The Orange Judd Cook Book | by Adeline O. Goessling
Many and various are the cook books now on the market, but few, if any, are plain, practical, thorough, and complete enough for all-around use and everyday reference in farm homes-in families where plain tastes and limited means forbid extravagant or fancy culinary indulgences and the accompanying unnecessary expenditure of time and labor.
| Title | The Orange Judd Cook Book |
| Author | Adeline O. Goessling |
| Publisher | Orange Judd Company |
| Year | 1914 |
| Copyright | 1914, Orange Judd Company New York |
| Amazon | The Orange Judd Cook Book |
Introduction- Many and various are the cook books now on the market, but few, if any, are plain, practical, thorough, and complete enough for all-around use and everyday reference in farm homes-in families where p...
- How To Cook Soups, Stews and Chowders
- Recipes for soups and stews vary so much in small details that it may safely be said that no two cooks make any soup or stew alike. Nevertheless, there are some fundamental rules that cover this culin...
- How To Cook Vegetable Soups
- Vegetable Soup I To 3 pts water add 3 large fresh tomatoes or an equal amount of canned tomatoes, 1 large potato, peeled and sliced, 1 small carrot, peeled and cut very fine, a few tender cabbage lea...
- How To Cook Tomato Soups
- Tomato Soup I To 1 qt fresh or canned tomatoes add 1 pt boiling water, and when the tomatoes are soft, strain through a colander, return to the fire and thicken with a little white flour or graham fl...
- How To Cook Potato Soups
- Cream of Potato Soup For each qt soup required, allow 3 medium sized potatoes, peeled and cut in slices, and cooked in sufficient water to cover. When tender, rub through a colander, then return to t...
- How To Cook Pea Soups
- Cream of Pea Soup Drain the liquor from 1 qt canned peas, then add to the peas 2 cups clear, cold water and 1 slice of onion, with salt to taste. Cook about 10 minutes, then strain and add 2 cups sca...
- How To Cook Bean Soups
- Bean Soup In the morning put 1 cup dried beans to soak in cold water with 1/2 teasp soda, for 1 hour, then parboil the beans in the same water, and rinse thoroughly in cold water, after which return ...
- How To Cook German Bean Soup
- Boil 2 lbs lean meat from the rump in 2 qts water. Skim when it begins to boil and then let it simmer 2 1/2 hours. Add 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1/2 small parsnip and a few stalks of celery, chopped very fin...
- How To Cook Cream Soups
- Cream of Corn Soup Take 1 doz ears tender green corn, slit each row of kernels through the middle with a sharp knife, then with the back of the knife scrape out the pulp, being careful not to get any...
- How To Cook Beef Soups
- Beef Soup The best cuts for beef soup are from the rump, shoulder or plate, the latter being the cheaper grades of the sides and flank. Oxtails also make a strong, rich soup, and lean meat is better ...
- How To Cook Chicken Soups
- Chicken and Bean Soup Clean and cut up a nice fat hen, and put on to boil in plenty cold water. Parboil 1 qt white beans, adding 1/2 teasp soda after they have boiled about 5 minutes. Then drain and ...
- How To Cook Noodle Soups
- German Noodles Beat up 1 egg with 1 tablesp water, add some salt, and then work in all the flour possible. Turn out on floured board, roll very thin, cut into pieces and roll each piece as thin as a ...
- How To Cook Soups
- Cabbage Soup Chop fine 1/2 head tender white cabbage and let boil 1/2 hour in 1 pt water, by which time the water will be nearly cooked away. Drain out the remaining water, then add 1 pt boiling milk...
- How To Cook Stews
- Meat Stew with Dumplings Cut about 2 lbs of any kind of fresh meat into small pieces, and cook in 2 qts water with salt to taste. If the meat is very lean add 2 slices salt pork fat. After cooking 1 ...
- How To Cook Beef Stews
- Beef Stew Take about 7 or 8 lbs of beef from a low-priced cut-the lower part of the leg-and boil in enough water to cover, until the meat parts from the bone. Remove the bone, skim off the fat, and t...
- How To Cook Pork Stews
- Fresh Pork Stew Chop 2 onions and fry them a nice brown, then add 2 cloves, a very little chopped sage, 1 tablesp vinegar, 1 cup pork roast gravy, a little pepper and salt, and the remains of cold ro...
- How To Cook Chowders
- Mock Clam Chowder Put 5 or 6 slices of fat salt pork in a hot sauce pan and try them out thoroughly, then remove the crisp pieces of pork and add to the tried out fat 5 potatoes and 5 onions, chopped...
- How To Cook Fish, Shell-Fish and Crustaceans
- Kitchen lore has it that fish is good brain food. This is probably owing to the fact that fish contains all the elements of meat in an easily digested form, and is, therefore, more easily assimilated ...
- How To Can Fish
- Clean, scrape and wash fish thoroughly in plenty fresh water. Cut into pieces of convenient size, but do not remove large bones or skin-only fins, head, tail, etc. Have in readiness glass fruit jars p...
- How To Salt and Smoke Fish
- Cut off the heads, tails and fins, but do not scale the fish. Split them along the backbone, and scrape them clean inside, but do not use water. Pack the fish solidly, using plenty of salt, in a good ...
- How To Remove Skin and Bones from Fish
- To remove skin cut off the fins along the back, and then a strip of skin less than 1/2 inch wide down the full length of the back. Dip the fingers in salt, then loosen skin below the head and draw it ...
- How to Cook Fish
- Fish may be boiled, baked, broiled, or fried. Red-blooded fish, as salmon, bluefish and mackerel, in which the fat is distributed throughout the fish, is better boiled, not fried in fat, but white-blo...
- How To Cook Codfish
- For boiled codfish select a nice thick piece of salted codfish and freshen it according to directions given elsewhere. Cover it for the third time with clear, cold water, and let it simmer slowly 3 or...
- How To Cook Mackerel
- Salt Mackerel Soak fish in cold water 24 hours, then drain, cover with water, add 1 tablesp vinegar, and boil until tender. Serve on a hot platter with melted butter poured over it.- [Mrs. M. Bake...
- How To Cook Herring
- Fried Salt Herring Wash the salt herrings in clear, cold water, in which a little soda has been dissolved, scrape off the scales, open and clean, and then cut clear down through the backbone. Wash th...
- Directions for Baking Fish with Dressing
- Clean, scrape and thoroughly wash the fish, and then wipe dry on a clean towel. Sprinkle the inside of the fish lightly with salt, and fill with a dressing made of bread or cracker crumbs, a little bu...
- How To Cook Salmon
- Baked Fresh Salmon When I lived in Oregon a friend showed me how to bake fresh salmon, and I have never tasted anything more delicious. Wash and clean a small salmon thoroughly, in and outside, rub w...
- How To Cook Oysters and Clams
- Oysters, which are comparatively easy of digestion, though not very nutritious, are in season from September to May- that is, they are not considered good during May, June, July and August-the months ...
- How To Cook Oysters
- Deviled Oysters Drain 2 doz oysters, chop fine, and mix with small 1/2 loaf bread moistened with a little water. Season with salt, black pepper and a pinch of cayenne pepper, 1 tablesp butter, and a ...
- How To Cook Clams
- Clam Pie Cut salt pork in dice and fry brown. Slice potatoes and onions and boil until tender in milk to cover. Into a buttered pudding dish put a layer of bread or cracker crumbs, then a layer of oy...
- How To Cook Crabs and Lobsters
- The natural color of a live, healthy lobster is usually a dark, mottled, bluish green, but in sandy regions sometimes slightly reddish, and when boiled the color of the lobster changes to red. Lobster...
- How To Cook Meat, Poultry and Game
- Dainty cookery can convert the cheaper cuts of meat and fowl that is anything but tender, into wholesome, appetizing and hearty dishes. If the housewife can do this, she has learned the trick of reduc...
- General Directions for Boiling and Roasting Meat
- If meat is put on in cold water and salted at once the juices will he extracted, and therefore this method should be used only for soups or broths. Putting it on in boiling water will close the pores ...
- How To Cook Beef
- Boiled Beef with Dressing Put a piece of nicely trimmed beef in a kettle, and any preferred dressing, sewed up in a cheese cloth bag. Add boiling water to cover, and boil until the meat is done. Thic...
- How To Cook Roast Beef
- Roast Beef Take a piece of rib or loin, trim and wipe clean with, a dry towel, put in a hot dripping pan with a little hot butter or suet, and set in a very hot oven. Remember that the oven must be v...
- How To Cook Pot Roast (Beef or Pork)
- Top or bottom round, or a piece of the chuck is nice for a pot roast of beef. The pot should be no larger than necessary to accommodate the meat, and an iron pot is best. Put some drippings in the pot...
- How To Cook Sour Pot Roast of Beef
- Put a piece of nicely trimmed Beef in a deep dish, pour over it 1 cup vinegar, and set away in a cold place 3 days, turning and basting the meat with the vinegar frequently every day. After 3 days rem...
- How To Fry or Broil Steak
- Beefsteak should be cut thick. If you have any well-founded suspicion that it is not tender, lay it out on a clean table, and pound it hard on both sides with the side of a wooden potato masher. Have ...
- How To Cook Hamburg Steak (Beef or Pork)
- Use clear beef, beef and pork mixed, or clear pork, allowing 1/4 part fat to 3/4 part lean. Chop or grind, reason with a little chopped onion, or onion juice, add pepper and salt to taste, shape into ...
- How To Cook Liver
- Stewed Liver Parboil the liver in salted water and when tender cut into small squares. Thicken 1 qt milk with 2 tablesp flour, add butter size of an egg, and salt and pepper to taste, then put in the...
- How To Cook Heart
- Baked Heart Use either beef or pork heart. Clean thoroughly, cut out all the clots of blood and stringy parts, soak in salt water 2 or 3 hours, then drain and put in a kettle with plenty of water, a ...
- How To Cook Meat Loaf (Beef, Pork, or Veal)
- Grind or chop 3 lbs round steak and 1/4 lb beef suet, add 1 tablesp salt, 1 teasp pepper, 2 or 3 well-beaten eggs, a very small chopped onion, 8 tablesp fine bread or cracker crumbs, and 1 cup milk. M...
- How To Cook Veal
- Roast Fillet of Veal Remove the bones and fill in with a dressing seasoned with salt and pepper, parsley and thyme. Bake in a hot oven, allowing 20 minutes for every lb veal. Baste with dripings-any ...
- How To Cook Pork
- Roast Loin of Pork Separate each joint of the loin, make an incision in the thick part of the pork, and fill with a dressing mixed with some chopped suet and seasoned with onions and spices to taste....
- How To Cook Ham
- Baked Ham Wash and scrape the ham and trim. Make a dough of flour and water and 1/2 cup syrup, roll out 1/2 inch thick, and cover the ham with this, being careful to cover all parts. Put in a hot ove...
- How To Cook Meat or Pot Pies
- Crust for Meat Pie To 1 pt sifted flour add 1 teasp salt, 2 teasp baking powder, 2 tablesp butter or lard, and milk enough to make a soft dough. Cut 3 or 4 holes in the top crust, and insert in each ...
- How To Cook India Curry with Rice
- Cut onions in rings and fry brown in butter; when brown take out the onions, and fry pieces of meat, fish, game, or poultry in the same fat, adding a small piece of garlic, a little coriander seed, an...
- How To Cook Meat Recipes
- Fried Tripe Cut the tripe in pieces, dredge with flour, roll in salted, beaten egg, then dredge with flour again, and fry in hot drippings, rough side down, and when brown turn and brown the other si...
- How To Pick and Clean Poultry
- For market, dry picking is the best way-that is, pulling out the feathers immediately after killing, while the poultry is still warm, but for home consumption, the scalding method is the quicker and e...
- How To Cook Chicken
- Steamed Fowl Dress a 5 or 6 lb chicken, wash and dry thoroughly, and rub with salt and pepper, in and outside. Place an onion and a bay leaf inside, and put the fowl into shape the same as for roasti...
- How To Cook Hot Tamales
- Boil a chicken until very tender, remove bones and chop meat fine. To each lb meat add 1 medium sized tomato and onion chopped fine, salt and red pepper to taste, and moisten to the consistency of mus...
- How To Cook Roast Turkey
- Having properly dressed and stuffed the turkey, rub entire surface with salt, spread breast, wings and legs with butter, rubbed until creamy and mixed with flour, and dredge bottom of pan with flour. ...
- How To Cook Boiled or Roasted Duck
- A delicious flavor is imparted to boiled duck by boiling with it 1 large onion, 1 tablesp vinegar, and about 1/2 teasp sage, besides salt and pepper. When tender, remove the duck, boil down the liquor...
- How To Cook Curried Rabbit
- Wash and joint the rabbit and dredge each piece with flour. Put the good trimmings and a few scraps of meat with 2 large onions, 1 carrot, sliced, a small pinch of herbs, 6 pepper corns, and 1 tablesp...
- How To Cook Stewed Rabbit
- Dress and clean a couple of young rabbits, joint them, and put into a stew pan with 2 large Spanish onions, cut small; add enough milk to cover, season with white pepper, cover closely, and stew very ...
- How To Cook Baked Coon
- The raccoon which makes free with the farmer's corn gets very fat in the fall, on corn, apples and clover, and makes delicious eating, though often thrown away because of the prejudice that many peopl...
- How To Cook Possum and Sweet Taters
- Pour a large kettleful of hot water in a convenient vessel, add a small shovel of ashes, and then put the 'possum in this, but do not have the water as hot as for scalding chickens. Turn the 'possum a...
- How To Cook Recipes For Wild Game
- Baked Jack Rabbit If jack is old, after dressing, parboil for 3 to 5 minutes, adding about 1 teasp soda to the hot water, and then drain. Fasten slices of salt pork across the back of the rabbit, w...
- How To Cook Sauces for Meat, Poultry and Game
- Some Appropriate Combinations Roast pork with apple sauce. Roast lamb with mint sauce. Roast beef with horseradish, piquant or Flemish sauce. Roast mutton with stewed gooseberries. Roast chicken ...
- How To Cook Sauces for Meat, Poultry and Game. Continued
- Tomato Sauce To 1 pt stewed tomatoes add a small chopped onion, a sprig of parsley, a bay leaf, blade of mace, salt and pepper to taste. While they are simmering for 15 minutes, melt 3 level tablesp ...
- Potatoes, Vegetables and Salads
- Careful cooking of vegetables and judicious mixing of salads are not the least part of culinary proficiency. Since vegetables are the most healthful of our food stuffs, they should be served freely, b...
- How To Cook Potatoes
- Do not always serve potatoes in the same old way. It would seem to be a very simple matter to boil a potato, and yet there is a proper and improper way of doing even this. First wash potatoes, then pe...
- How To Cook Potato Recipes
- Escalloped Potatoes Slice cold, boiled potatoes, put a layer in a buttered pudding dish, then a layer of cracker or bread crumbs, sprinkle with pepper and salt, dot with butter, and so proceed until ...
- How To Cook Corn
- Fried Corn Cut tender corn from the cob and fry in a little sweet butter, just enough to keep the corn from sticking to the pan, stirring often. When nicely browned, season with salt and pepper, and ...
- How To Cook Tomatoes
- Stewed Tomatoes There are many different ways of stewing tomatoes. I do not like my stewed tomatoes mixed with a lot of mushy bread or cracker crumbs. Peel ripe tomatoes, or use the peeled canned tom...
- How To Cook Carrots
- Carrots Peel and cut carrots in very small pieces and put over the fire with a little water, salt and butter. Cook until tender, and when most all the water has cooked off, thicken the remainder with...
- How To Cook Beet Recipes
- Minced Beets Remove the greens and wash the beets clean, but do not peel nor cut off the root or stem ends. Plunge into boiling water and boil rapidly until tender, then plunge into cold water. The s...
- How To Cook Parsnip Recipes
- Creamed Parsnips Wash and scrape parsnip, slice lengthwise in inch pieces, add boiling water to cover, salt, and boil till tender. If there is too much liquid pour a little of it off and add 1 cup mi...
- How To Cook Pea Recipes
- Steamed Green Peas Peas should be picked when young and tender, and cooked as soon after picking as possible, or they will lose flavor and sweetness. Fill a cheese cloth bag about two-thirds full of ...
- How To Cook Bean Recipes
- Lima Beans Fresh lima beans should be cooked immediately after gathering. Shell and cook till tender in water barely enough to cover, allowing most of the water to boil away. Then add salt and pepper...
- How To Cook Baked Beans
- Soak 1 qt white beans in cold water over night (15 or 16 hours is none too long). Next morning drain, cover with cold water, boil 1/2 hour, then add a pinch of soda, and let boil, uncovered, until ski...
- How To Cook Squash Recipes
- Fried or Baked Squash Peel tender squash, cut in strips as long and thick as the finger, sprinkle with pepper and salt, roll in flour, and fry brown in hot drippings, then cover and cook slowly until...
- How To Cook Egg Plant
- Peel egg plant and cut in slices 1/2-inch thick, sprinkle lightly with salt and let stand 1/2 hour, after which dip them in beaten egg, then in flour, and fry brown on both sides.- [Miss A. E. H., Pa....
- How To Cook Cabbage Recipes
- Creamed Raw Cabbage Select a solid and tender head of young cabbage and shave fine. Make a cream sauce of 1/2 cup thick, sweet, or sour cream, 1 tablesp sugar, 1 or 2 tablesp vinegar, and 2 tablesp f...
- How To Cook Vegetable Recipes
- Creamed or Mashed Turnips Peel turnips, then cut up in small dice, discarding all tough and stringy parts. Cover with cold water, add salt, and boil until tender, then drain. Prepare a cream sauce of...
- How To Cook Onion Recipes
- Peel onions under water to prevent the shedding of tears. To kill onion and cabbage odor while cooking, set a small, open dish of vinegar on the back of the stove.-[A. G., Mass. Creamed Onions Tak...
- How To Cook Recipes For Greens
- Boiled or Baked Spinach Pick and wash spinach carefully and boil about 15 or 20 minutes. It will require very little water, if any, as greens boil down very much, and the water which clings to the le...
- How To Cook Okra
- Cut the stems from 1 at okra and cut the pods into pieces 1/2 inch thick; add 1 pt tomatoes, and 1 cup corn cut from the cob, and cook until tender. Season with butter, salt and pepper. Another way is...
- How To Make Salad Garnishes
- Almost anything in the line of fresh greens, potatoes, vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, nuts, etc., can be dished up as salad and make a very presentable as well as palatable dish, with the aid of a ni...
- How To Make Salad Dressing Recipes
- French Dressing To 1/2 teasp salt add 1/4 teasp pepper, a few grains of cayenne, a very little mustard, 6 tablesp olive oil, and 3 to 6 tablesp lemon juice or vinegar, according to taste. Put togethe...
- How To Make Salad Recipes
- Potato Salad The potatoes must be cold, and not too soft or mealy. Cut in dice or slices. Add a little finely minced onion, if liked, and if obtainable, crisp, tender celery, cut fine. Use any prefer...
- How To Make Fruit Salads
- Almost an unlimited variety of delicious fruit salads may be made in combination with the following foundation: Soak 1 tablesp clear granulated gelatine in 1 cup cold water and add 1 cup sugar. If you...
- How To Make Puddings, Custards and Sweet Sauces
- When fruit is plentiful puddings appear often as dessert on well supplied farm tables, and at all seasons puddings, when well made and not too rich, afford wholesome and favorite variety to the daily ...
- How To Make Puddings, Custards and Sweet Sauces. Continued
- Baked Chocolate Pudding To 1 cup bread crumbs add 1 qt hot milk, 1 oz grated chocolate, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 well-beaten egg, 1 teasp vanilla and a little salt. Soak the bread crumbs in part of the hot m...
- How To Make Apple Pudding Recipes
- Apple Pudding To 1 cup cream add 1 beaten egg, 2 teasp baking powder, and a little salt sifted with flour enough to make a thick batter. Lastly stir in about 1/2 doz large apples chopped fine. Bake i...
- How To Make Lemon Pudding Receipes
- Boiled Lemon Pudding Put over the fire in an agate vessel 2 1/2 cups water or milk, and 1 cup sugar. When this is boiling stir into it 4 heaping teasp cornstarch dissolved in 1/2 cup water. Let this ...
- How To Make Rhubarb Pudding Recipes
- Rhubarb Pudding Cut tender rhubarb into small pieces and add 1 cup sugar to each pint rhubarb. Place in a buttered pudding dish and cover with batter made of 2 beaten eggs, 1 cup milk and flour enoug...
- How To Make Christmas Pudding
- The ingredients needed for this old-fashioned pudding are 1 qt each seeded raisins, chopped apples, chopped beef suet, stale bread crumbs, flour and sweet milk, and 1 pt each currants, citron and suga...
- How To Make Suet Pudding Recipes
- Suet Pudding Mix 1 cup each seeded and chopped raisins and suet, 1/2 cup currants, 1 cup syrup, 1 cup sour milk, in which has been dissolved 2 even teasp soda, and enough flour with a little salt to ...
- How To Make Plum Pudding Recipes
- Plum Pudding To 1 well-beaten egg add 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup N O molasses, 1 cup sour milk in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, 1 cup chopped suet well dredged with flour, 1 lb each raisins and, cur...
- How To Make Tapioca Pudding Recipes
- Boiled Tapioca Pudding Soak 1 cup tapioca over night in a quart bowl nearly filled with water. Next morning put this into a double boiler and cook until clear, stirring occasionally. When clear add 1...
- How To Make Indian Pudding Recipes
- Indian Tapioca Pudding To 2 tablesp Indian Meal add 1 tablesp each cocoanut and tapioca, 1/2 cup molasses, 1/4 cup sugar, butter size of a walnut, a little salt and 1 qt scalding hot milk. Bake 2 hou...
- How To Make Rice Pudding Recipes
- Boiled Rice Pudding Wash and drain 2 small cups rice and cook with plenty water in a double boiler. When done the water should be all absorbed and the grains very large. Add a mixture made of 3 well-...
- How To Make Bread Pudding Recipes
- Plain Bread Pudding Butter well small pieces of stale bread, arrange them in a well buttered pudding dish, sprinkle with a little nutmeg and cinnamon, cover well with sweetened milk, and bake.-[R. W....
- How To Make Fruit Pudding Recipes
- Peach Pudding Fill a pudding dish with whole peeled peaches, pour over them 2 cups water, cover closely and bake until tender. Then drain off the juice, and let it stand until cool. Add to the juice ...
- How To Make Berry Pudding Recipes
- Cranberry Pudding Moisten 2 cups bread crumbs with 1/2 cup melted butter, sprinkle a layer of these crumbs in a buttered pudding dish, next add a layer of stewed and sweetened cranberries, about 1 do...
- How To Make Sweet Potato Pudding Recipes
- Sweet Potato Pudding I To 1 pt grated raw sweet potatoes add 1 cup sugar, 3 or 4 well-beaten eggs, 1 1/2 cups milk, pinch salt and spice to suit. Beat well and turn into a pudding dish in which 2 tab...
- How To Make Vegetable Pudding
- This pudding is equal to the richest plum pudding, and comes in season just when the hens are not laying-or, if they are laying, the eggs can be sold to advantage. Put through the food chopper 1 lb bo...
- How To Make Custard Recipes
- Plain Raisin Custard To 1 qt milk add 2 well-beaten eggs, 1 tablesp cornstarch, 5 tablesp sugar and 1/2 cup seeded raisins. If liked mix in a little spice. Bake until the custard is set.-[Mrs. L. A. ...
- How To Make Sweet Sauce Recipes
- Cheap Sauce Mix 1 teasp flour with 1/4 cup sugar, and stir this into a smooth paste with a little cold milk, then pour on boiling milk till it is thick enough. Let it boil a few minutes, stirring con...
- How To Make Cranberry Sauce Recipes
- Stewed Whole Cranberries Use only the best ripe berries, discarding all the soft and inferior ones, which may be used for marmalade or strained sauce. Wash the berries, and then put them into a doubl...
- How To Make Apple Sauce Recipes
- Plain Apple Sauce Pare, core and quarter 8 or 10 medium sized tart apples. Put them in a granite or porcelain lined vessel, add about 2 cups water, and cook until tender. Then add 1 cup sugar and coo...
- How To Make Pies and Shortcakes
- All rich pastry preparations are hard to digest, according to learned authorities, and therefore pie is not considered healthful. But when pastry is prepared by a skillful cook, the discomforts, not t...
- How To Make Pie Crust Recipes
- Suet Pie Crust To 2 cups flour add 1/4 teasp baking powder and a pinch of salt; then mix in 1/2 cup clear suet with a chopping knife until the whole is smooth and fine grained. Then add sweet milk to...
- How To Make Fruit Pie Recipes
- Canned Peach Pie Line a deep pie plate with rich crust and bake. Then fill with canned peaches cut in quarters, sprinkle over it 1 cup sugar and a little of the peach juice. Beat 1 or 2 eggs, yolks a...
- How To Make Lemon Pie Recipes
- Lemon Pie Moisten 1 heaping tablesp corn starch in a little cold water, add 1 cup boiling water, and cook until the corn starch is done, then add 1 teasp butter, 1 cup sugar; remove from fire, stir v...
- How To Make Berry Pie Recipes
- Cranberry Pie Line a well greased pie tin with a good rich pie crust, fill with prepared cranberry sauce, and cover the top with a lattice work of the dough. Cut the strips about an inch wide and lay...
- How To Make Rhubarb Pie Recipes
- Rhubarb Pie Over 3 cups finely chopped rhubarb pour cold water to cover. Let stand 10 minutes and then drain. In another bowl mix 2 tablesp flour with 1 1/2 cups sugar, the yolks of 2 eggs and 1 heap...
- How To Make Custard Pie Recipes
- Custard Pie I To 2 well-beaten eggs add scant 1/2 cup sugar, a pinch of salt, and 1 teasp flour. Beat all well together and then stir in milk enough to fill a pie tin, lined with a good rich crust. G...
- How To Make Apple Pie Recipes
- Apple Pie To 1 cup pastry flour sifted with small 1/2 teasp cream tartar and half as much soda, add 1 large tablesp shortening, and mix with rich milk to the proper consistency for rolling. Line a we...
- How To Make Pumkin Pie Recipes
- Green Pumpkin Pie Choose a green pumpkin just showing first yellow streaks; cook until tender, rub through a colander, and to each pint pumpkin pulp add 3/4 cup sugar, 1 tablesp butter, 1 tablesp flo...
- How To Make Tomato Pie Recipes
- Green Tomato Mince Chop fine, drain off the juice, and then measure 6 cups green tomatoes, add 6 cups sour chopped apples, 4 cups brown sugar, 2 cups molasses, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup vinegar, and 1 ...
- How To Make Vegetable Pie Recipes
- Sweet Potato Pie Wash and boil 3 good sized sweet potatoes until tender, then peel and rub through a colander, add the beaten yolks of 3 eggs, with 1 pt sweet milk, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup melted butter...
- How To Make Mince Meat Pie Recipes
- Mince Meat I To 1 qt raw chopped beef, add 1 pt chopped suet, 2 qts chopped apples, 1 qt cider (sweet or sour), 1 pt thick boiled cider, 1/2 pt molasses, 1 pt liquor in which the meat was cooked, 1 p...
- How To Make Pie Recipes
- Cream Pie Put 2 cups sweet milk in a double boiler, add 1/2 cup sugar, 4 tablesp flour wet with a little cold milk, the beaten yolk of 1 egg, and cook until thick; then remove from fire and stir in b...
- How To Make Shortcake Recipes
- Shortcake I To 1 heaping tablesp brown sugar add 1 heaping tablesp thick, sour cream, 1 small cup sweet milk in which dissolve a pinch of soda, salt, and 2 teasp baking powder sifted with flour enoug...
- How To Make Strawberry Shortcake Recipes
- Strawberry Shortcake I To 1 qt wheat flour sifted with 3 teasp baking powder, add 2 tablesp sugar, 1 teasp salt, 2 tablesp lard, 2 tablesp butter, melted, 1 pt sweet milk, and 2 eggs well beaten. Rol...
- How To Make Berry Shortcake Recipes
- Blueberry Shortcake Bake a shortcake from a rich biscuit dough and when done split open and fill with the following: To 1 qt blueberries add 1/2 cup water, 1 cup sugar and 1 tablesp cornstarch. Boil ...
- How To Make Fruit Cobbler Recipes
- Strawberry Cobbler Sift 1 qt flour with 2 teasp baking powder and a pinch of salt. Cut 3/4 cup butter (or butter and lard mixed) into the flour and add sweet milk enough to make a dough that can be h...
- How To Make Dessert Roll Recipes
- Cherry Rolls Roll out a rich biscuit dough about 1 inch thick, cover with ripe, pitted cherries (first draining off the juice), sprinkle plentifully with sugar, fold one side of the cake over the oth...
- How To Make More Desserts
- Cranberry Mound Make a rich biscuit dough, roll out 1/2 inch thick, cut into four different sized circles, ranging from two to six inches. Cover each circle with a layer of finely chopped cranberries...
- How To Make Cakes, Fillings and Frostings
- For cakes and in all branches of cookery it always pays to use the best and purest ingredients. Inferior flours, or cheap sodas, baking powders, spices and extracts, invariably fail to give satisfacti...
- General Directions for Baking Cake
- Measurements can be only approximately given, since flours vary in their capacity to absorb moisture, and every housekeeper does not measure with the same sized cup, or spoon. Therefore it will be nec...
- How To Make Farmer's Cake
- When putting raised bread in pans to bake, leave out a piece about half the size of a loaf. Keep it in raiser and cover warm, while you get the following ready: 1 cup lard (melted, warm, not hot), 1 l...
- How To Make Wedding Cake
- I have prepared this for all my children when they were married, and everybody who has tasted this cake declares that it is unsurpassed. Cream 1 lb sugar and 1 lb butter (or use half butter and half s...
- How To Make Angel Food Cake
- A moist and tender angel cake is one of the best things in the art of cookery. Remember that angel food should never be eaten the same day it is baked. It is better when a week old. The best that was ...
- How To Make Three In One Cake
- This recipe will answer for a French cream cake, a whipped cream cake, or a roll jelly cake. Beat 3 eggs and 1 cup sugar thoroughly, then add 2 tablesp cold water and 1 1/2 cups flour sifted with 2 te...
- How To Make Fresh Berry Cake Recipes
- Blackberry Jam Cake Cream 1 1/2 cups sugar with 1/2 cup shortening, add 3 eggs, leaving out the white of one for the frosting, 1/2 cup sour milk, in which dissolve 1 scant teasp soda, 2 1/2 cups flou...
- How To Make Fruit Cake Recipes
- Steamed Fruit Cake Cream 1/2 cup butter with 1 1/2 cups sugar, add 2 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, and 3 cups flour sifted with 1 teasp cinnamon and 1/2 teasp each cloves and...
- How To Make Inexpensive Fruit Cake
- Cream 2 cups brown sugar and 1 cup white sugar with scant 3/4 cup shortening, add 2 eggs, (one will do), 1 1/2 cups buttermilk, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda (or 1 1/2 cups black coffee and 3 teasp b...
- How To Make Eggless Cake Recipes
- Eggless Cake Cream 1 cup sugar with 1/2 cup butter, add 1 cup sour milk, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda; 2 cups flour sifted with 1/2 teasp each nutmeg and cinnamon, and 1 cup currants.- [Mrs. J. P.,...
- How To Make Butterless Cake Recipes
- Emergency Cake (No butter) Break 2 eggs in a cup (do not beat), then fill the cup up with rich sour cream, empty into a mixing bowl and beat vigorously, then add 1 level teasp soda, 1 cup sugar, 1 te...
- How To Make Gingerbread Cake Recipes
- Soft Gingerbread Cream 1/2 cup shortening with 1/2 cup sugar, add 2 eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sour milk, in which dissolve 2 scant teasp soda, and 3 cups flour s...
- How To Make Sponge Cakes
- Sponge Cakes. Sponge Cake Add 1/2 cup sugar to 3 fresh eggs and beat 15 minutes, then sift in 1 cup flour mixed with 1 teasp baking powder and a little salt. Flavor with 1/2 teasp lemon extract....
- How To Make Loaf Cake Recipes
- Cocoanut Loaf Cake Cream 1/2 cup butter with 2 scant cups sugar, add 4 or 5 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 pt flour sifted with 2 teasp baking powder, 1 cup grated fresh cocoanut, and flavor with 1/2 teasp almo...
- How To Make Spice Cake Recipes
- Potato Spice Cake Cream 1/2 cup batter with 2 cups sugar, add 3 eggs, 1 1/2 cups milk, 1/4 cup grated chocolate, 1 cup mashed potatoes, 1/2 lb almonds, chopped, and 2 cups flour sifted with 1 teasp c...
- How To Make Pound Cake Recipes
- Apple Pound Cake Boil together 2 cups chopped fresh apples, scant 1 cup butter, 1 cup molasses, and 1 cup raisins, until the fruit is well cooked. When this has cooled add 1 cup sugar, 1 cup buttermi...
- How To Make Layer Cake Recipes
- Nut Layer Cake To 1/2 cup sugar add 1 egg well beaten, 1/2 cup sour cream in which dissolve 1 level teasp soda, 1/2 cup molasses, and 2 cups flour. Bake in three layers. For filling use 1 cup thick s...
- How To Make Tri-colored Marble Cake
- Cream 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup sugar, add yolks 3 eggs, one at a time, and beat to a cream, then add 1 cup flour sifted with 1/2 teasp baking powder, and beat well. Next add 1/2 cup milk and beat the ...
- How To Make Chocolate Cake Recipes
- Chocolate Cake Cream 1/2 cup butter with 1 cup sugar, add beaten yolks 2 eggs, 1/4 cup grated chocolate dissolved in a very little hot water, 1/2 cup buttermilk, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, 2 cup...
- How To Make Coffee Cake Recipes
- Raised Coffee Cake Scald 2 cups milk, add 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar, and 1 teasp salt. When lukewarm add 1 compressed cake of yeast, dissolved in 1/2 cup lukewarm water, 2 well-beaten eggs, and e...
- How To Make More Cake Recipes
- Dried Apple Cake Soak 2 cups dried apples over night. Drain off water, chop fine, and cook in 2 cups molasses until thick. When cool add 2 cups sugar, 2 teasp each nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice, 1 c...
- How To Make Cake Frosting
- Frosting 1 Beat the yolks of 2 eggs light, add 4 tablesp powdered sugar and spread while cake is warm.-[Mrs. W. R. C., Pa. Frosting 2 Take confectioner's sugar (not powdered sugar) and wet with e...
- How To Make Cake Filling
- Filling 1 Boil together until it thickens 1 cup sugar and 1 cup sour cream. Remove from fire and add 1 cup nut meats. I sometimes use chopped dates or figs for variety.- [Mrs. G. F., Minn. Filling ...
- How to Freeze Ices and Creams
- Small freezers, for family use, can now be had at such reasonable prices, that almost nine out of every ten housekeepers can count a freezer among her necessary cooking utensils. On farms where milk, ...
- How To Make Frozen Ices
- Lemon or Orange Ice For a lemon ice boil together 20 minutes 2 cups sugar with 4 cups water, or until it syrups, then add 3/4 cup strained lemon juice, let get cold, and then freeze. Proceed the same...
- How To Make Sherbets
- Milk Sherbet Mix together 1 1/2 cups sugar and the juice of 3 lemons (if small or not very juicy, use 4 lemons) and then add, slowly and gradually, stirring constantly, 4 cups milk. If this is carefu...
- How To Make Ice Creams
- Vanilla or Chocolate Ice Cream Mix well together 1 cup sugar, 1 tablesp flour and 1/2 teasp salt, then add 1 beaten egg, and very gradually 2 cups hot milk. Cook in a double boiler 20 minutes, stirri...
- How To Make Candy
- Unboiled Foundation Cream Into a bowl put the white of 1 egg, 1/2 tablesp cold water, and 3/4 teasp vanilla, and beat until well mixed, then add gradually 1 lb confectioner's sugar (or a little less)...
- How To Make Candy Recipes
- Peppermint Drops Stir until dissolved 1 1/2 cups sugar and 1/2 cup boiling water, then boil 10 minutes, remove from fire, add 6 to 8 drops oil of peppermint, and beat until the right consistency to d...
- How To Make Beverages
- Cold water would suffice as a beverage for man, were he minded to so limit himself, and providing the water was pure, the cause of good health would certainly be better served by abstinence from some ...
- Drinking Water
- It is of the utmost importance that water used for drinking and cooking should be absolutely pure. To be careless about this matter is to invite malaria, typhoid and many other dangerous diseases. If ...
- Milk and Its Care
- Milk, though classed as a beverage, is in reality a food. However, milk alone, as a food, would not suffice for the average adult, who requires well-balanced food, in which the liquid does not exceed ...
- How To Make Koumiss
- Koumiss is frequently ordered by physicians for patients who are convalescent an who require an easily digested and nutritious tonic. It is prepared as follows: Heat pure, fresh milk to about 100 degr...
- How To Make Tea
- The water for tea should be drawn fresh and brought to a quick boil and used immediately. Stale water that has lost its sparkle, or water that has been standing in the kettle will Dot make good tea. O...
- How To Make Coffee
- There are three methods of preparing coffee-one by filtering, the other by boiling, and the other by the careless process which produces a muddy and ill-flavored concoction which is as harmful as it i...
- How To Make Cereal Coffees
- Cereal Coffee The directions which are printed on the package in which cereal coffee is bought should be carefully followed, and the same rules for tea and coffee, regarding fresh water and clean pot...
- How To Make Beverage Recipes
- Egg-Nogg Beat the yolks of 3 eggs and 2 or 3 tablesp powdered sugar to a cream, add the beaten whites and a little grated nutmeg, 1/4 cup cream, stirring well, and gradually 1 pt fresh milk. Vanilla ...
- How To Make Punch Recipes
- Fruit Punch Take the juice of 1 doz oranges and 1/2 doz lemons, add 1 pineapple (fresh, grated, or canned), 2 ripe bananas, cut fine, and any other juicy fruit or berry in season. Add water and ice, ...
- How To Make Lemonade Recipes
- Quick Lemonade Melt 1 lb sugar with enough water to prevent burning, and boil till it spins a thread, then add the juice of 1 doz lemons, and the thin yellow rind of 3 or 4 lemons. Let the mixture he...
- How To Make How To Make Syrups
- Use only the best sugar and soft, filtered water, if possible, as this will save the trouble of clarification, which is necessary when inferior ingredients are used. Pour the water cold over the sugar...
- How To Make Doughnuts
- There are all kinds of doughnuts-good, bad, and indifferent. When they are not as good as they should be, it rests with the cook, who has probably failed to inform herself on all the fine points of do...
- How To Make Rasied Doughnut Recipes
- Raised Doughnuts I Scald 2 cups sweet milk, and when partly cool add 2 cups sugar, 1 cup lard, 2 well-beaten eggs, 1 cup yeast, a little grated nutmeg and flour to mix in a loaf. Let rise over night,...
- How To Make Doughnut Recipes
- Farmer's Doughnuts I Pour 1 pt boiling hot sweet milk over 1 lb sifted flour, stirring vigorously, then break in 7 eggs, one at a time, cut off little pieces with a tablespoon and drop into hot lard....
- How To Make Potato Fried Cake Recipes
- Potato Fried Cakes I To 6 boiled potatoes, each about the size of an egg, mashed while hot, add 2 cups sugar, 1 tablesp butter, 3 well-beaten eggs, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg to taste, 1 cup milk, and...
- How To Make Pancake Recipes
- Economical Pancakes Try this recipe when you run short of bread for breakfast, and the price of eggs is soaring up. To 1 qt white flour add 1 teasp salt, and 2 1/2 cups buttermilk in which dissolve 1...
- How To Make Potato Pancake Recipes
- Raw Potato Pancakes I Pare and grate 6 large potatoes, add 2 well-beaten eggs, 2 cups milk, some pepper and salt, 1 tablesp sugar, and 1 cup flour sifted with 1 teasp baking powder. Drop this soft ba...
- How To Make Buckwheat Griddlecakes
- Raised Buckwheat Griddlecakes I To make the yeast, boil until soft 3 or 4 medium sized potatoes, mash, add 1 pt flour, 1 tablesp sugar, 1 teasp salt, and a pinch of ginger. Pour some boiling water ov...
- How To Make Cornmeal Griddlecakes
- Cornmeal Griddlecakes Mix 1 pt cornmeal with 1 pt wheat flour, add 1 teasp salt, 2 level teasp cream tartar, 2 well-beaten eggs, and enough milk to make a soft batter. Next add 1 tablesp melted butte...
- How To Make Griddle Cakes
- Griddle Cakes (No Eggs) To 1 qt milk add 1 tablesp lard, and 1 tablesp baking powder and some salt mixed with flour to make a rather thin batter. Bake on very hot griddle.-[Mrs. G. S., Neb. Rice G...
- How To Make Fritters
- Plain Batter Fritters To 3 well-beaten eggs add 1 1/2 cups milk, a pinch of salt, and 3 teasp baking powder sifted with flour enough to make a stiff batter. Fry in hot lard, like doughnuts.- [Mrs. H....
- How To Make Cookie Recipes
- To keep the cookie jar replenished keeps many a mother and housewife busy and often necessitates a baking every week, for not only the young folks but children of an older growth frequently manifest...
- How To Make Cookie Recipes. Continued
- Marbled Cookies Cream 1 cup butter with 2 cups sugar, add 4 well-beaten eggs and 3 cups flour sifted with 1 teasp soda and 2 teasp cream tartar (or substitute for the soda and cream tartar 2 teasp ba...
- How To Make Ginger Cookies
- Coffee Ginger Cookies Thoroughly mix 1 cup shortening with 2 cups sugar, add 1 cup molasses and 3 teasp soda dissolved in 1 cup hot, black coffee. Let cool, then add 1 beaten egg, 2 teasp vanilla, a ...
- How To Make Oatmeal Cookies
- Oatmeal Jelly Cookies Cream 1 cup butter and 1 cup lard with 1 cup white sugar and 1 cup brown sugar, add 8 tablesp hot water, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, then stir in 6 cups oatmeal ( 3 put thro...
- How To Make Ginger Snaps
- Ginger Snaps Cream 1 cup butter with 1 cup sugar, add 1 cup molasses and 1 tablesp ginger, 1 teasp soda dissolved in a little water, and as much flour as can possibly be stirred in (not kneaded). Pin...
- How To Make Small Cake Recipes
- Coffee Drops Mix 2 cups sugar with 6 or 7 tablesp lard, add 2 eggs, 1 cup molasses, 2 teasp soda dissolved in 1 cup hot coffee, and 1 teasp allspice sifted with, about 5 cups flour. Drop by teaspsoon...
- How To Make Cracker Recipes
- Sugar Crackers Cream 1 cup butter with 2 cups sugar, add 1 egg, 1/2 teasp soda dissolved in 1/2 cup cold water, and 1 teasp cream tartar sifted with flour enough to roll. Mix soft, roll thin and bake...
- How To Make Wafer Recipes
- Graham Wafers Cream 1 cup butter with 1 cup sugar, add 1 cup sour cream, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, mix soft with graham flour, roll thin, and bake quickly. These are wholesome and good for the ...
- How To Make Biscuits, Muffins and Dumplings
- Heavy biscuits, made by newly-wed wives, have served as capital for the joke-makers for many years, but the following recipes are all so plain and the directions so easy to follow, that with their aid...
- How To Make Biscuit Recipes
- Baking Powder Biscuits I To 1 qt sifted flour add 3 heaping teasp baking powder, 1 level teasp salt, 1 tablesp each of lard and butter, and milk enough to make a soft dough. Mould quickly, handle as ...
- How To Make Biscuit Recipes. Continued
- Scotch Biscuits To 2 cups flour add 3 level teasp baking powder, 1 tablesp sugar, 1/2 teasp salt, 3 tablesp butter, 2 well-beaten eggs, 1/2 cup sweet cream and the grated rind of a lemon. Roll, cut a...
- How To Make Muffin Recipes
- Muffins To 1 beaten egg add 1 cup milk and 1 cup flour sifted with 1 teasp baking powder and a pinch of salt. Bake in hot, well greased gem tins in hot oven.-[Mrs. C. E. G., Ariz. Whole Wheat Muff...
- How To Make Gem Recipes
- Rye Gems To 1 cup white flour add 1 cup rye, 1/2 cup sugar and 1 cup sour milk in which 1 level teasp soda has been dissolved. Bake in hot, well greased gem pans, in a hot oven.-[Mrs. W. L. J., Vt. ...
- How To Make Buckwheat Cake Recipes
- Yeast Buckwheat Cakes When the cakes are first started they should be set in the evening. Use 1 qt warm water, 1 cake yeast and buckwheat and white flour, half and half, enough to make an ordinary ba...
- How To Make Dumpling Recipes
- Baked Dumplings Mix same as for biscuit, only use a little less shortening, roll thin, mark in 2-inch squares, and bake in a quick oven. When done break where marked, and serve with broth or soup pou...
- How To Make Bread
- In the culinary line there is nothing more important than to know how to prepare and bake good, wholesome bread the staff of life. The dry, tasteless composition miscalled bread by some anxious-to-g...
- The Ingredients of Bread
- Four of the simplest ingredients in the culinary laboratory enter into the composition of a loaf of bread; yet the changes through which these materials pass before a finished loaf is evolved are the ...
- About Flour For Bread Making
- The prime requisite for good bread is good flour. Without good flour the best cook cannot possibly make good bread. Obviously, it is poor economy to buy the poorer grades of flour, and if your local d...
- How To Knead Bread Dough
- Stir sufficient flour into the sponge to make a dough that may be turned on to a board sprinkled with flour; then flour the hands. Draw the dough farthest from you over into the center several times, ...
- Good Bread Without Kneading
- I find that the chief secret of good bread is mixing the dough soft. Use any favorite bread recipe, but use more wetting. Mix it so soft that you can easily beat it with a strong spoon- so soft that y...
- How To Bake Bread
- The baking of the bread is of the greatest importance, as the yeast plant must during the baking process be thoroughly killed. Otherwise it is capable of setting up fermentation in the stomach. If the...
- Yeast Recipes
- How To Make Yeast Without Yeast On Monday morning boil 2 ozs hops in 4 qts water 1/2 hour, strain, and when the liquor is lukewarm add a small handful salt and 1/2 lb brown sugar. Mix 1/2 lb flour to...
- How To Make Perpetual Yeast
- Dissolve 1 cake compressed yeast in 1 pt lukewarm unsalted water in which potatoes were boiled. Mix well, add 1/2 cup sugar, stir thoroughly, pour into a 2-qt glass jar, cover loosely, and then let st...
- How To Make Potato Yeast Recipes
- Potato Yeast To 1 qt hot, unsalted, mashed potatoes, add 1 qt hot unsalted water in which the potatoes were boiled, and a paste made of 3 tablesp flour and a little cold water. Beat well, and then ad...
- How To Make Jug Yeast
- Wash and peel 6 medium sized potatoes, cut into quarters and boil until soft. While the potatoes are cooking, steep a handful of hops in 1 pt water. When the potatoes are well done, mash them fine, si...
- How To Make White Bread Recipes
- White Bread At noon, when the potatoes are cooked for dinner, select 3 about the size of an egg, mash very fine, add 1 level tablesp salt, 2 of sugar and 3 of flour. Mix all well together, then add s...
- How To Make Yeast Bread Recipes
- Yeast Bread (Compressed Yeast) At noon pour 1 qt water from the boiled potatoes over 1 cup granulated sugar and let stand till lukewarm, then add 1 compressed yeast cake, stir well, cover, and set in...
- About "Salt Rising" or "Emptyings"
- This sponge or leavening is made by fermenting flour and water or milk without the addition of ordinary yeast. The true conditions of this fermentation are not exactly known. Judging from the odor pro...
- How To Make Salt Rising Bread Recipes
- Salt Rising Bread I To 1 small cup new milk add 1 scant cup boiling water, and stir into this 1 large cup white corn meal, and enough flour to make as thick as cake batter, 1 tablesp sugar, 1/2 teasp...
- How To Steam Bread
- For moulds, if you do not have the boughten ones, use 1-lb baking powder cans, or cottolene cans, or small lard pails, with covers to fit snugly. Butter the inside of the moulds well, and also the ins...
- How To Make Graham Bread Recipes
- Baked Graham Bread To 1/2 cup molasses or scant 3/4 cup brown sugar add 1/2 cup each white flour and corn meal, 2 cups each graham flour and sour milk, and 1 teasp soda dissolved in a little warm wat...
- How To Make Rye Bread
- Sift and mix together 1 1/2 qts rye meal, 1/2 qt white flour, 1 level tablesp salt, and 1/2 tablesp caraway seed. Make a hollow in center of flour and pour in 1 cake fresh compressed yeast dissolved i...
- How To Make Oat Meal Bread Recipes
- Oat Meal Bread I Pour 3 cups boiling water over 1 cup rolled oats, add 1/2 cup molasses or sugar, 1 tablesp lard, and 2 teasp salt. When lukewarm add 1/2 or 3/4 cake compressed yeast dissolved in a l...
- How To Make Baked Bread Recipes
- Baked Brown Bread I To 1 pt light bread sponge add 1/2 cup molasses and a little salt, and when well mixed stir in graham flour until the batter is quite thick. Put in well greased bread tins to rise...
- How To Make Corn Bread Recipes
- Light Corn Bread Add 1 tablesp sait to 1 qt water, bring to a boil and then stir in enough corn meal to make a medium thick mush. Let boil up once and remove from the fire, stir in 2 qts cold water, ...
- How To Make Bread Recipes
- Barley Bread To 1 1/2 cups hot, boiled barley mush, add 3 tablesp sugar, 2 tablesp butter, and 1 teasp salt. Mix well and when lukewarm add 1/2 cake compressed yeast, dissolved in 1/2 cup lukewarm wa...
- How To Make Bread Sticks or Braids
- Make a sponge of 1 cup scalded milk, cooled to lukewarm, 1 cup compressed yeast dissolved in 1/4 cup lukewarm water, and flour enough to make a soft batter. Cover and let stand in a warm place, and wh...
- How To Recipes For Rolls
- Raised Tea Rolls In the morning rub 2 teasp shortening (lard or butter) into 3 pts flour, add 1 teasp salt, 2 tablesp sugar, 1/2 cake compressed yeast dissolved in a little lukewarm water or milk, an...
- How To Recipes For Buns
- Plain Buns Mix together 1/4 cup lively yeast, 1 cup sweet milk, scalded and cooled to lukewarm, 1/2 teasp salt, and 2 cups warm flour. Cover, and set in a warm place to rise, and when very light work...
- How To Canning and Preserving
- During the spring, summer and early fall months, the good housekeeper on the farm finds her hands full, for in each of those seasons Mother Nature provides something in the line of fruit or vegetable ...
- How To Methods of Canning
- There are two canning methods most generally used, the first being to boil the fruit in a syrup and then filling into the jars and sealing while hot. The second method is a little more troublesome, bu...
- About the Jars for Canning
- Of course, the jars must be perfectly clean, the covers ditto, and fit exactly, and the rubbers new and of good quality. Sometimes, though very seldom, two old rubbers that seem good can be used in pl...
- How To Heating and Filling Canning Jars
- If hot fruit and syrup are poured into cold glass jars, they will immediately crack. Warm jars by placing them in hot water on the back of the stove, and when ready to fill stand the jars on a folded ...
- About Salicylic Acid
- A number of recipes for canning and preserving, which call for salicylic acid to help the preserving process, were received by the editor of this book, but have been omitted because it was deemed unwi...
- How To Cherry Canning Recipes
- Canned Cherries Pick cherries over carefully, discarding all wormy and unripe ones. Allow 1 cup sugar for each qt jar of fruit. Put the cherries and sugar in layers in the jars until they are nearly ...
- How To Cherry Preserves Recipes
- Cherries should be washed well several times to remove that strong taste so common to cherry preserves.- [Mrs. M. M. B., Mo. Cherry Preserves Wash the cherries thoroughly at least 3 times, then dr...
- How To Apple Canning Recipes
- Canned Baked Apples Fill a large pudding dish with sour apples, pared, cored and quartered. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup sugar for each qt apples and add a sprinkle of cinnamon if liked. Pour in about 1 cup...
- How To Make Crabapple Preserves
- Allow 1 lb sugar for every lb of carefully selected ripe, red crabapples. Wipe the apples clean but leave the stems on and scald them in boiling water. Make a syrup of the sugar, adding a very little ...
- How To Currant Canning Recipes
- Canned Currants For 3 lbs carefully selected stemmed, washed and drained currants, allow 1 lb sugar. Put the fruit and the sugar together to boil about 10 minutes or until the juice is pretty well ex...
- How To Grape Canning Recipes
- Canned Grapes Pick carefully selected ripe grapes from stems and put in 1-qt jars. Allow 1 cup sugar and 3 cups water for each qt can and boil until it syrups. Place the grape-filled cans on the stov...
- How To Grape Preserves Recipes
- Grape Preserves I Pick over ripe grapes, carefully discarding faulty ones, press out pulp, preserving skins or hulls. For every lb hulls allow 1 lb brown sugar. Put in preserving kettle and let stand...
- How To Pear Canning Recipes
- Canned Pears Put I teasp each of cinnamon and nutmeg in a little cteese cloth bag and drop it into a syrup made of 1 1/2 lbs sugar and 1 1/2 cups water. Slice in 2 lemons, pits removed, and let boil ...
- How To Plum Canning Recipes
- Canned Plums Wash 2 lbs plums, red, blue, yellow or green Gage. Prick them with a silver fork or a steel knitting needle (to keep the skins from breaking while boiling) and then put the plums whole i...
- How To Peach Canning Recipes
- Canned Whole Peaches Select firm, medium sized peaches, free from decay, a trifle under-ripe is better than over-ripe, pare, but do not remove the stones. Throw the fruit into cold water as fast as p...
- How To Make Preserved Citron Melons
- Peel the melons, remove the seeds and cut into small slices about 1/2 inch thick. For every 6 lbs melon allow 3 lbs sugar, the juice and yellow rind of 4 lemons and a small piece of green ginger root....
- How To Gooseberry Canning Recipes
- Canned Gooseberries-Green or Wild Remove stems and flower ends and wash carefully in warm water and drain thoroughly. To 1 qt gooseberries add 1 cup water and 2 cups sugar. Cook slowly 1 hour and the...
- How To Raspberry Canning Recipes
- Canned Raspberries Fill fruit jars with carefully selected ripe, red raspberries, and fill full to overflowing with a thick hot syrup made of sugar and water. Seal the jars tight and submerge them in...
- How To Can Strawberries
- Allow 2 qts strawberries for a 1-qt jar. Select only the finest berries, fully ripe and of a deep, dark color. Hull, wash and drain 2 qts berries. Put about 2 or 3 tablesp berries on a plate and with ...
- How To Can Strawberries Without Cooking
- Fill a qt can about 3/4 full of selected ripe strawberries, which have been hulled, washed and thoroughly drained, and then pour over them a syrup made by boiling together 5 minutes 1 1/2 cups sugar a...
- How To Fruit Preserves Recipes
- Quince Preserves Pare and quarter the fruit, removing the core and hard parts, then weigh and allow 3/4 lb sugar to 1 lb quinces. Cover the fruit with water and boil slowly until tender. Then skim ou...
- How To Melon Preserves Recipes
- Watermelon Preserves Pare the green rind from the melon, discard the soft pulp and seeds, using only the solid parts of the rind. Cut into small pieces, weigh and allow 7 lbs sugar for 10 lbs melon, ...
- How To Berry Preserves Recipes
- Preserved Elderberries To 7 lbs elderberries add boiling water to cover. Let stand about 15 minutes and then drain. Chop fine 3 lemons, removing seeds, then add them to the drained elderberries with ...
- How To Rhubarb Canning Recipes
- Baked Canned Rhubarb Cut up rhubarb, mix with the required amount of sugar, and put in a covered dish in hot oven, but add no water. When done, this will be a fine, rich sauce. Can while hot.When rhu...
- How To Can Sweet Red Peppers
- Wash dry 1 pk red bell peppers, cut a thin slice from the stem end of each and remove the seeds, then cut round and round the peppers with a pair of scissors, making strips 1/4 inch wide and as long a...
- More Canning Recipes
- Canned Pineapple Pick out the eyes and peel, and slice 1/4 inch thick and core sound, ripe pineapples. Cut into small dice or chips and put over the fire in a preserving kettle, adding 1 cup sugar To...
- How To Can String Beans
- How To Can String Beans Wash, drain and break in pieces tender, meaty, freshly gathered, green string beans or butter beans, and cook until almost done in well salted water. Turn into glass jars, and...
- How To Sweet Corn Canning Recipes
- Canned Sweet Corn I Only good, deep, milky, ripe corn is worth while canning. Pick, strip and cook immediately, the same as for table use. Then with a sharp knife shave off the kernels, but do not cu...
- How To Corn Canning Recipes
- Canned Corn Salad To 18 ears green corn, cut from the cob, add 4 large onions, 2 green peppers or 1 ripe pepper, 1 large white cabbage, all chopped fine, scant 1/4 cup salt and 1 qt vinegar. Cook abo...
- How To Can Ripe Tomatoes
- Use only good, firm, ripe tomatoes, discarding all doubtful and imperfect ones. Peel with a sharp knife, or by scalding them in hot water a few minutes, cut out all the hard parts, and cut the tomatoe...
- How To make Jellies, Jams and Marmalades
- By the time winter sets in, jellies, jams and marmalades are in great demand, and it therefore behooves the careful housewife to put up a goodly supply of these delectable sweets. When made at home fr...
- Some Jelly Making Rules
- The principal rules governing jelly making from fruit, applicable to almost all kinds of berries and fruits, are as follows: Berries or fruit should not be too ripe. They are in the best state just be...
- About Preserving Kettles and Jelly Bags
- Never use a kettle in which meats, vegetables, pickles, etc., have been cooked, for canning or sweet preserving, no matter how carefully you may clean it. It will always retain some of the old cooking...
- How To Apple Jelly Recipes
- Spiced Apple Jelly For 1/2 pk sour apples allow 2 pts vinegar, 1 pt water, 1 1/2 ozs stick cinnamon, and 1 oz whole cloves. Boil all together, and drain through a jelly bag over night. For every pt j...
- How To Currant Jelly Recipes
- Red Currant Jelly Select not too ripe currants, pick over carefully, put them in a preserving kettle, and let stand on back of range until juices draw. Stir occasionally until skins are broken, and t...
- How To Grape Jelly Recipes
- Grape Jelly Use grapes that are just beginning to ripen, but not quite ripe. Pick, wash and boil slowly with a very little water about 15 minutes. Strain through jelly bag over night, then heat juice...
- How To Wild Berry Jelly Recipes
- Cranberry Jelly Use not too ripe red berries. Pick over carefully and wash and drain. To 2 qts berries allow 1 scant pt cold water, boil briskly about 15 minutes, then turn into a jelly bag and drain...
- How To Fruit Jelly Recipes
- Quince Jelly This may be made of parings, if a little of the whole fruit is added, but all seeds must be removed, and blossom and stem ends. Almost cover with cold water, cook until very soft, then s...
- How To Make Rhubarb Jelly
- To 4 qts rhubarb cut in small pieces, but not peeled, add about 1/2 or 3/4 qt washed cherry leaves, about 1 pt fresh water, and cook slowly until rhubarb is tender. Strain through a jelly bag over nig...
- Rules for Preparing Jams and Marmalades
- Fully ripe fruit or berries can be used for jams, but it will not pay to use over-ripe fruit. Berries should be carefully picked over, washed and drained and put on the back of the stove in an agate o...
- How To Recipes For Making Jam
- Cherry Jam Stone 3 lbs cherries, stir in 2 lbs sugar, let stand 10 or 12 hours, then boil slowly until converted into a smooth jam.-[E. K., Mass. Strawberry Jam Hull, wash and drain the berries, ...
- How To Recipes For Making Marmalade
- Cherry Marmalade Remove stones from cherries, crush the stones, put in a kettle with a small quantity of water, and boil until the flavor is extracted. Put fruit in a preserving kettle, add a little ...
- How To Recipes For Making Butter
- Peach Butter Select ripe peaches, peel, remove stones and defective parts, cut in small pieces and put over the fire in a porcelain-lined kettle with a very little water. Boil slowly until soft, then...
- How To Recipes For Making Apple Butter
- Apple Butter Bring 10 gals sweet cider to the boiling point, then add 1 bu apples, peeled, cored and quartered. Let boil, skim the froth as it rises, and stir frequently. When it has boiled down abou...
- How To Make Pumpkin Butter
- Peel pumpkins, remove pulp and seeds, cut into small pieces and stew in a very little water until soft, then add 1/2 as much sugar and spices to suit taste, and boil down until very dark or until it c...
- How To Pickling - Sour and Sweet
- Every housewife who can procure or has at her disposal the necessary ingredients, is, or should be, interested in pickling recipes, since pungent and spicy relishes are generally considered necessary ...
- How To Salt Down Cucumbers For Pickles
- Have ready a perfectly clean jar, crock, or keg--whether the receptacle is glass, stone, or wood is immaterial, as long as it is clean and does not leak. Use only good, firm cucumbers, not too large, ...
- How To Salt Down Tomatoes And String Beans
- How To Salt Down String Beans Select firm, meaty, juicy and tender beans. Wash and drain, string and break or cut up in small pieces. If the beans are large and meaty, and cut up fine, on the bias, t...
- How To Cucumber Pickle Recipes
- Cucumber Pickles I To 1 gal good cider vinegar add 2 ozs ginger root, 1 oz turmeric, 1 oz whole black pepper, 1 oz whole cloves, 1 oz chili peppers, 1 lb salt, and 1/2 lb powdered mustard. Mix the mu...
- How To Sweet Pickle Recipes
- Sweet Pickles Wipe clean 200 small, firm cucumbers and let them stand over night in salt water. In the morning drain, wipe dry, and drop them into 3 qts best cider vinegar, to which has been added 2 ...
- How To Mixed Pickle Recipes
- Mixed Pickle I Cut into quarters, 5 qts green tomatoes, 1 doz green mangoes and 1/2 doz ripe mangoes, add 2 qts small cucumbers, 2 qts large cucumbers, sliced, 1 doz small white onions and 1/2 doz la...
- How To Pickle Green Tomatoes
- Green tomatoes are the most used and the most abused for pickling. Many soak them all night in salt water, which toughens them, and as a consequence green tomato pickle is not a favorite. Green tomato...
- How To Recipes For Pickling Onions
- Pickled Onions I Select small white onions and peel but do not cut them. Place in wide mouthed bottles and sprinkle some spices among them, using 1 oz whole pepper, 1 tablesp mustard seed and a few c...
- How To Recipes For Pickling Beets
- Beet Pickles Select tender beets of uniform size, wash them clean, but do not cut off the root ends, and allow an inch or two of the stem ends to remain on. Cover with boiling water and boil until te...
- How To Recipes For Pickling Cabbage
- Pickled Red Cabbage Select a nice firm, crisp red cabbage, discard the outer leaves, and cut out the stem ends and tough core. Shred the cabbage fine and then pack into a gal jar in layers, sprinklin...
- How To Recipes For Pickling Stuffed Peppers
- Stuffed Pickled Peppers I Take large green peppers, remove the stem ends and seeds and fill with the following mixture: To 2 qts chopped cabbage, add 1/2 cup mustard seed, 2 tablesp celery seed and 2...
- How To Sweet Pickled Recipes
- Sweet Plum Pickles Wipe 7 lbs firm, ripe plums, pack them into a jar and pour over them a syrup made by boiling together 1 qt cider vinegar, 4 lbs sugar and 2 tablesp cinnamon and 1 tablesp cloves ti...
- How To Make Sweet Pickled Apples
- These are preferred by many to pickled pears and this recipe will prove doubly welcome when all the fruit cans for air-tight sealing are used up, as the sweet apple pickle will keep very well in cover...
- More Pickling Recipes
- Pickled Yellow Tomatoes Pour into a jar 1 gal good cider vinegar salted to taste and then place in it a small cheese cloth bag containing 1/2 teasp each of whole allspice and cinnamon, 1 teasp whole ...
- How To Make Sauerkraut
- Cabbage in the form of kraut, if properly made and cared for, is nutritious and makes a desirable dish, being convenient and very little trouble to prepare. I have been using the following recipe for ...
- How To Make Catsups and Relishes
- Sauces and spiced relishes, in one shape or another, are to be found on almost every well equipped table, and while a too liberal indulgence in them is properly considered unwholesome, yet they fill a...
- How To Make Ripe Tomato Catsup
- Wash and cut out the stem end of 1 pk good, ripe tomatoes. Cut up and boil until very soft, then rub through a colander first, and a fine sieve afterward. This will remove all the peel and seeds. Pour...
- How To Make Green Tomato Catsup
- Chop fine 1/2 bu green tomatoes and 2 large heads white cabbage, 2 doz onions, and 6 red peppers. To this add 2 good-sized pieces horseradish root, grated, and 1 cup salt. Mix thoroughly, put in a che...
- How To Tomato Catsup Recipes
- Cold Tomato Catsup To 1 pk ripe, peeled tomatoes, chopped fine and drained well, add 1 pt grated horseradish, 6 large, peeled onions and 6 large stalks celery, both chopped fine, 1 tablesp each celer...
- How To Peach Catsup Recipes
- Peach Catsup When you are preparing peaches for canning or preserving, place the peelings and the inferior peaches in an earthen kettle, and boil in a very little water and a little salt. Press first...
- How To Fruit Catsup Recipes
- Plum Catsup To 4 qts Damson plums, stewed and rubbed through a sieve, add 2 lbs brown sugar, 1 cup vinegar and 1 teasp ground cloves and cinnamon. A little pepper, allspice and salt may also be added...
- How To Grape Catsup Recipes
- Green Grape Catsup Stem green grapes, wash and cook until soft, with just enough water to keep from burning, then strain out the skins and seeds through a colander. Weigh the strained pulp and allow ...
- More Catsup Recipes
- Gooseberry Catsup To 12 lbs gooseberries add 6 lbs sugar, 1 qt vinegar, 2 tablesp each cloves, cinnamon and allspice, 1 tablesp black pepper, and 1/2 teasp salt. Boil about one hour, or until thick. ...
- How To Chili Sauce Recipes
- Cooked Chili Sauce Peel and cut 1 pk sound, ripe tomatoes and cook 1 hour, then add 1 qt onions, 3 green peppers and 3 bunches celery, all chopped fine, 1/2 cup salt, 1 teasp each mustard, black pepp...
- How To Tomato Soy Recipes
- Green Tomato Soy Slice 2 gals green tomatoes without peeling, and 12 large, peeled onions, add 1 qt sugar, 2 tablesp each dry mustard, salt and black pepper, 1 tablesp each allspice and cloves and 2 ...
- How To Relish Recipes
- Wild Grape Relish Wash the grapes and cook them with only just enough water to prevent scorching. When soft, press through a sieve, and to each 10 lbs pulp add 5 lbs sugar, 1 tablesp ground cinnamon,...
- Addenda
- Since this book was first published, in 1907, various changes have been made, and new illustrations inserted, for which the recipes will be found on the following pages. This is felt to be a distinct ...
- How To Make Brown Bread, Bran Muffins, and Gluten Drop Biscuits
- Brown Bread, Bran Muffins, and Gluten Drop Biscuits. Brown Bread Mix 1 cup each of rye meal, corn meal, graham flour, and 1 teasp salt, then stir in a mixture made of 2 cups sour milk, 1 3/4 c...
- How To Make German Rusks
- German Rusks. Mix together 1 pt mashed potatoes, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup liquid yeast. Let stand in a warm place overnight, and next morning add 1 scant cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 or 3 well-beaten ...
- How To Make Prune Pie
- Prune Pie. Prune Pie 1 Soak overnight 1 cup prunes in 1 1/2 cups water. In the morning remove the stones, add the juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, 3/4 cup sugar mixed with 1 heaping tablesp flo...
- How To Make Checkerboard Cake
- Checkerboard Cake. Showing Layers of Checkerboard Cake Cream 1 cup sugar with butter the size of an egg. Break into this 2 eggs and beat together well with egg beater. Stir in 1 cup sour mil...
- How To Make Indian Plum Pudding
- Indian Plum Pudding. Make a long, narrow bag of cotton flannel or strong muslin. Wet it in hot water, dip the right side in flour, turn it wrong side out, and fill about 3/4 full with the followi...
- How To Make Caramel Layer Cake
- Caramel Layer Cake. Cream 4 tablesp butter and 1 cup sugar, add one at a time the yolks of 2 eggs, then gradually 1/2 cup milk flavored with 1 teasp vanilla. Into 1 1/2 cups flour mix 1/2 teasp s...
- How To Make Egg Timbales with Peas
- Egg Timbales with Peas. Beat 3 eggs, add 3/4 cup milk, season with salt and pepper, a few drops of onion juice, and 2 tablesp grated cheese. Turn into buttered molds, set in a pan of hot water, c...
- How To Make Afternoon Tea Cakes
- Afternoon Tea Cakes. Cream well together 2 heaping tablesp butter and 1 cup granulated sugar. Drop in, one at a time, 3 unbeaten eggs, beating very hard after each is added. Mix together and then...
- How To Make Golden Muffins
- Golden Muffins. Sift 2 cups flour into a dish, add 3 heaping tablesp yellow corn meal, rub into this 3 tablesp butter, add a pinch of salt, 2 tablesp sugar and sift in 1/4 teasp bicarbonate of so...
- How To Make Christmas Plum Pudding
- Christmas Plum Pudding. Take 1 pt bottle grape juice and soak therein 1 small loaf of bread. Take 1 lb finely chopped suet, 2 lbs each of raisins and currants, and 1 cup walnuts, broken, not chop...
- How To Make Grape Foam
- Grape Foam. Pour a large coffee cup 1/4 full of grape juice, put in scant 1/2 cup sugar and fill up with boiling water. Turn into a basin and add 1/2 cup more of water and let come to a boil. Whe...
- How To Make Plain Pumpkin Pie
- Plain Pumpkin Pie. Pare a good pumpkin or squash and cut into strips, and steam in a colander over a kettle of boiling water. When perfectly tender, pass through a coarse sieve. To each pt pumpki...
- How To Make Cream Pumpkin Pie
- Cream Pumpkin Pie. To 1 pt pumpkin add 1 cup sugar, 1 cup cream or rich milk, 2 well-beaten eggs, 2 tablesp melted butter (if cream is not used), 1 teasp each of cinnamon and ginger, and 1/2 teas...
- How To Make Longfellow Cake
- Longfellow Cake. This cake is really a white fruit cake, and to make it you will need 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour and 2 teasp baking powder, 1 cup seeded raisins, 1 cup t...
- How To Make Doughnuts with Jelly
- Doughnuts With Jelly. To 2 eggs beaten together, add 2 tablesp lard, not melted, 1 coffee cup granulated sugar, 1/2 pt milk, enough flour to make soft dough, 1 heaping teasp baking powder sifted ...
- How To Make Potato Rolls
- Potato Rolls. Pare and boil until soft 4 good-sized potatoes, then mash them smooth and add 1 heaping tablesp butter, 1 teasp salt, 1 or 2 well-beaten eggs, 1 pt sweet milk, lukewarm, and 1 scant...
- How To Make Crescent Buns
- Crescent Buns. Mix together 1/4 cup lively yeast, 1 cup sweet milk, scalded and cooled to lukewarm, 1/2 teasp salt, and 2 cups warm flour. Cover and set in warm place to rise, and when very light...
- How To Make Sweet Cider Jelly
- Sweet Cider Jelly. This is a dessert which should be prepared some hours before serving. To make it dissolve 2 1/2 heaping tablesp of clear calf's foot gelatin in 1/2 cup boiling water. To this a...
- How To Make Jellied Chicken
- Jellied Chicken. Place some small pieces of chicken in a saucepan half filled with boiling water and cook until tender. Remove the chicken and when cool separate the meat from the bones and the s...
- How To Make Grape Nectar
- Grape Nectar. To 1 pt grape juice add strained juice of 2 lemons and 1 orange, 1 cup sugar, and 1 qt cold water. Serve ice cold. ...
- How To Make Grandmother's Strawberry Pie
- Grandmother's Strawberry Pie. Make a good short dough, a little shorter than biscuit dough, and as soft as it is possible to handle it. Press out to about 1/2 inch thick, put in a deep square pi...
- How To Make Raisin Sponge Roll
- Raisin Sponge Roll. To 4 eggs add scant 3/4 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1/4 teasp baking soda, 1/2 teasp cream of tartar and a pinch of salt. Cream and beat the yolks with the sugar, add flour, sifte...
- How To Make English Scones
- English Scones. Rub 2 heaping teasp butter into 4 cups flour, add 1 tablesp of sugar, 1/4 teasp salt, 1 teasp baking soda and 2 teasp cream of tartar. Beat up 1 egg, put half of it into a cup, th...
- How To Make Colonial Cherry Punch
- Colonial Cherry Punch. Place a piece of ice in the bottom of each glass, add 2 tablesp canned cherries, 2 tablesp orange juice, 2 peach halves (or any other fruit that will combine flavors nicely...
- How To Make Cheese Cakes
- Cheese Cakes. To 1 cup flour add a pinch of salt, 4 large tablesp melted lard and 2 heaping tablesp grated cheese-dry American cheese is best. Mix thoroughly with a silver fork and drop in a very...
- How To Make A Cornish Pasty and Dish of Tay
- A Cornish Pasty and a Dish of Tay. Should you be driving in Cornwall, England, late in the afternoon and begin to feel that it is time for afternoon tea, you will hail with gladness the thatched ...
- How To Make Lemon Jelly
- Lemon Jelly. Soak 2 tablesp granulated gelatin in 1/2 cup cold water 1/2' hour, then add 2 1/2 cups boiling water, 1 cup sugar, and 1/2 cup strained lemon juice. Pour in a wet mold and set away t...
- How To Make Apple Raisin Cake
- Apple Raisin Cake. Mix 1 small cup bread sponge, 1/2 cup warm water, 1/4 teasp salt, 3 tablesp each sugar and lard, 1 beaten egg and 1 cup raisins. Stir in 1 1/2 cups flour, let rise in a warm pl...
- How To Make Beet and Potato Salad
- Beet and Potato Salad. Boil beets as usual, slip off the skins, and cut in rather thick slices, then, while still warm, put them in a vinegar bath slightly salted and sweetened. Leave them in the...
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