Molly Gavin's own cookbook

_Foreword_ _How to Use This Book_ The Art of Cooking 7 Bread 8 Beverages 12 Cake 16 Candy 20 Cereals 26 Cheese 28 Soup 32 Vegetables 38 Biscuits, Muffins, Quick Breads 44 Cookie...

Avoid second steeping of leaves with addition of a few fresh ones. If this is done, so large an amount of tannin is extracted that various ills are apt to follow.

Fudge and penuchi kept in tightly covered cans will remain fresh for a couple of weeks. Break nuts for candy instead of chopping them, and heating nuts brings out their flavor....

Melt butter; add flour; stir until well blended; pour on gradually milk, stirring constantly; bring to boiling point; add egg yolks slightly beaten and diluted with cream or mil...

2 lb neck of mutton, 2 qt cold water, 1 tsp salt, 1 small turnip, 1 small carrot, 1 small onion, 2 tbp barley, 1 tsp chopped parsley, extra salt and pepper to taste.

Cut tomatoes in half and over cut surface of each half spread butter mixed to a paste with other ingredients; bake in greased casserole dish 30 min in moderate oven.

Mix ingredients in order given; line a 7″ square pan with paraffine paper; spread mixture evenly in pan and bake in slow oven; as soon as taken from oven turn from pan, remove p...

Boil macaroni in salted water until done; drain; cool; add other ingredients; mix thoroughly; garnish with stuffed olives or pickled beets. The nut meats can be omitted if desir...

Line a deep pan with pastry and fill with a mixture made as follows: Melt together 2 large tbp butter and a c of brown sugar; cook till a rich brown, then add a large c of scald...

Wash and brush the horseradish; soak it for an hour in cold water; scrape it very finely with a sharp knife; mix 2 tbp of it with ½ tsp salt and a tsp of powdered mustard; add g...

Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; add hot syrup slowly to beaten egg white, beating continually, preferably on platter, with wire whip; add bakin...

Fresh fish or clam chowder and oyster stew are good dishes for school lunches in localities where fresh sea food is abundant. Dried and salt fish or vegetables alone may also be...

Clean heads thoroughly, removing eyes and ear tubes; split head lengthwise and remove teeth and soft bones in and near nasal cavities; place heads and other meat in large kettle...

Cut lobster meat in small pieces; cook slowly in butter for 5 min; add seasonings, wine, and simmer 5 min longer; combine cream with beaten yolks and pour slowly into cooking mi...

Drain a 1-lb can salmon and save liquor; chop fish fine and pick out bones; add 1 tbp fat, 2 well-beaten eggs, ½ tsp salt, ½ c fine bread crumbs, ⅛ tsp pepper; stir all well tog...

=How to Whip Gelatine=: Begin to whip the jelly while it is still liquid—cold but not yet congealing—and whip till it is of the consistency of thick whipped cream. Use egg beate...

1½ tbp chicken fat or butter, 1¾ tbp flour, ½ c hot chicken stock, ½ c scalded milk, ¼ c scalded cream, ½ tsp salt, 2 tbp butter, 1 c cold broiled fowl, cut in strips, ½ c saute...

=Product= =Treatment before Canning= =Hot-Water =Steam Bath One- Pressure Period Cooker (minutes)= 10 pounds (minutes)= Asparagus Wash, tie in bundles, keep tips 120 40 above wa...

Line a shallow buttered dish with hot boiled rice. Break 6 eggs and carefully drop them 1 by 1 into the rice. Cover with 1 c or more of white sauce to which ½ c of grated cheese...

Water is always served at the table from a water bottle after cubes of clean ice are dropped in glass with ice tongs. Water glasses are also always refilled at the table.