Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling...

EXCELLENT HOME-MADE YEAST.--Yeast should always be kept in a glass bottle or a stone jug, and never in earthen or metal. Before you make fresh yeast, empty entirely the vessel t...

PEACH INDIAN PUDDING.--Wash a pint, or more, of dried peaches; then drain them well; spread them on a large dish, and set them in the sun, or near the fire, till all the water t...

To make the paste for a large pie:--Sift three pounds of flour into a pan, and make a hole in the centre. Cut up a pound of fresh butter, and two pounds of beef-suet, finely cho...

FILLET OF MUTTON.--Cut a fillet or round from a leg of mutton; remove all the fat from the outside, and take out the bone. Beat it well on all sides with a meat-beetle or a roll...

FRENCH WAY OF DRESSING ASPARAGUS.--Having boiled the asparagus-tops as above; drain them on a sieve, and put them into a deep dish with a large lump of the best fresh butter. Mi...

MERINGUED APPLES.--Pare and core (with a tin apple-corer) some fine large pippin apples, but do not quarter or slice them. Wash them separately in cold water, and then with the...

AN EASY WAY OF MAKING BUTTER IN WINTER.--The following will be found an excellent method of making butter in cold weather for family use. We recommend its trial. Take, in the mo...

Also, cold roast pork; flavouring the seasoning with a little chopped sage. Cover the top with sweet potatoe, boiled and mashed, or with apple-sauce, that has been stewed as thi...

CURRANT-RAISIN JAM.--Wash, drain, seed, and chop fine two pounds of the best bloom or muscatel raisins, and put them into a large pan till wanted. Having stripped them from the...

ALMOND ICE-CREAM.--To every quart of cream, allow two ounces of shelled sweet almonds, and two ounces of shelled bitter almonds. Blanch the almonds in scalding water, and then t...

FRENCH SPINACH.--Having picked them from the stalks, wash the leaves carefully in two or three cold waters, till they are quite free from grit. Put the spinach into a sauce-pan...

ALBANY CAKE.--Sift three pounds of flour into a pan. Stir together a pound of fresh butter, and a pound of brown sugar. Mix together a pint of West India molasses, and half a pi...

Another remedy is to mix two tea-spoonfuls of made mustard with sufficient warm water to thin it, so as to make it easy to swallow. It acts as an emetic, and is good for any poi...

VIRGINIA GRIDDLE CAKES.--A quart of Indian meal.--Two large table-spoonfuls of wheat flour.--A heaped salt-spoon of salt.--A piece of fresh butter, about two ounces.--Four eggs....

GROUND-NUT MACCAROONS.--Take a sufficiency of ground-nuts, that have been roasted in an iron pot, over the fire; remove the shells; and weigh a pound of the nuts. Put them into...

APPLE CAKE.--Make a nice light paste with the proportion of three quarters of a pound of fresh butter to a pound and a quarter of sifted flour. Roll it out into a large round sh...

APPLE TAPIOCA.--Take a quart bowl, and half fill it with tapioca: then fill it very nearly to the top with cold water, allowing a little space for the tapioca to swell in soakin...

NECTAR.--Take a pound of the best raisins, seeded and chopped; four lemons, sliced thin, and the yellow rind pared off from two other lemons; and two pounds of powdered loaf-sug...

WASHING BLACK LACE.--Every description of black _silk_ lace (or of black Scotch blond) may be made to look extremely well by the following process; either veils, shawls, scarfs,...

SAUCE FOR MUTTON THAT HAS BEEN BOILED IN SOUP.--Mutton that has been boiled in soup is very generally liked, particularly the loin. Take two large boiled onions; cut them up, an...

TO CLEAR CLOSETS FROM COCKROACHES.--Remove every article from the closet, scrub the shelves with lye, and then whitewash the closet walls. Next take a sufficiency of _black_ wad...

For baking tarts it is well to use (instead of tin patty-pans) small deep plates of china or white-ware, with broad flat edges, like little soup-plates. You can then have all ro...

BRANDY PEACHES THE FRENCH WAY.--Put large white peaches (a few at a time) into scalding lye. Let them rest for a minute or two, till the skin loosens so that it can be easily pe...

CLAM PIE.--Take a sufficient number of clams to fill a large pie-dish when opened. Make a nice paste in the proportion of a pound of fresh butter to two quarts of flour. Paste f...

TO MAKE GREASE BALLS.--Shave down half a pound of white soap, and mix it with three ounces of fuller’s earth, powdered. Then mix together three ounces of ox-gall, and two ounces...

MACCARONI PUDDING.--Boil a quarter of a pound of maccaroni in a pint of rich unskimmed milk, with a handful of blanched bitter almonds or peach-kernels, and two sticks of cinnam...

A TOWEL-CASE.--Travellers often complain much of the difficulty of procuring nice towels, in steamboats, at country inns, and at taverns in remote places. This inconvenience may...

AN EASY WAY OF PRESERVING PINE-APPLES.--Take pine-apples, as ripe as you can possibly get them; pare them, and cut them into thin, circular slices. Weigh them, and to each pound...

HAM TOAST.--Grate a sufficiency of the lean of cold ham. Mix some beaten yolk of egg with a little cream, and thicken it with the grated ham. Then put the mixture into a sauce-p...

A VERY NICE BOILED INDIAN PUDDING.--Three pints of sifted Indian meal.--Half a pound of beef-suet, minced as fine as possible.--A quart of milk.--Half a pint of West India molas...

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list...

The white tissue-paper is not to be cut or decorated with an open pattern or flowering. It is to form a lining for the pink, through the open work of which the white is to appea...

Having drawn the pattern on a strip of stiff white paper, prick it all along, according to its form or outline, with large, close pin-holes. Then lay or baste it on the merino....

We earnestly recommend that every lady who can afford to pay the additional price, should engage, at an early period, a state-room exclusively to herself; unless, indeed, she ca...

COMPANY DINNERS--WINTER.--1. Mulligatawny soup; fresh cod-fish fried; boiled ham; roast turkey with cranberry sauce; fowls stewed whole; oyster pie; potatoe snow; turnips; parsn...

_Christmas and New Years’ dinners._--Boiled turkey with oyster sauce; two roast geese with apple sauce; roasted ham; chicken pie; stewed beets; cold-slaw; turnips; salsify; wint...

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