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THE
EVERY-DAY COOK-BOOK
AMD
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL RECIPES
BY
MISS E. NEILL.
ECONOMICAL, RELIABLE AND EXCELLED
SAN FRANCISCO: EXAMINER-PRESS.
1889.
INDEX.
BREAD AND BREAKFAST DISHES.
PAGE.
Yeast 131
Plain White Family Bread 131
Graham Bread 132
Boston Brown Bread 132
torn Bread '33
Steamed Brown Bread 133
Parker House Rolls 133
French Rolls 133
Buns 134
Biscuits 143
To Make Rusks 134
Sweet Milk Gems 135
Breakfast Gems.. 135
Graham Breakfast Cakes 135
Buckwheat Cakes 135
Flannel Cakes 136
Rice Griddle Cakes 137
French Pancakes 137
Pancakes 37
Bread Fritters 137
Quick Sally Lunn 138
Breakfast Cake 138
Quick Waffles 138
Johnny Cake 138
Mush 138
Corn Mush 139
Graham Mush 139
CAKES.
, White Lady Cake 181
j Macaroons , 181
I Almo id Icing i^/.
I To Make Icing for Cakes 182
I Loaf Cake 183
' Rich Bride Cake 183
Lady Fingers 183
Queen Cake 184
Chocolate Macaroons 184
Caramel Cake 184
Pound Cake 1 85
Tocoa-nut Sponge Cake 185
Cocoa-nut Pound Cake 186
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Cocoa-nut Cup Cake 186
Cocoa-nut Drops 186
Citror. Heart Cakes 187
Imperial Cakes 187
Plum Cakes 187
Gold and Silver Cakes 188
To Make Small Sponge Cakes ig8
Lemon Cheese Cakes 189
Snow Cakes 189
Tilden Cakes 189
Corn Starch Cakes 189
Birthday Cakes 190
Naples Biscuit 190
Cake Trifles 190
Ribbon Cake 198
Jelly Rolf 198
Delicate Crullers '199
Savoy Cake 190
Composition Cake 101
Almond Cream Cake 191
Ice Cream Cake 191
Economical Cake 192
Dehcate Cake 191
Orange Cake 192
Jelly Kisses 193
Fig Cake 193
Fried Cake ig j
Cocoa-nut Kisses 193
California Cake 154
White Mountain Cake 194
Lemon Cake 194
Strawberry Short Cake 194
Marble Cake 195
White Pound Cake 195
Nell's Chocolate Cake 195
Rice Cake 196
Cream Cake 196
Sponge Cake 196
Doughnuts 196
Coffee Cake , 197
Spice Cake 197
Soft Ginger Bread 197
Sweet Strawberry Short Cake 197
Ginger Nuts >a?
INDEX.
COSMETIQUES.
Complexion Wash
To Clear a Tanned Skin
Oil to Make the Hair Curl
Wrinkles in the Skin
Pearl Water for the Face
Pearl Dentifrice
Wash for a Blotched Face
Face Powder •
Bandoline
A Good Wash for the Hair
DRINKS.
To Make Green Tea
To Make Black Tea— Make as di- rected for Green
Iced Tea
Coffee
Chocolate
Lemon Syrup
Strawberry Syrup .
Raspberry Syrup
Strawberry Sherbet
Raspberry Vinegar
Lemonade
Egg Nogg
Raisin Wine
Currant Wine
Ginger Wine
Fine Milk Punch
Claret Cup
Roman Punch
Cream Nectar
Red Currant Cordial ,
Elderberry Syrup
246 246 246 247 247 247 247 247 248
DESSERT AND TEA DISHES.
Boiled Custard 200
Lemon Custard 200
Snow Custard 200
Tapioca Custard 201
Blanc Mangt 202
Rice Blanc Mange 202
Apple Trifle 203
Lemon Trifle 203
Floating Island 204
Apple Snow 204
Tropical Snow 204
Swiss Cream 205
Italian Cream 205
Whipped Cream 205
Tipsy Cake... jo6
Snow Pyramids 206
An Excellent Dessert.
Apple Fritters
Jelly Cake Fritters
Black Meringue
Charlotte Russe
Jellied Grapes
Jelly and Custard
Lemon Toast
Dish of Snow Whipped Cream. .
Omelet for Dessert
Jelly Fritters <..
FISH.
PAGH ... 206 ... 207 ... 207 ... 207 ...208 ... 208 ... 208 ... 208 .. 209 .. 209 . .. 810
Boiled Salmon 3$
Broiled Salmon 35
Baked Salmon 35
Salmon Trout 36
Spiced Salmon (Pickled) 36
Salmon and Caper Sauce 37
Salmon Cutlets 37
Dried or smoked Salmon 37
Boiled Cod 38
Cod Pie 38
Dried Codfish 38
Stewed Salt Cod 38
Codfish Cakes 39
Boiled Bass 39
Fried Bass 39
To Fry or Boil Fish Properly 40
Baked Black Bass 40
Broiled Mackerel 40
Salt Mackerel with Cream Sauce 41
Boiled Eels.. . 42
Fricasseed Eels 42
Fried Eels 42
Collared Eels 42
Fried Trout «$
Trout in Jelly (or other Fish) 43
Boiled Trout 43
Broiled Trout 44
Baked Haddock 44
Curried Haddock..... 44
Fricasseed Haddock 45
Broiled White Fish (Fresh) 45
Baked White Fish 45
To Choose Lobsters 46
Boiled Lobsters 46
Curried Lobsters 46
Lobster Chowder 46
Ch.
47
To Fry Smelts 47
Red Herrings or Yarmouth Bloaters.. 48
Rolled Fish 48
Oysters on the Shell 49
IKDEX,
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PAGE.
Oysters Stewed with Milk 49
Oysters Fried in Butter 49
Oysters Scalloped 49
Ovsters Fried 5°
Oyster Patties 5°
Oysters Broiled 5'
Clam Fritters 5<
Clams, Soft Shelled 5'
To Broil Soft Shell Clams 5 '
Clam Chowder •> • 52
ICES, ICE-CREAM, CANDY.
Currant Ice 227
Strawberry or Raspberry Ice 227
Orange and Lemon Ices 227
Ice-Cream 227
Vanilla or Lemon Ice-cream , 228
Strawberry Ice-cream 228
Chocolate Ice-cream 228
Cream Candies 2:5
Pineapple Ice-cream 229
Italian Cream 230
To Make Barley Sugar.. 230
To Make Everton Toffy 231
Cocoa-nut Drops 231
Molasses Candy....'. 231
Chocolate Caramels 231
Lemon Candy 232
INVALID COOKERY.
Port Wine Jelly 240
Tapioca Jelly . 240
Arrowroot Wine Jelly 240
Jellied Chicken 240
Chicken Broth 241
To mate Gruel 24 1
Barley Water 242
Arrowroot Blanc Mango 242
Lemonade for Invalids 242
Mutton Broth 243
Flax-seed Lemonade 243
Arrowroot 243
Stewed Rabbits in Miik 244
Slippery Elm Bark Tea 244
Beef Tea 244
Egg Wine 244
Toast-Water 245
Onion Gruel 245
MEATS.
Roast Beef 53
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FACE.
Beef Salted, or Corned Red 53
To Boil Corned Beef 5$
A Nice Way to Serve Cold Beef 55
Spiced Beef 55
Broiled Beefsteak * 56
Fried Beefsteak 56
Beefsteak Pie 57
Boiled Leg of Mutton 57
Roast Loin of Mutton 58
Broiled Mutton Chops 58
Mutton Chop, Fried 58
Roast Forequarter of Lamb... ...... 58
Lambs' Sweet Breads 59
To Roast Veal 60
Veal Cutlets , 61
Stuffed Fillet of Veal with Bacon 61
Veal Cake 62
Veal Pie 62
Boiled Calf's Head 63
Calf's Head Cheese...., 64
Boiled Calf's Feet, Parsley and
Butter 64
Calf's Liver and Bacon 64
Sweet Breads 65
Egged Veal Hasli 65
Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding... 66
Beef Heart, Baked or Roasted 66
Beef Kidney 67
Rolled Beef ..., 67
Boiled Tongue 68
Fricasseed Tripe 8ft
Broiled Tripe 6S
Roast Rabbit 6ij
Stewed Rabbit, Larded 6q
Fricasseed Rabbit 7<v
A Pretty Dish of Venison 70
To Boil Venison Steaks... 70
Beefsteak and Kidney Pudding 7.
BREAKFAST DISHES.
Hashed Cold Meat 72
Potato and Beef Hash 72
Dried Beef... 73
Chicken Cultlets 7*
Beef Patties 74
Jellied Veal ; 74
Rice and Meat Croquettes 75
American Toast 75
Meat and Potatoes 75
Breaded Sausages 75
Ham Croquettes 75
A Nice Breakfast Dish 76
Chickeu in Jelly 76
4 Good Dmb,. . •• 3$
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INDEX.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PAGE.
An excellent Hard Soap 249
To Wash Woolen Blankets 149
For Clothes that Fade 250
Lamp Wicks 250
To Make Old Crape Look Nearly
Equal to New 250
A Cement for Stoves 250*
To Clean Red Gloves 251
Stains and Spots 251
To Remove Grease Spots 252
Stains on Marble 252
Paint or Varuish 253
To Remove Ink from Carpets 253
To Remove Ink from Paper 253
Feed for Canary Birds 253
Ink on Rosewood o' Mahogany 254
Coal Fire 254
Polish for Bright Stoves and Steel
Articles 254
To Prevent Pumps from F'reezing. . .. 254
To Keep Starch from Sticking 254
To Keep off Mosquitoes 255
To Brighten Gilt Frames 255
To Make Hens Lay in Winter 255
To Preserve Steel Pens
Mice
Camphor 256
To Clean Combs 256
For Cleaning Jewelry .- 256
For Washing Silver and Silverware... 256 For Washing Glass and Glassware... 257
I nsects and Vermin 257
Moths in Caq^ets 258
Smooth Sad Irons 258
To Sweeten Meat 258
Stove Polish 258
Cleaning White Paint 259
To Cleanse the Inside of Jars 259
Furniture Polish 259
Squeaking Doors 259
For Cleaning Mirrors 259
To Soften Putty 259
To Remove Stains from Mattresses.. 260
Kaisoniining 260
Papering Whitewashed Wa"s 260
How to Clean Corsets...., .. 261
To Clean Hairbrushes 261
How to Wash Flannels 261
Cleaning Lace 262
N<-w Keiths 262
To Keep Flies off Gilt Frames 262
To Prevent Knives from Rusting 262
Cement for Glassware 263
255 255
PAGE.
Waterproof Paper 263
Recipe for Violet Ink 263
Perspiration 203
Renewing oid Kid Gloves 264
Cologne Water 264
To Cleanse a Sponge 264
Icy Windo-.vs 264
To Remove Blood liom Cloth .... 264
Camphor Ice 265
Starch Polish 265
To Clean Feathers 265
To Test Nutmegs 265
To Clean Mica 265
To Soften Hard Water 265
To Destroy Vermin in the Hair 266
To Remove Bruises from Furnituie. .. 266
Pearl Smelling Salts - 266
Pounded Glass.... 266
Polish for Boots 266
To Clean Plate 267
To Clean Decanters 267
Spots on Towels and Hosiery 267
Croup 263
Poison Ivy or Oak..... 268
Convulsion Fits 269
Burns and Scalds ' 269
Cuts 269
Cold on the Chest 269
Bleeding from the Nose . 269
Chilblains 270
To Cure a Sting of Bee or Wasp 271
For Toothache 271
Choking 271
Excellent Carminative Powder for
Flatulent Infants 271
Cubeb Berries for Catarrh 272
Diarrhoea 272
272 273 273 273 -74 274 274 275 275 275 275 276 276 276 = 76 277
For Sick Room
Bites of Dogs
Measles and Scarlatina
Stye in the Eye
For Constipation
Leanness ».
Superfluous Hairs
The Breath
The Quinine Cure for Drunkenness..
For Sore Throa t
A Good Cure for Colds
To Stop Bleeding
A Health Appetizer
To Remove Discoloration from |!-HII-L' Earache
To Cure Toothache
For Felon ••
INDEX.
PAGE.
Excellent Deodorizers , 277
To Cure a Boil 377
To Cure a Whitlow 278
Tape Worms 278
Fora Caked Breast 278
Remedy for Blistered Feet 278
Relief for Asthma 278
Chapped Hands • • 279
Lunar Caustic 279
Rheumatism and Headache 279
Fever and Ague 279
For a Fainting Fit 279
To Restore from Stroke of Lightning. 280
Relief for Inflamed Feet 280
Warm Water 280
Cleaning House, Sitting and Dining
Room 280
How to Dust a Room 283
Girls Learn to Cook 284
Teach the Little Ones 284
Children Love Games 285
Teach Your Own Children 286
Cultivating Selfishness in Children ... 286
Packing Away Furs • . 288
Courage 288
The Art of Beauty in Dress 289
Home Dressmaking 291
A Woman's Skirts 293
To Make Sleeves 294
All About Kitchen Work 295
A Nice Clothes Frame 297
Sunlit Rooms 298
Pleasant Homes 299
How to be Handsome 300
Headache 307
High-Heeled Boots 309
Make Home Pleasant 3 10
Dinner Table Fancies 311
The Use of Ammonia 312
Laughter 313
Items Worth Remembering 314
Those Ungrateful Habits 314
PUDDINGS.
Remarks 155
Christmas Plum Pudding 155
Boiled Batter Pudding 156
Batter Pudding 156
Madeira Pudding 157
Apple Sauce Pudding 157
Queen of Puddings. » 157
Orange Pudding 158
Corn Starch Pudding 158
French Pudding IS9
PAGK.
Belle's Pudding 159
Cream Tapioca Pudding 160
A Bachelor's Pudding.... 160
Macaroni Pudding 160
Baked Indian Pudding , 161
Boiled Indian Pudding 161
Marmalade Pudding 161
Boiled Apple Pudding i^-
Nelly's Pudding 162 \
Rich Baked Apple Pudding . , 163 *
Snow Balls 163
Rice Pudding 163
Apple Charlotte 164
Ground Rice Pudding 164
Fig Pudding 164
Bread and Butter Pudding 165
Cabinet Pudding 165
Snow Pudding 165
Carrot Pudding 166
Lemon Pudding 166
Roly-Poly Pudding 166
Cottage Pudding 166
Cocoanut Pudding 167
Cream Pudding 167
Tapioca Pudding 167
Common Custard 167
PUDDING SAUCES.
Rich Wine Sauce 169
Whipped Cream Sauce 169
Lemon Sauce 169
Jelly Sauce 169
Cabinet Pudding Sauce 1 70
Foaming Sauce-. • 170
Spanish Sauce 170
Hard Sauce 170
Pudding Sauce 170
Sauce for Plum Pudding 171
Vanilla Sauce 171
PASTRY.
Very Good Puff Paste 171
Plainer Paste • 173
Suet Crusts for Pies or Puddings 173
To Ice Pastry 173
To Graze Pastry 174
Mince Meat 174
Mock Mince Pie 175
Apple Custard Pie 175
Apple Meringue Pie 175
Apple Pie 176
Lemon Pie . 176
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INDEX.
PACK.
Custard Pie 176
Cocoanut Pie.... 177
Lemon Tarts 177
Pastry Sandwiches 177
Cherry Pie 178
Squash Pie 178
Cream Pie.. 178
Tartlets 178
Peach Pie 179
Pumpkin Pie 179
Tart Shells 179
Mince Pies 180
PRESERVES, CANNED FRUITS, JELLY.
To Preserve Plums Without the
Skins 211
To Preserve Purple Plums 211
Preserved Greengages in Syrup 212
Preserved Cherries in Syrup 212
Preserved Pears • 213
Preserved Peaches 213
Preserved Citron 214
Crab Apples Preserved 214
Pine Apple Preserved 214
Gooseberry Jam.... 214
Black Currant Jam 215
Raspberry Jam 215
Quince Preserve 215
Red Currant Jelly 216
Apple Jelly 217
Black Currant Jelly 217
Crab Apple Jelly 218
Other Jellies 218
Wine Jelly 218
Calves' Feet Jelly 218
Orange Marmalade 219
Lemon Marmalade 219
Quince Marmalade 219
Peach Marmalade 220
Apple Butter 220
Lemon Butter 220
Peach Butter 221
PRESERVED AND CANNED FRUITS.
Apple Ginger (A Dessert Dish) 221
Iced Currants 221
To Bottle Fresh Fruit 222
To Green Fruit for Preserving in Sugar
or Vinegar 222
To Color Preserves Pink....,.,.,,,. 223
PACK. To Color Fruit Yellow... :-> .......... 323
Canned Peaches ..................... 223
Canned Strawberries ............... 223
Canned Pears ....................... 224
Canned Plums ............ .......... 224
Canned Currants .................... 224
Canned Pineapple .................... 225
Canned Quinces. . . ........... .... 225
Canned Tomatoes .................... 225
Canned Corn .......................... 225
POULTRY, GAME, Etc.
Roast Turkey ...................... 78
Boiled Turkey .... .................. 79
To Roast a Fowl or Chicken ......... So
Boiled Chicken..... ................. Si
Broiled Chicken ..................... 8 1
Fried Chicken ........... . ........... 8t
Fricassee of Chicken . .............. 82
To Curry Chicken .................... 82
Pressed Chicken .................... 82
Chicken Pot-Pie .................... 83
Chicken Salad ....................... 83
Chicken, Jellied ..................... 84
Chicken Pates ........................ 84
Sage and Onion Stuffing for Geese,
Ducks, and Pork ................... 84
To Roast a Goose ............ . ....... 85
Roast Ducks ......................... 86
Roast Pigeons .... .................... 86
To Make a Bird's Nest .............. 87
Pigeons in Jelly ..................... 87
Pige
88
Wild Ducks ....................... . 89
Roast Wild Duck .................... 89
Wild Turkey ........................ 89
To Roast Snipe, Woodcock, and
Plover ............................ 90
Roast Partridge ...................... 92
Roast Quail ......................... 9;
Roast Prairie Chicken ....... . ....... 01
Larded Grouse ...................... 82
PORK, HAM, AND EGGS.
To Choose Pork ..................... 92
Curing Hams ......................... 93
To Roast a Leg of Pork .............. 93
Pork and Beans ............. . ........ 94
Pork Sausages ...... . ................ 94
Pork Chops, Steaks, and Cutlets ---- 95
Roast Pig .......................... 95
Pigs' Cheek ......j, ....... ......... <#
TNDEX.
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PACK.
^Roast Spare Rib 96
Pork Fritters 97
Baked Ham 97
To Boil a Ham 97
To Broil a Ham 98
Fried Ham and Eggs 98
Ham Toast 98
Head Cheese 99
Pigs' Feet Soused 100
To Make Lard 100
To Tell Good Eggs 101
Keeping Eggs Fresh 101
Poached Eggs 102
Dropped Eggs 102
Stuffed Eggs 102
Eggs a la Suissie .• 103
Eggs Brouille 103
EggsCurried 103
Eggs Creamed 104
Soft Boiled Eggs 104
Eggs Upon Toast 104
Dutcli Omelet 104
Eggs Poached in Balls 105
Omelet au Natural 105
Omelet in Batter 105
Scrambled Eggs. 106
Omelet (Splendid) 106
SOUPS.
Remarks on Soups 20
Stock Soups 22
White Stock 22
Skin of Beef 23
Mutton with Tapioca 24
Veal 25
Ox Tail 25
Vegetable 25
Macaroni 26
Vermicelli 26
Chicken Cream 26
Mock Turtle 27
Hard Pea 27
Green Pea 28
Potato 2q
Tomato 29
Plain Calf's Head 30
A la Julienne -jz
Gatn= — ... .....•-%«; 31
v-eiery 31
Oyster 31
Lobster 32
Egg Balls for Soup 32
,..,.,.,,.„„ .,,.,.,, ,.,, 32
FAttH
Irish Stew 3J
To get up Soup in Haste 34
To color Soups 34
SAUCES FOR MEATS, Etc.
To Make Drawn Butter 124
Parsley Sauce 124
Egg Sauce 124
Onion Sauce 125
Anchovy Sauce 125
Bread Sauce 125
Tomato Sauce 125
Tomato Mustard 126
Mint Sauce 126
Celery Sauce '29
Governor's Sauce 129
Cream Sauce 127
Russian Sauce 127
Mayonnaise Sauce 127
Oyster Sauce 128
Lobster Sauce 128
Caper Sauce 128
Mustard Sauce 128
Curry Sauce ' 29
Cranberry Sauce 129
Port Wine Sauce for Game 130
Currant Jelly Sauce 13°
Apple Sauce >y>
SALADS, PICKLES, AND CATSUP.
Lettuce • • • 140
Lettuce Salad 14°
Salmon Salad 141
Lobster Salad 141
Tomato Salad 14*
Sard in? Salad 142
Salad Dressing 142
French Salad Dressing 142
Cream Dressing for Cold Slaw 143
Chicken Salad . . 143
Red Vegetable Salad ...' •-
Celery Salad :+4
Cold Slaw.... ., 144
iviiad Dressing (Excellent) 144
Pickled Cucumbers 145
To Pickk- Onions 145
Pickled Cauliflowers 145
Red Cabbage 145
To Pickle Tomatoes 146
RipeTonjato Pickles,,......,.,,.,,. 146
INDEX.
PARR.
Chopped Pickle 146
Chow-Chow 147
Piccalilli 147
Pickled Walnuts (very good 147
Green Tomato Pickle 148
Chili Sauce 148
Mixed Pickles 148
Pickled Mushrooms 149
Favorite Pickles 149
Tomato Mustard 150
Indian Chetney 150
Pickled Cherries 150
Pickled Plums 151
Spiced Plums 151
Peaches, Pears, and Sweet Apples.... 151
Tomato Catsup 151
Walnut Catsup 1 52
Mushroom Catsup 152
Brine that Preserves Buttera Year.... 153
Butter in Haste 153
VEGETABLES.
Boiled Potatoes 107
Mashed Potatoes 107
Fried Potatoes 108
Broiled Potatoes ... 108
Potatoes and Cream 108
Potato Puffs 109
Potato Snow 109
Potato Border 109
Potatoes, Whipped 109
Potatoes, Scalloped no
Potato Croquettes no
Potatoes a la Cream no
To Boil Sweet Potatoes no
Roasted Sweet Potatoes in
Baked Sweat Potatoes.. .. in
PACK
French Fried in
Turnips in
Spinach in
Beets n:
To Preserves Vegetables (or Winter. . 1 1>
De icate Cabbage 113
Red Cabbage 114
Cauliflowers 114
Mashed Carrots 114
Boiled Green Corn 114
Green Peas 115
To Boil Onions 115
Fried Onions 115
Boiled Parsnips 115
Parsnips Fried in Butter 116
Parsnips Creamed 116
Parsnip Fritters 1 16
Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster 117
Broiled Vegetable Marrow 117
Stewed Tomatoes 118
Baked Tomatoes 118
Stuffed Tomatoes iiq
Scalloped Tomatoes 119
To Peal Tomatoes - 119
Baked Beans 120
String Beans 120
Butter Beans 120
Asparagus with Eggs 121
Asparagus upon Toast 12 1
Mushrooms, Stewed 121
Mushrooms, Fried 121
Mushrooms, Baked 122
Mushrooms, Broiled 122
Mashed Squash 122
Baked Squash 122
Fried Squash 121
Stewed Celery 123
Stuffed Egg Plant 123
THE EVERY-DAY COOK-BOOK
OF all the arts upon which the physical well-being of man, in his social state, is dependent, none has been more neglected than that of cookery, though none is more im- portant, for it supplies the very fountain of life. The preparation of human food, so as to make it at once wholesome, nutritive, and agreeable to the palate, has hitherto been beset by imaginary difficulties and strong prejudices.
Many persons associate the idea of wealth with culinary perfection; others consider unwholesome, as well as ex- pensive, everything that goes beyond the categories of boiling, roasting, and the gridiron. All are aware that wholesome and luxurious cookery is by no means incom- patible with limited pecuniary rrieans; whilst in roasted, boiled, and broiled meats, which constitute what is fermed true American fare, much that is nutritive and agreeable is often lost for want of skill in preparing them. Food of every description is wholesome and di- gestible in proportion as it approaches nearer to the state of complete digestion, or, in other words, to that state termed c/iyme, whence the chyle or milky juice that after- wards forms blood is absorbed, and conveyed to the heart. Now nothing is further from this state than raw meat and raw vegetables. Fire is therefore necessary to soften them, and thereby begin that elaboration which is consummated in the stomach. The preparatory pro-
8 THE E VERY-DAY COOK-BOO^.
cess, which forms the cook's art, is more or less perfect in proportion as the aliment is softened, without losing any of its juices or flavor — for flavor is not only an agreea- ble but a necessary accompaniment to wholesome food. Hence it follows, that meat very much underdone, whether roasted or boiled, is not so wholesome as meat W^ll done but retaining all its juices. And here comes the necessity for the cook's skill, which is so often at fault even in these simple modes of preparing human nourishment.
Pork, veal, lamb, and all young meats, when not thor- oughly cooked, are absolute poison to the stomach; and if half-raw beef or mutton are often eaten with impunity, it must not be inferred that they are wholesome in their semi-crude state, but only less unwholesome than the young meats.
Vegetables, also, half done, which is the state in which they are often sent to the table, are productive of great gastric derangement, often of a predisposition to cholera.
A great variety of relishing, nutritive, and even elegant dishes, may be prepared from the most homely mate- rials, which may not only be rendered more nourishing^ but be made to go much further in a large family than they usually do. The great secret of all cookery, except in roasting and broiling, is a judicious use of butter, flour, and herbs, and the application of a very slow fire — for good cooking requires only gentle simmering, but no boiling up, which only renders the meat hard. Good roasting can only be acquired by practice, and the per- fection lies in cooking the whole joint thoroughly with- out drying up the juice of any part of it. This is also the case with broiling; while a joint under process of boiling, as we have said, should be allowed to simmer gently.
WH.h regard to made-dishes, as the horrible imitations of French cookery prevalent in Americ^ §re tgrmed,
THE EVERY-DAY COOK-BOOK. 9
admit that they are very unwholesome. All the juice* are boiled out of the meat, which is swimming in a he- terogenous compound, disgusting to the sight, and sea- soned so strongly with spice and Cayenne pepper enough to inflame the stomach of an ostrich.
French cookery is generally mild in seasoning, and free from grease; it is formed upon the above-stated principle of reducing the aliment as near to the state of chyme as possible, without injury to its nutritive qualities, render- ing it at once easy of digestion and pleasant to the taste.
HINTS ON MARKETING.
In the first place, the housewife ought, where it is pos- sible, to do her marketing herself, and pay ready-money for everything site purchases. This is the only way in which she can be sure of getting the best goods at the lowest price. We repeat that this is the only way compatible with economy; because, if a servant be entrusted with the buying, she will, if she is not a good judge of the quality of articles, bring home those she can get for the least money (and these are seldom the cheapest); and even if she is a go^d judge, it is ten to one against her taking the trouble to make a careful selection.
When the ready-money system is found inconvenient, and an account is run with a dealer, the mistress of the house ought to have a pass-book in which she should write down all the orders herself, leaving the dealer to fill in only the prices. Where this is not done, and the mistress neglects to compare the pass-book with the goods ordered every time they are brought in, it some- times happens, either by mistak-e, or the dishonesty of the dealer, or the servant, that goods are entered which were never ordered, perhaps never had, and that those Nvhich were ordered are overcharged; and if these errors are not detected at the time, they are sure to be difficult
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of adjustment afterwards. For these and other econo- mic reasons, the housewife should avoid running ac- counts, and pay ready-money.
RULES FOR EATING.
Dr. Hall, on this important subject, gives the follow ing advice: —
1. Never sit down to table with an anxious or dis- turbed mind; betters hundred times intermit that meal, for there will then be that much more food in the world for hungrier stomachs than yours; and besides, eating under such circumstances can only, and will always, pro- long and aggravate the condition of things.
2. Never*sit down to a meal after any intense mental effort, for physical and mental injury are inevitable, and no one has a right to deliberately injure body, mind, or estate.
3. Never go to a full table during bodily exhaustion — designated by some as being worn out, tired to death, used up, overdone, and the like. The wisest thing to be done under such circumstances is to take a cracker and a cup of warm tea, either black or green, and no more. In ten minutes you will feel a degree of refreshment and liveliness which will be pleasantly surprising to you; not of the transient kind which a glass of liquor affords, but permanent; but the tea gives present stimulus and a little strength, and before it subsides, nutriment begins to draw from the sugar, and cream, and bread, thus al- lowing the body gradually, and by safe degrees, to re- gain its usual vigor. Then, in a co-uple of hours, a full meal may be taken, provided that it does not bring it later than two hours before sundown; if later, then take nothing for that day in addition to the cracker and tea, and the next day you will feel a freshness and vigor not recently known.
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No lady will require to be advised a second time, who will conform to the above rules; while it is a fact of no unusual observation among intelligent physicians, that eating heartily, and under bodily exhaustion, is not un- frequently the cause of alarming and painful illness, and sometimes sudden death. These things being so, let every family make it a point to assemble around the table with kindly feelings — with a cheerful humor, and a cour- teous spirit; and let that member of it be sent from it in disgrace who presumes to mar the re-union by sullen si- lence, or impatient look, or angry tone, or complaining tongue. Eat ever in thankful gladness, or away with you to the kitchen, you "ill-tempered thing, that you are." There was good philosophy in the old-time cus- tom of having a buffoon or music at the dinner-table.
HOW TO CHOOSE MEAT.
Ox-BEEF, when it is young, will have a fine open grain, and a good red color; the fat should be white, for when it is of a deep yellow color, the meat is seldom very good. The grain of cow-beef is closer, the fat whiter, and the lean scarcely so red as that of ox-beef. When you see beef, of which the fat is hard and skinny, and the lean of a deep red, you may be sure that it is of an inferior kind; and when the meat is old, you may know it by a line of horny texture running through the meat of the ribs.
MUTTON must be chosen by the firmness and fineness £>f the grain, its good color, and firm white fat. It is not considered prime until the sheep is about five years old.
LAMB will not keep long after it is killed. It can be dis- covered by the neck end in the fore-quarter if it has been killed too long, the veins in the neck being bluish when the meat is fresh, but green when it is stale. In the hind quarter, the same discovery may be made by examining
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the kidney and the knuckle, for the former has a slight smell, and the knuckle is not firm, when the meat has been killed too long.
PORK should have a thin rind ; and when it is fresh, the ,meat is smooth and cool ; but, when it looks flabby, and is (clammy to the touch, it is not good ; and pork, above all 'meat, is disagreeable when it is stale. If you perceive many enlarged glands, or, as they are usually termed, kernels, in the fat of the pork, you may conclude that the pork cannot be wholesome.
VEAL is generally preferred of a delicate whiteness, but it is more juicy and well-flavored when of a deeper color. Butchers bleed calves profusely in order to produce this white meat ; but this practice must certainly deprive the meat of some of its nourishment and flavor. When you choose veal, endeavor to look at the loin, which affords the best means of judging of the veal generally, for if the kidney, which may be found on the under side of one end of the loin, be deeply enveloped in white and firm-looking fat, the meat will certainly be good ; and the same ap- pearance will enable you to judge if it has been recently killed. The kidney is the part which changes the first ; and then the suet around it becomes soft, and the meat flabby and spotted
BACON, like pork, should have a thin rind ; the fat should be firm, and inclined to a reddish color ; and the lean should firmly adhere to the bone, and have no yellow streaks in it. When you are purchasing a ham, have a knife stuck into it to the bone, which, if the ham be well cured, may be drawn out again without having any of the meat adhering to it, and without your perceiving any disagreeable smell. A short ham is reckoned the best.
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HOW TO CHOOSE FISH.
TURBOT, which is in season the greater part of the year, should have the underside of a yellowish white, for when it is very transparent, blue, or thin, it is not good: the whole fish should be thick and firm.
SALMON should have a fine red flesh and gills; the scales should be bright, and the whole fish firm. Many persons think that salmon is improved by keeping a day or two.
COD should be judged by the redness of the gills, the whiteness, stiffness, and firmness of the flesh, and the clear freshness of the eyes; these are the infallible proofs of its being good. The whole fish should be thick and firm.
WHITE-FISH may be had good almost throughout the year; but the time in which they are in their prime is early in the year. The white-fish is light and delicate, and in choosing it you must examine whether the fins and flesh be firm.
FRESH-WATER FISH may be chosen by similar observa- tions respecting the firmness of the flesh, and the clear appearance of the eyes, as salt-water fish.
In a LOBSTER lately caught, you may put the claws in motion by pressing the eyes; but when it has been long caught, the muscular action is not excited. The fresh- ness of boiled lobsters may be determined by the elas- ticity of the tail, which is flaccid when they have lost any of their wholesomeness. Their goodness, independ- ent of freshness, is determined by their weight.
CRABS, too, must be judged of by their weight, for when they prove light, the flesh is generally found to be wasted and watery. If in perfection, the joints of the legs will be stiff, and the body will have an agreeable smell. The eyes, by a dull appearance, betray that the crab has been long caught.
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HOW TO CHOOSE POULTRY.
In the choice of Poultry the age of the bird is the chief point to which you should attend.
A young TURKEY has a smooth black leg; in an old one the legs are rough and reddish. If the bird be fresh killed the eyes will be full and fresh, and tlie feet moist
FOWLS, when they are young, the combs and the legs will be smooth, and rough when they are old.
In GEESE, when they are young, the bills and the feet are yellow and have a few hairs upon them, but they are red if the bird be old. The feet of a goose are pliable when the bird is fresh killed, and dry and stiff when it has been killed some time. Geese are called green till they are two or three months old.
DUCKS should be chosen by the feet, which should be supple; and they should also have a plump and hard breast. The feet of a tame duck are yellowish, those of a wild one, reddish.
PIGEONS should always be eaten while they are fresh; when they look flabby and discolored about the under part, they have been kept too long. The feet, like those of poultry, show the age of the bird; when they are sup- pie, it is young; when stiff, it is old. Tame pigeons are fcarger than wild ones.
HOW TO CHOOSE GAME.
VENISON, when young, will have the fat clear and bright, and this ought also to be of a considerable thick- ness. When you do not wish to have it in a very high state, a knife plunged into either haunch or the shoulder, and drawn out, will by the smell enable you to judge if the venison be sufficiently fresh.
With regard to venison, which, as it is not an every- day article of diet, it may be convenient to keep fot
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Some time after it has begun to get high or tainted, it is useful to know that animal putrefaction is checked by fresh burnt charcoal; by means of which, therefore, the venison may be prevented from getting worse, although it cannot be restored to its original freshness. The meat should be placed in a hollow dish, and the charcoal pow- der strewed over it until it covers the joint to the thick- ness of half an inch.
HARES and RABBITS, when the ears are dry and tough, the haunch thick, and the claws blunt and rugged, they are old. Smooth and sharp claws, ears that readily tear, and a narrow cleft in the lip, are the marks of a young hare. Hares may be kept for some time after they have been killed; indeed, many people think they are not fit for the table until the inside begins to turn a little. Care, however, should be taken to prevent the inside from be- coming musty, which would spoil the flavor of the stuffing.
PARTRIDGES have yellow legs and a dark-colored bill when young. They are not in season till after the first •of September
HOW TO CHOOSE EGGS.
In putting the hands round the eggr and presenting to the light the end which is not covered, it should be trans- parent. If you can detect some tiny spots, it is not new- ly laid, but may be very good for all ordinary purposes except boiling soft. If you see a large spot near the shell, it is bad, and should not be used on any account. The white of a newly-laid egg boiled soft is like milk; that of an egg a day old, is like rice boiled in milk; and that of an old egg, compact, tough, and difficult to digest. A cook ought not to give eggs two or three days old to people who really care for fresh eggs, under the delusion that they will not find any difference; for an amateur will find it out in a moment, not only by the appearance, but also by the taste.
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CARVING.
THE seat for the carver should be somewhat elevated above the other chairs; it is extremely ungraceful to carve standing, and it is rarely done by any person accustomed to the business. Carving depends more on skill than on strength. \Ve have seen very small women carve admir- ably sitting down ; and very tall men who knew not how to cut a piece of beefsieak without rising on their feet to do it.
The carving-knife should be very sharp, and not heavy ; and it should be held firmly in the hand ; also the dish should be not too far from the carver. It is customary to help the fish with a fish trowel, and not with a knife. The middle part of a fish is generally considered the best. In helping it, avoid breaking the flakes, as that will give it a mangled appearance.
In carving ribs or sirloin of beef begin by cutting thin slices off the side next to you. Afterwards you may cut from the tenderloin, or cross-part near the lower end. Do not send anyone the outside piece, unless you know that they particularly wish it.
In helping beefsteak put none of the bone on the plate. In cutting a round of corned beef begin at the top ; but lay aside the first cut or outside piece, and send it to no one, as it is always dry and hard. In a round of beef d-la mode the outside is frequently preferred.
In a leg of mutton begin across the middle, cutting the slices quite down to the bone. The same with a leg of pork or a ham. The latter should be cut in very thin slices, as its flavor is spoiled when cut thick.
To taste well, a tongue should be cut crossways in round slices. Cutting it lengthwise (though the prac- tice at many tables) injures the flavor. The middle part of the tongue is the best. Do not help anyone to a
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piece of the root; that, being by no means a favored part, is generally left in the dish.
In carving a fore-quarter of lamb first separate the shoulder part from the breast and ribs by passing the knife under, and then divide the ribs. If the lamb is large, have another dish brought to put the shoulder in.
For a loin of veal begin near the smallest end, and separate the ribs; helping a part of the kidney (as far as it wiii go) with each piece. Carve a loin of pork or mut- ton in the same manner.
In carving a fillet of veal begin at the top. Many per- sons prefer the first cut or outside piece. Help a por- tion of the stuffing with each slice.
In a breast of veal there are two parts very different in quality, the ribs and the brisket. You will easily per- cieve the division; enter your knife at it and cut through, which, will separate the tvv.j parts. Ask the person you are going to help whether they prefer a rib, or a piece of the brisket.
For a haunch of venison first make a deep incision by passing your knife all along the side, cutting quite down to the bone. This is to let out the gravy. Then turn the broad end of the haunch towards you, and cut it as deep as you can in thin slices, allowing some of the fat to each person.
For a saddle of venison, or of mutton, cut from the tail to the other end on each side of the backbone, mak- ing very thin slices, and sending some fat wit'h each. Venison and roast mutton chill very soon. Currant jelly is an indispensable appendage to venison, and to roast mutton, and to ducks.
A young pig is most generally divided before it comes to table, in which case it is not customary to send in the head, as to many persons it is a revolting spectacle after it is cut off. When served up whole, first separate the head from the shoulders, then cut off the limbs, and then
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divide the ribs. Help some of the stuffing with each piece.
To carve a fowl, begin by sticking your fork in the pinion, and drawing it towards the leg ; and then pass- ing your knife underneath take off the wing at the joint. Next, slip your knife between the leg and the body, to cut through the joint ; and with the fork turn the leg back, and the joint will give way. Ther take off the other wing and leg. If the fowl has be^n trussed (as it ought to be) with the liver and gizzard, help the liver with one wing, and the gizzard with the other. The liver-wing is considered the best. After the limbs are taken off enter your knife into the top of the breast, and cut under the merry-thought, so as to loosen it, lifting it with your fork. Afterwards cut slices from both sides of the breast. Next take off the collar-bones, which lie on each side of the merry-thought, and then separate the side-bones from the back. The breast and wings are considered as the most delicate parts of the fowl ; the back, as the least desirable, is generally left in the dish. Some persons, in carving a fowl, find it more convenient to take it on a plate, and as they separate it return each part to the dish; but this is not the usual way.
A turkey is carved in the same manner as a fowl; ex- cept that the legs and wings, being larger, are separated at the lower joint. The lower part of the leg (or drum- stick, as it is called), being hard, tough, and stringy, - never helped to any one, but allowed to remain on the dish. First cut off the wing, leg, and breast from one side; then turn the turkey over, and cut them off from the other.
To carve a goose, separate the leg from the body, by putting the fork into the small end of the limb; pressing it close to the body, and then passing the knife under, and turning the leg back, as you cut through the joint, TO take off the wing, put your fork into the small end at
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the pinion, and press it closely to the body; then slip the knife under, and separate the joint. Next cut under the merry-thought, and take it off; and then cut slices from the breast. Then turn the goose, and dismember the other side. Take off the two upper side-bones that are next to the wings, and then the two lower side-bones. The breast and legs of a goose afford the finest pieces. If a goose is old there is no fowl so tough; and, if diffi- cult to carve, it will be still more difficult to eat.
Partridges, pheasants, grouse, etc., are carved in the same manner as fowls. Quails, woodcocks, and snipes are merely split down the back; so also are pigeons, giv- ing a half to each person.
In helping any one to gravy, or to melted butter, do not pour it over their meat, fowl, or fish, but put it to one side on a vacant part of the plate, that they may use just as much of it as they like. In filling a plate never heap one thing on another.
In helping vegetables, do not plunge the spoon down to the bottom of the dish, in case they should not have been perfectly well drained, and the water should have settled there.
By observing carefully how it is done you may acquire a knowledge of the joints, and of the process of carving, which a little daily practice w.'K soon convert into dex- terity. If a young lady is ign.uant of this very useful art, it will be well for her to take lessons of her father, or her brother, and a married lady can easily learn from her husband. Domestics who wait at table may soon, from looking on daily, become so expert that, when necessary, they can take a dish to the side-table and carve it perfectly well.
At a dinner-party, if the hostess is quite young, she is frequently glad to be relieved of the trouble of carving by U«e gentleman vvnosits nearest to her; but if she is familiar with the business, she usually prefers doing it herseh.
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SOUPS. GENERAL REMARKS.
BE careful to proportion the quantity of water to that of the meat. Somewhat less than a quart of water to a pound of meat is a good rule for common soups. Rich soups, intended for company, may have a still smaller allowance of water.
Soup should always be made entirely of fresh meat that has not been previously cooked. An exception to this rule may sometimes be made in favor of the re- mains of a piece of roast beef that has been very much under-done in roasting. This may be added to a good piece of raw meat. Cold ham, also, may be occasionally put into white soups.
Soup, however, that has been originally made of raw meat entirely is frequently better the second day than the first, provided that it is reboiled only for a very short time, and that no additional water is added to it.
Unless it has been allowed to boil too hard, so as to exhaust the water, the soup-pot will not require replen- ishing. When it is found absolutely necessary to do so, the additional water must be boiling-hot when poured in ; if lukewarm or cold, it will entirely spoil the soup.
Every particle of fat should be carefully skimmed from the surface. Greasy soup is disgusting and unwhole- some. The lean of meat is much better for soup than the fat.
Long and slow boiling is necessary to extract the strength from the meat. If boiled fast over a large fire, the meat becomes hard and tough, an I vvlil not give out its juices.
Potatoes, if boiled in the soup, are thought by some to render it unwholesome., from the opinion that the water
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in which potatoes have been cooked is almost a poison. As potatoes are a part of every dinner, it is very easy to take a few out of the pot in which they have been boiled by themselves, and to cut them up and add them to the soup just before it goes to table. Kemove all shreds of meat and bone.
The cook should season the soup but very slightly with salt and pepper. If she puts in too much it may spoil it for the taste of most of those who are to eat it ; but if too little it is easy to add more to your own
SOUPS.
STOCK.
Four pounds of shin of beef, or four pounds of knuckle of veal, or two pounds of each ; any bones, trimmings of poultry, or fresh meat, quarter pound of lean bacon or ham, two ounces of butter, two large onions, each stuck with cloves ; one turnip, three carrots, one head of celery, three lumps of sugar, two ounces of salt, half a teaspoonful of whole pepper, one large blade of mace, one bunch of savory herbs, four quarts and half pint of cold water.
Cut up the meat and bacon, or ham, into pieces of about three inches square ; rub the butter on the bottom of the stewpan ; put in half a pint of water, the meat, and all the other ingredients. Cover the stewpan, and place it on a sharp fire, occasionally stirring its contents. When the bottom of the pan becomes covered with a pale, jelly-like substance, add the four quarts of cold water, and simmer very gently for five hours. As we have said before, do not let it boil quickly. Remove every particle of scum while it is doing, and strain it through a fine hair sieve.
This stock is the basis of many of the soups afterwards mentioned, and will be found quite strong enough for ordi- nary purposes.
Time : five and one half hours. Average cost, twenty-five cents per quart.
"WHITE STOCK SOUP.
Six pounds knuckle of veal, half pound lean bacon, two tablespoonfuls of butter rubbed in one of flour, two
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onions, two carrots, two turnips, three cloves stuck in an onion, one blade of mace, bunch of herbs, six quarts of water, pepper and salt, one cup of boiling milk.
Cut up the meat and crack the bones. Slice carrots, turnips, and one onion, leaving that with the cloves whole. Put on with mace, and all the herbs except the parsley, in two quarts of cold water. Bring to a slow boil ; take off the scum, as it rises, and at the end of an hour's stew- ing, add the rest of the cold water — one gallon. Cover and cook steadily, always gently, four hours. Strain off the liquor, of which there should be about five quarts ; rub the vegetables through the colander, and pick out bones and meat. Season these highly and put, as is your Saturday custom, into a wide-mouth jar, or a large bowl. Add to them three quarts of stock, well salted, and, when cold keep on ice. Cool to-day's stock; remove the fat, season, put in chopped parsley, and put over the fire. Heat in a saucepan a cup of milk, stir in the floured butter; cook three minutes. When the soup has sim- mered ten minutes after the last boil, and been carefully skimmed, pour into the tureen, and stir in the hot, thick- ened milk.
SHIN OF BEEF SOUP.
Get a shin-bone of beef weighing four or five pounds ; let the butcher saw it in pieces about two inches long, that the marrow may become the better incorporated with the soup, and so give it greater richness.
Wash the meat in cold water; mix together of salt and pepper each a tablespoonful, rub this well into the meat, then put into a soup-pot; put to it as many quarts of water as there are pounds of meat, and set it over a mod- erate fire, until it comes to a boil, then take off whatever scum may have risen, after which cover it close, and set it where it will boil very gently for two hours longer, then skim it again, and add to it the proper vegetables
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which are these — one large carrot grated, one large tunip cut in slices, (the yellow or ruta baga is best) one leek cut in slices, one bunch of parsley cut small, six small potatoes peeled and cut in half, and a teacupful of pearl barley well washed, then cover it and let it boil gently for one hour, at which time add another tablespoonful of salt and a thickening made of a tablespoonful of wheat flour and a gill of water, stir it in by the spoonful; cover it for fifteen minutes and it is done.
Three hours and a half is required to make this soup; it is the best for cold weather. Should any remain over the first day, it may be heated with the addition of a lit- tle boiling water, and served again.
Take the meat from the soup, and if to be served with it, take out the bones, and lay it closely and neatly on a dish, and garnish with sprigs of parsley; serve made mus- tard and catsup with it. It is very nice pressed and eaten with mustard and vinegar or catsup.
MUTTON SOUP WITH TAPIOCA.
Three pounds perfectly lean mutton. The scrag makes good soup and costs little. Two or three pounds of bones, well pounded, one onion, two turnips, two carrots, two Stalks of celery, a few sprigs of parsley; if you have any tomatoes left from yesterday, add them, four tablespoon- fuls of pearl or granulated tapioca (not heaping spoon- fuls), four quarts of water.
Put on the meat, cut in small pieces, with the bones, in two quarts of cold water. Heat very slowly, and when it boils pour in two quarts of hot water from the kettle. Chop the vegetables; cover with cold water. So soon as they begin to simmer, throw off the first water, replenish- ing with hot, and stew until they are boiled to pieces. The meat should cook steadily, never fast, five hours, keeping the pot-lid on Strain into a great bowl; let it Cool to u».aw the fat to the surface; skim and return to
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the fire. Season with pepper and salt, boil up, take off the scum; add the vegetables with their liquor. Heat together ten minutes, strain again, and bring to a slow boil before the tapioca goes in. This should have been soaked one hour in cold water, then cooked in the same within another vessel of boiling water until each grain is clear. It is necessary to stir up often from the bottom while cooking. Stir gradually into the soup until the tapioca is dissolved.
Send around grated cheese with this soup.
VEAL SOUP.
To about three pounds of a joint of veal, which must be well broken up, put four quarts of water and set it over to boil. Prepare one fourth pound of macaroni by boiling it by itself, with sufficient water to cover it; add a little butter to the macaroni when it is tender, strain the soup and season to taste with salt and pepper, then add the macaroni in the water in which it is boiled. The addition of a pint of rich milk or cream and celery flavour is relished by many
OX-TAIL SOUP.
Take two ox tails and two whole onions, two carrots, a small turnip, two tablespoonfuls of flour, and a little white pepper, add a gallon of water, let all boil for two hours; then take out the tails and cut the meat into small pieces, return the bones to the pot, for a short time, boil for another hour, then strain the soup, and rinse two spoonfuls of arrowroot to add to it with the meat cut from the bones, and let all boil for a quarter of an hour.
VEGETABLE SOUP.
Two pounds of coarse, lean beef, cut into strips, two pounds of knuckle of veal, chopped to pieces, two pounds of mutton bones, and the bones left from your cold veal,
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cracked to splinters, one pound of lean ham, four large carrots, two turnips, two onions, bunch of herbs, three tablespoonfuls of butter, and two of flour, one table- spoonful of sugar, salt and pepper, seven quarts of water.
Put on meat, bones, herbs and water, and cook slowly five hours. Strain the soup, of which there should be five quarts. Season meat and bones, and put into the stock-pot with three quarts of the liquor. Save this for days to come. While the soup for to-day is cooling that you may take off the fat, put the butter into a frying pan with the sliced carrots, turnips, and onions, and fry to a light brown. Now, add a pint of the skimmed stock, and stew the vegetables tender, stir in the flour wet with water, and put all, with your cooled stock, over the fire in the soup-kettle. Season with sugar, cayenne *and saltr boil five minutes, rub through a colander, then a soup- sieve, heat almost to boiling, and serve.
MACARONI SOUP.
To a rich beef or other soup, in which there is no sea- soning other than pepper or salt, take half a pound of small pipe macaroni, boil it in clear water until it is tender, then drain it and cut it in pieces of an inch length, boil it for fifteen minutes in the soup and serve.
VERMICELLI SOUP.
Swell quarter of a pound of vermicelli Li a quart of warm water, then add it to a good beef, veal, Irmb, or chicken soup or broth with quarter of a pound of sweet butter; let the soup boil for fifteen minutes after it is added.
CHICKEN CREAM SOUP.
Boil an old fowl, with an onion, in four quarts of cold water, until there remain but two quarts. Take it out
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anct let it get cold. Cut off the whole of the breast, and chop very fine. Mix with the pounded yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, and rub through a colander. Cool, skim, and strain the soup into a soup-pot. Season, add the chicken-and-egg mixture, simmer ten minutes, and pour into the tureen. Then add a small cup of boiling milk.
MOCK-TURTLE SOUF.
Clean and wash a calf's head, split it in two, save the brains, boil the head until tender in plenty of water; put a slice of fat ham, a bunch of parsley cut small, a sprig of thyme, two leeks cut small, six cloves, a teaspoonful of pepper, and three ounces of butter, into a stew-pan, and fry them a nice brown; then add the water in which the head was boiled, cut the meat from the head in neat square pieces, and put them to the soup; add a pint of Madeira and one lemon sliced thin, add cayenne pepper and salt to taste; let it simmer gently for two hours, then skim it clear and serve.
Make a forcemeat of the brains as follows: put them in a stew-pan, pour hot water over, and set it over the fire for a few minutes, I hen take them up, chop them small, with a sprig of parsley, a saltspoonful of salt and pepper each, a tablespoonful of wheat flour, the same of butter, and one well-beaten egg; make it in small balls, and drop them in the soup fifteen minutes before it is taken from the fire; in making the balls, a little more flour may be necessary. Egg-balls may also be added.
HARD PEA SOUP.
Many persons keep the bones of their roasts in order to convert them into stock for pea soup, which is, to my taste, one of the most relishable of all soups, and a fam- ous dish for cold weather, with this advantage in its tavor, that it may be /nade from almost anything.
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Capital stock for pea soup can be made from a knuckle of ham or from a piece of pickled pork. Supposing that some such stock is at hand to the extent of about two u-J3rts, procure, say, two pounds of split peas, wash them wrll, and then soak them for a night in water to which a v^ry little piece of soda has been added (the floating peas shruld be all thro\vn away), strain out the peas and place tl'em in the stock, adding a head of celery, a cut- down carrot, and a large onion or two, and season with a pinch of curry powder, or half an eggspoonful of cayenne pepper. Boil with a lid on the pot till all is soft, skimming off the scum occasionally, and then care- fully strain into a well-warmed tureen, beating the pulp through the strainer with a spoon. Serve as hot as possible, placing a breakfastcupful of crumbled toast (breao) into the tureen before the soup is dished. Much of th<* success in preparing this soup lies in the " strain- ing," which ought to be carefully attended to. A wire skv. is best; but an active housewife must never stick. If Vie has not a sieve made for the purpose, she can fold a '^iece of net two or three times, and use that. When a knuckle of ham has been used to make the stock it should form a part of the dinner, with potatoes; or it Tnay be used as a breakfast or supper relish.
GREEN PEA SOUP.
Wasn a small quarter of lamb in cold water, and put it into a soup-pot with six quarts of cold water; add to it two tablespoonfuls of salt, and set it over a moderate fire — let it boil gently for two hours, then skim it clear; add a quart of sheHed peas, and a teaspoonful of pepper; cover it, and let it boil for half an hour, then having scraped the skins from a quart of small young potatoes, add them to the soup; cover the pot, and let it boil for half an hour longer; work quarter of a pound of butter, and a dessert spoonful of flour together, and add them
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to the soup ten or twelve minutes before taking it off the fire.
Serve the meat on a dish with parsley sauce over, and the soup in a tureen.
POTATO SOUP.
Potato soup is suitable for a cold day. Make it in the following manner: Get as many beef or ham bones as you can, and smash them into fragments. Add a lit- tle bit of lean ham to give flavor. Boil the bone and ham for two hours and a half at least. The bone of a roast beef is excellent. Strain off the liquor carefully, empty out the bones and debris of the ham, restore the liquor to the pot, and place again on the fire. Having selected, washed, and pared some nice potatoes, cut them into small pieces, and boil them in the stock till they melt away. An onion or two may also be boiled among the bones to help the flavor. I do not like thick potato soup, and I usually strain it through a hair sieve, after doing so placing it again on the fire, seasoning it with pepper and salt to taste. A stick of celery boiled with the bones is an improvement. Make only the quantity required for the day, as potato soup is best when it is newly made.
TOMATO SOUP.
Tomato soup is a much relished American dish, and is prepared as follows: Steam, or rather stew slowly, a mess of turnips, carrots, and onions, also a stock of celery, with half a pound of lean ham and a little bit of fresh butter over a slow fire for an hour or so. Then add two quarts of diluted stock or of other liquor in which meat has been boiled, as also eight or ten ripe tomatoes. Stew the whole for an hour and a half, then pass through the sieve into the pan again; add a little pepper and salt, boil for ten minutes and serve hot
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TO FRY OR BROIL FISH PROPERLY.
After the fish is well cleansed, lay it on a folded towel and dry out all the water. When well wiped and dry, roll it in wheat flour, rolled crackers, grated stale bread, or Indian meal, whichever may be preferred ; wheat flour will gener- ally be liked.
Have a thick-bottomed frying-pan or spider, with plenty of sweet lard salted ; (a tablespoonful of salt to each pound of lard), for fresh fish which have not been previously salted ; let it become boiling hot, then lay the fish in and let it fry gently, until one side is a fine delicate brown, then turn the other ; when both are done, take it up carefully and serve quickly, or keep it covered with a tin cover, and set the dish where it will keep hot.
BAKED BLACK BASS.
Eight good-sized onions chopped fine ; half that quantity of bread-crumbs ; butter size of hen's egg ; plenty of pepper and salt, mix thoroughly with anchovy sauce until quite red. Stuff your fish with this compound and pour the rest over it, previously sprinkling it with a little red pepper. Shad, pickerel, and trout are good the same way. Tomatoes can be used instead of anchovies, and are more economical. If using them take pork in place of butter and chop fine.
BROILED MACKEREL.
Pepper and salt to taste, a small quantity of oil. Mack- erel should never be washed when intended to be broiled but merely wiped very clean and dry, after taking out the gills and inside. Open the back, and put in a little pepper, salt, and oil ; broil it over a clear fire> turn it over on both sides, and also on the back. When sufficiently cooked, the flesh **Ki be detached from the bone, which will • be in, about ten
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GAME SOUP.
Two grouse or partridges, or, if you have neither, use a pair of rabbits ; half a pound of lean ham ; two medium* sized onions ; one pound of lean beef ; fried bread ; butter for frying ; pepper, salt, and two stalks of white celery cut into inch lengths ; three quarts of water.
Joint your game neatly ; cut the ham and onions into small pieces, and fry all in butter to a light brown. Put into a soup-pot with the beef, cut into strips, and a little pepper. Pour on the water; heat slowly, and stew gently two hours. Take out the pieces of bird, and cover in a bowl ; cook the soup an hour longer ; strain ; cool ; drop in the celery, and simmer ten minutes. Pour upon fried bread in the tureen.
CELERY SOUP.
Celery soup may be made with white stock. Cut down the white of half a dozen heads of celery into little pieces and boil it in four pints of white stock, with a quarter of a pound of lean ham and two ounces of butter. Simmer gently for a full hour, then drain through a sieve, return the liquor to pan and stir in a few spoonfuls of cream with great care. Serve with toasted bread, and, if liked, thicken with a little flour. Season to taste.
OYSTER SOUP.
Two quarts of oysters, one quart of milk, two tablespoon- fuls of butter, one teacupful hot water ; pepper, salt.
Strain all the liquor from the oysters ; add the water and heat. When near the boil, add the seasoning, then the oysters. Cook about five minutes from the time they begin to simmer, until they " ruffle." Stir in the butter, cook one minute and pour into the tureen. Stir in the boi'ing milk, and send to table.
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LOBSTER SOUP.
Procure a large hen fish, boiled, and with all its coral, if possible. Cut away from it all the meat in neat little pieces ; beat up the fins and minor claws in a mortar, then stew the results in a stew-pan, slowly, along with a little white stock ; season this with a bunch of sweet herbs ; a small onion, a little bit of celery, and a carrot may be placed in the stock, as also the toasted crust of a French roll. Season to taste with salt and a little cayenne. Simmer the whole for about an hour ; then strain and return the liquor to the saucepan, place in it the pieces of lobster, and having beat up the coral in a little flour and gravy, stir it in. Let the soup re- main on the fire for a few minutes without boiling and serve hot. A small strip of the rind of a lemon may be boiled in the stock, and a little nutmeg may be added to the season- ing. This is a troublesome soup to prepare, but there aie many who like it when it is well made.
EGG BALLS FOR SOUP.
Boil four eggs ; put into cold water ; mash yolks with yolk of one raw egg, and one teaspoonful of flour, pep- per, salt and parsley ; make into balls and boil two min- utes.
NOODLES FOR SOUP.
Rub into two eggs as much sifted flour as they will absorb ; then roll out until thin as a wafer ; dust over a little flour, and then roll over and over into a roll, cut off thin slices from the edge of the roll and shake out into long strips ; put them into the soup lightly and boil for ten minutes ; salt should be added while mixing with the flour — • about a saltspoonful.
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IRISH STEW.— STOVED POTATOES.
These form excellent and nutritious dishes. The former dish can be made from a portion of the back ribs or neck of mutton, the fleshy part of which must be cut into cutlets. Flatten these pieces of meat with a roller, and dip them in a composition of pepper, salt, and flour. Peel potatoes and slice them to the extent of two pounds of potatoes for every pound of meat. An onion or two sliced into small bits will be required. Before building the materials into a goblet, melt a little suet or dripping in it, then commence by lay- ing in the pot a layer of potatoes, which dust well with pep- per and salt, then c layer of the meat sprinkled with the chopped onions, and <o on till the goblet is pretty full. Fill in about a breakfast-cupful of gravy, if there be any in the house ; if not, water will do. Finish off with a treble row of potatoes on the top. Let the mess stew slowly for about three hours, taking great care to keep the lid so tight that none of the virtue can escape — letting away the steam is just letting away the flavor. Shake the pot occasionally with some force, to prevent burning. Some cooks, in prepar- ing this dish, boil the potatoes for some time, and then pour and dry them well ; others add «a portion of kidney to the stew ; while extravagant people throw in a few oysters, a slice or two of lean ham, or a ham shank. Irish stew should be served as hot as possible. It is a savory and inex- pensive dish for cold weather. — Staved potatoes are prepared much in the same way. Cut down what of the Sunday's roast is left, and proceed with it just as you would with the neck of mutton. Some cooks would stew the bones of the roast, in order to make a gravy in which to stove the meat and potatoes, but the bones will make excellent potato soup. Irish stew is an excellent dish for skaters and curlers. It is sometimes known as " hot pot."
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TO GET UP A SOUP IN HASTE.
Chop some cold cooked meat fine, and put a pint into a stew-pan with some gravy, season with pepper and salt and a little butter if the gravy is not rich, add a little flour moistened with cold water, and three pints boiling water, boiled moderately half an hour. Strain over some rice or nicely toasted bread, and serve. Uncooked meat may be] used by using one quart of cold water to a pound of chopped meat, and letting it stand half before boiling. Celery root may be grated in as seasoning, or a bunch of parsley thrown in.
TO COLOR SOUPS.
A fine amber color is obtained by adding finely-grated carrot to the clear stock when it is quite free from scum.
Red is obtained by using red skinned tomatoes from which the skin and seeds have been strained out.
Only white vegetables should be used in white soups, as chicken.
Spinach leaves, pounded in a mortar, and the juice ex- pressed and added to the soups, will give a green color.
Black beans make an excellent brown soup. The same color can be gotten by adding burnt sugar or browned flour to clear stock.
FISH.
Fish are good, when the gills are red, eyes are full, and the body of the fish is firm and stiff. After washing them well, they should be allowed to remain for a short time in salt water sufficient to cover them ; before cooking, wipe them dry, dredge lightly with flour, and season with salt and pepper. Salmon-trout and other small fish
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are usually fried or broiled ; all large fish should be put in a cloth, tied closely with twine, and placed in cold water, when they may be put over the fire to boil. When fish are baked, prepare the fish the same as for boiling, and put in the oven on a wire gridiron, over a dripping-pan.
BOILED SALMON.
The middle slice of salmon is the best. Sew up neatly in a mosquito-net bag, and boil a quarter of an hour to the pound in hot, salted water. When done, unwrap with care, and lay upon a hot dish, taking care not to break it. Have ready a large cupful of drawn butter, very rich, in which has been stirred a tablespoonful of minced parsley and the juice of a lemon. Pour half upon the salmon, and serve the rest in a boat. Garnish with parsley and sliced eggs.
Here is a recipe for a nice pickle for cold salmon made out of the liquor in which the fish has been boiled, of which take as much as you wish, say three breakfast-cupfuls, to which add vinegar to taste (perhaps a teacupful will be enough), a good pinch of pepper, a dessert-spoonful of salt. Boil for a few minutes with a sprig or two of parsley and a little thyme. After it has become quite cold, pour it over the fish.
BROILED SALMON.
Cut some slices about an inch thick, and broil them over a gentle, bright fire of coals, for ten or twelve minutes. When both sides are done, take them on to a hot dish ; butter each slice well with sweet butter ; strew over each a very little salt and pepper to taste, and serve.
BAKED SALMON.
Clean the fish, rinse it, and wipe it dry ; rub it well outside and in, with a mixture of pepper and salt, and
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fill it with a stuffing made of slices of bread, buttered freely and moistened with hot milk or water (add sage or thyme to the seasoning if liked) ; tie a thread around the fish, so as to keep the stuffing in (take off the thread before serving) ; lay muffin-rings, or a trivet in a dripping- pan, lay bits of butter over the fish, dredge flour over, and put it on the rings ; put a pint of hot water in the pan, to baste with ; bake one hour if a large fish, in a quick oven ; baste frequently. When the fish is 'taken up, having cut a lemon in very thin slices, put them in the pan, and let them fry a little ; then dredge in a teaspoonful of wheat flour ; add a small bit of butter ; stir it about, and let it brown without burning for a little while then add half a teacup or more of boiling water, stir it smooth, take the slices of lemon into the gravy boat, and strain the gravy over. Serve with boiled potatoes. The lemon may be omitted if preferred, although generally it will be liked.
SALMON-TROUT. Dressed the same as salmon.
SPICED SALMON (PICKLED).
Boil a salmon, and after wiping it dry, set it to cool ; take of the water in which it was boiled, and good vinegar each equal parts, enough to cover it ; add to it one dozen cloves, as many small blades of mace, or sliced nutmeg, one tea- spoonful of whole pepper, and the same of alspice ; make it boiling hot, skim it clear, add a small bit of butter (the size of a small egg), and pour it over the fish ; set it in a cool place. When cold, it is fit for use, and. will keep for a long time, covered close, in a cool place. Serve instead of pickled oysters for supper.
A fresh cod is very nice, done in the same manner ; as is also a striped sea bass.
SALMON AND CAPER SAUCE.
Two slices of salmon, one quarter pound butter, one half teaspoonful of chopped parsley, one shalot; salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg to taste.
Mode : Lay the salmon in a baking-dish, place pieces of butter over it, and add the other ingredients, rubbing a little of the seasoning into the fish; baste it frequently; when done, take it out and drain for a minute or two; lay it in a dish, pour caper sauce over it, and serve Salmon dressed in this way, with tomato sauce, is very delicious.
SALMON CUTLETS.
Cut the slices one inch thick, and season them with pepper and salt; butter a sheet of white paper, lay each slice on a separate piece, with their ends twisted; broil gently over a clear fire, and serve with anchovy or capei sauce. When higher seasoning is required, add a fevs chopped herbs and a little spice.
DRIED OR SMOKED SALMON.
Cut the fish down the back, take out the entrails, and roe, scale it, and rub the outside and in with common salt, and hang it to drain for twenty-four hours.
Pound three ounces of saltpetre,- two ounces of coarse salt, and two of coarse brown sugar; mix these well to- gether, and rub the salmon over every part with it; then lay it on a large dish for two days; then rub it over with common salt, and in twenty-four hours it will be fit to dry. Wipe it well, stretch it open with two sticks, and hang it in a chimney, with a smothered wood-fire, or in a smoke-house, or in a dry, cool place.
Shad done in this manner are very fine.
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BOILED COD.
Lay the fish in cold water, a little salt, for half an hour. Wipe dry, and sew up in a linen cloth, coarse and clean, fitted to the shape of the piece of cod. Have but one fold over each part. Lay in the fish-kettle, cover with boiling water, salted at discretion. Allow nearly an hour for a piece weighing four pounds.
COD PIE.
Any remains of cold cod, twelve oysters, sufficient melted butter to moisten it ; mashed potatoes enough to fill up the dish.
Mode : Flake the fish from the bone, and carefully take away all the skin. Lay it in a pie-dish, pour over the melted butter and oysters (or oyster sauce, if there is any left), and cover with mashed potatoes. Bake for half an hour, and send to table of a nice brown color.
DRIED CODFISH.
This should always be laid in soak at least one night be- fore it is wanted ; then take off the skin and put it in plenty of cold water ; boil it gently (skimming it meanwhile) for one hour, or tie it in a cloth and boil it.
Serve with egg sauce ; garnish with hard-boiled eggs cut in slices, and sprigs of parsley. Serve plain boiled or mashed potatoes with it.
STEWED SALT COD.
Scald some soaked cod by putting it over the fire in boil- ing water for ten minutes ; then scrape it white, pick it in flakes, and put it in a stew-pan, with a tablespoonful of butter worked into the same of flour, and as much milk as will moisten it ; let it stew gently for ten minutes ; add
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pepper to taste, and serve hot ; put it in a deep dish, slice hard-boiled eggs over, and sprigs of parsley around the edge.
This is a nice relish for breakfast, with coffee and tea, and rolls or toast.
CODFISH CAKES.
First boil soaked cod, then chop it fine, put to it an equal quantity of potatoes boiled and mashed ; moisten it with beaten eggs or milk, and a bit of butter and a little pepper ; form it in small, round cakes, rather more that half an inch thick ; flour the outside, and fry in hot lard or beef drippings until they are a delicate brown; like fish, these must be fried gently, the lard being boiling hot when they are put in ; when one side is done turn the other. Serve for break- fast.
BOILED BASS.
Put enough water in the pot for the fish to swim in, easily. Add half a cup of vinegar, a teaspoonful of salt, an onion, a dozen black peppers, and a blade of mace. Sew up the fish in a piece of clean net, fitted to its shape. Heat slowly for the first half hour, then boil eight minutes, at least, to the pound, quite fast. Unwrap, and pour over it a cup of drawn butter, based upon the liquor in which the fish was boiled, with the juice of half a lemon stirred into it. Garnish with sliced lemon.
PRIED BASS.
Clean, wipe dry, inside and out, dredge with flour, and season with salt. Fry in hot butfer, beef-dripping, or sweet lard. Half butter, half lard is a good mixture for frying fish. The moment the fish are done to a good brown, take them from the fat and drain in a hot colander. Garnish with pars- ley.
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TO PRY OR BROIL FISH PROPERLY,
After the fish is well cleansed, lay it on a folded towel and dry out all the water. When well wiped and dry, roll it in wheat flour, rolled crackers, grated stale bread, or Indian meal, whichever may be preferred ; wheat flour will gener- ally be liked.
Have a thick-bottomed frying-pan or spider, with plenty of sweet lard salted ; (a tablespoonful of salt to each pound: of lard), for fresh fish which have not been previously salted : let it become boiling hot, then lay the fish in and let it fry gently, until one side is a fine delicate brown, then turn the other; when both are done, take it up carefully and serve quickly, or keep it covered with a tin cover, and set the dish where it will keep hot.
BAKED BLACK BASS,
Eight good-sized onions chopped fine ; half that quantity of bread-crumbs ; butter size of hen's egg ; plenty of pepper and salt, mix thoroughly with anchovy sauce until quite red. Stuff your fish with this compound and pour the rest over it, previously sprinkling it with a little red pepper. Shad, pickerel, and trout are good the same way. Tomatoes can be used instead of anchovies, and are more economical. If using them take pork in place of butter and chop fine.
BROILED MACKEREL.
Pepper and salt to taste, a small quantity of oil. Mack- erel should never be washed when intended to be broiled but merely wiped very clean 'and dry, after taking out the gills and inside. Open the back, and put in a little pepper, salt, and oil ; broil it over a clear fire, turn it over on both sides, and also on the back. When sufficiently cooked, the flesh can be detached from the bone, which will be in about ten
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minutes for a small mackerel. Chop a little parsley, work it up in the butter, with pepper and salt to taste, and a squeeze of lemon-juice, and put it in the back. Serve before the butter is quite melted.
Mode: Scale and clean the pike, and fasten the tail in its mouth by means of a skewer. Lay it in cold water, and when it boils, throw in the salt and vinegar. The time for boiling depends, of course, on the size of the fish ; but a middling-sized pike will take about half an hour. Serve with Dutch or anchovy sauce, and plain melted butter.
Mackerel baked will be found palatable. Clean and trim the fish nicely, say four large ones, or half a dozen small ones, bone them and lay neatly in a baking dish, or a bed of potato chips well dusted with a mixture of pepper and salt ; on the potatoes, place a few pieces of butter. Dust the fish separately with pepper and salt, and sprinkle slightly with a diluted mixture of anchovy sauce and catsup. Bake three quarters of an hour.
SALT MACKEREL WITH CREAM SAUCE.
Soak overnight in lukewarm water, changing this in the morning for ice-cold. Rub all the salt off, and wipe dry. Grease your gridiron with butter, and rub the fish on both sides with the same, melted. Then broil quickly over a clear fire, turning with a cake-turner so as not to break it. Lay upon a hot water dish, and cover until the sauce is ready.
Heat a small cup of milk to scalding. Stir into it a teaspoonful of corn-starch wet up with a little water. When this thickens, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, pep- per, salt, and chopped parsley. Beat an egg light, pour the sauce gradually over it, put the mixture again over the fire, and stir one minute, not more. Pour upon the fish, and let all stand, covered, over the hot water in the
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chafing-dish. Put fresh boiling water under the dish before sending to table.
BOILED EELS.
Four small eels, sufficient water to cover them ; a large bunch of parsley.
Choose small eels for boiling ; put them in a stewpan with the parsley, and just sufficient water to cover them ; simmer till tender. Take them out, pour a little parsley and butter over them, and serve some in a tureen.
FRICASEED EELS.
After skinning, clearing, and cutting five or six eels in pieces of two inches in length, boil them in water nearly to cover them, until tender ; then add a good-sized bit of butter, with a teaspoonful of wheat flour or rolled cracker, worked into it, and a little scalded and chopped parsley ; add salt and pepper to taste, and a wine-glass of vin- egar if liked ; let them simmer for ten minutes and serve hot.
FRIED EELS.
After cleaning the eels well, cut them in pieces two inches long; wash them and wipe them dry ; roll them in wheat flour or rolled cracker, and fry as directed for other fish, in hot lard or beef dripping, salted. They should be browned all over and thoroughly done.
Eels may be prepared in the same manner and broiled.
COLLARED EELS.
One large eel ; pepper and salt to taste ; two blades cl mace, two cloves, a little allspice very finely pounded, six leaves of sage, and a small bunch of herbs minced very small.
Mode: Bone the eel and skin it; split it, and sprinkla it over with the ingredients, taking care that the spices
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are very finely pounded, and the herbs chopped very small. Roll it up and bind with a broad piece of tape, and boil it in water, mixed with a little salt and vinegar till tender. It may either be served whole or cut in slices ; and when cold, the eel should be kept in the li- quor it was boiled in, but with a little more vinegar put to it.
FRIED TROUT.
They must, of course, be nicely cleaned and trimmed all round, but do not cut off their heads. Dredge them well with flour, and fry in a pan of boiling hot fat or oil. Turn them from side to side till they are nicely browned, and quite ready. Drain off all the fat before sending the fish to table ; garnish with a few sprigs of parsley, and pro- vide plain melted butter. If preferred, the trout can be Jarded with beaten egg, and be then dipped in bread- crumb. The frying will occupy from five to eight minutes, according to size. Very large trout can be cut in pieces.
TROUT IN JELLY (or other fish).
This is a beautiful supper dish, and may be arranged as follows : Turn the fish into rings, with tail in mouth. Pre- pare a seasoned water in which to boil the trout ; the water should have a little vinegar and salt in it, and may be flavored with a shallot or a clove of garlic. When the water is cold, place the trout in, and boil them very gently, so as not hash or break them. When done, lift out and drain. Baste with fish jelly, for which a recipe is given elsewhere, coat after coat, as each coat hardens, Arrange neatly, and serve.
BOILED TROUT.
Let the water be thoroughly a-boil before you put in the fish. See that it is salt, and that a dash of vinegar
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has been put in it. Remove all scum as it rises, and boil the fish till their eyes protrude. Lift them without breaking, drain off the liquor, and serve on a napkin if you like. To be eaten with a sauce according to taste, that is, it can be made of either anchovies or shrimps.
BROILED TROUT.
Clean and split them open, season with a little salt and cayenne ; dip in whipped egg, dredge with flour, and bran- der over a clear fire. Serve with sauce.
BAKED HADDOCK.
Choose a nice fish of about six pounds, which trim and scrape nicely, gutting it carefully, fill the vacuum with a stuff- ing of veal, chopped ham, and bread-crumbs, sew up with strong thread, and shape the fish round, putting its tail into its mouth, or, if two are required, lay them along the dish reversed — that is, tail to head ; rub over with plenty of butter, or a batter of eggs and flour, and then sprinkle with bread-crumbs. Let the oven be pretty hot when put in. In about an hour the fish will be ready. Serve on the -tin or aisset in which they have been baked, placing them on a larger dish for that purpose. Mussel sauce is a good ac- companiment.
CURRIED HADDOCK.
Curried haddock is excellent. Fillet the fish and curry it in a pint of beef stock slightly diluted with water, and thickened with a tablespoonful of curry powder. Some cooks chop up an onion to place in the stew. It will take an hour to ready this fish. If preferred, fry the fish for a few minutes in clean lard or oil before stewing it in the currv,
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RIZZARED HADDOCK.
First, of course, procure your fish, clean them thoroughly, rub them well with salt, and let them Ue for one night, after which hang them in the open air, to dry, in a shady place. In two days they will be ready for the gridiron. Before cooking them take out the backbone and skin them, if desired (I never do skin them), broil till ready, eat with a little fresh butter.
Haddocks can be boiled with advantage : all that is necessary is to put plenty of salt in the water, and not to serve them till they are well done. As a general rule, it may be ascertained when fish is sufficently cooked by the readiness with which the flesh lifts from the bone. Stick a fork into the shoulder of a cod or haddock and try it. If living sufficienly near the sea, procure sea water in which to boil your haddocks.
BROILED "WHITE-PISH—FRESH.
Wash and drain the fish ; sprinkle with pepper and lay with the inside down upon the gridiron, and broil over fresh bright coals. When a nice brown, turn for a mo- ment on the other side, then take up and spread with butter. This is a very nice way of broiling all kinds of fish fresh or salted. A little smoke under the fish adds to its flavor. This may be made by putting two or three cobs
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BAKED WHITE-PISH.
Fill the fish with a stuffing of fine bread-crumbs and a little butter; sew ap (he fish; sprinkle with butter, pep- per, and salt. Dredge with flour and bake one hour, basting often, and serving with parsley sauce or egg sauce.
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TO CHOOSE LOBSTERS.
These are chosen more by weight than size, the heaviest are best ; a good small-sized one will not unf requently be found to weigh as heavily as one much larger. If fresh, a lobster will be lively and the claws have a strong motion when the eyes are pressed with the finger.
The male is best for boiling ; the flesh is firmer, and the shell a brighter red ; it may readily be distinguished from the female ; the tail is narrower, and the two uppermost fins within the tail are stiff and hard. Those of the hen lobster are not so, and the tail is broader.
Hen lobsters are preferred for sauce or salad, on ac- count of their coral. The head and small claws are never used.
BOILED LOBSTER.
These crustaceans are usually sold ready-boiled. When served, crack the claws and cut open the body, lay neatly on a napkin-covered dish, and garnish with a few sprigs of pars- ley. Lobster so served is usually eaten cold.
CURRIED LOBSTER.
Pick out the meat of two red lobsters from the shells into a shallow sauce-pan, in the bottom of which has been placed a thin slice of tasty ham, with a little cayenne pepper and a teaspoonful of salt. Mix up half a cupful of white soup and half a cupful of cream and pour over the meat. Put it on the fire and let it simmer for about an hour, when you will add a dessertspoonful of curry, and another of flour rubbed smooth in a little of the liquor taken out of the pot ; in three minutes the curry will be ready to dish. Some add a dash of lemon to this curry (I don't), and the cream can be dispensed with if necessary. Put a rim of well-boiled rice round the dish if you like, or serve the rice separately.
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LOBSTER CHOWDER.
Four or five pounds of lobster, chopped fine ; take the green part and add to it four pounded crackers ; stir this into one quart of boiling milk ; then add the lob- ster, a piece of butter one-half the size of an egg, a little pepper and salt, and bring it to a boil.
CHOWDER.
Cut some slices of pork very thin, and fry them out dry in the dinner pot ; then put in a layer of fish cut in slices on the pork, then a layer of onions, and then po- tatoes, all cut in exceedingly thin slices ; then fish, onions, potatoes again, till your materials are all in, put- ting some salt and pepper on each layer of onions ; split some hard biscuits, dip them in water, and put them round the sides and over the top ; put in water enough to come up in sight ; stew for over half an hour, till the potatoes are done ; add half a pint of milk, or a teacup of sweet cream, five minutes before you take it up.
TO FRY SMELTS.
Egg and bread-crumbs, a little flour; boiling lard Smelts should be very fresh, and not washed more than is necessary to clean them. Dry them in a cloth, lightly flour, dip them in egg, and sprinkle over with very fine bread-crumbs, and put them into boiling lard. Fry of a nice pale brown, and be careful not to take off the light roughness of the crumbs, or their beauty will be spoiled Dry them before the fire on a drainer, and serve wit-:* plain melted butter.
TO BAKE SMELTS.
Smelts, bread-crumbs, one-quarter pound of fresh but. ter, two blades of pounded mace ; salt and cayenne IQ
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taste. Wash and dry the fish thoroughly in a cloth, and arrange them nicely in a flat baking-dish. Cover them with fine bread-crumbs, and place little pieces of butter all over them. Season and bake for fifteen minutes. Just before serving, add a squeeze of lemon juice, and garnish with fried parsley and cut lemon.
RED HERRINGS OR YARMOUTH BLOATERS.
The best way to cook these is to make incisions in the skin across the fish, because they do not then require to be so long on the fire, and will be far better than when cut open. The hard roe makes a nice relish by pounding it in a mortar, with a little anchovy, and spreading it on toast. If very dry, soak in warm water one hour before dressing.
POTTED FISH.
Take out the backbone of the fish; for one weighing two pounds take a tablespoon of allspice and cloves mixed; these spices should be put into little bags of not too thick muslin; put sufficient salt directly upon each fish; then roll in a cloth, over which sprinkle a little cay- enne pepper; put alternate layers of fish, spice and sago in an earthen jar; cover with the best cider vinegar; cover the jar closely with a plate and over this put a covering of dough, rolled out to twice the thickness of pie crust. Make the edges of paste to adhere closely to the sides of the jar, so as to make it air-tight. Put the jar into a pot of cold water and let it boil from three to five hours, according to quantity. Ready when cold.
OYSTERS ON THE SHELL.
Wash the shells and put them on hot coals or upon the top of a hot stove, or bake them in a hot oven; open the shells with an oyster-knife, taking care to lose none of
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the liquor, and serve quickly on hot plates, with toast. Oysters may be steamed in the shells, and are excellent eaten in the same manner.
OYSTERS STEWED WITH MILK.
Take a pint of fine oysters, put them with their own liquor, and a gill of milk into a stew-pan, and if liked, a blade of mace; set it over the fire, take off any scum which may rise; when they are plump and white turn them into a deep plate; add a bit of butter, and pepper to taste. Serve crackers and dressed celery with them. Oysters may be stewed in their own liquor without milk.
OYSTERS FRIED IN BATTER.
Half pint of oysters, two eggs, half pint of milk, suf- ficient flour to make the batter; pepper and salt to taste; wnen liked, a little nutmeg; hot lard. Scald the oysters in their own liquor, beard them, and lay them on acloth. to drain thoroughly. Break^the eggs into a basin, mix the Hour with them, add the milk gradually, with nut- meg aud seasoning, and put the oysters in a batter. Make some lard hot in a deep frying-pan, put in the oysters, one at a time; when done, take them up with a sharp-pointed skewer, and dish them on a napkin. Fried oysters are frequently used for garnishing boiled fish, and then a few bread-crumbs should be added to the floui.
SCALLOPED OYSTERS.
Two tablespoonfuls of white stock, two tablespoonfuls of cream; pepper and salt to taste; bread-crumbs, oiled butter. Scald the oysters in their own liquor, take them out, beard them, and strain the liquor free from grit. Put one ounce of butter into a stewpan; when melted, dredge in sufficient flour to dry it up; add the stock, cream, and
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strained liquor, and give one boil. Put in the oysters and seasoning; let them gradually heat through, but not boil. Have ready the scallop-shells buttered; lay in the oysters, and as much of the liquid as they will hold; cover them over with bread-crumbs, over which drop a little oiled butter. Brown them in the oven, or before the fire, and serve quickly, and very hot.
FRIED OYSTERS.
Take large oysters from their own liquor on to a thickly folded napkin to dry them off; then make a tablespoonful of lard or beef fat hot, in a thick bottomed frying-pan, add to it half a saltspoonful of salt; dip each oyster in wheat flour, or cracker rolled fine, until it will take up no more, then lay them in the pan, hold it over a gentle fire until one side is a delicate brown; turn the other by sliding a fork under it; five minutes will fry them after they are in the pan. Oysters may be fried in butter, but it is not so good; lard and butter half and half is very nice for frying. Some persons like a very little of the oyster liquor poured in the pan after tha oysters are done; let it boil up, then put it in the dish with the oysters; when wanted for breakfast, this should be done.
Oysters to be fried, after drying as directed, may be dipped into beaten egg first, then into rolled cracker.
OYSTER PATTIES.
Make some rich puff paste and bake it in very small tin patty pans; when cool, turn them out upon a large dish; stew some large fresh oysters with a few cloves, a little mace and nutmeg; then add the )'olk of one egg, boiled hard and grated; add a little butter, and as much of the oyster liquor as will cover them. When they have stewed a little while, take them out of the pan and set
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them cool. When quite cold, la}' two or three oysters in each shell of puff paste.
BROILED OYSTERS.
Drain thu oysters well and dry them with a napkin. Have ready a griddle hot and well buttered; season the oysters; lay them to griddle and brown them on both sides. Serve them on a hot plate with plenty of butter.
CLAM FRITTERS.
Take fifty small or twenty-five large sand clams from th-eir shells; if large, cut each in two, lay them on a thickly folded napkin; put a pint bowl of wheat flour into a basin, add to it two well-beaten eggs, half a pint of sweet milk, and nearly as much of their own liquor; beat the batter until it is smooth and perfectly free from lumps; then stir in the clams. Put plenty of lard or beef fat into a thick-bottomed frying pan, let it become boiling hot; put in the batter by the spoonful; let them fry gently; when one side is a delicate brown, turn the other.
SOFT-SHELLED CLAMS.
These are very fine if properly prepared. They are good only during cold weather and must be perfectly fresh.
Soft-shelled clams may be boiled from the shells, and served with butter, pepper, and salt over.
TO BOIL SOFT-SHELL CLAMS.
Wash the shells clean, and put the clams, the edges downwards, in a kettle; then pour about a quart of boil- ing water over them; cover the pot and set it over a brisk fire for three quarters of an hour; pouring boiling1
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..ater on them causes the shells to open quickly and let out the sand which may be in them.
Take them up when done; take off the black skin which covers the hard part, trim them clean, and put them into a stew-pan; put to them some of the liquor in which they were boiled; put to it a good bit of butter and pepper and salt to taste ; make them hot; serve with cold butter and lolls.
CLAM CHOWDER.
Butter a deep tin basin, strew it thickly with grated bread crumbs, or soaked cracker; sprinkle some pepper over and Kits of butter the size of a hickory nut, and, if liked, son.j finely chopped parsley; then put a double layer of clams, season with pepper, put bits of butter over, then another layer of soaked cracker; after that clams and bits of butter; sprinkle pepper over; add a cup of milk or water, and lastly a layer of soaked crackers. Turn a plate over the basin, and bake in a hot oven for three quarters of an hour; use half a pound of soda biscuit, and Quarter of a pound of butter with fifty clams.
MEATS.
ROAST BEEF.
Prepare for the oven by dredging lightly with flour, and seasoning with salt and pepper; place in the oven, and baste frequently while roasting. Allow a quarter of an hour for a pound of meat, if you like it rare; longer if you like it well done. Serve with a sauce made from the drippings in the pan, to which has been added a tablespoon of Harvey or Worcestershire sauce, and a tablespoon of tomato catsup.
ROUND OF BEEF BOILED.
See that it is not too large, and that it is tightly bound all round. About twelve pounds or fourteen pounds forms a convenient size, and a joint of that weight will require from three hours to three hours and a quarter to boil. Put on with cold water — as the liquor is valuable for making pea-soup — and let it come slowly to the boil. Boil carefully but not rapidly, and skim frequently; as a rule, keep the lid of the pot well fixed. The meat may be all the better if taken out once or twice in the pro- cess of cooking. Carrots and turnips may be boiled to serve with the round; they will, of course, cook in about a third of the time necessary to boil the beef.
BEEF SALTED, or CORNED, RED, To keep for years.
Cut up a quarter of beef. For each hundredweight take half a peck of coarse salt, quarter <ji a pound of
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saltpetre, the same weight of saleratus, and a qufc>. of molasses, or two pounds of coarse brown sugar. Mace, cloves and allspice may be added for spiced beef.
Strew some of the salt in the bottom of a pickle-tub or barrel; then put in a layer of meat, strew this with salt, then add another layer of meat, and salt and meat alternately, until all is used. Let it remain one night. Dissolve the saleratus and saltpetre in a little warm water, and put it to the molasses or sugar ; then put it over the meat, add water enough to cover the meat, lay a board on it to keep it under the brine. The meat is fit for use after ten days. This receipt is for winter beef. Rather more salt may be used in warm weather.
Towards spring take the brine from the meat, make it boiling hot, skim it clear, and when it is cooled, return it to the meat.
Beef tongues and smoking pieces are fine pickled in this brine. Beef liver put in this brine for ten days and then wiped dry and smoked, is very fine. Cut it in slices, and fry or broil it. The brisket of beef, after being corned, may be smoked, and is very fine for boil- ing.
Lean pieces of beef, cut properly from the hind quar- ter, are the proper pieces for being smoked There may be some fine pieces cut from the fore-quarter.
After the beef has been in brine ten days or more wipe it dry, and hang it in a chimney where wood is burnt, or make a smothered fire of sawdust or chips, and keep it smoking for ten days; then rub fine black pepper over every part, to keep the flies from it, and hang it in a dry, dark, cool place. After a week it is fit for use. A strong, coarse brown paper, folded around beef, and fastened with paste, keeps it nicely.
Tongues are smoked in the same manner. Hang them by a string put through the root end. Spiced brine for smoked beef or tongues will be generally liked
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For convenience make a pickle as mentioned: for beet, keep it in the cellar, ready for pickling beef at any t^sne. Beef may remain in three or four or more days.
TO BOIL CORNED BEEF.
Put the beef in water enough to cover it. and let it heat slowly, and boil slowly, and be careful to take off the grease. Many think it much improved by boiling potatoes, turnips, and cabbages with it. In this case the vegetables must be pealed and all the grease carefully skimmed as fast as it rises. Allow about twenty minutes of boiling for each pound of meat.
A NICE WAY TO SERVE COLD BEEF.
Cut cold roast beef in slices, put gravy enough to cover them, and a wineglass of catsup or wine, or a lemon sliced thin; if you have not gravy, put hot water and a good bit of butter, with a teaspoonful or more of browned flour; put it in a closely covered stew-pan, and let it simmer gently for half an hour. If you choose, when the meat is down, cut a leek in thin slices, and chop a bunch of parsley small, and add it; serve boiled or mashed potatoes with it. This is equal to beef a-k> mode.
Or, cold beef may be served cut in neat slices, gar' nished with sprigs of parsley, and made mustard, and tomato catsup in the castor; serve mashed, if not new potatoes, with it, and ripe fruit, or pie, or both, for des- sert, for a small family dinner.
SPICED BEEF.
Four pounds of round of beef chopped fine; take from it all fat; add to it three dozen small crackers rolled fine, four eggs, one cup of milk, one tablespoon ground mace, two tablespoons of black pepper, one tablespoon
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melted 6iktter; mix well and put in any tin pan that it will just fill, packing it well; baste with butter and water, and bake two hours in a slow oven.
BROILED BEEFSTEAK.
Lay a thick tender steak upon a gridiron over hot coals, having greased the bars with butter before the steak has been put upon it; (a steel gridiron with slender bars is to be preferred, the broad flat iron bars of grid- irons commonly used fry and scorch the meat, imparting a disagreeable flavor). When done on one side, have ready your platter warmed, with a little butter on it; lay the steak upon the platter with the cooked side down, tnat the juices which have gathered may run on the platter, but do not press the meat; then lay your beef- steak again upon the gridiron quickly and cook the other side. When done to your liking, put again on the platter, spread lightly with butter, place where it will keep warm for a few moments, but not to let the butter become oily (over boiling steam is best); and then serve on hot plates. Beefsteak should never be seasoned with salt and pepper while cooking. If your meat is tough, pound well with a steak mallet on both sides.
FRIED BEEFSTEAKS.
Cut some of the fat from the steak, and put it in a fry ing pan and set it over the fire; if the steaks are not very tender, beat them with a rolling pin, and when the fat is boiling hot, put the steak evenly in. cover the pan and let it fry briskly until one side is done, sprinkle a little pepper and salt over, and turn the other; let it be rare or well-done as may be liked; take the steak on a hot dish, add a wineglass or less of boiling water or catsup to the gravy; let it boil up once, and pour it in the dish with the steak.
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BEEFSTEAK PIE.
Take some fine tender steaks, beat them a little, season with a saltspoonful of pepper and a teaspoonful of salt to a two-pound steak ; put bits of butter, the size of a hickory • nut, over the whole surface, dredge a teaspoon- ful of flour over, then roll it up and cut it in pieces two inches long ; put a rich pie paste around the sides and bottom of a tin basin ; put in the pieces of steak, nearly fill the basin with water, add a piece of butter the size of a large egg, cut small, dredge' in a teaspoonful of flour, add a little pepper and salt, lay skewers across the basin, roll a top crust to half an inch thickness, cut a slit in the centre ; dip your fingers in flour and neatly pinch the top and side crust together all around the edge. Bake one hour in a quick oven.
BOUSED LEG OF MUTTON.
Mutton, water, salt. A leg of mutton for boiling should not hang too long, as it will not look a good color when dressed. Cut off the shank-bone, trim the knuckle, and wash and wipe it very clean ; plunge it into sufficient boil- ing water to cover it ; let it boil up, then draw the sauce- pan to the side of the fire, where it should remain till the finger can be borne in the water. Then place it suffi- ciently near the fire that the water may gently simmer, and be very carettn mat it does not boil fast, or the meat will be hard. Skim well, add a little salt, and in about two and one quarter hours after the water begins to sim- mer, a moderate-sized leg of mutton will be done. Serve with carrots and mashed turnips, which may be boiled with the meat, and send caper sauce to table with it in a tureen.
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ROAST LOIN OF MUTTON.
Loin A mutton, a little salt. Cut and trim off the superfluous fat, and see that the butcher joints the meat prope.Hy, as thereby much annoyance is saved to the carver, when it comes to table. Have ready a nice clear fire (it need not be a very wide, large one), put down the meat, dredge with flour, and baste well until it is done.
BROILED MUTTON CHOPS.
Loin of mutton, pepper and salt, a small piece of but- ten Cut the chops from a well-hung, tender loin of mutton, remove a portion of the fat, and trim them into a nice shape; slightly beat and level them; place the gridiron over a bright, clear fire, rub the bars with a lit- tle fat, and lay on the chops. While broiling, frequently turn them, and in about eight minutes they will be done. Season with pepper and salt, dish them on a very hot dish, rub a small piece of butter on each chop, and serve very hot and expeditiously.
MUTTON CHOP FRIED.
Cut some fine mutton chops without much fat, rub aver both sides with a mixture of salt and pepper, dip them in wheat flour or rolled crackers, and fry in hot lard or beef drippings, when both sides are a fine brown, take them on a hot dish, put a wine-glass of hot water in the pan, let it become hot, stir in a teaspoonful ot browned flour, let it boil up at once, and serve in the pan with the meat.
ROAST FORE-QUARTER OF LAMB.
Lamb, a little salt. To obtain the flavor of lamb in perfection it should not be long kept; time to cool is all
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that Is required; and though the meat may be somewha'f thready, the juices and flavor will he infinitely «uperior to that of lamb that has been killed two or three days Make up the fire in good time, that li may be clear and brisk when the joint is put down. Place it at sufficient distance to prevent the fat irom burning, and baste it constantly till the moment of serving. Lamb should be very thoroughly done without being dried up, and not the slightest appearance of red gravy should be visible, as in roast mutton: this rule is applicable to all young white meats. Serve with a little gravy made in the dripping-pan, the same cfc for other roasts, and send to table with it a tureen of mint sauce.
LAMBS' SWEETBREADS.
Two or three sweetbreads, one-half pint of veal stock, white pepper and salt to taste, a small bunch of green onions, one blade of pounded rnace, thickening of butter and flour, two eggs, nearly one-half pint of cream, one teaspoonful of minced parsley, a very little grated nut. meg.
Mode : — Soak the sweetbreads in lukewarm water, and put them into a saucepan with sufficient boiling water to cover them, and let them simmer for ten minutes; then take them out and put them into cold water. Now lard them, lay them in a stewpan, add the stock, seasoning, onions, mace, and a thickening of butter and flour, and stew gently for one quarter of an hour or twenty min- utes. Beat up the egg with the cream, to which add the minced parsley and very little grated nutmeg. Put this to the other ingredients; stir it well till quite hot, but do not let it boil after the cream is added, or it will curdle. Have ready some asparagus-tops, boiled; add these ttf the sweetbreads, and serve.
LAMB STEAK dipped in egg, and then in biscuit cr
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bread-crumbs, and fried until it is brown, helps to make variety for the breakfast table. With baked sweet potatoes, good coffee, and buttered toast or corn muffins, one may be- gin the day with courage.
TO ROAST VEAL.
Rinse the meat in cold water ; if any part is bloody, wash it off ; make a mixture of pepper and salt, allowing a large teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper for each pound of meat ; wipe the meat dry ; then rub the seasoning into every part, shape it neatly, and fasten it with skewers, and put it on a spit, or set it on a trivet or muffin rings, in a pan ; stick bits of butter over the whole upper surface ; dredge a little flour over, put a pint of water in the pan to baste with, and roast it before the fire in a Dutch oven or reflector, or put it into a hot oven ; baste it occasionally, turn it if necessary that every part may be done ; if the water wastes add more, that the gravy may not burn ; allow fifteen minutes for each pound of meat ; a piece weighing four or five pounds will then require one hour, or an hour and a quarter.
VEAL CHOPS.
Cut veal chops about an inch thick ; beat them flat with a rolling-pin, put them in a pan, pour boiling water over them, and set them over the fire for five minutes ; then take them up and wipe them dry; mix a table- spoonful of salt and a teaspoonful of pepper for each pound of meat ; rub each chop over with this, then dip them, first into beaten egg, then into rolled crackers as much as they will take up ; then finish by frying in hot lard or beef dripping ; or broil them. For the broil have some sweet butter on a steak dish; broil the chops until well done, over a bright clear fire of coals; (let them do gently that they may be well done,) then take them on
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to the butter, turn them carefully once or twice in "it, and serve. Or dip the chops into a batter, made of one egg beaten with half a teacup of milk, and as much wheat flour as may be necessary. Or simply dip the chops without parboiling into wheat flour ; make some lard or beef fat hot in a frying-pan ; lay the chops in, and when one side is a fine delicate brown, turn the other. When all are done, take them up, put a very little hot water into the pan, then put it in the dish with the chops.
Or make a flour gravy thus : After frying them as last directed, add a tablespoonful more of fat to that in the pan, let it become boiling hot ; make a thin batter, of a small tablespoonful of wheat flour and cold water; add a little more salt and pepper to the gravy, then gradually stir in the batter ; stir it until it is cooked and a nice brown ; then put it over the meat, or in the dish with it ; if it is thicker than is liked, add a little boiling water.
VEAL CUTLETS.
Two or three pounds of veal cutlets, egg and bread-crumbs, two tablespoonfuls of minced savory herbs, salt and pepper to taste, a little grated nutmeg.
Cut the cutlets about three quarters of an inch in thickness, flatten them, and brush them over with the yolk of an egg ; dip them into bread-crumbs and minced herbs, season with pepper and salt and 'grated nutmeg, and fold each cutlet in a piece of buttered paper. Broil them, and send them to table with melted butter or a good gravy.
STUFFED FILLET OF VEAL WITH BACON
Take out the bone from the meat, and pin into a round with skewers. Bind securely with soft tapes. Fill the cavity left by the bone with a force-meat of crumbs, chopped pork, thyme, and parsley, seasoned
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with pepper, salt, nutmeg and a pinch of lemon-peel. Cover the top of the fillet with thin slices of cold cooked, fat bacon or salt pork, tying them in place with twines crossing the meat in all directions. Put into a pot with two cups of boiling water, and cook slowly and steadily two hours. Then take from the pot and put into a drip- ping-pan. Undo the strings and tapes. Brush the meat all over with raw egg, sift rolled cracker thickly over it, and set in the oven for half an hour, basting often with gravy from the pot. When it is well browned, lay upon a hoi dish with the pork about it. Strain and thicken the gravy, and serve in a boat.
If your fillet be large, cook twice as long in the pot. Th» time given above is for one weighing five pounds.
-, VEAL CAKE (a Convenient Dish for a Picnic.)
A few slices of cold roast veal, a few slices of cold ham two hard-boiled eggs, two tablespoonfuls of minced parsley a little pepper, good gravy, or stock No. 109. • Cut off all the brown outside from the veal, and cut the eggs into slices. Procure a pretty mould ; lay veal, ham, eggs, and parsley in layers, with a little pepper between each, and when the mould is full, get some strong stock, and fill up the shape. Bake for one half hour, and when cold, turn it out.
VEAL PIE.
Cut a breast of veal small, and put it in a stewpan, with hot water to cover it ; add to it a tablespoonful of salt, and set it over the fire ; take off the scum as it rises ; when the meat is tender, turn it into a dish to cool ; take out all the smali bones, butter a tin or earthen basin or pudding-pan, line it with a pie paste, lay some of the parboiled meat in to half fill it ; put bits of butter the
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size of a hickory nut all over the meat ; shake pepper over, dredge wheat flour over until it looks white ; then fill it nearly to the top with some of the water in which the meat was boiled ; roll a cover for the top of the crust, puff paste it, giving it two or three turns, and roll it to nearly half an inch thickness ; cut a slit in the centre, and make several small incisions on either side of it ; lay some skewers across the pie, put the crust on, trim the edges neatly with a knife ; bake one hour in a quick oven. A breast of veal will make two two-quart basin pies ; half a pound of nice corned pork, cut in thin slices and parboiled with the meat, will make it very nice, and very little, if any butter, will be required for the pie ; when pork is used, no other salt will be necessary.
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BOILED CALF'S HEAD (without the skin>
Calf's head, water, a little salt, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one tablespoonful of minced parsley, pepper and salt to taste, one tablespoonful of lemon-juice.
After the head has been thoroughly cleaned, and the brains removed, soak it in warm water to blanch it. Lay the brains also into warm wate, to soak, and let them remain for about an hour. Put the head into a stew- pan, with sufficient cold water to cover it, and when it boils, add a little salt ; take off every particle of scum as it rises, and boil the head until perfectly tender. Boil the brains, chop them, and mix with them melted butter, minced parsley, pepper, salt, and lemon-juice in the above proportion. Take up the head, skin the longue, and put it on a small dish with the brains round it. Have ready some parsley and butter, smother the head with it, and the remainder send to table in a tureen. Bacon, ham, pickled pork, or a pig's cheek are indispensable with calf s head. The brains are sometimes chopped with hard-boiled eggs.
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CALF'S HEAD CHEESE.
Boil a calf's head in water enough to cover it, until the meat leaves the bones, then take it with a skimmer into a wooden bowl or tray ; take from it every particle of bone ; chop it small ; season with pepper and salt : a heaping tablespoonful of salt, and a teaspoonful of pepper will be sufficient ; if liked, add a tablespoonful of finely chopped sweet herbs ; lay a cloth in a colander, put the minced meat into it, then fold the cloth closely over it, lay a plate over, and on it a gentle weight. When cold it may be sliced thin for supper or sandwiches. Spread each slice with made mustard.
BOILED CALF'S FEET AND PARSLEY AND BUTTER.
Two calf's feet, two slices of bacon, two ounces of butter, two tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice, salt and whole pepper to taste, one onion, a bunch of savory herbs, four cloves, one blade of mace, water, parsley and butter.
Procure two white calf's feet ; bone them as far as the first joint, and put them into warm water to soak for two hours. Then put the bacon, butter, lemon-juice, onion, herbs, spices, and seasoning into a stewpan ; lay in the feet, and pour in just sufficient water to cover the whole. Stew gently for about three hours ; take out the feet, dish them, and cover with parsley and butter.
The liquor they were boiled in should be strained and put by in a clean basin for use ; it will be found very good as an addition to gravies, etc., etc.
CALF'S LIVER AND BACON.
Two or three pounds of liver, bacon, pepper and salt to taste, a small piece of butter, flour, two tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice, one quarter pint of water.
Cut the liver in thin slices, and cut as many slices of
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bacon as there are of liver; fry the bacon first, and put that on a hot dish before the fire. Fry the liver in the fat which comes from the bacon, after seasoning it with pepper and salt, and dredging over it a very little flour. Turn the liver occasionally to prevent its burning, and when done, lay it round the dish with a piece of bacon between each. Pour away the bacon fat, put in a small piece of butter, dredge in a little flour, add the lemon- juice and water, give one boil, and pour it in the middle of the dish.
SWEETBREAD,
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Three sweetbreads, egg, and bread-crumbs, oiled but- ter, three slices of toast, brown gravy.
Choose large white sweetbreads; put them into warm water to draw out the blood, and to improve their color; let them remain for rather more than one hour; then put them into boiling water, and allow them to simmer for about ten minutes, which renders them firm. Take them up, drain them, brush over the egg, sprinkle with bread- crumbs; dip them in egg again, and then into more bread-crumbs. Drop on them a little oiled butter, and put the sweetbreads into a moderately heated oven, and let them bake for nearly three quarters of an hour. Make three pieces of toast; place the sweetbreads on the toast, and pour round, but not over them, a good brown gravy.
EGGED VEAL HASH.
Chop fine remnants of coal roast veal. Moisten with the gravy or water. When hot, break into it three or four eggs, according to the quantity of veal. When the eggs are cooked, stir into it a spoonful of butter, and serve quickly. If to your taste, shake in a little parsley. Should you lack quantity, half a cup of fine stale bres*i crumbs are no disadvantage.
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ROAST BEEP, WITH YORKSHIRE PUDDING.
Have your meat ready for roasting on Saturday, always, Roast upon a grating of several clean sticks (not pine) laid over the dripping-pan. Dash a cup of boiling water ovei the beef when it goes into the oven ; baste often, and see that the fat does not scorch. About three-quarters of in hour before it is done, mix the pudding.
YORKSHIRE PUDDING.
One pint of milk, four eggs, whites and yolks beaten sepa- rately ; two cups of flour — prepared flour is best ; one tea- spoonful of salt.
Use less flour if the batter grows too stiff. Mix quickly ; pour off the fat from the top of the gravy in the dripping-pan, leaving just enough to prevent the pudding from sticking to the bottom. Pour in the batter and continue to roast the beef, letting the dripping fall upon the pudding below. The oven should be brisk by this time. Baste the meat with the gravy you have taken out to make room for the batter. In serving, cut the pudding into squares and lay about the meat in the dish. It is very delicious.
BEEP HEART BAKED OR ROASTED.
Cut a beef heart in two, take out the strings from the in- side ; wash it with warm water, rub the inside with pep- per and salt, and fill it with a stuffing made of bread and butter moistened with water, and seasoned with pep- per and salt, and, if liked, a sprig of thyme made fine ; put it together and tie a string around it, rub the outside with pepper and salt ; stick bits of butter on, then dredge flour over, and set it on a trivet, or muffin rings, in a dripping pan ; put a pint of water in to baste with, then
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roast it before a hot fire, or in a hot oven; turn it around and baste frequently. One hour will roast or bake it; when done, take it up, cut a lemon in thin slices, and put it in the pan with a bit of butter; dredged in a teaspoon- ful of flour; let it brown; add a sma'l teacup of boiling water, stir it smooth, and serve in a £ravy tureen.
BEEF KIDNEY.
Cut the kidney into thin slices, flour them, and fry of a nice brown. Whe'i done, make a gravy in the pan by pouring away the fat* putting in a small piece of butter, one quarter pint of boiling wate ,pepper and salt, and a tablespoonful of mushroom catsi' p. Let the gravy just boil up, pour over the kidney, and serve.
POTTED BEEF.
Two pounds of lean beef, one tablespoonfuf of water, one quarter pound of butter, a seasoning to taste of salt, cayenne, pounded mace, and black pepper. Procure a nice piece of lean beef, as possible from gristle, skin, etc., and put it into a jar (if at hand, one with a lid) with one teaspoonful of water. Cover it closely, and put the jar into a saucepan of boiling water, letting the water come within two inches of the top of the jar. Boil gently for three and a half hours, then take the beef, chop it very small with a chopping-knife, and pound it thoroughly in a mortar. Mix with it by degrees all, or a portion of the gravy that will have run from it, and a little cLrified butter; add the seasoning, put it in small pots for use, and cover with a little butter just warmed and poured over. If much gravy is added to it, it will keep but a short time; on the contrary, if a large proportion of but- ter is used, it may be preserved for some time.
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BOILED TONGUE.
One tongue, a bunch of savory herbs, water. In choosing a tongue, ascertain how long it has been dried or pickled, and select one with a smooth skin, which de- notes its being young and tender. If a dried one, and rather hard, soak it at least for twelve hours previous to cooking it; if, however, it is fresh from the pickle, two or +'iiree hours will be sufficient for it to remain in soak. Put the tongue into a stewpan with plenty of cold water and a bunch of savory herbs; let it gradually come to a boil, skim well, and simmer very* gently until tender. Peel off the skin, garnish with tufts of cauliflowers or Brussels sprouts, and serve. Boiled tongue is frequently sent to table with boiled poultry, instead of ham, and is, by many persons, preferred. If to serve cold, peel it, fasten it down to a piece of board by sticking a fork through the root, and another through the top, to straighten it. When cold, glaze it, and put a paper ruche round the root, and garnish with tufts of parsley.
FRICASEED TRIPE.
Cut a pound of tripe in narrow strips, put a small cup of water or milk to it, add a bit of butter the size of an egg, dredge in a large teaspoonful of flour, or work it with the butter; season with pepper and salt, let it sim- mer gently for half an hour, serve hot. A bunch of par- sley cut small and put with it is an improvement,
BROILED TRIPE.
Prepare tripe as for frying: lay it on a gridiron over a clear fire of coals, let it broil gently; when one side is a fine brown, turn the other side (it must be nearly done through before turning); take it up on a hot dish, butter
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it, and if liked, add a little catsup or vinegar to the gravy.
ROAST RABBIT.
Empty, skin, and thoroughly wash the rabbit; wipe it dry, line the inside with sausage-meat and force-meat (the latter of bread-crumbs, well-seasoned, and worked up). Sew the stuffing inside, skewer back the head between the shoulders, cut off the fore-joints of the shoulders and legs, bring them close to the body, and secure them by means of a skewer. Wrap the rabbit in buttered paper, keep it well basted, and a few minutes before it is done remove the paper, flour and froth it, and let it acquire a nice brown color. It should be done in three-quarters of an hour. Take out the skewers, and serve with brown gravy and red-currant jelly. To bake the rabbit, proceed in the same manner as above; in a good oven it will take about the same time as roasting. Most cooks garnish the rabbit with slices of lemon and serve up with currant jelly. Sometimes the head is cut off before sending to the table; but this is a matter of individual taste.
STEWED RABBIT, Larded.
One rabbit, a few strips of bacon, rather more than one pint of good broth or stock, a bunch of savory herbs, salt and pepper to taste, thickening of butter and flour, one glass of sherry. Well wash the rabbit, cut it into quarters, lard them with slips of bacon, and fry them; then put them into a stewpan with the broth, herbs, and a seasoning of pepper and salt; simmer gently until the rabbit is tender, then strain the gravy, thicken it with butter and flour, add the sherry, give one boil, pour it over the rabbit, and serve. Garnish with slices of one lemon.
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FRICASSEED RABBITS.
The best way of cooking rabbits is to fricassee them Cut them up, or disjoint them. Put them into a stewpan ; season them with cayenne pepper, salt and some chopped parsley. Pour in a pint of warm water (or of veal broth, U you have it) and stew it over a slow fire till the rabbits are quite tender ; adding (when they are about half done) some bits of butter rolled in flour. Just before you take it from the fire, enrich the gravy with a gill or more of thick cream with some nutmeg grated into it. Stir the gravy well, but take care not to let it boil after the cream is in, lest it curdle. Put the pieces of rabbit on a hot dish, and pour the gravy over them.
A PRETTY DISH OF VENISON.
Cut a breast of venison in steaks,, make quarter of a pound of butter hot, in a pan, rub the steaks over with a mixture of a little salt and pepper, dip them in wheat flour, or rolled crackers, and fry a rich brown"; when both sides are done, take them up on a dish, and put a tin cover over; dredge a heaping teaspoonful of flour in- .to the butter in the pan, stir it with a spoon until it is brown, without burning, put to it a small teacup of boil- ing water, with a tablespoonful of currant jelly dissolved into it, stir it for a few minutes, then strain it over the meat and serve. A glass of wine, with a tablespoonful of white sugar dissolved in it, may be used for the gravy, instead of the jelly and water. Venison may be boiled, and served with boiled vegetables, pickled beets, etc., and sauce.
TO BOIL VENISON STEAKS.
Let the gridiron become hot, rub the bars with a bit ol suet, then lay on the steaks, having dipped them w
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^''foiled crackers or wheat flour, and set it over a bright, clear, but not fierce fire of coals; when one side is done, take the steak carefully over the steak dish, and hold it so that the blood may fall into the dish, than turn them on the gridiron, let it broil nicely; set a steak dish where it will become hot, put on it a bit of butter the size of an egg for each pound of vension, put to it a saltspoon of salt, and the same of black pepper, put to it a table- spoonful of current jelly, made liquid with a tabiespoon- ful of hot water or wine, lay the steaks on, turn them once or twice in the gravy, and serve hot. Or they may be simply broiled, and served with butter, pepper, and salt; or having broiled one side, and turned the steaks, lay thin slices of lemon over, and serve in the dish with the steaks.
/ BEEFSTEAK AND KIDNEY PUDDING.
Two pounds of rump-steak, two kidneys, seasoning to taste of salt and black pepper, suet crust made with milk (see PASTRY), in the proportion of six ounces of suet to each one pound of flour.
Mode : Procure some tender rump-steak (that which has been hung a little time), and divide it into pieces about an inch square, and cut each kidney into eighth pieces. Line the dish (of which we have given an en- graving) with crust made with suet and flour in the above proportion, leaving a small piece of crust to over- lap the edge. Then cover the bottom with a portion of the steak and a few pices of kidney; season with salt and pepper (some add a little flour to thicken the gravy, but it is not necessary), and then add another layer of ste.^k. kidney, and seasoning. Proceed in this manner till the dish is full, when pour in sufficient water to come with- in two inches of the top of ihe basin. Moisten the edges oi the crust, cover the pudding over, press the two crustt
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together, that the gravy may not escape, and turn up the overhanging paste. Wring out a cloth in hot water, flour it, and tie up the pudding; put it into boiling water, and let it bcil for at least four hours. If the water diminishes, always replenish with some, hot in a jug, as the pudding should be kept covered all the time, and not allowed to stop boiling. When the cloth is removed, cut a round piece in the top of the crust, to prevent the pudding bursting, and send it to table in the basin, either in an ornamental dish, or with a napkin pinned round it. Serve quickly.
BREAKFAST DISHES.
HASHED COLD MEAT.
Take your bones, and stew them in a little water an onion, some salt and pepper, and, if you like, a little savory herbs; when the goodness is all out of the boaes, and it tastes nice, thicken the gravy with a teaspoonful of corn starch, and if it is not very strong put in a b't of butter, then place your stew pan on the hot hearth, and put in your slices of meat. Warm but not boil. Serve with toasted bread.
POTATO AND BEEF HASH.
Mince some cold beef, a little fat with the lean, put to it as much cold boiled potatoes chopped as you like, (the quantity as of meat or twice as much,) season with pep- per and salt; add as much gravy or hot water as will make it moist, then put in a stew-pan over a gentle lire: dredge in a small quantity of wheat flour;, stir it about with a spoon, cover the stew-pan, and let it simmer for half an hour — take care that it does not burn. Dish it with or without a slice of toast under it, for breakfast This hash may be made without potatoes; if water is used instead of gravy, a bit of butter may be added, more or less, according to the proportion of tat with the lean meat,
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DRIED BEEF.
The most common way of serving dried or smoked beef is to shave it into thin slices or chips, raw; but a more savory relish may be made of it with little trouble. Put the slices of uncooked beef into a frying pan with just enough boiling water to cover them; set them over the fire for ten minutes, drain off all the water, and with a knife and fork cut the meat into small bits. Return to the pan, which should be hot, with a tablespoonful of butter and a little pepper. Have ready some well-beaten eggs, allowing four to a half pound of beef; stir them into the pan with the minced meal/ and toss and stir the mixture for about two minutes. Send to table in a covered dish.
CHICKEN CUTLETS.
Season pieces of cold chicken or turkey with salt and pepper. Dip in melted butter; let this cool on the meat, and dip in beaten egg and in fine bread-crumbs. Fry in butter till a delicate brown. Serve on slices of hot toast, with either a white or curry sauce poured around. Pieces of cold veal make a nice dish, if prepared in this manner.
BEEF PATTIES.
Chop fine some cold beef; beat two eggs and mix with the meat and add a little milk, melted butter, and salt and pepper. Make into rolls and fry.
JELLIED VEAL.
Boil the veal tender, pick it up fine, put in a mould, add the v>ater it was boiled in, and set it in a cold place; season with salt and pepper to taste; a layer of hard- boiled eggs improves it.
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RICE AND MEAT CROQUETTES.
One cupful of boiled rice, one cupful of finely-chopped cooked meat — any kind; one teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper, two tablespoonfuls of butter, half a cupful of milk, one egg. Put the milk on to boil, and add the meat, rice and seasoning. When this boils, add the egg, well beaten; stir one minute. After cooling, shape, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry as before directed.
AMERICAN TOAST.
To one egg thoroughly beaten, put one cup of sweet milk and a little salt. Slice light bread, and dip into the mixture, allowing each slice to absord some of the milk; then brown on a hot buttered griddle; spread with but- ter, and serve hot.
MEAT AND POTATOES.
Mince beef or mutton, small, with onions, pepper and salt; add a little gravy, put into scallop shells or small cups, making them three parts full, and fill them up with potatoes mashed with a little cream, put a bit of butter on the top and brown them in an oven.
BREADED SAUSAGES.
Wipe the sausages dry. Dip them in beaten egg and bread-crumbs. Put them in the frying-basket and plunge into boiling fat. Cook ten minutes. Serve with a gar- nish of toasted bread and parsley.
HAM CROQUETTES.
One cupful of finely-chopped cooked ham, one of bread-crumbs, two of hot mashed potatoes, one large tablespoonful of butter, three eggs, a speck ct cayenne. Ueat the ham, cayenne, butter, and two of the eggs into
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the potato. Let the mixture cool slightly, and shape it like croquettes. Roll in the bread-crumbs, dip in beaten egg and again in crumbs, put in the frying-basket and plunge into boiling fat. Cook two minutes. Drain, and Serve.
A NICE BREAKFAST DISH.
Chopped cold meat \vell seasoned; wet with gravy, if convenient, put it on a platter; then take cold rice made moist with milk and one egg, season with pepper and salt; if not sufficient rice, add powdered bread-crumbs; place this around the platter quite thick; set in oven to heat and brown.
CHICKEN IN JELLY.
A little cold chicken (about one pint), one cupful of water or stock, one-fifth of a box of gelatine, half a tea- sA.6onful of curry powder, salt, pepper. Cut the meat from the bones of a chicken left from dinner. Put the bones on with water to cover, and boil down to one cup- ful. Put the gelatine to soak in one-fourth of a cupful of cold water. When the stock is -reduced as much as is necessary, strain and season. Add the curry and chicken. Season, and simmer ten minutes; then add the gelatine, and stir on the table until it is dissolved. Turn all into a mould, and set away to harden. This make a nice relish for tea or lunch. If you have mushrooms, omit % the curry, and cut four of them into dice. Stir into the mixture while cooking. This dish can be varied by using tha whites of hard-boiled eggs, or bits o*" boi.ed ham. To serve: Dip the mould in warm water, and turn Jut or .he dish. Garnish with parsley.
A GOOD BISH.
Mince cold beef or lamb; it beef put in a pinch of pul- verized cloves; if lamb, a pinch of summer savory ju
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season it, very little pepper and some salt, and put it in a baking dish; mash potatoes and mix them with cream and butter and a little salt, and spread them over the meat; beat up an egg with cream or milk, a very little; spread it over the potatoes, and bake it a short time, sufficient to warm it through and brown the potatoes.
POULTRY, GAME, ETC.
In choosing pouitiy, the best way to determine whether it is young, is to try the skin under the leg or wing; if it is easily broken, it is young; or, turn the wing back- wards; if the joint yields readily, it is tender; a fat fowl is best for any purpose.
After a chicken or fowl is killed, plunge it into a pot of scalding hot water; then pluck off the feathers, taking care not to tear the skin; when it is picked clean, roll up a sheet of white wrapping paper, set file to it, and singe off all the hairs. Poultry should be carefully picked, and nicely singed.
If a fowl is fresh killed, the vent will be close, and the flesh have a pleasant smell.
ROAST TURKEY.
Carefully pluck the bird, singe it with white paper, and wipe it thoroughly with a cloth; draw it, preserve the liver and gizzard, and be particular no* to break the gall-bag, as no washing will remove the bitter taste it imparts where it once touches. Wash it inside well, and. wipe it thoroughly with a dry cloth; the outside merely requires wiping nicely. Cut off the neck close to tl1^ back, but leave enough of the crop-skin to turn over; break the leg-bones close below the knee; draw out the strings from the thighs, and flatten the breast-bone to make it look plump. Have ready, your dressing of
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bread-crumbs, mixed with butter, pepper, salt, thyme or sweet marjoram; fill the breast with this, and sew the neck over to the back. Be particular that the turkey is firmly trussed. Dredge it lightly with flour, and put a piece of butter into the basting-ladle; as the butter melts, baste the bird with it. When of a nice brown and well- frothed, serve with a tureen of good brown gravy and one of bread-sauce. The liver should be put under one pinion, and the gizzard under the other. Fried sausages are a favorite addition" to roast-turkey; they make a pretty garnish, besides adding much to the flavor. When these are not at hand, a few force-meat balls should be placed round the dish as a garnish. Turkey may also be stuffed with sausage-meat, and a chestnut force-meat with the same sauce is, by many persons, much esteemed as an accompaniment to this favorite dish.
SECOND RECIPE. — After drawing and cleansing the turkey, prepare a dressing of chopped sausage and bread crumbs, mixing in butter, pepper, salt and thyme to flavor. Fill the craw and the body of the turkey with this, and sew up carefully. Dredge with flour and put in the oven to roast, basting freely first with butter and water, then with the gravy from the pan. The time it takes to roast will depend both on the age and the weight of the turkey. If you have a good fire, you will be safe to allow ten minutes or so to the pound. Roast to a fine brown, and serve with the chopped giblets, which should be well stewed, add cranberry sauce.
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BOILED TURKEY.
Hen turkeys are the best for boiling. They eye the whitest, and, if nicely kept, tenderest. Of course the rinews ms>"t be drawn, and they ought to be trussed witfc
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the legs out, so as to be easily carved. Take care to clean the animal well after it has been singed. Place the fowl in a sufficiently large pot with clean water sufficient to cover it, and a little more; let the fire be a clear one, but not too fierce, as the slower the turkey boils the plumper it will be. Skim carefully and constantly, and simmer for two hours and a half in the case of a large fowl, and two hours for a smaller beast, and from an hour and ten to an hour and forty minutes for still smaller turkeys. Some people boil their turkeys in a floured cloth. I don't; the whiteness being mostly in the animal itself. My stuffing for a boiled turkey is thought good. I pre- pare it of crumbs of stale bread, with a little marrow or butter, some finely-shred parsley, and two dozen of small oysters, minus their beards, of course, and neatly trim- med. Stuff with this and a little chopped ham in ad- dition if desired.
TO ROAST A FOWL OR CHICKEN.
Have a bright, clear, and steady fire for roasting poul- try; prepare it as directed; spit it, put a pint of hot water in the dripping pan, add to it a small tablespoonful of salt, and a small teaspoonful of pepper, baste frequently, and let it roast quickly, without scorching; when nearly done, put a piece of butter the size of a large egg to the water in the pan; when it melts, baste with it, dredge a little flour over, baste again, and let it finish; half an hour will roast a full-grown chicken, if the fire is right. When done take it up, let the giblets (heart, liver, and gizzard) boil tender, and chop them very fine, and put them in the gravy; add a tablespoonful of browned flour, and a bit of butter, stir it over the fire for a few minutes, then serve in a gravy tureen. Or put the giblets in the pan and let them roast.
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BOILED CHICKENS.
Clean, wash, and stuff as for roasting. Baste a floured cloth around each, and put into a pot with enough boil- ing water to cover them well. The hot water cooks the skin at once, and prevents the escape of the juices. The broth will not be so rich as if the fowls are put on in cold water, but this is a proof that the meat will be more nutritious and better flavored. Stew very slowly, for the first half hour especially. Boil an hour or more, guiding yourself by size and toughness. Serve with egg or bread sauce.
BROILED CHICKEN.
Prepare in the same way as for boiling, cut them in two through the back, and flatten them ; place on a cold gridiron over a nice red fire. After a little time, when they have become thoroughly hot, set them on a plate or other dish, and lard them well with a piece of butter ; pepper and salt them to taste, chiefly on the inside, then place them on the brander and continue turning till done — they will take fully twenty minutes. Serve hot, with a little dab of butter and plenty of stewed mushrooms — a delightful dish.
FRIED CHICKEN.'
Cut the chicken in pieces, lay it in salt and water, which change several times ; roll each piece in flour ; fry in very hot lard or butter, season with salt and pepper ; fry pars- ley with them also. Make a gravy of cream seasoned with salt, pepper and a little mace, thickened with a little flour in the pan in which the chickens w ere fried, pouring off the lard.
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FRICASSEE OF CHICKEN.
Cut into joints, scald and skin, place in a stewpan, with two raw onions cut into eight parts, a little chopped parsley, salt and pepper, and the least squeeze of lemon juice. Add a bit of butter as large as an egg, and fill in a pint of water. Stew for an hour under a very close lid, then lift and strain off the gravy, into which beat gradually a teacupful of cream and the yolks of two eggs ; heat up the gravy, taking care that it does not boil, and pour it over the fricassee.
TO CURRY CHICKEN.
Slice an onion and brown in a little butter ; add a spoon- ful of curry powder ; allow it to remain covered for a few minutes to cook ; add a little more butter and put in chicken, veal, etc., etc. ; cut up small, thicken with a little flour. This is excellent.
PRESSED CHICKEN.
Cut up the fowls and place in a kettle with a tight cover, so as to retain the steam ; put about two teacups of water and plenty of salt and pepper over the chicken, then let it cook until the meat cleaves easily from the bones ; cut or chop all the meat (freed from skin, bone and gristle) about as for chicken salad ; season well, put into a dish and pour the remnant of the juice in which it was cooked over it. This will jeliy when cold, and can then be sliced or set on the table in shape. Nice for tea or lunch. The knack of making this simple dish is not having too much water ; it will not jelly if too weak, or if the water is allowed to boil away entirely while cook- ing.
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CHICKEN POT-PIE.
Skin and cut up the fowls into joints, and put the neck, legs and backbones in a stew-pan, with a little water, an onion, a bunch of savory herbs, and a blade of mace ; let these stew for an hour, and, when done, strain off the liquor : this is for gravy. Put a layer of fowl at the bottom of a pie-dish, then a layer of ham, then one of force-meat and hard-boiled eggs, cut in rings ; between the layers put a seasoning of pounded mace, nutmeg, pepper and salt. Pour in about half a pint of water, border the edge of dish with puff-crust, put on the cover, ornament the top and glaze it by brushing over it the /oik of an egg. Bake for about an hour and a half, and, when done, pour in at the top, the gravy r ade from the bones.
A CHICKEN SAT. AD.
Take a fine white bunch of celery (four or five heads), scrape and wash it white ; reserve the delicate green leaves; shred the white part like straws, lay this in a glass, or white china dish, in the form of a nest. Mince all the white meat of a boiled, or white stewed fowl, without the skin, and put it in the nest.
Make a salad dressing thus : Rub the yolks of two hard- boiled eggs to a smooth paste, with a dessertspoonful of salad oil, or melted butter ; add to it two teaspoonfuls of made mustard, and a small teaspoonful of fine white sugar, and put to it gradually (stirring it in) a large cup of strong vinegar.
Make a wreath of the most delicate leaves of the celery, around the edge of the nest, between it and the chicken ', pour the dressing over the chicken, when ready
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to serve; if the dressing is poured over too soon it will discolor the celery.
White heart lettuce may be used for the nest, instead of celery.
JELLIED CHICKEN.
Boil a fowl until it will slip easily from the bones; let the water be reduced to about one pint in boiling; pick the meat from the bones in good sized pieces, taking out all gristle, fat, and bones; place in a wet mould; skim the fat from the liquor; a little butter; pepper and salt to the taste, and one half ounce of gelatine. When this dissolves, pour it hot over the chicken. The liquor must be seasoned pretty high, for the chicken absorbs.
CHICKEN PATES.
Mince chicken that has been previously roasted t>i boiled, and season well; stir into this a sauce made of half a pint of milk, into which while boiling ateaspoonful of corn starch has been added to thicken, season with butter, about a teaspoonful, and salt and pepper to taste. Have ready small pate pans lined with a good puff paste. Bake the crust in a brisk oven; then fill the pans and set in the oven a few minutes to brown very slightly.
SAGE-AND-ONION STUFFING, FOR GEESE, DUCKS AND PORK.
Four large onions, ten sage-leaves, one quarter pound of bread-crumbs ^-.e ?. .i one half ounce of butter, salt and pepper to taste, o v gg. Pee. ".he onions, cut them >nto boiling water, let ti. n simmer for five minutes or rather longer, and, just be. ore they are taken out, put in tne sage-leaves for a minute or two to take of their raw- ness. Chop both these very fine, add toe bread, season
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ing, and butter, and work the whole together with the yolk of an egg, when the stuffing will be ready for use. It should be rather highly seasoned, and the sage-leaves should be very finely chopped. Many cooks do not par- boil the onions in the manner just stated, but merely use them raw. The stuffing then, however, is not nearly so mild, and, to many tastes, its strong flavor would be very objectionable. When made for goose, a portion of the liver of the bird, simmered fora few minutes and very finely minced, is frequently added to this stuffing; and where economy is studied", the egg may be dispensed with.
TO ROAST A GOOSE.
Having drawn and singed the goose, wipe out the in- side with a cloth, and sprinkle in some pepper and salt. Make a stuffing of four good sized onions, minced fine, and half their quantity of green sage leaves, minced also, a large teacupful of grated bread-crumbs, a piece of butter the size of a walnut, and the beaten yolks of two eggs, with a little pepper and salt. Mix the whole to- gether, and incorporate them well. Put the stuffing into the goose, and press it in hard; but do not entirely fill up the cavity, as the mixture will swell in cooking. Tie the goose securely round with a greased or wetted string; and paper the breast to prevent it from scorch- ing. The fire must be brisk and well kept up. It will require from two hours to two -and a half to roast. Baste jt at first with a little salt and water, and then with its own gravy. Take off the paper when the goose is about half done, and dredge it with a little flour towards the last. Having parboiled the liver and heart, chop them and put them into the gravy, which must be skim- med well and thickened with a little browned flour.
Send apple sauce to table with the goose; also mashed potatoes.
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A goose may be stuffed entirely with potatoes, boiled and mashed with milk, butter, pepper and salt.
You may make a gravy of the giblets, that is the neck, pinions, liver, heart and gizzard, stewed in a little water, thickened with butter, rolled in flour, and seasoned with pepper and salt. Before you send it to table, take out all but the liver and heart; mince them and leave them irv the gravy. This gravy is by many preferred to that which comes from the goose in roasting. It is well to have both.
If a goose is old it is useless to cook it, as when hard and tough it cannot be eaten.
ROAST DUCKS.
Wash and dry the ducks carefully. Make a stuffing of sage and onion; insert, and sew up completely that the seasoning may not escape. If tender, ducks do not require more than an hour to roast. Keep them well basted, and a few minutes before serving, dredge lightly with flour, to make them froth and look plump. Send to table hot, with a good brown gravy poured not round but over them. Accompany with currant jelly, and, if in season, green peas.
ROAST PIGEONS.
Clean the pigeons, and stuff them the same as chick- ens; leave the feet on, dip them into scalding water, strip off the skin, cross them, and tie them together below the breast bone; or cut them off; the head may remain on; if so, dip it in scalding water, and pick it clean; twist the wings back, put the liver between the right wing and the body, and turn the head under the other; rub the outside of each bird with a mixture of pepper and salt; spit them, and put some water in the dripping-pan; for
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each bird put a bit of butter the size of a small egg, put them before a hot fire, 'and let them roast quickly; baste frequently, half an hour will do them; when nearly done, dredge them with wheat flour and baste with the butter in the pan; turn them, that they may be nicely and easily browned; when done, take them up, set the pan over the fire, make a thin batter of a teaspoonful of wheat flour, and cold water, when the gravy is boiling hot, stir it in; continue to stir it for a few minutes, until it is brown, then pour it through a gravy sieve into a tureen, and serve with the pigeons.
TO MAKE A BIRD'S NEST.
Boil some yellow macaroni gently, until it is quite swelled out and tender, then cut it in pieces, the length of a finger, and lay them on a dish like a straw nest.
Truss pigeons with the heads on, (having scalded and picked them clean,) turned under the left wing, leave the feet on, and having stewed them, arrange them as in a nest; pour the gravy over and serve.
The nest may be made of boiled rice, or bread cut in pieces, the length and thickness of a finger, and fried a nice brown in hot lard, seasoned with pepper and salt. Or, make it of bread, toasted a yellow brown. Any small birds may be stewed or roasted, and served in this way.
PIGEONS IN JELLY.
Wash and truss one dozen pigeons. Put them in a kettle with four pounds of the shank of veal, six cloves, twenty-five pepper-corns, an onion that has been fried in one spoonful of butter, one stalk of celery, a bouquet of sweet herbs and four and a half quarts of water. Have the veal shank broken in small pieces. As soon as the contents of the kettle come to a boil, skim carefully, and se'; for three hours where they will just simmer. After
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they have been cooking one hour, add two tablespoon- fuls of salt. When the pigeons are done, take them up, being careful not to break them, and remove the strings. Draw the kettle forward, where it will boil rapidly, and keep there for forty minutes; then strain the liquor through a napkin, and taste to see if seasoned enough. The water should have boiled down to two and a half quarts. Have two moulds that will each hold six pig- eons. Put a thin layer of the jelly in these, and set on ice to harden. When hard, arrange the pigeons in them, and cover with the jelly, which must be cold, but liquid. Place in the ice chest for six or, better still, twelve hours. There should be only one layer of the pigeons in the mould.
To serve: Dip the mould in a basin of warm water for one minute, and turn on a cold dish. Garnish with pickled beets and parsley. A Tartare sauce can be served with this dish.
If squabs are used, two hours will cook them. All small birds, as well as partridge, grouse, etc., can be pre- pared in the same manner. Remember that the bird* must be cooked tender, and that the liquor must be s«> reduced that it will become jellied.
PIGEON PIE.
Clean and truss three or four pigeons, rub the outside and in with a mixture of pepper and salt; rub the inside with a bit of butter, and fill it with a bread-and-butter stuffing, or mashed potatoes; sew up the slit, butter the sides of a tin basin or pudding-dish, and line (the sides only,) with pie paste, rolled to quarter of an inch thick» ness; lay the birds in; for three large tame pigeons, cut quarter of a pound of sweet butter and put it over them; strew over a large teaspoonful of salt, and a small tea- spoonful of pepper, with a bunch of finely cut parsley, if liked; dredge a large tablespoonful of wheat flour over;
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put in water to nearly fill the pic; lay skewers across the top, cover with a puff paste crust; cut a slit in the mid- dle, ornament the edge with leaves, braids, or shells of paste, and put it in a moderately hot or quick oven, for one hour; when nearly done, brush the top over with the yolk of an egg beaten with a little milk, and finish. The pigeons for this pie may be cut in two or more pieces, if preferred.
Any small birds may be done in this manner.
WILD DUCKS.
Nearly all wild ducks are liable to have a fishy flavor, and when handled by inexperienced cooks, are some- times uneatable from this cause. Before roasting thei.v guard against this by parboiling them with a small car- rot, peeled, put within each. This will absorb the uiv pleasant taste. An onion will have the same effect; but, unless you mean to use onion in the stuffing, the carrot is preferable. In my own kitchen, I usually put in the onion, considering a suspicion of garlic a desideratum in roast duck, whether wild or tame.
ROAST WILD DUCK.
Parboil as above directed; throw away the carrot or onion, lay in fresh water half an hour; stuff with bread- crumbs seasoned with pepper, salt, sage, and onion, and roast until brown and tender, basting for half the: time with butter and water, then with the drippings. Add to the gravy, when you have taken up the ducks, a tea- spoonful of currant jelly, and a pinch of cayenne. Thicken with browned flour and serve in a tureen.
WILD TURKEY.
Draw and wash the inside very carefully, as with a! , game. Domestic fowls are, or should be, kept up with-
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out eating for at least twelve hours before they are killed; but we must shoot wild when we can get the chance, and of course it often happens that their crops are distented by a recent hearty meal of rank or green food. Wipe the cavity with a dry soft cloth before you stuff. Have a rich force-meat, bread-crumbs, some bits of fat pork, chopped fine, pepper, and salt. Moisten with rnilk, and beat in an egg and a couple of table- spoomuls of melted butter. Baste with butter and water for the first hour, then three or four times with gravy; lastly, five or six times with melted butter. A generous and able housekeeper told me once that she always allowed a pound of butter for basting a large wild turkey. This was an extravagant quantity, but the meat is drier than that of the domestic fowl, and not nearly so fat. Dredge with flour at the last, froth with butter, and when he is of a tempting brown, serve. Skim the gravy, add a little hot water, pepper, thicken with the giblets chopped fine and browned flour, boil up, and pour into a tureen. At the South the giblets are not put in the grav)r, but laid whole, one under each wing, when the turkey is dished. Garnish with small fried sausages, not larger than a dollar, crisped parsley between them. Send around currant jelly and cranberry sauce with it.
TO ROAS I SNIPES, WOODCOCKS, OR PLOVERS.
Pick them immediately; wipe them, and season them slightly with pepper and salt. Cut as many slices of bread as you have birds. Toast them brown, butter them, and lay them in the pan. Dredge the birds \vitk flour, and put them in the oven with a brisk fire. Baste them with lard, or fresh butter. They will be done in twenty or thirty minutes. Serve them up laid on the toast, and garnished with sliced orange, or with orange iellv
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ROAST PARTRIDGE.
Choose young birds, with dark-colored bills and yel- iowish legs, and let them hang a few days, or there will b" no flavor to the flesh, nor will it be tender. The time they should be kept entirely depends on the taste of those for whom they are intended, as what some persons would consider delicious, would be to others disgusting and offensive. They may be trussed with or without the head, the latter mode being now considered the most fashionable. Pluck, draw, and wipe the partridge care- fully inside and out; cut off the head, leaving sufficient skin on the neck to skewer back; bring the legs close to the breast, between it and the side-bones, and pass a skewer through the pinions and thick part of the thighs. When the head is left on, it should be brought round and fixed on to the point of the skewer. When the bird is firmly and plumply trussed, roast it before a nice bright fire; keep it well basted, and a few minutes before serving, flour and froth it well. Dish it, and serve with gravy and bread-sauce, and send to table hot and quickly, \ little of the gravy should be poured over the bird.
• ROAST QUAIL.
Pluck and draw the birds, rub a little butter over them, tie a strip of bacon over the breasts, and set them in the oven for twenty to twenty-five minutes.
ROAST PRAIRIE CHICKEN.
The bird being a little strong, and its flesh when cooked a little dry, it should be either larded or wide strips of bacon or pork placed over its breast. A mild seasoned stuffing will improve the flavor of old birds. Dust a little flour over them, baste occasionally, and serve. Pheasant* vnay be managed in the same manner.
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LARDED GROUSE.
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Clean and wash the grouse. Lard the breast ariot legs. P_un a small skewer into the legs and through the tail. Tie firmly with twine. Dredge with salt, and rub the breast with soft butter; then dredge thickly with flour. Put into a quick oven. If to be very rare, cook twenty minutes; if wished better done, thirty minutes. The former time, as a general thing, suits gentlemen better, but thirty minutes is preferred by ladies. If the birds are cooked in a tin-kitchen, it should be for thirty or thirty-five minutes. When done, place on a hot dish, on which has been spread bread sauce. Sprinkle fried crumbs over both grouse and sauce. Garnish with parsley. The grouse may, instead, be served on a hot dish, with the parsley garnish, and the sauce and crumbs served in separate dishes. The first method is the bet- ter, however, as you get in th& sauce all the gravy that comes from the birds.
PORK, HAMS, etc.
To CHOOSE PoaK. — If the rind of pork is tough and thick, and cannot easily be impressed with the finger, it is old.
If fresh, the flesh will look cool and smooth; when moist or clammy it is stale. The knuckle is the first to become tainted.
Pork is often what is called measly, and is then almost poisonous; measly pork may easily be detected, the fat being fi\ll of small kernels. Swill or still-fed pork is not fit for curing; either dairy or corn fed is good.
Fresh pork is in season from October to April.
In cutting up a large hog, it is first cut in two down tne back and belly. The chine or backbone should be cut out from each side the whole length, and ij either
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boiled or roasted. The chine is considered the prime part. The sides of the hog are made into bacon, and the inside or ribs is cut with very little meat; this is the spare-rib.
CURING HAMS.
Hang up the hams a week or ten days, the longer the tenderer and better, if kept perfectly sweet; mix for each good-sized ham, one teacup of salt, one tablespoon of molasses, one ounce of saltpetre; lay the hams in a clean dry tub; heat the mixture and rub well into the hams, especially around the bones and recesses; repeat the process once or twice, or until all the mixture is used; then let the hams lie two or three days, when they must be put for three weeks in brine strong enough to bear an egg; then soak eight hours in cold water; hang up to dry in the kitchen or other more convenient place for a week or more; smoke from three to five days, being careful not to heat the hams. Corn-cobs and apple-tree wood are good for smoking. The juices are better re- tained if smoked with the hock down. Tie up carefully in bags for the summer.
TO ROAST A LEG OF PORK.
Take a sharp knife and score the skin across in narrow stripes (you may cross it again so as to form diamonds) and rub in some powdered sage. Raise the skin at the knuckle and put in a stuffing of minced onion and sage, bread crumbs, pepper, salt, and beaten yolk of egg, Fasten it down with a buttered string, or with Sttewers You may make deep incisions in the meat of the largh end of the leg, and stuff them also, pressing in the filling very hard. Rub a little sweet oil. all over the skin with a brush or a goose feather, to make it crisp and of a handsome brown. A leg of pork will require from thre<5
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to i'our hours to roast. Moisten it all the time by brush- ing it with sweet oil, ;V> with fresh butter tied in a rag. To baste it with its own dripping will make the skin tough and hard. Skim the fat carefully from the gravy, which should be thickened with a little flour.
A roast leg of pork should always be accompanied by apple sauce, and by mashed potatoes and mashed turnips.
PORK AND BEANS.
Pick over carefully a quart of beans and let them soak over night; in the morning wash and drain in another water, put on to boil in cold water with half a teaspoon of soda; boil about thirty minutes (when done the skin of a bean will crack if taken out and blown upon), drain, and put in an earthen pot first a slice of pork and then the beans, with two or three tablespoons of molasses. When the beans are in the pot, put in the centre half or three fourths of a pound of well-washed salt oork with the rind scored in slices or squares, and uppermost; sea- Bon with pepper and salt if needed; cover all with hot Ivater, and bake six hours or longer in a moderate oven, adding hot water as needed; they cannot be baked too long. Keep covered so that the}' will not burn on the top, but remove cover an hour or two before serving, to brown the top and crisp the pork.
PORK SAUSAGES.
Take such a proportion of fat and lean pork as you jfke; chop it quite fine, and for every ten pounds of meat '.ake four ounces of fine salt, and one of fine pepper; \lried sage, or lemon thyme, finely powdered, may be added if liked; a teaspoonful of sage, and the same of ground alspice and cloves, to each ten pounds of meat. Mix the seasoning through the meat; pack it down in
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Stone pots, or put it in muslin bags. Or fill the hog's or ox's guts, having first made them perfectly clean, thus: empty them, cut them in lengths, and lay them three or four days in salt and water, or weak lime water; turn, them inside out once or twice, scrape them; then rinse them, and fill with the meat.
If you do not use the skins or guts, make the sausage meat up the size and shape of sausages, dip them in beaten egg, and then into wheat flour, or rolled crackers, or simply into wheat flour, and fry in hot lard. Turn them, that every side may be a fine color. Serve hc-% with boiled potatoes or hominy; either taken fro / the gravy, or after they are fried, pour a little boilii ir »vater into the gravy in the pan, and pour it over them; or first dredge in a teaspoonful of wheat flour, stir it un'il i'- .s smooth and brown; then add a little boiling water, let it boil up once, then put it in the dish with the sausages.
Chopped onion and green parsley may be added to the sausage meat, when making ready to fry.
Or sausage meat may be tied in a muslin bag, and boiled, and served with vegetables; or let it become cold, and cut in slices.
PORK CHOPS, STEAKS AND CUTLETS.
Fry or stew pork chops, after taking off the rind or skin, the same as for veal.
Cutlets and steaks are also fried, broiled, or stewed, the same as veal.
ROAST PIG.
Thoroughly clean the pig, then rinse it in cold water, wipe it dry; then rub the inside with a mixture of salt and pepper, and if liked, a little pounded and sifted sage; make a stuffing thus: cut some wheat bread in slices half an inch thick, spread butter on to half its thicknrss,
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sprinkled with pepper and salt, and if liked, a little pounded sage and minced onion; pour enough hot water over the bread to make it moist or soft, then fill the body with it and sew it together, or tie a cord around it to keep the dressing in, then spit it; put a pint of water in the dripping-pan, put into it a tablespoonful of salt, and a teaspoonful of pepper, let the fire be hotter at each end than in the middle, put the pig down at a little distance from the fire, baste it as it begins to roast, and gradually draw it nearer; continue to baste occa- sionally; turn it that it may be evenly cooked; when the eyes drop out it is done; or a better rule is to judge by the weight, fifteen minutes for each pound of meat, if the fire is right.
Have a bright clear fire, with a bed of coals at the bottom; first put the roast at a little distance, and grad- ually draw it nearer; when the pig is done stir up the fire, take a coarse cloth with a good bit of butter in it, and wet the pig all over with it, and when the crackling is crisp take it up; dredge a little flour into the gravy, let it boil up once, and having boiled the heart, liver, etc., tender, and chopped it fine, add it to the gravy, give it one boil, then serve.
PIG'S CHEEK.
Is smoked and boiled like ham with vegetables; boiled cabbage or fried parsnips may be served with it.
ROAST SPARE-RIB.
Trim off the rough ends neatly, crack the ribs across the middle, rub with salt and sprinkle with pepper, fold over, stuff with turkey-dressing, sew up tightly, place in dripping-pan with pint of water, baste frequently, turn- ing over once so as to bake both sides equally until a rich brown.
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FORE FRITTERS.
Have at hand a thick batter of Indian meal and flour ; cut a few slices of pork and fry them in the frying-pan until the fat is fried out ; cut a few more slices of the pork, dip them in the batter, and drop them in the bubbling fat, seasoning with salt and pepper ; cook until light brown, and eat while hot.
BAKED HAM.
Cover your ham with cold water, and simmer gently just long enough to loosen the skin, so that it can be pulled off. This will probably be from two to three hours, ac- cording to the size of your ham. When skinned, put in a dripping pan in the oven, pour over it a teacup of vinegar and one of hot water, in which dissolve a teaspoonful of English mustard, bake slowly, basting with the liquid, for two hours. Then cover the ham all over to the depth of one inch with coarse brown sugar, press it down firmly, and do not baste again until the sugar has formed a thick crust, which it will soon do in a very slow oven. Let it remain a full hour in, after covering with the sugar, until it becomes a rich golden brown. When done, drain from the liquor in the pan and put on a dish to cool. When it is cool, but not cold, press by turning another flat dish on top, with a weight over it. You will never want to eat ham cooked in any other way when you have tasted this, and the pressing makes it cut firmly for sandwiches or slicing.
TO BOIL A HAM.
Wash thoroughly with a cloth. Select a small size to boil, put it in a large quantity of cold water, and boil twenty minutes for each pound, allowing it to boil slowly ;
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take off the rind while hot and put in the oven to brown half an hour ; remove and trim.
TO BROIL HAM.
Cut some slices of ham, quarter of an inch thick, lay them in hot water for half an hour, or give them a scald- ing in a pan over the fire ; then take them up, and lay them on a gridiron, over bright coals ; when the outside is browned, turn the other ; then take the slices on a hot dish, butter them freely, sprinkle pepper over and serve. Or, after scalding them, wipe them dry, dip each slice in beaten egg, and then into rolled crackers, and fry or broil.
FRIED HAM AND EGGS (a Breakfast Dish).
Cut the ham into slices, and take care that they are of the same thickness in every part. Cut off the rind, and if the ham should be particularly hard and salt, it will be be found an improvement to soak it for about k.n minutes in hot water, and then dry it in a cloth. Put it into a cold frying-pan, set it over the fire, and turn the slices three or four times whilst they are cooking. When done, place them on a dish, which should be kept hot in front of the fire during the time the eggs are being poached. Poach the eggs, slip them on to the slices of ham, and serve quickly.
HAM TOAST.
Mince finely a quarter of a pound of cooked ham with an anchovy boned and washed ; add a little cayenne and pounded mace ; beat up two eggs ; mix with the mince, and add just sufficient milk to deep it moist ; make it quite hot, and serve on small rounds of toast or fried bread.
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HEAD CHEESE.
Having thoroughly cleaned a hog's head or pig's head, split it in two with a sharp knife, take out the eyes, take out the brains, cut off the ears, and pour scalding water over them and the head, and scrape them clean. Cut off any part of the nose which may be discolored so as not to be scraped clean ; then rinse all in cold water, and put it into a large kettle with hot (not boiling) water to cover it, and set the kettle (having covered it) over the fire ; let it boil gently, taking off the scum as it rises ; when boiled so that the bones leave the meat readily, take it from the water with a skimmer into a large wooden bowl or tray ; take from it every particle of bone ; chop the meat small and season to taste with salt and pepper, and if liked, a little chopped sage or thyme ; spread a cloth in a colander or sieve ; set it in a deep dish, and put the meat in, then fold the cloth closely over it, lay a weight on which may press equally the whole surface (a sufficiently large plate will serve). Let the weight be more or less heavy, according as you may wish the cheese to be fat or lean ; a heavy weight by pressing out the fat will of course leave the cheese lean. When cold, take the weight off ; take it from the colander or sieve, scrape off whatever fat may be found or. the outside of the cloth, and keep the cheese in the cloth in a cool place, to be eaten sliced thin, with or without mus- tard, and vinegar, or catsup. After the water is cold in which the head was boiled, take off the fat from it, and whatever may have drained from the sieve, or colander, and cloth ; put it together in some clean water, give it one boil; then strain it through a cloth, and set it to become cold; then take off the cake of fat. It is fit for any use.
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PIGS' FEET SOUSED.
Scald and scrape clean the feet ; if the covering of the toes will not come off without, singe them in hot embers, until they are loose, then take them off. Many persons lay them in weak lime water to whiten them. Having scraped them clean and white, wash them and put them in a pot of hot (not boiling) water, with a little salt, and let them boil gently, until by turning a fork in the flesh it will easily break and the bones are loosened. Take off the scum as it rises. When done, take them from the hot water into cold vinegar, enough to cover them, add to it one third as much of the water in which they were boiled ; add whole pepper and allspice, with cloves and mace if liked, put a cloth and a tight fitting cover over the pot or jar.- Soused feet may be eaten cold from the vinegar, split in two from top to toe, or having split them, dip them in wheat flour and fry in hot lard, or broil and butter them. In either case, let them be nicely browned.
TO MAKE LARD.
Take the leaf fat from the inside of a bacon hog, cut it small, and put it in an iron kettle, which must be per- fectly free from any musty taste ; set it over a steady, moderate fire, until nothing but scraps remain of the meat ; the heat must be kept up, but gentle, that it may not burn the lard ; spread a coarse cloth in a wire sieve, and strain the liquid into tin basins which will hold two or three quarts ; squeeze out all the fat from the scraps. :When the lard in the pans is cold, press a piece of new muslin close upon it, trim it off at the edge of the pan, and keep it in a cold place. Or it may be kept in wooden kegs with close covers. Lard made with one-third as much beef suet as fat, is supposed by many persons to keep better.
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TO TELL GOOD EGGS.
Put them in water — if the large end turns up, they are not fresh. This is an infallible rule to distinguish a good egg from a bad one.
KEEPING EGGS FRESH.
"All it is necessary to do to. keep eggs through summer is to procure small, clean wooden or tin vessels, holding from ten to twenty gallons, and a barrel, more or less, of common, fine-ground land plaster. Begin by putting on the bottom of the vessel two or three inches of plaster, and then, having fresh eggs, with the yolks unbroken, set them up, small end down, close to each other, but not crowd- ing, and make the first layer. Then add more plaster and enough so the eggs will stand upright, and set up the second layer ; then another deposit of plaster, followed by a layer of eggs, till the vessel is full, and finish by covering the top layer with plaster. Eggs so packed and subjected to a temperature of at least 85 degrees, if not 90 degrees, during August and September, came- out fresh, and if one could be certain of not having a temperature of more than 75 degrees to contend with, I am confident eggs could be kept by these means all the year round. Observe that the eggs must be fresh laid, the yolks unbroken, the packing done in small vessels, and with clean, fine ground land plas- ter, and care must be taken that no egg so presses on an- other as to break the shell."
Eggs may be kept good for a year in the following man- ner :
To a pail of water, put of unslacked lime and coarse salt each a pint ; keep it in a cellar, or cool place, and put the eggs in, as fresh laid as possible.
It is well to keep a stone pot of this lime water ready
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to receive the eggs as soon as laid ; make a fresh supply every few months. This lime water is of exactly the proper strength ; strong lime water will cook the eggs. Very strong lime water will eat the shell.
POACHED EGGS.
Two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of milk, half a teaspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of butter. Beat the eggs, and add the salt and milk. Put the butter in a small sauce- pan, and when it melts, add the eggs. Stir over the fire until the mixture thickens, being careful not to let it cook hard. About two minutes will cook it. The eggs, when done, should be soft and creamy. Serve imme- diately.
DROPPED EGGS.
Have one quart of boiling water and one tablespoon- ful of salt in a frying-pan. Break the eggs, one by one, into a saucer, and slide carefully into the salted water. Cook until the white is firm, and lift out with a griddle- cake turner and place on toasted bread. Serve immedi- ately.
STUFFED EGGS.
Six hard-boiled eggs cut in two, take out the yolks and mash fine ; then add two teaspoonfuls of butter, one of cream, two or three drops of onion juice, salt and pep- per to taste. Mix all thoroughly and fill the eggs with this mixture ; put them together. Then there will be a little of the filling left, to which add one well-beaten egg. Cover the eggs with this mixture, and then roll in cracker crumbs. Fry a light brown in boiling fat. Plain baked eggs make a quite pretty breakfast dish. Take a round white-ware dish thick enough to stand the
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heat of the oven, put into it sufficient fresh butter, and break as many eggs in it as are desirable, putting a few bits of butter on the tap, and set in a rather slow oven until they are cooked. Have a dish of n;cely made but- tered toast arranged symmetrically on a plate, and garnish it and the dish of eggs with small pieces of curled pars- ley.
EGGS A LA SUISSE.
Spread the bottom of a dish with two ounces of fresh butter; corer this with grated cheese; break eight whole eggs upon the cheese without breaking the yolks. Sea- son with red pepper and salt if necessary; pour a little cream on the surface, strew about two ounces of grated cheese on the top, and set the eggs in a moderate oven for about a quarter of an hour. Pass a hot salamander over the top to brown it.
EGGS BROUILLE.
Six eggs, half a cupful of milk, or, better still, of cream; two mushrooms, one teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper, three tablespoonfuls of butter, a slight grating o{ nutmeg. Cut the mushrooms into dice, and fry them for one minute in one tablespoonful of the butter. Beat the eggs, salt, pepper, and cream together, and put them in a saucepan. Add the butter and mushrooms to these ingredients. Stir over a moderate heat until the mixture begins to thicken. Take from the fire and beat rapidly until the eggs become quite thick and creamy. Have slices of toast on a hot dish. Heap the mixture on these, and garnish with points of toast. Serve immedi- ately.
CURRIED EGGS.
Slice two onions and fry in butter, add a tablespoon curry-powder and one pint gooc> hroth or stock, stew till
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onions are quite tender, add a cup of cream thickened with arrowroot or rice flour, simmer a few moments, then add eight or ten hard-toiled. eggs, cut in slices, and be»* them well, but do not boil.
CREAMED EGGS.
Boil six eggs twenty minutes. Make one pint of cream sauce. Have six slices of toast on a hot dish. Put a layer of sauce on each one, and then part of the whites of the eggs, cut in thin strips; and rub part of the yolks through a sieve on to the toast. Repeat this, and finish with a third layer of sauce. Place in the oven for about three minutes. Garnish with parsley, and serve.
SOFT-BOILED EGGS.
Place the eggs in a warm saucepan, and cover with boiling water. Let them stand where they will keep hot, but not boil, for ten minutes. This method will cook both whites and yolks.
EGGS UPON TOAST.
Put a good lump of butter into the frying-pan. When i« is hot, stir in four or five well-beaten eggs, with pepper, salt, and a little parsley. Stir and toss for three min- utes. Have ready to your hand some slices of buttered toast (cut round with a tin cake cutter before they are toasted); spread thickly with ground or minced tongue, chicken, or ham. Heap the stirred egg upon these in mounds, and set in a hot dish garnished with parsley and pickled beets.
DUTCH OMELET.
Break eight eggs into a basin, season with pepper and salt, add two ounces of butter cut small, beat these well
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together, make an ounce of butter hot in a frying-pan, put the eggs in, continue to stir it, drawing it away from the sides, that it may be evenly done, shake it now and then to free it. from the pan; when the under side is a little browned, turn the omelet into a dish, and serve; this must be done over a moderate fire.
EGGS POACHED IN BALLS.
Put three pints of boiling water into a stewpan; set. it on a hot stove or coals; stir the water with a stick un- til it runs rapidly around, then having broken an egg into a cup, taking care not to break the yolk, drop it into the whirling water ; continue to stir it until the egg is cooked; then take it into a dish with a skimmer and set it over a pot of boiling water; boil one at a time, until you have enough. These will remain soft for a long time.
OMELET AU NATURAL.
Break eight or ten eggs into a basin; add a small tea- spoonful of salt and a little pepper, with a tablespoonful of cold water; beat the whole well with a spoon or whisk. In the meantime put some fresh sweet butter into an omelet pan, and when it is nearly hot, put in an omelet; while it is frying, with a skimmer spoon raise the edges from the pan that it may be properly done. When the eggs are set and one side is a fine brown, double it half over and serve hot. These omelets should be put quite thin in the pan; the butter required for each will be about the size of a small egg.
OMELET IN BATTER.
Fry an omelet; when done, cut it in squares or dia- monds; dip each piece in batter made of two eggs and a
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pint of milk with enough wheat flour, and • fry them ii, nice salted lard to a delicate brown. Serve hot.
SCRAMBLED EGGS.
Four eggs, one tablespoo'nful of butter, half a tea- spoonful of salt. Beat the eggs, and add the salt to them. Melt the butter in a sauce-pan. Turn in the beaten eggs, stir quickly over a hot fire for one minute, and serve.
OMELET (SPLENDID.)
Six eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately ; half pint rnilk, six teaspoons corn starch, one teaspoon baking powder, and a little salt; add the whites, beaten to a stiff froth, last; cook in a little butter.
VEGETABLES.
BOILED POTATOES.
Old potatoes are better for being peeled and put in cold water an hour before being put over to boi'.» They should then be put into fresh cold water, when set over the fire. New potatoes should always be put in o boiling water, and it is best to prepa -e them just in time for cooking. Are better steamed th.-.i- boiled.
MASHED POTATOES.
Potatoes are not good for mashing until they .ire full grown; peel them, and lay them in water for an hour or more before boiling, for mashing.
Old potatoes, when unfit for plain boiling, may be served mashed; cut out all imperfections, take off all the skin, and lay them in cold water for one hour or more; then put them into a dinner-pot or stewpan, with a tea- spoonful of salt; cover the stewpan, and let them boil for half an hour, unless they are large, when three quarters of an hour will be required; when they are done, take them up with a skimmer into a wooden bowl or tray, and mash them fine with a potato beetle; melt a piece of butter, the size of a large egg, into half a pint of hot milk; mix it with tne mashed potatoes until it k- taoroughly incorporated, and a smooth mass; then put it in a deep dish, smooth the top over, 'and mark it neatly with a knife; put pepper over, and serve, The
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quantity of milk used must be in proportion to the quantity of potatoes.
Mashed potatoes may be heaped on a flat dish ; make it in a crown or pineapple; stick a sprig of green celery or parsley in the top ; or first brown it before the fire or in an oven.
Mashed potatoes mny be made a highly ornamental dish ; after shaping it, as taste may direct, trim the edge of the plate with a wreath of celery leaves or green pars- ley; or first brown the outside in an oven or before the fire.
TRIED POTATOES.
Peel and cut the potatoes into thin slices, as nearly the same size as possible ; make some butter or dripping quite hot in a frying-pan ; put in the potatoes, and fry them on both sides of a nice brown. When they are crisp and done, take them up, place them on a cloth before the fire to drain the grease from them, and serve very hot, after sprinkling them with salt. These are delicious with rump- steak, and in France are frequently served thus as a breakfast dish. The remains of cold potatoes may also be sliced and fried by the above recipe, but the slices must be cut a little thicker.
BROILED POTATOES.
Cut cold boiled potatoes in slices lengthwise, quarter of an inch thick; dip each slice in wheat flour, and lay them on a gridiron over a bright fire of coals ; when both sides are browned nicely, take them on a hot dish, put a bit of butter, pepper and salt to taste over, and serve hot.
POTATOES AND CREAM.
Mince cold boiled potatoes fine ; put them into a spider with melted butter in it; let them fry a little in the but-
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ter, well covered; then put in a fresh piece of butter, seasoned with salt and pepper, and pour over cream or rich milk; let it boil up once and serve.
POTATO PUFFS.
Prepare the potaotes as directed for mashed potato. While /iot, shape in balls about the size of an egg. Have a tin sheet well buttered, and place the balls on it. As soon as all are done, brush over with beaten egg. Brown ;n the oven. When done, slip a knife under them and slide them upon a hot platter. Garnish with parsley, and serve immediately.
POTATO SNOW.
Choose large white potatoes, as free from spots as possible; boil them in their skins in salt and water until perfectly tender, drain and dry them thoroughly by the side of the fire, and peel them. Put a hot dish before the fire, rub the potatoes through a coarse sieve on to this dish; do not touch them afterwards, or the flakes will fall, and serve as hot as possible.
POTATO BORDER.
Six potatoes, three eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, &ne of salt, half a cupful of boiling milk. Pare, boil and mash the potatoes. When fine and light, add the butter, salt and pepper and two well-beaten eggs. Butter the border mould and pack the potato in it. Let this stand on the kitchen table ten minutes; then turn out on a dish and brush over with one well-beaten egg. Brown in the oven.
WHIPPED POTATOES.
Instead of mashing in the ordinary way whip with a *ork until light and dry; then whip in a little melted
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butter, some milk, and salt to taste, whipping rapidly until creamy. Pile as lightly and irregularly as you can in a hot dish.
SCALLOPED POTATOES.
Prepare in this proportion: Two cups of mashed po- tatoes, two tablespoonfuls of cream or milk, and one of melted butter; salt and pepper to taste. Stir the pota- toes, butter, and cream together, adding one raw egg. If^the potatoes seem too moist, beat in a few fine bread crumbs. Bake in a hot oven for ten minutes, taking care to have the top a rich brown.
POTATO CROQUETTES.
Pare, boil, and mash six good-sized potatoes. Add one tablespoonful of butter, two thirds of a cupful of hot cream or milk, the whites of two eggs well beaten, salt and pepper to taste. When cool enough to handle, work into shape, roll in egg and bread crumbs, and fry in hot lard.
POTATOES A LA CREME.
Heat a cupful of milk; stir in a heaping tablespoonful of butter cut up in as much flour. Stir until smooth and thick; pepper and salt, and add two cupfuls of cold boiled potatoes, sliced, and a little very finely chopped parsley. Shake over the fire until the potatoes are hot all through, and pour into a deep dish.
TO BOIL SWEET POTATOES.
Wash them perfectly clean, put them into a pot or stewpan, and pour boiling water over to cover them; «over the pot close, and boil fast for half an hour, or more if the potatoes are large; try them with a fork;
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(vhen done, drain off the water, take off the skins, and serve.
Cold sweet potatoes may be cut in slices across or lengthwise, and fried or broiled as common potatoes; or they may be cut in half and served cold.
ROASTED SWEET POTATOES.
Having washed them clean, and wiped them dry, roast them on a hot hearth as directed for common potatoes; or put them in a Dutch oven or tin reflector. Roasted or baked potatoes should not be cut, but broken open and eaten from the skin, as from a shell.
TO BAKE SWEET POTATOES.
Wash them perfectly clean, wipe them dry, and bake in a quick oven, according to their size — half an hour fof quite small size, three quarters for larger, and a full hour for the largest. Let the oven have a good heat, and do not open it, unless it is necessary to turn them, until they are done.
FRENCH FRIED SWEET POTATOES.
Prepare and fry the same as the white potatoes. Or they can first be boiled half an hour, and then pared, cut and fried as directed. The latter is the better way, as they are liable to be a little hard if fried when raw.
TURNIPS.
Boil until tender; mash and season with butter, pepper, salt, and a little rich milk or cream.
SPINACH.
An excellent way to serve spinach is to first look it over carefully; wash it in two or three waters. If the stalks are
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net perfectly tender, cut the leaves from the stalk. Boil for twenty minutes in water with enough salt dissolved in it to salt the spinach sufficiently. When done let it drain, then chop it fine, put it on the stove in a saucepan, with a lump of butter, salt, and pepper, and enough milk to moisten it. When the butter is melted and the spinach steaming, take from the fire and put it in the dish in Which it is going to the table. Garnish with hard-boiled eggs cut in slices or in rings — that is, with the yolk re- moved and rings of the white only left.
BEETS.
Clean these nicely, but do not pare them, leaving on a short piece of the stalk. Then put over to boil in hot water. Young beets will cook tender in an hour; old beets require several hours' boiling-. When done, skin quickly while hot, slice thin into your vegetable dish, put on salt, pepper, and a lettle butter, put over a little vine- gar, and serve hot or cold.
TO PRESERVE VEGETABLES FOR WINTER USE.
Green stringed beans must be picked when young; put a layer three inches deep in a small wooden keg or half barrel; sprinkle in salt an inch deep, then put an- other layer of beans, then salt, and beans and salt in al- ternate layers, until you have enough; let the last be salt; cover them with a piece of board which will fit the in- side of the barrel or keg, and place a heavy weight upon it; they will make a brine.
When wanted for use, soak them one night or more in plenty of water, changing it once or twice, until ih2 salt is out of them, then cut them, and boil the same as when fresh.
Carrots, beans, beet-roots, parsnips, and potatoes
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keep best in dry sand or earth in a cellar; turnips keep best on a cellar bottom, or they may be kept the same as carrots, etc. Whatever earth remains about them when taken from the ground,. should not be taken off.
When sprouts come on potatoes or other stored vege- tables, they should be carefully cut off. The young sprouts from turnips are sometimes served as a salad, or boiled tender in salt and water, and served with butte/- and pepper over.
Celery may be kept all winter by setting it in boxes filled with earth; keep it in the cellar; it will grow and whiten in the dark; leeks may also be kept in this way.
Cabbage set out i-n earth, in a good cellar, wiil keep good and fresh all winter. Small close heads of cabbage may be kept many weeks by taking them before the frost comes, and laying them on a stone floor; this will whiten them, and make them tender.
Store onions are to be strung, and hung in a dry, cold place.
DELICATE CABBAGE.
Remove all defective leaves, quarter and cut as for coarse slaw, cover well with cold water, and let remain several hours before cooking, then drain and put into pot with enough boiling water to cover; boil until thor- oughly cooked (which will generally require about forty- five minutes), add salt ten or fifteen minutes before re- moving from fire, and when done, take up into a colan- der, press out the water well, and season with butter and pepper. This is a good dish to serve with corned meats, but should not be cooked with them; if preferred, how-, ever, it may be seasoned by adding some of the liquor and fat from the boiling meat to the cabbage while cook" ing. Drain, remove, and serve in a dish with drawn but- ter or a cream dressing poured over it.
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RED CABBAGE.
Select two small, solid heads of hard red cabbage ; di- vide them in halves from crown to stem ; lay the split side down, and cut downwards in thin slices. The cab- bage will then be in narrow strips or shreds. Put into a saucepan a tablespoon of clean drippings, butter, or any nice fat ; when fat is hot, put in cabbage, a teaspoonful of salt, three tablespoons vinegar (if the latter is very strong, use but two), and one onion, in which three or four cloves have been stuck, buried in the middle ; boil two hours and a half; if it becomes too dry and is in danger of scorching, add a very little water. This is very nice.
CAULIFLOWER.
Boil a fine cauliflower, tied up snugly in coarse tarla- tan, in hot water, a little salt. Drain and lay in a deep dish, flower uppermost. Heat a cup of milk ; thicken with two tablespoonfuls of butter, cut into bits, and rolled in flour. Add pepper, salt, the beaten white of an egg, and boil up one minute, stirring well. Take from the fire, squeeze the juice of a lemon through a hair sieve into the sauce, and pour half into a boat, the rest over the cauliflower.
MASHED CARROTS.
Scrape, wash, lay in cold water half an hour ; then cook tender in boiling water. Drain well, mash with a wooden spoon, or beetle, work in a good piece of butter, and season with pepper and salt. Heap up in a vegetable dish, and serve very hot.
BOILED GREEN CORN.
Choose young sugar-corn, full grown, but not hard ; t*gt with the nail. When the grain is pierced, the milk
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should escape in a jet, and not be thick. Clean by strip- ping off the outer leaves, turn back the innermost covering carefully, pick off every thread of silk, and re-cover the ear with the thin husk that grew nearest it. Tie at the top with a bit of thread, put into boiling water salted, and cook fast from twenty minutes to half an hour, in proportion to size and age. Cut off the stalks close to the cob, and send whole to table wrapped in a napkin.
Or you can cut from the cob while hot and season with butter, pepper, and salt. Send to table in a vegetable dish.
GREEN PEAS.
Shell and lay in cold water fifteen minutes. Cook from twenty to twenty-five minutes in boiling salted waier. Drain, put into a deep dish with a good lump of butter ; pepper and salt to taste.
TO BOIL ONIONS
Take off the tops and tails, and the thin outer skin ; but no more, lest the onions should go to pieces. Lay them on the bottom of a pan which is broad enough to con- tain them without piling one on another ; just cover them with water, and let them simmer slowly till they are tender all through, but not till they break.
Serve them up with melted butter.
FRIED ONIONS.
Cut them in thin slices and season them ; have a piece of fat bacon frying to get the juice, take it out, and put the onions in and stir until a pretty brown.
BOILED PARSNIPS.
Wash the parsnips, scrape them thoroughly, and with the point of the knife, remove any black specks about
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them, and should they be very large, cut the thick part into quarters. Put them into a saucepan of boiling water, salted in the above proportion, boil them rapidly until tender, which may be ascertained by thrusting a fork in them ; take them up, drain them, and serve in a vegetable dish. This vegetable is usually served with salt fish, boiled pork, or boiled beef ; when sent to table with the latter, a few should be placed alternately with carrots round the dish as a garnish.
PARSNIPS FRIED IN BUTTER.
Scrape the parsnips and boil gently forty-five minutes. When cold, cut in long slices about one third of an inch thick. Season with salt and pepper. Dip in melted butter and in flour. Have two tablespoonfuls of butter in the fry- ing-pan, and as soon as hot, put in enough parsnips to cover the bottom. Fry brown on both sides, and serve on a hot dish.
CREAMED PARSNIPS.
Boil tender, scrape, and slice lengthwise. Put over the fire with two tablespoonfuls of butter, pepper, and salt, and a little minced parsley. Shake until the mixture boils. Dish the parsnips, add to the sauce three tablespoonfuls of cream in which has been stirred a quarter-spoonful of flour. Boil once, and pour over the parsnips.
PARSNIP FRITTERS.
Boil four or five parsnips ; when tender, take off the skin and mash them fine, add to them a teaspoonful of wheat flour and a beaten egg; put a tablespoonful of lard or beef dripping in a frying-pan over the fire, add to it a saltspoonful of salt ; when boiling hot, put in the parsnips, make it in small cakes with a spoon ; when one
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side is a delicate brown, turn the other; when both ar* done, take them on a dish, put a very little of the <at in which they were fried over, and serve hot. These re- semble very nearly the taste of the salsify or oyster plant, and will generally be preferred.
SALSIFY, OR VEGETABLE OYSTER.
Boil and serve as directed for parsnips- ®ither plain boiled, or fried, or made fritters.
BOILED VEGETABLE MARROW.
Have ready a saucepan of boiling water, properly salted; put in the marrows after peeling them, and boil them until quite tender. Take them up with a slice; halve, and, should they be very large, quarter them. Dish them on toast, and send to table with them a tureen of melted butter, or, in lieu of this, a small pat of salt butter. Large vegetable marrows may be preserved throughout the winter by storing them in a dry place; when wanted for use, a few slices should be cut and boiled in the same manner as above; but, when once be- gun, the marrow must be eaten quickly, as it keeps but a short time after it is cut. Vegetable marrows ^ e also very delicious mashed: they should be boiled, then drained, and mashed smoothly with a wooden spoon. Heat them in a saucepan, add a seasoning of salt and pepper, and a small piece of butter, and dish with a few snippets of toasted bread placed round as a garnish.
Vegetable marrows are delightful when sliced and fried for ten minutes in butter. Before being fried they may be .dipped in a batter of flour and water, seasoned with a little salt. Vegetable marrows may be also dressed as follows: Boil one, and when it is about ready cut it in pieces, which place in a fresh saucepan, covered with soup stock, either white or brown; add a little salt
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in stewing. Serve in a deep dish when thoroughly ten- der. Vegetable marrows are very nice plain boiled, and served upon buttered toast. Peel them and cut them so as to be able to remove the seeds. Marrows will take from twenty minutes to an hour to boil, according to size and age. After being parboiled, they may be sliced down, dipped in egg, and then rubbed among bread crumbs, and fried; serve them as hot as possible.
Tomatoes may be sliced thin, and served with salt, pepper, and vinegar over, for breakfast ; or sliced, and strewn with sugar and grated nutmeg, for tea ; for din- ner they may be stewed or broiled, or baked.
Tomatoes may be preserved in sugar, or as catsup, when out of season. Such as like them, declare them to be equally excellent in each and every form or dressing.
STEWED TOMATOES.
Pour boiling water over six or eight large tomatoes, or a greater number of small ones; let them remain for a few minutes, then peel off the skins, squeeze out the seeds, and some of the juice, by pressing them gently in the hand; put them in a well tinned stewpan, with a teaspoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of pepper, a bit of butter, half as large as an egg, and a tablespoonful of grated bread or rolled crackers; cover the stewpan close, and set it over the fire for nearly an hour; shake the stewpan occasionally, that they may not burn; serve hot.
This is decidedly the best manner of stewing toma- toes; they may be done without the bread crumbs, and with less stewing if preferred.
BAKED TOMATOES.
Wash five or six smooth tomatoes; cut a piece from the stem end, the size of a twenty-five cent piece; put a
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saltspoonful of salt, half as much pepper, and a bit of butter the size of a nutmeg, in each ; set them in a dish or pan, and bake in a moderate oven for nearly one hour.
STUFFED TOMATOES.
Twelve large, smooth tomatoes, one teaspoouful of salt, a little pepper, one tablespoonful of butter, one of sugar, one cupful of bread crumbs, one teaspoonful of onion juice. Arrange the tomatoes in a baking pan. Cut a thin slice from the smooth end of each. With a small spoon, scoop out as much of the pulp and juice as possible without injuring the shape. When all have been treated in this way, mix the pulp and juice with the other ingredients, and fill the tomatoes with this mixture. Put on the tops, and bake slowly three quarters of an hour. Slide the cake turner under the tomatoes and lift gently on to a flat dish. Garnish with parsley, and serve.
SCALLOPED TOMATOES.
Turn nearly all the juice off from a can of tomatoes. Salt and pepper this, by the way, and put aside in a cool place for some other day's soup. Put a layer of bread crumbs in the bottom of a buttered pie-dish; on them one of tomatoes ; sprinkle with salt, pepper, and some bits of butter, also a little sugar. Another layer of crumbs, another of tomatoes — seasoned — then a top layer of very fine, dry crumbs. Bake covered until bub- bling hot, and brown quickly.
TO PEEL TOMATOES.
Put the tomatoes in a frying basket and plunge then* into boiling water about for three minutes. Drain peel.
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BAKED BEANS.
Pick one quart of beans free from stones and dirt. Wash, and soak in cold water over night. In the morn- ing pour off the water. Cover with hot water, put two pounds of corned beef with them, and boil until they begin to split open (the time depends upon the age of the beans, but it will be from thirty to sixty minutes). Turn them into the colander, and pour over them two or three quarts of cold water. Put about half of the beans in a deep earthen pot, then put in the beef, and finally the remainder of the beans. Mix one teaspoonful of mustard and one tablespoonful of molasses with a little water. Pour this over the beans, and then add boiling water to just cover. Bake slowly ten hours. Add a little water occasionally.
STRING BEANS.
String, snap and wash two quarts beans, boil in plenty of water about fifteen minutes, drain off and put on again in about two quarts boiling water ; boil an hour and a half, and add salt and pepper just before taking up, stir- ring in one and a half tablespoons butter rubbed into two tablespoons flour and half pint sweet cream. Or boil a piece of salted pork one hour, then add beans and boil an hour and a half. For shelled beans boil half an hour in water enough to cover, and dress as above.
BUTTER BEANS.
With a knife cut off the ends of pods and strings from both sides, being very careful to remove every shred ; cut O7ery bean lengthwise, in two or three strips, and <eave them for half an hour in cold water. Much more than cover them with boiling water; boil till perfectly
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tender. It is well to allow three hours for boiling. Drain well, return to kettle, and add a dressing of half a gill cream, one and a half ounces butter, one even tea- spoon salt, and half a teaspoon pepper. This is sufficient for a quart of cooked beans.
ASPARAGUS WITH EGGS.
Boil a bunch of asparagus twenty minutes ; cut off the tender tops and lay in a deep pie-plate, buttering, salt- ing, and peppering well. Beat four eggs just enough to break up the yolks, add a tablespoonful of melted butter, with pepper and salt, and pour upon the asparagus. Bake eight minutes in a quick oven, and serve imme- diately.
ASPARAGUS UPON TOAST.
Tie the bunch of asparagus up with soft string, when you have cut away the wood, and cook about twenty-nYe minutes in salted boiling water. Have ready some slices of crustless toast; dip each in the asparagus liquor; but- ter well while hot and lay upon a heated dish. Drain the asparagus, and arrange upon the toast. Pepper, salt, and butter generously. ^
MUSHROOMS, STEWED.
If fresh, let them lie in salt and water about one hour, then put them in the stewpan, cover with water and let them cook two hours gently. Dress them with cream, butter and flour as oysters, and season to taste.
MUSHROOMS, FRIED.
When peeled put them into hot butter and let them heat thoroughly through — too much cooking toughens
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them. Season well with butter, pepper, and salt. Serve on buttered toast; a teaspoon of wine or vinegar on each mushroom is a choice method.
BAKED MUSHROOMS.
Place some large flat ones nicely cleaned and trimmed on thin slices of well buttered toast, putting a little nudgel of butter in each, as also a snuff of pepper and salt; lay them on a baking tray, and cover them care- fully; heap the hot ashes upon them, and let them bake on the hearth for fifteen or twenty minutes.
BROILED MUSHROOMS.
Choose the largest sort, lay them on a small gridiron over bright coals; the stalk upwards. Broil quickly, arid serve, with butter, pepper, and salt over.
MASHED SQUASH.
Peel, seed, and slice fresh summer squashes. Lay in cold water ten minutes; put into boiling water, a little salt, a"nd cook tender. Twenty minutes will suffice if the squash be young. Mash in a colander, pressing out all the water; heap in a deep dish, seasoning with pepper, salt and butter. Serve hot.
BAKED SQUASH.
Cut in pieces, scrape well, bake from one to one and a half hours, according to the thickness of the squash; to be eaten with salt and butter as sweet potatoes.
FRIED SQUASHES.
Cut the squash into thin slices, and sprinkle it with salt; let it stand a few moments; then beat two eggs> and dip the squash into the egg; then fry it brown in butter
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STEWED CELERY
Is an excellent winter dish, and is very easily cooked. Wash the stalks thoroughly, and boil in well-salted water till tender, which will be in about twenty minutes. After it is made ready as above, drain it thoroughly, place it on toasted bread, and pour over it a quantity of sauce. A sauce of cream, seasoned with a little mace, may be served over the celery. It may also be served with melted butter.
STUFFED EGG-PLANT.
Cut the egg plant in two; Scrape out all the inside and put it in a saucepan with a little minced ham; cover with water and boil until soft; drain off the water; add two tablespoonfuls grated crumbs, tablespoonful butter, half a minced onion, salt and pepper; stuff each half of the hull with the mixture; add a small lump of butter to each and bake fifteen minutes.
SAUCES FOR MEATS, FISH, POUL- TRY OR VEGETABLES.
TO MAKE DRAWN BUTTER.
Put half a pint of milk in a perfectly clean stew-pan, and set it over a moderate fire; put into a pint bowl a heaping tablespoonful of wheat flour, quarter of a pound of sweet butter, and a saltspoonful of salt; work these well together with the back of a spoon, then pour into it, stirring it all the time, half a pint of boiling water; when it is smooth, stir it into the bailing milk, let it simmer for five minutes or more, and it is done.
Drawn butter made after this receipt will be found to be most excellent; it may be made less rich by using less
butter.
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PARSLEY SAUCE.
Make a drawn butter as directed, dip a bunch of par- sley into boiling water, then cut it fine, and stir into the drawn butter a few minutes before taking it up,
EGG SAUCE.
Make a drawn butter; chop two hard-±>oiled eggs quite fine, the white and yolk separately, and stir it into the sauce before serving. This is used for bolied fish or vegetables.
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ONION SAUCE.
Peel some nice white onions, and boil them tender, press the water from them; chop them fine, and put them to a half pint of hot milk; add a bit of butter, and a tea- spoonful of salt, and pepper to taste. Serve with boiled veal, or poultry, or mutton. ^
ANCHOVY SAUCE.
Make the butter sauce, and stir into it four tablespoon- fuls of essence of anchovy and one of lemon juice.
BREAD SAUCE.
One pint milk, one cup bread-crumbs (very fine), otte onion, sliced, a pinch of mace, pepper and salt to taste, three tablespoonfuls butter. Simmer the sliced onion in the milk until tender; strain the milk and pour over the bread crumbs, which should be put into a saucepan. Cover and soak half an hour; beat smooth with an egg- whip, add the seasoning and butter; stir in well, boil up once, and serve in a tureen. If it is too thick, add boil- ing water and more butter.
This sauce is for roast poultry. Some people add some of the gravy from the dripping-pan, first straining it and beating it well in with the sauce.
TOMATO SAUCE
Can be cheaply made either from the fresh fruit or from the canned tomatoes, which are on sale in every grocer's shop. Squeeze as much as you require through a sieve, and then simmer slowly for a little time in a few table- spoonfuls of beef gravy, season with pepper and salt Excellent for chops and cutlets, or for roasted beef.
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TOMATO MUSTARD.
One peck of ripe tomatoes; boiled with two onions, six red peppers, four cloves of garlic, for one hour: then add a half-pint or half-pound salt, three tablespoons black pepper, half-ounce ginger, half-ounce allspice, half- ounce mace, half-ounce cloves; then boil again .for one hour longer, and when cold add one pint of vinegar and a quarter-pound of mustard; and if you like it very hot, a tablespoonful of cayenne.
MINT SAUCE.
Mix one tablespoon of white sugar to half a teacup of good vinegar; add the mint and let it infuse for half an hour in a cool place before sending to the table. Serve with roast lamb or mutton.
CELERY SAUCE.
Mix two tablespoons of flour with half a teacup of butter; have ready a pint of boiling milk; stir the flour and butter into the milk; take three heads of celery, cut into small bits, and boil for a few minutes in water, which strain off; put the celery into the melted butter, and keep it stirred over the fire for five or ten minutes. This is very nice with boiled fowl or turkey.
GOVERNOR'S SAUCE.
One peck green tomatoes, four large onions, six red peppers, one teacup grated horseradish, one teaspoon cayenne and one o£ black pepper, one teaspoon mustard, half cup sugar; slice the tomatoes and sprinkle one tea- cup salt on, and lay all night; drain well in the morning, then simmer all together till cooked through.
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CREAM SAUCE.
One cupful of milk, a teaspoonful of flour and a table- spoonful of butter, salt and pepper. Put the butter in a small frying-pan, and when hot, but not brown, add the flour. Stir until smooth; then gradually add the milk. Let it boil up once. Season to taste with salt and pep» per, and serve. This is nice to cut cold potatoes into and let them just heat through. They are then creamed potatoes. It also answers as a sauce for other vegeta- bles, omelets, fish and sweetbreads, or, indeed, for any- thing that requires a white sauce. If you have plenty of cream, use it, and omit the butter.
RUSSIAN SAUCE
(Piquant) may be thus made: Grated horseradish four tablespoonfuls, weak mustard one spoonful, sugar half a spoonful, a little salt, two or three grains of cayenne, and a spoonful or two of vinegar. Mix thoroughly, and serve to cold meat. When wanted for fish, let it be added to melted butter — two parts butter to one of sauce.
MAYONNAISE SAUCE.
Mix in a two-quart bowl one even teaspoon ground mustard, one of salt, and one and a half of vinegar; beat in the yolk of a raw egg, then add very gradually half a pint pure olive oil (or melted butter), beating briskly all the time. The mixture will become a very thick batter. Flavor with vinegar or fresh lemon-juice. Closely cov- ered it will keep for weeks in a cold place, and is delicious.
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OYSTER SAUCB.
Take a pint of oysters, and save out a little of their liquor. Put them with their remaining liquor, and some mace and nutmeg, into a covered saucepan, and simmer them on hot coals about ten minutes. Then drain them. Oysters foi sauce should be large. Having prepared in a saucepan some drawn or melted butter (mixed with oyster liquor instead of water), pc-ur it into a sauce-boat, add the oysters to it, and serve it up with boiled poultry, or with boiled fresh fish. Celery, first boiled and then chopped, is an improvement to oyster sauce.
LOBSTER SAUCE.
Put the coral and spawn of a boiled lobster into a mortar, with a tablespoonful of butter, pound it to a smooth mass, then rub it through a sieve ; melt nearly a quarter of a pound of sweet butter, with a wineglass of water, or vinegar ; add a teaspoonful of made mustard, stir in the coral and spawn, and a little salt and pepper ; stir it until it is smooth, and serve. Some of the meat of the lobster may b chopped fine, and stirred into it
CAPER SAUCB.
Make a butter sauce, and stir into it one tablespoonfui of lemon juice, two of capers, and one of essence of anchovy.
MUSTARD SAUCE.
Stir three tablespoonfuls of mixed mustard and a speck of cayenne into a butter sauce. This is nice for devilled turkey and broiled smoked herrings.
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CURRY SAUCE.
One tablespoonful of butter, one of flour, one teaspoonful of curry powder, one large slice of onion, one large cupful of stock, salt and pepper to tasta. Cut the onion fine, and fry brown in the butter. Add the flour and curry powder. Stir for one minute, add the stock, and season with the salt and pepper. Simmer five minutes ; then strain, and serve. This sauce can be served with a broil or sauft of meat or fish.
CRANBERRY SAUCE.
After removing all soft berries, wash thoroughly, place for about two minutes in scalding water, remove, and to every pound of fruit add three-quarters of a pound granu- lated sugar and a half pint water ; stew together over a moderate but steady fire. Be careful to cover and not to stir the fruit, but occasionally shake the vessel, or apply a gentler heat if in danger of sticking or burning. If attention to these particulars be given, the berries will retain their shape to a considerable extent, which adds greatly to their appear- ance on the table. Boil from five to seven minutes, remove from fire, turn into a deep dish, and set aside to cool. If to be kept, they can be. put up at once in air-tight jars. Or, for strained sauce, one and a half pounds of fruit should be stewed in one pint of water for ten or twelve minutes, or until quite soft, then strained through a colander or fine wire sieve, and three-quarters of a pound of sugar thoroughly stirred into the pulp, thus obtained ; after cooling it is ready for use. Serve with roast turkey or game. When to be kept for a long time without seali.ig, more sugar may be added, but its too free use impairs the petculiar cranberry flavor. For dinner sauce half a pound is more economical, and really preferable to three-quarters, aa
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given above. It is better, though not necessary, to use a porcelain kettle. Some prefer not to add the sugar till the fruit is almost done, thinking this plan makes it more tender, and preserves the color better.
PORT WINE SAUCE FOR GAME.
Half a tumbler of currant jelly, half a tumbler of port wine, half a tumbler of stock, half a teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, four cloves, a speck of cayenne. Simmer the cloves and stock together for half an hour. Strain on the other ingredients, and let all melt together. Part of the gravy from the game may be added to it.
CURRANT JELLY SAUCE.
Three tablespoonfuls of butter, one onion, one bay leaf, one sprig of celery, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, half a cupful of currant jelly, one tablespoonful of flour one pint of stock, salt, pepper. Cook the butter and onion until the latter begins to color. Add the flour, and herbs. Stir until brown ; add the stock, and simmer twenty minutes. Strain, and skim off all the fat. Add the jelly, and stir over the fire until it is melted. Serve with game
APPLE SAUCE.
Peel, quarter, and core, rich tart apples; put to them a very 1'ttle water, cover them, and set them over the fire ; when tender, mash them smooth, and serve with roasted pork, goose, or any other gross meat.
BREAD AND BREAKFAST CAKES.
YEAST.
Put two quarts of water and two tablespoonfuls of hops on to boil. Pare and grate six large potatoes. When the hops and water boil strain the water on the grated potatoes, and stir well. Place on the stove and boil up once. Aid half a cupful of sugar and one-fourth of a cup- ful of salt. Let the mixture get blood-warm ; then add one cupful of yeast, or one cake of compressed yeast, and let it rise in a w,rm place five or six hours. When well risen, turn into a stone jug. Cork this tightly, and set in a cool place.
PLAIN WHITE FAMILY BREAD.
Take one pint of flour and half a pint of good hop yeast and stir it together about five o'clock in the afternoon ; at nine put one half gallon of flour in a tray, put the sponge in the middle of the flour with a piece of lard as large as a walnut. Knead it all up with tepid water made salt with two teaspoonfuls or more to taste ; work it well, and put it in a jar to rise. Next morning knead it over with a little flour, make it in two loaves, and set it in a warm place or oven until ready ; then put it to bake, and when done, wrap it in a nice coarse towel. If you have no sugar in the yeast you use, stir a large teaspoonful in it before put- ting it in the flour.
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GRAHAM BREAD.
Take a little over a quart of warm water, one-half cup brown sugar or molasses, one fourth cup hop yeast, and one and one half teaspoons salt; thicken the water with unbolted flour to a thin batter; add sugar, salt and yeast, and stir in more flour until quite stiff. In the morning add a small teaspoon soda, and flour enough to make the batter stiff as can be stirred with a spoon; put it into pans and let rise again; then bake in even oven, not to hot at first; keep warm while rising; smooth over the loaves with a spoon or knife dipped in water.
BOSTON BROWN BREAD.
One heaping coffee-cup each of corn, rye and Graham meal. The rye meal should be as fine as the Graham, or rye flour may be used. Sift the three kinds together as closely as possible, and beat together thoroughly with two cups New Orleans or Porto Rico molasses, two cups sweet milk, one cup sour milk, one dessertspoon soda, one teaspoon salt; pour into a tin form, place in a kettle of cold water, put on and boil four hours. Put on to cook as soon as mixed. It may appear to be too thin, but it is not, as this recipe has never been known to fail. Serve warm, with baked beans or Thanksgiving turkey. The bread should not quite fill the form (or a tin pail with cover will answer), as it must have room to swell. See that the water does not boil up to the top of the form; also take care it does not boil entirely away or stop boiling. To serve it, remove the lid and set it a few moments into the open oven to dry the top, and it will then turn out in perfect shape. This bread can be used as a pudding, and served with a sauce made or thick sour cr^am, well sweetened and seasoned with rufr»*?r: or it is good toasted the next day.
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CORN BREAD.
Sift three quarts of corn meal, add a tablespoonful of salt, one teaspoonful baking-powder, and mix sufficient water with it to make a thin batter. Cover it with a breaJ -cloth and set it to rise. When ready to bake stir it we. nour it into a baking-pan, and bake slowly. Use cold wa. - ir summer and hot water in winter.
STEAMED BROWN BREAD.
One quart each of milk and Indian meal, one pint rye meal, one cup of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of soda. A<1 I a ' ttle salt and steam four hours.
PARKER HOUSE ROLLS.
One teacup home-made yeast, a little salt, one table- spoon sugar, a piece of lard size of an egg, one pint milk, flour sufficient to mix. Put the milk on the stove to scald with the lard in it. Prepare the flour with salt, sugar and yeast. Then add the milk, not too hot. Knead thor- oughly when mixed at night; in the morning but very slight kneading is necessary. Then roll out and cut with large biscuit cutter. Spread a little butter on each roll and lap together. Let them rise very light, then bake in a quick oven.
FRENCH ROLLS.
One pint of milk, scalded; put into it while hot half a cup of sugar and one tablespoon of butter. When the milk is cool, add a little salt and half a cup of yeast, or one compressed yeast cake; stir in flour to make a stiff sponge, and when light, mix as for bread. Let it rise until light, punch it down with the hand, and let it rise again — repeat two or three times ; then turn the dough
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on to the moulding-board and pound with the rolling- pin until thin enough to cut. Cut out with a tumbler, brush the surface of each one with melted butter, and fold over. Let the rolls rise on the tins ; bake, and while warm brush over the surface with melted butter to make the crust tender.
BUNS.
Break one egg into a cup and fill with sweet milk; mix with it half cup yeast, half cup butter, one cup sugar, enough flour to make a soft dough; flavor with nutmeg. Let rise till very light, then mould into bis- cuit with a few currants. Let rise a second time in pan; bake, and when nearly done, glaze with a little molasses and milk. Use the same cup, no matter about the size> for each measure.
BISCUIT.
Dissolve one rounded tablespoon of butter in a pint of hot milk; when lukewarm stir in one quart of flour, add one beaten egg, a little salt, and a tea-cup of yeast; work into dough until smooth. If winter, set in a warm place; if summer, in a cool one to rise. In the morning work softly and roll out one-half inch and cut into bis- cuit a id set to rise for thirty minutes, when they will be ready lo bake. These are delicious.
TO MAKE RUSKS.
To every pound of flour allow two ounces of butter one quarter pint of milk, two ounces of loaf sugar, three eggs, one tablespoonful of yeast. Put the milk and butter into a saucepan, and keep shaking it round until the latter is melted. Put the flour into a basin with the sugar, mix these well together, and beat the eggs. Stir
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them with the yeast to the milk and butter, and with this liquid work the flour into a smooth dough. Cover a cloth over the basin, and leave the dough to rise by the side of the fire; then knead it, and divide it into twelve pieces; place them in a brisk oven, and bake for about twenty minutes. Take the rusks out, break them in half, and then set them in the oven to get crisp on the other side. When cold, they should be put into tin can- isters to keep them dry; and, if intended for the cheese course, the sifted sugar should be omitted.
SWEET MILK GEMS.
Beat one egg well, add a pint new milk, a litte salt, and Graham flour until it will drop off the spoon nicely; heat and butter the gem-pans before dropping in the dough; bake in a hot oven twenty minutes.
BREAKFAST GEMS.
One cup sweet milk, one and a half cups flour, one egg> °ne teaspoon salt, one teaspoon baking powder beaten together five minutes; bake in hot gem-pans iu a hot oven about fifteen minutes.
GRAHAM BREAKFAST CAKES.
Two cups of Graham flour, one cup of wheat floui, two eggs well beaten; mix with sweet milk, to make a very thin batter; bake in gem irons; have the irons hot, then set them on the upper grate in the oven; will bake in fifteen minutes.
BUCKWHEAT CAKES.
One quart buckwheat flour; four tablespoonfuls yeast; one teaspoonful salt; one handful Indian meal; two
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tablespoonf uls molasses — not syrup. Warm water enough to make a thin batter. Beat very well and set to rise in a warm place. If the batter is in the least sour in the morning, stir m a very little soda dissolved in hot water. Mix in an earthen crock, and leave some in the bottom each morning — a cupful or so — to serve as sponge for the next night, instead of getting fresh yeast. In cold weather this plan can be successfully pursued for a week or ten days without setting a new supply. Of course you add the usual quantity of flour, etc., every night, and beat up well. Do not make your cakes too smaL>. Buckwheats should be of generous size. Some put two- thirds buckwheat, one third oat-meal, omitting the In- dian.
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FLANI* EL CAKES.
Beat six eggs very light, stir in them two pounds of flour, one gill of yeast, small spoonful of salt, and suf- ficient, milk to make a thick batter. Make them at night for breakfast, and at ten in the morning for tea. Have your griddle hot, grease it well, and bake as buckwheat. Butter and send '.nem hot to *he table, commencing after the family are seated
RICE GRIDDLE-CAKES.
Boil half a cup rice; when cold mix one quart sweet milk, the yolks of four eggs, and flour sufficient to make ti stiff batter; beat the whites to a froth, stir in one tea- spoon soda, and two of cream tartar; add a little salt, and lastly, the whites of eggs; bake on a griddle. A nice way to serve is to spread them while hot with but- ter, and almost any kind of preserves or jelly; roll them up neati) cut off the ends, sprinkle them with sugar, and serve immediately.
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FRENCH PANCAKES.
Two eggs," two ounces of butter, two ounces of sifted sugar, two ounces of flour, half pint of new milk. Beat the eggs thoroughly, and put them into a basin with the butter, which should be beaten to a cream; stir in the sugar and flour, and when these ingre^ents are well mixed, add the milk; keep stirring and beating the mix- ture for a few minutes; put it on buttered plates, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. Serve with a cut lemon and sifted sugar, or pile the pancakes high on a dish, with a layer of preserve or marmalade between each.
PANCAKES.
Two cups of prepared flour; six eggs; one saltspoon- ful of salt; milk to make a thin batter. Beat the eggs light; add salt, two cups of milk, then, the whites an^' flour alternately with milk, until the batter is of the rig'r consistency. Run a teaspoonful of lard over the bott of a hot frying-pan, pour in a large ladleful of be,;* and fry quickly. Roll the pancake up like a shee paper; lay upon a hot dish; put in more lard, and fry another pancake. Keep hot over boiling water, sending naif a dozen to the table at a time-
BREAD FRITTERS.
One quart milk — boiling hot; two cups fine bread- crumbs; three eggs; one teaspoonful nutmeg; one table- spoonful butter — melted; one saltspoonful salt, and the same of soda, dissolved in hot water. Soak the bread in the boiling milk ten minutes, in a covered b>>wl. Beat to a smooth paste; add the whipped yelks, the but- ter, salt, soda, and finally the whites, whipped stiff.
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QUICK SALLY LUNN.
One cup of sugar, half cup of butter ; stir well together, and then add one or two eggs ; put in one good pint ol sweet milk, and with sufficient flour to make a batter about as stiff as cake ; put in three teaspoons of baking- powder ; bake*and eat hot with butter, for tea or break- fast.
BREAKFAST CAKE,
One pint of flour, three tablespoons of butter, three tablespoons of sugar, one egg, one cup sweet milk, one tea- spoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda ; to be eaten with
butter.
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QUICK WAFFLES.
Two pints sweet milk, one cup butter (melted), sifted floui to make a soft batter ; add the well-beaten yolks of six eggs, then the beaten whites, and lastly (just before baking) four teaspoons baking-powder, beating very hard and fast for a few minutes. These are very good with four or five eggs, but much better with more.
JOHNNY CAKE.
Two thirds teaspoon soda, three tablespoons sugar, one teaspoon cream tartar, one egg, one cup sweet milk, six tablespoons Indian meal, three tablespoonfuls flour, and a little salt. This makes a thin batter.
MUSH.
Indian or oatmeal mush is best made in the following manner: Put freshwater in a kettle over the fire to boil, and put in some salt ; when the water boils, stir in hand- ful by handful corn or oatmeal until thick enough for
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use. In order to have excellent mush, the meal should be allowed to cook well, and long as possible while thin, and before the final handful is added. When desired to be fried for breakfast, turn into an earthen dish and set away to cool. Then cut in slices when you wish to fry; dip each piece in beaten eggs and fry on a hot griddle.
CORN MUSH.
Put four quarts fresh water in a kettle to boil, salt to suit the taste; when it begins to boil stir in one and a half quarts meal, letting it sift through the fingers slowly to prevent lumps, adding it a little faster at the last, until as thick as can be conveniently stirred with one hand; set in the oven in the kettle (or take out into a pan), bake an hour, and it will be thoroughly cooked. It takes corn meal so long to cook thoroughly that it is very dif- ficult to boil it until done without burning. Excellent for frying when cold. Use a hard wood paddle, two feet long, with a blade two inches wide and seven inches long, to stir with. The thorough cooking and baking in oven afterwards takes away all the raw taste that mush is apt to have, and adds much to its sweetness and de- licious flavor.
GRAHAM MUSH.
Sift rneal slowly into boiling salted water, stirring briskly until it is as thick as can be stirred with one hand ; serre with milk or cream and sugar, or butter and syrup. It is riuch improved by removing from the kettle to a pan ;'•$ soon as thoroughly mixed, and steaming for three or <our hours. It may also be eaten cold, or sliced and fr;t.c like corn mush.
SALADS, PICKLES AND CATSUP.
LETTUCE.
The early lettuce, and first fine salad, are five or six leaves in a cluster; their early appearance is their greatest recommendation; cabbage or white-heart lettuce is later and much more delicate; break the leaves apart one by one from the stalk and throw them into a pan of cold water; rinse them well, lay them into a salad bowl or a deep dish, lay the largest leaves first, put the next size upon them, then lay on the finest white leaves; cut hard- boiled eggs in slices or quarters and lay them at equal distances around the edge and over the salad; serve with vinegar, oil, and made mustard in the castor, Or, having picked and washed the lettuce, cut the leaves small; put the cut salad in a glass dish or bowl, pour a salad dressing over and serve; or, garnish with small red radishes, cut in halves or slices, and hard-boiled eggs cut in quarters or slices; pour a salad dressing over when ready to serve. Serve with boiled lobster, boiled fowls, or roasted lamb or veal.
LETTUCE SALAD.
Take the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs, add salt and mustard to taste; mash it fine; make a paste by adding a dessertspoon of olive oil or melted butter (use butter always when it is difficult to get fresh oil); mix thor- oughly, and then dilute by adding gradually a tea cup of
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, and pour over the lettuce. Garnish by slicing Another egg and laying over the lettuce. This is suffi- cient for a moderate-sized dish of lettuce.
SALMON SALAD.
One quart of cooked salmon, two heads of lettuce, two f ablespoonfuls of lemon-juice, one of vinegar, two of ca- pers, one teaspoonful of salt, one third of a teaspoonful of pepper, one cupful of mayonnaise dressing, or the French dressing. Break up the salmon with two silver forks. Add to it the salt, pepper, vinegar and lemon- juice. Put in the ice-chest or some other cold place, for two or three hours. Prepare the lettuce as directed for lobster salad. At serving time, pick out leaves enough to border the dish. Cut or tear the remainder in pieces, and arrange these in the centre of a flat dish. On them heap the salmon lightly, and cover with the dressing. Now sprinkle on the capers. Arrange the whole leaves at the base, and, if you choose, lay one fourth of a thin slice of lemon on each leaf.
LOBSTER SALAD.
Put a large lobster over the fire in boiling water Slightly salted; boil rapidly for about twenty minutes; when done it will be of a bright red color, and should be removed, as if boiled too long it will be tough; when cold, crack the claws, after first disjointing, twist off the head (which is used in garnishing), split the body in two lengthwise, pick out the meat in bits not too fine, saving the coral separate; cut up a large head of lettuce slightly, and place on a dish over which lay the lobster, putting the coral around the outside. For dressing, take the yolks of three eggs, beat well, add four tablespoons salad oil, dropping it in very slowly, beating all the
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time; then add a little salt, cayenne pepper, half tea- spoon mixed mustard, and two tablespoons vinegar. Pour this over the lobster, just before sending to table.
TOMATO SALAD.
Take the skin, juice, and seeds from nice, fresh toma- toes, chop what remains with celery, and add a go^oi salad-dressing.
SALAD DRESSING.
Yolks of two hard-boiled eggs rubbed very fine and smooth, one teaspoon English mustard, one of salt, the yolks of two raw eggs beaten into the other, dessert- spoon of fine sugar. Add very fresh sweet-oil poured in by very small quantities, and beaten as long as the mix- ture continues to thicken, then add vinegar till as thin as desired. If not hot enough with mustard, add a little cayenne pepper.
SARDINE SALAD.
Arrange one quart of any kind of cooked fish on a bed of crisp lettuce. Split six sardines, and if there are any bones, remove them. Cover the fish with the sar- dine dressing. Over this put the sardines, having the ends meet in the centre of the dish. At the base of the dish make a wreath of thin slices of lemon. Garnisti with parsley or lettuce, and serve immediately.
FRENCH SALAD DRESSING.
Three tablespoonfuls of oil, one of vinegar, one salt- spoonful of salt, one-half a saltspoonful of pepper. Put the salt and pepper in a cup, and add one.,tablespoonful of the oil. When thoroughly mixed, add the remainder
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of the o'l and the vinevar. This is dressing enough for i salad forsix persons. If you like the flavor of onion, grate n little juice into the dressing. The juice is ob- ta:n^'l by first peeling the onion, and then grating with a crar.-;e grater, using a good deal of pressure. Two rt.roke> will give about two drops of juice. «
CREAM DRESSING FOR COLD SLAW.
Two tablespoons whipped sweet cream, two of sugar, and four of vinegar; beat well and pour over cabbage, previously cut very fine and seasoned with salt.
CHICKEN SALAD.
Boil one chicken tender; chop moderately fine the whites of twelve hard-boiled eggs and the chicken; add equal quantities of chopped celery and cabbage; mash the yolks fine, add too tablespoons butter, two of sugar, one teaspoon mustard; pepper and salt to taste; and lastly, one half-cup good cider vinegar; pour over the salad, and mix thoroughly. If no celery is at hand, use /•.hopped pickled cucumbers or lettuce and celery seed. T/>is may be mixed two or three days before using.
RED VEGETABLE SALAD.
One pint of cold boiled potatoes, one pint of cold boiled beets, one pint of uncooked red cabbage, six tablespoonfuls of oil, eight of red vinegar (that in which beets have been pickled), two teaspoonfuls of salt (unless the vegetables have been cooked in salted water), half a teaspoonsful of pepper. Cut the potatoes in thin slices- and the beets fine, and slice the cabbage as thin as pos- sible. Mix all the ingredients. Let stand in a cold place one hour; then serve. Red cabbage and celery may be used together ^
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CELERY SALAD.
One boiled egg, one raw egg, one h.blespoonful sala£ oil, one teaspoonful white sugar, one saltspoonful of salt, one saltspoon of pepper, four tablespoonfuls o/ vinegar, one teaspoonful made mustard. Prepare th4 dressing as for tomato salad; cut the celery into bitj half an inch long, and season. Eat at once, before th« vinegar injures the crispness of the vegetable.
COLD SLAW.
Chop or shred a small white cabbage. Prepare a dressing in the proportion of one tablespoonful of oil to four of vinegar, a teaspoonful of m^de mustard, thd same quantity of salt and sugar, and half as much pep' per. Pour over the salad, adding, if you choose, three tablespoonfuls of minced celery; toss up well and put into a glass bowl.
SALAD DRESSING (Excellent).
Four eggs, one teaspoonful of mixed mustard, one- quarter teaspoonful of white pepper, half that quantity of cayenne, salt to taste, four tablespoonfuls of cream, vinegar.
Boil the eggs until hard, which will be in about one- quarter hour or twenty minutes; put them into cold water, take off the shells, and pound the yolks in a mor- tar to a smooth paste. Then add all the other in- gredients, except the vinegar, and stir them well until the whole are thoroughly incorporated one with the other. Pour in sufficient vinegar to make it of the consistency of cream, taking care to add but little at a time. The mixture will then be ready for use.
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PICKLED CUCUMBERS.
Wash and wipe six hundred small cucumbers and two quarts of peppers. Put them in a tub with one and a half cupful of salt and a piece of alum as large as an egg. Heat to the boiling point three gallons of cider vin- egar and three pints of water. Add a quarter of a pound each of whole cloves, whole allspice and stick cinnamon, and two ounces of white mustard seed, and pour over the pickles.
TO PICKLE ONIONS.
Peel the onions until they are white, scald them in strong salt and water, then take them up with a skimmer ; make vinegar enough to cover them, boiling hot, strew over the onions whole pepper and white mustard seed, pour the vinegar over to cover them ; when cold, put them in wide-mouthed bottles, aud cork them close. A tablespoon- ful of sweet oil may be put in the bottles before the cork. The best sort of onions for pickling are the small white buttons.
PICKLED CAULIFLOWERS.
Two cauliflowers, cut up ; one pint of small onions, three medium-sized red peppers. Dissolve half a pint of salt in water enough to cover the vegetables, and let these stand over night. In the morning drain them. Heat two quarts of vinegar with four tablespoonfuls of mustard, until it boils. Add the vegetables, and boil for about fifteen minutes, or until a fork can be thrust through the cauli-
RED CABBAGE.
Procure a firm good-sized cabbage, and after taking off any straggling or soiled leaves, cut it in very narrow
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slices, which, after you sprinkle them well with salt, lay aside for forty-eight hours. Next drain off the salt liquor which has formed, and pour over the cabbage a well-seasoned pickle of boiling hot vinegar; black pep- per and ginger are best for seasoning. Cover the pickle jars till the cabbage is cold, and then cork.
TO PICKLE TOMATOES.
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Take the round smooth green tomatoes, put them in salt and water, cover the vessel and put them over the fire to scald; that is, to let the water, become boiling hot; then set the kettle off; take them from the pot into a ba- sin of cold water; to enough cold vinegar to cover them, put whole pepper and mustard seed; when the tomatoes are cold take them from the water, cut each in two across, shake out the seeds and wipe the inside dry with a cloth, then put them into glass jars, and cover with the vinegar; cork them close or with a close fitting tin cover.
RIPE TOMATO PICKLES.
To seven pounds of ripe tomatoes add three pound? sugar, one quart vinegar; boil them together fifteen minutes, skim out the tomatoes and boil the syrup a few minutes longer. Spice to suit the taste with cloves and cinnamon.
CHOPPED PICKLE.
One peck of green tomatoes, two quarts of onions and two of peppers. Chop all fine, separately, and mix, adding three cupfuls of salt. Let them stand over night, and in the morning drain well. Add half a pound of mustard seed, two tablespoonfuls of ground allspice, two of ground cloves and one cupful of grated horse radish. Pour over it three quarts of boiling vinegar.
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CHOW CHOW.
One peck of green tomatoes, half peck string beans, quarter peck small white onions, quarter pint green and red peppers mixed, two large heads cabbage, four table- spoons white mustard seed, two of white or black cloves, two of celery seed, two of allspice, one small box yellow mustard, pound brown sugar, one ounce of turmeric; slice the tomatoes and let stand over night in brine that will bear an egg; then squeeze out brine, chop cabbage, onions and beans; chop tomatoes separately, mix with ihe spices, put all in porcelain kettle, cover with vinegar and boil three hours.
PICCALILLI.
One peck of green tomatoes; (if the flavor of onions is desired, take eight, but it is very nice without any); four green peppers; slice all, and put in layers, sprinkle on one cup of.salt, and let them remain over night; in the morning press dry through a sieve, put it in a porcelain kettle and cover with vinegar; add one cup of sugar, a tablespoon of each kind of spice; put into a muslin bag; stew slowly about an hour, or until the tomatoes are as soft as you desire.
PICKLED WALNUTS (Very Good).
One hundred walnuts, salt and water. To es.ch quart of vinegar allow two ounces of whole black pepper, one ounce of allspice, one ounce of bruised ginger. Procure the walnuts while young; be careful they are not woody, and prick them well with a fork; prepare a strong brine of salt and water (four pounds of salt to each gallon of water), into which put the walnuts, letting them remain nine days, and changing the brine every third day;
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drain them off, put them on a dish, place it in the sun until they become perfectly black, which will be in two or three days; have ready dry jars, into which place the walnuts, and do not quite fill the jars. Boil sufficient vinegar to cover them, for ten minutes, with spices in the above proportion, and pour it hot over the walnuts, which must be quite covered with the pickle; tie down with bladder, and keep in dry place. They will be fit for use in a month, and will keep good two or three years.
GREEN TOMATO PICKLE.
One peck green tomatoes sliced, six large onions sliced, one tea-cup of salt over both; mix thoroughly and let remain over night; pour off liquor in the morn- ing and throw it away; mix two quarts of water and one of vinegar, and boil twenty minutes; drain and throw liquor away; take three quarts of vinegar, two pounds of sugar two tablespoons each of allspice, cloves, cinna- mon, ginger, and mustard, and twelve green peppers chopped fine; boil from one to two hours. Put away in a stone crock.
CHILI SAUCE.
Eight quarts tomatoes, three cups of peppers, two cups of onions, three cups of sugar, one cup of salt, one and a half quarts of vinegar, three teaspoonfuls of cloves same quantity ot cinnamon, two teaspoonfuls each of ginger and nutmeg; boil three hours; chop tomatoes, peppers, and onions very fine; bottle up and seal.
MIXED PICKLES.
Three hundred small cucumbers, four green peppers *liced fine, two large or three small heads cauliflower.
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three heads white cabbage shaved fine, nine large onions sliced, one large root horseradish, one quart green beans cut one inch long, one quart green tomatoes sliced; put this mixture in a pretty strong brine twenty-four hours; drain three hours, then sprinkle in a quarter pound black and a quarter pound white mustard seed; also ne tablespoon black ground pepper; let it come to a good boil in just vinegar enough to covet it, adding a little alum. Drain again, and when cold, mix in a half pint ground mustard; cover the whole with good cider vinegar; add turmeric enough to color, if you like.
PICKLED MUSHROOMS.
Sufficient vinegar to cover the mushrooms; to each quart of mushrooms, two blades pounded mace, one ounce ground pepper; sale to taste. Choose some nice young button-mushrooms for pickling, and rub off the skin with a piece of flannel and salt, and cut off the stalks; if very large, take out the red inside, and reject the black ones, as they are too old. Put them in a stew- pan, sprinkle salt over them, with pounded mace and pepper in the above proportion; shake them well over a clear fire until the liquor flows, and keep them there un- til it is all dried up again; then add as much vinegar as will cover them; just let it simmer for one minute, and store it away in stone jars for use. When cold, tie down with bladder, and keep in a dry place; they will remain good for a length of time, and are generally considered Delicious.
FAVORITE PICKLES.
One quart raw cabbage chopped fine; one quart boiled beets chopped fine; two cups sugar, tablespoon salt, one teaspoon black pepper, a quarter teaspoon red pepper,
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one teacup grated horse radish; cover with cold vinegar and keep from the air.
TOMATO MUSTARD.
Slice and boil for an hour, with six small red peppers, half bushel of ripe tomatoes; strain through a colander and boil for an hour with two tablespoonfuls of black pepper, two ounces ginger, one ounce allspice, half ounce cloves, one eighth ounce mace, quarter pound salt. When cold add two ounces mustard, two ounces curry powder, and one pint of vinegar.
INDIAN CHETNEY.
Eight ounces of sharp, sour apples, pared and cored, eight ounces of tomatoes, eight ounces of salt, eight ounces of brown sugar, eight ounces of stoned raisins, four ounces of cayenne, four ounces of powdered ginger, two ounces of garlic, two ounces of shalots, three quarts of vinegar, one quart of lemon-juice. Chop the apples in small square pieces, and add to them the other ingre- dients. Mix the whole well together, and put in a well- covered jar. Keep this in a warm place, and stir every day for a month, taking care to put on the lid after this operation; strain, but do not squeeze it dry; store it away in clean jars or bottles for use, and the liquor will serve as an excellent sauce for meat or
PICKLED CHERRIES.
Five pounds of cherries, stoned or not; one quart o vinegar, two pounds of sugar, one half ounce of cinna mon, one half ounce of cloves, one half ounce of mace. boil the sugar and vinegar and spices together, (grind the spices and tie them in a muslin bag), and pour hot ever the cherries.
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PICKLED PLUMS.
To seven pounds plums, four pounds sugar, two ounces stick cinnamon, two ounces cloves, one quart vinegar, add a little mace ; put in the jar first a layer of plums, then a layer of spices alternately ; scald the vinegar and sugar together, pour it over the plums ; repeat three times for plums (only once for cut apples and pears), the fourth time scald all together, put them into glass jars and they are ready for use.
SPICED PLUMS.
Make a syrup, allowing one pound of sugar to one of plums, and to every three pounds of sugar a scant pint of vinegar. Allow one ounce each of ground cinnamon, cloves, mace, and allspice to a peck of plums. Prick the plums. Add the spices to the syrup, and pour, boiling, over the plums. Let these stand three clays ; then skim them out, and boil down the syrup until it is quite thick, and pour hot over the plums in the jar in which they are to be kept. Cover closely.
PEACHES, PEARS, AND SWEET APPLES.
For six pounds of fruit use three of sugar, about five dozen cloves, and a pint of vinegar. Into each apple, pear, or peach, stick two cloves. Have the syrup hot, and cook until tender
TOMATO CATSUP.
Take one gallon of skinned tomatoes, four tablespoonfuls of salt, four ditto of whole black pepper, half a spoonful of allspice, eight pods of red pepper, and three spoonfuls of mustard, boil them together for one hour, then strain it through a sieve or coarse cloth, and when cold, bottle for use : have the best velvet corks.
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WALNUT CATSUP.
Bruise to a mass one hundred and twenty green walnuts, gathered when a pin could pierce one ; put to it three quarters of a pound of salt and a quart of good vinegar; stir them every day for a fortnight, then strain and squeeze the liquor from them through a cloth, and set it aside, put to the husks half a pint of vinegar, and let it stand all night, then strain and squeeze them as before ; put the liquor from them to that which was put aside, add to it one Ounce and a quarter of whole pepper, forty cloves, half an ounce of nut- meg sliced, and half an ounce of ginger, and boil it for half an hour closely covered, then strain it ; when cold, bottle it for use. Secure the bottles with new corks, and dip them in melted rosin.
MUSHROOM CATSUP.
To each peck of mushrooms one half pound of salt ; to each quart of mushroom liquor one quarter ounce of cayenne, one half ounce of allspice, one half ounce of ginger, two blades of pounded mace. Choose full- grown mushroom-flaps, and take care they are perfectly fresh-gathered when the weather is tolerably dry ; for, if they are picked during very heavy rain the catsup from which they are made is liable to get musty, and will not keep long. Put a layer of them in a deep pan, sprinkle salt over them, and then another layer of mushrooms, and so on alternately. Let them remain for a few hours, then break them up with the hand ; put them in a nice cool place fur three days, occasionally stirring and mashing them well to extract from them as much juice as possible. Now measure the quantity of liquor without straining, and to each quart allow the above proportion of spices, etc. Put all into a stone jar, cover it up very closely, put it in a saucepan of boiling
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water, set it over the fire, and let it boil for three hours. Have ready a nice clean stevvpan ; turn into it the contents of the jar, and let the whole simmer very gently for half an hour; pour it into a jug, where it should stand in a cool place till the next day; then pour it off into another jug, and strain it into very dry, clean bottles, and do not squeeze the mushrooms. To each pint of catsup add a few drops of brandy. Be careful not to shake the con- tents, but leave all the sediment behind in the jug; cork well, and either seal or rosin the cork, so as perfectly to exclude the air. When a very clear, bright catsup is wanted, the liquor must be strained through a very fine hair-sieve, or flannel bag, after it has been very gently poured off; if the operation is not successful, it must be repeated until you have quite a clear liquor. It should be examined occasionally, and if it is spoiling should be reboiled with a few peppercorns.
BRINE THAT PRESERVES BUTTER A YEAR.
To three gallons of brine strong enough to bear an egg, add one quarter pound good loaf sugar, and one tablespoonful of saltpetre; boil the brine, and when it is cold strain carefully. Pack butter closely in small jars, and allow the brine to cover the butter to the depth of at least four inches. This completely excludes the air. If practicable make your butter into small rolls, wrap each carefully in a clean muslin cloth, tying up with a string; place a weight over the butter to keep it all sub- merged in the brine. This mode is most recommended by those who have tried both.
BUTTER IN HASTE,
FROM WINTER CREAM, OR FROM THE MILK OF ONE COW.
Take milk«fresh from the cow, strain it into clean pans> set it over « .erentle fire until it is scalding hot; do not let
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it boil; then set it aside; when it is cold skim off the cream; the milk will still be fit for any ordinary use; when you have enough cream, put it into a clean earthen basin; beat it with a wooden spoon until the butter is made, which will not be long; then take it from the milk and work it with a little cold water, until il is free from milk, then drain off the water, put a small table- spoonful of fine salt to each pound of butter, and work it in. A small teaspoonful of fine white sugar, worked in with the salt, will be found an improvement — sugar is a great preservative. Make the butter in a roll; cover it wilh a bit of muslin, and keep it in a cool place.
This receipt was obtained from one who practiced it for several winters.
PUDDINGS.
GENERAL REMARKS.
All boiled puddings should be put on in boiling which must not be allowed to stop simmering, and the pudding must always be covered with the water ; if requi- site the saucepan should be kept filled up. To prevent a pudding boiled in a cloth from sticking to the bottom of the saucepan, place a small plate or saucer underneath it, if a mould is used, this precaution is not necessary ; but care must be taken to keep the pudding well covered with water. For dishing a boiled pudding as soon as it comes out of the pot, dip it into a basin of cold water, and the cloth will then not adhere to it. Great expedition is necessary in sending puddings to table, as, by standing, they quickly become heavy, batter puddings particularly. For baked or boiled puddings, the moulds,, cups, or basins should be always buttered before the mixture is put in them, and they should be put into the saucepan directly they are filled.
CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING.
One pound butter, one pound suet, freed from strings and chopped fine, one pound sugar, two and a half pounds flour, two pounds raisins, seeded, chopped and dredged with flour, two pounds currents, picked over carefully after they are washed, one quarter pound citron, shred fine, twelve eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, one pint milk, one cup brandy, one half ounce cloves,
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one half ounce mace, two grated nutn.egs. Cream tho butter and sugar, beat in the yolks when you have whipped them smooth and light ; next put in the milk, then the flour, alternately with the beaten whites, then the brandy and spice, lastly the fruit, well dredged with flour. Mix all thoroughly ; wring out your pudding-cloth in hot water, flour well inside, pour in the mixture and boil five hours.
BOILED BATTER PUDDING.
Three eggs, one ounce butter, one pint milk, three tablespoonfuls flour, a little salt. Put the flour into a basin, and add sufficient milk to moisten it ; carefully rub down all the lumps with a spoon, then pour in the re- mainder of the milk, and stir in the butter, which should be previously melted ; keep beating the mixture, add the eggs and a pinch of salt, and when the batter is quite smooth, put it into a well-buttered basin, tie it down very tightly, and put it into boiling water ; move the basin about for a few minutes after it is put into the water, to prevent the flour settling in any part, and boil for one and one quarter hour. This pudding may also be boiled in a floured cloth that has been wetted in hot water ; it will then take a few minutes less than when boiled in a basin. Send thes" puddings very quickly to table, and serve with sweet sauce, wine sauce, stewed fruit, or jam of any kind ; when the latter is used, a little of it may be placed round the dish in small quantities, as a garnish.
BATTER PUDDING-.
One quart milk, four eggs, six ounces flour, a little soda and salt. Mix the flour very carefully with a little milk so it will not be lumpy. Bake twenty minutes. Serve immediately.
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MADEIRA PUDDING.
One half pound cheap suet, three quarters of a pound bread-crumbs, six ounces moist sugar, one quarter pound flour, two eggs, two wineglasses of sherry ; mix the suet, bread-crumbs, sugar and flour well together. When these ingredients are well mixed, add the eggs and two glasses of sherry, to make a thick batter ; boil three hours and a half, Serve with wine sauce.
APPLE SAGO PUDDING.
One cup sago in a quart of tepid water, with a pinch of salt, soaked for one hour ; six or eight apples, pared and cored, or quartered, and steamed tender, and put in the pudding dish ; boil and stir the sago until clear, add- ing water to make it thin, and pour it over the apples ; this is good hot with butter and sugar, or cold with cream and sugar.
QUEEN OF PUDDINGS.
One large cup of fine bread-crumbs soaked in milk, three quarters cup sugar, one lemon, juice and grated rind, six eggs> one half pound stale sponge-cake, one half pound macaroons — almond, one half cup jelly or jam, and one small tumbler of sherry wine, one half cup milk poured upon the bread-crumbs, one tablespoonful melted butter. Rub the butter and sugar together ; put the beaten yolks in next, then the soaked bread-crumbs, the lemon, juice and rind, and beat to a smooth, light paste before adding the whites. Butter your mould very well, and put in the bottom a light layer of dry bread-crumbs, upon this one of macaroons, laid evenly and closely together. Wet this with wine, and cover with a layer of the mixture, then with slices of sponge-cake, spread thickly with jelly
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or jam; next macaroons, wet with wine, more custard, sponge-cake and jam, and so on until the mould is full, putting a layer of the mixture at the top. Cover closely, and steam in the oven three quarters of an hour; then remove the cover to brown the top. Turn out carefully into a dish, and pour over it a sauce made of current jelly warmed, and beaten up with two tablespoonfuls melted butter and a glass of pale sherry.
ORANGE PUDDING.
Peel and cut five sweet oranges into thin slices, taking out the seeds, pour over them a coffee-cup of white sugar, let a pint of milk get boiling hot, by setting it in a pot of boiling water; add the yolks of three eggs well beaten, one tablespoon of corn starch, made smooth with a little cold milk; stir all the time; as soon as thickened pour over the fruit. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, adding a tablespoon of sugar, and spread over the top for frosting; set it in the oven for a few minutes to harden; eat cold or hot (better cold), for dinner or supper. Berries or peaches can be substituted for oranges.
CORN-STARCH PUDDING.
One pint sweet milk, whites of three eggs, two table- spoons corn-starch, three of sugar, and a little salt. Put the milk in a pan or small bucket, set in a kettle of hot water on the stove, and when it reaches the boiling point add the sugar, then the starch dissolved in a little cold milk, and lastly the whites of eggs whipped to a stiff froth; beat it, and let cook a few minutes, then pour into teacups, filling about half full, and set in cool place. For sauce, make a boiled custard as follows: Bring to boiling point one pint of milk, add three tablespoons sugar, then the beaten yolks thinned by adding one
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tablespoon milk, stirring all the time till it thickens; flavor with two teaspoons lemon or two of vanilla, and set to cool. In serving, put one of the moulds in a sauce- dish for each person, and pour over it some of the boiled custard. Or the pudding may be made in one large mould.
To make a chocolate pudding, flavor the above pud- ding with vanilla, remove two thirds of it, and add half a cake of chocolate softened, mashed, and dissolved in a little milk. Put a layer of half the white pudding into the mold, then the chocolate, then the rest of the white ; or two layers of chocolate may be used with a white between ; or the center may be cocoa (made by adding half a cocoanut grated fine), and the outside chocolate ; or pine-apple chopped fine (if first cooked in a little water, the latter makes a nice dressing), or strawberries may be used.
FRENCH PUDDING.
One quart of milk, three tablespoons of corn-starch, yolks of four eggs, half cup sugar and a little salt ; put part of the milk, salt and sugar on the stove and let it boil ; dissolve the corn-starch in the rest of the milk ; stir into the milk, and while boiling add the yolks. Flavor with vanilla.
FROSTING. — Whites of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth, half a cup of sugar ; flavor with lemon ; spread it on the pudding, and put it into the oven to brown, saving a little of the frost- ing to moisten the top ; then put on grated cocoanut to give it the appearance of snow-flake.
BELLE'S PUDDING.
Soak for an hour in a pint of cold water one box of Cox's sparkling gelatine, and add one pint of boiling water, one pint of wiue, the juice of four lemons, and
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ihree large cupfuls of sugar. Beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth, and stir into the jelly when it begins to thicken. Pour into a large mould, and set in ice-water in a cool place. When ready to serve, turn out as you would jelly, only have the pudding in a deep dish. Pour one quart of soft custard around it, and serve.
CREAM TAPIOCA PUDDING.
Soak three tablespoons of tapioca in water over night; put the tapioca into a quart of boiling milk, and boil half an hour; beat the yolks of four eggs with a cup of sugar; add three tablespoons of prepared cocoanut; stir in and boil ten minutes longer; pour into a pudding- dish; beat the whites of the four eggs to a stiff froth, stir in three tablespoons of sugar; put this over the top and sprinkle cocoanut over the top and brown for five minutes.
A BACHELOR'S PUDDING.
Four ounces of grated bread, four ounces of currants, four ounces of apples, two ounces of sugar, three eggs, a few drops of essence of lemon, a little grated nutmeg. Pare, core, and mince the apples very finely, sufficient, when minced, to make four ounces; add to these the cur- rants, which should be well washed, the grated bread, and sugar; whisk the eggs, beat these up with the re- maining ingredients, and, when all is thoroughly mixed, put the pudding into a buttered basin, tie it down with a cloth, and boil for three hours.
MACARONI PUDDING.
One half pound macaroni broken into inch lengths, two cups boiling water, one teaspoonful butter, one large cup milk, two tablespoonfuls sugar, grated peel of
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half a lemon, a little cinnamon and salt. Boil the maca- roni in the water until it is tender, and has soaked up the liquid. It must be cooked in a farina-kettle. Add the butter and salt. Cover for five minutes without cook- ing. Put in the rest of the ingredients. Simmer, after the boil begins, ten minutes longer, before serving in a deep dish. Be careful in stirring, not to break the maca- roni. Eat with butter and powdered sugar, or cream and sugar.
BAKED INDIAN PUDDING.
Two quarts scalded milk with salt, one and one-half cups Indian meal (yellow) ; one tablespoon ginger, letting this stand twenty minutes ; one cup molasses, two eggs (saleratus if no eggs), a piece of butter the size of a common walnut. Bake two hours. Splendid.
BOILED INDIAN PUDDING.
Warm a pint of molasses and pint of milk, stir well to- gether, beat four eggs, and stir gradually into molasses and milk ; add a pound beef suet chopped fine, and Indian meal sufficient to make a thick batter ; add a teaspoon pulverized cinnamon, nutmeg and a little grated lemon-peel, and stir all together thoroughly ; dip cloth into boiling water, shake, flour a little, turn in the mixture, tie up, leav- ing room for the pudding to swell, and boil three hours ; serve hot with sauce made of drawn butter, .wine and nutmeg.
MARMALADE PUDDINGS.
Half pound suet, half pound grated bread crumbs, half pound sugar, three ounces orange marmalade ; mix these ingredients together with four eggs ; boil four hours. Lay a few raisins open in the bottom of the mould.
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Sauce : Two ounces butter, and two ounces white sugar ; beat to a cream and flavor with brandy or lemon.
BOILED APPLE DUMPLINGS.
Add to two cups sour milk one teaspoon soda, and one salt, half cup butter, lard, flour enough to make dough a little stiffer than for biscuit ; or make a good baking-powder crust ; peel and core apples, roll out crust, place apples on dough, fill cavity of each with sugar, encase each apple in coating of the crust, press edges tight together, (it is nice to tie a cloth around each one), put into kettle of boiling water slightly salted, boil half an hour, taking care that the water covers the dumplings. They are also very nice steamed. To bake, make in same way, using a soft dough, place in a shallow pan, bake in a hot oven, and serve with cream and sugar, or place in a pan which is four or five inches deep (do not have the dumplings touch each other); then pour in hot water, just leaving top of dumplings un- covered. To a pan of four or five dumplings, add one teacup sugar and half a teacup butter; bake from half to three- quarters of an hour. If water cooks away too much, add more. Serve dumplings on platter and the liquid in sauce- boat for dressing. Fresh or canned peaches may be made in the same way.
NELLY'S PUDDING.
Half pound flour, half pound treacle, half pound suet, the rind and juice of one lemon, a few strips of candied lemo^- peel, three tablespoonfuls cream, two eggs. Chop the suet finely ; mix with it the flour, treacle, lemon-peel minced, and candied lemon-peel ; add the cream, lemon juice, and two well-beaten eggs ; beat the pudding well, put it into a but- tered basin, tie it down with a cloth, and boil from three and a half to four hours
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RICH BAKED APPLE PUDDING.
Half pound the pulp of apples, half pound loaf sugar, six ounces butter, the rind one lemon, six eggs, puff paste. Peel, core and cut the apples, as for sauce ; put them into a stew-pan, with only just sufficient water to prevent them from burning, and let them stew until reduced to a pulp. Weigh the pulp, and to every half pound add sifted sugar, grated lemon-rind, and six well-beaten eggs. Beat these ingredients well together ; then melt the butter, stir it to the other things, put a border of puff paste round the dish, and bake for rather more than half an hour. The butter should not be added until the pudding is ready for the oven.
SNOW BALLS.
Pick all imperfections from a half pint of rice, put it in water, and rub it between the hands ; then pour that water off, put more on, stir it about in it, let the rice settle, then drain the water off ; put the rice in a two-quart stew-pan, with a teaspoonful of salt, and a quart of water; cover the stew-pan, and set it where it will boil gently for one hour, or until the water is all absorbed; dip some teacups into cold water, fill them with the boiled rice, press it to their shape ; then turn them out on a dish, and serve with butter and su- gar, or wine sauce.
RICE PUDDING.
One teacup rice, one teacup sugar, one teacup raisins, small piece butter, a little salt, two quarts milk. Bake from an hour and a half to two hours. Serve with sauce.
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APPLE CHARLOTTE.
Cut slices of wheat bread or rolls, and having rubbed the bottom- and sides of a basin with a bit of butter, line it with the sliced bread or rolls ; peel tart apples, cut them small, and nearly fill the pan, strewing bits of butter and sugar between the apples ; grate a small nut- meg over ; soak as many slices of bread or roll as will cover it ; over which put a plate, and a weight, to keep the bread close upon the apples ; bake two hours in a quick oven, then turn it out. Quarter of a pound of but- ter, and half a pound of sugar, to half a peck of tart apples.
GROUND RICE PUDDING.
This is an economical pudding, made with two pints of sweet milk, a teacupful of ground rice, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, three eggs, and a little ground nutmeg. Bring half the quantity of milk to the boiling point, with the nutmeg or any other flavoring matter, and sugar. In the other half of the milk beat up the rice flour into a thin batter, add- ing to it through a strainer the hot seasoned milk, stirring all the time. The eggs well whisked should next be added. A sprinkling of salt is an improvement. Bake this mixt- ure in a moderate oven for a little over an hour, say sev- enty minutes, or boil in a buttered basin or shape. Serve with apricot preserve, or marmalade, or indeed any kind ?.. jam.
FIG PUDDING.
One half pound figs, one quarter pound grated bread, two and a half ounces powdered sugar, three ounces but- ter, two eggs, one teacup of milk. Chop the figs small and mix first with the butter, then all the other ingredi-
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ents by degrees ; butter a mould, sprinkle with bread crumbs, cover it tight and boil for three hours.
BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING.
Place as many slices of thin cut bread and butter as you like in a pie dish, say ten or twelve slices, sprinkle a few well-washed currants between the layers, beat up half a dozen of eggs in two pints of new milk, adding sugar to taste and a little flavoring, such as nutmeg or cinnamon, and pour over the bread and butter. Bake for an hour and ten minutes, and send it to table in the dish it has been baked in.
CABINET PUDDING.
One quart of milk, four eggs, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of butter, three pints of stale sponge cake, one cupful of raisins, chopped citron and currants. Have a little more of the currants than of the two other fruits. Beat the eggs, sugar, and salt together, and add the milk. Butter a three-pint pudding mould (the melon shape is nice), sprinkle the sides and bottom with the fruit, and put in a layer of cake. Again sprinkle in fruit, and put in more cake. Con- tinue this until all the materials are used. Gradually pour on the custard. Let the pudding stand two hours, and steam an hour and a quarter. Serve with wine or creamy sauce.
SNOW PUDDING.
One half package Coxe's gelatine ; pour over it a cup of cold water and add one and one half cups of sugar ; when soft, add one cup boiling water, juice of one lemon and the whites of four well beaten eggs ; beat all to- gether until yery light ; put in glass dish and pour over
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it custard made as follows: One pint milk, yolks of tour eggs, and grated rind of one lemon; boil. Splen- did.
CARROT PUDDING.
One pound grated carrots, three fourths pound chop- ped suet, half pound each raisins and currants, four tablespoons sugar, eight tablespoons flour, and spices to suit the taste. Boil four hours, place in the oven for twenty minutes, and serve with wine sauce.
LEMON PUDDING.
Half pound of sugar, half pound of butter, five eggs, half gill brandy, rind and juice of one large lemon; beat well the butter and sugar, whisk the eggs, add them to the lemon, grate the peel, line a dish with puff paste, and bake in a moderate oven.
ROLY-POLY.
Take one quart of flour; make good biscuit crust; roll out one half inch tliick and spread with any kind of fruit, fresh or preserved; fold so that the fruit will not run out; dip cloth into boiling water, and flour it and lay arou-nd the pudding closely, leaving room to swell; steam one or one and one half ho"rs; serve with boiled sauce; or lay in steamer without .loth, and steam for one hour.
COTTAGE PUDDING.
. One half cup of sugar, one cup of milk, one pint of flour, three tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one tea- spoonful soda, two of cream of tartar, two eggs, a little salt; bake one quarter of an hour in small pans.
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COCOANUT PUDDING.
Beat two eggs with one cupful of new milk; add quarter of a pound of grated cocoanut; mix with it threes cablespoonfuls each of grated bread and powdered sugar, two ounces of melted butter, five ounces of raisins, and one teaspoonful of grated lemon-peel; beat the whole well together; pour the mixture into a but tered dish, and bake in a slow oven; then turn it out, dust sugar over it, and serve. This pudding may bt either boiled or baked.
CREAM PUDDING.
Stir together one pint cream, three ounces sugar, thj yolks of three eggs, and a little grated nutmeg; add the well-beaten whites, stirring lightly, and pour into a but- tered pie-plate on which has been sprinkled the crumbs of stale bread to about the thickness of an ordinary crust; sprinkle over the top a layer of bread-crumbs aad bake.
TAPIOCA PUDDING.
Cover three tablespoons tapioca with water; stand over night; add one quart milk, a small piece of butter, a lit- tle salt, and boil; beat the yolks of three eggs wi'.h a cup of sugar, and boil, the whole to a very thick custard' flavor with vanilla; ^n cold cover with whites of eggs beaten.
COMMON CUSTARD.
Beat either four or five fresh eggs light; then stir them into a quart of milk; sweeten to taste; flavor with a teaspoonful of peach water, or extract of lemon, or vanilla, and half a teaspoonfu! of salt; rub butter over the bottom and sides of a baking dish or tie baaip; pc.it
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in the custard, grate a little nutmeg over, and bake in a quick oven. Three quarters of an hour is" generally enough. Try whether it is done by putting a teaspoon handle into the middle of it; if it comes out clean, it is enough.
Or butter small cups; set them into a shallow pan of hot water, reaching nearly to the top of the cups; nearly fill them with the custard mixture; keep the water boil- ing until they are done. The pan may be set in an oven, or over a fire; if over the fire, it is best to brown them with a hot shovel.
PUDDING SAUCES.
RICH WINE SAUCE.
One cupful of butter, two of powdered sugar, half a cupful of wine. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar gradually, and when very light add the wine, which has been made hot, a little at a time. Place the bowl in a basin of hot water and stir for two minutes. The sauce should be smooth and foamy.
WHIPPED CREAM SAUCE.
Whip a pint of thick sweet cream, add the beaten whites of two eggs, sweeten to taste ; place pudding in centre of dish, and surround with the sauce ; or pile up in centre and surround with moulded blanc-mange, or fruit puddings.
LEMON SAUCE.
One cup of sugar, half a cup ox butter, one egg, one lemon, juice and grated rind, three tablespoonfuls of boiling water; put in a tin pail and thicken over steam.
JELLY SAUCE.
Melt one ounce of sugar and two tablespoons grape jelly over the fire in a half pint of boiling water, and stir into it half a teaspoon corn starch dissolved in a half cup cold water; let come to a boil, and it will be ready for use. Any other fruit jelly may be used instead of grace.
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CABINET-PUDDING SAUCE,
Take the yolks of five eggs and whip them lightly ; ex- press the juice of a lemon and grate down a little of the peel. The other ingredients are a tablespoonful of but- ter, a cup of sugar, a glass of good wine, and a little spice. Mix the sugar and butter, adding the yolks, spice, and lemon juice. Beat fifteen minutes, then add the wine, and stir hard. Immerse in a saucepan of boiling water, beat- ing while it heats.
FOAMING SAUCE.
Beat whites of three eggs to a stiff froth ; melt teacup of sugar in a little water, let it boil, stir in one glass of wine, and then the whites of the three eggs ; serve at once.
SPANISH SAUCE.
One half cup of boiling water, one tablespoon corn starch, two tablespoonfuls vinegar, one tablespoonful of butter, one cup sugar, one half nutmeg.
HARD SAUCE.
Beat to a cream a quarter of a pound of butter, add gradually a quarter of a pound of sugar ; heat it until very white ; add a little lemon juice, or grate nutmeg on top.
PUDDING SAUCE.
One cup of sugar, one half cup of butter, yolks of three eggs ; one teaspoon of corn starch or arrow-root ; stir the whole until very light ; add sufficient boiling water to make the consistency of thick cream ; wine or brandy to suit the taste.
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The yolks of three eggs, one tablespoonful of powdered sugar, one gill of milk, a very little grated lemon-rind, two small wineglassfuls of brandy. Separate the yolks from the whites of three eggs, and put the former into a stewpan ; add the sugar, milk, and grated lemon-rind, and stir over the fire until the mixture thickens ; but do not allow it to boil. Put in the brandy ; let the sauce stand by the side of the fire, to get quite hot ; keep stirring it, and serve in a boat or tureen separately, or pour it over the pudding.
VANILLA SAUCE.
The whites of two eggs and the yolk of one, half a cup- ful of powdered sugar, one teaspoonful of vanilla, three tablespoonfuls of milk. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, next beat in the sugar, and then the yolk of the egg and the seasoning. Serve immediately. This sauce is for light puddings.
PASTRY .
VERY GOOD PUFF-PASTE.
To every pound of flour allow one pound of butter, and not quite one half pint of water. Carefully weigh ^the flour and butter, and have the exact proportion; squeeze the butter well, to extract the water from it, and afterwards wring it in a clean cloth, that no moisture may remain. Sift the flour; see that it is perfectly dry, and proceed in the following manner to make the paste, using a very clean paste-board and rolling-pin. Sup- posing the quantity to be one pound of flour, work the whole into a smooth paste, with not quite one half pint of water, using a knife to mix it with; the proportion of tins latter ingredient must be regulated by the discretion of the coojc; if too much be added, the paste, when baked, will be tough. Roll it out until it is of an equal thickness of about an inch; break four ounces of the but- ter into small pieces; place these on the paste, sift over it a little flour, fold it over, roll out again, and put an- other four ounces of butter. Repeat the rolling and buttering until the paste has been rolled out four times, or equal quantities of flour and butter have been used. Do net omit, every time the paste is rolled out, to dredge a little flour over that and the rolling-pin, to prevent both from sticking. Handle the paste as lightly as pos- sible, and do not press heavily upon it with the rolling- pin. The next thing to be considered is the oven, as the baking of pastry requires particular attention. Do not put it into the oven until it is sufficiently hot to raise the
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paste; for the best-prepared paste, if not properly baked, will be good for nothing. Brushing the paste as often as rolled out, and the pieces of butter placed thereon, with the white of an egg, assists it to rise in leaves or fiakes. As this is the great beauty of puff-paste, it is as well to try this method.
PLAINER PASTE.
One pound of flour, a little more for rolling pin and board, and half a pound of butter and half a pound of lard. Cut the butter and lard through the flour (which should be sifted), and mix with sufficient ice water to roll easily. Avoid kneading it, and use the hands as little as possible in mixing.
SUET CRUST, FOR PIES OR PUDDINGS.
To every pound of flour allow five or six ounces of beef suet, one half pint of water. . Free the suet from skin and shreds; chop it extremely fine, and rub it well into the flour; work the whole to a smoth paste with the above proportion of water; roll it out, and it is ready for use. This crust is quite rich enough for ordinary purposes; but when a better one is desired, use from one half to three quarter pounds of suet to every pound of flour. Some cooks, for rich crusts, pound the suet in a mortar, with a small quantity of butter. It should then be laid on the paste in small pieces, the same as for puff-crust, and will be found exceedingly nice for hot tarts. Five ounces of suet to every pound of flour will make a very good crust; and even one quarter pound will answer very well for children, or where the crust is wanted very plain.
TO ICE PASTRY.
To ice pastry, which is the usual method adopted for fruit tarts and sweet dishes of pastry, put the white of
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an egg on a plate, and with the blade of a knife beat it to a stiff froth. When the pastry is nearly baked, brush it over with this, and sift over some pounded sugar; put it back into the oven to set the glaze, and in a few min- utes it will be^||pne. Great care should be taken that the paste does not catch or burn in the oven, which it is very liable to do after the icing is laid on.
TO GLAZE PASTRY.
To glaze pastry, which is the usual method adopted for meat or raised pies, break an egg, separate the yolk from the white, and beat the former for a short time. Then, when the pastry is nearly baked, take it out of the oven, brush it over with this beaten yolk of egg, and put it back in the oven to set the glaze.
MINCE-MEAT.
Take five or six pounds scraggy beef — a neck piece will do — and put to boil in water enough to cover it; take off the scum that rises when it reaches the boiling point, add hot water from time to time until it is tender, then remove the lid from the pot, salt, let boil till almost dry, turning the meat over occasionally in the liquor, take from the fire, and let stand over night to get thoroughly cold; pick bones, gristle, or stringy bits from the meat, chop very fine, mincing at the same time three pounds of nice beef suet; seed and cut four pounds raisins, wash and dry four pounds currants, slice thin a pound of citron, chop fine iour quarts good-cooking tart ap- ples; put into a large pan together, add two ounces cinnamon, one of cloves, one of ginger, four nutmegs, the juice and grated rinds of two lemons, one tablespoon salt, one teaspoon pepper, and two pounds sugar. Put in a porcelain kettle one quart boiled cider, or, better still, one quart currant or grape juice (canned when
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grapes are turning from green to purple), One quart nice molasses or syrup, also a good lump of butter, let it coine to boiling point, and pour over the ingredients in the pan after having first mixed them well, then mix again thoroughly. Pack in jars and put in a cool place, and, when cold, pour molasses over the top an eighth of an inch in thickness, and cover tightly. This will keep two months. For baking, take some ou-t of a jar; if not moist enough add a little hot water, and strew a few whole raisins over each pie. Instead of boiled beef, a beef's heart or roast meat may be used; and a good proportion for a few pies is one third chop- ped meat and two thirds apples, with a little suet, raisins, spices, butter, and salt.
MOCK MINCE PIE.
One egg, three or four large crackers, or six or eight small ones, one half cup of molasses, one half cup sugar, one half cup vinegar, one half cup strong tea, one cup chopped raisins, a small piece butter, spice and salt.
APPLE CUSTARD PIE.
Peel sour apples and stew until soft and not much water is left in them, and rub through a colander. Beat three eggs for each pie. Put in proportion of one cup butter and one of sugar for three pies. Season with- nutmeg.
APPLE MERINGUE PIE.
Pare, slice, stew and sweeten ripe, tart and juicy ap- ples, mash and season with nutmeg (or stew lemon peel with them for flavor), fill crust and bake till done; spread over the apple a thick meringue made by whipping to- froth whites of three eggs for each pie, sweetening with three tablespoons powdered sugar; flavor with vanillg,
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beat until it will stand alone, and cover pie three quar-
•ers of an inch thick. Set back in a quick oven till well
* set," and eat cold. In their season substitute peaches for apples.
APPLE PIE.
Stew green or ripe apples, when you have pared and cored them. Mash to a smooth compote, sweeten to taste, and, while hot, stir in a teaspoonful butter for each pie. Season with nutmeg. When cool, fill your crust, and either cross-bar the top with strips of paste, or bake without cover. Eat cold, with powdered sugar strewed over it.
LEMON PIE.
The juice and rind of one lemon, two eggs, eight heap- ing tablespoonfuls of sugar, one small teacupful of milk, one teaspoonful of corn starch. Mix the corn starch with a little of the mijk. Put the remainder on the fire, and when boiling, stir in the corn starch. Boil one minute. Let this cool, and add the yolks of the eggs, four heap- ing tablespoonfuls of the sugar, and the grated rind and juice of the lemon, all well beaten together. Have a deep pie plate lined with paste, and fill with this mixt- ure. Bake slowly half an hour. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and gradually beat into them the re- mainder of the sugar. Cover the pie with this, and brown slowly.
CUSTARD PIE.
Make a custard of the yolks of three eggs with milk, season to the taste ; bake it in ordinary crust ; put it in a brick oven, that the crust may not be heavy, and as soon as that is heated remove it to a place in the oven of a more moderate heat, that the custard may bake
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slowly and not curdle; when done, beat the whites to a froth; add sugar and spread over the top, and return to* the oven to brown slightly; small pinch of salt added to a custard heightens the flavor; a little soda in the crust prevents it from being heavy. Very nice.
COCOA-NUT PIE.
One half pound of grated cocoa-nut, three quarter pounds of white sugar (powdered), six ounces of butter, five eggs, the whites only, one glass of white wine, two tablespoonfuls rose-water, one tablespoonful of nutmeg. Cream the butter and sugar, and when well mixed, beat very light, with the wine and rose-water. Add the cocoa- nut with as little and as light beating as possible; finally, whip in the stiffened whites of the eggs with a few skil- ful strokes, and bake at once in open shells. Eat cold, with powdered sugar sifted over them.
LEMON TARTS.
Mix well together the juice and grated rind of two lemons, two cups of sugar, two eggs, and the crumbs of sponge cake; beat it all together until smooth; put into twelve patty-pans lined with puff-paste, and bake until the crust is done.
PASTRY SANDWICHES.
Puff-paste, jam of any kind, the white of an egg, sifted sugar.
Roll the paste out thin; put half of it on a baking sheet or tin, and spread equally over it apricot, green- gage, or any preserve that may be preferred. Lay over this preserve another thin paste, press the edges together all round, and mark the paste in lines with a knife on the surface, to show where to cut it when baked. Bake from twenty minutes to half an hour; and, a short time be»
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fore being done, take the pastry out of the oven, brush it over with the white of an egg, sift over pounded sugar, and put it back in the oven to color. When cold, cut it into strips; pile these on a dish pyramidically, and serve. These strips, cut about two inches long, piled in circular rows, and a plateful of flavored whipped cream poured In fhe middle, make a very pretty dish.
CHERRY PIE.
Line the dish with a good crust, and fill with ripe cher- ries, regulating the quantity of sugar you scatter over them by their sweetness. Cover and bake.
Eat cold, with white sugar sifted over the top.
SQUASH PIE.
Two teacups of boiled squash, three fourths teacup of t?own sugar, three eggs, two tablespoons of molasses, one tablespoon of melted butter, one tablespoon of gin- ger, one teaspoon of cinnamon, two teacups of milk, a little salt. Make two plate pies.
CREAM PIE.
Pour a pint of cream upon a cup and a half powdered sugar; let stand until the whites of three eggs have been beaten to a stiff froth; add this to the cream, and beat up thoroughly; grate a little nutmeg over the mixture, r.nd bake in two pics without upper crusts.
TARTLETS.
Puff-paste, the white of an egg, pounded sugar.
Mode. — Roll some good puff-paste out thin, and cut it into two and a half inch squares; brush each square over with the white of an egg, then fold down the corners, so that they all meet in the middle of each piece of pa:*1**
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slightly press the two pieces together, brush them oVer with the egg, sift over sugar, and hake in a nice qi;ic!v oven for about a quarter of an hour. When they are done, make a little hole in the middle of the paste, and fill it up with apricot jam, marmalade, or red-currant jelly. Pile them high in the centre of a dish, on a napkin, and garnish with the same preserve the tartlets are filled with.
PEACH PIE.
Line a pie-tin with puff-paste, fill with pared peaches in halves or quarters, well covered with sugar; put on upper crust and bake; or make as above without uppei crust, bake until done, remove from the oven, and cover with a meringue made of the whites of two eggs, beaten to a stiff froth with two tablespoons powdered sugar; re- turn to oven and brown slightly. Canned peaches may be used instead of fresh, in the same way.
TART SHELLS.
Roll out thin a nice puff-paste, cut out with a glass 01 biscuit cutter, with a wine-glass or smaller cup cut out the centre of two out of three of these, lay the rings thus made on the third, and bake immediately; or shells may be made by lining patty- pans with paste. If the paste is 1' rht, the shells will be fine, and may be used for tarts O~ ^yster patties. Filled with jelly and covered with me'"ngue (tablesp on sugar to white of one egg), and fc> >wned in oven tfley are very nice to serve for tea.
PUMPKIN PIE.
One quart of stewed pumpkin, pressed through a sieve; nine eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately; two scant quarts of milk, one teaspoonful of mace, one teaspoonfu*. of cinnamon, and the sar. t of nutmeg; one and a half cup
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of white sugar, or very light brown. Beat all well to- gether, and bake in crust without cover.
MINCE PIES
Three pounds of raisins, stone and chop them a little; three pounds of currants, three pounds of sugar, three pounds of suet chopped very fine, two ounces candied lemon peel, two ounces of candied orange peel, six large apples grated, one ounce of cinnamon, two nutmegs, the juice of three lemons and- the rinds grated, and half a pint of brandy. Excellent.
CAKES,
. WHITE LADY-CAKE.
Beat tho whites of eight eggs to a high froth, add gradually a pound of white sugar finely ground, beat quarter of a po'jina of butter to a cream, add a teacup of sweet milk with a small teaspoonful of powdered volatile salts or saleratus dissolved in it; put the eggs to butter and milk, add as much sifted wheat flour as will make it as thick as pound-cake mixture, and a teaspoonful of orange-fl jur water or lemon extract, then add quarter of a pound of shelled almonds, blanched and beaten to a paste with a little white of egg; beat the whole together until light and white; line a square tin pan w'th but- tered paper, put in the mixture an inch deep, and bake half an hour in a quick oven. When done take it from the pan, when cold take the paper off, turn it upside down on the bottom of the pan and Ice the side which was down; when the icing Is nearly hard mark it in slices th~ width of a finger, and two :nches ano a hall long.
MACAROONS.
One half pound of sweet almonds, one half pound ol sifted loaf su^ar, the whites of three eggs, wafer-paper. Blanch, skin, and dry the almonds, and pound them weh with a little orange-flower water or plain water; then add to them the sifted sugar pnd the whites of the eg"gs, which should be beaten to a ftiff trotn, and mix all the ingredients well together. When the p^ste looks soft
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drop it at equal distances from a biscuit-syringe on to sheets of wafer-paper; put a strip of almond on the top of each; strew some sugar over, and bake the macaroons in rather a slow oven, of a light brown color. When hard and set, they are done, and must not be allowed to get very brown, as that would spoil their appearance. If the cakes, when baked, appear heavy, add a little more white of egg, but let this always be well whisked before it is added to the other ingredients. We have given a recipe for making these cakes, but we think it almost or quite as economical to purchase such articles as these at & good confectioner's.
ALMOND ICING.
Whites of four eggs; one pound sweet almonds; one pound powdered sugar; a little rose-water. Blanch the almonds by pouring boiling water over them and strip- ping off the skins. When dry, pound them to a paste, a few at a time, in a Wedgewood mortar, moistening it with rose-water as you go on. When beaten fine and smooth, beat gradually into icing. Put on very thick, and, when nearly dry, cover with plain icing.
TO MAKE ICING FOR CAKES.
Beat the white of two small eggs to a high froth; then add to them quarter of a pound of white sugar, ground fine, like flour; flavor with lemon extract, or vanilla; beat it until it is light, and very white, but not quite so stiff as kiss mixture; the longer it is beaten, the more firm it will become. No more sugar must be added to make it so. Beat the frosting until it may be spread smoothly on the cake. This quantity will ice quite a large cake, over the top and sides.
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LOAF CAKE.
One pound of butter beaten to a cream, two pounds of sugar rolled fine, three pounds of sifted wheat flour, six well beaten eggs, three teaspoonfuls of powdered saleratus, dissolved in a little hot water, one tablespoon- ful of ground cinnamon, and half a nutmeg grated; add one pound of currants, well washed and dried, one pound of raisins stoned and cut in two; work the whole well together, divide it in three loaves, put them in buttered Basins, and bake one hour in a moderate oven.
RICH BRIDE-CAKE.
Take four pounds of sifted flour, four pounds of sweet fresh butter, beaten to a cream, and two pounds of white powdered sugar; take six eggs for each pound of flour, an ounce of ground mace or nutmegs, and a tablespoon- ful of lemon extract or orange-flower water.
LADY-FINGERS.
Take eight eggs; whip the whites to a firm snow. In the meantime, have the yolks beaten up with six ounces of powdered sugar. Each of these operations should be performed at least one hour. Then mix all together with six ounces of sifted flour; and when well incor- porated, stir in half a pint of rose or orange-flower water; stir them together for some time.
Have ready some tin plates, rubbed with white wax; take a funnel with three or four tubes; fill it with the paste, and press out the cakes upon the plates, to the size and length of a finger; grate white sugar over each; let them lay until the sugar melts, and they shine: then put them in a moderate oven, until they have ^ nne color; when cool, take them from the tins, and lay liiem together in couples, by the backs. These cakes mny be
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formed with a spoon, on sheets of writing-paper. Half this quantity will be trouble enough at one time.
QUEEN CAKE.
Beat one pound of batter to a cream, with a table • spoonful of rose-water; then add one pound of fine white sugar, ten eggs, beaten very light, and a pound and a quarter of sifted flour; beat the cake well to- gether; then add half a pound of shelled almonds, blanched, and beaten to a paste; butter tin round basing line them with white paper; put in the mixture an inch and a half deep; bake one hour in a quick oven.
CHOCOLATE MACAROONS.
Put three ounces of plain chocolate in a pan and melt on a slow fire; then work it to a thick paste with one pound of powdered sugar and the whites of three eggs; roll the mixture down to the thickness of about one quarter of an inch; cut it in small, round pieces with a paste-cutter, either plain or scalloped; butter a pan slightly, and dust it with flour and sugar in equal quan- tities; place in it the pieces of paste or mixture, and bake in a hot but not quick oven.
CARAMEL CAKE.
One cup butter, two of sugar, a scant cup milk, one gnd a half cups flour, cup corn starch, whites of seven eggs, three teaspoons baking powder in the flour; bake m a long pan. Take half pound brown sugar, scant ouarter pound chocolate, half cup milk, butter size of an egg, two teaspoons vanilla; mix thoroughly and cook as syrup until stiff enough to spread; spread on cake end set in the oven to dry.
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POUND CAKE.
•One pound of butter, one and one quarter pound of Hour, one pound of pounded loaf sugar, one pound of currants, nine eggs, two ounces of candied peel, one half O'dnce of citron, one half ounce of sweet almonds; when liked, a little pounded mace. Work the butter to a cream; dredge in the flour; add the sugar, currants, candied peel, which should be cut into neat slices, and the almonds, which should be blanched anr*. chopped, and mix all these well together; whisk the eggs, and let them be thoroughly blended with the dry ingredients. Beat the cake well for twenty minutes, and put it into a round tin, lined at the bottom and sides with a strip of white buttered paper. Bake it from one and one half to two hours, and let the oven be well heated vhen the cake is first put in, as, if this is not the case, the currants will all sink to the bottom of it. To make this prepara tion light, the yolks and whites of the eggs should b? beaten separately and added separately to the other in- gredients. A glass of wine is sometimes added to the mixture; but this is scarcely necessary, as the cake will be found quite rich enough without it.
COCOA-NUT SPONGE CAKE.
Beat the yolks of six eggs with half a pound of sugar and a quarter of a pound of flour, add a teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of lemon essence, and half a nutmeg, grated; beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, and stii them to the yolks, etc., and the white meat of a cocoa- nut, grated; line square tin pans with buttered paper, and having stirred the ingredients well together, put the mixture in an inch deep in the pans; bake in a quick oven half an hour; cut it in squares, to serve with or without icing.
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COCOANUT POUND CAKE.
Beat half a pound of butter to a cream ; add gradually a pound of sifted flour, one pound of powdered sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful of grated lemon-peel, quarter of a pound of prepared coacoanut, four well-beaten eggs, and a cupful of milk; mix thoroughly; butter the tins, and line then; with buttered paper; pour the mixture in to the depth of an inch and a half, and bake in a good oven. When baked take out, spread icing over them, and return the cake to the oven a moment to dry the icing.
COCOANUT CUP CAKE.
Two cups of sugar, two cups of butter, one cup of milk, one teaspoonful of essence of lemon, half a nutmeg grated, four well-beaten eggs and the white meat of a cocoanut grated; use as much sifted wheat flour as will make a rather stiff batter; beat it well, butter square tin pans, line them with white paper, and put in the mixture an inch deep; bake in a moderate oven half an hour, or it may require ten minutes longer. When cold, cut in small squares or diamonds; this is a rich cake and is much improved by a thin icing. This cake should be made with fine white sugar.
COCOANUT DROPS.
Break a cocoanut in pieces, and lay it in cold water, then cut off the dark rind, and grate the white meat on a coarse grater; put the whites of four eggs with half a pound of powdered white sugar; beat it until it is light and white, then add to it a teaspoonful of lemon extract, and gradually as much grated cocoanut as will make it as thick as can be stirred easily witl* » spoon; lay it in heaps
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the size of a large nutmeg on sheets of white paper, place them the distance of half an inch apart; when the paper i.s full, lav it on a baking tin, set them in a quick oven; when they begin to look yellowish, they are done; let them remain on the paper until nearly cold, then take them off with a thin-bladed knife.
CITRON HEART CAKES.
Beat half a pound of butter to a cream, take six eggs, beat the whites to a. froth, and the yolks with half a pound of sugar, and rather more than half a pound of sifted flour, beat these well together, add a wine-glass of brandy, and quarter of a pound of citron cut in thin slips, oake it in small heart-shaped tins, or a square tin pan, rubbed over with a bit of sponge dipped in melted butter, put the mixture in half an inch deep, bake fifteen or twenty minutes in a quick oven. These are very fine cakes. Shred almonds may be used instead of citron.
IMPERIAL CAKE.
One pound of flour, half a pound of butter, three quarters of a pound of sugar, four eggs, half a pound of currants, well washed and dredged, half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water, half a lemon, grated rind and juice, one teaspoonful of cinnamon. Drop from a spoon upon well-buttered paper, lining a baking pan. Bake quickly.
PLUM CAKE.
Make a cake of two cups of butter, two cups of mo- lasses, one cup of sweet milk, two eggs, well-beaten, one teaspoonful of powdered saleratus, dissolved with a litcle hot water, one teaspoonful of ground mace or nutmeg, one teaspoonful of ground allspice, a tablespoonful of cinnamon, and a gill of brandy; sti % in flour to make &
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batter as stiff as may be stirred easily with a spoon; beat it well until it is light, then add two pounds of raisins, stoned, and cut in two, two pounds of currants, picked, washed, and dried, and half a pound of citron, cut in slips. Bake in a quick oven. This is a fine, rich cake, easily made, and not expensive.
GOLD AND SILVER CAKE.
Gold Part. — Yolks of eight eggs, scant cup butter, two of sugar, four of flour, one of sour milk, teaspoon soda, tablespoon corn-starch; flavor with lemon and vanilla.
Silver Part. — Two cups sugar, one of butter, four (scant) of flour, one of sour milk, teaspoon soda, table- spoon corn-starch, whites of eight eggs; flavor with al- mond or peach. Put in pan, alternately, onespoontul of gold and one of silver.
TO MAKE SMALL SPONGE-CAKES.
The weight of five eggs in flour, the weight of eight in pounded loaf sugar; flavoring to taste. Let the flour be perfectly dry, and the sugar well pounded and sifted. Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs, and beat the latter up with the sugar; then whisk the whites until they become rather stiff, and mix them with the yolks, but do not stir them more than is just necessary to mingle the ingredients well together. Dredge in the flour by degrees, add the flavoring; butter the tins well, pour in the batter, sift a little sugar over the cakes, and bake them in rather a quick oven, but do not allow them to take too much color, as they should be rather pale. Remove them from the tins before they get cold, and turn them on their faces, where let them remain unti; quite c old, when store them away in a closed tin canister er wide-mouthtd glass bottle.
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LEMUN CHEESE CAKE.
Two cups sugar, half cup tmtter, three-quarters cup sv,reet miik, whites of six eggs, three cups flour, three teaspoons baking powder.
SAUCE FOR LEMON CHEESE CAKE. — Grated rind and juice of two lemons, yolks of three eggs, half cup butter, one cup sugar: mix all together, and set on stove, and cook till thick as sponge, stirring all the time; then use like jelly between the cakes.
SNOW CAKE.
On" r-cu::^ of arrowroot, half pound of pounded white sugar, half pound of butter, the whites of six eggs; flavor- ing to taste, of essence of almonds, or vanilla, or lemon.
Mode'. Beat the butter to a cream; stir in the sugar ard ~r ov.root gradually, at the same time beating the mixture. Whisk the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add them to the other ingredients, and beat well for twenty minutes. Put in whichever of the above flavor- ings may be preferred; pour the cake into a buttered mould or tin and bake it in a moderate oven from one to one and a half hour.
TILDEN CAKE.
One cup butter, two of pulverized sugar, one of sweet milk, three of flour, half cup corn-starch, four eggs, two teaspoons baking-powder, two of lemon extract. This is excellent.
CORN-STARCH CAKE.
Whites of six eggs, one cup of butter, <:wo cups of flour, one cup of corn-starch, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one half-teaspoonful of soda, one of creanv of tartar.
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BIRTHDAY CAKE.
One pound and a half of fine sugar, one pound and a half of butter, three pounds and a half of currants, two pounds of flour, one half pound candied peel, one half pound almonds, two ounces spices, the grated rind of three lemons, eighteen eggs, one gill of brandy. Paper the hoops, and bake three hours. Ice when cold.
NAPLES BISCUIT.
Beat eight eggs light ; add to them one pound of fine white sugar, and one pound of sifted wheat flour; flavor with z: teaspoonful of salt, and essence of lemon or orange-flower water; beat it until it rises in bubbles; bake in a quick oven.
CAKE TRIPLE.
Bake a Naples biscuit ; cut out the inside about one inci from the edge and bottom, leaving the shell. In placf of the inside, put a custard made of the yolks of four eggs, beaten with a pint of boiling milk, sweetened, and flavored with half a teaspoonful of peach-water ; lay on it some jell)* or jam ; beat the whites of two eggs, with white groun 1 sugar, until it will stand in a heap ; put it on the jelly, an 1 serve.
SAVOY CAKE.
The weight of four eggs in pounded loaf-sugar, tl e weight of seven in flour, a little grated lemon-rind, fr essence of almonds, or orange-flower water. Break tl e seven eggs, putting the yolks into one basin and tie whites into another. Whisk the former, and mix wilh them the sugar, the grated lemon-rind, or any othor flavoring to taste ; beat them well together, and add the
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whites oi' the eggs, whisked to a froth. Put in the flour by degrees, continuing to beat the mixture for one quarter of an hour, butter a mould, pour in the cake, and bake it from one and a quarter to one and a half hours. This is a very nice cake for dessert, and may be iced for a supper table, or cue ^nto slices and spread with jam, which converts it into sandwiches.
COMPOSITION CAKE.
Five cups of flour, two cups of butter, three of sugar, one of milk, five eggs, one teaspoon of soda; two of cream of tartar, fruit as you please, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove to taste.
ALMOND CREAM CAKE.
On beaten whites of ten eggs, sift one and a half gob- lets pulverized sugar, and a goblet of flour through which has been stirred a heaping teaspoon cream tartar; stir very gently and do not heat it; bake in jelly-pans. For cream, take a half pint sweet cream, yolks of three eggs, tablespoon pulverized sugar, teaspoon corn-starch; dis- solve starch smoothly with a little milk, beat yolks and sugar together with this, boil the cream, and stir these ingredients in as for any cream-cake filling, only make a little thicker; blanch and chop fine a half pound almonds and stir into the cream. Put together like jelly cake while icing is soft, and stick in a half pound r^ almonds, split in two.
ICE-CREAM CAKE.
Make good sponge-bake, bake half an inch thick in jelly-pans, and let them get perfectly cold; take a pint thickest sweet cream, beat until it looks like ice-cream, make very sweet, and flavor with vanilla; blanch and
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chop a pound almonds, stir into cream, and put thick between each layer. This is the queen of ?1) cakes.
ECONOMICAL CAKE.
One pound of flour, one quarter pound of sugar, one quarter pound of butter or lard, one half pound of cur- rants, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, the whites of four eggs, one half pint of milk. In making many sweet dishes, the whites of eggs are not required, and if well beaten and added to the above ingredients, make an excellent cake, with or without currants. Beat the butter to a cream, well whisk the whites of the eggs, and stir all the ingredients together but the soda, which must not be added until all is well mixed, and the cake i^ ready to be put into the oven. When the mixture has been well beaten, stir in the soda, put the cake into a buttered mould, and bake it in a moderate oven for one and a half hours.
DELICATE CAKE.
Three cups flour, two of sugar, three-fourths cup sweet milk, whites of six eggs, half cup butter, teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon of soda. Flavor with lemon.
ORANGE CAKE.
One cup of sugar, half a cup of butter, half a cup of ,sweet milk, two cups of flour, three eggs, one and a half teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; bake in jelly tins.
ORANGE FROSTING FOR SAME. — One orange, grate off the outside, and mix with juice, and add sugar until quite stiff, and make like jelly cake; make four layers of the cak»
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FRIED CAKES,
One cup of sugar, two eggs, half a cup of shortening, one teaspoon of soda, one cup of sour milk, cut in rings; have your lard very hot, in which place a peeled potato to keep lard from burning, and drop in your cakes ; they will come to the top of lard when light ; fry a dark brown ; when taken out sprinkle sugar over them.
JELLY KISSES.
Kisses, to be served for dessert at a large dinner, with other suitable confectionery, may be varied in this way : Having made the kisses, put them in a moderate oven, until the outside is a little hardened ; then take one off care- fully, as before directed ; take out the soft inside with the handle of a spoon, and put it back with the mixture, to make more ; then lay the shell down. Take another, and prepare it likewise ; fill the shells with currant jelly, or jam ; join two together, cementing them with some of the mixture ; so continue until you have enough. Make kisses, cocoanut drops, and such like, the day before they are wanted.
COCOANUT KISSES.
Make a kiss mixture ; add to it half of a cocoanut, grated (the white meat only) ; finish as directed for kisses.
FIG CAKE.
Silrer Part, — Two cups sugar, two thirds cup butter, not quite two thirds cup sweet milk, whites of eight eggs, three heaping teaspoons baking-powder thoroughly sifted, with three cups flour ; stir sugar and butter to a cream, add milk and flour, and last white of e££s.
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Gold Part. — One cup sugar, three-fourths cup but-
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ter, half cup sweet milk, one and a half teaspoons baking, powder sifted in a little more than one and a half cups flour, yolks of seven eggs thoroughly beaten, and one whole egg, one teaspoon allspice, and cinnamon until you can taste it ; bake the white in two long pie-tins. Put half the gold in a pie-tin, and lay on one pound halved figs (previously sifted over with flour), so that they will just touch each other ; put on the rest of the gold, and bake. Put the cakes together with frosting while warm, the gold between the white ones, and cover with frosting.
CALIFORNIA CAKE.
Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup milk, two eggs, three teaspoons baking-powder, put in three cups sifted flour, flavor and add fruit. This receipt makes two cakes.
WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.
One cup sugar, one half cup of butter, one half cup sweet milk, one half cup corn starch, one cup flour, whites of six eggs, a little vanilla, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in layers.
FROSTING FOR ABOVE.- — Whites of five eggs, twenty table- spoonfuls sifted sugar, beaten very light ; a little vanilla. Spread between layers and outside of cake.
LEMON CAKE.
One half cup of sugar, one teaspoon butter, one table- spoonful of milk, three eggs, one cup flour, one teaspoon baking-powder, bake in jelly-tins, put between two apple and one lemon, grated together with a little sugar.
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE.
Make good biscuit crust ; bake in two tins of same shape and size; mix berries with plenty of sugar; open
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the shortcake, butter well and place berries in layers, alter- nated with the crust ; have the top layer of berries and over all put charlotte russe or whipped cream.
MARBLE CAKE.
White Part. — Whites of seven eggs, three cups white sugar, one of butter, one of sour milk, four of flour, sifted and heaping, one teaspoon soda ; flavor to taste.
Dark Part. — Yolks of seven eggs, three cups brown sugar, one of butter, one of sour milk, four of flour, sifted and heaping, one tablespoon each of cinnamon, allspice and cloves, one teaspoon soda; put in pans a spoonful of white part and then a spoonful of dark, and so on. Bake an hour and a quarter. Use coffee-cups to measure. This will make one large and one medium cake. The white and dark parts are alternated, either putting in a spoonful of white, then of dark, or a layer of white and then of dark part, being careful that the cake may be nicely " marble-
WHITE POUND CAKE.
One pound sugar, one of flour, half pound butter, whites of sixteen eggs, teaspoon baking-powder sifted thoroughly with the flour ; put in cool oven with gradual increase of heat. For boiled icing for the cake, take three cups sugar boiled in one of water until clear; beat whites of three eggs to very stiff froth, and pour over them the boiling liquid, beating all the time for ten minutes ; frost while both cake and icing are warm.
NELLY'S CHOCOLATE CAKE.
One cup of butter, two of sugar, five eggs, leaving out two of the whites, one scant cup of milk, two full tea- spoons of baking-powder; mi$ well ir» tfyree pups flour*
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bake in two long shallow tins. Dressing : Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, add a scant cup and a half of sugar ; flavor with vanilla, add six tablespoons of grated chocolate ; add the dressing when the cake is cold, and cu/; in diamond slices.
RICE CAKE.
One cupful of butter, two of sugar, two and one fourth of rice flour, six eggs, the juice and rind of a lemon. Beat the butter to a cream ; then gradually beat in the sugar, and add the lemon. Beat the yolks and whites separately, and add them to the beaten sugar and butter. Add also the rice flour. Pour into a shallow pan, to the depth of about two inches. Bake from thirty-five to forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.
CREAM CAKE.
Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of cream, two cups of Jiour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and one teaspoon- ful of soda.
DOUGHNUTS.
One cup of sugar, two eggs, two tablespoons of melted butter, two thirds cup of milk, two even teaspoons of cream tartar, one even teaspoon of soda, flour enough to roll, sal;: and nutmeg.
SPONGE CAKE.
One pound sugar, one of flour, ten eggs. Stir yolks of eggs and sugar till perfectly light ; beat whites of eggs and add them with the flour after beating together lightly ; flavor with lemon. Three teaspoons baking-powder in the flour will add to its lightness, but it never fails without. Bake ia a moderate oven.
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COFFEE CAKE.
Two cups brown sugar, one of butter, one of molasses, one of strong coffee as prepared for the table, four eggs, one teaspoon saleratus, two of cinnamon, two of cloves, one of grated nutmeg, pound raisins, one of currants, four cups flour.
SOFT GINGERBREAD.
Six cupfuls of flour, three of molasses, one of cream, one of lard or butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful of saleratus, and two of ginger. This is excellent.
SPICE CAKE.
One and one half cups of sugar, half cup butter, half of sour milk,, two cups of raisins chopped, three eggs, half a nutmeg, one teaspoon cinnamon, one of cloves, one saleratus ; mix rather stiff ; bake in loaf tins in moderate oven.
SWEET STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE.
Three eggs, one cupful sugar, two of flour, one tablespoon- ful of butter, a teaspoonful, heaped, of baking powder. Beat the butter and sugar together, and add the eggs well beaten. Stir in the flour and baking powder well sifted together. Bake in deep tin plates. This quantity will fill four plates. With three pints of strawberries mix a cupful OL sugar. Spread the fruit between the layers of cake. The top layer of strawberries may be covered with a meringue made with the white of an egg and a tablespoonful of powdered sugar.
GINGER NUTS.
One and three quarter pounds of syrup, one pound ot moist sugar, one pound of butter, two and three quarter
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pounds of flour, one and a half ounces of ground ginger- one and a half ounces of allspice, one and a half ounces of coriander seed, sal volatile size of a bean, a little cayenne, flour enough to roll out but not thin, cut with a wineglass or roll between your hands into small balls, and pinch.
RIBBON CAKE.
Two" cupfuls of sugar, one of butter, one of milk, four of flour (rather scant), four eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda, one of cream of tartar. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar gradually, beating all the while ; then the flavoring (lemon or nutmeg). Beat the eggs very light. Add them and the milk. Measure the flour after it has been sifted. Return it to the sieve, and mix the soda and cream of tar- tar with it. Sift this into the bowl of beaten ingredients. Beat quickly and vigorously, to thoroughly mix, and then stop. Take three sheet pans of the same size, and in each of two put one third of the mixture, and bake. To the other third add four teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, a cup- ful of currants and about an eighth of a pound of citron, cut fine. Bake this in the remaining pan. When done, take out of the pans. Spread the light cake with a thin layer of jelly, while warm. Place on this the dark cake, and spread with jelly. Place the other sheet of light cake on this. Lay a paper over all, and then a thin sheet, on which put two irons. The cake will press in about two hours.
JELLY ROLL.
Make the sponge cake mixture as for lady-fingers, and bake in one shallow pan twenty minutes. While it is yet warm cut off the edges, and spread the cake with, any kind of jelly. RoJJ ypf and pin a {&$£] around it,
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Put in a cool place until serving time. Cut in slices with a sharp knife.
DELICATE CRULLERS.
Take four eggs, four tablespoonfuls of lard, four table- spoonfuls of sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, and half a nutmeg grated, a teaspoonful of lemon extract may be added ; work into these as much sifted flour as will make a nice dough, roll it to about an eighth of an inch thickness, and fry as directed for doughnuts and crullers.
To make little baskets, cut the paste in strips an inch and a half wide, and three inches long, and with a gig- ling iron, cut slits across it from one side to the other, within a quarter of an inch of either edge, and quarter of an inch apart ; then join the two ends together in a circle, forming the basket ; press it down slightly, that the strips may bulge, and so form the basket, like those made for fly traps of paper ; as soon as they are taken from the fat, (five minutes will do them,) grate -white sugai over.
DESSERT AND TEA DISHES.
BOILED CUSTARD.
One quart milk, eight eggs, one half pound of sugar ; beai to a good froth the eggs and sugar. Put the milk in a tin pail and set it in boiling water ; pour in the eggs and sugar and stir it until it thickens.
LEMON CUSTARD.
Beat the yolks of eight eggs till they are white, add pint boiling water, the rinds of two lemons grated, and the juice sweetened to taste ; stir this on the fire till it thickens, then add a large glass of rich wine, and one half glass brandy ; give the whole a good boil, and put in glasses. To be eaten cold. Or, put the thin yellow rind of two lemons, with the juice of three, and sugar to taste, into one pint of warm water. As lemons vary in size and juiciness, the exact quantity of sugar cannot be given. Ordinary lemons require three gills. It will be safe to begin with that quantity, more may be added if required. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, then the yolks; then beat both together, pour in gradually while beating the other ingredients ; put all in a pail, set in a pot of boiling water, and stir until thick as boiled custard ; strain it in a deep dish ; when cool place on ice. Serve in glasses*
SNOW CUSTARD.
Half a package of Cox's gelatine, three eggs, two cups of sugar, juice of one lemon ; soak the gelatine one
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hour in a teacup of cold water, add one pint boiling water, stir until thoroughly dissolved, add two thirds of the sugar and the lemon juice ; beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and when the gelatine is quite cold whip it into the whites, a spoonful at a time from half an hour to an hour. Whip steadily and evenly, and when all is stiff pour in a mould, or in a dozen egg-glasses pre- viously wet with cold water, and set in a cold place. In four or five hours turn into a glass dish. Make a custard of one and a half pints milk, yolks of eggs, and remainder of the sugar, flavor with vanilla, and when the meringue or snow-balls are turned out of the mould, pour this around the base.
TAPIOCA PUDDING.
Three ounces of tapioca, one quart of milk, two ounces of butter, quarter of a pound of sugar, four eggs, flavor- ing of vanilla or bitter almonds. Wash the tapioca, and let it stew gently in the milk by the side of the stove for quarter of an hour, occasionally stirring it ; then let it cool ; mix with it the butter, sugar, and eggs, which should be well beaten, and flavor with either of the above ingredients. Butter a pie-dish, and line the edges with puff-paste; put in the pudding, and bake in a moderate oven for an hour. If the pudding is boiled, add a little more tapioca, and boil it in a buttered basin one and a half hours.
BLANC-MANGE.
One quarter pound of sugar, one quart of milk, one and a half ounces of isinglass, the rind of half a lemon, four laurel leaves. Put all the ingredients into a lined saucepan, and boil gently until the isinglass is dissolved; taste it occasionally to ascertain when it is sufficiently flavored with the laurel leaves ; then take them out, and
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keep stirring the mixture over the fire for about ten min- utes. Strain it through a fine sieve into a jug, and, when nearly cold, pour it into a well-oiled mould, omitting the sediment at the bottom. Turn it out carefully on a dish, and garnish with preserves, bright jelly, or a compote of fruit.
IVORY BLANC-MANGE.
Soak one ounce of gelatine for ten minutes in a little cold milk and pour over the gelatine, and stir it constantly until it is all dissolved ; it may be placed in the dish and set on top of a boiling tea-kettle for a few minutes ; remove it and add a small cupful of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of sherry wine. Strain into moulds.
RICE BLANC-MANGE.
One quarter pound of ground rice, three ounces of loaf sugar, one ounce of fresh butter, one quart of milk, flavoring of lemon peel, essence of almonds or vanilla, or laurel leaves. Mix the rice to a smooth batter with about one half pint of the milk, and the remainder put into a saucepan, with the sugar, butter, and whichever of the above flavorings may be preferred; bring the milk to the boiling point, quickly stir in the rice, and let it boil for about ten minutes, or until it comes easily away from the saucepan, keeping it well stirred the whole time. Grease a mould with pure salad oil ; pour in the rice, and let it get perfectly set, when it should turn out quite easily ; garnish it with jam, or pour round a com- pote of any kind of fruit, just before it is sent to table. This blanc-mange is better for being made the day be- fore it is wanted, as it then has time to become firm. If laurel leaves are used for flavoring, steep three of them
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in the milk, and take them out before the rice is added ; about eight drops of essence of almonds, or from twelve to sixteen drops of essence of vanilla, would be required to flavor the above proportion of milk.
APPLE TRIFLE.
Ten good-sized apples, the rind of one half lemon, six ounces of pounded sugar, one half pint of milk, ona half pint of cream, two eggs, whipped cream. Peel, core, and cut the apples into thin slices ; and put them into a saucepan, with two tablespoonfuls of water, the sugar, and minced lemon rind. Boil all together until quite tender, and pulp the apples through a sieve ; if they should not be quite sweet enough, add a little more sugar, and put them at the bottom of the dish to form a thick la) or. Stir together the milk, cream, and eggs, with a little sugar, over the fire, and let the mixture thicken, but do not allow it to reach the boiling point. When thick, take it off the fire ; let it cool a little, then pour it over the apples. Whip some cream with sugar, lemon peel, etc., the same as for other trifles; heap it high over the cus- tard, and the dish is ready for table. It may be garnished, as fancy dictates, with strips of bright apple jelly, slices of citron, etc.
LEMON TRIPLE.
Juice of two lemons and grated peel of one, one pint cream, well sweetened and whipped stiff, one cup of sherry, a little nutmeg. Let sugar, lemon-juice, and peel lie together two hours before you add wine and nut- meg. Strain through double tarlatan, and whip grad- ually into the frothed cream. Serve very soon, heaped in small glasses. Pass cake with this, as well as with the tea.
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FLOATING ISLAND.
Take a quart of rich cream, and divide it in half, Sweeten one pint of it with loaf sugar, and stir it into sufficient currant jelly to color it of a fine pink. Put it into a gla3o bowl, and place in the centre a pile of sliced almond sponge cake, or of lady cake ; every slice spread thickly with raspberry jam or marmalade, and laid even- ly one on another. Have ready the other pint of cream, flavored with the juice of two lemons, and beaten to a stiff froth. Heap 'it all over the pile of cake so as en- tirely to cover it. Both creams must be made very sweet.
APPLE SNOW.
Forms a showy, sweet dish, and may be made as fol- lows : Ten or a dozen apples prepared as before, flav- ored with a little lemon juice ; when reduced to a pulp let them stand to cool for a little time, meanwhile beat up the whites of ten or a dozen eggs to a froth, and stir in to the apples, as also some sifted sugar, say a teacupful ; stir till the mixture begins to stiffen, and then heap it up in a glass dish or serve in custard cups, ornamented with spots of red currant jelly. Thick cream should at table be ladled out to £he snow.
TROPICAL SNOW.
Ten sweet oranges, one cocoanut, pared and grated, two glasses sherry, one cup powdered sugar, six bananas. Peel and cut the oranges small, taking out the seeds. Put a layer in a glass-bowl and wet with wine, then strew with sugar. Next, put a layer of grated cocoanut, slice the bananas thin, and cover the cocoanut with them. When the dish has been filled in this order, heap with cocoanut. Eat soon or the oranges will toughen.
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One quarter pound of macaroons or six small sponge- cakes, sherry, one pint of cream, five ounces of lump sugar, two large tablespoonfuls of arrowroot, the rind of one lemon, the juice of half lemon, three tablespoonfuls of milk. Lay the macaroons or sponge-cakes in a glass dish, and pour over them as much sherry as will cover them, or sufficient to soak them well. Put the cream into a lined saucepan, with the sugar and lemon rind, and let it remain by the side of the fire until the cream is well flavored, when take out the lemon-rind. Mix the arrowroot smoothly with the coid milk ; add this to the cream, and let it boil gently for about three minutes, keeping it well stirred. Take it off the fire, stir till nearly cold, when add the lemon-juice, and pour the whole over the cakes. Garnish the cream with strips of angelica, or candied citron cut thin, or bright-colored jelly or preserve. This cream is exceedingly delicious, flavored with vanilla instead of lemon : when this flavoring is used,
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the sherry may be omitted, and the mixture poured over the dry cakes.
ITALIAN CREAM.
Take one quart of cream, one pint of milk s.weetened very sweet, and highly seasoned with sherry wine and vanilla ; beat it with a whip dasher, and remove the froth as it rises, until it is all converted into froth. Have ready one box of Cox's sparkling gelatine dissolved in a little warm water; set your frothed cream into a tub of ice ; pour the gelatine into it, and stir constantly until it thickens, then pour into moulds, and set in a cool place.
"WHIPPED CREAM.
Mix one pint of cream with nine tablespoons of fine sugar and one gill of wine in a large bowl ; whip these with the
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cream dasher, and as the froth rises, skim into the dish in which it is to be served. Fill the dish full to the top, and ornament with kisses or macaroons.
TIPSY CAKE.
One moulded sponge or Savoy cake, sufficient sweet wine or sherry to soak it, six tablespoonfuls of brandy, two ounces of sweet almonds, one pint of rich custard. Procure a cake that is three or four days old — either sponge, Savoy, or rice answering for the purpose of a tipsy cake. Cut the bottom of the cake level, to make it stand firm in the dish ; make a small hole in the centre, and pour in and over the cake sufficient sweet wine or sherry, mixed with the above proportion of brandy, to soak it nice- ly. When the cake is well soaked, blanch and cut the al- monds into strips, stick them all over the cake, and pour round it a good custard, allowing eight eggs instead of five to the pint of milk. The cakes are sometimes crumbled and soaked, and a whipped cream heaped over them, the same as for trifles.
SNOW PYRAMIDS.
Beat to a stiff foam the whites of half a dozen eggs, add a small teacupful of currant jelly, and whip all to- gether again. Fill as many saucers as you have guests half full of cream, dropping in the centre of each saucer a tablespoonful of the beaten eggs and jelly in the shape of a pyramid.
AN EXCELLENT DESSERT.
One can or twelve large peaches, two coffeecups of sugar, one pint of water, and the whites of three eggs ; break the peaches with and stir all the ingredients to- gether; freeze the whole into form; beat the eggs t« 4 froth.
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One teacup of sweet milk, one tablespoon of sweet light dough dissolved in milk, three eggs beaten separately, one teaspoon of salt, one and a half teacups of flour, one table- spoon of sugar, and the grated peel of a lemon, peeled ap- ples sliced without the core ; drop into hot lard with a piece of apple in each one ; sprinkle with powdered or spiced su« gar. Let them stand after making and they will be lighter. Good.
JELLY-CAKE FRITTERS.
Some stale sponge, or plain cup cake, cut into rounds with a cake-cutter. Hot lard, strawberry or other jam, or jelly, a little boiling milk. Cut the cake carefully and fry a nice brown. Dip each slice for a second in a bowl of boiling milk, draining this off on the side of the vessel ; lay on a hot dish and spread thickly with strawberry jam, peach jelly, or other delicate conserve. Pile them neatly and send around hot, with cream to pour over them. This is a nice way of using up stale cake, and if rightly prepared, the dessert is almost equal to Neapol tan pudding.
PEACH MERINGUE.
Pare and quarter (removing stones) a quart of sound, ripe peaches, place them all in a clish that it will not in- jure to set in the oven and yet be suitable to place on the table. Sprinkle the peaches with sugar, and cover them well with the beaten whites of three eggs. Stand the clish in the oven, until the eggs have become a delicate brown, then remove and, when cool enough, set the dish on ice, in a very cool place. Take the yolks of the eggs, add to them a pint of milk, sweeten and flavor and boil same in a custard kettle, being careful to
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keep the eggs from curdling. When cool, pour into a glass pitcher and serve^ with the meringue when ready to use.
CHARLOTTE RUSSE.
Whip one quart rich cream to a stiff froth, and drain well on a nice sieve. To one scant pint of milk add six eggs beaten very light; make very sweet; flavor high with vanilla. Cook over hot water till it is a thick cus- tard. Soak one full ounce Cox's gelatine in a very little water, and warm over hot water. When the custard is very cold, beat in lightly the gelatine and the whipped cream. Line the bottom of your mould with buttered paper, the sides with sponge cake or lady-fingers fastened together with the white of an egg. Fill with the cream, put in a cold place or in summer on ice. To turn out dip the mould for a moment in hot water. In drain- ing the whipped cream, all that drips through can be rewhippe'i
JELLIED GRAPES.
A very delicate dish is made of one-third of a cup of rice, two cups of grapes, half a cup of water, and two spoons of sugar. Sprinkle the rice and -sugar among the grapes, while placing them in a deep dish; pour on the water, cover close and simmer two hours slowly in the oven. Serve cream as sauce, or cold as pudding. If served warm as pudding, increase slightly the proportion of rice and sugar.
JELLY AND CUSTARD.
One-half package of gelatine, soaked in water enough to cover it, when soaked pour one pint of boiling water over it, then add one cup of white sugar and squeeze the juice of one large lemon into it and a little essence of lemon and set aside to stiffen.
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Make a custard with a pint and a half of milk, the yolks of three eggs, one tablespoonful of corn-starch ; sugar and flavoring. When the jelly is set, and just be- fore using, cut the jelly into squares, laying them in layers at intervals in the bottom of the dish, then pour in some of the cold «ustard, another layer of jelly, and so on until the custard is all used. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, adding two or three teaspoonfuls of con- fectioner's sugar and lay on in pieces with jelly between. All these receipts are best when prepared in a tin set inside of another in which there is a little water to prevent danger of burning.
LEMON TOAST.
Take the yolks of six eggs, beat them well and add three cups of sweet milk ; take baker's bread not too stale and cut into slices ; dip them into the milk and eggs, and lay the slices into a spider, with sufficient melted butter, hot, to fry a nice delicate brown ; take the whites of the six eggs, and beat them to a froth, adding a large cup of white sugar ; add the juice of two lemons, heating well, and adding two cups boiling water. Serve over the toast as a sauce, and you will find it a very delicious dish. 9
DISH OF SNOWWHIPFED CREAM.
To the whites of three eggs beaten to a froth, add a pint of cream and four tablespoonfuls of sweet wine, with three of fine white sugar and a teaspoonful of extract of lemon or vanilla ; whip it to a froth and serve in a glass dish ; serve jelly or jam with it. Or lay lady-fingers or sliced sponge- cake in a glass dish, put spoonfuls of jelly or jam over, and heap the snow upon it.
OMELET FOR DESSERT
Beat six eggs light, add a teaspoonful of salt, and four or five macaroons pounded fine, beat them well to*
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gether ; fry as usual ; stew plentifully with sugar, serve.
JELLY FRITTERS.
Make a batter of two eggs, a pint of milk, and a pint bowl of wheat flour or more, beat it light ; $ut a tablespoonf ul lard or beef fat in a frying or on.elet pan, add a saltspoonfwl of salt, make it boiling hot, put in the batter by the large spoonful, not too close ; when one side is a delicate brown, turn the other ; when done, take them on to a dish with a doily over it, put a dess 'spoonful of firm jelly or jam on each and serve.
PRESERVES, CANNED FRUITS, JELLY.
TO PRESERVE PLUMS WITHOUT THE SKINS.
Pour boiling water over large egg or magnum bonum plums, cover them until it is cold, then pull off the skins. Make a syrup of a pound of sugar and a teacup of water for each pound of fruit, make it boiling hot, and pour it over ; let them remain for a day or two, then drain it off and boil again; skim it clear and pour it hot over plums ; let them remain until the next day, then put them over the fire in the syrup, boil them very gently until clear ; take them from the syrup with a skimmer into the pots or jars ; boil the syrup until rich and thick, take off any scum which may rise, then let it cool and settle, and pour it over the plums. If brown sugar is used which is quite as good except for greengages, clarify it as directed.
TO PRESERVE PURPLE PLUMS.
Make a syrup of clean brown sugar, clarify it as di- rected in these receipts ; when perfectly clear and boil- ing hot, pour it over the plums, having picked out all unsound ones, and stems ; let them remain in the syrup two days, then drain it off; make it boiling hot, skim it and pour it over again ; let them remain another day or two, then put them in a preserving kettle over the fire,
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and simmer gc-ntly until the syrup is reduced and thick er rich. One pound of sugar for each pound of plums. Small damsons are very fine, preserved as cherries or any other ripe fruit ; clarify the syrup and when boiling hot put in the plums ; let them boil very gently until they are cooked and the syrup rich. Put them in pots or jars; the next day secure as directed.
PRESERVED GREENGAGES IN SYRUP.
To every pound of fruit allow one pound of loaf sugar, one quarter pint of water. Boil the sugar and water to- gether for about ten minutes ; divide the greengages, take out the stones, put the fruit into the syrup, and let it sim- mer gently until nearly tender. Take it off the fire, put it into a large pan, and, the next day, boil it up again for about ten minutes with the kernels from the stones, which should be blanched. Put the fruit carefully into jars, pour over it the syrup, and, when cold, cover down, so that the air is quite excluded. Let the syrup be well skimmed both the first and second day of boiling, otherwise it will not be clear.
TO PRESERVE CHERRIES IN SYRUP.
Four pounds of cherries, three pounds of sugar, one pint of white-currant juice. Let the cherries be as clear and as transparent as possible, and perfectly ripe ; pick off the stalks, and remove the stones, damaging the fruit as little as yoi' can. Make a syrup with the above propor- tion of sugar, mix the cherries with it, and boil them for about fifteen minutes, carefully skimming them; turn, them g