, 2 level tablespoons shortening, 2 1/2 level tablespoons baking powder, about 1 1/2 cups milk. The shortening may be sweet lard, or dripping or butter, or a m...
- How To Make Biscuits
- Abernethy Biscuits Rub 1 oz. of butter into 1 lb. of flour, adding a dessertspoon of sugar and 1/2 oz. of caraway seed. Mix all together, with 2 eggs, if necessary; add a little milk. roll the batt...
- How To Make Biscuits. Continued
- Lunch Biscuit Sift together 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream tartar, and add 2 tablespoons currants, 1 cup milk. Mix 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons butter to a cream; add 2 beaten egg...
- How To Make Biscuit For Campers (Will Keep For Months)
- Make a sponge about 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon by adding a cake of yeast foam which has previously been softened in a little lukewarm water to a pt. of water in which potatoes have been boiled wi...
- How To Make Potato Biscuits
- Add a tablespoon each of flour and butter to mashed potatoes and rub thoroughly together, roll out and cut as biscuit and bake in a quick oven. When done to a light brown, cut open, butter and eat war...
- How To Make Crackers
- Entire Wheat Crackers Mix fresh-ground wheat-meal with pure soft water into a stiff dough. roll out and cut the mass into thin crackers and bake in quick oven. Be careful not to burn. - Mrs. C. J. ...
- How To Make German Coffee Cake Or German Kaffee Kuchen
- Scald 1 qt. of sweet milk, and 1 1/2 cups of sugar, nutmeg to taste,, 1 heaping teaspoon of salt. Let cool until about blood heat and add 2 cakes compressed yeast, dissolved in 1/2 cup lukewarm water,...
- How To Make Gems
- Gems Pt. flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, tablespoon of sugar, little?alt, tablespoon butter or shortening. Mix up and drop into gem pans. Put in 1 egg, flour first, then shortening and baking pow...
- How To Make Graham Gems
- Sift 3 cups graham flour with 2 teaspoons baking powder, and 1/2 spoon of salt; add 1 egg, 1 cup milk, 1 cup water. Beat well and pour in heated gem pans. Bake 15 to 20 minutes. - Mrs. C. E. Rawlins, ...
- How To Make Muffins
- Muffins Cream together 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup good shortening, add 2 beaten eggs, a large cup of milk, 1 teaspoon of salt and flour enough to make a little stiffer than cake batter, sifted with 2 ...
- How To Make Muffins. Continued
- Drop Muffins To 2 cups sifted flour add 2 cups milk, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt; mix together till quite stiff and foamy, drop in hot greased muffin rings and cook quickly. Easil...
- How To Make Bran Muffins
- Sift together 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon sugar; add 2 eggs, beaten separate, 1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons butter. Mix dry ingredients, then butter, yolks of eg...
- How To Make Pop-Overs
- Beat 4 eggs, add 1 pt. of sifted flour, and thin with 1 pt. of milk; add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of melted butter. Beat vigorously for 10 minutes and pour into hot pop-over cups or gem t...
- Puffs
- Breakfast Puffs Mix 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup milk; add the 1 cup flour gradually, beat until light, pour into hot buttered gems. Bake 30 to 35 minutes in hot oven. - Mrs. Ernest D. Dean, Glen View, 1...
- How To Make Rolls
- Bread Rolls Bring to a boil 1 qt. sweet milk. 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, salt as for bread. Allow the mixture to cool to lukewarm, add 1 yeast cake; stir in flour enough to make a t...
- How To Make Delicious Rolls
- Set a sponge at 9 o'clock in the evening with a pt. of new wilk, warmed, and 2/3 cup yeast with flour enough to stir with a spoon. Beat until it is perfectly smooth. When the sponge is very light next...
- How To Make Parker House Rolls Or Potato Rolls
- Parker House Rolls Scald 2 cups milk, add 3 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt. When warm add 1 yeast cake disolved in 1/4 cup lukewarm water and 3 cups flour; beat well, cove...
- How To Make Fruit Rolls
- 1/4 cup shortening, and sufficient sweet milk to make a dough. Mix 3 cups flour and 6 very scant teaspoons baking powder thoroughly; add 2 heaping tablespoons sugar and salt and rub in shortening, the...
- Rusks
- Take 1 qt. bread dough; when ready to mould into loaves add 1/2 of an egg, beaten thoroughly, butter or lard size of an egg, 1/4 cup of sugar, mixed well; add flour to mould until stiff and smooth; ro...
- How To Make Scones
- Scotch Scones 4 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, or 3/4 teaspoon soda and 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, mix in flour and butter size of an egg. Make a hole in flour and put ...
- How To Make Fritters
- 2 eggs, 1 pt. sweet milk, flour enough to make a thin batter. Dip the tablespoon in flour and then into the batter and drop into the sizzling fat. These fritters can be made very pretty by practice; e...
- How To Make Fritters. Part 2
- Clam Fritters 25 clams cut in two, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder; season and fry in hot lard. - Mrs. M. Anthony, Des Plaines, 111. Corn Fritters To 2 cups of corn add 2...
- How To Make Fritters. Part 3
- Queen Fritters -1/4 cup butter (scant), 1/2 cup boiling water, 1/2 cup flour, 2 eggs; mix as cream puffs, drop by spoonfuls and fry in deep fat. Drain, fill with preserves or cream filling and spri...
- How To Make Apple Fritters
- Peel, core, slice round in four slices 4 medium sized apples. Make a batter of 2 well-beaten eggs, 1 pt. of milk, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, 2 tablespoons of sugar, a teaspoon of baking powder and flour en...
- How To Make Griddle Or Pancakes
- 1 cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 egg, 3/4 cup milk, 1/2 teaspoon melted butter; mix dry ingredients; add liquid gradually; add butter. Do not beat too much. Have pan ho...
- How To Make Griddle Or Pancakes. Part 2
- Chestnut Griddle Bread Separate 2 eggs; to the yolks add 1/2 cup milk; mix. Stir in 2/3 cups chestnut meal. Cover and stand in a cool place over night. Next morning add the whites of the eggs, well...
- How To Make Griddle Or Pancakes. Part 3
- Indian Griddle-Cakes Sift and mix together 2/3 qt. of cornmeal, 1/3 qt. of flour, 2 heaping teaspoons of brown sugar, 2 of baking powder and 1/2 of salt. Add 2 beaten eggs and 1 pt. of milk, beatin...
- How To Make Griddle Or Pancakes. Part 4
- Raised Pancakes 1 qt. cold water, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, enough flour to make a thick batter, set in a warm place over night; in the morning put in 1/2 teaspoon of soda and thin u...
- How To Make Flannel Cakes
- 1 pt. of meal and 1 pt. of flour, 1 teaspoon salt, yeast enough to raise it, or 1/4 of an yeast cake. Mix the batter with tepid water, almost as thick as for buckwheat cakes. When risen, bake in a gri...
- How To Make Pancake Pyramid
- Trim 1 lb. of mushrooms and cut them into small pieces. Sprinkle over them 1/4 teaspoon pepper and 1 teaspoon of salt. Fry in 1 1/2 oz. butter for 5 minutes; then put on the lid of the saucepan, and c...
- How To Make Buckwheat Cakes
- 1 1/2 pts, of sifted buckwheat flour, 1 coffee cup of cornmeal, 1 coffee cup yeast, 1 tablespoon of butter and lard, mixed and melted, 1 heaping tablespoon of 'brown sugar. Mix the buckwheat with the ...
- How To Make Waffles
- Waffles 1/2 pt. milk, 1/2 pt. flour, 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 eggs, 1/4 tablespoon salt. Warm the milk and melt the butter in it. Let mixture cool to about blood-heat. Beat the yolks of the eggs ...
- How To Make Canapes
- Cheese Canapes Cut a stale loaf of bread into slices 1/4 inch thick. Divide these into pieces 2 inches long, and 1 inch wide, and fry in hot butter or oil. Spread mustard thinly on each piece, lay ...
- How To Make Savories
- Creole Savoury Toast 1 side of shaped pieces of bread, and butter the other, spreading on it a layer of chopped tomato mixed with 1/2 as much chopped green peppers, and sprinkle with salt. Put in o...
- How To Make Sandwiches
- There is not a more tasty way of using up left-overs in small quantities than in sandwiches. Every bit can be utilized, made to go farther and materially help to solve the noon meal problem. If any me...
- How To Make Sandwiches. Part 2
- Baked Bean Sandwiches Rub 2 cups of baked beans through a fruit press, add 1 teaspoon each of finely minced parsley and celery, 1 teaspoon of onion juice and 1/8 teaspoon of made mustard. Spread be...
- How To Make Sandwiches. Part 3
- Caviar Sandwiches Cut slices of bread into diamond or crescent shapes, butter 1 side and toast to a light brown. Rub the yolks of 2 hard-boiled eggs through a fruit press, and chop the whites very ...
- How To Make Sandwiches. Part 4
- Curry Sandwiches Chop the whites of 4 hard-boiled eggs very fine and put the yolks through a sieve. Cut the slices from the end of the loaf of bread, buttering before cutting each slice. Cover 1/2 ...
- How To Make Sandwiches. Part 5
- Game Sandwiches Cut the meat in very thin slices from roasted partridges, grouse or any game. Lay the meat on delicately thin, fresh toast, strew celery over and season well with tartar sauce. - Mr...
- How To Make Sandwiches. Part 6
- Lettuce Sandwiches Sprinkle fresh, crisp lettuce leaves with a little salt, lay them for a few moments in a folded napkin. Then put them between the slices of buttered bread. Spread over a dressing...
- How To Make Sandwiches. Part 7
- Hickory Nut And Banana Sandwiches Add 2 sliced bananas to a cup of chopped hickory-nut. Spread between thin slices of brown bread. - Mrs. C. J. Jeffries, Winnetka, II. Peanut Sandwiches S...
- How To Make Sandwiches. Part 8
- Ramona Sandwiches Chop equal quantities of figs, dates, raisins, citrons, or any candied fruits, and a little bit of candied peel. Place lightly in a square or round mould the shape of the sandwi...
- How To Make Sandwiches. Part 9
- Tartare Sandwiches 1 teaspon each of chives, capers, gherkins, olives, and tarragon leaves, chopped fine. 1 teaspoon each of tarragon vinegar, French mustard and paprika. - Mrs. C. E. Rawlins, Glen...
- How To Make Turkey Or Chicken And Ham Sandwiches
- Turkey Sandwiches Thin slices of turkey and bacon on toast, spread with mayonnaise. - Mrs. Chas. Eggleston, Wheeling, 111. Chicken And Ham Sandwiches Mince cold chicken and add a little m...
- How To Make Beef Sandwiches
- Corned Beef Sandwiches Lay very thin slices of corned beef on buttered bread, press oven another slice, thickly spread with salad dressing. - Mrs. E. G. Harris, Winnetka, 111. Beef Heart San...
- How To Make Apple Or Banana Sandwiches
- Apple Sandwiches Chop uncooked apples fine, mix with mayonnaise dressing and spread between slices of well buttered bread. To this combination may be added chopped celery, white grapes, seasoned wi...
- How To Make Jam Sandwiches
- Mix the yolks of 2 eggs very smoothly with a tablespoon each of flour and ground rice, add a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 pt. of thick cream and 1/4 pt. of new milk. Beat the whites of 2 ...
- How To Make Seafood Sandwiches
- Shad Roe Sandwiches Among the daintiest and most palatable fish sandwiches are those made of shad roe. Throw the roe into the boiling water and add 1 slice of onion, 1 bay leaf, and 1 teaspoon of s...
- How To Make Fruit Sandwiches
- Almost any kind of fruit may be used, according to taste. Chopped candied cherries, peaches, apricots, pears, bananas, or any other fruit desired, moistened with melted butter and spread between bread...
- How To Make Club Sandwiches
- Butter toast while hot and put on each alternate slice a lettuce leaf, same cold baked chicken cut in thin slices, a few chopped olives and pickles, some slices of hot, crisp bacon, a layer of salad d...
- How To Make Celery Or Cheese Sandwiches
- Celery Sandwiches Crisp chopped celery mixed with mayonnaise dressing makes a tasty sandwich. Other ingredients may be added to suit taste, hard-boiled eggs, chopped apples, nuts, olives or lettuce...
- How To Make Egg Sandwiches
- Chop the whites of the hard-boiled eggs very fine. Mix the yolks smooth with mayonnaise dressing, add the whites, and spread on the bread. - Mrs. Conklin, 914 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111. Variation I...
- How To Make Lobster Sandwiches
- These may be made from chopped, cooked lobster, seasoned with tabasco, lemon juice and oil and a little chopped cucumber, if desired; left-over lobster salad, chopped cooked lobster and fried mushroom...
- How To Make Nasturtium Sandwiches
- Mash 1 Neufchatel cheese, adding salt, pepper and almond milk. Put a layer of this paste, covered with nasturtium flowers, between 2 thin slices of buttered bread. Trim off the crust and cut each into...
- How To Make Mint Or Mushroom Sandwiches
- Mint Sandwiches Chop the leaves from a dozen stalks of fresh mint, add a little French dressing, spread a thin layer over buttered bread. Fold the slice or roll it. Serve with green pea salad at an...
- How To Make Vegetable Sandwiches
- Cut thin slices of bread with a small, round biscuit cutter; spread with softened butter, cut out the leaves of lettuce the same size, lay 1 on a slice of bread, spread on mayonnaise, then a sprinklin...
- How To Make Toast
- Toast has become such an important part of the American breakfast, luncheon, and invalid diet that greater space has been devoted to this section than in the average cook book. Our purpose is to offer...
- How To Make Toast. Part 2
- Caviar On Toast Put into a saucepan 2 tablespoons of caviar and 1 of cream; heat 2 minutes, stirring carefully. Pour this mixture over thin slices of white bread. Serve hot. - Mrs. C. J. Jeffries, ...
- How To Make Toast. Part 3
- Kidney Toast Place in a pan chopped parsley, a little shallot and minced kidneys. Be sure to take off the outer skin and sinews of the kidneys before mincing them. Fry all in butter. Add a tablespo...
- How To Make Toast. Part 4
- Salmon Toast Cut slices of bread, trim off the crusts, and toast. Butter and lay on each piece a thin slice of smoked salmon. Sprinkle with pepper, lay over a sheet of buttered paper, and place in ...
- How To Make Berry Toast
- Canned strawberries, blueberries and blackberries may be used for the following: Turn a can of berries into a colander over an earthern dish, to separate the juice from berries. Put juice in porcelain...
- How To Make Cream Toast
- Cream Toast Made Of Brown Bread Toast 1/2 doz. or more slices of entire wheat or graham bread. Make a cream sauce of 1 pt. of cream and milk, mixed, a lump of butter and a pinch of salt. Put into a...
- How To Make Tomato Toast
- Moisten slices of toast and serve with a dressing prepared by heating a pt. of strained, stewed tomatoes to boiling, and thickened with a tablespoon of cornstarch or flour, rubbed smooth in a little c...
- How To Make Soups
- Toasted Bread Crusts For Soup Toast bread crusts and cut into very small dice. Untoasted bread swells, and is likely to spoil the appearance of the soup. - Mrs. E. D. Kelly, Win-netka, 111. ...
- How To Make Soups. Part 2
- Cherry Soup Soups made from fruit juices only slightly sweetened, thickened with arrow-root, and served cold in bouillon cups, are quite acceptable in hot days. Allow 1 pt. of water to a pt. of fru...
- How To Make Soups. Part 3
- Emergency Soup Put 1/2 teaspoon of celery salt in 1 cup of hot water, boil 10 minutes, add 1 pt. of milk, small lump of butter and thicken a little. Serve with croutons. - Mabel Sturte-vant, 105 S....
- How To Make Soups. Part 4
- Guilemme Soup Cook 1/4 cup each of carrot and turnip, cut in thin strips, 1 1/2 inches long, until tender. Add 1 qt. of stock, 2 tablespoons each cooked peas and string beans, cut in strips. - Mrs....
- How To Make Soups. Part 5
- Herb Powder For Soup It is not always possible to obtain fresh herbs, so to obtain a flavoring for soups, procure them in season, fresh, just before they begin to flower. Dry them in a warm oven, p...
- How To Make Soups. Part 6
- Mulligatawney Soup This is an Indian soup, and means pepper pot. It can be made from veal, calf's head, chicken or rabbit. Use 1, or a mixture of 2 or more of these varieties of meat. Mulligatiwn...
- How To Make Soups. Part 7
- Potage A La Reine Mix together the yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs, 1/2 cup cracker crumbs, and 1/4 cup milk, until smooth; add the whites and 1 cup of chicken meat, chopped very fine, and pressed thro...
- How To Make Soups. Part 8
- St. Germain Soup Take 2 cans of peas, reserving 1/2 cup of them, and put them in a double boiler with 1 onion cut in 4 pieces, with a clove stuck in each, 1 tablespoon of salt, 1 saltspoon of peppe...
- How To Make Soups. Part 9
- Soup Without Stock Take 1/2 teaspoon of oat flake, in 3 cups of cold water. Put over the fire an hour and a half before soup is to be served. Bring to a boil and cook steadily, stirring frequently....
- How To Make Oyster Bisque
- Chop 1 qt. of oysters and put in a pan with 1 bay leaf, 1 sprig parsley, 1 stalk celery, 1 slice small onion, white pepper, cayenne, salt, blade of mace, 1/2 pt. of chicken stock, and some of the liqu...
- How To Make Glasgow Broth
- 1 qt. of strong mutton stock, from which every particle of fat has been removed. The liquor in which a leg of mutton has been boiled will do well for this purpose. Boil it down for an hr. before makin...
- How To Make Florentine Soup
- Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a saucepan, put into it 3/4 cup of finely chopped onions, and stir over a moderate heat about 5 minutes, and then add 2 full cups of very thinly sliced turnips, and sti...
- How To Make Cockie Leekie Soup
- Purchase the marrow-bone from the round; have the butcher saw it into 2-inch lengths, making 4 bones. Draw and truss one fowl; put it into a soup kettle; cover with cold water, bring to boiling point ...
- How To Make Soup For Invalid
- Cut in small pieces 1 lb. of beef or mutton, or a part of both; boil gently in 2 qts. of water; and skim, and when reduced to a pt. strain it and season with a little salt, and take a teacup at a time...
- How To Make Rabbit Soup
- Cut off the legs and shoulders, divide the body down the back and then across, wash it in lukewarm water, and wipe it dry. Then put it in a frying-pan with a little butter or drippings; fry it a nice ...
- How To Make Cream Of Artichoke Soup
- Scrape and slice enough Jerusalem artichokes to make 2 cups, and cover with cold water. Let them stand for 15 or 20 minutes, and put them in a saucepan with 2 qts. of cold water or milk, or 1 qt. of e...
- How To Make Egg Balls Or Meat Balls For Soups
- Egg Balls, Or Quenelles, For Soups Mash together 2 hard-boiled eggs, 1/2 the quantity of hot, boiled potatoes, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, cayenne, pepper, salt, and the yolk of 1 raw egg. Make up ...
- How To Make Noodles For Soup
- Melt a lump of butter size of an egg: stir thick with flour, and when cool stir in 1 beaten egg, then thicken with flour as stiff as possible. roll out very thin, and cut fine. These noodles do not ne...
- How To Make Croutons
- Cut stale bread into dice less than 1/2 an inch square; fry in hot dripping or butter to a delicate brown; take up with a split spoon and shake free of fat in a colander. - Mrs. Frank Mullins, Frankli...
- How To Make Soup From Left-Overs
- We have a little gravy from yesterday and a little onion; there was a deviled potato left and 1 stalk of celery; purchase a very small piece of soup meat, just 1/2 a lb., put it on with 6 cups cold wa...
- How To Make Almond Soup
- It calls for 1 qt. of nicely seasoned veal or chicken stock. Blanclt 1/2 lb. of almonds and pound them fine, using a few drops of stock from time to time during the process, lest the almonds become oi...
- How To Make Amber Soup
- Put 1/2 lb. of ham in the bottom of soup kettle, on this put 3 lbs. of lean beef, and 2 lbs. of veal; cut in thin slices 2 large carrots, 2 heads of celery, 2 turnips, and 2 onions, season with pepper...
- How To Make Soup Stock
- Stock for soups may be made by saving all the bones and tough pieces from roasts and broiling meats. Put them in a kettle, allowing about 3 pts. of water to 2 lbs. of meat and bones. When it comes to ...
- How To Make Stock From Bones
- Save all bones left from roasts, steaks, and the carcasses of poultry; also the liquid in which they have been boiled. Crack the bones, place in a soup kettle, cover with cold water and let simmer gen...
- How To Make Barley Broth
- Put 2-lb. shin of beef in 1 gal. of water. Add 1 cup of pearl barley, 3 large onions cut up fine, a small bunch of parsley, minced, 3 slices potatoes, a little thyme, pepper and salt to taste. Simmer ...
- How To Make Asparagus Soup
- Scrape and wash the asparagus. Cook them in salted boiling water for about 25 minutes. Drain and cut the tips off, reserving them, for further use. Mash and press the stalks through the colander and s...
- How To Make Bean Soup
- Soak 1 qt. white beans over night; in the morning pour off water; add fresh water and set over fire, till skins will slip off easily; throw them in cold water, rub well and skins will rise to top, whe...
- How To Make Beef Bouillon
- Brown 1 tablespoon of sugar, add 1 onion and a little water, put in 4 lbs. of lean beef and roll all around and brown good; then add plenty of cold water and simmer a long time; add salt and pepper an...
- How To Make Standard Bouillon
- 1 pt. of water to every lb. of meat; season with salt, pepper and vegetables to taste. - Mrs. E. D. Kelley, Winnetka, 111. Bouillon Take lean beef from the lower round and shank of veal in e...
- How To Make Cream Of Carrot Soup
- Boil 1 pt. of carrots until tender, then rub through a sieve. Put 1 tablespoon of butter in a saucepan with 1 tablespoon of flour, and stir until smooth, then add 1 qt. of hot chicken broth or milk. L...
- How To Make Celery Soup
- 1 pt. of soup stock, 3 bunches of celery, chopped fine, cooked 1/2 hr., 1 qt. milk put in just long enough before using, to boil up, add enough flour to thicken the least bit, also pepper and salt. Se...
- How To Make Leek Soup
- Cut 1 bunch of fresh leeks in 1/4-inch rings; cut 1 hard-boiled egg into rings. Place the leeks and 3 medium-sized potatoes, peeled and sliced, in a chafing dish or stew-pan, cover well with water, an...
- How To Make Cabbage Soup
- Cabbage Soup With Stock (German Style) Wash and trim off the outer leaves of 1 sound white cabbage. Chop the oabbage fine and put in a stew-pan with 1 qt. of water; let boil until tender. Add 1 qt....
- How To Make Chestnut Soup
- Peel and blanch 1 qt. of Italian chestnuts and chop them fine, boil for 1/2 an hr. in 2 qts. of water. Strain the chestnuts and crush them to fine pulp in a mortar, and gradually stir into this 1 qt. ...
- How To Make Clam Soup
- Cut salt pork into very small squares and fry a light brown; add 1 large or 2 small onions, cut very fine, and cook about 10 minutes; add 2 qts. water and 1 qt. clams; mix 1 tablespoon flour with the ...
- How To Make Chicken Soup
- Clean a 3-lb. chicken and cut it at the joints into nice pieces for serving. Put it in the soup kettle with 1 lb. of veal bones, or other pieces of veal Cover with 4 qts. of cold water. Mix 1 tablespo...
- How To Make Chicken Soup. Continued
- Chickens Feet Soup No less an authority than Miss Barloa recommends chicken feet as a material for soup. The instructions are: Cut off at the usual joint, wash and throw into boiling water, and af...
- How To Make A Delicate Chicken Soup
- Prepare 3 young chickens, put them in a stew-pan with 5 pts. of white stock freed from fat and cleared from sediment. Add a sliced turnip and carrot, if desired, but remove before the soup is thickene...
- How To Make Egg Chowder Or Soup
- Egg Chowder Fry 2 or 3 slices of salt pork till quite brown, then add 4 or 5 potatoes, sliced, and hot water to cover. When potatoes are done add 1 pt. hot milk and slice in 5 hard-boiled eggs. Let...
- How To Make Consomme
- Consomme is of fine aroma and forms the basis of many superior soups. Owing to its rich yellow color it often is called amlber soup. Put the soup-pot over the fire and and place in it 1 heaping tables...
- How To Make Cream Of Corn Soup
- Scrape the corn from 8 tender young ears. Boil the cobs in as little water as possible for 30 minutes. Strain off the liquid, add the scraped corn and boil 20 minutes. Heat 1 qt. of sweet milk to the ...
- How To Make Bisque Of Crabs
- Place 1 doz. live crabs in cold water, add salt. Hash up a couple of carrots with an equal quantity of onion, and fry together with the crabs, shell an all, with little butter in a saucepan, add a lit...
- How To Make Lettuce Soup
- Chop 1 large head of lettuce and saute in 2 tablespoons of butter, with 1/2 teaspoon sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar; add the 2 teaspoons of flour, and, when blended with the butter, 5 cups of broth...
- How To Make Cream Soup With Stock
- Scald together 2 qts. white stock, well seasoned. 1 qt. of milk, and add 3 tablespoons of flour, 2 of butter; when all have been stirred to a smooth paste, cook well; just before serving add 1 cup of ...
- How To Make Fish Soup
- Cook 1 lb. of any boiled fish in boiling salted water, until it flakes easily. Drain it, remove the skin and bones, and rub through a coarse strainer. Cook 1 sliced onion with 1 qt. of milk 10 minutes...
- Julienne Soup
- Use 1 pt. of mixed vegetables. Cut the celery into thin slices, the turnip into 1/4-inch dice, and the carrot into 3/4 by 1/8 strips or straw, using only the orange part. Or cut carrot and turnip into...
- How To Make Lentil Soup
- Put 4 carrots, 2 sliced onions, 1 chopped lettuce head, 2 oz. of butter into a stew-pan, and let them simmer 5 minutes: add 2 pts. of lentils (which have been soaked in cold water for 2 hrs.) and a pt...
- How To Make Red-Lentil Soup
- Soak 2 cups of Egyptian lentils in water for 8 or 10 hrs., then drain, and shake dry. Put 2 tablespoons of butter in a saucepan and when melted add 1/3 of the lentils, and stir well with a flat-ended ...
- How To Make Lobster Soup
- Lobster Soup Or Bisque Of Lobster 2 lbs. of lobster, 1 qt. milk, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 tablespoons flour or corn starch, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 saltspoon white pepper, 1/4 saltspoon cayenne pepper, 1 ...
- How To Make Rice Soup
- Boil a shank for soup and season with salt, pepper and parsley. At the same time take 1/2 a cup of rice, put it into a bag big enough to hold 3 cups. Tie the bag and put in a pot of water to cook. Whe...
- How To Make Milk Soup
- The various soups known as creams are usually about 1/2 milk, and 1/2 meat or vegetable stock, slightly thickened with flour, which has been blended with fat; for example, the tough, flabby portions a...
- How To Make Meat Soups
- Ordinary Rule For Meat Soup In making meat soup use 1 qt. of cold water to each lb. of meat and bone. If the liquid boils away in cooking, add boiling water; as lukewarm or cold water injures the f...
- How To Make Macaroni Soup
- Macaroni Soup (Italian Style) Put 4 sticks of macaroni into a saucepan with 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 onion. Boil until the macaroni is tender; when done drain and pour over it 2 qts. of good br...
- How To Make Giblet Soup
- Put giblets from 2 or 3 fowls in 2 qts. of water and boil gently till reduced to 1 qt. (about 2 hrs.); take out the giblets, cut off the tough parts and chop the remainder. Re- turn to the liquor and ...
- How To Make Gumbo Soup
- Prepare 1 chicken, 1/2 qt. cold water, 50 oysters, 1 bay leaf, 1 onion, 1/2 lb. ham, 3 tablespoons butter, salt and cayenne pepper. Cut the chicken in pieces as for fricasse. Dredge the pieces with fl...
- How To Make Pea Soup
- Soup made of the yellow split peas is nourishing, delicious, and cheap. A 1/2 pt. of peas will make a generous supply for 4 persons. Pick, wash and cover them well with cold water in a porcelain or ag...
- How To Make Nut Soup
- Break into small pieces 1 cup of hickory and 1 of almond nuts. Simmer in 2 pts. of water, seasoned with 1/2 teaspoon of salt, a slice of onion and 2 stalks of celery. When tender, add 1 cup of rich mi...
- How To Make Mutton Broth
- To 1 lb. of finely chopped lean mutton, including some of the bone, add 1 pt. of cold water and a little salt; let cook slowly for 3 hrs., adding water from time to time, if necessary, allowing but a ...
- How To Make Spinach Soup
- Use 1 pack of spinach, wash it thoroughly, and chop fine, put piece of butter in saucepan, size of an egg; when hot, add 1 onion, chopped fine; fry until brown, then add 2 tablespoons flour, stir a fe...
- How To Make Ox Tail Soup
- Cover 1 large or 2 small ox tails - well washed and jointed - with cold water, heat slowly, and skim several times. Have ready 4 or 5 large onions, 1 sliced, the others left whole, 1 medium-sized pars...
- How To Make Onion Soup
- Let 1 qt. of water and several peeled and chopped onions come to a boil, drain, and put back into the pan. Pour over the onions 2 qts. of boiling water and let cook until very tender, adding a tablesp...
- How To Make Salmon Soup
- Put 1 qt. sweet milk in a granite kettle and set it on the stove until the milk comes to a boil, then add 1/2 can of salmon and 3 or 4 rolled soda biscuits; let it all boil for 3 minutes, add pepper a...
- How To Make Potato Soup
- Steam 6 large potatoes and rub through a strainer when tender. Boil 2 qts. of milk, to which a little onion has been added. Take out the onion and add .milk, gradually, to the potatoes. Put all back i...
- How To Make Veal Broth
- Cut 4 lbs. of scrag of veal into small pieces, and put into a stewpan. Pour over 3 qts. of water and place over the fire. Skim carefully. Add an onion, a turnip, 3 blades of mace and a little salt. St...
- How To Make Squirrel Soup
- Allow 1 large or 2 small squirrels, well washed and jointed, to 2 qts. of cold water, and 2 tablespoons of salt. Put to cook directly after breakfast in kettle. Cover closely and set on the back of ra...
- How To Make White Soup
- Cut up 1 large chicken, put it into a soup pot with 1/2 gal. cold water and 1 lb. of veal from the leg, cut in squares. When meat is quite done and tender, take out of the soup and grind it in a meat ...
- How To Make Scotch Broth
- Put 2 qts. of water in kettle, and when at boiling point add 1/2 cup of pearl barley, which has been tossed in hot butter in a frying-pan for 5 minutes, and let cook slowly. Cut up 2 carrots, 2 turnip...
- How To Make Turkish Soup
- 5 cups stock, 1/4 cup rice, 1 1/2 cups strained tomatoes, 1 bay leaf, 2 slices onion, 1 oz. peppercorns, 1/4 teaspoon celery salt, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour; add seasoning to tomatoes,...
- How To Make Tomato Soup
- Have 1 can of tomatoes, 2 cups of boiling milk with teaspoon of soda stirred in, 1 small minced onion, 2 tablespoons of butter, rubbed in 1 of flour, pepper and salt to taste, a handful of dry bread c...
- How To Make Turtle Soup
- After turtle is killed let bleed 12 hrs., open the side, remove the meat and cut in small pieces, then blanch 5 minutes in boiling water. If turtle is medium size, take off the shell and put in soup k...
- How To Make Turkey Soup
- Place the remains of a cold turkey, dressing and gravy, in a pot, and cover with cold water. Simmer gently for 4 hrs., and let stand until the next day. Skim off the fat, and take out all bits of bone...
- How To Make Vegetable Soup
- 1 soup bone, 1 qt. of canned tomatoes, 3 Irish potatoes, 1 gallon of cold water. Wash bone and put in soup pot with water. Simmer for 3 hrs., skimming constantly; then press tomatoes through a sieve, ...
- How To Make Vermicelli Soup
- Procure a shin of beef cut in 3 or 4 pieces, wash it very clean and put it in a soup kettle, with any trimmings you may have of meat, or poultry, such as necks, gizzards, livers or feet; put on them a...
- Thickenings For Soups
- Soups are thickened with flour, corn starch or rice flour, 1 tablespoon for each qt. of soup, heaping, if flour is used; scant, if rice flour or corn starch. Mix flour with cold water to a smooth past...
- How To Cook Fish
- Baked Fish Skin and bone a whole white or other fresh fish; put fish in a deep dish, season with salt and pepper; put 1 in. cracker crumbs and bits of butter on top; 1/2 cup milk poured over carefu...
- How To Cook Fish. Part 2
- Fish Cutlets Mince cold boiled or baked salmon, haddock, cod, or any other firm-fleshed fish. Season to taste, and mix well with a little rich drawn butter, made quite thick with corn starch. Sprea...
- How To Cook Fish. Part 3
- Planked Fish In Front Of A Wood Fire For this select whitefish or shad, although any whitefish is good planked. Secure a plank the size of your oven, or one that will fit the 'broiling chamber of t...
- How To Make Baked Bass
- Make a filling of pounded cracker or crumbs of bread, an egg, pepper, clove, salt and butter. Fill it very full, sew up, grate small nutmeg over it and sprinkle with pounded cracker. Then pour on the ...
- How To Make Deviled Fish
- 1 lb. of fish, 1 tablespoon of butter, 3 hard-boiled eggs, 1 tablespoon of parsley, 1/2 pt. of milk, 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 level teaspoon of salt, 1 saltspoon of pepper. Boil the fish and pick it a...
- How To Make Broiled Fish
- This recipe will answer for the broiling of all kinds of fish. Scale, and split the fish down the back, wash, and dry it, dust with salt and pepper. Put it on a wire broiler; if a pan is used grease i...
- How To Make Baked Blue Fish
- This recipe will answer for all sorts of fish, except carp. Have the fish opened at the gills, and the intestines drawn out through the opening. Make a stuffing of 1/2 pt. of bread crumbs, a tablespoo...
- How To Cook Clams
- Creamed Clams Drain the liquor from a pt. of opened clams, and set the clams and liquor on the range in separate double boilers to heat. Cook together a large tablespoon of butter, and the same of ...
- How To Cook Cod
- Baked Cod Lay the middle part of a large codfish or a whole small one in cold, salted water, for 1/2 an hr., wipe dry, and stuff with 1 cup of bread crumbs, salt and pepper, 2 cups of boiled salt p...
- How To Cook Cod. Continued
- Crimped Cod Take a very fresh cod, cut into the bone on both sides, with about 2 inches between each slice, then lay it in cold water, with a little vinegar in it, for about 2 hrs. Put it on in boi...
- How To Cook Crab
- Broiled Soft-Shell Crabs Clean a number of soft-shelled crabs, dip them in melted butter and season with pepper and salt. Put them on a gridiron and broil until the shells are slightly brown. When ...
- How To Cook Eels
- Broiled Eels Skin and clean a good-sized eel; remove the backbone and cut into 5 or 6 pieces. Dip each piece into egg, and then in salted and peppered bread crumbs. Put on a greased gridiron with t...
- How To Cook Flounders
- Boiled Flounders Lay the fish in a kettle with salt and water in the proportion of 6 oz. of salt to each gallon, and a little vinegar. Let the water boil a minute or so, remove it to the side to si...
- How To Cook Frogs' Legs
- Broiled Frogs' Legs Lay 2 doz. frogs on their backs. Cut from the neck along the sides of the belly and cut again across the middle of the belly. Take out the entrails and cut away the head, leavin...
- How To Cook Haddie
- Baked Haddie Place fish in baking-pan. Surround with cold water and cook slowly for 25 minutes on the top of the stove. Pour off water, spread fish with butter, and bake in the oven 25 minutes. - M...
- How To Cook Haddock
- Baked Haddock Scale and clean a 3-lb. fish; fill with forcemeat and sew up; sprinkle with a generous supply of salt and bread crumbs. Put over 3 level tablespoons of butter in tiny-pieces on the fi...
- How To Cook Halibut Steak
- Baked Halibut Steak Wash, wipe, and lay in olive oil and lemon juice for 1 hr. Sprinkle liberally with minced onion, parsley and lemon juice, turning over and over that the steak may be covered. La...
- How To Cook Herrings
- Red Herrings Cook the fish by making incisions in the skin across the fish. If there is any roe, pound it in a mortar with a little anchovy and spread it on toast. If the herrings are very dry soak...
- How To Cook Lobster
- Lobster A La Atlantic City Scald 1 qt. of milk, stir in 1 teaspoon of salt, a dash of cayenne pepper, add 2 tablespoons of butter, rolled in 1 of flour; cook 3 minutes; add 1 lobster. Simmer 5 minu...
- How To Cook Lobster. Continued
- Deviled Lobster 2 cups of lobster meat, cut into dice. Reserve the coral, rubbing it to a paste with butter and lemon juice. Heat 2 tablespoons of butter in a saucepan, add the lobster meat, highly...
- How To Make Lobster, Newport Style
- Split 2 cooked lobsters in half, remove all the meat, and divide the shells in 8 parts. Cut the meat fine, crack the claws, pick out the meat. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter, add 1 of flour, stir and co...
- How To Cook Salt Mackerel
- Baked Fresh Mackerel Lay for 1/2 an hr. in olive oil and lemon juice. Lay thin slices of pork upon the grating of a baking-pan, put the mackerel on the pork, sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper, ...
- How To Cook Oysters
- Angels On Horseback roll up a slice of bacon; take an oyster and skewer it on the roll of bacon; repeat until the pan is full; bake in the oven. - Mrs. Emma Minter, 3334 S. State St., Chicago, 111....
- How To Cook Oysters. Part 2
- Fricaseed Oysters Parboil 50 of the freshest of oysters in their own liquor. One good scald is sufficient. Skim and strain off the liquor. Rub together 6 oz. of butter, 3 tablespoons of scalding ho...
- How To Cook Oysters. Part 3
- Panned Oysters Clean, place on small pieces of toast in baking-pan, season, bake until plump. Serve with lemon butter, made with 3 tablespoons of butter, creamed, and 1/2 a teaspoon salt, 1 tablesp...
- How To Cook Oysters. Part 4
- St. Bernard Oysters Fry oysters in the usual way and pour over them the following: Brown-sauce; brown 1 tablespoon of butter, add 1 tablespoon of flour, brown again, add gradually 1 cup of stock, a...
- How To Make Deviled Oysters
- 25 oysters, 1/2 pt. of milk, 1/2 a salt-spoon paprika, 1/2 a saltspoon of white pepper, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of butter, 2 tablespoons of flour, yolks of 2 hard-boiled eggs, 1 tablespoo...
- How To Cook Pike
- Baked Pickerel, With Sour Cream Cut the fish in suitable pieces, put into frying-pan. Put over it 2 bay leaves, 1 onion, cut fine, salt, 2 oz. of butter, 1 cup sour cream, and let bake 20 minutes i...
- How To Cook Salmon
- Baked Salmon Stir 1 tablespoon of flour with milk, and thicken with this 1 qt. of hot milk, as for gravy. Add to this, while hot, 2/3 cup of butter, 1 teaspoon chopped onion, and a pinch of red pep...
- How To Cook Salmon. Continued
- Salmon Custard Mix together 1 can salmon, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, small lump of butter, salt and pepper to taste. Bake for 20 minutes or 1/2 an hr., till brown. - Mrs. J. E. Catlin, 2717 S. Wabash Ave....
- How To Cook Sardines
- Baked Sardines Toast crustless slices of graham bread, and butter them. Put the drained sardines on a tin plate, squeeze over them a few drops of lemon juice, and sprinkle with fine cracker crumbs....
- How To Cook Shad
- Baked Shad Remove the scales and entrails, leave on the heads and tails. Wash thoroughly and wipe dry. Fill with a dressing made of 1 cup of stale bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon of butter, a little cho...
- How To Cook Shrimps Or Smelt
- Shrimps Creamed Heat 2 tablespoons of butter and 1/2 grated onion. When hot, stir in 1/2 cup of cold boiled rice; add a cup of cream and 1/2 pt. of canned or fresh shrimps. Stir until it comes to t...
- How To Cook Red Snapper
- Boiled Red Snapper Clean, wash, wipe dry, and sew up in coarse white mosquito netting. Put it into boiling water deep enough to cover the fish, and which has been salted and flavored with lemon jui...
- How To Cook Sturgeon Or Terrapin
- Sturgeon 2 lbs. of sturgeon, 1 pt. of milk, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 saltspoon of pepper. Cut the fish into squares of 2 inches; put them into a stewing-...
- How To Cook Brook Trout
- Wash and dry inside and outside of the fish; sprinkle a little pepper and salt over them and roll in cornmeal. Fry in 1 part butter and 2 parts lard, about 8 minutes. Drain, and serve with slices of b...
- How To Cook Trout
- Stewed Trout 2 fair-sized trout, }4 an onion, sliced, a little chopped parsley, 2 cloves, 1 blade of mace, a little thyme, salt . and pepper to taste. 1 pt. of medium stock, thickening of butter an...
- How To Cook Turtle Or Lenten
- Fricasee Snapping Turtle Have your fish merchant clean your turtle after he has killed him by throwing him into boiling water. Cut the turtle into neat dice, sprinkle with salt, pepper, onion juice...
- How To Cook Whitefish
- Deviled Whitefish Boil a whitefish weighing about 2 1/2 lbs. 15 minutes in salted water. Pick in small pieces, add 1 tablespoon of butter, salt, a pinch of cayenne pepper, 1/2 pt. of milk, and 1 ta...
- How To Cook Left-Overs
- Fish Balls If salt cod be used, shred it finely and soak 6 hrs. Boil 1/2 an hr., and let it cool. Mash potatoes to a cream, allow half as much potatoes as you have fish. Mix and heat by setting in ...
- How To Cook Fowl
- How To Bone A Fowl Wash and singe, take off head and legs, remove tendons - do not draw or break skins. Use a small pointed knife. Cut the skin down the full length of the. back, then, beginning at...
- How To Cook Fowl. Continued
- Steamed Fowl Clean and wipe dry a plump hen weighing about 3 or 4 lbs. Make a filling of 1 head of celery, chopped' fine, 1 onion, chopped fine, 3 cups of bread crumbs, without crusts, 1 teaspoon o...
- How To Cook Fowl Dumplings
- Put a pt. of sifted flour into a bowl with 2 teaspoons baking powder and a 1/4 of a teaspoon of salt; mix thoroughly; wet with milk to make a soft dough. Toss on a floured board, roll out lightly to a...
- How To Make Fowl With Rice
- Clean and prepare a fowl. Put 3 qts. of water in a pot large enough to contain it with the fowl. Add salt, pepper, a few sprigs of parsley, tied up with 1 or 2 bay leaves, 1 or 2 cloves of garlic, 2 s...
- How To Cook Chicken
- Chicken In Baskets To 3 cups of hot mashed potatoes, add 3 tablespoons of butter. 1 teaspoon of salt, yolks of 3 eggs, slightly beaten, and enough milk to moisten. Shape in form of small baskets, u...
- How To Cook Chicken. Part 2
- Chicken Custard Scald together 1 cup of strong chicken stock and 1 cup of cream. Pour it over the well-beaten yolks of 3 eggs, and cook in a double boiler till slightly thickened. Salt to taste, an...
- How To Cook Chicken. Part 3
- Hungarian Chicken Or Paprika Huhn Put 1 heaping tablespoon of dripping in a tight stew-pan, add 2 good-sized onions, sliced thin, and left in long strips. When slightly colored, add 1/2 teaspoon of...
- How To Cook Chicken. Part 4
- Chicken Omelette Beat 4 eggs very light, season with salt and pour into a greased frying-pan. Have ready a cup of minced chicken (heated), and a pt. of hot white sauce in which a tablespoon of minc...
- How To Cook Chicken. Part 5
- Chicken And Ham Pie Cut up and stew the chickens, as in last recipe. Have ready 4 good-sized slices of cold boiled corned ham, cut into strips. Put a layer of ham in the bottom of a buttered bake-d...
- How To Make Chicken Or Turkey Timbales
- Boil 8 eggs very hard, and leave them in cold water for 2 or more hrs. Take the shells off, cut in half, and extract the yolks. Chop the whites, before running them through a vegetable press. Mix with...
- How To Make Ragout Of Chicken
- Singe, draw and cut the chicken into joints, put rough pieces and dark meat in the bottom of the1 saucepan, the white meat on top, flesh side down. Pour over 1 qt. of boiling water, cover the saucepan...
- How To Roast Chicken
- Roasted Boned Chicken Spread chicken on board, skin side down, turn the flesh of legs and wings right side out and stuff with forcemeat into shape. Equalize the meat as well as possible, placing ag...
- How To Make Fried Chicken
- Canadian Fried Chicken Cut chicken up, boil 1 hr., dip each piece in flour. Put into a frying-pan of hot fat and, if desired, slice over it 1 large potato and 1 large onion, season witth pepper and...
- How To Make Maryland Fried Chicken With Corn Dodgers
- Clean and wipe a chicken and drop the pieces into boiling lard. Fry until well-browned and thoroughly cooked. As the pieces are cooked remove to a hot platter. When all done, pour off the lard, leavin...
- How To Make Chicken Fricassee
- Singe and cut the chicken at the joints, in pieces for serving. Cover with boiling water; add 1 heaping teaspoon of salt, and 1/2 a saltspoon of pepper. Simmer 1 hr., or until tender, reducing the wat...
- How To Make Braised Chicken
- Cover the grating of your roaster with a blanket of vegetables, a small, young turnip, an onion, a young carrot, a stalk of celery, all cut up small; a little chopped parsley and 2 tablespoons of fine...
- How To Make Baked Chicken
- Make a dressing of bread, shredded, onions, a little celery seed, salt and pepper and a lump of butter. If desired, sage may be put in, but in small quantity. One egg and a cup of milk. Cover the brea...
- Chicken En Casserole
- Truss the chicken, which must be young and plump, as for roasting. Into a frying-pan on top of the range put 2 tablespoons of butter, a sliced onion and a carrot, a bay leaf and a sprig of thyme. When...
- How To Make Chicken A La Casserole
- Take 2 broilers and prepare them as for roasting. Put the saucepan on a bright fire with 3 good tablespoons of butter and a 1/4 of a lb. of pork, cut like dice. When the butter begins to brown, put in...
- How To Make Chadfroid Of Supreme Of Chicken
- Prepare and cook a dozen Fillets of chicken, plain. Set to press under a weight, and when cold trim and cover them with tomato Chadfroid sauce; when the sauce has set decorate half of the fillets wi...
- How To Make Chicken Cheese
- Take a plump chicken, weighing about 4 or 5 lbs. when dressed, put on and boil till tender and well done, remove all the bones and gristly parts and chop fine with a little salt and pepper; boil down ...
- How To Make Chop Suey (A Chinese Recipe)
- Clean and scrape the meat from the bones of 1/2 chicken, cut into strips about 1 1/2 in. long and 1/2 in. wide. If pork is used cut an equal quantity cut in strips the same length. Slice I large onion...
- How To Make Broiled Chicken Breasts With Bread Sauce
- Skin your chicken breasts, but do not remove the flesh from the bone. Butter them over liberally, and sprinkle with salt. Place in pan, and put in a hot oven for 10 minutes, baste frequently with the ...
- How To Make Creamed Chicken
- Make a white sauce of 2 tablespoon-of butter and half as much flour; when it bubbles, add a cup of cold chicken, cut into dice, a teaspoon of onion juice, salt and pepper to taste, and enough stock to...
- How To Make Cream Forcemeat Of Chicken (Ranhofer)
- Scrape 1/2 lb. flesh of the chicken from the fibre and pound it in a mortar to a smooth pulp, adding a little white of egg occasionally, to facilitate the process; return the pulp to the mortar after ...
- How To Make Chicken Fritters
- Cook a heaping tablespoon of flour in 1 tablespoon of hot butter, and 1 cup of chicken stock, added gradually. Season with celery salt and pepper and pour half of this sauce into a small, shallow, but...
- How To Make Pilaff
- Singe, draw and disjoint 1 chicken as for a fricasee, put 2 tablespoons of butter in a saucepan, add 1 onion, sliced, stir until the onion is thoroughly cooked, but not browned, put in the chicken, st...
- How To Make Jellied Chicken On Bread
- Boil a chicken in as little water as possible, till the meat falls from bones, chop and season with pepper and salt. Put in a mould alternate layers of meat and of hard-boiled eggs, sliced thin, until...
- How To Make Stewed Chicken
- Stewed Chicken With Salt Pork Prepare chicken the same as for fried chicken, cut in pieces and put on the fire in a kettle with cold water enough to cover well; add a little salt pork and boil unti...
- How To Make Creole Stew
- Disjoint the chicken after it has been singed and drawn; put 2 tablespoons of butter into a saucepan, add 3 good-sized onions cut into thin slices, stir until the onion is cooked, without browning; no...
- How To Make Pressed Chicken
- Boil a fowl in as little water as possible, till the bones slip out and the gristly portions are soft. Remove the skin, pick the meat apart, and mix the dark and white meats. Remove the fat and season...
- How To Make Chicken Pie
- Line a deep biscuit pan with pastry made as follows: 1 part ice cold water and 1 part of thick, sour cream, with 1 teaspoon soda and 2 of cream of tartar to 1 qt. of flour; bone the chicken and distri...
- How To Make Tomatoes Stuffed With Chicken
- Select large, firm tomatoes, cut off the tops and scoop out the inside pulp. Do not peel. Chop fine a cup of cold meat, it may be fowl, tongue or ham, or even lamb, mutton or beef, if the latter are w...
- How To Cook Ducks
- Braised Ducks Young ducks are essential for this purpose. Lay 3 slices of fat corned ham upon the grating of your roaster, and upon them a minced onion, a stalk of celery; chop a slice of carrot an...
- How To Make Roast Mallard Or Teal Duck
- Singe, draw and remove all the tiny pin feathers. Then wash very quickly, both inside and out, with cool water, and wipe perfectly dry. For the stuffing take equal parts of chopped tart apples, and si...
- How To Cook Goose
- Deviled Goose Clean the goose and wiping it well with a damp cloth, plunge it into a kettle of boiling water, and boil moderately for 1 hr. Take it from the kettle, drain well, and wipe it dry. Fil...
- How To Make Roast Goose With Potato Stuffing
- Singe the goose, wash it carefully in hot water and wipe it dry before drawing. Then fill it with potato stuffing and stitch up the openings and truss or tie the goose into shape. If it is not fat, la...
- How To Make Jellied Goose (German Style)
- Put 1 whole goose (not too fat), head, neck, heart, lungs, gizzard and feet (scald and skin the feet), together with 2 well-cleaned disjointed calf's feet, in a granite pot, cover with water and boil,...
- How To Cook Turkey
- How To Boil A Turkey Make a stuffing for the craw of chopped bread, and butter, cream, oysters and the yolks of eggs, sew it in and dredge flour over the turkey, and put it to boil in cold water, w...
- How To Make Scallop Of Turkey And Oysters
- Cut cold roast, or boiled turkey into inch lengths, free from skin and gristle, and put a layer in the bottom of a buttered bake-dish. Season with salt and pepper, and dot with butter, and cover with ...
- How To Make Fillet Of Turkey With Rice
- Skin the breast of a plump turkey, and slice away the breast. Use a sharp knife, and hold it almost horizontal while you work. The slices should be nearly 1/2 an inch thick, and as nearly uniform in s...
- How To "Warm Over" Turkey
- Cut the drumsticks and wings from the body and take off all the meat remaining on the breast. Also use any pieces that has been left over. Disjoint the rump-piece, splitting it down the back and cutti...
- How To Roast Turkey Or Chicken
- Pick and draw the fowl, wash well in 2 or 3 waters, wipe dry, dredge with a little flour inside and out, sprinkle with pepper and salt, prepare a dressing of bread and cracker crumbs; stuff and bake f...
- How To Cook Wild Fowl And Game
- How To Roast Wild Fowl Put an onion, salt and hot water into pan and baste for 10 or 15 minutes, change the pan, put in a slice of salt pork and baste with butter and pork drippings very often; jus...
- How To Make Roast Birds
- Draw, and wash quickly; season with salt and pepper. Pin a thin slice of salt pork on the ibreast. Put in a shallow pan, and bake in a hot oven 15 or 20 minutes. Baste often. Serve on toast with curra...
- How To Make Game Pie
- Clean thoroughly 1 doz. birds - quail, snipe, woodcock, etc., and halve them; add about 2 qts. of water, and when it boils skim; next add salt, pepper, 1 bunch of minced parsley, 1 onion, chopped fine...
- How To Make Combination Game Pie
- Wild pigeons and quails, rice birds, snipe, woodcock - in fact any small edible birds - may be blended in this. Clean the birds, and. if tough, stew them in weak stock. If they are too large for a who...
- To Roast Any Small Birds
- Stuff the birds with any forcemeat, or put 1 large oyster in each bird, place some bacon in an earthen dish, upon this lay the birds. If the forcemeat is used add 1 pt. of rich stock; if oysters, the ...
- Roasted Wild Duck
- Parboil the duck with an onion placed inside (to absorb the fishy flavor). Throw away the onion, lay in fresh water for 1/2 an hr., stuff with bread crumbs, seasoned with salt, pepper, sage and onion,...
- How To Make Plain Salami Of Game
- This can be made from remains of roasted game, but to have it in perfection the birds should be only half roasted. Carve them very neatly and remove every 'bit of skin and fat from the legs, wings and...
- How To Cook Canvas-Back And Red-Head Ducks
- Carefully draw, pick and singe the birds; wipe very clean, or wash, if preferred, using salted water. When drawing the birds cut lengthwise slit over the crop, and, after the windpipe and all other in...
- How To Cook Grouse
- Breast Or Grouse Saute Chasseur Remove breasts from pair of grouse and saute in butter. When partially cooked, season with salt and pepper. Break carcasses in pieces, cover with cold water, add car...
- How To Cook Guinea, Larks And Other Small Birds
- Guinea Fricasee Draw, singe and cut the guineas the same as for fricasee of chicken. Put 1/4 lb. of sliced bacon into a good-sized stewing-pan, add a 1/2 cup of water, boil until the water has evap...
- How To Cook Partridges
- Boiled Partridges Wash and truss them and put into boiling water, sprinkle a teaspoon of salt over and simmer them very gently for 1/4 hr., or if the birds are old, 20 minutes. Serve with sliced le...
- How To Make Partridge And Cabbage
- Pick and clean 2 partridges. Take a good-sized Savoy cabbage; pick, wash, and cut it in 4 or 5 pieces. Put it in boiling water with salt and let it boil for 20 minutes. Strain it and chop it, not too ...
- How To Cook Pheasant
- Prepare like other game; lard, rub with salt, wrap in grapevine leaves and roast 1 to 1 1/2 hrs. in plenty of but-ter, to keep them juicy and tender. - Mrs. E. D. Kelley, Win-netka, 111. Broile...
- How To Cook Pigeons
- Boiled Pigeons Or Squabs Young pigeons or squabs are rightly esteemed a great delicacy. They are cleaned, washed and dried carefully with a clean cloth; then split down the back and broiled like a ...
- How To Cook Pigeons. Part 2
- Pigeon Pie Stuff 6 pigeons with any desired dressing, loosen the joints with a knife, but do not sepaarte them. Put into a stewpan with water enough to cover. Thicken with flour, remove and cool, b...
- How To Cook Pigeons. Part 3
- Stewed Pigeons Clean and truss the pigeons, partially cover with boiling water. Add 1 onion, 1/2 carrot and some parsley. Cook slowly, until tender, season with salt and pepper. Have ready some sli...
- How To Cook Squabs
- Squabs, if young and tender, are broiled or roasted whole, the same as woodcock, and are very delicious when carefully prepared. If at all old, stewing or braising is the better way. - Mary E. Stark, ...
- How To Cook Quail
- Broiled Quail Pick, draw the birds and remove the heads and feet. Wipe out the bodies with, a wet cloth, split down the back and lay open upon a gridiron. Broil on both sides, taking care that the ...
- How To Cook Reed Birds
- Reed birds for broiling should be thoroughly dried and then greased with Lucca oil, placed on a steel skewer and held close to the coals on a broiler for 1 minute on each side to stop the pores and pr...
- How To Cook Snow Birds
- Clean 1 doz. thoroughly. Put a couple of oysters in each, and lay them in a yellow-ware dish, add 2 oz. of boiled salt pork, and 3 sliced raw potatoes. Add 1 pt. of oyster juice, an oz. of butter, sal...
- How To Cook Woodcock
- To prepare the woodcock, wash, remove the crops, and draw or not, as preferred. Fold the legs and wings close to the body and bend the head forward so that the long bill may be run, skewerwise, throug...
- How To Cook Meats
- Gravy Take a teaspoon of butter and a tablespoon of flour and let it get yellow in the pan, but not brown, turn this into the dripping from any meat, add potato water to make the amount of gravy de...
- How To Cook Beef
- Beef Balls Chop as much raw beef as is needed, with some suet; season with salt and pepper; mix in enough flour to mould into balls, and fry in hot drippings to a nice brown on both sides. Veal, po...
- How To Roast Beef
- Place the clean-cut side of the meat upon a smoking hot pan, which must be over a hot fire. Press it close to the pan, until seared and slightly browned. Reverse, and let the opposite side become simi...
- How To Cook Beefsteak
- Sprinkle a little pepper on one side, roll it in flour; use a dish that can be covered tight, first heating it, then pour on boiling water, cover tight, and set it where it will cook slowly; it will t...
- How To Cook Beefsteak. Continued
- How To Broil A Porterhouse Steak Have steak cut 1 inch thick, cut off the tail ends of 2 medium-sized steaks, trim off all excess fat, leaving the portions containing the T-Bone for broiling, place...
- How To Make Smothered Beef Steak
- Use several thin slices from the top of the round, or 1 large, thin steak. Lay smoothly and dry with a cloth. Now make the following stuffing: 1 cup of fine bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon of butter; 1/2 t...
- How To Make Old-Fashioned Boiled Dinner (New England Style)
- Procure an aitch bone or brisket of corned beef (or if pork is preferred', a large piece of salt pork), put into the pot over a brisk fire with enough cold water to cover it; let it come 10 a boil, th...
- How To Cook Brain
- Brain Croquettes Calf's, lamb's or pig's brains may be used for this dish. Wash the brains in cold water, put them over the lire in boiling water, cook for 2 minutes, drain and ray in ice-cold wate...
- How To Cook Hearts
- Baked Hearts Select small hearts; clean thoroughly inside and out. Fill with a dressing of bread crumbs, seasoned with onion, parsley, celery or other flavor. Dust with salt and pepper, lay in a ba...
- How To Cook Kidneys
- Veal Kidneys A La Canfield Trim kidneys, cook in brown stock 10 minutes, drain and cut in slices. Arrange alternate slices of kidney and thinly sliced bacon on skewers with a fresh mushroom cap at ...
- How To Make Beef Or Veal Kidney Stew
- Cut out the hard, white substance and fat inside the kidneys, wash well and soak them 3 or 4 hrs. in cold water, changing the water as soon as it becomes cloudy. Set the kidneys upon the fire in a gra...
- How To Cook Lamb
- Delicious Flavor To Lamb Put in the water in which the lamb is boiled some whole cloves and stick of cinnamon; to one leg of lamb put a small handful of cloves and 2 long sticks of cinnamon; this g...
- How To Cook Lamb. Continued
- Lamb's Fry Wipe dry, dip in egg and cracker crumbs, and fry in hot butter or other fat until a nice brown, and serve hot. - Mrs. John Hansen, 1408 S. 8th Ave., Chicago, 111.. Lamb And Pe...
- How To Make Haggis
- To make haggis, the famous Scotch dish, proceed as follows: Carefully wash a lamb's head, heart, liver, kidneys and sweetbreads. Place the head, heart and liver in a kettle, cover with cold water, let...
- How To Make Crown Pot Roast Of Lamb
- A crown roast may be fashioned from a full loin, but is of more perfect shape, when cut from both loins and fastened together at the sides. Cut the same number of ribs from both sides of a rack of mut...
- How To Cook Liver
- Liver And Bacon And Onions 1 lb. of liver and 1/2 lb. of bacon. Boil the liver in salt water for 5 minutes to remove any impurities. Drain and wipe dry, and lay in flour, salted and peppered. While...
- How To Cook Mutton
- Boiled Leg Of Mutton, With Caper Sauce Put the mutton in a kettle, pour over it hot water sufficient to cover, and add a cupful of well washed rice, which will render the mutton whiter and more ten...
- How To Cook Mutton. Continued
- Roast Leg Of Mutton Wipe the mutton with a damp cloth, sprinkle it with salt, pepper and flour, and place on a meat-rack in a roasting-pan; roast in a hot oven, allowing 15 minutes to a lb. Baste e...
- How To Make Roasted, Stuffed And Rolled Shoulder Of Mutton
- Have the butcher remove the bones from a shoulder piece. Wipe the meat carefully, and dredge with flour, after sprinkling with salt and pepper. Make the following stuffing: 1 pt. of bread crumbs, 1 ta...
- How To Cook Pork
- How To Fry Down Pork Take fresh pork, slice, and fry as for table use; pack in crocks and cover with the hot dripping; be sure it gets well around the slices in each layer, cover and weight . to ke...
- How To Cook Pork. Part 2
- Maryland Baked Ham Cove a medium-sized ham with sweet cider. Let it simmer gently for 3 1/2 hrs. Skim often to remove the grease. When tender take out and remove the rind; outline the fat on top in...
- How To Cook Pork. Part 3
- Pork Pie (A Celebrated Western Dish) Cut 2 or 3 lbs. of the thick ends of a loin of pork into very thick slices, 3 inches long by 2 wide. Put a layer on the botom of a pie-dish and sprinkle chopped...
- How To Cook Pork. Part 4
- Roast Sparerib Trim off the rough ends neatly, crack the ribs across the middle, rub with salt and sprinkle with pepper, fold over, stuff with turkey dressing, sew up tightly, place in a dripping-p...
- How To Cook Pork. Part 5
- Scrapple Scrape and thoroughly clean a hog's head; then split it and take out the eyes and brain. The butcher will do this if directed. Clean the ears and scrape them well. Put all on to boil in pl...
- How To Cook Bacon
- Bacon And Apples Apples are often fried with bacon, many people being very fond of the flavor thus produced. The dish is prepared thus: Choose tart, well-flavored apples, cut them across into 1/2-i...
- How To Make Souse, Or Pig's Keet
- Clean the feet carefully, and pour over them hot water sufficient to cover. Boil slowly until the meat will separate from the bones; then take them up carefully on a skimmer and place them in a stone ...
- How To Cook Sweet Bread
- Boiled Sweet Bread Wash in cold water; be careful not to break the membrane. If broken, wrap in cheesecloth before cooking. Simmer in salted acidulated water 20 minutes. To water may be added 1 sli...
- How To Cook Tongue
- Lamb's Tongue, Barbecued Open a can of lambs' tongues and spread on a platter. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and a little onion juice. Lay in a sauce made by stirring together 3 tablespoons of salad ...
- How To Cook Tripe
- Tripe In Batter Boil the tripe 20 minutes. Cut in pieces 2 inches square, dip in batter made with 1 egg, 1/4 cup of water, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of salt, and flour to make almost a dr...
- How To Cook Veal
- Boneless Birds Cut up veal, or leaf steak in pieces about 2 inches square, and pound each piece until it is quite flat. Dust all with pepper and salt, and lay on each piece a strip of bacon, roll i...
- How To Cook Veal. Continued
- Veal Cutlets With Bacon Neatly trim the cutlets so that they will be of one size, and shape and then beat them with the rolling-pin until they are a little more than a 1/4 of an inch in thickness. ...
- How To Make Veal Stew With Dumplings
- The ends of the ribs, the neck and the knuckle may be utilized for the stew. Take 3 lbs. of veal, 2 small onions, 5 potatoes, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 cup of milk, salt and pepper. Cut the meat into ...
- How To Cook Game. Hare
- How To Dress Belgian Hare Take the hare by the hind feet, letting the head hang downward, strike a blow on the back of the head; cut the throat at once, letting out all the blood. Hang up. Run the ...
- How To Cook Rabbit
- How To Skin A Rabbit Or Hare Cut off the fore feet at the first joint; cut the skin around the first joint of the hind leg, loosen it, and then with a sharp knife slit the skin on the under side of...
- How To Cook Rabbit. Continued
- Fried Rabbit Clean, wash and put into boiling water; boil 10 minutes, and drain; when cold cut into joints, dip into beaten egg, then in bread crumbs, and season with salt and pepper. Fry brown in ...
- How To Cook Squirrel
- Barbecued Squirrel Broil the squirrels, lay upon a hot dish, ribs downward, and cover with a sauce made by heating together 4 tablespoons of vinegar with 2 of butter, a teaspoon each of sugar and m...
- How To Cook Venison
- Venison Soak 7 or 8 hrs. in cold water, then parboil in a weak solution of soda water, and cook as desired. This kills the wild taste. - Mrs. Conklin, 914 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111. Fried Ve...
- Roast Leg Of Venison
- Wipe carefully, draw off the dry skin. Lard the lean side of the leg, then soften with 1/2 cup of butter, rub it on the meat and dredge with salt, pepper and flour. Lay the leg on the rack ...
- How To Make Saddle Of Venison
- Rub the meat thoroughly with melted butter, and wrap it in buttered paper. Put into a covered roaster with a little water in the bottom of the pan. Allow at least 20 minutes' roasting to every lb. of ...
- How To Cook Left Over Meat
- Blanquette Of Ham And Veal Cut 2 cups of cooked veal, or any cold meat, and 1 cup of boiled ham in pieces, add this with salt, a pinch of cayenne pepper, 1/2 teaspoon of curry powder to 2 cups of c...
- How To Cook Left Over Meat. Part 2
- Creamed Meat To 1 pt. of white sauce add 1/2 teaspoon salt, a little pepper, 1 1/2 cups finely chopped meat of any kind. When thoroughly hot pour in patties or tureen, and serve. - Mrs. Conklin, 91...
- How To Cook Left Over Meat. Part 3
- Fried Left-Overs Cut the slices, not too thick, of any kind of left-over meat, dip them in beaten egg and then in bread or cracker crumbs, or cornmeal, then fry to a nice brown in piping hot fat; b...
- How To Cook Left Over Meat. Part 4
- Mince Meat On Toast Heat 2 cups minced meat, 2 teaspoons butter, 2 teaspoons flour, 2 cups stock or milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, pepper, 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire or onion juice, 6 slices toast, in a...
- How To Cook Left Over Meat. Part 5
- Potato And Meat Pie Take 1 pt. of left-over meat, cut fine, put in a large size pudding dish or baking tin, and pour over it a dipperful of water, place on stove to boil. In the meantime peel and s...
- How To Cook Left Over Meat. Part 6
- Pressed Beef Put through food chopper, 1 cup cold roast beef and 1 hard-boiled egg; add 1 teaspoon mustard, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Moisten the whole with vinegar, and press. The ...
- How To Cook Left Over Meat. Part 7
- Scalloped Mutton 1 pt. of cold, chopped meat, 1/2 teaspoon of pepper, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 teaspoon of flour, 1 cup of water. Chop the meat rather coarsely, add salt and pe...
- How To Cook Croquettes
- Melt 2 tablespoons of butter and stir in 2 tablespoons of flour until smooth. Add 1 cup of milk and let come to boil. Mix in 1 cup of any kind of left-over meat, chopped. Season to taste. Form into ro...
- How To Make Grilled Beef On Toast
- Melt a large spoonful of butter in a skillet, and when it is hot lay in slices of cold beef and let them heat through. If the beef left-overs are not in slices, but scraps, then chop coarsely, and h...
- How To Cook Hash
- Take any kind of left-over meat and mince fine, add a large onion, then add as many cold potatoes as the meat and onions together, add salt and pepper to taste, and fry in either butter or dripping. A...
- How To Make Scalloped Meat
- Take any kind of meat scraps, or only one kind of meat, chop fine, put a layer in a scalloping-pan, then a layer of mashed or chopped potatoes, salt, pepper, and onion, and then a layer of bread crumb...
- How To Bake Left-Overs
- 1 cup cold meat (minced), 1/2 cup bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon butter, 1/2 teaspoon chopped parsley or sage, 1 very small onion, chopped fine, pepper and salt to taste. Mix together, moisten with beaten...
- How To Make Meat Balls
- Take sufficient cold meat for a meal; bone and chop it fine, season with salt and pepper, also allspice and nutmeg if liked; soak about 1/3 as much bread in cold milk, press out and mix with the meat;...
- How To Make Left-Over Meat Loaf
- Take left-over meat of any kind, or two or three kinds, and put through a food chopper, season same as for ordinary meat loaf; mix with bread crumbs and 1 cup milk, and bake about 1/2 hr. - Mrs. Henry...
- How To Make Crust For Meat Pie
- Make a rich dough by sifting 1 level teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon salt in a pt. of flour; rub into flour 1 tablespoon lard and wet with sour milk to a nice batter that will drop from the spoon. Have t...
- How To Make Cottage Pie
- Chop cold roast beef or veal fine. To each 2 cups of meat add 1 teaspoon onion juice, 1 teaspoon fine-cut parsley or 1 tablespoon chopped celery, 1 tablespoon chopped green peppers, if liked, 1 teaspo...
- How To Make Shepherd Pie
- Spread over a small platter, thoroughly buttered, warm mashed potatoes, mixed with enough milk to make it a little soft, and set in the oven to brown. When stiffened enough, and as brown as pie crust,...
- How To Cook Rice With Meat
- Boil 1 cup rice until tender in salted water, line a mould 1/2 an inch deep, chop any kind of cold, tender meat, season to taste, add 1 beaten egg, 2 tablespoons cracker crumbs, moisten with hot water...
- How To Cook Vegetables. General Rules
- Wash thoroughly, scrape, pare or peel, if skins must be removed. Stand in cold water until cooked, to keep them crisp and to prevent them being discolored. Cook in boiling water; the water must be kep...
- How To Cook Asparagus - Creamed
- Clean and cut into quarters 1 or 2 bunches of asparagus. Boil in salt water. In another pan put 1 tablespoon each of butter and flour. Pour this over the asparagus, add salt and pepper, and serve. - M...
- How To Cook Artichokes
- Boiled Artichokes The Jerusalem artichoke should be washed well in several waters and picked over carefully to see that no insects are about them. Trim the leaves at the bottom. Cut off the stems a...
- How To Cook Beans
- Boston Baked Beans Soak 1 qt. beans over night, bring to a boil in cold water and drain. Boil 30 minutes and drain. Put in a stone jar 1/2 teaspoon mustard, 1 onion, season beans with salt, put int...
- How To Cook Beans. Continued
- Boiled Pork And Beans Wash and score deeply a lb. of fat salt pork. Boil for 1/2 an hr. At the same time boil until soft in water to cover a qt. of dried beans which have been soaked over night and...
- How To Cook Beets
- Baked Beets Beets retain their sugary delicate flavor to perfection if they are baked instead of boiled. Turn them frequently while in the oven, using a knife, as the fork allows the juices to run ...
- How To Cook Cabbage
- Baked Cabbage Cut a medium-sized cabbage in 4 pieces, soak in cold water, and 1 dessertspoon salt, for 1 hr.; boil 30 minutes, uncovered, drain, add a sauce of 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon each of butt...
- How To Make Stuffed Cabbage Head (German Style)
- Separate the leaves of 2 cabbages, boil until half done in salt water, drain well. Take a clean, large napkin, lay it into a colander, over this place the largest leaves, one next to the other, overla...
- How To Cook Carrots
- Carrots And Asparagus Reheat in milk or white stock equal quantities of sliced, cooked carrots and cooked asparagus, cut into short pieces. Thicken with flour cooked in butter, take from the fire, ...
- How To Cook Cauliflower
- Cauliflower Rules 1. Soak 1/2 hr. in salt water. 2. When ready to cook, plunge in salted, boiling water. 3. Do not cook after it becomes tender. 4. Serve as soon as done. - Mrs. Conklin...
- How To Make Cream Of Cauliflower
- Take a good-sized cauliflower, soak in slightly salted cold water, for 1/2 an hr.; then drain and put head upwards, in a saucepan, which is not over large, and let it cook for 1/2 an hr., uncovered. P...
- How To Cook Celery
- Baked Celery 3 cups celery, cut in 1 inch pieces, 1 cup stale bread crumbs (buttered), 3/4 cup grated cheese, 1/2 cup milk, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flour, seasonings. Cook celery in boili...
- How To Cook Corn
- Corn Baked In The Husk Put the ear of corn, husks and all. into a hot oven, and bake until tender (about 15 or 20 minutes). Remove the husks, silk's, score, and serve with butter and salt. Corn is ...
- How To Cook Cucumbers
- Baked Cucumbers (Delicious) Peel 5 good-sized cucumbers, cut lengthwise, and remove the seeds and soft part. Rub 1 cup of soft bread crumbs into butter the size of an egg, and add 1 teaspoon of fin...
- How To Cook Egg Plant
- Egg Plant In Batter Clean, peel and dip in a batter made with 1 beaten egg, a pt. of milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons of sugar, a teaspoon of baking powder, sifted in flour enough to make abo...
- How To Cook Endive
- Endive, Creamed Wash the endive carefully, and pick off the outer green leaves, leaving only the white part. Boil until ' tender, drain well, return it to the kettle and nearly cover it with milk. ...
- How To Cook Greens
- Young beet tops, spinach, young turnip tops and chicory can be cooked in the same way. Wash them through several waters, throwing away all the wilted or tough ones. Cook in a pot half full of salted w...
- How To Cook Hominy
- Baked Hominy Stir into a pt. of milk, a cupful of cold boiled hominy, and when this is smooth, add a tablespoon of melted butter, a tablespoon of sugar, a saltspoon of salt, and 4 well-beaten eggs....
- How To Cook Leeks
- Cut leeks into 3-inch lengths, using the tender green part as well as the white; wash the pieces thoroughly in cold running water, then put them in a small saucepan, and cover them with boiling salted...
- How To Cook Lentils
- Pick the lentils over carefully, wash thoroughly and soak several hours, put them on with clear, cold water, and boil them gently until done; heat a little butter with a little flour in it, add an oni...
- How To Cook Mushrooms
- Baked Mushrooms Toast for each person a large slice of bread and spread over with rich, sweet cream; lay on each slice, head downward, a mushroom, or, if small, more than one; season and fil leach ...
- How To Cook Okra
- Procure young and tender pods, and cut off both ends, to make the pods of uniform length (about 2 inches). Blanch the pods, and then lay them in a saucepan, add hot stock just to cover, and let simmer...
- How To Cook Onions
- Onions And Apples Put 1 tablespoon of butter in a frying-pan, and when melted put in 3 sliced onions, and 3 sliced apples; let fry slowly until browned, and serve on toast. - Mrs. Ida M. Seymour, 5...
- How To Cook Parsnips
- Fried Parsley Choose fresh green parsley. Wash and dry it in a cloth, and leave on a sieve until ready to fry. After frying croquettes, etc., with which parsley is to be served, allow the oil to co...
- How To Cook Peas
- Baked Peas Stew or saute 1 onion in 2 tablespoons of fat, or cooking oil. butter, or equal parts butter and lard. Add a qt. of green peas, with water or milk to cover. If canned peas are used, take...
- How To Cook Peas. Continued
- Pea Omelette To every yolk and white of egg, beaten lightly together (not separately), add a pinch of salt and 2 tablespoons of milk. Open a can of peas and place over fire in their own liquor. Whe...
- How To Cook Peppers
- Peppers With Corn Cut a slice from the end of sweet peppers, remove the inside, and fill with canned corn, well salted. Replace the ends and bake. Peppers, like tomatoes, may be filled in so many w...
- How To Cook Potatoes
- Boiled Potatoes Old potatoes are better for being peeled and put in cold water an hour before being put over to boil. They should then be put in fresh cold water, when set over the fire. New potato...
- How To Cook Potatoes. Part 2
- Potato Dumplings Peel about 6 medium-sized potatoes and grate. Season with salt and enough flour to handle, form into cakes. Remove the rind from a small piece of salt pork, and cut in very small p...
- How To Cook Potatoes. Part 3
- Mother's Potato Patties Take mashed potatoes left over and wet with a little sweet milk; make into patties and dip into flour. Season with salt and pepper. Fry with strips of bacon. - Ellen Johnson...
- How To Cook Potatoes. Part 4
- How To Warm Cold Left-Over Potatoes 2/3 cup milk, 1 egg, well beaten, salt and pepper to taste, 2 cups fine chopped potatoes, stir all together; heap deep baking-dish hot, and butter well, and pour...
- How To Make Potato Croquettes
- Take 2 cups of mashed potatoes (left from dinner), 1/2 cup chopped meat (any kind you have left over), 1 even tablespoon each of chopped onions and parsley, a little salt. Mix all together, and with t...
- How To Bake Potatoes
- Select medium-sized potatoes, wash well. Bake in hot oven until soft. Remove from oven, burst the skins to allow steam to escape, thus preventing potato from becoming soggy. Serve at once. - Mrs. John...
- How To Make Mashed Potatoes
- Peel, leave in cold water 1/2 an hr.; put in a steamer, cook until tender. Have ready a granite dish, put your potatoes in it, Mash well and fine, and season with salt, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 cup rich...
- How To Cook Pumpkin Or Salsify
- Baked Pumpkin Scoop out inside of pumpkin, cut round hole out of top, and take seeds out. Put in salt, butter, pepper, and sugar, and then replace the top, and bake, using no water, as the pumpkin ...
- How To Cook Spinach
- Wash and clean carefully and put into a net, or bag of coarse muslin kept for the purpose, and boil in plenty of salted water. All kinds of greens should be boiled in plenty of water, else they will b...
- How To Make Sweet Potatoes
- Sweet Potatoes (Baked) Select medium-sized potatoes, and wash well; boil 5 or 10 minutes, then bake in a hot oven until soft. - Mrs. R. W. Walsh, 3656 Michigan Ave., Chicago. 111. Boiled Swe...
- How To Cook Tomatoes
- Baked Tomatoes Take out from the top the inside of large tomatoes, with this mix bread crumbs, butter, pepper, salt, a little sugar, and some chopped onions. Fill the tomatoes with this mixture, se...
- How To Cook Turnips And Carrots
- Cook separately diced carrots and turnips, then mix, and season with salt, pepper, butter, and minced parsley. Or, mix with cream or white sauce. - Mrs. M. J. Findlay, 230 W. 64th St., Chicago, 111. ...
- How To Cook Cheese Dishes
- Cheese Balls 1 1/2 cups grated cheese, 1 teaspoon flour, salt and pepper to taste, whites of 3 eggs, beaten stiff. Mix all together, form in small balls the size of a marble, roll in cracker crumbs...
- How To Cook Welsh Rarebit
- Fill lower part of double boiler with hot water. In top put 1 large tablespoon butter, melt; stir in 1 tablespoon flour. Blend and add 1 cup milk, previously heated. Pinch of salt. Stir in 1 1/2 cups ...
- How To Make Macaroni
- Baked Macaroni Break into inch lengths, 1/2 lb. macaroni. Boil it until tender in weak broth. Drain off the liquor, and put the macaroni in a pudding dish that will stand the fire; pour over it a 1...
- How To Cook Nut Dishes
- Nut Cheese Put 1/4 lb. almonds, 1/2 lb. pine-nuts, 1/2 lb. of pecans, 1/2 lb. of filbert or hazel nuts, 1/2 lb. of roasted peanuts through the nut grinder. Knead the mixture until it becomes a litt...
- Other Uses Of Nuts
- Chopped almonds, pecan-nuts, and pine-nuts, or any nut or nuts desired, instead of specified nut, may be sprinkled over lettuce and covered with French dressing for a dinner salad. Pine-nuts may be st...
- How To Cook Noodles
- Boiled Noodles boiled noodles are delicious served with any brown sauce, cream, white, Hollandaise, piquante, or tomato sauce, and can be used as directed for macaroni. They can be bought already m...
- How To Make Buttered Noodles
- Beat 2 eggs slightly, add 2 tablespoons of milk, and 1/2 a teaspoon of salt. Stir in the flour, enough to make a very stiff dough. Knead it till as stiff as possible. roll it out into rectangular piec...
- How To Cook Rice
- Baked Rice Let 1 cup of rice soak several hours, in 2 cups of warm water. Drain, and put in a baking-dish, and cover with 3 cups of milk, containing 1/2 a teaspoon of salt. Cover the dish, and let ...
- How To Cook Spaghetti
- All recipes applying to macaroni may be used for spaghetti - The Author. Spaghetti In Cheese Shell After the center has been scooped from a pineapple, or Edam cheese, save the shell for the ...
- How To Cook Vermicelli
- Vermicelli may be prepared in any of the ways applying to macaroni or Spaghetti. The Author. Vermicelli In Milk Boil 1 qt. of milk and drop lightly into it 6 oz. of vermicelli which has ...
- How To Make Salads
- Apricot Salad Peel and split ripe apricots and serve on lettuce with salad dressing made without mustard and with lemon juice instead of vinegar. The cavities may be filled with maraschino cherries...
- How To Make Salads. Part 2
- Bird's Nest Salad Fashion small nests with cooked spinach, chopped, and seasoned with salt, pepper, oil and lemonj juice. When cold arrange in the nest eggs of Neufchatel cheese, flecked with papri...
- How To Make Salads. Part 3
- Chestnut Salad Shell, blanch and boil until tender as many chestnuts as needed. Drain and set aside to cool. Boil 2 eggs hard. Arrange lettuce in a salad bowl, put the chestnuts over and then a sal...
- How To Make Salads. Part 4
- Dandelion Salad Select the young green leaves of dandelions; wash, throw them into cold water; drain, dry, and serve with French dressing. - Mrs. May C. May, Mayfair. 111. Variation I Wash th...
- How To Make Salads. Part 5
- Salad A La Dumas Cut into dice cooked beets, potatoes, pickles and raw tomatoes. Serve with French dressing, mixed with powdered egg yolks and seasoned with anchovy essence. Serve on lettuce, sprin...
- How To Make Salads. Part 6
- Fetticus Salad Wash 2 cups of fetticus and dry leaves well, add preferred dressing, sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of grated onion. - Mrs. Chris. Worthington, Des Plaines, 111. Fish Salad Mix a...
- How To Make Salads. Part 7
- Italian Salad Slice thin 2 peeled, seedless oranges, cutting crosswise with a very sharp knife. Arrange on head-lettuce leaves, and serve on salad dressing. - Mrs. W. H. Willis. Glencoe, 111. ...
- How To Make Salads. Part 8
- Meat And Potato Salad Arrange in alternate layers sliced and diced meat and potatoes, season each layer with minced' parsley, onion, and celery or celery seed. Pour salad dressing over, and serve. ...
- How To Make Salads. Part 9
- A Novel Salad A delicious and dainty salad is made by. laying a slice of canned Hawaiian pineapple on a lettuce leaf. Heat a knife and spread cream or Neufchatel cheese over the pineapple, arrange ...
- How To Make Salads. Part 10
- Pompadour Salad Marinate cooked artichoke bottoms in French dressing, drain, and cover with macedoine mixed with mayonnaise. Serve on lettuce, garnishing with truffles. - Mrs. W. H. Willis, Glencoe...
- How To Make Salads. Part 11
- Southern Salad Mix 2 cups of cold boiled rice with 2 chopped hard-boiled eggs, and blend well with mayonnaise dressing; serve on crisp lettuce, garnished with sliced eggs, beets and: olives. - 'Mrs...
- How To Make Salads. Part 12
- Topsy-Turvy Salad Mix cold cooked potatoes, string beans, peas, beets, lima beans, cauliflower, asparagus and shredded raw cabbage, any or all, and serve very cold on lettuce with French dressing o...
- How To Make Olive Salad
- Pound 2 anchovies or 1 teaspoon of anchovy paste and add them to French dressing. Stone and chop 24 olives rather fine. Cut a beet and boiled potato into dice. Chop 1 small gherkin. Line a salad bowl ...
- How To Make Harvard Salad
- Make lemon baskets by cutting pieces from each lemon, leaving what remains in shape of basket with handle, remove pulp from baskets and pieces, and keep baskets in ice box until ready to fill. With a ...
- How To Make Berkshire Salad
- Marinate 1 cup of cold boiled fowl cut into dice and 1 cup French chestnuts, broken in pieces, with French dressing. Add 1 grated red pepper from which seeds have been removed, 1 cup of celery, cut in...
- How To Make Anchovy Salad
- If the flavor of garlic is liked, rub a salad bowl with cut garlic. Cover the bowl with crisp lettuce leaves. Wash and clean anchovies, and remove skin and bone. If salted anchovies are used, soak for...
- How To Make Nile Salad
- 1 1/2 cups cold boiled or roasted chicken cut in cubes. Put 1/2 cup English walnut in pan, sprinkle sparingly with salt, and add 3/4 tablespoon butter. Cook in slow oven until browned and thoroughly h...
- How To Make Spanish Salad
- Take the yolks from the whites of 3 hard-boiled eggs. Chop the whites fine, or put them through a vegetable press; then put through the yolks. Chop 1 onion very fine. Scrape the skin from 1 box of sar...
- How To Make Mexican Jelly
- Peel 4 large cucumbers and cut in thin slices. Put in saucepan with 1 cup cold water, bring to boiling point, and cook slowly until soft; then force through a puree strainer. Add 2 1/2 tablespoons gra...
- How To Make Japanese Salad
- Mix 1 cup of boiled rice with 1 grated onion, and pour over while hot French dressing. Stand aside to cool. This salad is never served ice cold. Garnish the dish with the crisp lettuce leaves. Turn th...
- How To Make Philadelphia Cream Salad
- Cook and cool quickly 1 good-sized pair of sweetbreads, pick apart, rejecting all the membrane, sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of tarragon vinegar, and 1 teaspoon of celery seed. Make a capon and put i...
- How To Make Pepper Salad
- Boil and drain some peppers, cut them into strips and place in a bowl. For each pt. of peppers use a French dressing made of 3 spoons of oil, 1 vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and a few drops of onion j...
- How To Make Game Salad
- Mix together equal quantities of finely sliced celery and chopped, raw, sour apples; serve dressed with mayonnaise dressing as an accompaniment to game, or mix with an equal quantity of any kind of co...
- How To Make Shaddocks
- Shaddocks are halved, the pulp scooped out and the pith removed. The pulp is then returned to the fruit and a French dressing is poured over it. - Mrs. A. C. Christy, Glen View, 111. Shad Roe A...
- How To Make Radish Salad
- Scrape the radishes, cut into very thin slices, and put into a salad bowl. Peel and slice a fresh cucumber, and put in with radishes. Mix in equal quantities salad oil and vinegar, season with salt, p...
- How To Make Pimento Salad
- Mix shredded pimentos with quartered hard-boiled eggs, sliced olives, pearl onions, and grated or sliced celery. Serve on lettuce with salad dressing. - Mrs. Robert S. Ap-pleton, 1128 Centre Ave., Wil...
- How To Make Asparagus Salad
- Cold cooked asparagus tips and salad dressing in combination with minced chervil, sliced radishes, shredded celery, capers, minced parsley, diced cold potatoes, shredded lettuce, diced or sliced cucum...
- How To Make Beef Salad
- Dice or shred cold beef, mix with salad dressing and combine with any or as many of the following vegetables as desired: Grated, chopped or sliced onion, tomato, Spanish or green pepper, diced cold po...
- How To Make Beet Salad
- Add salad dressing to sliced, cubed or chopped cold boiled beets, either fresh or pickled, and any of the following ingredients desired: Dandelion greens, shredded lettuce, string beans, any cold cook...
- How To Make Cauliflower Salad
- Remove the leaves from 1 large cauliflower and boil for 1/2 hr. in slightly salted water. Take out, drain, and divide it into small branches. Arrange the center of a dish, and garnish with strips of p...
- How To Make Cabbage Salad
- Chop or shred, a red or white cabbage fine, sprinkle with salt, and add salad dressing, garnish with hard-boiled eggs, and serve. The chopped cabbage may be combined with the desired choice of chopped...
- How To Make Banana Salad
- Cut bananas into sections about 3 inches long. roll each piece in salad dressing and then in finely chopped nuts. Serve on a lettuce leaf. Garnish with nut meats and with a spoonful of dressing. - Mis...
- How To Make Apple Salad
- Mix together 1 cup of apples, chopped fine, and 1 cup chopped nuts, season with a little cinnamon, garnish with whipped cream and bits of jelly, and serve with a fruit dressing. - Mrs. Conklin, 914 N....
- How To Make Celery Salad
- Celery Salad Slice crisp white celery across the stalk, forming crescent-shaped pieces, or chop very fine, and add salad dressing. To the above salad may be addecl any of the following ingredients:...
- How To Make Cheese
- Cheese And Celery Salad Cut blanched celery stalks into small pieces; add half the bulk of Edam cheese, broken or cut into bits; dress with French dressing; turn into a salad bowl, lined with heart...
- How To Make Cress Salad
- Mix crisp cress with salad dressing, add choice of the following: pepper grass, chervil, mustard leaves, nasturtium blossoms, sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, shredded green pepper, celery, shredded...
- How To Make Cucumber Salad
- Slice cucumbers thin and soak in cold water, drain and dry. Mix with salad dressing or with thick sour cream, highly seasoned with black pepper. If the flavor of garlic is desired, rub a salad bowl wi...
- How To Make Chicken Or Fowl Salad
- Trim the remains of a cold roast chicken, duck, goose or turkey; wash, dry, and shred the lettuce, and place in the middle of the dish. Put the pieces of chicken on the top, and pour the salad dressin...
- How To Make Clam And Celery Salad
- Remove skins and blackheads from cold cooked clams. Cut clams into small pieces, season with onion juice, mix with shredded lettuce or celery, and serve on lettuce with French dressing or mayonnaise. ...
- How To Make Crab Salad
- Flake cooked crab meat, mix with salad dressing, and serve. For variety, mix with lemon juice, minced parsley, chives, celery, chopped hard-boiled eggs, capers, olives. - Mrs. A. C. Christy, Glen View...
- How To Make Lamb Salad
- Mix diced or chopped cold lamb, and add to chopped capers, a little mint, potatoes, chopped, boiled beef and capers or pickles, and salad dressing. - Mrs. C. E. Jefferson. 505 S. 5th Ave., Maywood, 11...
- How To Make Herring Salad
- Take 6 pickled herrings, remove skin and bones, add 6 stalks of crisp celery, 6 apples. 3 hard-boiled eggs, meat of 1/4 lb. English walnuts; chop these ingredients and add,-paprika, capers, and last s...
- How To Make Fruit Salad
- Mix together in quantities desired grapefruit, cut in small pieces, grapes, peeled and seeded, and pineapple, diced. Serve with salad dressing to which an equal quantity of whipped cream and a teaspoo...
- How To Make Lobster Salad
- Drain thoroughly 1 can of lobster, and remove every particle of shell, break the meat apart with a silver fork, but not too fine, 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine, wash carefully a large head of lettu...
- How To Make Lenten Salad
- 1 cup of apples, crisp and cold, 1 cup of celery, crisp and white, 1 cup of Malaga grapes, 1 cup of pecan meats, 1/2 cup of sliced bananas; cover with mayonnaise dressing; prepare the last thing befor...
- How To Make Lettuce And Onion Salad
- Place a lettuce leaf on each salad plate. Slice 2 small Spanish onions very thin and place upon the lettuce. Pour 1/2 cup of French dressing over the salad, when ready to serve. Serve with celery chee...
- How To Make Nut Salad
- 1 head celery, 1 cup walnuts, 6 or 7 large apples, mayonnaise dressing. Chop celery, nuts and apples. Add mayonnaise mixed with whipped cream. Apples will discolor if cut long before using. - Mrs. D. ...
- How To Make Orange Salad
- Peel and cut 4 oranges into small pieces, cover with mayonnaise dressing, and serve on lettuce leaf. This is sufficient for 6 plates. Served' with roast turkey, chicken, etc. - Ellen Johnson, 663...
- How To Make Oyster Salad
- Parboil, drain and cool large oysters. Place in a salad-bowl lined with lettuce leaves; add salad dressing and any of the following ingredients desired: Finely cut hard-boiled eggs, minced olives, par...
- How To Make Potato Salad
- Slice, dice, or chop cold boiled potatoes. Mix with the desired dressing and combine with any or all of the following mixtures desired: Diced, chopped or sliced boiled beets, chopped pickles or olives...
- How To Make Salmon Salad
- Cut 3 large cold boiled potatoes fine, chop 2 bunches of celery. Mix with salad dressing and serve with 4 hard-boiled eggs, quartered, and imbedded in the top. - Mrs. Conklin, 914 N. 5th Ave., Maywood...
- How To Make Sardine Salad
- Mix sardines with hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine, add some chopped parsley, and lay over the top some sliced lemon; garnish with lettuce, chopped fine, and wet in vinegar. - Mrs. C. J. Jeffries, Winne...
- How To Make Shrimp Salad
- Wash and drain 1 can of shrimps and break into pieces not too fine. Reserve a few whole ones. Cut equal quantity of celery in pieces 3/4 inch long; wrap in a piece of muslin wrung out of cold water an...
- How To Make Sweetbread Salad
- Cut cold boiled sweetbreads into small dice, and place in a salad-bowl; add some chopped boiled potatoes and a small quantity of celery, cut into pieces. Place in the refrigerator until ready to serve...
- How To Make Tomato Salad
- Chop fine 1 cup of cold cooked ham, and season with salt, pepper, celery seed, and chopped onion. Add 1/2 a cup of bread crumbs and mix to a smooth paste with French dressing. Stuff tomato shells, and...
- How To Make Tomato Aspic Salad
- Cook together 1 can tomatoes, 1 stalk celery, 1 clove, a leaf of sage, 2 teaspoons of sugar in 1 qt. of water till celery is done. Strain through a sieve, add a little salt and enough gelatin to thick...
- How To Make Tomato Jelly Salad
- Soak 1/2 box of gelatin in 1/2 cup; of cold water 15 minutes, or till soft. Stew one can of tomatoes till soft, cutting and mashing the pulp to hasten the process. For additional flavoring, stew with ...
- How To Make Tomato And Beet Salad
- -.Cut in 1/4-inch squares 4 cold boiled potatoes; peel 6 large tomatoes, without scalding, cut also into squares. Pour over the whole 1/2 pt. of mayonnaise; serve on lettuce leaves. - Mrs. E. D. Kelle...
- How To Make Stuffed Tomato Salad
- Cut cucumbers and tomato pulp into small pieces and stew until tender. Rub through a sieve, season highly with salt, pepper, and vinegar, and add enough soaked and dissolved gelatin to stiffen. Pour i...
- How To Make Turkey Salad
- Marinate diced turkey in salad dressing and serve on lettuce. Add, as desired, finely cut celery, chopped pickle, cooked beets, carrots, potatoes, asparagus, boiled celery root, parboiled oysters, bit...
- How To Make Turnip Salad
- Mix diced, cold, cooked turnips with flaked shrimps, minced chives, blanched and shredded almonds, shredded raisins and chopped pickles or capers. Serve on lettuce with salad dressing. - Mrs. Abner Gr...
- How To Make Turnips In Jelly
- Cut 4 turnips in tiny dice; throw them into boiling unsalted water and cook until transparent. Drain carefully. Cover 1/8 box of gelatin with a 1/2 cup of cold water to soak for a 1/2 hr. Add the juic...
- How To Make Veal Salad
- Cube or chop fine 2 1/2 lbs. of cold boiled veal and season to taste; mix with 1 can peas, washed and drained, and; just before serving add 1 cup of salad dressing and 1 cup of whipped cream. - Mrs. C...
- How To Make Vegetable Salad
- Chop, dice or slice 4 hard-boiled eggs, 2 onions, 1 bunch of radishes, 1/4 bunch lettuce, 12 mediuim-sized potatoes, 2 cucumbers. Garnish with parsley or the sliced or quartered eggs. - Mrs. Conklin, ...
- How To Make Waldorf Salad
- Sprinkle chopped apples, celery and walnut meats in their order on lettuce leaves and cover with salad dressing. - Mary Herring, 404 S. 11th Ave., Maywood, 111. Variation I Cut up equal parts of...
- How To Make Walnut Salad
- Make a nest of lettuce leaves on a salad-dish, arrange on it several pieces of orange, first cut into slices) and then into quarters, and a few halves of English walnuts. Put! on each a layer of mayon...
- How To Make Watercress Salad
- Select the best bunches, remove the heavy stalks, clean and dry in a napkin and place in a salad-bowl. Dress with salt, pepper, lemon or vinegar. Add a little sugar, if desired. - Mrs. E. D. Kelly, Wi...
- Canning, Preserving, Jelly Making and Pickling
- Apple Butter Take 6 gal. sweet cider and boil it down one-third; pare, quarter and core 1/2 a bu. of sweet apples; stew them in the boiled cider until you can pierce the apples with a straw. Keep i...
- Canning, Preserving, Jelly Making and Pickling. Continued
- Canning Cherries When preparing cherries, take tinstones out of about every fourth cherry (leave the rest in for flavoring). Weigh or measure the cherries, put in a saucepan, and put enough water o...
- How To Make Conserves
- Currant Conserve 5 lbs. currants, 5 lbs. sugar. 2 lbs. raisins. 4 oranges, steam currants 15 minutes, then add sugar (warmed as for jelly) while currants are cooking and cook 5 minutes. Add raisins...
- How To Make Jam
- Dried Apricot Jam 1 lb. dried apricots, 3 pts. water, 2 1/2 lbs. sugar. Soak the apricots in water for 2 days, then boil together till quite tender. Set aside till next day, and boil with the sugar...
- How To Make Apple Jelly
- Wash, quarter and core, but do not peel, a quantity of the best sour apples, put in a porcelain-lined kettle and pour on water to nearly, but not quite cover the apples, which should be quite firm (as...
- How To Make Green Apple Jelly
- Common windfall apples or any tart, juicy apples which are not quite ripe, make a nice jelly, much more economical and quite as satisfactory as the jelly, made from ripe apples. Cut the apples in quar...
- How To Make Jellies
- Jellies are made of equal amounts of cooked fruit juice and . sugar. Sugar should be heated in an agate dish in a cool oven stirring occasionally. fruit should be underripe for most jellies. No wat...
- How To Make Marmalade
- Apple Marmalade Peel and core 1 lb. apples, slice into eighths and put in a basin of water; lift the apples, dripping, into a preserving pan and boil with 1 lb. sugar. 1/8 oz. whole ginger and the ...
- How To Make Preserves
- A Good Preserving Recipe Use 1 cup water to every 3/4 lb. sugar, melt and let boil 15 minutes, skim, and then add 1 lb. fruit for each 3/4 lb. sugar. Boil briskly for 7 or 8 minutes. - Mrs. R. A. W...
- How To Make Catsup
- Bordeaux Sauce Recipe 4 qts. of chopped cabbage; 2 qts. of green tomatoes, sliced, 1 doz. large onions, sliced, 1/2 oz. of tumeric, 1/2 oz. of ground cloves, 1/2 oz. of white pepper, 1/4 of mustard...
- How To Make Pickle
- Muskmelon Pickle Pare and prepare 7 lbs. of musk-melon that are turned a little yellow on the inside. Let come to a boil, 3 lbs. of light brown sugar, 1 pt. vinegar, and a little stick cinnamon; th...
- How To Make Relish
- Corn Relish 2 doz. ears of corn, 1 head cabbage, 4 green peppers, 1 red pepper, 4 large onions. Cut corn off cob and chop fine. Other ingredients: Mix with 1 qt. vinegar, 1/4 cup flour, 3 cups suga...
- How To Make Pie Crust
- Take one-half as much shortening as flour. Rub the shortening into the flour and mix with cold water till very dry and stiff. For 1 pie with double crust take 1 cup flour and 1/2 cup shortening. - Mrs...
- How To Make Pies And Pastry
- Meringue 1 tablespoon powdered sugar to each white of egg, 1/2 teaspoon of flavoring to each egg, lemon or orange juice or extract vanilla or any of the desired flavoring. Beat whites of eggs until...
- How To Make Pies And Pastry. Part 2
- German Apple Pie Line a pie pan with paste, lay in side by side tart quartered apples, sprinkle over this 1/2 cup flour, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/3 cup sour cream. Bake a rich brown without upper crust. - ...
- How To Make Pies And Pastry. Part 3
- Carrot Pie 2 cups mashed, boiled carrots, 1 cup granulated sugar, 3 well-beaten eggs, 1 teaspoon each ground cinnamon and ginger, a pinch of salt. Bake in hot oven without upper crust. This is very...
- How To Make Pies And Pastry. Part 4
- Custard Pie Beat together 3 tablespoons of flour and 1 tablespoon of sugar; add 3 beaten eggs, reserving the white of 1 for the top, 3 cups milk, and grated nutmeg. Put into a baked crust in a deep...
- How To Make Pies And Pastry. Part 5
- Mince Meat Mix together 1 1/2 cups ground, cooked beef, 1 cup ground suet, 5 cups chopped raisins, 4 cups currants, 6 oups chopped apples, 1 qt boiled cider or fruit juice, 1 pt. of water. 1 cup gr...
- How To Make Pies And Pastry. Part 6
- Prune Pie (Chicopee, Mass., Recipe) Let 3/4 lb. prunes soak in cold water over night; stew until tender, let cool, and remove the stones. Arrange them in a crust, add 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons b...
- How To Make Rhubarb
- Rhubarb Or Pie-Plant Pie Pour boiling water over 2 cups of chopped pie-plant, and let stand a few minutes, drain off the water, and add 1 cup of sugar, 2 tablespoons of flour, yolks of 2 eggs, well...
- How To Make Cream Pie
- 1 cup new milk, 1 dessertspoon of corn starch, yolks of 2 eggs; beat yolks of eggs and corn starch together, stir into milk, sweeten to taste, and flavor with vanilla; allow to boil until eggs and sta...
- How To Make Lemon Pie
- Juice and grated rind of 1 large lemon, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons (rounded) flour, 1 cup milk, put the sugar into the yolk, and beat, add flour and beat again; add milk, fold in the stiffly b...
- How To Make Tarts
- Chocolate Tarts 1/2 cup milk and 1/2 cup water, add 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon butter, a pinch of soda, and 1/2 cake grated chocolate. When this boils add 1 1/2 tablespoons corn starch, or more, to ma...
- How To Make Pudding And Desserts
- A Delicious Pudding Sauce Beat the whites of 2 eggs stiff and beat in the yolks. Add 1 cup of sugar to 1/2 pt. of cream, beaten stiff. Just before serving beat the eggs and cream together. - Mrs. A...
- How To Make Pudding And Desserts. Part 2
- Blueberry Pudding 3 cups flour, 1 qt. blueberries, 1 teaspoon soda, beaten into 1 cup molasses, salt, steam 3 hrs. Sauce Beat 2 even tablespoons of butter and 1/2 cup of powdered sugar to a c...
- How To Make Pudding And Desserts. Part 3
- Croquarte Of Oranges Make a syrup of granulated sugar until it will spin a thread. Peel and remove the hard pith and inner white skin of 5 oranges. Butter a pudding mould and dip each piece of oran...
- How To Make Pudding And Desserts. Part 4
- Graham Pudding 1 cup each of sweet milk and molasses, 2 teaspoons of flour, 1 large cup of raisins and currants. Steam 3 hrs. in a covered pail; remove, cover and place in oven for a few minutes. ...
- How To Make Pudding And Desserts. Part 5
- Nut Pudding Beat the yolk of 6 eggs, and add 1/2 cup of sugar. Beat the whites to a very stiff froth and add 3 cups of finely chopped nuts. Mix all together lightly and stir in 1 teaspoon of vanill...
- How To Make Pudding And Desserts. Part 6
- Pluva Pudding 1 cup chopped apples, 1 cup currants, 1 cup rolled bread crumbs, 1 cup seeded raisins, 1 cup white sugar, 1/3 cup suet, 1 small tablespoon flour, 1 nutmeg, 4 eggs, beaten separately, ...
- How To Make Pudding And Desserts. Part 7
- Rice Pudding Boil 1 cup rice in water, until tender, drain, and add 1 cup sugar, butter size of walnut, 2 well-beaten eggs, and a pt. of milk; bake in a fairly fast oven until nicely browned on top...
- How To Make Pudding And Desserts. Part 8
- Trifle Place 12 lady-fingers or slices of any kind of stale cake or cookies in the bottom of a large glass dish, sprinkle over diced pineapple, canned or fresh, or any preferred fruit. Make a boile...
- How To Make Apple Pudding
- Baked Apples Pare and core greening apples and fill the holes with sugar, sprinkle cinnamon over, and bake. Serve with cream. - Mrs. C. K. Wurtz, 216 S. 2nd Ave., Maywood, 111. Apple Dumplin...
- How To Make Cake Icing Or Frosting
- Boiled Frosting Whites 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water. Put sugar and water in pan, heat gradually to boiling point and boil until the syrup will hair. Pour the syrup gradually on beaten white o...
- General Rules For Cake
- Cream 1/2 cup butter well and add 1 cup sugar, then the yolks of 2 eggs, well beaten. Mix 1 1/2 cups flour, 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Add flour and 1/2 cup milk, alternately...
- How To Make Cakes
- Almond Nut Cake Cream together 2 eggs, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 1/2 cup chopped nuts, 2 cups flour, sifted with 2 teaspoons of baking powder. - Mrs. Albert Francis,...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 2
- Bran Cake Cream together 2 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 3/4 cup shortening; add 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon each baking powder and soda, 2/3 cup currants, salt, 1 cup flour, then mix stiff with bran. ...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 3
- Coffee Cake! 3 teacups of light bread sponge, 2/3 teacup of sugar, butter size of an egg. Let rise all day; at night roll thin and put into pans. In the morning spread with butter, and sprinkle sug...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 4
- Buttermilk Fruit Cake Beat together 2 cups buttermilk, 2 cups raisins, 2 cups currants, 2 cups sugar, 2 tablespoons shortening, 2 teaspoons soda, 4 cups flour, spice to suit taste. Put it in pan re...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 5
- Fruit Ginger Bread Cream together 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1/2 cup molasses, 2 cups sifted flour, 1/2 tablespoon ginger, 1/2 teaspoon soda, dissolved in a little wate...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 6
- Minute Cake Beat 3 eggs 1 minute; 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar, beat together 5 minutes, 1 cup flour, beat 1 minute, 1/2 cup of hot water, 1 cup of flour, into which put 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powde...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 7
- Raisin Cake Cover 1 1/2 cups raisins (seeded) with water and let simmer 20 minutes. Drain this juice off and use 1/2 cup instead of milk. Dredge raisins well with flour; add 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup bu...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 8
- Steamed Cake Beat together 2 eggs, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 3/4 cup butter; add 1 cup currants, 1 cup raisins, 2 tablespoons molasses, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon mixed spices, 1 heaping teaspoon bakin...
- How To Make Peanut Pound Cake
- Have the ingredients nearly ice cold. Beat the yolks of 3 eggs, adding sifted sugar gradually. When stiff, add a little ice water and add more sugar. Beat, add more water, sugar, and 1/2 the lemon jui...
- How To Make Doughnuts
- Put about 1 1/2 lbs. of lard on stove to melt (or about 3 inches deep in pan). Beat 1 egg thoroughly; add 1/2 cup sugar (put through sieve), 1/2 teaspoon salt, about 1/3 of a nutmeg (grated), flavor w...
- How To Make Domino Cake For Children's Parties
- Make a sponge cake or any other simple cake mixture. Bake in shallow tins, making cake about 1/2 inch thick, when baked. When cool, ice with white icing. Allow this to set; then with a sharp knife cut...
- How To Make Macaroons Of Nuts
- Pound the meats of hickory nuts, and add nutmeg and allspice. Make a frosting as for cake, stirring in the nuts and spices. Butter the hands and work into little balls the size of hickory nuts; place ...
- How To Make Devil's Food Cake
- Demon's Food Cake 2 cups brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup grated chocolate, 1/2 cup hot water. Pour over 1/2 cup sour milk, 2 eggs, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon of baking powder...
- How To Make Cookies
- Cookies 7 oz. sugar, 1/4 lb. grated hazlenuts, beaten whites of 3 eggs. Stir 1/2 hr. in one direction. - Mrs. Herman Klug, 25 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111. Alice Cookies Beat 1 egg with 1 cu...
- How To Make Cookies. Part 2
- Fried Cakes Cream together 1 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons of shortening; add 2 beaten eggs, 1 cup sour milk, in which 1 teaspoon of soda has been dissolved, and 2 cups of flour. Mix and roll about 1...
- How To Make Cookies. Part 3
- German Lebkucken Cookies Beat 4 whole eggs with 2 cups of sugar about 1/2 an hr. Add 4 figs, rind of 1 lemon, 1/4 lb. each of citron and lemon peel, finely chopped. Then add 1 tablespoon each of ...
- How To Make Ice Cream
- Coffee Frappe Dissolve 3/4 cup of sugar in a quart of clear, black coffee and freeze. Serve in frappe cups or glasses with whipped cream as a garnish. A forcing bag with star tube is of assistance ...
- How To Make Ice Cream. Part 2
- Raspberry Velvet Take rich juice from a can of red raspberries; strain and add sugar until quite sweet, add juice of a lemon (and 2 oranges if desired). Add a little cold water if the juice is rich...
- How To Make Ice Cream. Part 3
- Berry Sherbet Mash 1 qt. of berries, or enough to make 1 pt. of juice; add 1 pt. of sugar, and after the sugar is dissolved, add 1 pt. of water and the juice of 1 lemon. Press through coarse cheese...
- How To Make Candy
- Caramel Candy Fill a cup 2/3 full of milk and the remainder with unmelted butter. Put this into a kettle with 2 cups white sugar, 1 tablespoon of flavoring. Set over the blaze and stir only until i...
- How To Make Candy. Part 2
- Fudge Cook together 2 cups of granulated sugar, 3/4 cup of rich milk. When boiling add 4 teaspoons of cocoa; cook until it forms a soft ball in water; flavor and remove from the fire. Beat until cr...
- How To Make Candy. Part 3
- Pinochi 3 cups of brown sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 tablespoon of butter. Boil slowly for 1 hour. Try in water and when it ropes, add 1 cup chopped (not too fine) nuts. Stir until it begins to granu...
- How To Make Drinks
- Pineappleade Pull 1 good sized pineapple to pieces with a fork, but do not slice or peel it, as much of the delicate flavor is lost by so doing. Slice 1 lemon and 1 orange thin and place in a deep ...
- How To Make Drinks. Continued
- Apricot Drink Peel a dozen apricots, take out the stones and pour on them a quart of boiling water; allow them to stand for 1 hour, then strain off the clear liquid and sweeten with 1/4 lb. of suga...
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