Category: Cooking & Drinking
The following receipts, the result of many years experience, have been placed before the public, in the hope that they may prove useful to all who may consult them, and under the conviction that they will be found truly practical.
The following receipts, the result of many years experience, have been placed before the public, in the hope that they may prove useful to all who may consult them, and under th...
2. Part 2For the convenience of those who have no scales and weights, the following table has been arranged. The measures correspond as nearly as possible with the weight of the differen...
3. Part 324. Cut it in slices about a quarter of an inch thick; wash and dry them, season with cayenne pepper and salt; have ready a pan of hot lard and fry your fish in it till of a del...
4. Part 466. 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 p...
5. Part 5113. Cut your birds in half, wash them and wipe them dry; season with pepper and salt. Line the sides of your pie dish with paste, then place in a layer of reed birds; over thes...
6. Part 6159. Boil them as directed in No. 1, and when done cut them in half, grease the bars of your gridiron, put them on it over some lively coals and brown them.
7. Part 7To each quart of the vinegar, put one table spoonful of whole allspice, half a table spoonful of pepper grains, three or four small pieces of mace, half a dozen cloves, and a ta...
8. Part 8266. Line the sides of a deep pot with a paste made in the proportion of half a pound of butter to one pound of flour. Then pare and slice some peaches, sugar them to your taste...
9. Part 9Beat the eggs, leaving out the whites of four, add them to the milk. Pound the vanilla bean in a mortar, and mix it with the milk. Pour the whole in your pudding dish, place it...
10. Part 10361. One pound of flour, One pound of butter, One pound of sugar, Twelve eggs, One pound of citron, Two pounds of dried currants, picked and washed, One pound of seeded raisins,...
11. Part 11Whisk the eggs very light and dry, add the sugar gradually, and when all the sugar is in stir in the cocoa-nut. Roll a table spoonful of the mixture in your hands in the form of...
12. Part 12436. Cut off the hard rind of the melon (which should be the _preserving_ citron, not the green cantelope) and cut it in pieces of any size and shape you choose: the slices shou...
13. Part 13Cut up the root in pieces and add to it two gallons of water; boil it till reduced to one gallon, strain it, and pour it over ten pounds of white sugar. When the sugar has disso...
14. Part 14Put the molasses in a kettle with the sugar, boil it over a slow, steady fire till it is done, which you can easily tell by dropping a little in cold water, if done it will be c...
15. Part 15Pickled beans, 113. beets, 117. cherries, 117. cucumbers, 115. eggs, 111. mangoes, 114. mushrooms, No. 1, 110. No. 2, 10. nasturtiums, 119. onions, 111. oysters, 28. peaches, 11...