Category: Cooking & Drinking

The Philadelphia Housewife; or, Family Receipt Book

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1855, By J. P. Lippincott & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Chapters

4. Part 4

Pare six good-sized potatoes; put them on to boil with three pints of water and a handful of hops; pour the water through a sieve on a pint of flour; stir it until perfectly smo...

5. Part 5

Boil a quart of milk, and when quite cold, beat up four eggs very light, and add to the milk, with sugar to the taste. Boil three ounces of macaroni, and when the pan is buttere...

2. Part 2

The celery must be washed, cut up and boiled till it is tender; have some milk boiling hot, roll very smoothly a little butter and flour, stir till the butter is all melted, the...

7. Part 7

Wash the tomatoes; cut them in slices; put them into a stone jar, with alternate layers of tomatoes and salt, till the jar is nearly full. Set them in the sun every day for a we...

1. Part 1

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1855, By J. P. Lippincott & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

6. Part 6

Beat to a cream two tea-cups full of sugar, and one of butter; add half a pound of currants floured, one glass of rose water, and six eggs beaten separately; dissolve one teaspo...

3. Part 3

Make a filling of bread, butter, pepper and salt; put your chickens in a cloth, and boil them till done, which will be in an hour; make egg sauce, which pour over the chickens;...

8. Part 8

Stir into a pint of boiling water, a tablespoonful of rice flour, which has been mixed with a little water; let it boil fifteen minutes, stirring all the time; then season with...