Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South, contributed by descendants

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Christmas, with its festivities and its preparations, was a busy time to the housekeeper of fifty years ago, “befo’ de war,” in Virginia. It meant thought and labor for weeks be...

One pt. boiled milk, ½ yeast cake, 1 tablespoon white sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1½ pts. sifted flour, 1 teaspoon salt, and three eggs. Boil milk, take when lukewarm and...

One-half pint dahl, 3 pints cold water, 2 blades of celery or 1 teaspoon celery seed (tied in muslin), 3 sprigs parsley, 1 blade mace, ½ dozen pepper cones, 1 onion, 1 oz. flour...

Eight terrapin, diamond back, or 6 yellow terrapin, 1 teaspoon sugar, carameled, 1 tablespoon vinegar, with pepper, salt to taste, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, 6 or 8 tabl...

Fifty oysters, let simmer in their liquor five minutes, and then drain and set aside until cool. Dry with towel, chop fine, season with salt and pepper, small piece of onion cho...

Take ye fowls, cut them in pieces and clean them. Season with pepper and salt, a little mace, nuttmeg cloves, some parslay, a little bit of onion. Let them lay 2 hours, then flo...

From the old recipe book of Miss Margaret Coleman of Philadelphia, daughter of Robert Coleman of Pennsylvania, who married Judge Hemphill of Philadelphia. Strawberry Mansion (th...

Boil 8 medium sized potatoes thoroughly done and mash well. Cream them with 2 tablespoons of butter and yolk of 1 raw egg. Take 4 small cucumber pickles and chop very fine with...

One pint juice, 1 lb. white sugar, ½ oz. powdered cinnamon, ¼ oz. mace, 2 teaspoons cloves, 1 glass of best French brandy to every pint of the mixture. Procure perfectly ripe bl...

Put a piece of butter the size of an egg into a pint of milk. Thicken when it comes to a boil with 1 pt. of flour; stir it on the fire until the flour is cooked. Pour in a woode...

Quarter pound butter, and quarter pound of sugar beaten to a cream, the yolks of 3 or 4 eggs beaten. Add to the above the grated rind and juice of one lemon, large; add the whit...

Cover your dish with a puff paste, take candied lemon peel, orange and citron of each 1 ounce sliced very thin. Lay on bottom of your dish. Beat the yolks of 8 eggs, 2 whites, ½...

One lb. almonds blanched and pounded. As you pound them, add rose water to keep them from oiling. The whites of 3 eggs, beaten stiff, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon extract...

Take 15 oz. of flour well dried, a pound of double refined loaf sugar, half a pound of almonds beaten with half a pint of rose water, the yolks of 4 eggs, the whites of 4 beaten...

Peel 2 gallons of small white onions and put on stove in porcelain kettle, covering them with water in which dissolve a pint of salt, just as the water gets hot take them off, p...

To three pounds of loaf sugar put 3 half pints of water and whites and shells of 3 eggs, boil and skim well, until it is clear, and put the quinces on the fire in cold water; le...

2 qts. of Jamaica Rum, 1 qt. brandy, 1 qt. lemon juice, 1 gill of peach brandy, ¾ of a lb. of loaf sugar, 10 lb. block of ice. Dissolve the sugar in 1 qt. of cold water, add the...

2 tablespoonfuls of butter, melted, 1 large tablespoonful of sifted flour, 1 cup melted cheese, yolks of three eggs, beaten light, 1 cup of milk, 1 saltspoonful of salt, whites...