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PAGE. CANDY.
Rye Bread 56 PAGE.
Laplanders 57 Caramels 67
Corn Buns 57 Sugar Candy 67
Maryland Biscuits 57 Conserve of Roses 67
Boiled Boston Brown Bread 57 Maple Sugar Caramel 67
Everton Toffee 67
EGGS, CHEESE, ETC. Molasses Candy 68
Pop-Corn Balls 68
Beauregard Eggs 57
Butter Scotch 68
Bengal Omelette 5°
Peanut Candy 68
Eggs au Beune Noir 5°
Nougat 68
Omelette Souffle 58
Oyster Omelette 58
BEVERAGES.
StuffedEggs 58
Eggs en Timbale 59 Cherry Bounce 69
Baked Eggs 59 One Gallon of Apple Toddy 6g
Cheese Omelette 59 Mint Cordial or Julep 69
Scalloped Eggs 59
Noyau Cordial 69
Eggs upon Toast 59 Apple Toddy 70
Creamed Eggs 60 New York Union League Punch 70
Croquettes of Maccaroni and A Good Punch 70
Cheese 60 Roman Punch 70
Cheese Straws 60 Roman Punch 70
Cheese Souffle 61 Philadelphia Fish House Punch... 70
Welsh Rarebit (for Five) 61 Punch 71
Confederate Punch 71
PICKLES, SWEETMEATS, Hot Punch 71
Claret Cup 71
ETC. Champagne Cup. 71
" Chericoke " Pickle Liquor. ... 61 Tea Punch 72
Stuffing for Forty Mangoes 62 Egg Nog -72
German Damsons 64
Tomato Catsup (made without CONFEDERATE RECIPES.
cooking)
Tomato Catsup
64
64
BY WAY OF CONTRAST.
Sweet Pickled Peaches 65 Confederate Candle 74
Sweet Pickle of Grapes 65 Hard-Tack Cakes 74
Brandy Peaches 65 Confederate Blacking 74
Brandy Peaches 65 Confederate Ink 74
Dewberry or Grape Wine 66 Raspberry Leaf Tea 74
Raspberry Vinegar 66 Sweet Potato CofTee 74
Rye Coffee 74
COLOGNE 66
INDEX.
SOUPS. PAGE.
PAGE. Roast Oysters 10
Bouillon I Fricasse of Oysters 10
Green Pea Soup i Spiced Oysters 11
Spinach Soup I Oyster Salad 11
Bisque of Clams i Creamed Oysters 11
Oyster Bisque 2 Oyster Stew 11
Colonial Oyster Soup 2 Terrapins (about five) 12
Oyster Gumbo 2 To Dress Terrapins 12
Okra Gumbo, New Orleans 2 Terrapin Calapash 12
Sassafras, or File Gumbo 3 Shrimp Stew 12
Okra Gumbo 3 Shrimp a la Newburg 12
Crab Gumbo 3 Tomatoes Stuffed With Shrimp.. 13
Crab Gumbo 3 Shrimp Baked With Tomatoes. . . 13
Bisque of Lobster 4
Bisque of Crabs 4 MEATS. ENTREES, GAME.
Crab Soup 4 Filet de Boeuf a la Mexicaine. ... 13
Cat Fish Soup 5 Spiced Beef 13
Battenburg Soup 5 Spiced Beef 14
Queen Victoria's Soup 5 Beef Stew 14
Chestnut Soup 5 Brunswick Stew 14
Hunter's Round 14
FISH. Spiced Round of Beef for Christ-
Sheepshead 6 mas 15
Cusque a la Creme 6 Beefsteak Rolled and Stuffed 15
Cusque a la Creme 6 A New Ham Stuffed 15
Baked Red Snapper, or Sheeps- Cheese Souse 16
head 7 Roast Pig 16
Fish Timbal in Ring Form 7 Veal Rolls 16
Sea Bass, or Blackfish Chowder... 7 Veal Cutlets 16
Baked Shad 8 Veal Cutlets 17
Stewed Lobster 8 Larded Liver 17
Lobster Farcie 8 Baked Calf's Head 17
Lobster a la Newburg 8 Mock Terrapin Stew 17
Lobster Bourdelaise 9
Lobster Croquettes 9 SWEETBREADS.
Deviled Lobster 9 Baked Sweetbreads 18
Pickled Oysters 9 Bewitched Veal 18
Deviled Oysters 10 Sweetbreads 18
Oysters Deviled in the Shell 10 Croquettes 19
Oyster Croquettes 10 Deviled Chicken With Sauce 19
PAGE. SALADS AND SAUCES.
^9 PAGE.
Chicken Croquettes
Timbale of Chicken ^9 Mock Pineapple Salad 28
20 Lobster Salad 29
A Ragout to Fill Pates, etc
20
Chicken Livers Fruit Salad 29
Chicken Terrapin 20 Chicken Salad 29
Valencian Rice 20 Tomato Jelly 29
Boudins ^^ Water Cress Salad 30
Chicken Galatine 21 Beet and Bean Salad 30
Partridges 21 Cauliflower Salad 30
Partridge Pudding 21 Bean Salad 30
Partridges With Oysters 22 Potato Salad 30
Soufflee de Foie Gras 22 Asparagus Salad 31
Larded Calf's Liver 22 Lettuce Salad 31
Tongue a la Terrapin (Beckie) ... 22 Chicken Salad (Careme's Recipe) 31
Soufflee of Partridges 23 Sauce Mayonnaise 31
Pimento Dulci Farci (Spanish French Dressing for Salads 31
Sweet Pepper) 23 Truffle Sauce 31
Horseradish Sauce 2i^
Sauce for Fish 32
VEGETABLES. Hot Spice 32
Indian Mustard 32
Spinach ^2>
Sauce Robert ^2
.Spinach Soufflee 23
Sweet Sauce for Venison t,^
Cabbage Pudding 2Z Sauce Tartare t,t,
SOUPS.
BOUILLON.
Put into a stock pot three pounds of shin of beef, one pound of a
knuckle of veal, and three quarts of water, and simmer gently. As
soon as the scum begins to rise, skim carefully until it quite ceases to
appear. Then add salt, two carrots, two onions, leeks, turnips and a
little celery. Simmer gently for four hours, strain and serve.
until all the pulp has passed through then throw away the skins, and
;
return the pot to the fire. There must be a piece of meat boiled with
—
the peas either a piece of middling the size of your hand or a shin of
cold cooked veal, or lamb. Season with salt and pepper and a little
bunch of thyme, parsley and mint, which take out when soup is
dished. The soup must be thickened with a little flour, egg and milk,
as chicken soup is. After the peas are passed through the cullender
cut up the middling into bits and return to the soup.
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SPINACH SOUP. ,
BISQUE OF CLAMS.
fifty clams in their juice for five minutes, drain them, chop them
Boil
fine,and pound them. Put in a saucepan on the fire four ounces of but-
ter, two ounces of flour, add clams and juice, with salt, pepper and
cayenne and two pints and a half of milk. Stir constantly and just
before coming to a boil remove from the fire, strain, heat again, and
serve. An oyster bisque can be made in the same way.
RECIPES —OLD AND NEW.
OYSTER BISQUE.
Take one pint of white stock, one pint of oysters, one cup of milk,
two eggs, salt, pepper, chopped parsley, one heaping cup of bread
crumbs and one large spoonful of butter, rubbed in flour. Strain the
stock, add the bread crumbs and set over the fire in a farina boiler. In
another vessel heat the oyster liquor, and when it simmers add the
oysters chopped fine and cook for twenty minutes. In a third vessel
scald the milk stir into this the floured butter
; boil up sharply and
;
pour upon the beaten eggs. Set in hot water while you turn the oysters
and liquor into the kettle, containing the stock and crumbs and cook
together ; then put in the parsley and seasoning. Finally pour in milk
and eggs and let the soup stand in hot water several minutes, but it
half done take a piece of butter the size of a tea cup and put it into as
much flour as will thicken it, skimming the soup well before thickening
it. Season with pepper, salt, mace. Just before you take it off add a
half pint of rich cream, taking care that it does not turn.
Mrs. Carroll's Recipe.
OYSTER GUMBO.
Cut up a chicken, sprinkle with flour, and fry in the vessel in which
the gumbo is made. When the chicken is nearly done, chop an onion
and fry with it. Pour on this three quarts of boiling water and let it
boil slowly, till the flesh leaves the bones; then add the liquor from the
oysters; salt and pepper to taste; two tablespoonfuls of tomato
catsup; let this boil a short time; then add one hundred oysters
and allow them to boil only £ve minutes. When taken from the fire,
and before pouring into the tureen, sprinkle in two tablespoonfuls of
file or sassafras powder. Mrs. M. M. Green.
OKRA GUMBO— New Orleans.
Cut up a chicken, and carefully fry it add very little onion
; pepper
;
and salt to the taste. Take a few of the young and tender leaves of the
okra, scald them and chop them very fine. Add them to the fricasse
with a little broth stir it sometimes, then add the rest of the broth,
;
and let it boil till the okra becomes quite soft. Gumbo may be made
—
of almost anything cold meat will answer as well as fresh. The
chicken and turkey, with oysters, is the best. A little ham improves it,
when put into the gumbo.
RECIPES —OLD AND NEW.
season with onions, tomatoes, salt and pepper to taste thicken with
;
a very little flour. When boiling hot, add the sassafras powder, until it
appears to fry (shaking the powder in the soup by degrees until enough,
stirring all the while). Serve with a dish of dry boiled rice. Adding
oysters to the chicken gumbo long enough to cook them, before putting
in the sassafras powder is a great improvement. Young sassafras leaves
can be gathered in ihe summer time, dried in the shade, then pounded
and sifted fine as flour, and bottled.
Mrs. W. a. Fisher.
OKRA GUMBO.
Cut up and wash dry a large fat chicken flour it well
; salt and ;
take out the pieces of chicken and put in the skillet two dozen pods of
sliced okra and one onion. Fry brown, but not burn then put all in a
;
soup pot. with five quarts of water, a few tomatoes and some grated
corn boil slowly for three hours.
: Serve with a dish of dry rice.
Mrs. W. a. Fisher.
CRAB GUMBO.
Six crabs boiled in two gallons of water. Strain the water the crabs
are boiled in, add one pound beef, one quart gumbo, one dozen toma-
toes, one onion, one pod red pepper, thyme, parsley and black pepper
to taste. An hour before serving put in the crabs and add a piece of
butter. This soup should cook six hours.
A Colonial Recipe.
CRAB GUMBO.
Take one dozen large crabs, one cup of butter, and two or three
onions. Wash the crabs, taking care to get them freefrom sand take ;
ofif the feelers and gills and divide the crabs into quarters ;
brown the
onions in the butter, with two tablespoonfuls of flour. Put in the
crabs with about a handful of chopped ham. Fill up the pot with three
quarts of cold water. Just before serving, sift in about two tablespoon-
fuls of file. Do not let it boil after the file is put in. Serve with rice.
Mrs. M. M. Green.
RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
BISQUE OF LOBSTER.
Procure two large, live lobsters; chop them up while raw, shells and
all put them into a mortar with three-fourths of a pound of butter,
;
three raw eggs and a quarter of a pound of cold boiled rice pound to ;
to taste. Boil one quart of cream, whisk it into the soup taste again ;
for seasoning pour it into a hot soup tureen and send to table.
;
BISQUE OF CRABS.
Boil twelve hard-shell crabs for thirty minutes, and drain ; when
cold, break them apart, pick out the meat carefully, scrape off all fat
adhering to the upper shell, and save these for deviled crabs. Set the
crab meat aside put the under shell and the claws in a mortar, with
;
pour it through a sieve and work as much of the pulp through the sieve
as possible. Place the soup on the range to keep warm, but not to boil.
Beat up the yolk of one egg and add it slowly to a quart of warm
milk previously boiled, whisk the milk into the soup taste for season-;
ing. Now take the crab meat and beat it in a little boiling water, drain,
put it into a hot soup tureen, pour the soup over it, and serve.
CRAB SOUP.
Boil three pints of milk then add the meat of a dozen picked crabs.
;
Boil five minutes. Rub a tablespoonful and a half of fiour with a quar-
ter of a pound of butter soften with hot milk and add a half pint of
;
cream, one egg beaten up, salt and cayenne pepper. Boil for one min-
ute before serving.
Judge Chambers.
RECIPES —OLD AND NEW.
BATTENBERG SOUP.
Put one calf's foot and three pounds of round of beef into a stew pan,
with three carrots, three onions stuck with four cloves, celery, parsley,
a bay leaf and thyme, a small piece of mace, salt and pepper. Then
add three quarts and a half of water. Boil all very gently then take ;
out the foot and wash it Take out all the bones and put
in cold water.
them back in the stock. Let it simmer for three hours very gently ;
cut up the foot in small pieces and put them into a bowl with a little
stock. Leave this till next day then strain the stock, take off all the
;
fat.Thicken the soup with flour and cream. Put in the pieces of foot,
one glass of sherry, and a teacupful of cream.
Serve very hot.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S SOUP.
One cup chopped chicken meat, one pint (or more) of strong
of
chicken broth, one cup of sweet cream, one half cup of bread crumbs
(or less).
Yolks of three eggs, one teaspoonful of salt, one half saltspoonful of
pepper. Put the bread crumbs to soak in the cream, mash the hard
boiled yolks of the eggs. Mix all these ingredients with the broth, add
the chopped chicken, pour into a double boiler and cook for ten
minutes.
Serve very hot.
CHESTNUT SOUP.
Remove the outer peel or coating from twenty-five Italian chest-
nuts ;
pour scalding water over them and rub off the inner coating.
Put them into a saucepan with one quart of soup stock, and boil for
three-quarters of an hour, drain, rub them through a colander, then
through a sieve, with one tablespoonful of cracker dust or pound to
;
stock in which they were boiled add one pint more of stock
; boil ;
FISH.
SHEEPSHEAD.
Put into a chafing dish a well cleaned fish cut up and salted. Put in
enough water to cook it well and when done there should be very little
water left. Add then a cup of tomato catsup, a tablespoonful of butter
and a little cayenne pepper. Or in place of the catsup use half a pint
of claret and a little spice.
CUSK A LA CREME.
Take a rock fish and rub it well with salt put it into a kettle with
:
enough boiling water to cover it. As soon as it boils put it on one side,
where it will just simmer let it stand for an hour then take it up and
; ;
draw out all its bones. Put one ounce of flour into a saucepan, to which
add by degrees one quart of cream, mixing it very smoothly then ;
add the juice of one lemon, one onion chopped fine, a bunch of parsley,
a little nutmeg, salt and pepper. Put this on the fire till it forms a thick
sauce ; stir in a quarter of a pound of butter. Strain the sauce through
a sieve ;
put a little on the dish ;then lay the fish on the dish and turn
the sauce over it. Beat to a froth the whites of six eggs and spread over
the whole ;set in the oven and bake half an hour. Be careful to bake it
only a very light color.
This is a very handsome dish for company : it is very nice without the
eggs, but not so handsome.
Mrs. Putnam.
CUSQUE""A la CREME.
Two or three pounds of halibut, one quart of milk, one teacupful of
flour, two small onions, a quarter of a pound of butter, nutmeg, salt,
pepper, bread crumbs. Boil the halibut in water into which a little salt
has been thrown. When done flake it in fine flakes from the bones. Put
the milk and onion, (chopped fine.) in a stew pan. Let the milk come to
a scald; then add flour, made smooth with a little cold water, and sea-
soning. Stir until it thickens; then add butter. Strain through a sieve.
Put some of the mixture in the dish in which it is to be served; then put
alternate layers of fish and sauce, finishing with the sauce on top. Cover
with bread crumbs and place in the oven to brown. A little wine added
to the seasoning is an improvement.
Miss Murdoch.
RECIPES — OLD AXD NEW,
salt to taste. Salt the fish, put in a baking-pan and stuff it with the
potato dressing sprinkle a little
; flour over it. Put in the pan with the
fish two tablespoonfuls of butter, two dessertspoonfuls of sweet oil, a
dozen tomatoes sliced, or half a can of prepared tomatoes, and a teacup
of water. Bake in a moderate oven until done. When the fish is done,
slice over it three hard-boiled eggs. Stir into the gravy a tablespoonful
of tomato catsup and one of Worcestershire sauce. Pour over the fish
and it is ready for the table. Mrs. M. M. Green.
BAKED SHAD.
Lay the fish open, make a force meat of grated bread crumbs, bits of
bacon, a Httle parsley, pepper and salt, made up with yolk of egg. After
this is made spread it over the raw fish dust a little flour over that
; ;
lay it in the oven, with a little water, to bake just before it is done pour
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STEWED LOBSTER.
Break the shell of the lobster take out the vein that runs through the
;
back and put the spawn in a cup by itself. Put on the fire one pint of
milk, with very little mace. When it boils, add two teaspoonfuls of flour
mixed with the tomalley and half a teaspoonful of salt, a little mustard,
and butter the size of a walnut. Then cut up the lobster, put it into the
hot sauce for a few minutes. Before serving add one teaspoonful of
vinegar and garnish well with claws.
LOBSTER FARCIE.
Chop a small onion verj^ fine and put with a teacup of milk in a sauce-
pan on the fire to cook. Add a tablespoonful of butter, creamed with a
tablespoonful of flour, two tablespoonfuls of Worcestershire sauce and
two cooked tomatoes or tomato sauce, and a teaspoonful of curry. Have
for this quantity of sauce about six pounds of lobster chopped very fine.
Pour the sauce over it, and, if there is not enough to make it very moist,
add cream. Take two lobster shells slip one a little over the other
; :
fill with the mixture put fine bread crumbs over the top, with dots of
;
LOBSTER Ta la NEWBURG.
Split two good-sized, freshly boiled lobsters pick out all the meat
;
from the shell and cut into one-inch length pieces. Place it in a saucepan
on a hot range, with one ounce of fresh butter. Season with one
pinch of salt and half a saltspoonful of red pepper, adding two medium-
sized sound truffles cut into dice. Cook five minutes, and then add a
glass of good ^Madeira wine. Reduce to one-half, which will take three
minutes. Have three egg yolks in a bowl, with half a pint of sweet
cream beat these well together and add to the lobster. Gently shuffle
;
for a few minutes until it thickens well. Pour into a hot tureen and
serve hot.
French Recipe.
RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
LOBSTER BOURDELAISE.
Select a coral lobster of about three pounds plunge it into boiling
;
water and cool for twenty minutes. When cold, remove the meat from
the shell and cut in small bits. Also add a dozen mushrooms cut in bits.
Put in a frying-pan three tablespoonfuls of olive oil. When hot, add
three small onions cut \ery fine. Let the onions fry until a light
brown then stir in a tablespoonful of flour
; mix well ; then add, ;
slowly stirring all the while, half a pint of soup stock. Let the sauce
cool well for five minutes then remove from the fire, and stir in the
;
juice of half a lemon, and a claret glass full of white wine. Return to the
fire and add the lobster meat. Let all cook until thoroughly hot, but
do not allow it to boil. Serve on a hot dish, garnished with parsley.
LOBSTER CROQUETTES.
Chop meat of two boiled lobsters and add half a pint of
fine the
Bechamel sauce, to which you have added the yolks of two eggs well
mixed with water enough to moisten them. Then add two tablespoon-
fuls of tomato sauce, a little pepper, salt and a very little nutmeg, and
put on ice until perfectly cold. This is of the utmost importance. When
thoroughly cold, form the mixture into croquettes roll them in bread
;
crumbs beat three eggs, both yolk and white, into which dip the
;
French Recipe.
DEVILED LOBSTER.
Prepare a mixture as for lobster croquettes and mix with it a tea-
spoonful of mustard. Clean the lobster shells fill with mixture
; cover ;
lightly with mustard, on top of which sprinkle some bread crumbs and a
very little melted butter. Put into the oven, and, when colored a light
brown serve. French Recipe.
PICKLED OYSTERS.
Put one gallon of oysters with three small handfuls of salt on the fire ;
let them stew until the edges curl then take all the oysters out and
;
spice and whole pepper, equal parts of each, and a tumbler and a half of
vinegar let it boil
; then put the oysters back and let them stand a
;
short time.
Mrs. p. H. White.
10 RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
DEVILED OYSTERS.
Take blanched oysters, four ounces of butter, one tablespoonful
fifty
the oysters, and bring to a boil then put in the oysters, take ofif the fire,
;
pepper and salt, and place a lump of butter on each oyster. Have a
quick fire and they will cook in a few minutes.
OYSTER CROQUETTES.
Take twenty-five good fat oysters with one gill of their own liquor,
add parsley, salt, cayenne and nutmeg; mix well, and turn out to cool.
When cold, form into cylinders, roll first into beaten egg; then in
bread crumbs, and fry in boiling oil or fat.
ROAST OYSTERS.
Take the oysters from the shell, bread them, and put them with the
liquor into tin or shell scallops (six in a shell, not more), with a little
pepper and butter. Put the shells upon a gridiron, over a good fire,
and serve them when plump and quite hot. Squeeze a little lemon
juice over them when taken from the fire.
FRICASSEE OF OYSTERS.
Put one quart of oysters on the fire in their own liquor. The moment
it begins to boil, turn it into a hot dish through a colander, leaving
RECIPES — OLD AND NEW. 11
the oysters in the colander.Put into the saucepan two ounces of butter,
and when it bubbles, sprinkle in one tablespoonful of sifted flour; let it
cook a minute without taking color, stirring it well with a wire egg
whip ;then add, mixing well, a cupful of the oyster liquor. Take it
from the fire and mix in the yolks of two eggs, a little salt, a very little
cayenne pepper, one teaspoonful of lemon juice and one grating of nut-
meg. Beat it well then return it to the fire to set the eggs, without
;
SPICED OYSTERS.
Two hundred oysters, one pint of vinegar, a nutmeg grated, eight
blades of mace, three dozen whole cloves, one teaspoonful of salt, two
teaspoonfuls of whole allspice, and as much cayenne pepper as will lie
on the point Put the oysters, with their liquor into a large
of a knife.
earthen vessel add to them the vinegar and all the other ingredients.
;
Stir all well together and set them over a slow fire, keeping them cov-
ered. Stir them to the bottom several times. As soon as they are well
scalded, they are done. To be eaten cold.
OYSTER SAL.\D.
Cut a quart of oysters into bits, mix them with two-thirds as much
blanched, tender celery, also cut, not chopped. Put into a glass dish and
pour over it a good mayonaise dressing, serve immediately. Until the
oysters and celery are mi.xed, keep both in a very cold place.
CREAMED OYSTERS.
One pint of cream, one pint of oysters, a small piece of onion, a very
small piece of mace, a tablespoonful of flour, salt and pepper to taste.
Mix cream, onions and mace and let them come to a boil mix the flour ;
with enough cream to smooth, and stir into boiling cream let the ;
oysters come to a boil in their own liquor, and skim carefully. Drain
ofif all the liquor take mace and onion out of the cream
; then turn the ;
OYSTER STEW.
Put one cup of oyster juice, two tablespoonfuls of
in a chafing dish
celery, chopped fine, half an onion in one piece. Season with paprica
pepper, salt and a very little Worcestershire sauce. Cook until celery is
done. Add half a pint of cream and let it simmer, not boil. Add five
middle-sized oysters, (frying size,) to each portion. Take out onion,
thicken with cracker dust.
Mr.s. George Dall.\.s Dixon.
12 RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
take off the shell and pick them very carefully, so as to separate them
from the gall without breaking it. Pick the meat fine (do not chop it),
and throw it into a bowl also the feet, after they are carefully skinned,
;
and small bones to which the meat clings, and all the eggs. Then put all
this into a kettle with a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, and a little
salt let this stew slowly, and take a quarter of a pound more of butter
;
and cream it with an ounce of sifted flour, and add to the terrapins while
stewing. Just before they are served add one large wine glass of table
sherry for every terrapin. The recipe is for five diamond-back terra-
pins, and will require one quart of table sherry.
Mrs. James Nicholson.
TO DRESS TERRAPINS.
One pound of butter to two large terrapins. Salt and pepper to the
taste.
H. D. G. Carroll.
TERRAPIN CALAPASH.
The terrapin must be stewed slowly and well seasoned with a little
mace, allspice, black pepper and cayenne. Then melt one tablespoonful
of butter which has been rolled into balls with one of flour. Cook to-
gether slowly until thoroughly done; add one wineglass of wine, put
back into the upper shell, cover with cracker dust, dot with bits of but-
terand brown in the oven.
SHRIMP STEW.
One quart of shrimp, one pint of milk, one tablespoonful of butter,
one teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, one wineglass of wine. Boil
flour,
the milk, mix the flour and butter rubbed together
then add the pep- ;
per after boiling for ten minutes and place the shrimp in and boil for
ten minutes more. Just before serving put in the wine and a few
slices of lemon.
SHRIMP A LA NEWBURG.
Peel and cut in half two quarts of shrimp. Put in a saucepan on the
fire with a heaping tablespoonful of butter, saltspoonful of cayenne and
RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
four truffles cut up, if convenient. Cook five minutes; add one glass of
Sherry or Madeira and cook three minutes longer. Break into a bowl
three eggs and half a pint of cream beat well and stir in the shrimp.
;
Let it simmer, but not boil, until it thickens. Crabs can be used the
same way.
SPICED BEEF.
Get a round of beef of eighteen or twentypounds; wash and wipe
dry. Rub into it two ounces and four of brown sugar, and a
saltpetre
pint of molasses. Rub every day until all is used. Let it stand for a
day in a securely covered vessel. Then every other day for two weeks
rub in the following Two ounces ground pepper, two ounces all-
:
spice, one ounce cloves, two ounces salt then put it on a slow fire,
;
covering it with water, and all the spiced liquor in the bowl. Stew
slowly for six hours, and let it cool in the liquor.
Margaret A. Pegram.
14 KECIPES —OLD AND NEW.
SPICED BEEF.
A recipe for preparing round of beef or
fillet of veal Take a round
:
of beef or fillet and take out the bone. Then make a force
of veal
meat of stale bread grated some beef suet chopped fine, a little bacon
;
then make the rest of the force meat into balls to be set round the
beef when cooked. Bake the beef or veal in an oven. Make a brown
gravy seasoned with pepper, salt, wine and catsup, and pour over the
meat when served.
BEEF STEW.
up the rare part of the beef, both fat and lean, and let stand in
Slice
the dish and cover with water. Season it with pepper, salt and mus-
tard, sprinkling a very little flour over it. Add two tablespoonfuls oi
currant jelly a tablespoonful of brown sugar, and just before it is
;
ready to take of? the fire add a little nutmeg, a half teacup of catsup,
a half teacup of sweet pickle and a cupful of wine.
BRUNSWICK STEW.
To two quarts of water add one chicken cut up two slices of fat
;
bacon cut in small pieces. Let it boil gently for four hours then
;
add half a pint of ripe tomatoes, half a pint of lima beans, three ears of
cut corn, a teaspoonful of salt, pepper and sugar, a lump of butter the
size of a hen's egg. Let this boil one hour then take out all the
;
bones and serve. Two and a half pounds of veal may be used instead
of the chicken.
Mrs. Dallam.
HUNTER'S ROUND.
Rub well into a round of beef weighing fortypounds three ounces
of saltpetre, and let it stand five or six hours. Pound three ounces of
allspice, one of black pepper and mix that with twenty pounds of
salt and seven or eight pounds of brown sugar. Rub the beef well
with this mixture and pack it down to stay fourteen days. Scrape off
the spices, place it in a deep pan, cover it with a common paste, and
bake for eight or ten hours. When cool wrap in a linen cloth and keep
it in a cool place. This will keep well for several weeks.
Mrs. M. M. Green.
RECIPES — OLD A>fD NEW. 15
out with a very sharp knife make slits radiating from the centre cut
; ;
to within half an inch of the bottom. Rub the centre and the slits thor-
oughly with the saltpetre. Have the suet shredded, but keep the pieces
la:rge. Mix the salt and spices and sugar together and fill the hole
in the centre and the slits with alternate layers of suet and this mixture.
It must be packed in very tight by a strong hand. It must then be
pressed together very closely and bound round with a strip of some
strong stuff and corded to keep in shape. The whole entirely covered
with the cloth. Put in a strong brine (such as butchers prepare for
their meats). Have it boiled the day before Christmas, without remov-
ing the cloths, which are not taken off till the next day when perfectly
cold. Have it nicely trimmed of? by cutting the dark surface on top.
Decorate with fancy carrot shapes, sliced lemon and parsley.
Mrs. Hugh Lee.
then over half of the steak spread a layer of good force meat. Roll
the steak up carefully tie or skewer it to keep it in shape and bake in
;
the oven, basting frequently with butter. Have some good brown
gravy ;
pour part in the dish around the steak and send the rest to the
table in the gravy boat. In carving begin at the end of the roll.
Old English Recipe.
CHEESE SOUSE.
Take the fresh head and jowl and boil them with
salt, pepper and a
and strain the liquor and season with allspice, cloves and pounded
thyme and a little red pepper. Return the meat to the pot in which
the liquor is, and boil down to a thick jelly; then put it into a mould.
Mrs. George Evelyn H.\rrison Brandon.
ROAST PIG.
Take a pig of about eight or ten pounds
clean well, leaving on the
;
VEAL ROLLS.
Take ten or twelve little thin slices of veal, lay on them some force
meat, according to your fancy roll them up and tie them across the
;
over with the yolks of eggs flour them and baste them with butter.
;
Half an hour will cook them. Lay them in a dish and have ready some
good gravy with a few mushrooms and truffles. Garnish with lemon.
Old English Recipes.
VEAL CUTLETS.
Three pounds of veal for ten people. Cut the veal fillet in four parts
rectangularly, and slice very thin slices, shaping as prettily as pos-
in
sible. Pound each piece with a potato masher egg and bread-crumb ;
them as for croquettes and fry a light brown in a little butter and lard.
Boil all trimmings in about a pint of water a couple of hours and
strain. Cream butter the size of a small egg and a tablespoonful of
RECIPES — OLD AND NEW. 17
flonr. Brown it and add to this stock, stirring all the while, and strain
again. Add about a tablespoonful of the veal, of which the stock
has been made, chopped very two or three mushrooms and a
fine,
couple of queen olives, all chopped very fine. Keep this gravy on the
stove in a pan of water and pour on the meat after it is dished for the
table. Slice olives, taking the two broad slices to make a garland
round the dish and the narrow slices to decorate each fillet.
VEAL CUTLETS.
Cut the cutlets into convenient pieces. Dip them into well-beaten
eggs and cover with fine bread crumbs, and fry them brown then ;
put into a saucepan some pieces of raw veal and the bones on this ;
carefully lay the fried cutlets. Add the rind of half a lemon, half a
carrot, half a turnip, an onion cut very fine, a teaspoonful of walnut
catsup, a little salt, a shade of cayenne, and a teaspoonful of capers,
or of chopped pickles; barely cover with cold water and simmer slowly
until tender, which will be in two or three hours. When ready to serve
pour the gravy around them ir^ the dish and sprinkle over them the
finely mashed yolks of two hard-boiled eggs and some capers.
LARDED LIVER.
Lard a sheep's or calf's liver with bacon. Cover with thin slices of
bacon, bake it. basting well ; brown some sliced parboiled sweet po-
tatoes in the pan at the same time. Serve with a brown gravy, and the
sweet potatoes for a garnish around it
mix them with the meat, when it is carefully picked from the bones ;
bake a light brown. Garnish with sliced lemon and hard-boiled egg.
Mrs. Hugh Lee.
MOCK TERRAPIN STEW.
Half of a calf's liver cut in slices ; dip the slices in flour, to which has
been added and pepper, and fry brown in lard, turning very often
salt ;
when cold, chop rather fine together, with two hard-boiled eggs ;
SWEETBREADS.
BAKED SWEETBREADS.
Take three large white sweetbreads lay them in warm water for an
;
hour and a half. Then put them into boiling water and let them sim-
mer for ten minutes. Then take them out, drain them, dip in beaten egg;
sprinkle with bread crumbs, repeating this until they are sufficiently
covered. Drop a little melted butter on them and bake in a moderate
oven. Serve on toast on a hot dish, with a nice brown gravy poured
around but not over them.
BEWITCHED VEAL.
Chop together three pounds of lean veal, half a pound of salt pork,
one ounce of butter, one small onion, adding half a teaspoonful grated
nutmeg, a little cayenne and salt to taste. When the meat is finely
chopped, mix all together with three well-heaten eggs and a scant
half pint of milk. Work the ingredients well together and pour into
a loaf, pressing firmly into shape. Cover it with finely grated bread
crumbs and bake for about two and a half hours. To be eaten cold,
cut in thin slices.
SWEETBREADS.
Take a knuckle of veal, with two onions and a piece of bacon. Pour
on it three pints of water, which must cook it. When it boils to a jelly,
strain the meat from the gravy. You must avoid adding any more
water. Take a spoonful of browning and add it to the gravy. Take
the eight sweetbreads, cut off the gristle and pour on them boiling
water, and then throw them into cold water. Then lard them on one
side. Salt the gravy lay the sweetbreads in a spider or bellmetal
;
— —
saucepan not to touch each other the larded side down. Let them
stew slowly, turning when they are done on one side. At first a little
gravy must be kept back in case it dries up. They must only be
turned once. They must be cooked slowly, so as to avoid burning
them. After cooking an hour take them out and lay them at the back
of the stove to simmer. They must be glazed with some of the
gravy. The knuckle should be cooked all day or the day before.
]^Irs. von Kapff.
RECIPES — OLD AND NEW. 19
CROQUETTES.
One tongue, seven sweetbreads. Boil the tongue five hours ; boil
the sweetbreads till quite tender. Chop them up together into a soft
paste. Beat up two eggs quite light mix in with it some
butter and
;
cut into pieces ; these pieces are basted with butter and broiled.
Sauce. —
One teaspoonful of made mustard, two tablespoonfuls of
Worcestershire sauce, three tablespoonfuls of vinegar boil all to- ;
gether and pour over the chicken. Or boil the chicken, cut into pieces,
pepper and salt them, roll them in flour, saute them in a little hot lard,
and serve cream sauce, the same as for fried spring chicken.
CHICKEN CROQUETTES.
Two chickens and two sets of brains, both boiled
one teacupful of ;
red pepper to taste. Chop the meat very fine mix all well together ;
;
add cream until moist enough to mould them dip them into beaten ;
egg, and roll them in pounded cracker or bread crumbs fry in boil- ;
ing lard.
TIMBALE OF CHICKEN.
Chop and then pound in a mortar half a pound of the white meat
fine
ot a chicken, removing all skin and sinews add to the chicken very;
utes or until the mixture is firm enough to turn out of the moulds.
Serve with a sauce supreme or a sauce Allemande.
For timbale of partridge proceed exactly as for timbale of chicken.
20 RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
CHICKEN LIVERS.
Chop a small onion,and fry it in butter without allowing it to color ;
put in the livers and some parsley, and fry until they are done take
;
out the livers, add a little hot water or stock to the onions and parsley ;
thicken it with some flour strain, season and pour over the livers.
;
CHICKEN TERRAPIN.
Boil two chickens until tender. Let them get cold, then cut into
small pieces. Take the yolks of six eggs, and, after beating well, set
them aside.Rub together two tablespoonfuls of flour and a half pound
of butter. Heat one pint of milk and when it has come to a boil stir
the butter and flour into it. Take from the fire and stir in beaten yolks,
seasoning with one saltspoonful of salt, and a dash of cayenne pepper
and four gratings of nutmeg. Put the saucepan containing the mix-
ture back upon the fire, and stir in the chopped chicken. Let the
mixture heat, but not come to a boil. Before serving put in half a
pint of sherry or madeira wine.
VALENCIAN RICE.
Chop medium-sized tomatoes rather fine. Have ready some lard
six
very hot in a skillet, add the tomatoes and a cup of well washed rice.
Cook until the rice becomes a beautiful golden brown and each grain
separate. Boil a young chicken, skin and take ofif all the fat, cut in
pieces and put on one side to keep warm. Just cover the rice and to-
matoes with some of the stock, the chicken was boiled in. Add some
parsley, green peas, carrots and tender celery cut in dice, then add the
chicken and let it cook thoroughly. When done take ofif the top and
let the steam come out. Never touch with a spoon, only shake from
time to time. Put it in a baking dish embedding the chicken in the
rice arranging on the top a piece of pepper and slices of fried bananas.
Garnish with slices of carrots and red peppers to represent the Spanish
colors, red and yellow.
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BOUDINS.
Three pounds of turkey or chicken breast, three sweet breads, one
coffee cup of cream, three ounces butter, one can champignons, three
eggs. Salt and pepper to taste. Run the meat through a grinder until
well mixed. Add the other ingredients. Use half of the liquor from
champignons, put into small moulds and cook in boiling water half an
hour. Make a white sauce and put into it some of the champignons
and a few trufifles. When you take out of the moulds pour the sauce
hot over them before using.
White Sauce.
One cream or milk, three ounces
pint of chicken stock, one-half pint
butter, two tablespoonfuls of flour. Mix and butter thoroughly
flour
together, then stir into chicken stock and milk, and cook until it
thickens.
CFIICKEN GALATINE.
One large chicken boiled and cut fine quarter of a pound of fine
;
smoked tongue, mix with the chicken, flavor with salt, pepper and
celery seed. Take the water the chicken was boiled in, boil down
untilreduced to half a pint, dissolve in it two tablespoons of gelatine.
Line a bowl with slices of hard boiled eggs, put the meat in. pouring
the liquor over it put in the ice chest to harden. Serve sliced on a
;
PARTRIDGE PUDDING.
Line pudding dish with a good suet crust and fill with partridges,
cut into neat joints and little pieces of ham and bacon, kidneys,
oysters, etc. Season with pepper, salt and a little grated lemon peel
and onion. Cover with suet crust and either boil or steam.
22 RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
when heated thoroughly set them on a dish, cut three slits on each
side of the breast bone and insert in these a little red pepper with the
juice of one half a lemon. Roast for thirty minutes. Blanch a dozen
and a half good, large oysters. Lay them in a stewpan with a spoon-
ful of grated ham and a gill of good gravy. Dish the partridges and
pour the sauce round them. Serve with raspberry or currant jelly.
of good stock. Beat the mixture about ten minutes, and place in
mould. Let it stand on ice three or four hours. Turn and serve. This
dish may be varied by cooling jelly in the mould before putting in the
mixture. Also you can whip half a pint of clear consomme or chicken
broth, which should be jellied, with half a pint of good stock jellied, till
both are light and spongy. Add this to a pint of stiff, whipped crearn,
cayenne and a pinch of salt and a small tin of pate de foie gras. Stir
together lightly and use around the mould as a garnish.
lump of lard, a very little water and a little sweet marjorum or thyme.
Simmer slowly five or six hours.
the tongue in it the next day, towarm, about an hour before dinner.
Make the gravy of browned flour and butter, and the water in which
the tongue has been boiled, adding a little cayenne pepper, salt, all-
spice, cloves and a half a cup of wine. Cut up one or two hard-boiled
eggs. Pour gravy over the tongue.
RECIPES — OLD AND XEW.
SOUFFLEE OF PARTRIDGES.
Mince very remains of cold roasted partridges, pound well
fine the
with a little butter season with pepper, salt, cayenne and
and stock ;
truffles if any. Mix all this with the yolks of raw eggs, allowing two
to each two ounces of meat, and just at last stir in lightly the whites
of the eggs whipped to the stififest possible froth, with a pinch of salt.
Pour the mixture into a soufflee dish, which must be buttered and hot.
Bake twenty minutes. Serve immediately.
Stuff the peppers with the mixture, bind together and serve very hot.
VEGATABLES.
SPINACH.
Wash thoroughly and cut off the ends of one peck of spinach; put
into saucepan without any water, sprinkle over a little salt, and cover
closely; shake occasionally while cooking. When tender drain well,
and wash through a colander; put back in a saucepan, saute it a few
minutes with a good-sized piece of butter, pepper and salt, and a tea-
spoonful of vinegar. Serve with hard-boiled eggs, quartered. Some
like a little nutmeg seasoning.
Mrs. W. a. Fisher.
SPINACH SOUFFLE.
The spinach must be boiled or stirred in a buttered saucepan with
just enough water to prevent its burning. When cooked it must be
pressed thoroughly dry, chopped very fine, rubbed through a fine
sieve, and put in a saucepan with two ounces of butter and a gill of
cream. To
every pound of spinach add a little nutmeg, pepper and
salt, and sugar,
if desired. When it is a smooth, green paste, take it
from the fire, let it cool slightly, and then work into it the yolks of
three raw eggs. Whip the whites to a stiff froth, and add when the
mixture is cold. Put it in a china souffle dish, and bake for forty min-
utes in a moderate oven.
24 RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
CABBAGE PUDDING.
Select a large, firm white cabbage, and boil for twenty minutes, then
change the water for more, from a boiling kettle. When tender, drain
well and set aside until cold, when the cabbage must be chopped fine
and mixed with two well beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of salt, pepper,
and butter, and one gill of rich milk o^" cream. Stir all well together,
and bake in a buttered dish. To be very hot when served.
bread crumbs. Beat five eggs to a froth, and stir the hot tomatoes
into them. Cook in a double boiler, stirring it constantly in from the
edge, and adding a little butter and a very little salt.
STUFFED PEPPERS.
Take some large, mild peppers; soak them for a few days in salt and
water, changing constantly to make them pungent. Cut out the
less
vein. that makes hot, and stuff them with force meat. The force meat
is best made of chicken, seasoned with salt, butter, parsley, chopped
up with a knife, that has been drawn through an onion, some sweet
herbs and some grated bread. Stuf? the peppers and fry them in but-
ter. To be served with a rich gravy, or with demi-glace sauce.
STUFFED TOMATOES.
Select large, smooth tomatoes, and slice off neatly the end of each.
Scoop out the inside and mix with a little finely-grated bread, a dash
of white sugar, some salt, pepper, and a tablespoonful of butter. When
thoroughly mixed stuff the tomatoes, fit the tops on neatly, put on a
deep dish, and bake about three-quarters of an hour, or until a light
brown. The stuffing can be made of force meat, if desired.
POTATO CROQUETTES.
Six potatoes boiled and dried; grate over them a small onion; beat an
egg and pour over the potatoes, and beat all well together until light
and smooth. Shape them and roll in eggs, then dried bread crumbs,
and fry to a light brown. Particularly nice served at luncheon.
Mrs. E. a. Jenkins.
STUFFED POTATOES.
Wash them and cut the tops off with
ten good-sized potatoes; bake
a very sharp knife, and with a teaspoon scoop out the inside of each
potato. Put this in a bowl with two ounces of butter, the yolks of two
eggs, a pinch of salt, pepper and sugar. Fill the skins of the potatoes
with this mixture, put the tops on, heat them well in the oven, and
serve very hot, covered with a napkin. The stuffing may be varied,
substituting meat finely chopped for some of the potato filling.
POTATO PUFF.
Take two cupfuls of cold mashed potatoes, add two ounces melted
butter, and beat all to a cream. Then add two well-beaten eggs and
half pint of cream or milk, and salt to taste. Beat well together, pour
into a deep baking dish, and bake in a quick oven.
POTATO SOUFFLE.
Wash and bake three large potatoes. Cut in halves lengthwise, and
without breaking the skin scoop out the potatoes into a hot bowl-
Mash and add one even tablespoonful of butter, one of hot milk, and
salt and pepper to taste. Beat the whites of two eggs stiff, and mix
with the potato. Fill the skins with the mixture, heaping it lightly on
the top. Brown slightly in the oven and serve.
STEWED MUSHROOMS.
Take one pint of button mushrooms, cut off the stalks and pare
neatly; put them in a bowl of water and squeeze over them a little
26 RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
lemon Then take them from the water, draining them very
juice.
carefully, and put them into a stew pan with three ounces of butter, a
little white pepper, salt, and the juice of half a lemon. Cover the pan
tightly, and let them stew for twenty-five minutes. Then thicken the
butter with one teaspoonful of flour, and add gradually enough cream
or rich milk to make the sauce of a proper consistency, adding lastly
a little grated nutmeg. If the mushrooms are not quite tender, stew
a little longer; carefully skim ofif any floating particles of butter, and
serve on hot dish.
MUSHROOMS ON TOAST.
Take one pound of large, sound mushrooms, cut ofif the ends, wash
and clean them. Place them in a sautoire, with an ounce of good but-
ter, and season with a little salt and pepper. Cover them and cook for
ten minutes, tossing them well all the time. Add the juice of half a
small lemon, and a little chopped parsley. Toast some bread well, and
evenly place the mushrooms on the toast, and serve on a hot dish.
BROILED MUSHROOMS.
Take fine, fresh mushrooms, cut
ofif the stems, and lay in a deep dish,
rubbing them well with melted butter; add salt and pepper, and let
them lie in the butter for an hour or more. Then boil over a clear fire,
turning the broiler to let both sides brown. Serve on a hot dish.
Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice on each mushroom, and add butter
and pepper and salt, if required.
MUSHROOMS.
Cut ofif the root end of eighteen or twenty mushrooms and throw
the latter into cold water, mixed with vinegar; wash, drain,
a little
wipe and peel them and cut oiif the stalks; put fourteen or fifteen of
the mushrooms head downward on a buttered baking tin; then chop
fine the rest together with the stalks, an equal amount of parsley and
a shallot previously blanched. Fry this mince for five minutes, with
half an ounce of butter, then add half a pint of good brown sauce and
boil till quite thick. Divide this among the previously prepared mush-
rooms. Cover with bread crumbs and bake fifteen or twenty minutes.
Serve on toast.
CORN OYSTERS.
One pint of grated corn, one cup of flour, one teaspoonful of pep-
per, one teaspoonful of salt, one egg. Fry by the spoonful in boiling
lard.
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OYSTER CAKES.
One pint of grated green corn, two teaspoonfuls of pepper, three tea-
spoonfuls of salt, four teaspoonfuls of butter, one pint of flour, half a
pint of milk, two eggs. Bake on a griddle.
CORN PUDDING.
Take twelve row of grains with back of knife,
ears of corn, split each
then scrape the ears with back of knife, if they are well filled; if not,
cut off the grains without scraping. This corn, mixed with one and a
half pints of milk, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of flour, one spoonful
of butter, salt and pepper to taste, makes a delicious dish for dinner.
Mrs. H. C. Dallam.
smooth outline is not broken. If large the plant is then cut into quar-
ters; if of medium size, into halves. Let it lie for half an hour in salt
water. Then put it into boiling water with a little salt. It is cooked
enough when can be easily pierced with a straw. While it is boiling
it
cut one medium sized onion into very small pieces, and cover it with
salt water. In ten minutes pour off the water and put the chopped
onion into a skillet with a little butter, and fry it brown. Drain the
egg plant in a colander, and put it into a large earthenware bowl.
With a silver fork stir it until it is broken up, but do not really mash
it, or it will not be light when done. Mix with the egg plant one-half
its bulk of bread crumbs. Add the browned onions and one well-
beaten egg. Season with salt and pepper, and add a dessertspoonful
of butter. Put all this into a well-buttered baking dish and bake until
nicely browned. Serve hot in the dish in which it was baked.
Fry the rolls brown in fresh butter; then take a pint of cream, the yolks
of six eggs well beaten, a little salt and nutmeg, and stir well together
over a slow fire until it begins to thicken. Have ready some boiled
asparagus, and save enough tops to stick in the rolls, the rest cut small,
put into the cream, and fill the loaves. Before you fry the rolls make
holes in the top crust, and when you fit it on, after filling the loaves,
stick the grass in, that it may look as if it were growing.
Old English Recipes.
These "rolls" are small loaves, not the French rolls of today.
ASPARAGUS PUDDING.
Half a pint of asparagus peas, four eggs, two tablespoonfuls of flour,
one tablespoonful of finely chopped ham. one ounce of butter, pepper
and salt to taste, and milk. Cut up the nice, tender parts of asparagus,
about the size of peas; put them into a basin with the eggs, which
should be well beaten, and the flour, ham, butter, pepper and salt. Mix
all these ingredients well together, and moisten with sufficient milk to
make the pudding of the consistency of thick butter; put it into a pint
buttered mould, tie down tightly with a floured cloth, place it in boiling
water, and let it boil two hours; turn it out of the mould on a hot dish,
and pour plain melted butter around, but not over the pudding.
LOBSTER SALAD.
Take three pounds of boiled lobster, cut up the meat and lay in a
dish, seasoning with a little pepper, salt and a tablespoonful of vinegar.
Mix well together and place in a salad bowl, in which are some lettuce
leaves, and pour over the mixture some good Mayonnaise dressing.
Decorate with the coral of the lobster and sliced hard boiled eggs. If
desired a little cut up celery can be added to the lobster before the May-
onnaise sauce is added. Shrimp salad can be made by the same recipe.
FRUIT SALAD.
Fruit Salads are made by
piling the fruit on a dish and sprinkling pow-
dered sugar over them. After they have stood awhile a wineglass of
wine or brandy or some good liqueur should be poured in the centre,
and some add a little powdered cinnamon. These salads may be made
of strawberries, raspberries, currants, separately or mixed. Peaches
and oranges also make a good salad.
CHICKEN SALAD.
Boil a tender chicken, become cold and then remove all skin and
let it
gristle and take the meat from the bones, cutting it in dice or little
square pieces. Cut some fresh white celery into pieces about half an
inch in length and mix with the chicken, stirring well into them a mix-
ture composed of three tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one tablespoonful of
oil, and pepper, salt and mustard to taste. Set this aside for two hours
or more to let the chicken and celery absorb the dressing. When about
to serve mix with the chicken and celery a good sauce Mayonnaise.
Heap the salad in a little mound, covering it with the sauce. The top
can be decorated with sprigs of celery, and the dish garnished with slices
or quarters of hard-boiled eggs, or with thin slices of cold cooked beets,
or strips of anchovy. If the salad is made with lettuce instead of celery
follow above directions, leaving out celery, and just before serving add
to the chicken some tender leaves of lettuce, then cover all with a good
Mayonnaise dressing. Many of the great French cooks fry the fowls
for salad.
TOMATO JELLY.
Half a can or two cupfuls of tomatoes, three cloves, one bay leaf, one
slice of onion, half teaspoonful of thyme, one teaspoonful of salt, one
teaspoonful of sugar, one quarter teaspoonful of pepper, half ounce of
gelatine, soaked in half a cupful of water. Boil together the tomatoes.
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spices and onion until the tomatoes are soft, then add the soaked gela-
tine and stir until the gelatine is dissolved, then strain and pour it into
a border or ring-shaped mould to set. Serve with the centre of the jelly
ring filled with celery, cut into pieces and mixed with Mayonnaise
dressing. Form outside the ring a wreath of lettuce. Or mould the
Tomato Jelly in a solid piece and surround it with celery and lettuce.
CAULIFLOWER SALAD.
Take a cooked Cauliflower, cut off the root and place the leaves in a
dish, seasoning with a little salt, pepper and half a teaspoonful of chop-
ped parsley. Mix together three tablespoonfuls of vinegar and two of
olive oil; pour over the Cauliflower and serve.
BEAN SALAD.
Take one quart of cold boiled string beans cut in thin slices about an
inch long, half an onion cut into slices, a tablespoonful and a half of
chopped parsley, four tablespoonfuls of oil, one tablespoonful and a
half of good vinegar and a little salt and pepper. ^lix well together
and serve.
POTATO SALAD.
Cut ten or twelve cold boiled potatoes into slices half an inch in thick-
ness; put them in a salad bowl with four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, six
tablespoonfuls of oil, pepper and salt to taste and a tablespoonful of
chopped parsley. Stir well so that all may be thoroughly mixed.
Slices of cold ham or tongue or of cold chicken can be served with this
salad.
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ASPx\RAGUS SALAD.
Pound one hard-boiled egg with two table-
to a paste the yolk of
spoonfuls of vinegar. Add a little salt and a pinch of pepper, half a tea-
spoonful of scraped onion and two tablespoonfuls of olive oil. Pour
this over the Asparagus and serve.
LETTUCE SALAD.
Take two heads of lettuce, cut ofif the outside leaves and stems,
fine
cut the leaves in two. Wash thoroughly in cold water and drain in a
wire basket, then put in a china bowl with the hearts on top. Mix half
a pinch of salt and a third of a pinch of pepper in one tablespoonful of
good vinegar, and add one and a half tablespoonfuls of sweet oil. Pour
this over the lettuce and garnish with slices of hard boiled eggs. If you
SAUCE MAYONNAISE.
Take the yolks of two eggs, put them in a bowl with half a teaspoon-
ful of ground dry mustard, salt, pepper and a little lemon juice. Stir
all together with a wooden spoon and add by slow degrees a few drops
HORSERADISH SAUCE.
Take a handful of fresh bakers' bread, two cloves of garlic and a table-
spoonful of horseradish flour pour a cup of fresh cream over all and let
;
it stand three hours, then pass through a tiny sieve, then add a quarter
cupful of stock and two small cups of light wine, onions, salt and pepper
and let it cook together for half an hour. Cook your fish in this mix-
ture, take it out when done, thicken with yolks of eggs and pour over
your fish. Serve very hot.
Miss McCandlish.
HOT SPICE.
Three drachms each of ginger, black pepper and cinnamon, seven
cloves, half ounce mace, quarter of a pound of cayenne, one ounce
grated nutmeg, one and a half ounces white pepper. Pound the ingre-
dients and mix thoroughly until everything is blended. Put in a per-
fectly dry glass bottle for use. Can be added to gravy, meats, etc.
INDIAN AIUSTARD.
Qu.'irter of a pound
of the best mustard, quarter of a pound of flour,
half ounce of four shallots, four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, four
salt,
Put in stock or gravy and the seasoning, and boil it gently for ten
til-:
minutes; skim off the fat, add the mustard, vinegar and lemon juice.
Give it one boil and pour over the steak or meat it has been prepared for.
SAUCE TARTARE.
Chop up one shallot very fine with a tablespoonful of parsley, half a
tablespoonful of tarragon leaves and twelve capers chopped fine. Put
these in a china bowl with half a teaspoonful of ground mustard, the
yolk of two eggs, a teaspoonful of vinegar added very slowly, a drop at
a time, a pinch of salt and very little pepper. Pour in very slowly while
stirring continuously, half a pint of good olive oil, and if too thick add
a little more vinegar.
SPANISH SAUCE.
Melt twc ounces of butter in a saucepan, to which add two ounces of
fiour,and cook slowly over a gentle fire until brown; then mix with the
flour and butter one pint of good stock or consomme, an ounce and a
half of lean raw ham, a few cloves, an onion, a little celerj', a carrot, a
pinch of salt and pepper, and stir until it begins to boil. Then set the
saucepan to the back of the range, and let it simmer gently for about an
hour, when the grease must be carefully skimmed off and the mixture
strained before serving. Madeira Sauce can be made by adding one
wineglass of Madeira to half a pint of Spanish Sauce.
SAUCE HOLLANDAISE.
Put a walnut into a saucepan, and when it
bit of butter the size of a
bubbles up stir in vkrith Let it bubble
a whisk, a tablespoonful of fiour.
until the flour is cooked, then stir in half pint of veal stock. (Half a
pi it of boiling water can be used in place of veal stock if none is at
hand.) When it boils take it from the fire and stir into it gradually the
w^Il- beaten yolks of four eggs. Put the sauce on the fire for a few
moments until the eggs are set, but do not allow it to boil. Take it
from the fire, stir in the piece of half a lemon, a piece of butter the size
of a walnut, and mix thoroughly with a whisk. When light and smooth
it is readv for use.
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ANCHOVY SAUCE.
To one pint of drawn butter sauce add one heaping tablespoonful of
An.'.hovy essence, stir well together and serve.
SHRLMP SAUCE.
To add one-third of a pint of boiled
half a pint of drawn-butter sauce
shrimps, either whole or cut in pieces. Let the sauce simmer, but it
nuist not boil. Just before removing it from the fire add a little seed
pepper and a few drops of lemon juice.
OYSTER SAUCE.
Add oysters, strained from their liquor, to a drawn-butter sauce made
with part cream; let it come to a boil.
SAUCE VELOUTE.
Melt one ounce of good butter in a saucepan, adding two tablespoon-
fuls of flour and stir well, not letting it get brown; moisten with a pint
and a half of good veal or chicken stock. Add a bouquet of herbs, half
a cupful of mushroom liquor, if at hand, a pinch of salt, a very little nut-
meg. Boil for twenty minutes, stirring continuously, then remove to
the side of the fire, skim thoroughly and let it simmer gently for an hour.
TOMATO SAUCE.
Place in a saucepan one carrot, one onion, an ounce of uncooked ham,
a little thyme, two cloves, a clove of garlic and half an ounce of butter.
Simmer gently for ten or twelve minutes, then add half a pint of to-
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nialoos which have been mixed with half an ounce of flour and half a
pint of stock. Season with salt and pepper, boil for half an hour; strain
and serve.
BECHAMEL SAUCE.
Put saucepan two ounces of butter, add two tablespoonfuls of
in a
flour and constantly for five minutes. Moisten with a pint and a
stir
dissolved, strain the whole through a fine sieve into a bowl and throw
into it a few of the lemon rinds, and set it away to cool. The wine
must be table sherry.
BLANC MANGE.
One ounce one and one-half pints of cream, nine ounces
of isinglass,
of white sugar, one wineglass of table sherry, or one tablespoonful of
bitter almonds. Dissolve the isinglass in a pint of boiling water by
setting it over the fire^ stirring it all the time. Dissolve the sugar into
the cream. Strain the hot isinglass, when thoroughly dissolved, into
the cream and sugar and if necessary strain the whole into another
bowl. Add the seasoning to your taste. Continue to stir it until it
begins to congeal along the sides and pour quickly into the moulds and
set in a cool place. (Fill the moulds previously with cold water, so
they will be cool to receive the Blanc Mange, pouring out the water
when you are ready to fill them.)
yard to stay all night. The next morning remove most carefully the
grease that is on the top,wash it over with a napkin dipped in hot
water, as the least particle of grease clouds the jelly. To each four
quarts of stock, add eight eggs, very little beaten, whole mace and whole
cinnamon. Two and one-half pints good sherry, one and one-half
pints cider and rum, the juice of eight lemons and some of
half pint
the rind very carefully peeled. The sugar is added to each one's taste.
Put in the liquors, as the jelly begins to boil, then stir it altogether and
when it boils back clear, strain through a jelly strainer till perfectly
clear. It is very important that the feet should be perfectly fresh, the
least bit of salt spoils the jelly. The meat taken out of the jelly makes
very good souse, either cold or to fry, take out the bones, season with
vinegar and spices or only with salt.
FRUIT SALAD.
Two pineapples, wine, oranges, nine to twelve bananas, the juice of
two lemons. Any other fruit you may wish, apricots are nice. Cut
the pineapples and oranges in small pieces ; slice the bananas put all
;
in a colander and drain; heat the juice and add four or five tablespoon-
fuls of dissolved gelatine; add the fruit and sweeten to taste; turn into a
flat pan and let it stand until the next day; turn over in a platter and
cut in squares.
BION VOS.
Box of gelatine, one-half pint cold water, let it stand a few minutes,
add one-half pint of boiling water, stir until thoroughly dissolved,
sweeten and flavor with vanilla. Whip one and one-half pints of cream
to a stifif froth, mix together; set away to cool. Serve with cream
whipped to a froth.
TRIFLE.
Take sponge cake baked the day previous, cut in squares and place in
a cut glass bowl and pour over them as much table sherry as they will
absorb. Make a rich custard, seasoned with vanilla and when cold pour
over the cake and wine, then pile on top of this as much whipped
cream as will fill the bowl. Do not put sugar in the cream. Some-
times you may stick the cake full of blanched almonds.
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CUSTARD.
Nine eggs, one and
quart of rich milk, seven ounces of white sugar
vanilla to your taste. Beat the yolks and whites together very light,
then add the sugar, boil the milk and pour slowly over the eggs and
sugar, pour it back into the kettle and cook for five minutes, stirring it
all the time. Season with vanilla after you take it ofif the fire.
BURNT CREAM.
Six eggs to two quarts of milk, beat the eggs very light and add
one tablespoonful of sugar to every egg. As soon as the milk boils up
stir in the eggs and continue to stir while on the fire, take it ofif and let
it cool. Then just before dinner take the whites of the eggs and beat
them to a froth, put them over the bowl of custard, and sift white
sugar thick over it. then hold a red hot oven top over the bowl until
the sugar and white of eggs are nicely browned, then let it cool for
dinner. In cold weather this may be all prepared in the morning, as
it will not fall before dinner.
eight eggs, three quarters of a pound of sugar and one cupful of strong
black coffee, stir constantly but do not let it come to a boil. When it
thickens strain it, set it away until cold, then pour into a mould and
freeze.
STRAWBERRY MOUSSE.
Press through a sieve a sufficient quantity of strawberries to make a
pint of juice, add to one and a half pounds of sugar and two quarts
it
of cream, put into a freezer and when half frozen stir into it quickly a
pint of whipped cream; then put it in a mould for two hours surrounded
by ice and rock salt. Then turn it out and serve.
cafe' MOUSSE.
a cold ice box. When ready to serve, drop the cream with a spoon
into the centre of a round dish, heaping it in pyramidal form if possi-
ble. Serve as quickly as possible. Whipped cream may be added to
any kind of plain ice cream.
ICE CREAM.
Scald one pint cream, add to one-half pound sugar, dissolve one
it
CURRANT ICE.
Boil your currants and strain them; to a pint of juice put a quart of
water and sugar to your taste.
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LEMON SHERBET.
tablespoonful of gelatine dissolved in a little cold water and
One
cleared with enough boiling water to make a quart. White of one egg
without beating. Juice of three lemons and pulverized sugar to taste,
remembering that it is not so sweet after it is frozen. Strain altogether
and freeze. This quantity will make a quart. It is snow white and
very nice.
Take a flat round sponge cake, place on this a mould of very hard
frozen ice cream, cover with a meringue of white of egg sweetened
and flavored and brown with a red hot salamander. Serve at once.
pudding is frozen put it into a mould, close the lid, place it again in
the freezer, well surrounded with pounded ice and saltpetre and let it
SECESSION PUDDING.
Flour, three cups; eggs, four; milk, one cup; raisins, two cups, (or
currants); butter, one large cup; soda, a light teaspoonful. Beat just
as cake, and boil in pudding bag for three hours.* Serve with hot wine
sauce.
*Leaving some room in bag for pudding to rise. Flour bag well be-
fore pouring in batter.
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CARDINAL PUDDING.
Take it through twice; put sweetmeats be-
a loaf of sponge cake; cut
tween the sHces, and pour over it half a pint of wine. Then make a
rich custard and pour over the cake and ornament the top, with citron
cut in slices and blanched almonds. Mrs. Marshall.
ORANGE PUDDING.
Juice of two oranges and one lemon and the rind of the lemon
grated; the whites and yolks of three eggs beaten separately; two cups
of sugar; one of milk; one tablespoonful of melted butter; two table-
spoonfuls, (not heaping), of flour. Bake in pie crust. This quantity
will make two pies. Mrs. E. A. Jenkins.
PLUM PUDDING.
Two and a half pounds of stoned table raisins, chopped fine, one
pound of butter, one pound of grated stale bread, (or half a pound of
bread and half a pound of flour), eight eggs, one pound of white
sugar, one wineglassful of best French brandy, one wineglassful of
table sherry, two nutmegs, grated, one tablespoonful of mace, one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, three-quarters of a pound of citron, cut in
small pieces. This pudding will take six hours to boil. This quantity
makes two puddings. Pour brandy in the dish, set it on the fire and
serve while burning.
]\Irs. Edward Shippen's Recipe.
PLUM PUDDING.
One pound of flour,one pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, six
eggs, one teacup of milk, wine mace and nutmeg; beat the eggs separ-
ately; sift one teaspoonful of cream of tartar with the flour. Dissolve
one-half teaspoonful of cooking soda in the milk, cream half of the
sugar and butter together, beat the other half of the sugar with the
yolks of the eggs, stir in the flour last, add one pound of stoned raisins,
one pound of currants, one pound of citron; boil for five hours in a
pudding mould; have the water boiling when it is just in and keep the
kettle closely covered. Eat with wine or rock sauce.
Mrs. Hugh Lee.
PLUM PUDDING.
One quart of raisins, three lemons, one quart of currants, twelve
eggs, one pint one loaf of bakers' bread, one pound of suet,
of citron,
one tumblerful of brandy,two nutmegs, one tumblerful of sherry, gin-
ger, cloves, allspice and mace, each two tablespoonfuls, one pound of
brown sugar, one pint of milk, four tablespoonfuls of flour, one dessert-
spoonful of soda. Prepare the fruit and suet by flouring it the day be-
fore. Beat the eggs and sugar very light and then add the other in-
gredients, the fruit last. Boil in a floured cloth for five hours.
Mrs. Winn.
LEMON PUDDING.
Eight eggs, beaten separately, two and a half cups of sugar, beaten
with the yolks, butter the size of an egg, creamed with two light table-
spoonfuls of cornstarch, one teacup of milk, rind (grated) and juice of
three lemons; bake in paste. Mrs. Hugh Lee.
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LEMON PUDDING.
Boil one pint of milk, thicken it with one tablespoonful of farina;
while hot add one-quarter of a pound of butter, eight eggs, one pound
of white sugar; beat them well together; when nearly cold add the
juice and grated rinds of three lemons. Bake without pastry.
Mrs. H. C. Dallam.
BREAD PUDDING.
Slice up a quart loaf of stale bread, put it in a deep dish and cover it
with sweet milk, six eggs beaten light, one large spoonful of butter.
Mash the bread and milk together. Boiled in towel. Serve with wine
sauce. Mrs. H. C. Dallam.
MANIOCA PUDDING.
Three tablespoonfuls of Manioca put on one quart of
to boil with
cold milk. Stir constantly till it pour out in a dish
conies to a boil;
to cool, stirring in a tablespoonful of butter and a pinch of salt. While
cooling a little, beat up four eggs, whites and yolks together; one cup
of sugar and one teaspoonful of vanilla flavoring. Bake in a greased
baking pan. Serve cold.
Mrs. John B. Young, Westbrook. Va.
POTATO PUDDING.
One sweet potato, mashed very smooth; as soon as boiled add
a tablespoonful of butter while hot; five eggs beaten separately,
six cups of sugar, one and a half cups of milk, rind and juice of two
lemons; season with rum, wine and nutmeg. Mrs. Hugh Lee.
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PRUNE PUDDING.
Stew two pounds of prunes, adding a cup and a half of sugar. Set
them aside until cold, then take out the stones and chop them up fine.
Whip the whites of six eggs and mix with the prunes. Put into a
mould and boil twenty minutes, and when thoroughly cold serve with
whipped cream flavored with vanilla. Miss McCandlish.
CREAM PUDDING.
7"ake five tablespoonfuls of flour, five eggs well beaten up with sugar
and half a pint of cream, a little mace and nutmeg and a few raisins and
currants; put them in cups and bake them.
Miss Clemm.
or bread; pat the pudding on the cake, patting it in an oval form, and
stick it full of one-quarter almonds, with two whole almonds for the
ears; make a rich boiled custard and cover the bottom of the dish. The
peach water is to be put in now and then while beating the almonds to
prevent them from oiling.
Mrs. Campbell's Recipe.
BANANA FRITTERS.
One quart of flour, one quart of milk, five eggs, one dozen bananas
cut in bits, made with yeast powder, fried in boiling lard.
Mrs. Hugh Lee.
CONFEDERATE PUDDING.
Two cups of suet, two cups of currants, two cups of flour, one cup of
molasses, three eggs, one teaspoonful of soda. Boil four hours-
SECESH PUDDING.
Three cups of flour, one cup of suet, one cup of molasses, one cup of
milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two cups of dried apples. Boil three
hours.
Mrs. Green.
GATEAU DE RIZ.
(jMadame Chatin.)
Mash and cook in milk six tablespoonfuls of rice. It must be very
thick. Add butter about the size of an English walnut. After the rice
has become almost cold add two whole eggs unbeaten, also two more
eggs, the white and yolks of which have been beaten separately.
Flavor with lemon, (grated rind), or vanilla. Put five or six lumps of
sugar in a mould with just enough water to moisten them. Place over
the fire until it takes a fine caramel color, and then turn the mould in all
directions until it is entirely covered with the caramels. Pour in the
mixture and allow it to boil in a double boiler for two hours. Turn it
out and pour preserved cherries, raspberries or strawberries around it.
Miss E. Holt.
A souffle'
Take six eggs, beat the yolks in a dish with a quarter of a pound of
sugar, in which the yellow rind of a lemon has first been grated. Stir
the mixture a good quarter of an hour until it becomes thick. Squeeze
in the juice of a lemon and add the whites of the five eggs beaten to a
stiff froth. Rub the dish in which it is to be baked thoroughly with but-
ter. Let the souffle bake in a hot oven not more than fifteen minutes,
the dish standing on a tripod or rack of any kind to prevent it touching
the bottom of the oven.
B.\roness Von Seckendorff, Dresden.
MINCEMEAT.
One quart of fresh beef, chopped fine; it must be lean and boiled
well; one quart of beef suet, chopped fine, two quarts of Pippin apples,
chopped fine, two quarts of raisins stoned, two quarts of currants, half
a pound of citron, sliced very thin, two grated nutmegs, one ounce of
powdered cinnamon, half an ounce each cloves and mace powdered,
one teaspoonful of salt, one quart of cider, one quart of sugar, one
quart of brandy. Put in hot-
Miss Fairfax.
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MINCE PIE.
Two pounds of boiled beef, chopped fine, two pounds of fresh butter,
four pounds of chopped apples, live pounds of stoned table raisins,
chopped fine, two pounds of brown sugar, one quart of table sherry
wine, one quart of best French brandy, two grated nutmegs, one ounce
of cinnamon, half an ounce of cloves, half an ounce of mace, three-
quarters of a pound of citron cut in small pieces, one teaspoonful of
table salt; (five pounds of beef when boiled and pared will chop two
pounds for mincemeat). Mix the meat and apples after they are
chopped together; put in the raisins little by little, then the sugar and
spices. Drop the butter into a kettle of boiling water and skim it oft
in tablespoonfuls and pour into the meat, &c., stirring it in well. Con-
tinue to do this until all the butter is mixed in, then add the brandy and
wine, stirring all together thoroughly with a wooden spoon.
Make a nice pastry and fill the pan with the mincemeat and cover it
with a thin layer of pastry. You can make several pies at a time and
heat them by setting in an oven a few minutes.
Mrs. James M. Nicholson's Recipe.
VICTORIA PUDDING.
One quart and two gills (scant) of milk, butter size of an English
walnut, pinch of salt, a vanilla bean, three teaspoonfuls of cornstarch,
three teaspoonfuls of flour, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, quarter
of a pound of seedless raisins, currants, candied fruit, etc. Put the
cornstarch, flour, sugar, salt and vanilla bean in a saucepan, stir in
while cold and very gradually, milk until a smooth paste, then add the
remainder of the milk at once and stir over the fire, taking care that it
does not scorch. Add fruit, etc. When it comes to a boil withdraw
and let it simmer over a slow fire, stirring constantly. Add one whole
egg and the yolks of eight more, (unbeaten), and the whites of same
whipped to a stifif froth. Butter a mould, pour in the mixture, not al-
lowing it to be more than three quarters full. Put the mould in a
double boiler with very little water, and when the mixture has filled the
mould put it in the oven to finish cooking. As soon as done remove
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from the mould and pour over it the following sauce: Boil half a pint
of milk, half apound of sugar and vanilla bean in a double boiler; when
cool or cold add four whole eggs, unbeaten, and stir constantly to pre-
vent curdling, until the consistency of cream; serve immediately. Use
brandy or wine instead of vanilla bean if preferred.
Miss E. Holt.
CAKE RECIPES.
BLACK OR FRUIT CAKE.
One andone-quarter pounds of sifted flour, one pound of fresh but-
ter, one pound of white sugar, twelve eggs, half pound of citron, five
pounds of stoned raisins, one tablespoonful of mace, one tablespoonful
of cinnamon, two nutmegs, one large tumbler, or half pint of best
brandy, one large tumbler, or half pint of table sherry. Beat the eggs
very light, and beat the sugar with the eggs, cream the flour with the
butter, leaving out two or three tablespoonfuls. Then after the eggs
are very light, mix in the flour and butter, then the brandy and wine
and citron and spices, and the raisins. These must be chopped fine,
and rolled in as much sifted flour as will stick to them. Mix all to-
gether and stir well with a wooden spoon. Put into pans and bake for
five hours over a slow fire.
Mrs. James Nicholson.
JUMBLES.
One pound of flour, one pound of white sugar, one pound of butter,
a teaspoonful of mace, one nutmeg. After these are all mixed you
have to flour your hands.
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MOTHER'S JUMBLES.
One pound pound of sugar, (powdered),
of flour, three-quarters of a
half pound two eggs and j^olk of one. Beat up
of butter, whites of
with a spoonful of rose water, which will wet the whole sufificiently. It
must be worked up in a paste. Cut them in shape preferred, and bake
in a moderatel}' hot oven. They must be loosened from the tin Avhile
hot. Mrs. H. C. Dallam.
JACKSON JUMBLES.
Ten dips of sifted flour, six of sugar, two of butter, one teaspoonful
of pearl ash in a cup of cream, four eggs, cinnamon or any spice you
may fancy. Rub the flour and butter well together, then work in the
other ingredients. From Avondale.
MARGUERITES.
Rub together a pound and six ounces of sugar and a pound and
six ounces of butter till perfectly light; beat the yolks of eight eggs till
very thick; sift two pounds of flour into the eggs, butter and sugar; a
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of a glass of hot water. Cream, butter and sugar together, then add
the molasses. Beat whites and yolks separately, and add a cup of flour
to each, then add the sugar and butter, beating tlioroughly; then the
milk, and lastly the soda. A few raisins improve it.
WHITE CAKE.
Whites of five eggs, one scant cup of butter, two cups of pulverized
sugar, two and a half cups of flour, one cup of milk, two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder. Bake in jelly cake tins. This quantity will make
three.
FRUIT FILLING FOR LAYER CAKE.
Prepare one cup of currants, one cup of chopped raisins, one cup ol
chopped citron, one cup of almonds, broken in small pieces, one cup of
chopped figs, one cup of English walnuts, three cups of sugar, two
sugar, milk and butter well, and put on stove in stew pan. Let this
cook till it begins to rope; remove from fire and beat till it looks light
and creamy. Pour it over the fruit, and mix well. Spread between
the layers of cake when it has become nearly cold. This is enough for
six or seven layers- Flavor filling with vanilla.
Mrs. Sims.
MOUNTAIN CAKE.
One pound of sugar, one pound of flour, half pound of butter, six
eggs, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar sifted in flour, half teaspoon-
ful of soda in half cup of milk; cream, butter and flour together. Beat
sugar and yolks together, then add the beaten whites. Mix all with
the butter and flour, and beat thoroughly. Last add the soda, and
bake in mufifin pans.
Take the weight of fifteen eggs in sugar, and the weight of eight
eggs in flour.Beat the whites and the yolks separately and very
light; then beat in the sugar and flour alternately, leaving some flour
for the last. When all is beaten quite light, season with mace, lemon
peel, and juice and wine.
VlRGINI.\.
SPONGE CAKE.
Ten eggs, the weight of the eggs in sugar, one-half the weight of the
eggs in flour. Season to taste. Grease the tins well. It bakes di-
rectly. M.\RYLAND, Eastern Shore.
POUND CAKE.
Ten eggs, one pound of sugar, one pound of butter. Cream sugar
and butter together until smooth. Beat the eggs separately. Flavor
to taste.
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SHREWSBURY CAKE.
Twoquarts of flour, twelve ounces of lard, one and a half pounds of
sugar, five eggs, seasoned with mace or nutmeg and lemon, and wine
or brandy, teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in milk or acid, lard and flour
mixed together and made up with the eggs and sugar after they are
beaten light. To be made up as soft as possible to roll. Cut out with
cake cutter. Quick oven. Pan greased. (This recipe nearly one hun-
dred years old.) Mrs. H. C. Dallam.
of brown sugar and a teacup of old yeast, or an yeast cake you can buy ;
put this into a strong stone jug, and cork tightly set it near the fire
;
FRENCH ROLLS.
Three eggs, three ounces one quart of flour, one pint of
of butter,
fresh milk, a teacup of yeast, a Beat the eggs very light
little salt. melt ;
the butter in the milk add a little flour and a little milk until all is
;
mixed; then put in the yeast just before all the flour and milk are added,
(never put the yeast on the eggs). Make out into rolls, and bake in a
tin pan. This should be made up at night and set to rise, and baked the
next morning. jNIrs. Harriet B. Parker.
PLAIN ROLLS.
A quart of flour, a teacup of yeast, a little salt ; made up with eithei
milk or vi^ater ; set away to rise at night, and bake in the morning.
MUFFINS.
Three eggs, one quart of milk, one ounce of butter, a teacup of yeast.
Beat the eggs light; melt the butter in the milk; add a little flour and a
little milk until all is well mixed together add the yeast just before you
;
put in all the flour and milk. Set away to rise, and bake in muffin rings
in the morning. Mrs. Harriet B. Parker.
and salt then pour into the waffle irons and make at once.
;
FLANNEL CAKES.
Warm a teaspoonful of butter in a quart of milk, put in a little salt,
batter; then add two well-beaten eggs. Set this away to rise, and after
five hours' standing bake in cakes on a griddle.
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BUCKWHEAT CAKES.
Three teacups of black buckwheat, (Pennsylvania buckwheat), one
teacup of flour, one teacup of j'east. one pint of milk, a little salt. Make
this into a thick batter at night and set in a warm place to lighten. In
the morning just before baking, dissolve in a tablespoonful of milk as
much salaratus as you can hold on the point of a breakfast knife, and stir
into the batter, and bake at once in cakes on the griddle.
SALLY LUNN.
Three eggs, (beaten light), one pint of milk, (warmed), half a teacup
of yeast, half a teacup of melted butter, (drop a quarter of a pound of
butter in boiling water and skim it two pints of flour, a tea-
into a cup),
spoonful and a half of salt. Beat the whole very light and pour into a
buttered pan and bake at once.
BATTER BREAD.
One quart of cornmeal, one quart of fresh milk take one pint of the ;
meal and pour over it one pint of the milk, which has come to a boil,
having first put with the meal a small piece of lard add two eggs, ;
beaten well into a meal, (not separately) then pour in the other pint
;
Take of¥ a portion of the dough from your loaf bread, roll very thin,
cut in small pieces, (do this in the morning, when you make out your
bread), set to rise, and do not let the bread catch cold ; cover up well.
Bake on a soapstone griddle, with a lid. The griddle should be well
heated before beginning to bake, and the dough as thin as it can be
rolled. Bake quickly and serve hot. Mr.s. H. C. Dallam.
SCOTCH CAKES.
Beat one egg well, and into it sift a good quart of flour, one table-
spoonful of lard, half a teacupful of liquid yeast, salt and sweet milk
enough to make a stif? dough. Work it well and set it to rise, just as
light bread. About an hour before tea time take it out of the vessel, not
RECIPES —OLD AND NEW. 55
biscuit pans, not touching each other, and bake as quickly as possible.
Serve red hot.
COTTAGE LOAF.
To one quart of flour add two eggs, one tablespoonful of sugar,
one tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of yeast. Make up the
night before, if for breakfast. Make up with water; baked in cake
mould.
MADISON CAKE.
Two eggs to one quart of flour, a teaspoonful of sugar, a tablespoonful
of butter.Make up the night before, (for breakfast,) with tablespoonful
of yeast, and use milk instead of water, (consistency of bread).
Roll out in the morning, cut in rortold shapes and bake as you do bis-
cuits. This recipe was given by Dolly ^Madison " to Mrs. Walker
"'
DROP MUFFINS.
Three eggs, one quart of milk, one tablespoonful of butter, flour
stirred in until sufficiently stiff for the spoon to stand upright. Made up
with yeast the night before for breakfast. Taken up in a spoon and
dropped into the pan. Bake in a quick oven.
THIN BISCUIT.
One quart of flour to a tablespoonful of lard, and a teaspoonful of
salt. Roll very thin and bake quickly.
Miss McCandlish.
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COLONIAL WAFFLES.
Three pints of flour, three half pints of cream, four eggs and two
ounces of butter. Beat them until they leave the spoon.
Miss McCandlish.
BEACON BISCUIT.
One pint of flour, one teacupful of yeast, one good teaspoonful of
lard. Rub the lard into the flour, add yeast and salt beat well and set
;
to rise. When well risen work in a pint of flour. The dough must be as
soft asyou can well handle. Roll out about half an inch thick, brush
over with melted butter and put one piece in the other and put in pan.
When well risen, bake like any other roll.
VIRGINIA WONDERS.
One quart of milk, four eggs beaten light, one teaspoonful of salt, one
cup of medium meal, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one teaspoon-
ful of yeast powder. Bake in shallow pans in a quick oven.
Mrs. Saunders.
BEATEN BISCUIT.
One quart of flour, lard the size of a hen's egg, two eggs. Make into
moderately stifif dough with sweet
Beat thirty minutes.
milk. Make
dough out with hands, stick with fork and bake in a quick oven. Some
prefer the beaten biscuit without the egg.
pound and a half of flour. Let it rise, then beat it again, and if too soft
beat in a little more flour. It should be the consistency of muffin batter.
Make it up at night for morning.
RYE BREAD.
One pint of rye flour, one of corn meal, one tablespoonful of lard,
one teaspoonful of one teacup of good
salt, yeast. Mix with water
enough to make a stiff dough
knead well ; ; set to rise. When well
risen, knead again and form into loaves.
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LAPLANDERS.
One two eggs. Beat the whites and yolks
pint milk, one pint flour,
separately, and when just ready to bake, stir in the well-beaten eggs,
(whites). Heat the pans before putting in the dough.
Mrs. E. a. Jenkins.
CORN BUNS.
Two moderate-sized teacupfuls of meal, one egg, butter the size of an
egg, mixed up with a little new milk and dropped from a spoon on the
griddle. Mrs. von Kapff.
MARYLAND BISCUITS.
A quart of flour, heaping tablespoonful of lard ; both mi.xed well
together with the hands thirteen tablespoonfuls of
; skimmed milk and
water mixed, as stiff as it can be worked. Work ten or fifteen minutes
until the dough cracks. Work with the hands only.
Mrs. Robert Smith.
BOILED BOSTON BROWN BREAD.
Two small cups of unbolted flour, three-fourths of a cup of yellow
cornmeal, three-fourths of a cup of wheat flour, three-fourths of a cup
of molasses, one egg, one teaspoonful of soda, a small piece of lard, a
little salt. Sufficient water to make it the consistency of muftin dough.
Boil six or seven hours. Mrs. Tompkins.
BENGAL OMELET.
Six eggs, one tablespoonful of Spanish onion, chopped fine, one
tablespoonful of chopped parsley. Beat the eggs until thoroughly
mixed, add the onion and parsley and make the same as plain omelet,
dust with salt and pepper, then serve.
OMELETTE SOUFFLE.
The whites of six eggs and the yolks of three eggs, three tablespoon-
powdered sugar, one teaspoonful of vanilla, a
fuls of little lemon juice.
Beat whites to a stiff froth, beat yolks, vanilla,sugar and lemon to-
gether and add to the whites of eggs. Put on a greased dish, bake in a
moderate oven and eat immediately.
Miss Carson.
OYSTER OMELET.
Stewr six oysters in their own liquor for a few minutes, then take
out the oysters and thicken the liquid with an ounce or two of butter
rolled in lour; season with salt and cayenne and whisk to a cream;
chop the oysters and add to the sauce and let it simmer until the sauce
thickens. Beat up four eggs and add a tablespoonful of cream; turn
out into a hot pan and fry of a light gold color. Before folding the
omelet place the oysters and part of the sauce within and turn it out on
a hot dish, pouring the rest of the sauce around it.
STUFFED EGGS.
Boil the eggs hard and cut them in two; take out the yolks and chop
them adding any good force meat or chopped chicken, ham or
well,
tongue; season the mixture, adding a little stock or raw egg to bind
them; fill the eggs, pressing down the stuffing, smooth them, put the
two halves together, roll twice in beaten egg and bread crumbs, dip
them in a wire basket into boiling lard, and when they are a delicate
brown drain and serve, garnished with parsley or water cress.
RECIPES — OLD AXD NEW. 59
EGGS EN TIMBALE.
Break twelve eggs into a bowl, add salt, pepper and a wineglassful of
cream, beat them well, strain them and pour them into buttered moulds.
Place the moulds in a pan with a little water in it; place it in the oven,
and when the eggs are of a consistency to turn out of the moulds serve
them at once on a hot dish. Bechamel sauce can be served with this
dish, but is not indispensable.
BAKED EGGS.
Mince half a pound of lean boiled ham and add half a pound of
cracker crumbs; moisten and spread the mixture on a dish; scoop out
four round holes and drop an egg from the shell into each hole. Sea-
son with salt, cayenne and butter; put the dish in the oven and serve
when the eggs are cooked.
CHEESE OMELET.
Beat up the eggs and add to them a tablespoonful of grated Parmesan
cheese. Before folding the omelet add a little more cheese and turn
out on a hot dish. Grate a little cheese over the top.
SCALLOPED EGGS.
Make a force-meat of chopped ham, ground is better; fine bread
crumbs, pepper, salt, a little minced parsley and some melted butter.
Moisten with milk to a soft paste, and half fill some patty-pans or scal-
lop shells with the mixture. Break an egg carefully upon the top of
each, dust with pepper and salt and sift some very finely powdered
cracker over all. Set in the oven and bake until the eggs are well set:
about eight minutes. Eat hot.
in four or five well-beaten eggs,with pepper, salt and parsley. Stir and
toss for three minutes. Have ready to your hand some slices of but-
tered 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.
60 RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
CREAMED EGGS.
CHEESE STRAWS.
Mixwith four ounces of sifted flour, two of any dry, rich cheese,
grated, an even teaspoonful of salt, half a saltspoonful of white pepper,
and a liberal dust of cayenne; add the juice of a lemon, the yolks of two
raw eggs, and enough melted butter to form a paste, which can be
rolled out to the thickness of about an eighth of an inch; cut the pastry
in strips like straws, lay them upon a floured bakingpan, and place them
in a moderate oven until they become crisp; without breaking them
transfer them to oval dishes, covered with napkins, and they will be
ready for service.
RECIPES — OLD AND NEW. 61
CHEESE SOUFFLE.
One cup of milk, quarter of pound of cheese crumbled into it; set it
on the fire until the cheese dissolves and stir until it thickens; add a
little salt.Beat two eggs separately, add a little cold milk to the yolk
to keep it from curdling; pour over this the hot milk and cheese and
keep it warm. When ready to serve, stir in the well-beaten whites of
the eggs.
cooked on a blazer the cheese should be stirred all the time so as not to
burn. George Snowden Andrews.
make a brine of cold water, sufficiently strong to bear an egg, and pour
over the cucumbers, cover them with grape or cabbage leaves, with a
weight to press the fruit down, so as to keep it well covered. Let it
stand ten days then pour off the brine and scald it, pouring it back
;
over the cucumbers for nine days. Then lay them in cold, fresh water
for the night; put them in vinegar and water, not too weak for
several days, to extract the salt, and then put them in the liquor,
already prepared. Be sure they have lost all brackishness before put-
ting them in the good pickle liquor. To green them, grape leaves must
be used in boiling the brine, putting some in the brine, and laying them
over the cucumbers before pouring the hot brine over them. Have the
leaves fresh every day. (These recipes for pickle liquors, with the
stufifed cucumbers or mangoes, are those from which the much re-
nowned " Virginia pickle " has been made since the beginning of
the century.)
Mrs. H. C. Dall.\m.
PICKLED CUCUMBERS.
—
To Green Them. Drop them into moderately strong brine for three
days. Let them be well covered with green leaves, (grape or cabbage),
and keep a weight on them. When they begin to turn yellow, pour
RECIPES — OLD AND NEW. 63
off the brine, have it boiled and returned to the fruit boiUng.
In order
to hasten the greening, put layers of grape leaves between layers of
fruit, sprinkled with a little pulverized alum. Then pour the hot brine
on and in three days more they will be green enough. Take them out
and drop them into cold water for a few hours. Then put them in
cold vinegar for three more days, after which they are ready for the
vinegar.
—
To Make the Vinegar. To every two gallons of good vinegar Four:
ounces ground ginger, three ounces ground black pepper, three ounces
ground allspice, two ounces ground mace, two ounces turmeric, one
pint white mustard seed, half a pint black mustard seed, half a pint cel-
ery seed, two handfuls of horseradish, two handfuls of sliced onions; the
last two to be sprinkled with salt and kept in the sun twenty-four hours
before dropping in the vinegar. This is to be prepared in the summer,
sunned well, and stirred up daily. Add cucumbers in the fall, and
sugar to the taste.
Mrs. Braxton's Recipe.
cold water for two days, changing the water frequently. Boil them in
vinegar for three-quarters of an hour, adding a small lump of alum.
Let them stand in the same vinegar for a week. Then remove the seed,
and fill the cavity with the following spices One pound of ginger,
:
soaked in sherry wine for a day or two, or until soft enough to slice ;
them with the other spices. Tie them up and pour over them the best
cider vinegar.Set them in a Hght dry place, avoiding alwaj'^s darkness
or dampness. After one month add three pounds of brown sugar to
the vinegar or more, according to your taste.
Margaret A. Pegram.
PICKLES.
GERMAN DAMSONS (TO MAKE TWENTY POUNDS).
To good vinegar add ten pounds of brown sugar, three
five quarts of
ounces of powdered ginger, two ounces of black pepper, (powdered),
one ounce of powdered cloves, one blade of mace, one ounce of pow-
dered allspice, one ounce of celery seed. Tie the spices up loosely all
together in a muslin. The mace put loose in the vinegar. Boil this
liquor well. Then put the fruit in a jar and pour the liquor on scalding
hot. Tie the jar closely and let stand until next day. Then pour off
the liquor, boil again and pour over the iruit, boiling hot. Do the
it
same next day —three times in all. Then tie up the jar tight and set
away. This recipe answers also for peaches, with a little scraped horse-
radish added.
Mrs. H. C. Dallam.
TOMATO CATSUP.
Tomatoes, one peck, cjuarter them. Onions, six large ones, sliced.
Peppers, six green pods and four red pods. Put all of this in a porce-
lain kettle and boil till perfectly done, then strain through a coarse
sieve, being careful to mash all the pulp through. To one gallon of
juice, add one pint of cider vinegar, four tablespoonfuls of salt, four
tablespoonfuls of mustard, four tablespoonfuls of ground black pepper.
Sugar to your taste. Boil till quite thick, bottle and seal.
RECIPES — OLD AND NEW. 65
potato masher to get out the stones. Add the skins and just cover
with vinegar. Add as much brown sugar as you had grapes and skins,
flavor with a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and the same of allspice, and
half a teaspoonful of cloves. This is enough spice for six baskets of
grapes. Concord grapes are the best.
BRANDY PEACHES.
Scald the peaches in hot water, then in strong hot lye. Rub them
with a cloth and throw them into cold water. Make a syrup of one
pound of loaf sugar and one poimd of fruit; boil and when cold add an
equal quantity of brandy to the syrup.
JosiAH Lee.
towel, and drop them into cold water as you do it. Wipe the peaches
and weigh them. To five pounds of sugar put five small glasses of
water and let boil until it thickens into syrup, then drop in the peaches
and let them boil until you can stick them with a fork to the stone.
Then take them out and lay them on dishes; pour your syrup
into a bowl and let it remain until next morning. Put the peaches
in another bowl and cover them over with brandy, and let them re-
main until the next day; take the peaches out of the brandy and
put them into jars; mix equal portions of brandy and syrup,
66 RECIPES — OLD AND NEW.
and pour it in the jars with the peaches until they are covered over.
The syrup which is left mix with brandy and put away in bottles. It
makes a nice liqueur for luncheon.
"Bremo," August 12th, 1859.
;
RASPBERRY VINEGAR.
Pour on three quarts
of fresh raspberries, one pint of vinegar and
let itstand until next morning, strain off and pour the juice on three
quarts of berries, and again on the third morning add three quarts of
berries, then to every pint add one pound of sugar, stir well and bottle,
cork lightly and boil fifteen minutes. One tablespoon to a glass of
ice water, delightful beverage.
Mrs. General Randolph.
COLOGNE.
One hundred and twenty drops essence of lavender, one hundred
and thirty drops of oil of bergamot, one hundred and forty drops
oil of orange, one hundred and thirty drops oil of lemon, six drops
oil of neroli, one-half gallon of alcohol.
Jennie Dulanv.
RECIPES — OLD AXD NEW.
CANDY.
CARAMELS.
Three pounds of brown sugar, one cake of Baker's chocolate, one
teacup of cream, one-fourth pound of butter. Season with vanilla,
two tablespoonfuls. Put the sugar in a kettle with the grated choc-
olate, the teacup of cream and the one-fourth pound of butter, put this
on the fire and let it boil just nineteen minutes, stirring it all the time
to prevent it turning to sugar. Just as you take it ofif the fire, stir in
two tablespoonfuls of vanilla extract, then pour into dishes well but-
tered, and when cool cut into small squares.
Miss Leila P. Nicholson's Recipe.
SUGAR CANDY.
Three cups of sugar, cup of best vinegar, half cup of water,
half
tablespoonful of butter put in at the last with one teaspoonful saleratus
dissolved in hot water. Boil fast without stirring until it crisps in cold
water. Pull it until it turns white.
CONSERVE OF ROSES.
Take red roses, takeofif all the whites at the bottom, take three times
their weight in sugar, put a pint of water to a pint of roses, skin well,
shred the roses a little before you put them into the water and cover
them and when the leaves are tender put in the sugar. Keep stirring
lest they burn and the syrup be consumed. Put them up and keep
them for your use.
Old English Recipes.
EVERTON TOFFEE.
Two cups of granulated sugar, one cup hot water, four tablespoonfuls
butter, half teaspoonful lemon juice. Put all the ingredients into a
dish with the exception of the lemon juice, which must be added just
before taking ofT the fire. Stir constantly until it is brittle when
dropped into cold water, then pour on buttered dish.
68 RECIPES — OLD AXD NEW.
MOLASSES CANDY.
One cup brown sugar, one cup molasses, two tablespoonfuls butter.
Boil fast. When brittle pour on buttered dish and mark in squares
with a knife while cooling.
BUTTER SCOTCH.
Two cups of brown sugar, one cup of butter, one tablespoonful of
vinegar. Put the ingredients into a tin to melt, mixing and stirring
with a spoon. When melted, boil without stirring until the syrup
hardens in water; pour into buttered tins, and mark into squares.
Lemon or vanilla maj^ be used as flavoring, if desired, just before
taking up.
Miss Jones.
PEANUT CANDY.
One pint shelled peanuts, one pint granulated sugar.
Put the sugar
into a pan, (without any water), over a moderate fire, where it will
melt gradually. As soon as melted, turn in the peanuts and mix
quickly; remove from the fire and spread at once into a shallow pan,
or drop in spoonfuls on a buttered plate. Miss Jones.
NOUGAT.
One pound sweet almonds, three-fourths pound white sugar, one
tablespoonful rose water. Blanch almonds in boiling water, strip of
their skins, and put in ice water, then dry, put in oven until slightly
brown. Melt the sugar without any water, when the syrup is a bright
yellow, throw in the almonds, then put in a buttered pan and cut
when warm, not hot.
RECIPES —OLD AND NEW. 69
BEVERAGES.
CHERRY BOUNCE.
Two gallon demijohn filled with Morella cherries, then fill the demi-
john with New England rum, take one-half pint of the liquid, and put
into it one-fourth ounce of cloves, or allspice, (whole), boil in it, and
add three pounds of brown sugar.
Miss Fairfax,
NOYAU CORDIAL.
Steep a pint of blanched peach kernels ten days in a gallon of old
apple brandy. Pour the brandy from the kernels, and add four pounds
pulverized loaf sugar; clarify it by dissolving, (twelve cents worth of
isinglass) gelatine in a little warm water, and stir it into the cordial.
Let it stand all night to settle, then steam until perfectly clear and bottle.
Age improves it greatly.
JosiAH Lee.
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APPLE TODDY.
Twelve apples, a little tart, red streaks if possible, or wine sap, roasted
or baked and mashed, to one gallon water; sweetened to the taste, say
one and one-half pounds sugar, four tumblerfuls of brandy, one of rum,
one of peach brandy, mix thoroughly and add of above liquids if neces-
sary.
Miss Fairfax.
A GOOD PUNCH.
One and a half bottles of claret, half a bottle of brandy, six lumps of
sugar, three poneys of Curaqoa. Let the peel of two oranges and two
lemons and one blade of mace soak in the brandy all night. Add four
slices of cucumber, after made, and let them soak only five minutes.
Then add some mint, if it is fresh and green, for twenty minutes; ready
for punch bowl.
Mrs. George Dallas Dixon.
ROMAN PUNCH.
One and lemonade, half pint of champagne, half pint of
a half pints
rum, the juice of two oranges, the well beaten whites of two eggs into
which you have beaten half a pound of powdered sugar. To be served
with crushed ice or to be frozen.
ROAIAN PUNCH.
Purchase some good lemon water-ice. Fill your punch glasses with
the water-ice and pour into each glass a little Jamacia rum just before
serving.
PUNCH.
One gill red Curagoa, one dozen lemons, (juice only), half pound of
sugar, one and a half bottles of carbonic water, one bottle of brandy,
six bottles of claret, one pineapple, (peel and sugar and let it stand be-
fore slicing), four sliced oranges. Soak the peel of two oranges and
three lemons in the brandy all night; then take it out.
Mrs. George Dallas Dixon.
CONFEDERATE PUNCH.
'
Dissolve two pounds of white sugar in one quart of water. Then add
one quart of Sherry wine, one pint of brandy, one pint of rum, and half
a pint of lemon juice. Rub the rinds of two fresh lemons on some lumps
of sugar, being careful to take ofif all the yellow rind, but none of the
white. Mix thoroughly ; fill pitcher with cracked ice well packed
down before the punch is poured in, or it will be too strong.
Mrs. Marshall.
HOT PUNCH.
Ingredients. — Half a pint of rum, half a pint of brandy, a quarter oi a
pound one large lemon, half a teaspoonful of nutmeg, one pint
of sugar,
of boiling water. Rub the sugar over the lemon until it has absorbed
all the yellow part of the skin then put the sugar into a punch bowl
; ;
add the lemon juice, free from seed, and mix these two ingredients well
together pour over them the boiling water
;
stir well together add ; ;
rum brandy and nutmeg and the punch will be ready to serve. To
insure success the ingredients must be thoroughly mixed.
Mrs. Beeton's Recipe.
CLARET CUP.
Put into a large silver cup or pitcher one bottle of claret, one bottle
of soda water, four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, a little grated
nutmeg, one liqueur glass of ^Maraschino and a sprig of mint. Add
crushed ice and serve.
CHAMPAGNE CUP.
One quart bottle of champagne, two bottles of soda water, one liqueur
glass of brandy or Curagoa, two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Put
all the ingredients into a large silver or glass pitcher or silver loving-
cup ; stir well together, adding crushed ice. Some add a few slices of
cucumber rind or a sprig of green borage.
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TEA PUNCH.
To one quart of Jamaica rum put one and a half pounds of sugar, six
lemons and one cup of strong green tea. Peel the lemons, paring the
rind in very thin slices, and pour tea, boiling hot, upon the peel. Mix
the lemon juice and sugar, and mix all together, pouring the rum on
last. When ready to serve, have a pitcher filled with crushed ice, and
pour in the mixture.
Mrs. Alexander Gordon.
EGG NOGG.
The yolks only of twenty eggs, two quarts of cream, two quarts of rich
milk, a quart and a half of best French brandy, one pint of best
Jamaica rum. Sweeten to your taste, (not very sweet). Beat the eggs
very light. (You can use the whites if you like, but all must be beaten
together.) Then pour slowly over them the brandy and rum. Dissolve
the sugar in the cream or milk, and pour both into the liquor and eggs.
Strain into another bowl, and it is ready for use. All cream makes it too
rich. The white of the eggs impoverishes it slightly, but if used must
be beaten together, and never whipped up and put on top.
Another recipe is Six eggs to a quart of cream, half a pint of
:
brandy, half a pint of rum. Sweeten to your taste. Beat the yolks and
whites of the eggs together. James M. Nicholson.
WINE WHEY.
Half a pint of new milk, half a pint of water boiled, and two wine
glasses of good wine thrown in while boiling. Strain it, after it curds,
through a punch strainer.
Dr. Pue.
EGG NOGG.
A dozen and eggs to one gallon of milk
a half of beat the yolks with
;
a quarter of a pound of white sugar; put the yolks and sugar in the cold
milk; put on the stove and stir till it boils and thickens like a custard.
Then let it cool and stir in the beaten white of the eggs, (keeping out
part of the whites). Pour in a quart of brandy and nutmeg, and sugar to
your taste.
. Mrs. Winn.
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CONFEDEE?ATE RECIPES
BY WAY OF CONTRAST.
HARD-TACK CAKES.
Soak milk and bake like flan-
in boiling water, then thin with a little
nel cakes.These were considered a great delicacy during the war.
The hard tack was picked up on camp grounds after the Yankees
moved. We have eaten them days at a time, and thought them a
luxury.
CONFEDERATE BLACKING.
Two tablespoonfuls of lamp black, one teaspoonful of brown sugar,
white of one egg stirred until smooth, mixed with vinegar to proper
consistency.
CONFEDERATE INK.
A strong decoction of the maple or sweet gum. This decoction,
with copperas, makes a purple dye.
RYE COFFEE.
Wash and dry one quart of rye and one quart of wheat; roast a nice
brown; grind; allow two tablespoonfuls to each cup of water; boil five
minutes. Sweeten with molasses.
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Coal and
Woodw
Office, No. 1 W. Saratoga Street,
BALTIMORE, MD.
YARD. BOLTON. P. R. R. TELEPHONE No. 1916.
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PACKERS OF J-^.
Canned Goods
ALWAYS ASK f=OR THE
"CLIPPER BRAND."
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Baltimore Branch*
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Reliable Brand''
F. B. JENKINS, Manager.
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Inebriety=A Disease
Inebriety, Morphine and other Drug hab-
its are dependent upon a diseased condi-
nothing commonplace
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$50.00
is in the
KEATING
In the mechanical construction of the Keating, every piece and part is
made in our own great factory, and is of the best material obtainable.
We have the best mechanics in the world, for we are in that section of
the country that produces them. Our whole plant is under one roof,
and under the constant supervision of our management.
OUR PLAN IS TO MAKE
THE BEST BICITCI^E OiT
THAT'S WHY
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ALL KEATINGS ARE ROADSTERS,
ALL KEATINGS ARE RACERS.
Send for catalog, prices, and terms.
WEDDING INVITATIONS,
RECEPTION CARDS.
Engraved or Printed
in the best and latest style.
1888
Decorative Work,
Fresco and House Painting^
Paper Hanging^
Windcnv Shades*
Hildebrandt 8 Co*
Successors to Madame Foltat.
DESIGNING
STcAMPING
EMBROIDERY
PINKING
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FLEISGHMAHH'S
VEGETABLE VPAQT
IMOl
COMPRESSED
HAS NO EQUAL
Bread Bakery
1H.1I6-II8S. EDENST.
Let us live by the way." Baltimore, Md.
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Baltimore
Transfer Company,
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EAST BALTIMORE
STREET.
90
Remember
you can contribute wisely and
Charity by buying
liberally to
your KINDLING WOOD
, . .
The only Bureauin the city endorsed by the State Bureau of Labor Statistics.
See Report of Mr. A. B. Howard, Chief of State Bureau of Labor, of
Maryland General Assembly, 1894.
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THOMAS DAVIS,
DEALER IN THE BEST
QUALITY OF
BALTIMORE, MD.
WE ARE IN DAILY ATTENDANCE.
MARKET BASKETS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE
62
CHAMPAGNE CiBER EXTRA DRT
W. H. CLARK. MANAGER.
Fine Art
Pottery
A SPECIALTY
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