The Young Wife's Cook Book | by Hannah Mary Peterson
With receipts of the best dishes for breakfast, dinner and tea. Containing also a large number of new receipts, for cooking and preparing in all different ways: soups, poultry, puddings, fish, game, pies, oysters, tea cakes, pastries, terrapins, jellies, desserts, lobsters, hot rolls, cakes, meats, preserves, biscuits, omelets, salads, pickles, meat pies, stews, sauces, etc. With miscellaneous receipts and invaluable hints to wives in every article of household use. The receipts contained in "The Young Wife's Cook Book," have been thoroughly tested by the author for many years, and will be found to be invaluable to every Housekeeper. No Wife, nor indeed any Lady, or any Family, should be without a copy of "The Young Wife's Cook Book."
| Title | The Young Wife's Cook Book |
| Author | Hannah Mary Peterson |
| Publisher | T. B. Peterson & Brothers |
| Year | 1870 |
| Copyright | 1870, T. B. Peterson & Brothers |
| Amazon | The Young Wife's Cook Book |
By The Author Of "The National Cook Book."
Preface- The Young Wife's Cook Book will be found to contain a carefully prepared system of cooking, comprising receipts for preparing everything suitable to go on any one's table, as well as for preparing goo...
Marriage Advice- A Model Christian Dear Brother, I have got one of the handsomest farms in the State, and have it nearly paid for. Crops are good, and prices never were better. We have had a glorious revival of reli...
How To Eat Properly- Quantity Of Food The proper quantity of food to be taken at a meal is best regulated by a person's own feelings. If we find that we dined too freely to-day, to-morrow we should reduce the quantity on...
Curiosities- A Novel Way To Clean A Watch I cannot conceive, my dear, what's the matter with my watch: I think it must want cleaning, exclaimed an indulgent husband to his better half, the other day. No, pa, ...
Curiosities. Part 2- Think Thought engenders thought. Place one idea upon paper - another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page. You cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought there wh...
Curiosities. Part 3- Don't Judge By Appearances Coleridge, being seated at dinner opposite to a silent gentleman with a high forehead, theorized himself into an exalted opinion of that person's intellectual powers. He wa...
Curiosities. Part 4- The Prince Of Gentlemen Here, you bog-trotter, said a coxcomb, with a patronizing air, come and tell me the greatest lie you can, and I'll treat you to a jug of whisky punch. On my word, answer...
Curiosities. Part 5- --- The hand of diligence defeateth want; prosperity and success are the industrious man's attendants. --- The Duke of Orleans, on being appointed Regent of France, insisted on having the power of ...
Curiosities. Part 6- --- Good temper is like a sunny day, it sheds a brightness over every thing; it is the sweetener of toil, and the soother of disquietude. --- Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and...
Curiosities. Part 7- --- True wisdom is less presuming than folly; the wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. --- 'Tis bein...
Curiosities. Part 8- --- A man praising Perry, said it was so excellent a beverage, that in great quantities it always made him fat. I have seen the time, said another, when it made you lean. When? asked the eulogi...
Curiosities. Part 9- A tourist stopping at a hotel saw on the bill of fare, Fried Water Chicken. Desiring to know what this meant, he ordered a dish, and finding it excellent, recommended it to the rest of his party, la...
Curiosities. Part 10- --- The more quietly and peaceably we get on, the better - the better for ourselves, the better for the neighbors. In nine cases out of ten, the wisest course is, if a man cheat you, to quit dealing ...
Curiosities. Part 11- --- Serjeant Cockle, who was a rough, blustering advocate, once got from a witness more than he gave. In a trial of a right of fishery, he asked the witness, Don't you love fish? Ay, replied the ...
Curiosities. Part 12- --- A learned Clergyman in Maine was accosted in the following manner by an illiterate preacher who despised education: - Sir, you have been to college I suppose? Yes, sir, was the reply. I am t...
Curiosities. Part 13- --- At a recent festive meeting, a married man (who should have known better) proposed - The Ladies: Who divide our sorrows, double our joys, and treble our expenses! --- Whatever thou resolvest ...
Curiosities. Part 14- --- It is profitable, says Seneca, to set some keeper over one's self - to have somebody in our eye whom we may suppose to be present and privy to our very thoughts; to do every thing we do as if ...
Curiosities. Part 15- --- An inexpensive gravy for all stews, hashes, etc., may be made of a large onion, some whole pepper, a piece of bread toasted brown, but not burned, and a dessert-spoonful of walnut catsup boiled i...
Curiosities. Part 16- --- As the late Professor------ was one day walking near Aberdeen, he met a well-known individual of weak intellect. Pray, said the Professor, how long can a person live without brains? I dinna ...
Curiosities. Part 17- --- Dr. Marsh says, the best cure for the hysterics is to discharge the servant girl. In his opinion there is nothing like work to keep the nervous system from becoming: unstrung. Some women think th...
Curiosities. Part 18- --- It is said by those who know, that Lamb on Roast Pig is relished by every one. --- Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. Bett...
Curiosities. Part 19- --- A gentleman calling one morning on a female friend, was answered by the servant that she was not at home. Thank you, give her this, said he, handing a card, and giving the boy a sixpence. Yes,...
Curiosities. Part 20- --- For a man to make mere recreations his main actions and grand employments, is full as foolish and unreasonable as if he should make all his diet of physic and sauces, and his whole garment of not...
Curiosities. Part 21- --- The pride of emptiness is an abomination; and to talk such, is the foolishness of folly. Nevertheless, it is the part of wisdom to bear with patience their impertinence, and to pity their absurdi...
Curiosities. Part 22- --- The following instructions are said to have been given by Lord Palmerston to a Foreign Office Clerk, for answering a letter: Tell him - 1st, we'll see; 2d, to use blacker ink; 3d, to round his l...
Curiosities. Part 23- --- The reasoning power is the corner-stone of the intellectual building, giving grace and strength to the whole structure. --- Nothing so much vexes a surgeon as to be sent for in great haste, and...
Curiosities. Part 24- --- Thunder and lightning are believed not to occur in the Arctic or Antarctic regions, beyond the seventy-fifth degree of north latitude; and even as low as the seventieth degree these phenomena are...
Curiosities. Part 25- --- An old bachelor says that he is delighted at having been called honey by the girl he loves, because she saluted him at their last meeting as old Bees-wax! --- A Cuban physician having been ...
Household Recipes- To Take Rust Out Of Steel Cover the steel with sweet oil, well rubbed on it, and in forty-eight hours use unslaked lime finely powdered, to rub until all the rust disappears. Low Mantel-Pieces Low ...
Health- Gray Hair The sedentary, the studious, the debilitated, and the sickly, are, with very few exceptions, those who are earliest visited with gray hair. The agricultural laborer, the seaman, and all who...
How To Make Bouillon- A kind of French soup or stew, prepared as follows: An earthen pot, made to hold from one to seven pounds of meat is provided. A sufficient quantity of lean meat, usually part of the leg or shoulder, ...
How To Make Soups- Beef Soup Crack the bone of a shin of beef, and put it on to boil, in one quart of water to every pound of meat, and a large tea-spoonful of salt to each quart of water. Let it boil two hours; and sk...
How To Make Soups. Continued- Veal Soup Take a knuckle of veal, put it in a pot with four quarts of water, and add a teaspoonful of salt to each quart. Pare and slice three onions, four turnips, two carrots, a bunch of sweet herb...
How To Make Mock Turtle Soup- Scald a calf's head, which cut into inch squares; wash and clean them well, dry them with a cloth, and put them into a stew-pan, with two gallons of stock gravy, sweet basil, knotted marjoram, savory,...
How To Make White Soup- Take two quarts of the stock, and boil the crumb of a roll in a gill of milk; beat the yolks of six hard-boiled eggs with three ounces of sweet almonds very well in a mortar, with a little cayenne pep...
How To Make Clam Soup- Boil fifty clams in two quarts of water, mix together, and add to it a little butter and flour. Just before it is taken off the fire, stir in the yolks of two eggs, and some cream, with a few sprigs o...
How To Make Green Pea Soup Without Meat- Take a quart of young green peas, and divide half a pint from them. Put them on in boiling water; boil until tender, then pour off the water and set it by to make the soup with. Put the boiled peas in...
How To Cook Fish- Fish As Food There is much nourishment in fish, little less than in butcher's meat, weight for weight; and in effect it may be more nourishing, considering how, from its soft fibre, fish is more easi...
How To Cook Shad- How To Cure Shad Clean the shad nicely, place them in layers with back down, and laid open so as the inside of the fish may be up. Sprinkle each fish plentifully with ground salt, and let them stand ...
How To Cook Rock Fish- Fried Rock Clean and score your fish, wash, and wipe them dry, and season well with Cayenne pepper and salt. Let them stand at least one hour before they are cooked, that the seasoning may have time ...
How To Cook Herrings- Boiled Herrings Put them into boiling water with a wineglassful of vinegar and a tablespoonful of salt, and simmer ten minutes; serve on a napkin, with sauce in a tureen. Potted Herring Clean your ...
How To Cook Cod Fish- Cakes Or Balls Made From Cold Cod Fish Take out all the bones, and mash it up with an equal quantity of potatoes. Season highly with Cayenne pepper and salt. Add as much beaten egg as will form a pas...
How To Make Oyster Omelet- Oyster Omelet, No. 1 Beat four eggs very light. Cut the hard part out of eight or a dozen oysters, according to their size, wipe them dry, and cut them up in small pieces, stir them into the beaten e...
How To Cook Oysters- Fried Oysters Select the largest oysters for frying. Take them out of their liquor with a fork, and endeavor in doing so to rinse off all the particles of shell which may adhere to them. Dry them bet...
How To Cook Terrapins- Put the terrapins on in boiling water and let them boil ten minutes, take them out and with a coarse cloth rub all the skin off the head, neck, and claws, also the thin shell that may come loose. Then...
How To Cook Lobster- Lobster Salad One large lobster, three tablespoon-fuls of French mustard, or two dessertspoonfuls of common mixed mustard, one gill and a half of vinegar, one gill and a half of sweet oil, the yolks ...
How To Cook Meats- Meats The finest grained beef is the best, the flesh is of a fine red, and the fat a light cream color, but not yellow; the fat, too, is solid and firm; the lean of mutton should be of a red color, a...
How To Make Beef A-La-Mode- Beef A-La-Mode, No. 1 A round of beef is the best for this purpose. With a sharp knife cut incisions in the meat about an inch apart, and within one inch of the opposite side. Season it with pepper a...
How To Make Corned Beef- Boiled Corned Beef, No. 1 Put on the meat in cold water; allow one quart of water to every pound of meat. The slower it boils the better it will be. For every pound of meat, let it boil fifteen minut...
How To Make Beefsteaks- Italian Beefsteak Score a steak transversely with a sharp knife without cutting it through. Lay it in a stew-pan with a small piece of butter; season with pepper, salt, and an onion chopped very fine...
How To Make French Stew- French Stew, No. 1 Cut up one pound of beef in small pieces about an inch square, pare and slice six onions; put a layer of the meat and a layer of onions in a stew-pan, with salt and pepper and a li...
How To Cook Beef- Good beef is easily distinguished by a practiced eye. It is of fine, smooth, open grain; the color of the fat should be white, and the lean a bright red. If the color be dark and of a brick dust hue, ...
How To Cook Hashes- A hash is a very convenient mode of disposing of cold meat, but without due attention is an indigestible preparation. The cook must always remember that the meat has been once cooked, and must now be ...
How To Cook Hashes. Part 2- Minced Beef Chop some cold roast beef as fine as possible, pour over it some of the cold gravy which was left, put it over the fire, and as soon as it is hot serve it with boiled or poached eggs. Co...
How To Cook Hashes. Part 3- Cold Potatoes And Beef Slice the beef and the potatoes; put an onion to a good gravy, either from the joint, or stewed from the bones; let the potatoes and beef simmer in the gravy. Add vinegar, pepp...
How To Cook Mutton- The Only Cold Shoulder Which Can Be Shown To A Friend Without Offence A shoulder of lamb, or a part of one, being left cold, proceed in the following manner. Score the shoulder in squares, rub it w...
How To Cook Mutton. Continued- Curried Boiled Mutton Cut into neat slices three quarters of a pound of cold boiled mutton. Sprinkle over it a teaspoonful of salt, two dessertspoonsful of curry powder, and a table-spoonful of flour...
How To Cook Lamb- Boiled Leg Of Lamb Trim off all the loose fat, cut off the shank, wash and wipe it dry; dredge it with flour and tie it in a clean cloth; put it in boiling water enough to cover it. The water should ...
How To Cook Veal- Breast Of Veal Stewed White Cut a piece off each end; make a forcemeat as follows: Boil the sweetbread, cut it very small, some grated bread, a little beef suet, two eggs, a little milk, some nutmeg,...
How To Cook Veal. Part 2- Fried Veal With Tomatoes Cut some veal in thin slices, season it, and fry it of a nice brown. Have ready some tomatoes which have been stewed very dry, pass them through a sieve to take out the seeds...
How To Cook Veal. Part 3- French Stew Of Veal Boil a knuckle of veal in just enough water to cover it, with a little salt. When the veal is tender, pour off the water it was boiled in and save it. Cut the veal in small pieces...
How To Cook Veal. Part 4- Veal Sausage To cold veal, finely chopped, add the same quantity of cold mashed potatoes; season with pepper and salt to the taste; make it out in small cakes; flour them, and fry them a light brown ...
How To Cook Calf's Head Stewed, With Oyster Sauce- Soak half of a small calf's head (without the skin) for one hour in cold water, with a teacupful of vinegar in it. Well wash it in two or three waters; put it into a stew-pan, with two onions, a bay ...
How To Cook Sweet-Breads- Sweet-Bread Fried Cut sweet-breads into long slices, beat up the yolk of an egg, and rub it over them with a feather. Make a seasoning of pepper, salt, and grated bread; strew this over, and fry them...
How To Cook Chicken- Croquettes Of Cold Chicken Mince some cold chicken very fine with a little suet; season it with pepper, salt, and some parsley chopped fine; add a little grated nutmeg; put part of the mixture into a...
How To Cook Poultry- An Excellent Hash From Cold Poultry Cut the meat in pieces, put the trimmings and bones in a saucepan with some pepper, salt, a slice of lean ham, and a little onion. Simmer this for half an hour, th...
How To Cook Turkey- How To Roast A Turkey With Oysters When it is trussed for roasting, cut the liver to pieces and set it over the fire in a stew-pan, with half a pint of oysters washed, and their liquor, which must be...
How To Cook Duck- Roast Duck Clean and prepare them as other poultry. Crumb the inside of a small loaf of baker's bread, to which add three ounces of butter, one large onion chopped fine, with pepper and salt to taste...
How To Cook Giblets- Giblet Pie Clean the giblets, cut the legs in two, the wings and neck into three, and the gizzard into four pieces, season them highly with pepper and salt, pour a little water on them and stew them ...
How To Cook Rabbit- Rabbit A-La-Francaise Cut the rabbit in pieces, and season it highly with salt and pepper, and a very little mace. Just cover it with water. When the meat is quite tender, mix some flour with a large...
How To Cook Venison- Best Way Of Cooking Venison Cut your venison in rather thin slices, pound them, lay them on a dish, and send them to the table. Have a chafing-dish on the table, lay some of the slices of venison in ...
Pork Scrapple- Scrapple, No. 1 This is generally made of the head, feet, and any pieces which may be left after having made sausage meat. Scrape and wash well all the pieces designed for the scrapple, and put them ...
How To Cook Pork- Pork Steaks Cut the pork into slices, season with Cayenne pepper, salt, and pulverized sage. Fry them a fine brown on both sides. Place a form of cranberry sauce in the centre of the dish, and lay th...
How To Cook Ham- How To Cook A Ham Never put a ham in cold water, and be equally careful never to place one in boiling water. First, let the water become lukewarm, and then put the ham in. Let it simmer or boil light...
How To Cook Roast Pig- Roast Pig Prepare the pig by cutting off the feet, scraping and cleansing the head and ears, cutting out the tongue and eyes, and cleaning the throat. Wash it perfectly clean, and wipe it dry. Make a...
How To Cook Potatoes- Potato Kale Six potatoes, half head of cabbage, two ounces of butter, one gill of cream. Put your cabbage on to boil, with a little salt in the water; when it is nearly done, pare your potatoes and p...
How To Cook Spinach- Spinach, No. 1 Wash it well through several waters, as it is apt to be gritty. Put it into a vegetable dish, and strew over the top, eggs which have been boiled hard and finely chopped, or poached eg...
How To Cook Tomatoes- Baked Tomatoes Put some tomatoes into a pan, with a small lump of butter on each. Put them in the oven, and bake them till the skin shrivels. Serve them hot. Each person at the table dresses them on ...
How To Cook Celery- Celery Sauce Wash two heads of fine white celery, and cut it into small pieces; put it into a pint and a quarter of new milk, and simmer till quite tender (about an hour), then rub it through a fine ...
How To Cook Vegetables- Boiled Dried Beans Put a piece of pickled pork in a pot with two quarts of water. In another pot put one quart of dried beans, which must have been carefully picked and washed. As soon as the beans b...
How To Cook Carrots- Carrots A-La-Francaise Scrape the carrots, cut the small ends into two, and the large ends into eight pieces. Boil in water, with a dessertspoonful of salt and two tablespoonfuls of sugar, for one ho...
How To Cook Egg-Plant- Egg-Plant. (French Mode.) Cut an egg-plant in half, but do not cut off the rind; then with a sharp knife score it very deeply, both lengthwise and crosswise, but be careful not to break the skin in s...
How To Cook Mock Oysters- Take six ears of new corn and grate and scrape them well. Beat one egg very light, and add to it, beating all well together, one tablespoonful of flour, one tablespoonful of cream, and a little pepper...
How To Make Cold Slaw- Cut a cabbage in half, and with a sharp knife shave it down very finely. Make a dressing of one egg well beaten, half a gill of vinegar, salt to taste, and a teaspoonful of butter. Beat the egg light,...
The Rhubarb Leaf As A Green Vegetable- Take the leaf (the youngest is the best) and divest it of the live stems that run to the right and left hands, and up the centre in connection with the fruit (those stems containing nearly all the fru...
A Very Nice And Novel Dish Where Water-Cresses Are Plentiful- Collect a tolerably large quantity of water-cresses. This may be done by children on a holiday, affording them healthful recreation. Lay the cress in strong salt and water, to free it from insects. Pi...
Endive May Be Cooked As A Dinner Vegetable- Endive forms an excellent vegetable when cooked for the dinner-table in the following manner. Take two good endives, not blanched, separate the leaves, and boil them in two waters to extract the bitte...
How To Make Apples Pies- How To Prepare Apples For Pies Pare and core your apples, cut them in slices, and throw them into cold water. Then take them out of the water and put them into a stewpan. If the apples are tender, th...
How To Make Pies- Puff-Paste One pound of butter, one pound of flour. Wash your butter in cold water to extract the salt; work it well with a broad wooden spoon in order to get out all the water. Lay it between clean ...
How To Make Dumplings- Paste For Dumplings Without Shortening. Put into a pan as much flour as will make dough enough for the number of dumplings required. Add a little salt, and pour over it as much boiling water as wil...
How To Make Rich Plum Pudding- Stone carefully one pound of best raisins, wash and pick one pound of currants. Chop very small one pound of fresh beef suet, blanch and chop small, or pound, two ounces of sweet almonds and one ounc...
An Excellent Pudding Of Pieces Of Stale Bread, Etc- Soak two pounds of pieces of dry stale bread, or pieces of stale toast, all night, in plenty of water, with a plate laid on the top of them, just to keep the bread under the water; next morning pour o...
How To Make Rice Puddings- Ground Rice Puddings Moisten two ounces of ground rice with half a gill of new milk, and add a gill of boiling milk; stir over the fire for ten minutes, then let it get cold. Beat two ounces of fresh...
How To Make Puddings- French Bread Pudding One half of a four cent bakers loaf, one quart of milk, three eggs, one gill of dried currants. Sugar to the taste. Boil the milk, slice the bread, and pour the boiling milk over...
How To Make Puddings. Part 2- Buttermilk Pudding Mix a pint of new milk with half a pint of buttermilk. Turn it to a curd with some rennet, drain off the whey, and mix with the curd some bread crumbs, a little grated lemon peel, ...
How To Make Puddings. Part 3- German Pudding Quarter of a pound of suet chopped fine, quarter of a pound of bread crumbs, quarter of a pound of sugar, three good-sized apples cut up small. Butter a pan and put in a layer of the b...
How To Make Puddings. Part 4- English Molasses Pudding A quarter pound of raw potatoes, scraped, a quarter pound of raw carrots, scraped, a quarter pound of currants, and the same quantity, each, of suet chopped fine, and flour; ...
How To Make Apple Puddings- Half a pound of mashed apple, half a pound of butter, half a pound of sugar, five eggs, half a nutmeg, two table-spoonfuls of brandy, or rosewater if preferred. Peel the apples and core them; cut them...
How To Make Arrow-Root Pudding- Mix four tablespoonfuls of arrowroot in some cold milk. Boil in half a pint of milk a few bitter almonds or lemon peel, take them out and pour the hot milk over the dissolved arrow-root, stir it and s...
How To Make Cocoanut Pudding- Beat together three quarters of a pound of sugar and three quarters of a pound of butter; stir into this one pound of grated nut, and lastly the whites of nine eggs beaten to a froth, a wineglass of b...
How To Make Indian Pudding- Take one quart of sweet milk, half pint Indian meal, two or three eggs, half teaspoonful salt, and four tablespoonfuls sugar. Boil one pint of the milk, stir in the meal while boiling, cook five minut...
How To Make Boiled Batter Pudding- Three eggs, one ounce of butter, one pint of milk, three tablespoonfuls of flour, a little salt. Put the flour into a basin, and add sufficient milk to moisten it; carefully rub down all the lumps wit...
How To Make Custards- Custard With Rice Boil some rice in milk, till quite tender, with cinnamon and a very few hitter almonds; when cold, sweeten with powdered sugar; form a species of wall round a glass dish, and pour a...
How To Make Creams- Apple Cream Stew half a dozen tender apples, mash them to a pulp; whisk the whites of six eggs till they are very light, and as soon as the apples are cold, add them to the eggs with five ounces of p...
How To Make Blanc Manges- Blanc Mange, A-La-Francaise Blanch one pound of sweet and twenty bitter almonds, drain them on a sieve, and afterward dry them by rubbing them in a napkin. Pound them in a mortar, moistening them fro...
How To Make Waffles- Jersey Waffles Two pounds of flour, one quart of milk, four eggs well beaten, and two ounces of melted butter. Beat the eggs, stir in the milk and butter, then add the flour. Beat the batter till qui...
How To Make Muffins- Muffins, No. 1 One quart of milk, four eggs, a little salt, and a tablespoonful of melted butter. Beat the yolks of the eggs, add the milk, salt, and butter, and as much flour as will make a batter, ...
How To Make Sally Lunn- Sally Lunn, With Sugar One quart of flour, two ounces of butter, two ounces of brown sugar, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of yeast, a small quantity caraway seed and cinnamon, and about half a pint of...
How To Make Buckwheat Cakes Without Yeast- To one quart of lukewarm water add as much buckwheat meal as will make a batter of the proper thickness. Add to this a little salt, a teaspoonful of soda dissolved, and a teaspoonful of tartaric acid ...
How To Make Cakes- Rice Batter Cakes Take a pint of boiled rice, mash it well, add three well beaten eggs, a quart of milk, a little salt, and enough flour to form a batter. Add a teacupful of home made yeast. When lig...
How To Make Cakes. Part 2- Cracknels To a pint of rich milk, put about two ounces of butter and a good spoonful of yeast. Make it just warm, and mix into it as much fine flour as will make it a light dough; roll it out very th...
How To Make Cakes. Part 3- Lady Cake Three quarters of a pound of butter, three quarters of a pound of sugar, one pound of flour, the whites of sixteen eggs, half an ounce of bitter almonds, two tablespoonfuls of rose water. B...
How To Make Cakes. Part 4- Temperance Cake Two pounds of flour, three-quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of pulverised sugar, one grated nutmeg, and six eggs well beaten. After the flour and butter have been thoroughly r...
How To Make Cakes. Part 5- Parrish Cake Three cups of flour, two cups of sugar, one cup of butter; one cup of milk, two eggs, and one small teaspoonful of soda, dissolved. Beat all well together, and add a little lemon juice a...
How To Make Cakes. Part 6- Soft Ginger Cake One pint of molasses, three eggs, four cupfuls of flour, one cupful of sour cream, one cupful of butter and lard, mixed, one teaspoonful of salseratus, dissolved in the cream, spices...
How To Make Cakes. Part 7- Spanish Buns One pound of flour, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, two tablespoonfuls of rose-water, four eggs, one gill of yeast, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, half a teaspo...
How To Make Rice Fritters- Wash, drain, and dry three ounces of the best rice; put it into a sauce-pan with three ounces of sugar, the thin rind of half a lemon, an inch of cinnamon, and nearly a pint of milk; boil (stirring fr...
How To Make Bread Fritters- Strew half a pound of currants on a dish, and dredge them well with flour; grate some bread into a pan until a pint of crumbs is produced; pour over them a pint of boiling milk, in which two ounces of...
How To Make Puffs- German Puffs One pint of milk, three eggs, one pound of flour, one dessertspoonful of dissolved salaeratus, a teaspoonful of butter, a saltspoon of salt. Beat the whites of the eggs, separately. The ...
How To Make Bread- Bread Nuts, Or Pulled Bread Take the crust off a new loaf while warm, and pull the crumb into rough pieces, measuring about two inches each way; lay them on a sheet of paper, and bake in a slow oven ...
How To Make Breakfast Rolls- Mix or rub well into three pints of flour, a piece of butter the size of an egg, with two full teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one small teasponful of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in a little milk, ...
How To Make Biscuits- Tea Biscuits Into three pounds of flour, rub a quarter of a pound of butter, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and a little salt, dissolve one spoonful of bicarbonate of soda in a little milk. Stir...
How To Make Pones- Pone, No. 1 Pour as much boiling water on a pint of Indian meal as will thoroughly wet it. While hot, put in two ounces of butter and a little salt, mix all well together. Beat three eggs very light,...
How To Make Griddle Cakes- Corn Griddle Cakes Almost every one is interested now in knowing how to make corn cakes most palatable, since much of it will be used in these straitened times. The following is said to be an excelle...
How To Make Indian Cakes- Indian-And-Wheat Batter Cakes Use rather less Indian than wheat flour, two eggs, well beaten, some thick or sour milk, with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it. Add a little salt. The batter should...
How To Make Corn Bread- Corn Bread, No. 1 One pint of milk, one pint of corn meal, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, a little salt, and one tea-spoonful of soda, dissolved in a little milk. Mix together, and ba...
How To Make Sponge Cake- Four eggs, one tumbler half full of water mixed with a cup of powdered sugar. Sift two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar into a cup of flour. When mixed, if the batter is not thick enough, add a little ...
How To Make Jellies- Currant Jelly, No. 1 Squeeze the juice out of the currants, which must have been picked on a dry day. Measure the juice, and to every pint weigh out a pound of sugar. Boil the juice twenty minutes, a...
How To Make Jellies. Continued- Raspberry Jelly Dissolve one ounce of gelatine in half a pint of water, add three quarters of a pint of raspberry syrup (with a spoonful of lemon juice, or fifteen grains of tartaric acid), boil and ...
How To Make Preserves- Preserved Pears Peel the pears, and if they are large, cut each one in four pieces, and take out the core. To a pound of fruit, weigh a pound of sugar; dissolve the sugar with just enough water to we...
How To Make Preserves. Continued- Apricots In Brandy Put apricots, whole, into a jar that has a close cover; add to them one fourth their weight of sugar, and brandy sufficient to cover them. Lay a piece of thick paper over the fruit...
How To Make Sauces- Pepper Sauce Cut some green peppers very fine with double the quantity of cabbage, to a quart of the cut cabbage, and peppers, add a stick of horseradish grated, a tablespoonful of mustard seed, a ta...
How To Make Pickles- Piccalilli, Or Indian Pickle Take white cabbage quartered, cauliflowers, cucumbers, melons, apples, French beans, plums; all, or any of these; lay them on a hair sieve, strew over a large handful of ...
How To Make Pickles. Continued- How To Pickle Cauliflowers Cut them before they are too much blown, and upon a dry day; strip off the leaves, and quarter the stalk; scald them in salt and water, but do not allow them to boil; then ...
How To Pickle Tomatoes- Pickled Tomatoes Take one peck of ripe tomatoes, prick them with a large needle, and lay them in strong salt and water eight days. Then take them out of the brine, and lay them in vinegar and water, ...
How To Make Beverages- Cranberry Water Pour boiling water upon bruised cranberries, let them stand for a few hours, strain off the liquor, and sweeten to the taste. This forms an agreeable and refreshing beverage for inval...
Miscellaneous Recipes- How To Make Gruel Ask those who are to eat it, if they like it thick or thin; if the latter, mix well together, by degrees, in a pint basin, one tablespoonful of oatmeal, with three of cold water - i...
Miscellaneous Recipes. Part 2- Cheese Souffle, Or Fondu Grate six ounces of rich cheese (Parmesan is the best); put it into an enamelled saucepan, with a teaspoonful of flour of mustard, a saltspoonful of white pepper, a grain of ...
Miscellaneous Recipes. Part 3- Melted Butter This simple luxury, owing to ignorance or carelessness in making, is often any thing but a luxury. First, be particular to have an exceedingly clean saucepan. Put into it in the proport...
Miscellaneous Recipes. Part 4- Toasted Cheese This preparation is popularly known as Welsh Babbit or Rarebit. Cut some cheese into thin shavings, and put it with a bit of butter into a pan. Place it over a gentle fire, and stir it...
Miscellaneous Recipes. Part 5- Boiled Tripe Scrape and wash the tripe very clean, boil it in water with salt enough to season the tripe; when very tender, have ready some onions, boiled and washed, and well seasoned with pepper, s...
Miscellaneous Recipes. Part 6- Molasses Candy One quart of West India molasses, half a pound of brown sugar, the juice of one lemon. Put the molasses in a kettle with the sugar, boil it over a slow, steady fire, till it is done, w...
Miscellaneous Recipes. Part 7- Lemon Sherbert Squeeze the juice out of six lemons, and take out all the pulp; then pour two quarts of boiling milk and ten heaping tablespoonfuls of sifted sugar over the skins, and cover the whole ...
Miscellaneous Recipes. Part 8- Rice Flummery Mix two tablespoonfuls of rice flour with a little cold milk, and add to it a pint of boiled milk, sweetened and flavored with, cinnamon and lemon peel. Boil this, stirring it constantl...
Miscellaneous Recipes. Part 9- Chicken Curry Remove the skin from a chicken, cut it up, and roll each piece in curry powder and flour mixed together (a table-spoonful of flour to half an ounce of curry). Fry two or three sliced on...
How To Make Tea- Scald your teapot with boiling water, and allow a teaspoonful of tea for each person and one over. Pour enough boiling water on the tea leaves to rather more than wet them. Let it stand fifteen minute...
A Cheap Method Of Obtaining A Constant Supply Of Pure Vinegar- Take one gallon of water, half a pound of sugar, half a pound of molasses, and boil them together for twenty minutes; when cool, add a teacupful of yeast; put the whole into a jar, and lay a vinegar p...
How To Bottle Wine- The first thing to be attended to is the choice of good cocks; they should be perfectly new, well cut, and flexible; any having black spots on them should be rejected. When the wine runs clear, place ...
How To Make Coffee- Acorn Coffee Peel the husks from sound ripe acorns, divide the kernels, dry them gradually, and roast them in a close vessel; while roasting they should be stirred continually, and small pieces of bu...
Uses For Stale Bread- Stale bread may be cut into slices, and softened, by pouring a small quantity of boiling water over it. Cover the pan containing it, to prevent the escape of the steam. As soon as the bread is soft, s...
How To Make Omelets- Ham Omelette Beat four eggs very light, and add to them as much grated ham as will flavor it, with salt and pepper to the taste. Fry it in hot butter till it is brown on the lower side. Serve it imme...
How To Make Yeast- Potato Yeast Boil a quarter of a peck of potatoes; mash them fine, and thin them a little with the water in which they have been boiled. Add some salt, and a table-spoonful of brown sugar. When lukew...
How To Cure Hams- Mix together, eight pounds of salt, two ounces of saltpetre, two pounds of brown sugar, one ounce and a half of potash, and four gallons of water. This brine is sufficient for every one hundred pounds...
How To Make Wines and Alcohol Beverages- Blackberry Cordial To one quart of blackberry juice, add one pound of white sugar, half an ounce of grated nutmeg, and half an ounce of pulverized cinnamon. Tie the spice in a fine muslin bag, boil t...
How To Make Beer- How To Make Cottage Beer Take a quarter of a peck of good white bran, and put it into ten gallons of water, with three handfuls of hops, boil the whole together until the bran and the hops sink to th...
Washing- All the water used for washing must be soft, otherwise the clothes cannot be made clean. Soap, instead of dissolving and forming suds, will always curdle and float on the surface of water that is eith...
Washing. Part 2- How To Wash A Book Muslin Dress Make a strong suds with white soap and warm water. Put in the dress and wash it well; squeezing and pressing rather than rubbing it; as book muslin tears easily, and, ...
How To Prepare Starch- Put two or three tablespoonfuls of starch into a bowl, and mix it gradually, with just enough of clear cold water to convert it into a thin paste, pressing out all the lumps with the back of the spoon...
Rules In Regard To Ironing- Be careful in ironing lace, ribbons, or any long, narrow strips, not to stretch them crooked, but iron them slowly, straight, and evenly; and with the point of the iron press out every scallop separat...
How To Clean Things- How To Clean Gold Ornaments Make a lather of soap and water, and was^L the articles; then lay them in dry powdered magnesia. When dry, rub them with a piece of flannel; or, if embossed, use a brush. ...
How To Clean Things. Part 2- How To Remove Grease Spots Magnesia will effectually remove grease spots from silk on rubbing it in well; and after standing awhile, apply a piece of soft brown paper to the wrong side, on which pres...
How To Clean Things. Part 3- How To Clean Floor-Cloths Sweep, then wipe them with a flannel; and when all dust and spots are removed, rub with a waxed flannel, and then with a clean one; use but little wax, and rub only enough t...
How To Clean Silver Ware- The most common method of cleaning silver, is with pulverized whiting and whisky, or with spirits of wine, which is better; the whiting must be made as fine as possible, for if there are any coarse or...
How To Clean Brass- How To Clean Brass, No. 1 Finely-powdered salammoniac; water to moisten. Rock alum, one part; water, sixteen parts. Mix; warm the articles to be cleaned, then rub with either of the above mixtures, a...
How To Clean Decanters- The greatest care is necessary in cleaning decanters. There are several materials used for the purpose; pounded egg-shells, wood ashes or sand, are all objectionable as being liable to scratch the gla...
How To Take Ink Stains Out- How To Remove Ink Stains From Silver The tops and other portions of silver ink-stands frequently become deeply discolored with ink, which is difficult to remove by ordinary means. It may, however, be...
How To Join Glass That Has Been Broken- Dissolve half an ounce of isinglass in a little spirits of wine, add a tablespoon-ful of water; warm it slowly over the fire till it forms a transparent glue. Then spread it nicely on the edges of the...
Various Methods Of Mending Broken Articles- There are a great many cements by which broken glass and china may be joined, and the selection of one of these from among a number must mainly depend upon the transparency or color of the article to ...
Glues and Cements for Mending Broken Articles- Red Cement The red cement used for uniting glass to metals, is made by melting five parts of black resin and one part of yellow wax; when entirely melted, stir in gradually, one part of red ochre, or...
Food Recipes- How To Keep Bread When bread is perfectly cold it should be laid into a large covered earthen pan; this should be kept free from crumbs, frequently scalded, and then wiped dry for use. Loaves which h...
How To Take Care Of Chappend Hands- Cheap Lotion For Chapped Hands Have a pot of strained honey on your wash-stand, and every time you wash your hands, dip your wet finger into the honey and rub it over your hands while wet. Wipe them ...
How To Take Care Of Hair- Cleansing The Hair Nothing but good can be derived from a due attention to cleansing the hair. Of course, an immoderate use of water is not beneficial. Once a week is perhaps desirable, but this will...
How To Take Care Of Lips- A Receipt For Pomade Three ounces of olive oil, three quarters of a drachm of the oil of almonds, two drachms of palm oil, half an ounce of white wax, a quarter of a pound of lard, and three quarters...
Perfumes- Essence Of Jessamine This is obtained in the following way: A layer of flowers is spread over the bottom of a hair sieve, and upon the flower is laid a layer of small and detached bits of the finest ...
Housewifery- Whitewash That Will Not Rub Off Slake the lime in the usual way. Mix one gill of flour with a little cold water, taking care to beat out all the lumps; then pour on it boiling water enough to thicken...
Housewifery. Part 2- Beds For The Poor Beech leaves are recommended for this purpose, as they are very elastic, and will not harbor vermin. They should be gathered on a dry day in the autumn, and be perfectly dried. The...
Housewifery. Part 3- Saving Of Fuel The grate or cavity for the reception of coal, should never be filled more than three parts full at one time. The fuel ignites more thoroughly, and a greater amount of heat is thrown o...
Housewifery. Part 4- Cheap Simple Cerate Four parts lard, two parts white wax, and two parts spermaceti. How To Remove Glass Stoppers When the stopper of a glass decanter is too tight, a cloth wet with hot water, and a...
Housewifery. Part 5- Tincture From Scraps Of Lemon-Peel Fill a wide-mouthed pint bottle half full of brandy, or proof spirits, and whenever you have bits of waste lemon rind, pare the yellow part very thin, and drop it i...
Receipt For Preserving And Making Leather Waterproof- One part tallow, one part best sperm oil, one part tar, melt the whole and apply to the leather; while hot, make repeated applications until the leather is saturated. You can apply the above in its bo...
How To Prevent and Eliminate Bugs and Pests- How To Prevent Moth The cuttings of Russia leather placed with furs, blankets, cloth, etc., will effectually prevent moth. Camphor is also a good thing. The article must be kept in a dry place, and f...
How To Destroy Bugs- An effectual mode of destroying these offensive insects is to brush over the beds, walls, or floors infested with them, with oil of turpentine, which is equally destructive to the insect and to its eg...
How To Grow Potatoes- Means Of Doubling A Crop Of Potatoes Without Increased Expenditure A double crop of potatoes may be obtained by pursuing the following course: when the potatoes have come to maturity, take off the lo...
Remedies For Rheumatism- The Potato Remedy For Rheumatism It is asserted by some, that a raw potato, carried habitually in the pocket, is an effectual preventive of rheumatism. Commence early, before frost sets in, to rub t...