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 AMERICAN COOKERY BOOK, 
 
 CONTAINING UPWARDS OF TWELVE HUNDRED CHOICE AND CAREFULLY 
 TESTED RECEIPTS; EMBRACING ALL THE POPULAR DISHES, 
 AND THE BEST RESULTS OF MODERN SCIENCE, RE- 
 DUCED TO A SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL FORM. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 A CHAPTER’ FOR INVALIDS, FOR INFANTS, ONE ON JEWISH COOKERY; 
 AND A VARIETY OF MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS OF SPECIAL 
 VALUE TO HOUSEKEEPERS GENERALLY. 
 
 By Mrs. J. C. CROLY, (JEnNiIz JUNE.) 
 
 AUTHOR OF ‘‘TALKS ON WOMEN’S TOPICS,’’ ETO, 
 
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 “What does cookery mean?** 
 
 “It means the knowledge of Medea, and of Circe, and of Calypso, and of Helen, 
 and of Rebekah, and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge of all 
 fruits, and herbs, and balms, and spices—and of all that is healing, and sweet in 
 fields, and groves, and savory in meats—it means carefulness, and inventiveness, 
 and watchfulness, and willingness, and readiness of appliance It means the 
 economy of your great-grandmothers, and the science of modern chemists—it 
 means much tasting, and no wasting—it means English thoroughness, and 
 French art, and Arabian hospitality, and it means in fine, that you are to be per- 
 fectly, and always ‘ladies,’—‘ loaf givers,’ and as you are to see imperatively that 
 everybody has something pretty to put on,—so you are to see, even yet more im- 
 peratively, that everybody has something nice to eat.’’—RuSKIN. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, 
 
 119 & 121 NASSAU STREET. 
 1867. 
 

 
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 «Why another cook-book, when there are already so 
 many ?” | 
 
 Well, for several reasons, one of which is, that when an 
 inquiry was made for a good, practical cook-book, we 
 knew not which to ‘recommend. ¥, Wee examined a great 
 many, and found some good for one thing, and some for 
 another ; but few containing just what young, middle class 
 Co Say want td cic pearrenode in a clear, avail- 
 able form, unencumbered with unnecessary and wordy 
 - details. 
 
 A very small number of the printed cookery and house- 
 keeping books have been written by women, and. still less 
 by persons possessing any practical knowledge of the. sub- 
 ject of which they were treating. The majority are 
 clumsy compilations of all kinds of receipts—good, bad, 
 and indifferent, collected from various sources, and put 
 together with an ignorance as profound, of their results, 
 as “E they had been written in an unknown language. 
 
 There are certain “high art” cookery. bodks that are 
 very good and complete, i in their way; but they are too 
 elaborate and pretentious for the class for whom this was 
 written. They go into the mysteries of French dishes, 
 and tell how to get up grand dinners, but they leave the 
 poor young wife, who wants to cook a chop or a chicken, 
 
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 + stuff a piece of veal, and make a pudding, or a loaf of 
 - pread for the first time in her life, quite in the dark. 
 
 It is not claimed for the present volume, by the author, . 
 that it fully meets the necessities of the cage, or has satis- 
 factorily accomplished its task, even within the modest 
 
 limits assigned to it. It is one thing to think how some- 
 thing may be done, and another thing to do it; but it is 
 claimed 1 that the object of the work has been Paani 
 kept 1 in view, that it has been executed lovingly, with a 
 - strong appreciation of the benefit and pleasure to be de- 
 rived from good cooking, from the intermingling of the 
 finer with the grosser elements, with a pleasant remem- 
 brance of good times spent in the kitchen, and with an 
 earnest wish to make these duties seem attractive to the 
 conscientious young wives who would willingly perform 
 their part, ifthey but knew how. 
 
 Nearly all the receipts and recommendations in the fol- 
 lowing pages have been carefully tested and found sensi- 
 ble and practical. We have omitted some things, which — 
 nearly all cook-books contain, such as directions for carv- 
 ing, setting table, etc. ; because it seemed a waste of valu- 
 able space. Carving is partly a gift of nature, and partly 
 of grace; it is never learned from a book. Directions of 
 this kind, moreover, are useless without illustrations; and 
 these did not come within the scope of the present work. 
 Information as to how to put the knives and forks on a 
 dinner table is another work of supererogation. Few 
 persons who use a cookery book are so benighted as not 
 to have seen a table neatly set sometime or other, and if 
 they have, it is worth more to them than a dozen printed 
 rules. Young housekeepers will, however, find a great 
 many hints,—the result of experience and observation,— 
 which we hope will prove useful to them, and help to keep 
 
 
 
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 preceded them. 
 
 Dear friends,—for it is you, for whom this book is writ- 
 ten, and to whom it is dedicated,—I believe in you, I sym-- 
 pathize with you, because I am one of you. I see you in 
 your lovely young wife-hood, so happy in your treasures _ 
 of pantry and closet, so proud of your first culinary suc- 
 cess, and of. your lord and master’s high appreciation of 
 it; and I would, if it were possible, extend the loving 
 
 Talo which glorifies every act of affection during these 
 
 first happy months, to all your future; so that no weari- 
 ness, no pain, no distrust, no loss of anything that now 
 makes life beautiful, might ever come near you. But. 
 this is out of my power. I can only wish for-every one no 
 more clouds than is necessary, to vary and make beautiful 
 the matrimonial sky, and so dear friends, 
 
 FAREWELL. 
 

 

 
 
 
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 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF COOKING. 
 
 1. The object of cooking is to make food healthful, and palata- 
 
 ble; the secret is therefore, how to combine elements and flavors, 
 
 so as to produce the best results. 
 
 2. The best meat requires the simplest preparation. 
 
 3. Acardinal principle in cooking is cleanliness; a dirty cook 
 cannot be a good cook, beeause all her dishes, no matter how dis- 
 tinct in quality, or costly in material, will taste as if, to use a com- 
 mon expression, they were ‘‘ cooked in one pot.” 
 
 4, Asa general rule, to which there are very few exceptions, 
 cook long and slowly, to cook well, and let the heat reach every 
 part as evenly as possible. 
 
 5. Fresh meats, and fish are better than corned, pickled, or 
 smoked provisions; and the flesh of grown animals, (beef or mut- 
 ton) is to be preferred to young beasts, such as veal or lamb. 
 
 6. The natural order in cooking meats or fish, excepting oys- 
 ters, is first to broil, second to boil, third to roast, fourth to stew, 
 fifth to bake, and sixth to fry; and never to fry, as long as there is 
 another method left. 
 
 7. Toretain the jucies in boiled meat, ee it mass and plunge 
 it in boiling water; this coagulates the outer coating and prevents 
 the escape of the jucies, or soluable matter. To extract the ju- 
 cies for soup, cut it up in small pieces, and put it in cold water; 
 this draws out all the strength, making good soup, but poor meat. 
 
 8. Air should have access to roasting meat, hence spit roasting 
 
 before a fire, is found much better than roasting in a closed oven. 
 
 9. Always retain as much as possible of the distinct flavor of 
 every article of food used; mixtures which make all dishes taste 
 alike, are dyspepsia breeding, as well as appetite killing. 
 
 10. Carefully avoid placing articles in contact, which have no 
 
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 affinity, such as fish and meat, etc. It is sufficient for people te 
 do that in their stomachs, 
 
 
 
 _ 11, A light hand in making, a quick step in baking, maketh a ‘’ 
 good conscience for eating bread, puddings, and pies. sa 
 12. Food for the well, is better than physic for the sick. Bad _ 
 
 cooking is a crime; it is the cause of dyspepsia, and a host of 
 other evils. A woman convicted of it ought to be arrainged for 
 manslaughter. 
 

 
 HOUSEKEEPING. 
 
 The great question when a young couple are going to be mar- 
 ried is, whether they shall keep house or board. The gentleman, 
 as a general rule, wishes to keep house, he is tired of boarding ; 
 moreover, he had anticipated so much enjoyment in a snug little 
 house of their own, and so much pride and pleasure in seeing his 
 pretty Nellie at the head of his table, dome the honors to the 
 choicest of his friends. 
 
 But Nellie has quite different ideas; in the first place, she 
 knows nothing about cooking. She has, with the help of her 
 mother, or the cook, made cake once or twice, or possibly blanc- 
 mange, which was very much praised; but of the practical details 
 required in the getting up of the most ordinary breakfast, dinner, 
 or supper, she knows nothing, and has not the remotest intention 
 or inclination to become acquainted with them. 
 
 The final result is, that they go to ‘‘ board” in some highly gen- 
 teel establishment, where the prices are high in proportion to tke 
 gentility and lack of real comfort, and some fine morning the 
 young gentleman wakes up to the knowledge that he is tied to a wife 
 who doubles his expenses, but has added nothing to his happiness, 
 or at any rate, nothing to the real value and usefulness of his life. 
 
 This is a matrimonial swindle. Girls ought not to marry until 
 they are ready and willing to accept the position of head of a 
 household, and capable of making a home what it should be to 
 husband and children. 
 
 If a man can find a woman to act as his mistress for her board 
 and clothes, well and good — thereis no law to prevent it; but for 
 a woman bearing the honored name of wife to hold so dependent 
 and humilating a position, is fearful degradation. 
 
 The marriage relation is one of reciprocal interests, duties, and 
 responsibilities; and no young lady ought to marry until she is 
 
4 HOUSEKEEPING. 
 
 willing to assume her share of them. True affection on the part 
 of the husband will lighten, and make duties pleasures, but what- 
 ever aspect they bear, she must not shrink from them. If she has 
 not received the training necessary to fit her for the position, it is 
 her misfortune ; butitwill be her fault, if she does not try as far as 
 possible to remedy the evil. a 
 
 Want of means constitutes no sort of reason why’ young married 
 people should not go to housekeeping. What we spend on fool- 
 ish and useless gewgaws and presents would, in nine cases out of 
 ten, if usefully applied, set them up in a style quite in accordance 
 with their means, if not their inclination, 
 
 But it is not for themselves they fear. They are willing, or at 
 least they think so, to live together in an attic; but society! Well, 
 what has society got to do with it? Society will not pay your 
 butcher’s and grocer’s bills, nor care a copper whether they are 
 paid or not. Society will eat ice-cream, oysters, and cake of your 
 providing, but that is not what you are marrying for. 
 
 You have chosen a comparatively poor man, your business is to 
 adapt yourself to his circumstances, to make the most of his means 
 in providing a pleasant home, and bringing up carefully and con- 
 scientiously the children which may be given you. If society find 
 you out, or if you find it worth while to fill up any of the chinks 
 or interstices with occasional glimpses of the false, glittering, out- 
 side world — good! you will come back to your sweet home with 
 so muchthe more relish; but donot marry it, do not sacrifice your 
 own sense of duty, and the happiness and welfare of husband and 
 family to it. 
 
 Talk of happiness,—there is none like that of an intelligent, af- 
 fectionate family circle. There is no pleasure, no enjoyment 
 equal to that of a mother ministering to the wants, or gratifying 
 the natural and innocent tastes of her children. ‘The pleasure is all 
 the greater, because it is a surprise. 
 
 Young women very often dread the exacting care of a family, and — 
 
 expect to find wifely and maternal duties irksome and wearisome ; 
 
 that is the reason why they would so willingly escape them, 
 
 as they fancy, by boarding, and not having children. 
 But unfortunately, or fortunately, God has managed it so that 
 we cannot take the pleasures of life without bearing its pains; we 
 
 
 
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 cannot shirk a plain line of duty, without incurring the penalty. 
 But we can, and do, by taking upon ourselves bravely, its bur- 
 dens, find an exaltation of womanhood, and a hight and depth of 
 happiness, such as we never before dreamed of. 
 
 Exceptions are said to exist to every general rule; but there are 
 very few to this, that when people marry, they ought to set right 
 about making a home of their own. If you can only afford two 
 rooms, live intwo rooms. If your means will compass a small 
 house, but not a large one, then take the small one, and be happy 
 and thankful. é 
 
 I would not give a wisp of straw for a young woman who does 
 not want, on her marriage, to occupy her own little domain; who 
 does not revel in anticipation over the contents of kitchen and 
 closet, if there is only a small cook stove in one, and a set of 
 delf in the other. But this suggests a matter of some importance. 
 
 KITCHEN FURNISHING. 
 
 In selecting a house to live in, particularly if it is a small one, 
 give the preference to a pleasant, sunny kitchen, which will at 
 least look clean when it is clean, and into which it will not be disa- 
 greeable to enter. 
 
 «As a general rule, buy as little as possible on first going to 
 housekeeping; it is easy to add more when experience has dis- 
 covered to you precisely what you want; butif you should indulge 
 in any extravagance, let it be in the kitchen furnishing. 
 
 It is a real pleasure to get a glimpse of an orderly kitchen and 
 neat closets, newly fitted up with all the useful modern contriv- 
 ances for saving labor, and making it agreeable, and as the whole 
 cost would not amount to more than one expensive carpet, it is 
 not worth while to do without them. 
 
 It is economical, moreover, to have all kitchen utensils of the 
 best quality ; cheap pans, brushes, pails, earthenware and the like, 
 are not only an ‘‘ eyesore ” in a house, and bad or disagreeable to 
 use, but they are good for nothing; they eternally want replacing, 
 
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 while a really good article is not only taken better care of, but 
 will stand infinitely more of hard usage. 
 
 Oil cloth is the best material for covering a kitchen dashes it is 
 easily kept clean, and does not absorb the dirt and grease. 
 
 Short, white muslin curtains to kitchen windows are considered 
 ‘* nonsense ” by some people, but they are tidy, and the cost and 
 washing are not much. . 
 
 Of course the kitchen will be supplied with dresser, table with 
 drawer, and ironing table. As to chairs, three and a common 
 rocker are sufficient; but I would enliven the walls with a picture 
 or two, if possible, and encourage the cook, or maid of all work, 
 to have her monthly rose or pot of geranium in the window. 
 
 Under the shelves of the kitchen closets, it 1s a good plan to 
 have narrow strips of board, in which nails or tacks can be in- 
 serted, for the purpose of hanging up all sorts of small articles, 
 such as iron and wooden spoons, sugar and flour sifters, tin strain- 
 ers, lemon squeezer, lemon grater, egg beater, skewers, small 
 sauce pans, cake turner, rolling pin, and such things as one is most 
 likely to want, and which it is convenient to have in sight. 
 
 The floors of all closets should be covered with oil-cloth, so that 
 they can be edsily washed up, and kept neat and clean. 
 
 HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT. 
 
 Women are sometimes accused of managing too much, and 
 - sometimes of not managing at all; but the most perfect system of 
 management is, undoubtedly, that which outwardly betrays itself 
 least, and in the results of which, there is not suspected to have 
 been any management at all. 
 
 Regularity is the pivot upon which all household management 
 turns; where there is a lack of system there is a lack of comfort, 
 that no amount of individual effort can supply. Forethought also 
 is necessary, so that the work may be all arranged beforehand ; 
 done in its proper order, and at the right time. Never, except 
 in cases of extreme emergency, allow Monday’s washing to be put 
 
 
 
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 off till Tuesday; Tuesday's ironing till Wednesday, or Wednes- 
 day’s finishing up and ‘setting to rights,” till Thursday. Leave 
 Thursday for extra work; or when that is not required, for rest- 
 ing day, or half holiday, and as a preparation for the up stairs’ 
 sweeping and dusting of Friday, and the downstairs’ baking and 
 scrubbing of Saturday. 
 
 a ice work so as to save fuel as much as possible. Mix 
 bread at night, so that it will be ready to bake with that ‘first 
 fire” which giuays makes the oven hot in the morning. Prepare 
 fruit over night, so that pies or other things can be quickly made 
 and baked immediately after. Prepare hashes for breakfast, over 
 night. Have the kitchen and dining room put in order before re- 
 tiring to rest. Have kindlings and whatever is needed for build- 
 ing fires laid ready, and the fire in the kitchen raked down, so 
 that it can be built up in the shortest possible space of time. This 
 is not only a saving in the morning, but will be found useful in 
 case of illness in the night, when a fire is often required at a mo- 
 ment’s notice. 
 
 Try to buy in as large quantities as possible, so as to save the 
 perpetual running out to the grocery. Supplies on hand also en- 
 able the housekeeper to provide a more varied table, with far 
 greater economy than is possible where every thing is bought by 
 the half a pound, more or less. 
 
 Every family that can possibly find means to do it, or a place 
 to properly keep the articles, should commence winter with fuel, 
 potatoes, apples, flour, and butter, enough to last till Spring. <A 
 good supply of hominy, rice, farina, Indian meal, preserved fish, 
 and other staples, including sugar, should also be laid in, not for- 
 getting a box of raisins, one of currants, a third of soap, and a 
 fourth of starch. 
 
 There is such an immense saving in soap well dried, that it is 
 surprising so many housekeepers content themselves with buy- 
 ing it in damp bars. Starch also is frightfully wasted by quarter, 
 and half pound purchases, which are frequently all absorbed at one 
 time, by careless girls, in doing the washing for a small family. 
 
 But in most American families, the largest amount of waste, 
 probably, takes place in the use of fuel. Heretofore, fuel of all 
 kinds has been comparatively cheap, and very little supervision has 
 
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 been exercised over its use. At present rates however, it is an 
 item of considerable importance ; and it is quite time that servants 
 were taught how to employ it to the best advantage. 
 
 Tn nine out of ten kitchens, when there is any cooking to be done 
 the range is made red hot; when the cooking is done, the fire is 
 left to go down to ashes, and is then raised by means of a wasteful 
 pile of kindling wood. When no cooking is going on, and a large 
 fire is not needed, the dampers will frequently be left open, and 
 the fiel allowed to blaze itself out up the chimney instead of being 
 kept in reserve for actual service. 
 
 The general principle of construction upon which American 
 kitchen stoves and ranges is based, renders them either very eco- 
 nomical, or very much otherwise, according to the way they are man- 
 aged. After the fire is first built in an ordinary stove, or range, the 
 dampers ought all to be closed up and not opened agam during the 
 day, except while broiling, or something of that sort. If the grate 
 is kept clear, and the fire replenished with a small quantity of coal, 
 before it begins to getlow, both the oven, and the top of the range 
 will be kept sufficiently hot for any kind of cooking, and it will be 
 done all the better for being done somewhat more slowly, than is 
 customary with the well meaning, but terribly blundering, and 
 irresponsible race of wild Irish girls, who officiate as the high 
 priestesses of our domestic altars. 
 
 The strictest attention on the part of a house-keeper, is necessa- 
 ry, to see that certain articles are kept for their proper use; for 
 instance, that the dish cloth is not used for a floor cloth, that the 
 napkins are not used to wipe up the dishes, the dish towels as 
 dusters, a new broom to sweep out the back yard, and the best new 
 enamelled sauce pan, for melting down grease. 
 
 _ Where the lady of the house attends partly to her own | siete, 
 sf will naturally see to all these things; but where it is left wholly 
 to servants, there are always complaints of missing articles, and an 
 inspection of the kitchen, or ironing table drawer, would generally 
 bring them all to light, although ina state almost unrecognizable, 
 from dirt, and their contiguity to whitening, hair oil, candle grease, 
 combs and brushes, and other articles, all of which it is found 
 ‘*handy ” to keep in a drawer in the kitchen, with mats, table cloths, 
 towels, and other things destined for family use. 
 
 
 

 
 HOUSEKEEPING. 9 
 
 It is hardly necessary after this to say that a kitchen being onee 
 provided with necessary. and convenient articles for cleaning and 
 cooking, the presiding genius should be held to a strict accounta- 
 bility for them. Pudding cloths should be forthcoming whenever 
 wanted, — dry, clean, and free from stains; towels, napkins, pans, 
 bowls, and cooking utensils, should be kept strictly to their uses. 
 and not put away till perfectly clean and dry. 
 
 Ironing sheets, blankets, skirt board, bosom board, iron holder, 
 rubber, and the like, should be kept smoothly folded in the drawer 
 of the ironing table, when not in use. 
 
 The shelves of kitchen, dining-room, and other closets, should 
 be covered with fresh paper, neatly cut out on the edges, once in 
 two weeks, and dusted down twice a week. 
 
 Pot closets, safes, and refrigerators, should be thoroughly scrub- 
 bed out every week, and the latter aired every day. 
 
 Good brooms and brushes will last a long time if care is taken 
 of them. When first bought. they should be allowed to stand in 
 cold water for twelve hours, and then thoroughly dried before using | 
 When not in use, they should be hung up by a loop of twine, or 
 cord, so that the weight may not rest on the edge of the splinters, 
 and break them. Four large brooms should be provided, one for 
 the kitchen, one for the parlor, onc for the sleeping rooms, and one 
 for the family, or ‘‘ living” room. <A ‘‘ whisk” will be required 
 for every room in the house, besides one for the hall. 
 
 As soon as the kitchen broom is worn down so as to render it 
 unfit to sweep the floor with ease and comfort, take it for the cel- 
 lar, door steps, and back yard ; take the one from the sitting room 
 for the kitchen, the one from ‘the parlor to the sitting room, and 
 get a new one for the parlor. 
 
 Exact punctuality 1 in serving the meals, and punctual aiténdanee 
 at them ; it is oftener the fault of the family, than the servants, that 
 meals are served at irregular hours. Where the members make a 
 practice of sitting down any time, and food is kept waiting until 
 
 it suits their pleasure or convenience to partake of it, irrespect- 
 
 ive of household necessities, servants, or any one else, will nat- 
 urally become careless and neglectful. 
 
 HOUSEHOLD MEMORANDA, 
 Dried herbs should be tied each separately in a paper bag, and 
 
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 hung against the wall in the store-room. Mint, pennyroyal, cat- 
 nip, sage, thyme, summer-savory and parsley, are all good to 
 have in the house. 
 
 Parsley should be bunched before it goes to seed, and hung up 
 to dry. Ina week, or two, it may be put in paper bags, and i IS 
 ready for use, for soup, stuffing, or fricassee. 
 
 PIECE BAGS. 
 
 Out of an old calico dress make three piece bags, and label each 
 one of them with its written name upon a small square piece of 
 white muslin, which must be sewn upon the side of the bag. One 
 should be the ‘‘ rag-bag,” another the ‘‘ white piece-bag,” a third, 
 the ‘* colored piece-bag,” — they will be found very useful. 
 
 DUSTERS 
 
 Provide a duster, as well as a feather brush, and a whisk broom, 
 for every room in the house, and see that ey are kept in their 
 place, when not in use. ot 
 
 KITCHEN HOLDERS. 
 
 Make three kitchen holders, one to put away with the ironing 
 apparatus, two others, to be hung up, one each side, under the 
 kitchen mantle piece, so as to be ready for lifting pots and kettles 
 off the fire, or taking hold of the hot handle of a sauce pan, or 
 skillet. Small squares of old, or new carpet, are best, with an 
 inner lining of old cloth, and an outer one of dark twilled cotton, 
 which may either be sewed to the edge of the carpet, or the whole 
 may be bound with worsted binding. Add a loop to hang it up by. 
 
 PAPER AND STRING. 
 
 When parcels are brought to the house, take the nice white, or 
 brown tissue paper, in which the goods have been wrapped, fold it 
 and put it away in a drawer, with the string tied round it, to be 
 ready for use in case of emergency. 
 
 MENDING 
 
 When you put the clean clothes away for the family, examine 
 every piece, and see if a string, or a button needs replacing, or 
 

 
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 a fracture requires mending. Pile all together, and repair them at 
 once, remembering that a stitch in time saves nine. 
 
 MENDING STOCKINGS. 
 
 Mending stockings for a large family, is a somewhat onerous, 
 and not altogether agreeable duty. As soon as the daughters are old 
 enough they should be set to mending their own; but even then, 
 there is sometimes a large pile for ‘* mother’s” work basket. Do 
 not hurry them ; however, mend them conscientiously, if itis only one 
 pair at atime. Have needle and darning cotton of the proper size, 
 take a large area in every direction beyond the hole, leave loops at 
 each end of the thread, as itis drawn out, for shrinkage—and darn 
 carefully and extensively ; over all the thin places. Hose mended 
 in this way will not require the process more than twice, during 
 their existence, provided the quality in the first place was the best. 
 Cheap hose are not worth buying at all. 
 
 RAINY DAYS. 
 
 Make the house look as bright as possible inside, have some- 
 thing good for tea, put on a pretty dress, light up early, romp 
 with the children, tell them stories, and determine at least to have 
 sunshine in the house, if you cannot have it outside. 
 
 PACKING AWAY SUMMER OR WINTER CLOTHES. 
 
 Before packing away summer or winter clothes, devote a day to 
 an examination of them; mend, and clean any spots off that may 
 
 _require it, brush, and shake them well, fold up smoothly, and 
 
 sprinkle between every fold a little gum camphor, unless you are 
 so fortunate as to have cedar chests, and then you will not need it. 
 Sprinkle a little gum camphor also on the bottom of common trunks 
 or chests, pack closely, filling up all the crevices, with small arti- 
 cles such as stockings, gloves, scarfs, hoods and the like, reserv- 
 ing the body part of the box for the larger garments. 
 
 Nice dresses, velvet cloaks, opera cloaks, furs, and the like, 
 should be folded in sheets, or towels, pinned tightly down, and be 
 placed in the trays, or hollow part of trunks, by themselves, if 
 possible. 
 
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 CAKE BOX. 
 
 Have a japanned box, or large jar, for cake, which will shut 
 down tight. Cover it with a linen cloth, which should be put in 
 the wash once in two weeks. Empty the box, scald it out, and let 
 it dry in the sun, or before the fire, every week. 
 
 CHAMBER, MANTEL, AND TOILET COVERS. 
 
 White Marseilles, thin pique or Allendale quilting, edged with 
 white ball, or twisted fringe, makes nice covers for toilet stands, 
 or chamber mantels, especially where cottage furniture is used. If 
 the furniture is very handsome black walnut, or rosewood, ele- | 
 gant mantel covers may be made, by tacking patent maroon vel- 
 vet on a thin board, and edging it with bullion fringe. 
 
 TO CLEAN LOOKING GLASSES. 
 
 Divide a newspaper in two halves, fold up one in a small square 
 and dip it in cold water. Rub the glass first with the wet half of 
 the paper, and dry with the other. Fly specks, and all other 
 dirty marks will disappear as if by magic. 
 
 TO TAKE OUT SCORCH. 
 
 If a shirt bosom, or any other article has unfortunately been 
 scorched in ironing, lay it where bright sunshine will fall straight 
 upon it. It will take it entirely out, leaving it clean and white as 
 snow. 
 
 LABEL CHILDREN. 
 
 Into the crowns of the hats or bonnets of little children, sew a 
 square of writing paper, stating age, and residence. ‘This will 
 save them from any danger of being lost. . 
 
 WASH RAGS. 
 
 Small squares of crash hemmed, make very nice wash rags, or 
 small, coarse tea napkins, fringed on the sides; very good ones 
 may also be made out of the best part of old dinner napkins, or 
 tablecloths. Be careful always to supply them to every sleeping- 
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 NIGHT CLOTHES. 
 
 Never wear anything at night that you have worn during the 
 day, nor during the day, that you have worn at night. 
 
 TO PULTAOUT - FIRE, 
 
 In all such cases, great promptitude and quickness is necessary. 
 The thing to be done is, to crush it out; either with rugs, mats, 
 blankets, or whatever else is handy. 
 
 If the fire is in a chimney, fire a pistol into it, or put salt onit, and 
 _ close up the draft of the fire-place, by pinning a quilt up over it. 
 This last precaution alone will generally prevent danger, unless 
 there should happen to be & high wind. 
 
 SHERTS. 
 
 When sheets are beginning to wear in the middle, sew the sel- 
 vage sides together, tear them in two, and hem down the sides; 
 they will last enough longer to pay for the trouble, especially at 
 _ present price of muslin. 
 
 PAY AS YOU GO. 
 
 Keep no books, and never run accounts with stores; pay for 
 what you buy when you buy it, and so save much money and trouble 
 and prevent many very disagreeable mistakes. 
 
 HOW TO CLEAR A TABLE. 
 
 Collect all the food together first, and dispose of it, neatly, 
 and carefully. Put all the spoons together, all the forks together, 
 and all the knives together. If you have a small pitcher partly 
 full of warm water on the table, put the knives into that, blades 
 down. Scrape the plates clean, and empty all the slops from the 
 tea and coffee cups, into the slop bowl. Have ready your clean 
 light wooden tub, two thirds full of hot water, little mop, piece of 
 soap, and tin pan of warm water for rinsing. Wash the glasses 
 first, with a little soap, and rinse them, then the spoons, then the 
 cups and saucers, then the silver forks, then the plates, lastly, the 
 larger dishes. Dry quickly with nice large fine linen crash towels. 
 Be careful not to put the handle of knives into hot water, or silver 
 
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 knives where they can touch the forks, as that will scratch them. 
 The quicker the whole operation is performed, the brighter and 
 nicer the ware will be. 
 
 MATTRESSES. 
 
 Mattresses are used universally now in preference to feather 
 beds; and to save trouble, some people straighten the clothes over 
 them, just as they rise. This is very bad, they ought to be turned 
 every day, and exposed to the air some time before the bed is made 
 
 up. 
 
 HINTS ON ECONOMY. 
 
 PROVIDE ON SatuRDay for Monday, so as not to take up the fire 
 with cooking, or time in running errands, any more than is possi- 
 ble on washing day. 
 
 WAIT TILL ARTICLES, fruit, fish, poultry and vegetables, are in 
 full season, before purchasing. They are then not only much 
 lower in price than when first brought to market, but finer in 
 quality and flavor. 
 
 OUTSIDE GARMENTS, bonnets, cloaks, hats, shawls, scarfs and 
 ‘the like, will last clean and fresh much longer, if the dust is care- 
 fully removed from them by brushing and shaking after returning 
 from a ride or a walk. 
 
 WHEN YOUR APPLES begin to rot, pick the specked ones out 
 carefully ; stew them up with cider and sugar, and fill all your 
 empty self-sealing cans. In this way you may keep in nice apple 
 sauce till apples come again. 
 
 PICKLE OR PRESERVE Jars should be washed in lukewarm 
 or cold water, and dried in the sun or near the fire. Hot water 
 cracks the polished surface of the inside, and renders them unfit 
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 NEVER ALLOW CHILDREN to eat butter with meat or gravy; it 
 is both wasteful and injurious. | 
 
 Hor BUCKWHEAT CAKES will go farther and last longer than 
 any other single article of food. A celebrated judge declared that 
 he could remain in court all day, without feeling a symptom of 
 hunger, after a breakfast of buckwheat cakes. 
 
 A stew is not.a bad dish fora family dinner, once a week; 
 make it of good meat, and savory with sweet herbs, and the most 
 fastidious will not object to it. 
 
 RIsE EARLY on fine summer mornings, and throw all the win- 
 dows of the house open, so that it may exchange its close atmos- 
 phere, for the cool, fresh air. Have the work done before the 
 heat of the day comes on, and save it as much as possible during | 
 
 the warmest weather. 
 
 TAKE CARE OF THE FOOD that is brought into the house, and 
 see that none of it is wasted; but do not be always on the lookout 
 for cheap things. Beans are cheap, and very good sometimes ; 
 corn meal is cheap too, and even more available, because it can be 
 made into a great variety of dishes, but people would not care to 
 live on beans and corn meal all the time, because they are cheap. 
 Eating is intended as a means of enjoyment, as well as of sustain- 
 ing life; and it is right to avail ourselves of the abundant re- 
 sources provided, as far as we can consistently. 
 
 Usk TEA LEAVES, or short, freshly cut grass, to sprinkle upon 
 carpets before sweeping. It will freshen up the colors, and save 
 
 the usual cloud of dust. 
 
 HaVE EVERYTHING CLEAN, on Saturday night, something nice 
 for tea, and also for Sunday morning breakfast. Let the ap- 
 proach of the Sabbath be anticipated in all things, with pleasure. 
 Stay at home with the children on Sabbath evening, and finish the 
 day with a sacred concert. 
 
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 ALLOW NO HOLES, or corners in the house, in drawers, on 
 shelves, or in closets, for the stowing away of dirty rags, old bot- 
 tles, grease-pots, and broken crockery. When bottles are emp- 
 tied, let them be cleaned, and put down in the cellar, until they 
 are wanted. Harbor no dirty grease pots, and when an article is 
 broken past recovery, throw it away at once; there is no use in 
 keeping it to collect dust, and cobwebs. 
 
 Make A Point of examining safe, refrigerator, closets, drawers, 
 
 and all receptacles for food, and kitchen articles, at least as often © 
 
 as once a week, either Saturday, or washing day. Look into pickle 
 jars, bread jars, cake jars, butter tubs, apple, and potato bar- 
 rels, everything in fact, examine their condition, see if they are 
 kept covered and clean, and that food put away, is not left to 
 spoil, or be wasted. , 
 
 THE FEWER SERVANTS THE BETTER—two requires a third to 
 wait upon them, and so on ad infinitum. Have good servants how- 
 
 ever, pay good wages, and make them responsible for their work. 
 
 If 1T IS POSSIBLE, and when there is a will there is a way, cail 
 your household together, after breakfast every morning, and have 
 domestic worship, be it ever so short. A verse of a hymn, a pas- 
 sage from the Bible, and just a few words of heartfelt prayer, and 
 praise, sets everything right for the day, smooths ruffled tempers, 
 and puts the domestic machine in nicely running order. It is also 
 no bad preparation for the temptations and annoyances of busi- 
 ness. 
 
 BEFORE SWEEPING a room, have the furniture, and especially all 
 
 the small articles, dusted and removed. This keeps hem as 
 
 ing fresh, and new. aes 
 
 WEAR PRETTY MORNING DRESSES; they are inexpensive, and 
 easily preserved from injury, by a large calico apron enveloping the 
 skirt of the dress, and sleeves of the same kind, gathered into a 
 band, top, and bottom, and extending over the elbows. These can 
 be slipped on and off in a minute, and witha bib added to the 
 
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 apron in front, affords complete protection, while engaged in dust- 
 ing, making pastry, and the like. 
 
 ALWAYS HAVE YOUR TABLE served neatly, and then if friends 
 ** happen in,” you will not be ashamed to ask them to share your 
 meal. Be hospitable, if it is only a crust, and a cup of cold 
 water; if itis clean and good of its kind, there is no reason to 
 blush for it; the hearty welcome will make amends for the absence 
 of rich viands. 
 
 I¥ CHILDREN WANT ANYTHING between meals, which they should 
 not, give them a cracker, or an apple; do not encourage an irreg. 
 ular and unhealthy appetite, by giving them pie, cake, or ginger- 
 bread. 
 
 RULES FOR EATING 
 
 1. Eat slowly asif it was a pleasure you desired to prolong, 
 rather than a duty to be got rid of as quickly as possible. 
 
 2. Don’t bring your prejudices, your dislikes, your annoyances, 
 your past misfortunes, or future forebodings, to the table — they 
 would spoil the best dinner. 
 
 3. Respect the hours of meals, you have no right to injure the 
 temper of the cook, destroy the flavor of the viands, and the com- 
 fort of the family, by your want of punctuality. 
 
 4. Have as much variety in your food as possible, but not many 
 dishes served at one time. 
 
 5. Find as little fault with the food prepared as possible, and 
 praise whenever you can. 
 
 6. Finally, be thankful, if you have not meat, that you have 
 at least an appetite, and hope for something more and better in 
 the future. 
 
 THE USE OF FUEL. 
 
 There is no department of housekeeping in which our national 
 spirit of waste and extravagance is more clearly exemplified, than 
 
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 in ouruse of fuel. Even the enormous advance in prices has lei 
 to no retrenchment or reform in this respect. Coal and wood are 
 just as recklessly as ever, shovelled into the cellar. Bridget makes 
 the same blazing fires, subject to no supervision, except a faint, 
 general direction, to ‘ sift the cinders every morning ; ” and Bridg- 
 et says ‘‘ yes’m” as usual, but there being nobody to see, or know 
 whether she does or not, in nineteen cases out of twenty, she does 
 not do it. 
 Every little while through the day, the fires are raked down, and 
 fresh coal put on, the dampers of stove or range left wide open, 
 and for so much cooking as a cup of tea, or a dish of potatoes, a 
 fresh fire built with range made red hot, and as much fuel wasted 
 as would have cooked a thanksgiving dinner. 
 
 GRATE FIRES. — 
 
 These are generally considered as requiring a great deal of coal, 
 and so they do, under the usual system of management in this coun- 
 try. But let us see how they manage grate fires in England. 
 
 The grate is cleared, with the exception of a few scattering cin- 
 ders, which forms a sort of body, for the paper, which is torn up in 
 small pieces, and crushed down, and the wood, which is neatly and 
 compactly laid ‘‘ across and across.” © When the largest and 
 best cinders remaining are picked out and thrown on, a match is 
 applied, cinders are still put on wherever they areneeded to catch 
 the blaze, and when the wood is burnt down, and the cinders are 
 all a-glow, fresh coal is used to fill up the grate. The ashes are 
 then sifted, the cinders, which are fine and small, damped, and 
 
 when the fire has burned red through, without the use of the blower, 
 
 the wet cinders are thrown onthe top. In this way a grate fire 
 
 will last through a whole day with once replenishing, and keep «a 
 
 room warmer than we do, without blaze, our frequent use of the 
 lower, and reckless waste of fuel. 
 
 KITCHEN RANGES. 
 
 Nearly all of these are built on the air tight principle, and 
 should be kept closed up tight allthe time. ‘The fire will be found 
 to burn equally well, though more moderately; the oven will be 
 always hot, and cooking can be done slowly, as it ought, on the 
 
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 top of the range, with much less trouble, and infinitely better than 
 if ‘‘ rushed through,” at a red heat. 
 
 PARLOR HEATERS. 
 
 These new heaters are very good for small houses; we used one 
 for years, with great satisfaction, and found it quite as efficient, 
 and much safer, more convenient and more economical than a fur- 
 nace. . 
 
 Parlor heaters are fitted into the wall, and take up no more 
 room than a grate; they should be attended to with regularity, and 
 then the fire will hardly ever need to go out; once in two months 
 is quite as often as it requires to be made up fresh. At night, 
 wetted cinders should be thrown on the fire so as to thickly cover 
 it while it is good, and the dampers shut up close; these will 
 keep the fire almost intact till the next morning, when a thorough 
 raking down will be needed. A parlor heater properly managed, 
 burns out about as much coal as one large grate or two small 
 stoves; but excepting in the very coldest weather, it will comfort- 
 ably. heat the whole house. 
 
 SPRING FUEL. 
 
 Coke is shee fuel for spring and fall, if it is carefully and 
 rightly used; but if it is mixed with hard coal and thrown on a 
 kitchen fire by a reckless servant, at discretion, it becomes equally 
 extravagant and useless. Coke makes a bright, hot fire, kindles 
 easily, and goes out easily; but it can also be made to last a long 
 while, by packing it a little on top, and neglecting to rake it down. 
 This is the method for early spring, when fires are required in the 
 morning and evening, but not much through the sunshiny part of 
 the day. 
 
 A great saving is effected in spring fuel, by putting the ‘‘ slack” 
 from coal, ina heap by itself, and with it, ashes from which the cin- 
 ders have not been taken. Dampen the heap occasionally with a 
 little water, and add to it, whenever there is material. Doing this 
 through the coldest weather will form a sort of compost, hard and 
 insoluble, which can be broken apart, and furnishes splendid fuel 
 for spring grate fires, or for parlor heaters 
 
SOUPS. 
 
 STOCKS. 
 
 Stock is the foundation of soups, and also of good gravies, 
 sauces, and the like. A French cook can do nothing without the 
 stock pot, and keeps it supplied in a way that is both useful, and 
 economical. 
 
 Stock can be made to keep for a considerable time, and be used 
 for many purposes, if occasional additions are made, and the whole 
 of the liquor re-scalded. It may be made from meat, or from bones, 
 or from both, or it may be made from bones with the addition of 
 refuse meat, the trimmings of regular joints. Chicken and turkey 
 bones may be thrown in, and will help to enrich, and give flavor to 
 the preparation. Any kind of bones with a little meat upon them, 
 will make good stock, if they are simmered, not boiled, long enough, 
 and beef, mutton, veal, poultry, and other bones may be stewed to- 
 gether. In stewing them down, use the liquor if you have it, in 
 which other meat has been boiled, so that nothing may be wasted. 
 Shank bones, trimmings from chops, any thing of this sort may be 
 thrown in, simmered all day, then poured into a jar, and the fat 
 removed the next morning. Itis then frequently a jelly, and ready 
 to convert into soup, with the aid of herbs, and vegetables—or kept 
 for other uses. Stock sours very soon after the vegetables have 
 been boiled in it, so it is best not to put the vegetables in till need 
 ed for soup. ; 
 
 If your stock is made of meat, or partly of meat, cut it up fine, 
 and always put it on in cold water, if the water is hard, put a pinch 
 of soda init. This will extract all the pieces of the bones and 
 meat. If on the contrary, you want to boil meat, and retain 
 its pieces, put it onin boiling water. [See the Principles of Cook- 
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 STOCK FROM BONES. 
 
 Take the bones of a sirloin of beef, break them into half a 
 dozen pieces or more, put them in the stock pot with a gallon of 
 cold water; and letthem simmer gently for five or six hours. Then 
 take it off, strain it—it ought to make about two quarts—and set it 
 aside for several hours, or over night. When cold, skim off the 
 fat. ‘Then return it to the pot with a turnip, and a large carrot cut 
 up in two or three pieces, two onions, a bunch of sweet herbs, a 
 sprig or two of parsley, and a head of celery if it can be obtained, or 
 a teaspoonful of celery-seed tied in a piece of muslin. Let these 
 simmer together gently for two hours, adding boiling water to keep 
 the quantity two quarts, and putting in also while boiling a little 
 salt and a large lump of sugar; when done, strain it off into a 
 jar, and you have a good stock, which can be kept several days, 
 in a cool place in winter, or by being boiled over each day, in 
 summer. 
 
 STOCK WITHOUT MEAT, 
 
 Put into a stew pan ten carrots, as many turnips and onions 
 cut in small pieces, two lettuces, two sticks of celery, a handful 
 of chervil, half a cabbage and a parsnip cut in'slices; add to these 
 three ounces of butter and a quart of water; stew them till the 
 liquid is nearly dried up, and then fill the stewpan with water ; 
 add a quart of peas, green or dried, according to the season, two 
 chives, some pepper and salt; stew slowly three or four hours and 
 strain through.a colander for use. 
 
 BRAN STOCK. 
 
 Put a large handful of bran into a quart of water, boil and leave 
 to simmer till the quantity is reduced to hak. This will do excel- 
 lently for the thickening of meat soup. It-will make very good 
 soup of itself, if onions, salt and pepper, with a few vegetables, are 
 mixed in it. It will also be good sweetened with molasses or 
 honey. 
 
 COW HEEL STOCK. 
 
 A cow heel in two quarts of water will make first rate stock, but 
 
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 do not get boiled cow heels. The others take more boiling, but 
 make-much richer stock, and may be used more than once. 
 
 FOUR QUARTS OF BROWN STOCK. 
 
 Heat an iron pot and rub the bottom with garlic. Put in ten 
 pounds of shin of beef, fresh killed, and a pint of water; let it 
 stand by the fire for an hour, then add three quarters of a pound 
 of lean ham, three onions, three carrots, a small head of celery, 
 four cloves, six allspice, ten peppercorns, a table-spoonful of brown 
 sugar, a tea-spoonful of mustard, a tea-spoonful of salt, a large 
 black onion, and six quarts of water. Simmer and skim frequent- 
 ly for six hours. Strain into an earthen dish, and when cold, re- 
 move the fat; a fine hair sieve dipped in cold water is good to 
 strain it with. 
 
 FOUR QUARTS OF WHITE STOCK. 
 
 Put into an iron pot a knuckle of veal, about seven pounds, a 
 cowheel, and an old fowl; add a turnip, two onions, a lettuce, a 
 blade of mace, quarter of a nutmeg, half a pound of lean ham, a 
 
 tea-spoonful of salt, a small bunch of sweet herbs, and six quarts — 
 
 of water. Simmer gently, and skim frequently, for six hours. 
 Strain into an earthen dish, and when cold, take off the fat. 
 
 COMMON SOUP. 
 
 Take the neck, shanks, scraps of fresh meat, or old fowls. Let 
 your meat, beef, mutton, fowls, or game, be cut into small pieces, 
 and the bones cracked up well. Put the pieces into a pot and 
 cover them with as much water as will stew them into rags; stew 
 them very slowly, then pour in some boiling water, and keep the 
 soup boiling to within a few minutes of serving. Skim it entirely 
 free from grease. Take out whatever you wish to set away for 
 the next day before you put in the vegetables. Now cut up vege- 
 tables (previously cooked by themselves), in it slice potatoes, okra, 
 turnips, carrots, any vegetable you like, or rice or barley. If there 
 is any vegetable,—for instance, onions, cabbage, or tomatoes,— 
 which you wish to give distinctive character to your soup, use that 
 vegetable entirely, in connection with potatoes and okra, which give 
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 richness, a few spoonfuls of drawn butter will help; if consistency, 
 some gelatine may be dissolved in it. A bouquet of sweet herbs is 
 indispensable. A rich soup is sometimes flavored with wine or 
 catsup. It is as well to offer these articles to each person, as also 
 the castor at the table. Vermicelli or macaroni may be used as a 
 substitute for okra. : 
 
 SOUP OR STOCK FROM ONE POUND OF BEEF. 
 
 Take one pound of lean beef, free from fat, mince it finely and 
 add to it its own weight of cold water; heat it very slowly to boil- 
 ing, two or three hours is not too much, let it boil briskly a minute or 
 two, strain it through a towel. Mix the liquid with salt and other 
 seasoning, tinge it darker with roast onions or burnt sugar. Dr. 
 Liebig says this forms the best soup that can be prepared from one 
 pound of flesh. 
 
 FISH SOUPS. 
 
 A variety of good soups can be made of fish by stewing them 
 down in the same manner as meat, with the same addition of vege- 
 tables and herbs. If the skin is coarse, strip it off before using | 
 the fish, and when stewing skim off the oily particles. 
 
 WINTER SOUP. 
 
 Take a shin of beef, boil it in two gallons of water down to one 
 gallon; pour it out after removing the bones, and let it cool. This 
 will be one mass of jelly, from which as much can be taken daily 
 as may be needed in the quantity of soup desired. Stew the veg- 
 etables or cook the rice, split peas, beans, and add all together with 
 as much water as may be necessary, and let it boil well. 
 
 SORREL SOUP WITHOUT MEAT. 
 
 Wash a handful of sorrel, add some chervil, lettuce, and leeks; 
 chop all very fine, and stew with salt and butter; when the vegeta- 
 bles are done enough, add some stock without meat or water. Let 
 it stew again, and befoi’e you serve, add the yolks of three or four 
 eggs well beaten, with some cream or good milk, taking care it does 
 not boil after the eggs are added. Season to taste. Sorrel is pre- 
 pared for winter in jars, first chopped, then pounded and season- 
 ed. It must be closely covered. 
 
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 RABBIT “sour, 
 
 Cut up your rabbit and put it into a soup-pot, with a <— bone, 
 a bunch of sweet herbs, a bay leaf, an onion stuck with cloves, 
 some whole pepper, and let it simmer till the meat is tender, then 
 cut off the meat into neat squares, return the bones and trimmings 
 into the soup, and let it simmer till the meat is in rags; then 
 strain it, and thicken it with flour and butter, mixed on the fire, 
 without being browned; add a pint of highly seasoned stock, or 
 if desired a pint of red wine—port is best—season to taste and let 
 all simmer together with the meat that was cut off. Serve hot. 
 
 SPRING SOUP. 
 
 Cut an equal quantity of carrots, turnips, onions and leeks; 
 
 stew them in some good stock; then add some French beans, 
 
 peas, bean cucumbers, asparagus tops, lettuces, sorrel and chervil ; 
 add a little bit of white sugar ; let these reduce to nearly a glaze; 
 then add them to some stock thickened with green peas rubbed 
 through a tammy. ‘The soup might be thickened, to vary it, with 
 asparagus rubbed through a tammy ; in this case all the vegetables 
 should be strained off, and some asparagus tops served only in the 
 soup. 
 
 SOUP FOR INVALIDS. 
 
 Boil two pounds of lean veal and a quarter of a pound of pearl 
 barley in a quart of water very slowly, until is becomes of the 
 consistency of cream. Pass it through a fine sieve and salt it to 
 taste. Flavor it with celery seed, if the taste be liked, or use 
 fresh celery, if in season,—a very small quantity would suffice. 
 It should simmer very slowly. This soup is very nourishing. 
 
 GUMBO. 
 
 Take a large fowl, cut in pieces, beat up and fry very brown, 
 and make with it a highly seasoned and rich gravy. Cut into it a 
 half gallon of tender green okra, as m@hy ripe tomatoes, and 
 pour on three pints of-boiling water; boil until the vegetables are 
 of the softest consistency, and chicken in rags. Stir in a heaping 
 tablespoon of young sassafras leaves, dried and reduced to a 
 
 
 
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 powder. Strain into your dish hot. When well made this will 
 almost rope like candy. Pepper, onions, and sweet herbs are 
 used profusely in this soup, with salt to savor it. 
 
 WHITE SOUP. 
 
 Put four or five turnips, four leeks, two heads of celery, wash- 
 ed and sliced, into the saucepan with a piece of butter and a 
 knuckle of ham; add a quart of stock, and let all stew together till 
 tender. When nearly done, put in a pint of milk and some small 
 pieces of bread; boil up two or three times, strain it and serve it 
 hot. 
 
 MOCK TURTLE SOUP. 
 
 Parboil a calf ’s head divided, and cut all the meat in small pieces ; 
 then break the bones and boil them in some beef broth; fry some 
 shalots in butter, add flour to thicken, and stir it in; skim it care- 
 fully while it boils up, and adda pint of white wine; let it simmer 
 till the meat is perfectly tender, then put in some chives, parsley, 
 basil, salt, cayenne, soy, and mushroom catsup to your taste, and 
 boil it in for ten minutes; squeeze a little lemon juice into your 
 
 _tureen, pour your soup on it, and serve with force meat balls. 
 
 SHEEP’S-HEAD SOUP. 
 
 Cut the liver and lights into pieces, and stew them in four quarts 
 of water, with some onions, carrots, and turnips, half pound of 
 pearl barley, pepper, salt, cloves, and a little marjoram, parsley 
 and thyme. Stew all these until nearly done enough, then put in 
 the head and boil it until quite tender, then it should be taken 
 out and everything strained from the liquor. Let this stand till 
 cool, then take off the fat, and thicken it with butter and flour 
 in the same way as mock turtle. A glass of wine may be put into 
 the tureen if desired, before pouring in the soup. 
 
 CONCORD SOUP. 
 
 Three pounds of neck of beef, one cowheel, one pennyworth of 
 carrots and turnips, part of a head of celery; one bunch of tied up 
 sweet herbs, four onions browned, one pint of peas, all put to- 
 
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 gether into three quarts of water. After boiling for some hours, 
 to be well strained before serving up 
 
 CALF’S HEAD SOUP BROWNED. 
 
 Strain the liquor the head was boiled in, and set it away until 
 next day; take off all the fat; fry an onion in a little butter m 
 the soup pot, dredge in a little flour, stir until brown; cut up two 
 carrots, two onions, two turnips, and whatever is left of the head, 
 in inch pieces, put them in with the stock, a dozen cloves, pepper 
 and salt; boil it about two hours; braid up a little flour and but- 
 ter, stir it into the soup, and boil about ten minutes; add, if de- 
 sired, half a tumbler of red wine; serve hot. 
 
 BROWN GRAVY SOUP. 
 
 Cut a few onions in pieces, fry them in dripping brown; cut 
 three pounds of beef in pieces, brown this also, stirring and turn- 
 ing both meat and onions as they fry, then put them in the sauce- 
 pan with a carrot, a turnip cut small, and a little celery if you 
 have it, or two seeds of celery, add three quarts of water to this, 
 stir all together with a little pepper and salt; simmer very slowly 
 and skim cff what rises; in three or four hours the soup will be 
 ‘clear. When served, add a little vermicelli, which should have 
 previously been boiled in water; the liquor should be oueeeereny 
 poured off through a sieve. : 
 
 CHICKEN SOUP. 
 
 Take two large old fat chickens; chop up the pieces and mash the 
 bones. Put in a few slices of boiled ham if nottoo strong. Stew 
 slowly until in rags. ‘Then pour on three quarts of boiling water, 
 and boil it down to half a gallon. Chop up the chickens’ hearts, 
 the yolks of four hard boiled eggs, and stir, with a tea cup half full 
 of grated bread crumbs, into a cup of rich sweet cream; strain the 
 soup, return it to the kettle with a bouquet of herbs, boil five min- 
 utes, stir in the cream, etc., and take it off quickly. Any soup of 
 fowl or game may be ite in the sames way. Instead of the 
 thickening prepared as above, you may boil in it some rice, or 
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 OYSTER souP.—l. 
 
 Take a shin of veal, put it in a pot with three quarts of water, 
 and a head of celery, pepper, and salt; boil it three hours; then 
 strain it all through a sieye; add a small piece of butter, braided 
 in a table-spoonful of flour; stir it in and give it one boil; have 
 ready, washed out of the liquor, one gallon of oysters; strain the 
 liquor into the soup, let it boil up, then put in the oysters with a 
 spoonful of mushroon sauce; give it one boil and send it to the 
 table very hot. 
 
 OYSTER SOUP.—2. 
 
 Slice some onions, fry them a light brown in a quarter of a 
 pound of butter, then put them on the fire to stew in some stock, 
 as much as required for your soup,—about half an hour is suf- 
 ficient ; before you serve, add two or three dozen of oysters, with 
 their liquor strained. ‘Thicken with the yolks of three eggs, and 
 season it with white pepper, mace, and salt; it must not boil 
 after the eggs are put in, but thicken like custard. Any kind of 
 good broth or stock makes the foundation. Some add to this be- 
 fore the eggs are put in, a glass of white wine. 
 
 OYSTER SOUP.—9d. 
 
 Mix one pint of water with whatever liquor you ean drain from 
 two quarts of fresh oysters. When this liquor comes to a full 
 boil, put the oysters in, and boil until nearly done; then pour in 
 a quart of fresh milk. Season with salt, pepper, and a blade of 
 mace. If you prefer the soup a little thick, powder a half dozen 
 crackers fine, and sift them into it. 
 
 OYSTER MOUTH SOUP. 
 
 First make a rich mutton broth, pour it on the oysters. Add 
 a small piece of butter rolled in flour, let it simmer gently for about 
 quarter of an hour. then serve it in a dish with crackers in the bot- 
 tom. * 
 
 ASPARAGUS SOUP WITH GREEN PHAS,. 
 
 After cutting the greenest part of the asparagus into pieces 
 
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 about an inch or two long, blanch them in boiling water until 
 
 quite done; add some good ‘stock to it and strain it. Boil the 
 
 pieces separately, add them to the soup and serve toasted bread 
 with it, if desired. 
 
 GREEN PEA SOUP 
 
 Take some young carrots, turnips, onions, celery, and cabbage 
 lettuces; cut them in slices, and put them into a stewpan with a 
 little butter, and some Jean ham cut in pieces. Cover them close- 
 ly and let them stew for ashort time. Fill up with stock sufficient 
 for the soup required, and let it boil until the vegetables are quite 
 soft, adding a few leaves of mint and the crust of a roll; pound 
 all, and having boiled a quart of peas, as green as you can, strain 
 them off and pound them also; mix them with the rest of the in- 
 gredients and pass through asieve. Heat it, and season with salt, 
 pepper and sugar; add a few young boiled peas, and use the 
 spinach to restore it. 
 
 PEA SOUP WITHOUT MEAT. 
 
 Boil a pint of split peas in two quarts of water for four or five 
 hours, or until quite tender. Then add two turnips, two carrots, a 
 stick of celery, and some potatoes all cut in pieces. When tender, 
 pulp it through a sieve. Cut a large onion in slices and fry it in 
 butter and flour, to thicken the s soup. Season to taste. If desired, 
 a ham bone ora piece of beef can be stewed with.the peas, to be 
 taken out when the soup is pulped through the sieve. Serve with 
 the soup pieces of bread fried crisp in butter. : 
 
 * ENGLISH PEA SOUP. 
 
 Take a half of a shin of beef, some beef and ham bones, and, 
 if possible, a knuckle of veal, and boil all together, in a gal- 
 lon of water, with a little salt. Clear it of the scum, as it rises, 
 and have ready a quart of split peas, which have been soaked in 
 cold water over night. Boil the meat very slowly, for two hours, 
 then put in the peas, which will have absorbed the water, with a 
 root of celery, and two or three carrots scraped, and cut in pieces. 
 Sift in, also, a little dried mint, and season to taste. Cook slow- 
 ly, stirring often with a wooden spoon, for four hours. 
 
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 ARTICHOKE SOUP. 
 
 Have a knuckle of veal (weighing about five pounds) for din- 
 ner. When all have dined, return the bones into the stewpan, 
 with the liquor in which it was boiled, a nice, white onion, and 
 two turnips. Boil some Jerusalem artichokes in milk, (skim milk 
 will do,) then beat up all with the liquor, which, of course, must 
 be first strained, then thickened with a small quantity of flour rub- 
 bed smooth in a tea cup, with a little milk. Use white pepper for 
 the seasoning, to keep the color pure. 
 
 PARSNIP SOUP. 
 
 Cut in pieces half a dozen parsnips, a head of celery, and two 
 onions; stew them in two quarts of stock until they are tender, 
 take them out and pulp them through a coarse sieve, and pour the 
 pulp back into the soup, flavor with pepper and salt, and before 
 serving pour in a little milk. 
 
 CARROT SOUP. 
 
 Take half a gallon of stock; add three turnips, six carrots, three 
 or four onions, and let them stew till tender. ‘Take out the vege- 
 tables, strain the soup; take off the red part of the carrots, and 
 rub it through a colander, make the. soup about as thick as cream, 
 with the pulped carrot. Heat it well through and serve. 
 
 COLANDERED SOUP. 
 
 Boil in water some peas with salt, pepper, and any vegetables. 
 When quite soft mash the whole and bray through a sieve or col- 
 ander. Instead of split peas you may use carrots, turnips, aspar- 
 agus, or green peas, etc., as the staple. Put your colandered veg- 
 etables back into the pot, andif you have any stock, thin the soup 
 with it; if you have no stock, thin with water, or milk and water. 
 Boil up, and your dish is fit for table. 
 
 BARLEY SOUP. 
 
 In four quarts of water put two pounds of trimmings or odd 
 pieces of meat, a quarter of a pound of pearl barley, four sliced 
 onions, salt and pepper, with a little parsley, if yen have it. Sim- 
 mer for three hours or more. 
 
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 FRENCH SOUP. 
 
 Put first a gallon of water to a sheep’s head nicely cleaned, then 
 reduce it to half the quantity, and add a teacupful of pearl bar- 
 ley, half a dozen large onions, a turnip, acarrot, a bunch of sweet 
 herbs, pepper, salt, cloves, and a little mushroom or walnut cat- 
 sup. Strain all off, cut part of the head in pieces and serve it in 
 the soup, with a small quantity of white wine. 
 
 PUMPKIN SOUP. 
 
 Take three pounds of ripe pumpkin, peel and remove the seeds, 
 cut into pieces of moderate size, and place in a stewpan over the 
 fire with a pint of water; let it boil slowly till soft, strain off all 
 the water, and pass the pumpkin through a colander; return the 
 pulp into the stew pan adding nearly three pints of milk, one ounce 
 or more of butter, a pinch of salt and pepper, and a few lumps of 
 loaf sugar; boil for ten minutes, stirring often: Pour it boiling ’ 
 into the dish, on very thin slices of bread. The sugar improves 
 the flavor, but may be omitted. It can be seasoned with a blade | 
 of mace or a little nutmeg. 
 
 
 
 GOURD SOUP. 
 
 Cut two pounds of the gourd into large slicés, put it into a pan | 
 with three ounces of butter, two tea-spoonfuls of salt, two of moist i 
 sugar, a little pepper, and half a pint of water; set on the fire and 
 stew gently for twenty minutes. When reduced to a pulp, add 
 two table-spoonfuls of flour, stir and moisten with three pints of 
 new milk; boil with care ten minutes longer, and serve with toast 
 in slices. Vegetable marrow is equally good, made into soup ac- | 
 cording to this receipt. 
 
 ONION SOUP WITH MILK. 
 
 _ Slice some onions into a stew pan, with a piece of dripping, 
 or lard, and a little flour. When brown add a quart of boiling 
 milk, pepper, salt, and any cold cooked vegetables at hand. Boil 
 
 up once or twice, and you have a delicious food, without meat or 
 stock, 
 
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 ONION SOUP WITH WATER. 
 
 Slice some onions into a stewpan, with any grease at hand, 
 and keep them moving about till half brown, then sift in a little 
 flour or fine bread-crumbs, and brown well. Now add a quart of 
 boiling hot water, with salt, pepper, and some cold cooked vege- 
 tables. This would be greatly improved if you could contrive to 
 fry in grease a few bits of bread cut into small pieces, and add 
 them to the soup when brown. _ 
 
 TOMATO SOUP. 
 
 Boil a shin of veal three hours, or take some soup stock. Cut 
 up two onions, two carrots, and two turnips, and put with it; also 
 pepper, salt and one dozen tomatoes. Boil this two hours, and 
 strain it through a sieve. Toast some pieces of bread a light 
 brown; cut them in dice form, and put them into the dish. The 
 soup should be turned on to the toast just before it is taken to the 
 table, as soaking long spoils it. 
 
 BREAD SOUP. 
 
 Set the stock on the fire to boil; let it simmer three or four 
 hours. Place in a bowl bits of bread, no matter how hard and 
 stale. Pour over them enough hot,broth to soak them well; mash 
 fine, and put the whole into the stock. Let it continue to simmer 
 a few minutes more after the bread mash has been added. 
 
 VERMICELLI SOUP. 
 
 Put a shin of veal, one onion, two carrots, two turnips, and a 
 little salt, into four quarts of water. Boil this three hours; add 
 two cups of vermicelli, and boil it an hour and a half longer. Be- 
 fore serving take out the bone and vegetable. 
 
 JENNY LIND’S SOUP. 
 
 The following soup is stated by Miss Bremer, to be the soup 
 constantly served to Mademoiselle Jenny Lind, as prepared by 
 her own cook. The sago and eggs were found by her soothing to 
 the chest, and beneficial to the voice. Washa quarter of a pound 
 of best pearl sago thoroughly, then stew it quite tender and very 
 
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 thick in water or thick brown (it will require nearly or quite a 
 quart of liquid, which should be poured to it cold and heated slow- 
 ly; .) then mix gradually with it a pint of good boiling cream or 
 milk, and the yolks of four fresh eggs, and mingle the as care- 
 fully with two quarts of strong veal or beef stock, which should 
 ilways be kept ready boiling. Serve immediately. 
 
 GERMAN PANCAKE SOUP. 
 
 Make a batter with a pound of flour, a little salt, half a pint of 
 milk; stir well, and add two eggs beaten; it should be of the con- 
 sistency of cream. Make this into pancakes, fried very pale yel- 
 low. As each one is fried, lay it on a board and double over © 
 once. Roll each slightly, and cut into strips half aninch wide, 
 and put them into the soup tureen and pour good stock, well sea- 
 soned and strained, over them, f£erve hot. . 
 
 SOUP JARDINIERE.. 
 
 Put a bouquet of finely cut vegetables, consisting of celery, a 
 carrot, an onion, tomatoes,—two if fresh, two table-spoonfuls if 
 canned,—a leek, and a bunch of parsley, in’a stew pan, with two 
 ounces of butter, pepper, salt, and cover down for nearly an hour; 
 when cooked soft in the butter add a quart or more of broth, and 
 two table-spoonfuls of cold jelly gravy,.and leave the whole to 
 simmer together an hour longer, or until dinner time. During the 
 process of coming to a boil, the butter or grease rising to the top — 
 should be skimmed off and preserved, to be clarified for further 
 use. 
 
 AN INEXPENSIVE SOUP. 
 
 Take three pounds of the neck of beef, one cow heel, carrots and 
 turnips, half a head of celery, one bunch of tied up sweet herbs, 
 four onions browned, one pint of peas; put together into three 
 quarts of water and, after boiling some hours, strain through a 
 sieve. The best part of the cow “heel may be cut in square pieces 
 and served up in the soup. 
 
 BAKED SOUP. 
 
 When baking is more convenient, in four quarts of water put 
 
 
 

 
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 one pound of trimmings or odd pieces of meat, two onions, and 
 two sliced carrots, two ounces of rice or bits of bread, one pint 
 of split peas, pepper and salt. Put the whole into a close jar, and 
 bake slowly for four hours. This will make a good, wholesome 
 food for a large family. 
 
 HOTCH POTCH. 
 
 Put a pint of peas into a quart of water; boil them until they 
 are so tender as easily to be pulped through a sieve. Take of the 
 Jeanest end of a loin of mutton three pounds, cut it into chops, 
 put it intoa saucepan witha gallon of water, four carrots, four 
 turnips, cut in small pieces; season with pepper and salt. Boil 
 until all the vegetables are quite tender; put in the pulped peas a 
 head of celery and asliced onion. Boil fifteen minutes, and serve. 
 
 SCOTCH MUTTON BROTH. 
 
 Take the scrag end of a large sized neck of mutton, reserving 
 the best half for cutlets, put it into a stewpan and boilit with three 
 quarts of water, half a pint of Scotch barley, three leeks, three 
 onions, a little parsley and thyme. Skim it, and after it has boiled 
 up, let it stand on the top of the stove and simmer for two hours, 
 then skim again, and if it is too thick with barley add half a pint 
 of boiling water, three or four turnips, a head of celery, and two 
 carrots cut in pieces; after which, let it simmer slowly an hour and 
 a half more; the barley should be almost wholly dissolved. The 
 meat may be cut in pieces and served with the broth or served sep- 
 arately. 
 
 BROTH FOR AN INVALID. 
 
 Cut the chicken, veal, mutton or beef, up into pieces, and put 
 into a jar with a cover; fill with water, adding a little salt; close 
 down tight, and let it simmer all day on the stove or range; strain, 
 and season to taste. This method extracts all the juices and 
 strength of the meat, and is infinitely better than boiling. 
 
MEATS. 
 
 
 
 TO BOIL BEEF. 
 
 If the beef is very salt put it in cold water; if it is only slightly 
 corned put it in boiling water, and let it cook very slowly. This 
 will render it quite as tender as if put into cold water, and at the 
 same time all the juices of the meat will be retamed. Boil until 
 tender, but not until ragged, so that the meat will eut clean and 
 clear, when cold. 
 
 Never buy poor, cheap pieces of corned beef, they are full of 
 bone and gristle; there is no satisfaction in eating from them, and 
 they prove the most costly in the end. 
 
 Fresh beef should never be boiled plain, unless it is boiled down 
 for soup; it may be stewed, or cooked alamode, or stuffed and 
 baked, provided the piece is not suitable for roasting. 
 
 STEWED BEEF. 
 
 Take six pounds of round of beef, place it in a deep kettle, 
 with half a pint of water, half a pint of broth, a gill of good vin- 
 egar, a bunch of parsley, a few cloves, a sprig of sweet marjoram, 
 
 and some salt, andpepper. Let it lay in this over night, turning it: 
 
 several times, if it is warm weather; it is best to give the mixture 
 a boil up, putting the meat to it cold. The next day simmer four 
 or five hours, adding two onions chopped small; take up the meat, 
 add a tea spoonful of butter braided in flour to the strained liquor, 
 with a dash of mushroom catsup. Pour it over the meat, and 
 serve. If more liquid is required while stewing, put in broth or 
 gravy, if you have it,—if not, water. 
 
 CURED BRISKET OF BEEF FOR CHRISTMAS. 
 
 At night rub fourteen pounds of brisket of beef, with one ounce 
 of saltpetre pounded very fine; the next morning mix together 
 
 
 
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 half a pound of sugar, and four handfuls of common salt, and rub 
 the beef well over with it. Let it remain in the pickle two weeks, 
 turning and rubbing it every day; then take it out, and put it into 
 an earthen pan, with some suet chopped fine to cover the bottom 
 of the pan, and the same on the top of the beef, with a little water 
 to keep the pan from burning. Bake it slowly for six hours. 
 Eaten cold. 
 
 CURED BEEF, TO EAT COLD. 
 
 Put. three fourths of a pound of coarse sugar, one pound of bay 
 salt, nearly an ounce of allspice, a tea-spoonful or less of cloves, 2 
 small piece of saltpetre, and three cents worth of cochineal, into four 
 quarts of water; let these all boil slowly together fully twenty min- 
 utes ; then take from the fire, and Jet it stand till quite cool. Take 
 a round of beef, from twenty to twenty-five pounds, and pour this 
 pickle over it, turning it once or twice a day, continuing this for 
 two or three weeks. At the end of this time it will be ready for 
 use. 
 
 BOILED BEEF STEAKS. 
 
 It is not necessary to beat them; cut them half an inch thick 
 and place them on the gridiron. The fire should be clear and 
 brisk, the gridiron should be hot, the bars rubbed with suet. 
 Sprinkle a little salt over the fire. Turn the steaks often, keeping 
 a dish close to the fire, in which to drain the gravy from the top 
 of the steak as you lift it. The gridiron is best set in a slanting 
 direction, so that fat will not fall on the coals and make a smoke. 
 If there is a smoke, take the steak off for a moment. Over a brisk 
 : fire of coals steaks will be done in ten minutes. Then lay them 
 on a hot plate with a small slice of butter on each piece, pouring 
 over them the gravy, and sprinkling on a very litle salt. 
 
 BEEF ALAMODE. 
 
 Lard a round of beef with slices of fat bacon dipped in vinegar ; 
 roll it up with chopped seasoning, cloves, sage, parsley, thyme, 
 pepper and green onions ; bind it close and put it in a sauce pan. 
 Tnrn it when half done, and let it stand for twelve hours ona 
 stove. It can be eaten hot or cold. 
 
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 BRAISED BEEF. ; ss & Haas 
 
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 Take five or six pounds of rump, and cover down close i in a pan, 
 with enough butter or clarified dripping to prevent. burning or 
 sticking to the pan; let it cook slowly for an hour, then pour off 
 the grease and put in a little broth, halfa cup of rich gravy, a fow 
 drops of vinegar, and alittle calf’s-foot jelly, if convenient; cover 
 down See again and let it cook, with the heat all abant it, for 
 two hours longer, basting frequently; when it is quite tender, 
 take it up, and mix half a table-spoonful of flour with a little cream, 
 and put into the gravy, which season to taste, and then pour over 
 the meat, that is to say, a part of it, for an economical cook will 
 reserve part to assist in the preparation of next day’sdinner. _ 
 
 BRISKET OF BEEF STUFFED. 
 
 A piece weighing eight pounds requires about five or six hours 
 to boil. Make a dressing of bread crumbs, pepper, salt, sweet 
 herbs, a little mace, and one onion chopped fine and mixed with 
 anegg. Put the dressing in between the fat and the lean of the 
 beef and sew it up tight; flour the cloth; pin the beef up very 
 
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 tight in it; boil it five or six hours. When it is done take the 
 
 cloth off, and press it untilitis cold. This is to be cut in thin 
 slices and eaten cold, 
 
 MOCK DUCK. 
 
 Procure a steak cut from the rump of beef, and fill it with a 
 dressing made of chopped bread, pork, sage, onions and sweet 
 marjoram, and well seasoned; sew it up, putaslice or two of pork, 
 or some of the dressing, on the top, and set it in a pan, into which 
 pour a pint of water; cover down tight, and let it cook slowly in 
 the oven three borrte: then take off the lid, brown quickly, and 
 serve hot. 
 
 OX CHEEK STUFFED AND BAKED. 
 
 Mash and soak thoroughly an ox cheek ; put it into plenty of 
 warm water and boil gently an hour, Te ke in a large tea spoon- 
 ful of salt and skimming occasionally. Lift it out, and when cool 
 
 take out the bones, Put in a good roll of forcemeat; bind up the 
 
 
 
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 cheek securely, and bake it ina moderate oven an hour or an hour 
 and a half, until it is quite tender clear through. Drain it from 
 fat, unbind it, and serve it with a good brown gravy, or any sauce 
 preferred, or with inelted butter in a tureen, a cut lemon and 
 cayenne. 
 
 SPICED. BREF, 
 
 This can be made from either the round, brisket or rump of 
 beef, but ribs are the most tender eating. Procure from eight to 
 ten pounds of the ribs of beef; those which have a good amount 
 of fat upon them are the best; remove the bone, rub the meat well 
 with one ounce of saltpetre pounded very finely, and three hours 
 after this has been applied, rub on half a pound of moist sugar ; 
 let the meat lay in this for two days, then take one ounce of ground 
 pepper, half an ounce of pounded mace, a few cloves well pound- 
 ed, and a tea-spoonful of cayenne pepper. Mix all these ingredi- 
 ents well, and rub them well into the beef, particularly into the 
 holes, adding occasionally a little salt. Roll up the meat as a 
 round, and bind it with a strong fillet. Chop some suet very 
 finely, cover the beef with it, and bake it in a moderately heated 
 oven, from five to six hours. While baking, it may be placed 
 either upon a meat tin, or in an earthen jar as nearly of its size 
 as possible. In both cases there should be a cup full of gravy or 
 water under the meat, to prevent it from burning; if a jar is used 
 there should be a cover to it. 
 
 FILLETS OF BEEF. 
 
 Take two pounds of steak from a round of beef, cut thin, divide 
 it into strips about three inches broad; beat them with a chopper 
 till flat and tender, then chop finely some fresh gathered mush- 
 rooms, and add a little pepper, salt, and fresh butter in small pieces. 
 Lay the mushrooms and seasoning half over the strips of steak ; 
 roll them up, fasten them with a coarse needle and thread, (or with 
 very tiny skewers,) and lay the fillets in a pie dish to bake. The 
 baking dish should be covered with another dish of the same 
 size, to prevent the steam from evaporating, otherwise the outside 
 of the meat will bedry. Thicken the gravy which is in the baking 
 dish with flour and butter, and add mushroom catsup asa seasoning. 
 
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 The fillets will require turning whilst baking. But a less trouble- 
 some plan of cooking a steak in this mode, is to have it dressed in 
 one piece. The steak should be cut thin and rolled as described, 
 but instead of mushrooms add a fine forcemeat or plain yeal 
 stuffing. 
 
 FILLETS OF BEEF WITH ANCHOVY. — 
 
 Soak five or six anchovies in water for about two hours, split 
 them and put the fillet with them, mixed with some bacon; boil 
 it on a slow fire with a small quantity of broth, a glass of white 
 wine, a clove of garlic, two cloves, and a bunch of herbs. When 
 sufficiently done, strain the sauce, add to it a piece of butter roll- 
 ed in flour, two spoonsful of cream, and a few capers; mix im a 
 little yolk of egg, and pour it over the fillet. 
 
 FILLETS OF BEEF WITH FORCEMEAT. 
 
 Make forcemeat with fowls’ hvers, grated bacon, a little butter, 
 parsley, shallots, three yolks of eggs, and spices. Cut a fillet of 
 beef in two, flatten it with a cleaver, lard it through, then lay the 
 forcemeat between it, and also about a pint’ of small mushrooms 
 which have been previously stewed in a little butter; tie the meat 
 up in a cloth, boil it in broth, with a glass of wine and a buncl: of 
 sweet herbs. 
 
 HUNTERS BEEF. 
 
 Take a round of beef weighing fifteen pounds, and let it hang 
 two or three days. Reduce to a very fine powder two ounces of 
 saltpetre, two ounces of sugar, three quarters of an ounce of 
 cloves, the same of nutmeg, one third of an ounce of allspice, two 
 handsful of common salt. Bone the beef, and rub the spices well 
 into it, and do so every day for two or three weeks. When you 
 wish to dress the meat, wash the spices off the outside with cold 
 water, bind it up tightly with tape, and place it im a pan with a 
 tea-cupful of water at the bottom; cover the top of the meat with 
 chopped suet; cover the pan with a coarse paste, and brown pa- 
 per over that. Let it bake five hours, and when it is cold remove 
 the paste and the tape. Some persons stuff the hole left by taking 
 out the bone, with chopped parsley and sweet herbs. 
 
 
 
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 HUNG BEEF. 
 
 Make a strong brine of bay salt, saltpetre and pump water. 
 Place in ita piece of ribs of beef, and let it lie for nine days. 
 Then hang it ina chimney in the smoke of wood or sawdust. 
 When it is nearly dry, wash the outside with bullock’s blood, and 
 when this is dry, boil if and serve it with vegetables. 
 
 HAMBURGH PICKLE FOR BEEF, HAMS AND TONGUE. 
 
 Take two gallons of water, three pounds of bay salt, or if that 
 cannot be got, five pounds of common salt, two pounds of coarse 
 sugar, two ounces of saltpetre, and two ounces of black pepper 
 bruised and tied in a fold of muslin; boil all together twenty min- 
 utes, removing the scum as it rises. Pour the pickle into a deep 
 earthen jar, and when it is cold Jay in the meat so that every part 
 is covered. ‘Turn the meat occasionally. A middling sized round 
 of beef will be ready for the table in‘a fortnight. 
 
 MEAT PIE FOR LUNCH. 
 
 Place a thick rump steak well larded and rubbed with shallot in 
 the bottom of a saucepan, cut up some game into small pieces 
 without bones, and lay over the steak, mixed with pepper and salt 
 and some pieces of bacon; stew them all well, and add chopped 
 mushrooms and arich gravy, before making them into the pic. 
 The pie should have a thick ornamental crust round the sides and 
 on thé bottom. Let the top crust be loose, so that additional 
 gravy can be poured in; and bake until it is a light brown. 
 
 BEEF BALLS. 
 
 Take a piece of béef boiled tender, chop it very finely with an 
 onion, season with salt and pepper, add parsley, bread crumbs, 
 lemon peel, and grated nutmeg; moisten it with an egg, mix well — 
 together, and roll it into balls. Then dip them in flour and fry 
 them in boiling lard or fresh dripping. Serve them with thickened 
 brown gravy, or fried bread crumbs. 
 
 BEEF CROQUETTES. 
 
 Mince some dressed beef very fine, melt a piece of butter in a 
 
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 stew pan, add three or four onions, chopped fine, and fried a pale 
 brown; add a spoonful of flour, and moisten with a little good 
 stock, or gravy, seasoned with pepper, salt, nutmeg, and a little 
 parsley chopped fine. When the sauce is done enough, put in the 
 minced beef; let it stew a short time till the sauce is dry, then 
 form the meat into either balls or rolls; dip each into the beaten 
 white of eggs; have some butter, or lard, hot; put each ball 
 very gently into the frying pan, shaking a little flour over them, 
 roll them about gently in the pan to brown them alike, and when 
 a good color, drain them on a cloth, and serve on dressed parsley. | 
 
 HASHED BEEF, 
 
 Take cold roast beef, cut in slices, and remove skin and gristle. 
 Place in a stewpan a small piece of butter, an onion chopped 
 fine, a table-spoonful of flour; put it on the fire and stir it till it 
 browns, but be careful it does not burn. Then stir in gradually 
 half a pint of stock, flavored with herbs, with a little salt, and let 
 it boil up thick. Put in two table-spoonsful of hot green pickles 
 chopped small, and the slices of beef. Heat them through and 
 serve with sippets of toast. 
 
 COLD MINCED BEEF. 
 
 Having removed the fat and skin, mince the beef nearly to a 
 paste: stew gently—if possible over night, so that the fat may 
 be skimmed off. Season with pepper and salt, and sprinkle with 
 oat-meal; chop ahalf handful of parsley and thyme and throw in; 
 boil a large onion nearly tender, chop it and mix it in; add sufficent 
 broth or skim-milk and water to cover the beef; let it simmer two 
 hours; then thicken with a little oatmeal, and add a dessert spoon- 
 ful of mushroom or walnut catsup ; stir well, boil a minute and serve 
 with pieces of bread toasted. The bones from which the meat is 
 cut will do for the broth in which the meat is stewed, if broth is 
 used. Even then, however, a tea-cupful of milk may be added 
 with the thickening. 
 
 DRIED BEEF COOKED. 
 
 After being thinly sliced, as usual, freshen it in water; stew it in 
 a little water until tender; then beat an egg with a little flour, put 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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 a lump of butter to the beef, stir in the egg and flour, and serve 
 on toast bread with the gravy over it. 
 
 KEEPING BEEP, 
 
 Cut up the meat in pieces as large as you wish, and pack it in 
 a barrel or cask. Then make a brine as follows: one pound and 
 half of salt to one gallon of water, one ounce of saltpetre to one 
 hundred pounds of beef, one table-spoonful of ground pepper to 
 one hundred pounds of beef. Put in the salt and saltpetre, heat 
 it boiling hot, skim it, then add the pepper. Pour it on the beef 
 boiling hot and cover closely. 
 
 TOUGH BEEF. 
 
 Carbonate of soda will remedy tough beef. Cut the steaks the 
 day before using into slices about two inches thick; rub over 
 them a small quantity of soda; wash off next morning, cut it into 
 suitable thickness, and cook. The same process will answer for 
 fowls, legs of mutton, etc. 
 
 A LEG OF MUTTON IN FOUR MEALS. 
 
 For the first meal, cut off a handsome knuckle and boil it; for the 
 second meal, take as many cutlets as required for the family from 
 the joint ; for the third meal, roast the remainder of the joint. The 
 remains of both the boiled and roasted meat, may then be hashed 
 for a fourth meal. 
 
 BOILED LEG OF MUTTON. 
 
 Cut off the shank bone and trim the knuckle. Boil with salt 
 in the water, skimming. If it weighs nine or ten pounds it will 
 need to cook three hours. It may be served with parsley or celery 
 and butter, or caper sauce, or pickled kidney beans and onion 
 sauce; mashed turnips, spinach and potatoes are good with it, 
 
 ROAST LEG OF MUTTON. 
 
 A leg of mutton weighing ten pounds should be roasted two 
 hours. When half done, turn the fat out of the roaster; then 
 baste the meat with the dripping. Make the gravy the same as for 
 roast beef, or add a few spoonsful of current jelly and a cup of 
 
42 MEATS. 
 réd wine: én minutes moré should be allowed for every éxtra 
 pound of mutton. . 
 
 LEG OF MUTTON WITH OYSTERS. 
 
 Parboil fat oysters and mix with them some parsley, minced 
 onions, and sweet herbs, boiled and chopped fine, and the yolks of 
 two hard boiled eggs. Cut five or six holes in the fleshy part of a leg 
 of mutton, and put in the mixture; dress it as follows: Tie it 
 up in a cloth and let it boil gently two and a half or three hours, 
 according to the size. 
 
 ROAST SHOULDER OF LAMB. 
 
 A nice way to cook a shoulder of lamb is to bone it, and fill the 
 space with a stuffing made of chopped mushrooms, parsley, salt 
 pork, cracker crumbs, some sweet herbs, pepper and salt, and a 
 raw egg. Braise it with some good stock gravy, and send it to 
 table surrounded by spinach, garnished with slices of egg. 
 
 ROAST QUARTER OF LAMB. 
 
 To roast ‘a quarter of lamb, lard it slightly with salt pork, and 
 sprinkle it with bread crumbs and finely-chopped parsley. Make 
 a sauce of some stock gravy, a table-spoonful of vinegar, chopped 
 mint, a little yolk of egg, and mushroom catsup; pour over the 
 joint, and let it stand in the oven a few moments. Serve with 
 green peas, with which a little bunch of mint has been boiled 
 
 ROAST JOINT OF MUTTON. 
 
 Roast the joint of alee of mutton in the usual way; rub on a 
 little salt, and also sprinkle on flour as the fat comes out. Have it 
 nicely and evenly browned on éyery side, baste it well, and when 
 ready, to take out, pour off the dripping and have ready a little - 
 boiling water, but do not drown the real juices of the meat. 
 Serve with currant jelly if convenient. 
 
 BROILED MUTTON CHOPS. 
 
 Trim them; remove what fat is not required to cook with them ; 
 season and broil over a clear fire, turning often until done. Serve 
 with small pieces of butter on them. 
 
 
 

 
 MEATS. 43 
 
 FRIED MUTTON CHOPS. 
 
 Trim them, season with pepper and salt, fry them m their own 
 fat or pork fat, turn them often. Serve them hot. Brown a little 
 butter and flour, add a little water, and pour the gravy over them. 
 
 MUTTON CHOPS WITH CUCUMBERS. 
 
 Slice cucumbers and lay them in a deep dish, sprinkled with 
 salt and wet with vinegar. Fry the chops a nice brown, lay them 
 in a stewpan, and put the cucumbers, drained, over them; add some 
 chopped onions, pepper and salt, cover them with weak broth and 
 stew them, skimming occasionally. 
 
 SAVORY MUTTON CHOPS. 
 
 Cut up the chops and beat them with the edge of a knife. Beat 
 the yolks of a few eges and dip the cutlets in them; season them 
 with pepper, salt, nutmeg, and bread crumbs. Roll them in but- 
 tered papers and boil them. Use for sauce some good gravy, a 
 piece of butter, crumbs of bread, capers, anchovies, with some 
 nutmeg and a little vinegar. As soon as they are dressed, tear off 
 the papers, and set them on the dish with the sauce. 
 
 COLD MUTTON BROILED. 
 
 Cut in thick slices cold boiled leg of mutton; it should not be 
 cooked too much or it will fall into pieces; put on it salt and pep- 
 per, and then broil it. Let it be very hot, and add a thick sauce 
 flavored with fresh tomatoes, or tomato sauce, and serve. 
 
 MUTTON PUDDING. 
 
 Take cold boiled mutton, or roast mutton if that is on hand, cut 
 it into small slices, and slice a few potatoes. Dip the slices of 
 meat into a mixture of salt, pepper, flour, and finely chopped onion ; 
 butter the basin, line it with suet crust, fill it with alternate layers 
 of mutton and potatoes, pour in a tea-cupful of gravy, or stock, 
 cover with crust and cook it. 
 
 FIRST RATE WESTERN STEW. 
 
 Part of a breast of mutton or lamb, cut in bits, as many pota- 
 
 
 
44 MEATS. 
 
 toes, pepper and salt to taste; two onions, a bunch of parsley, a 
 bunch of sweet herbs. Stew all together in barely sufficient water 
 to cover them, for two hours, gently. Then put in a tea-cup Ef 
 tomato catsup, and boil up again. Serve hot. 
 
 MUTTON CROQUETTES. 
 
 Cut the meat from a neck of mutton mto pieces about as large 
 as your finger, lard them through with ham bacon; let them sim- 
 mer in some stock with sweet herbs; when done, take the pieces of 
 meat out, reduce the gravy and strain it over them; cover each 
 piece with good fowl seasoning, wrap it in a slice of bacon, wash 
 them over with egg, strew them with bread crumbs, and bake 
 them. a es aaa 
 
 HASHED MUTTON. 
 
 At night cut cold boiled or roast mutton into slices, remove the 
 solid fat, break the bones, and put it ina saucepan with a large 
 onion sliced thin; pour in broth or stock to just cover over it, and 
 let it simmer until at boiling heat, but do not let it boil. Pour it 
 into an earthen dish and cover it for the night. In the morning, 
 or sometime before dinner, skim off the fat, return it to the pot 
 with seasoning and a little flour, and let it simmer, but not boil, a 
 long time. As the meat gets dry, pour in milk. A quarter of an 
 hour before serving, take away the bones and skin, add a dessert 
 spoonful or more of walnut or mushroom catsup, thicken smooth- 
 ly with flour, oat meal or Indian meal, wet with milk and liquor 
 from the hash; boil a minute longer, add more seasoning if re- 
 quired, and serve with sippets of toasted bread. ms 
 
 UNCOOKED MUTTON MINCED. 
 
 Cut off two pounds from a leg of mutton, remove the fat, and 
 chop it up finely, with a slice or two of bacon; season with pep- 
 per and salt, and put it into a saucepan with a tea-cupful of gravy, 
 six ounces of butter. Chop three young lettuces; add a quart of 
 young peas, an onion chopped small. Stir all together over a 
 
 gentle fire until quite hot, then place the saucepan closely cover-. 
 
 ed at the side of the fire, and let it stew gently for three hours. 
 Serve in a hot dish, and place round it a wall of well-cooked rice. 
 
 
 
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 WASHED MUTTON WITH MUSHROOMS. 
 
 Take nice slices of mutton, without skin or fat, and sprinkle 
 each piece with flour on both sides. Put six large mushrooms, 
 after having been trimmed and cut in four pieces, into a stewpan 
 with a small piece of butter, to stew; adda little gravy, some pep- 
 per and salt, and when sufficiently done, put in the meat; let it 
 leat through, slowly, stirring it the while that it may not burn, 
 but not let it boil, or the meat will be hard. As soon as the hash 
 thickens and the flour is all heat through and changed color, the 
 hash is done. Serve immediately with sippets of neatly cut, thin 
 toast, or fried bread, round the dish. 
 
 MINCED MUTTON. 
 
 Prepare a sauce by taking finely chopped onions, parsley, and 
 sweet herbs; fry in butter, and add a table-spoonful of flour mixed 
 in water or stock, and as much stock as required. Mince cold 
 boiled or roast muttan, taking only the good parts, place it in the 
 sauce and warm it through without boiling. ‘This should be 
 
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 MINCED MUTTON WITH CUCUMBERS. 
 
 To prepare minced mutton and cucumber, the mutton should be 
 minced as before, then a large cucumber should be pared, the 
 seeds taken out, and cut up in small, square pieces about the size 
 of anutmeg. Stew till tender in savory brown sauce, and put in 
 the minced mutton and some thickening, if necessary. Mix the 
 mutton and cucumber well together, let it heat through, and serve 
 it piled high on a dish, with sippets of fried bread round it. 
 
 THE EPICURE’S HASH. 
 
 Cut in slices about one pound of cold mutton; then put two 
 sliced onions into a stew pan with a small piece of butter, and fry 
 brown; then add half a pint of good flavored broth, a dessert- 
 
 _ spoonful of Harvey sauce, the same spoon three times full of tara- 
 
 gon vinegar, two tea-spoonsful of curry paste, a small lump of 
 sugar, and a little pepper and salt to taste; let this sauce just boil 
 up once and then simmer slowly by the fire for half an hour; stir 
 
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46 MEATS. 
 
 it often, and thicken it with a table spoonful of flour, mixed smooth , 
 in a little cold water; or you can use corn starch, half the quantity 
 will do. When the thickening has boiled thoroughly, and the 
 
 sauce ready, put in the meat, let it heat through but not boil. ; Serve — a 
 
 hot, with pieces of toast round the dish. 
 
 QUARTER OF LAMB AS A SAVORY DISH. 
 
 Procure a hind quarter of lamb, and cut off the shank from ok * 
 Raise the thick part of the flesh from the bone with a knife. Pre-_ 
 pare some forcemeat, the same as for veal or any other white meat, 
 and place it between the bone and flesh, and all underneath the 
 kidney. Roast the lamb partially, then place it on a saucepan’ 
 with a quart of mutton gravy; cover it up and let it stew gently. 
 When it is sufficiently cooked, take it up and lay it upon a hot 
 dish. Skim the fat from the gravy, and strain it; add a wine glass 
 full of sherry or Maderia wine, a dessert spoonful of walnut catsup, 
 two of browning, the juice of half a lemon, a little cayenne pepper» 
 and half a pint of bearded oysters. Thicken with a little butter 
 rolled in flour; pour the gravy hot over the lamb, and serve it up. 
 
 SHOULDER OF VEAL. 
 
 Put into an earthen pan a glass of water, two or three spoonsful 
 of vinegar, three onions, sliced parsley, chives, two shallots, a bay 
 leaf, a bit of thyme, two cloves, and about two ounces of butter; 
 cover the pan close, and put a paste of coarse flour and water 
 round the edges, to keep in the steam; let it bake three hours, 
 strain the sauce and pour. over the meat, after seasoning it with 
 pepper and salt. Another way is to stuff it with bread crumbs, 
 suet, or butter, parsley, a little thyme and lemon peel, pepper, salt 
 and nutmeg; then lard it, and roast until brown, serving it with 
 rich brown gravy. 
 
 STEWED LOIN OF VEAL. 
 
 Take part of a loin of veal, the chump end will do; suk it Cs | 
 a large, thick, well tinned iron saucepan, or into a stewpan, two 
 ounces of butter, and shake it over a moderate fire, until it begins — 
 to brown; flour the veal well all over, lay it into the saucepan, — 
 and oe it. is of a light brown, pour in gradually veal broth 
 
 
 

 
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 gravy, or boiling water, to nearly half its depth; add a little salt, 
 one or two sliced carrots, a small onion or more, and a bunch of 
 parsley ; stew the veal very gently for an hour or more; then turn 
 and let it stew another hour until it is perfectly done. Dish the 
 joint ; skim all the fat from the gravy, and strain it over the meat, 
 or keep the joint hot while it is rapidly reduced to a richer consis- 
 tency. 
 
 BREAST OF VEAL STUFFED. 
 
 Cut off the gristle, raise the meat off the bones, then lay a good 
 forcemeat, made of pounded veal, some sausage meat, parsley, and 
 a few shallots chopped very fine, and seasoned with pepper, salt, and 
 nutmeg; then roll the veal tightly, and sew it with the twine; lay 
 some slices of fat bacon in a stewpan, and put the veal roll on it; 
 add some stock, pepper, salt, and a bunch of sweet herbs; let it 
 stew three hours; then cut out the twine, strain the sauce after 
 skimming it, thicken it with brown flour; let it boil up once, and 
 pour it over the veal; garnish with slices of lemon, each cut in 
 four. A fillet of veal, first stuffed with forcemeat, can be dressed 
 in the same manner, but it must first be roasted, so as to brown it 
 a good color; and forcemeat balls, highly seasoned, should be 
 . served round the veal. 
 
 BREAST OF VEAL STEWED. 
 
 Brown the veal first, by half roasting it; remove as many of the 
 bones as possible, and then put it in a stewpan with some stock, a 
 glass of wine, a piece of lemon peel, a bunch of sweet herbs, a 
 ham bone, and a carrot; let it simmer slowly in the oven about 
 half an hour before it is served; strain off the sauce and remove 
 the herbs, etc., put it then back with the veal, first thickening it 
 with some flour browned with butter; let it boil up to take off the 
 raw taste of the flour; then add some pickled mushrooms with their 
 juice, and serve. 
 
 ROAST FILLET OF VEAL. 
 
 Take out or ask the butcher to do so, the bone from the center, 
 and fill the cavity with a stuffing of bread crumbs, nice salt pork, 
 an onion, sweet herbs, and pepper and salt to taste, all chopped 
 
48 MEATS: 
 
 up together until iHorduisily blended; with the remainder fill up 
 all the interstices and fasten with sneerees cover down in a bake- 
 
 pan with a teacupful of water, for an hour and a half, basting oc- 
 casionally ; then remove the cover and roast untilit oe a sage 
 brown. ‘This dish is a universal severe | Pa atTS 
 
 LOIN OF VEAL 
 
 This is best larded. Have every joint thoroughly cut, ina E> =. 
 
 tween each one lay a slice of salt pork; roast a fine brown, and 
 so that’ the upper sides of the pork will be crisp; baste often ; 
 season with pepper; the pork will make it sufficiently salt. 
 
 KNUCKLE OF VEAL, 
 
 The knuckle, which is left after cutting off the fillet, makes excel- 
 lent soup, or is very good boiled with rice. It should cook slowly 
 
 on the top of the range, so that the rice will not burn, and be 
 dished up with the meat in the center, and small pieces of: nso 
 
 placed at intervals round it, in the rice. 
 
 KNUCKLE OF VEAL WITH RICE, 
 
 Boil a knuckle of veal, two turnips, one onion, six pepper-corns, 
 
 a head of celery, and a tea-cupful of rice, together, very gently on 
 the top of the stove for about three hours, skimming occasionally, 
 and mixing in a little salt. When done, send it to the table with 
 rice around the veal. The stock in which the veal has peers will 
 help to make good soup. 
 
 VEAL CUTLETS. 
 
 Take six neck cutlets of veal, trim them neatly, and cut off the 
 bone; lard the cutlets, put them into a frying-pan with a little 
 butter, and let them brown; shake a little flour over them, and then 
 moisten them with a little stock; add a bunch of fine herbs, some 
 carrots cut in forms, or scalloped, some small onions, mushrooms, 
 salt, two cloves; when the cutlets are done enough, dish them and 
 put the vegetables in the middle; skim the sauce, strain it, and 
 pour it over the cutlets. They must be well seasoned. 
 
 MINCED VEAL WITH MACARONI. 
 
 Mince up cold veal with a slice of ham, a little grated rind of 
 
 
 
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MEATS. 49 
 
 lemon, a little salt, and a few spoonsful of broth or gravy. Sim- 
 mer gently, taking care that it does not boil. Serve it upon small 
 squares of buttered toast, and surround it with a border of maca- 
 roni, cooked without cheese. 
 
 VEAL FRITTERS. 
 
 Cut cold boiled veal into small pieces, dip each in butter, fry 
 them a light brown color, drain them well from the fat, pile them 
 high in a dish and pour round them a thick, brown sauce, strongly 
 flavored with fresh tomatoes when in season—when not in season, 
 use tomato sauce. 
 
 BLANQUETTE OF VEAL. 
 
 Cut cold roast veal in small pieces, put half a pint of white 
 sauce, and a little mushroom catsup in a sauce-pan; when it boils, 
 put in the meat and let it remain until it is well heated; break in 
 an egg slightly beaten; when the sauce. thickens put in a little juice 
 of lemon, and send to table. 
 
 VEAL ROLLS. 
 
 Cut some slices of veal very thin and divide them into neat 
 pieces. Lay on each some good forcemeat, seasoned high; roll 
 each up tight, and tie them with coarse thread ; put them on a bird 
 spit; after dipping each in the yolks of eggs, well- beaten, flour 
 them over, and baste them with butter; half an hour will do them. 
 Have a good gravy ready, with truffles and mushrooms chopped ; 
 and after dishing the rolls, pour the gravy round them. 
 
 MOCK BEEFSTEAK. 
 
 Take a leg of veal and corn it slightly, by sprinkling salt over 
 it; let it lay a week, then cut from it steaks, which fry in the fat 
 from a few thin slices of browned salt pork, or broil and serve 
 with butter and pepper; no salt will be needed. 
 
 LOUIS’ FAVORITE DISH. 
 
 Take two pounds of veal from the leg or the neck, and cut into 
 nice pieces, which fry a light brown, with a slice of ham or salt 
 pork, which may afterward be cut in pieces; have ready a sauce, 
 
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50 MEATS. 
 
 made by mixing cold gravy or soup stock witha table-spoonful of 
 flour, a little thyme, pepper, salt, and some button mushrooms; 
 pour this over the veal and ham, and let the whole simmer together 
 for half an hour. Of course, the veal and ham should be re- 
 moved from the grease in which they were fried, and placed in a 
 clean pan before the sauce is poured over them. 
 
 MINCED VEAL. 
 
 Take the part that is rare done, of either roasted or boiled veal, 
 and chop it very fine. Take beef gravy sufficient for the veal to 
 be cooked in, dissolve cavear, of the quantity of an acorn, to one 
 pound of meat; put into the gravy the minced veal, and let it boil 
 one minute. Pik it into a soup dish, upon sippets of toasted 
 bread. Garnish the dish with slices of bacon broiled. 
 
 VEAL OMELETS. 
 
 Three pounds of finely chopped veal, three eggs, six cracker 
 rolls, one table-spoonful of salt, one of thyme, one of sage, and 
 half a table-spoonful of pepper, half a teacup of milk, mix well, 
 form into a loaf, baste with milk and butter while baking. Bake 
 two hours. 
 
 VEAL OLIVES. 
 
 Cut two thin steaks from a fillet of veal, beat them and rub them 
 over with the yolk of an egg; then cut them m strips from four 
 to five inches in length; lay over every strip a very thin piece of 
 fat bacon, and strew them over with bread crumbs, a little lemon 
 peel, and parsley, chopped small; season with cayenne pepper and 
 salt. Roll them up separately, and fasten them with a little wood- 
 en skewer in each. Dip them into egg, bread crumbs and parsley, 
 chopped small. Put some clarified beef dripping into a frying pan, 
 let it boil up, then throw in the veal olives and fry them a light 
 brown color. Take a pint of good gravy, add to it a dessert- 
 spoonful of lemon pickle, and same of walnut catsup, and one 
 of browning ; cayenne pepper and salt to taste; thicken this with 
 flour and butter. Place the veal olives on a hot dish, strain the 
 gravy hot upon them, garnish with lemon pickle and forcemeat. 
 balls, and strew over them a few pickled mushrooms.’ - 
 
 
 

 
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 VEAL CHEESE. 
 
 _ Take the hind quarter of veal, add three eggs, one pound of 
 pork, half a loaf of bread; season with salt and pepper to taste; 
 chop, and wet the whole with milk. Bake two hours, then turn it 
 -ut and eat it cold. 
 
 A ROAST PIG. 
 
 About three or four weeks is the right age, to roast whole; cut 
 off the toes, leaving the skin long to wrap around the ends of the 
 legs, and putitin cold water. Make a stuffing, with about six 
 powdered crackers, one table-spoonful of sage, two of summer- 
 savory, one chopped onion, half a pint of cream, two eggs, with 
 pepper, and salt. Mix these together, and stew about fifteen min- 
 utes. Take the pig from the water, fill it with the stuffing, and 
 sew it up. Boil the liver, and heart, with five pepper-corns, chop 
 fine for the gravy. Put the pig to roast, with a pint of water, and 
 a table-spoonful of salt. When it begins to roast, flour it well 
 and baste it with the drippings. Bake three hours. 
 
 ROAST PORK. 
 
 For roast pork, make a stuffing of crackers powdered fine, with 
 half a pint of cream, two eggs, a small quantity of summer- 
 savory, pepper, and salt; cook about ten minutes. ‘Take the leg 
 of pork, of seven or eight pounds in weight, and raise the skin 
 off the knuckle, and put in the stuffing, then make deep cuts in 
 the thick part of the leg, and fill them also. It must be floured 
 over, and a pint of water put in the pan. While roasting, baste 
 it often with the drippings. Cook about three hours and a half. 
 Skim some of the fat from the gravy, add a little flour, and boil it 
 well afew minutes. Serve with apple sauce, or any other that 
 may be preferred. 
 
 SPARE RIB OF PORK. 
 
 Joint it down the middle; sprinkle it with fine sage, salt, and a 
 little flour; put it in the oven and baste it well. Serve it with 
 apple sauce, egg sauce, or white sauce. 
 
52 MEATS. 
 
 PORK CUTLETS. 
 
 To broil or fry these, cut them half an inch thick, trim them into 
 neat form, take off part of the fat. To broil them, sprinkle a little 
 pepper on them, and broil them over a clear and moderate fire a 
 quarter of an hour, or a few minutes more; and just before taking 
 them off, sprinkle over a little fine salt. For frying, flour them 
 well and season with pepper, and salt, and sage. ‘They may also 
 be dipped into an egg, and then into bread crumbs mixed with 
 minced sage; if for broiling, add a little clarified butter to the egg, 
 or sprinkle it on the cutlets. 
 
 BOSTON PORK AND APPLE PIE. 
 
 Boil one pound of nice, sweet, salt pork, and when it is cold 
 chop it up fine. Peel half a peck of greening apples, chop them 
 up also, and mix with the pork. Sweeten with sugar, and spice 
 with cinnamon and ground cloves, or allspice, and bake in deep 
 soup plates, slowly and thoroughly, with a crust on both sides, 
 
 ENGLISH PORK OR RAISED PIG. 
 
 These constitute a favorite luncheon dish in England. Take a 
 pound of nice lard, and heat it until melted, in a little water. 
 Use this hot melted lard to mix the flour into a paste, with a little 
 salt. Work the paste very smooth, divide it, and form each piece 
 into a round ball, gradually working a hollow in the centre, and 
 raising a wall, two, three, or four inches high all round, according 
 to the size required. Have ready the pork, fat and lean, cut into 
 small square pieces ; fill each pie, season highly, fit a lid neatly to 
 the top, egg over, and bake a Ss brown, in a steady but not a 
 quick oven. 
 
 PORK AND POTATO PIE. 
 
 Take some pork bones from which the meat has been removed 
 for sausages or other use. Put them into a deep dish and place 
 amid them slices of apples and potatoes, with chopped onions, 
 salt and pepper; adda little water; cover it with a crust and bake 
 slowly. 
 
 
 

 
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 BACON OMELET. 
 
 Beat up some eggs (according to the quantity required,) then 
 add salt, pepper, some finely cut parsely and green onions, and a 
 slice or two of bacon cut into very fine mince meat; mix all well 
 together, fry and scorch the top with a red hot poker. 
 
 BACON EGG-CAP. 
 
 Cut a quarter of a pound of bacon into thin slices and stew them 
 slowly, turning them over and over. ‘Take out the slices and put 
 to the grease two spoonsful of any stock you happen to have, and 
 break over it six or seven eggs. Now add your slices of bacon 
 again, pepper and salt, cook over a slow fire, and scorch the top 
 with a red hot poker. 
 
 PORK RELISH. 
 
 Fry some slices of salt pork till crisp, take them out, pour a 
 little water to the fat and season it with pepper; sprinkle ina 
 little flour, then cut up the pork into small pieces and put it into 
 this thickened gravy. , 
 
 TO CURE HAMS.—1l1 
 
 Weigh your hams, and make a brine of one ounce of salt to every 
 pound of meat, and one ounce of saltpetre to every twenty pounds. 
 Cover the bottom of the tub with salt; pack the hams close, and 
 fill the chinks with stones. Let the brine cover them well. After 
 they have lain three or four weeks, take them up, dry and smoke 
 them. ‘Then wrap them in papers and lay them in ashes in a cool, 
 dry cellar. This keeps the flies from them, and prevents them 
 from getting dry and hard. Hams cured in this way, keep the 
 year round. ‘ 
 
 TO CURE HAMS.—2Z. 
 
 For every one hundred lbs. of ham, take seven lbs. of salt, three 
 ounces of saltpetre, two ounces of pearlash, one quart of molasses, 
 five gallons of water. Re-pack the hams at the end of the first 
 week, and put the same pickle on them again. 
 
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 BOILED HAM. 
 
 A ham, if dry, may be soaked over night; if moist, this may wis 
 omitted. Put it in warm water, and boil it for five or six hours. 
 If it is salt, the water may be changed once, though it should not 
 be put into cold water. Soft water is best; if the water is hard, 
 a little soda may be added to it. If it is desired to give the flavor 7 
 of ham to vegetables, they may be boiled in some of the liquor the 
 ham was boiled in, but the vegetables should not be put in with 
 the ham. When done take off the skin, which should be kept as 
 whole as possible, (to put over the ham when cold, which will pre- 
 vent its drying,) and grate toasted bread over it. Boiled ham is 
 best eaten cold. When served, remove the skin, stick cloves at 
 intervals with a ring of pepper around them, and garnish bideo 
 parsley, or put fringed paper around the small end. 
 
 SUGARED HAM. 
 
 After boiling the ham three hours, remove the skin, sprinkle 
 sugar over it and bake one hour. It will be delicious. hd 
 
 2 POTTED HAM. 
 
 Take the remains of a boiled ham, cut in small pieces, and 
 pound it, little by little, in a mortar; softening it during the pro- 
 cess, with a little melted butter. Add Cayenne pepper to taste, 
 and put it in small bowls, glasses, or potting jars, pressing it down 
 very smooth. Over the surface pour a little more melted butter ; 
 cover tight, and set away. It will keep for weeks. This is a 
 nice supper dish. 
 
 BROILED HAM. 
 
 Cut the ham in thin slices, and broil quick, on a gridiron set 
 over lively hot coals. If the ham is too salt, soak it in hot water 
 before broiling, and dry it with a cloth before putting it on the 
 fire, Fry some eggs in an equal quantity of lard and butter, put 
 an egg on each slice of ham, and serve. 
 
 WESTPHALIA LOAVES. 
 
 Mix a quarter of a pound of grated ham, with one pound of 
 
 
 

 
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 mealy potatoes, well beaten until quite light, and add a little butter, 
 eream, and two eggs; but do not get it too moist. Make into 
 small balls, and fry with a little lard, a light brown. Serve with 
 a brown thick gravy. Garnish with fried parsley. 
 
 HAM OR TONGUE TOAST. 
 
 Toast a thick slice of bread, and butter it on both sides. Take 
 a small quantity of remains of ham, or tongue, and grate it, and 
 put it in a stew-pan with two hard boiled eges chopped fine, mixed 
 with a little butter, salt, and cayenne; make it quite hot, then 
 spread thickly upon the buttered toast. Serve while hot. 
 
SECONDARY MEATS. 
 
 YALE BOAT PIE. 
 
 Lay three or four pounds of steak from the undercut of a round 
 of beef, ina middling sized dish, having seasoned it with pepper 
 and salt. Have a couple of chickens at hand, cut in pieces anJ 
 seasoned; place them upon the steak, and over them one dozen 
 and a half of fresh fat oysters, without the liquor. Add half a 
 dozen fresh, hard boiled eggs, and after damping the bottom of the 
 dish with half a pint of strong ale, cover the whole with fresh 
 mushrooms, adding to these half a pound of glaze or plain neats-— 
 foot-jelly ; lay over the dish a substantial paste, and bake ina 
 brisk oven. This pie is excellent for a picnic or water excursion. 
 
 IRISH STEW.—1l. 
 
 Take off the under bone from the best end of a neck of mut- 
 ton, and cut it into chops; season them with pepper and salt, some 
 mushroom powder, and beaten mace. Put the meat into a stew- 
 pan, slice a large onion, and tie up a bunch of parsley and thyme, 
 and add these and a pint of veal broth to the meat. Let this sim- 
 mer until the chops are about three parts done, then add some on- 
 ions, and whole potatoes peeled, and let all stew together until 
 thoroughly cooked. Take out the parsley and thyme, and serve 
 up in a deep dish. 
 
 IRISH STEW.—2. 
 
 Take as much of mutton as is required; the scrag end is the 
 best for the purpose. Cut the meat into small chops, pare all the 
 fat off the piece, chop it fine, and sct it aside for dumplings; let 
 the meat stew till perfectly tender, strain the liquor, and set the 
 neat aside. The following day remove the fat, put the liquor ina 
 sauce pan, roll each piece of mutton in flour, add the meat to the 
 
 
 

 
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 liquor, and sufficient potatoes and onions to thicken it. Before 
 serving, add a layer of potatoes, boiled in a separate sauce-pan, 
 also dumplings, about the size of an egg. The dumplings will take 
 about twenty minutes to boil. No seasoning is required except 
 pepper and salt. 
 
 BAKED IRISH STEW. 
 
 Fill a dish with alternate layers of mutton or beef, sliced pota- 
 _toes and onions; season with pepper and salt, pour in plenty of 
 water for gravy, and cover the top closely with potatoes; cook in 
 a moderate oven, and let the potatoes on top be browned before it 
 is served; the onion can be omitted if desired. 
 
 BOILED TONGUE. 
 
 Saltpetered tongue requires five or six hours to boil. When 
 done, lay it in cold water three minutes, peel off the skin, beginning 
 at the tip of the tongue, as it comes off much easier. 
 
 SWEETBREAD. 
 
 Add to a pint of water, or veal stock, a little grated lemon peel, 
 “mace, and pepper and salt; in this put your sweetbreads,—two 
 good sized ones; stew them an hour or more; then take them out, 
 mix a teaspoonful of flour with a little milk, mushrooms, and cat- 
 sup, and add to the liquor whenit boils; put in the sweetbread for 
 _amoment. Serve with the sauce poured over them. 
 
 TO FRY SWEETBREAD. 
 
 Scald them first ; fry them in butter, with a little sweet marjoram 
 and parsley chopped fine, and served with a gravy, flavored with 
 mushroom catsup. 
 
 MEAT OMNIUM. 
 
 Take all the pieces of cooked meat you have, no matter whether 
 boiled or roast, butcher’s meat, poultry or game, and mince very 
 fine. Put the whole into a stew-pan, with a little parsley, a few 
 green onions, and mushrooms, if you can get them, one or two 
 egos beaten up, and alittle gravy or stock. Simmer for a quarter 
 of an hour; then take a meat dish, pour upon ita layer of your 
 
58 SECONDARY MEATS. 
 
 stew, a layer of bread in slices, another layer of stew, and so on, 
 and heat in an oven. When hot, pour it over the rest of the stew 
 hot, and serve. FS 
 
 SAUSAGE MEAT. 
 
 Take one pound of fresh pork, two pounds of lean beef, and 
 chop them very fine; mix this with three tea-spoonfuls of black 
 pepper, the same quantity of salt, five of powdered sage, and five 
 of summer-savory ; make this into small cakes and place them upon _. 
 a plate. When needed, fry them in the same manner as sausages. 
 
 GOOD SAUSAGES. 
 
 First chop separately, and then together, a pound and a quarter 
 of veal, free from fat, skin, and sinew, and an equal weight of lean | 
 pork, and of the inside fat of the pig. Mix them well, and sprin- 
 kle on an ounce and a quarter of salt, half an’ounce of pepper, 
 one nutmeg grated, and a large tea-spoonful of pounded mace. 
 Turn and chop all together until equally seasoned throughout: 
 press the sausages into a clean pan, and keep them ina very cool 
 place. When wanted, form them into cakes an inch thick or less 
 flour and fry them about ten minutes, in a little butter. 
 
 RISSABLES. 
 
 Chop veal and ham together finely, add a few bread crumbs, 
 salt, pepper, nutmeg, and a little parsley and lemon peel, or shallot ;_ 
 mix all together with the yolks of eggs well beaten; either roll 
 them into shape like a flat sausage, or into the shape of pears, 
 sticking a bit of horseradish in the ends, to resemble the stalks ; 
 egg each over, and grate bread crumbs; fry them brown and serve 
 on crisp fried parsley. 
 
 GRANDMOTHER’S BREAKFAST BALLS. 
 
 A little cold beef, or mutton, or both; a slice of ham, or salt 
 pork; a small quantity of bread crumbs, a little parsley, a little 
 sage, or thyme, all chopped together, and mixed with an egg, a 
 little melted butter, and seasoning. Take a table spoonful of the 
 mixture, dredge it with the flour, and make into a ball, which fry 
 a quick brown. 
 
 
 

 
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 _ This constitutes an elegant breakfast dish, and is a good way of 
 getting rid of cold meat, particularly if hash is not liked. 
 
 TURKISH DALMA. 
 
 Chop the lean of any cold meat, with a quarter pound of beef 
 wet, very fine; mix with quarter pound of scalded rice; season 
 with salt, pepper, and add the yolks of twoeggs. Take cabbage 
 leaves, dip them in water, make the meat into shape of cucumbers, 
 and fold the leaves round them, tying each with a thread; put them 
 into a stewpan with gravy, an anchovy, and an onion: stew a long 
 time gently. ‘The thread is taken off when served, and the gravy 
 browned with flour and a little butter. 
 
 TO COOK COLD MEATS. 
 
 Put the cold meat into a chopping bowl, cut them fine, season 
 with salt, pepper, a little onion or else tomato catsup. Fill a tin 
 bread pan two thirds full; cover. it’ over with mashed potato 
 which has been salted and has milk in it; lay bits of butter over 
 the top, and set it into an oven for fifteen or twenty minutes, 
 
 SAVORY WINTER HASH. 
 
 Any kind of cold meat, a few cold potatoes, an onion, pepper 
 and salt, a little dried parsley, sage, and summer savory. Chop 
 all together. Put it in a sauce-pan, with a little gravy, or hot wa- 
 ter, and a small piece of butter. Let it simmer gently for fifteen 
 minutes. ‘Turn out over thin slices of toast. It is palatable to 
 persons who do not usually like hash. 
 
 TOAD IN THE HOLE. 
 
 Make a batter of six ounces of flour, one pint of milk, two or 
 three eggs, a little lard, salt and pepper; put into it a pound of 
 beef sausages, and bake for an hour. Instead of beef sausages, 
 slices of any meat you have, orhalf a pound of pork sausages, or 
 a few oysters with meat trimmings, may be used. 
 
 COW HEEL. 
 
 Boil.in water a split cow heel (one already used for stock will 
 do) four or five hours; then add a pint of milk, and boil for two 
 
60 SECONDARY MEATS. 
 
 hours more, adding an onion or two, and if you like, a little chop- 
 ped parsley. — it ir 2+ 3! Arps SOR seer 
 
 FRIED COW HEEL. 
 
 Cut a stewed cow heel into pieces about two inches long, and put 
 the pieces into a frying pan with bread crumbs, salt, pepper, and 
 a little minced parsley. You will require to have grease in the 
 pan, and it should be boiling before you put your cow heel in. 
 About a quarter of an hour will suffice for frying. It would be a 
 creat improvement if you were to beat up an egg and dip each 
 piece into it, before you put it into the hot frying pan. 
 
 SHEEP’S TROTTERS. 
 
 Into a stewpan put a little suet with sliced onions and carrots, 
 thyme, salt and pepper; let these simmer for about five minutes. 
 Next add two spoonsful of flour and water, and keep stirring till it 
 boils; when it boils, put in the trotters and simmer for three 
 hours or more. Now mix in two eggs, beaten up in milk, but do 
 not let your stewpan boil again. Pour into a deep dish, and gar- 
 nish with toasted bread. . 7 
 
 SWEET BREAD, LIVER AND HEART. 
 
 Parboil the sweet bread, and let them get cold. Cut them in 
 pieces about an inch thick; put on salt, and pepper and sage; 
 then dip them in the yolk of an egg and fine bread crumbs. 
 Fry them a light brown. Another way is, to fry slices of salt pork 
 until brown, take out the pork and fry the sweet bread in the fat. 
 When done, make a gravy by stirring a little flour and water mix- 
 ed smooth, into the fat; add spices, and wine, if you like. The 
 liver and heart are cooked in the same manner, or broiled. - 
 
 CALF’S HEAD CAKE. 
 
 Parboil half a calf’s head, with a little sage; cut off the meat, 
 put the bones back into the broth, and boil them until the broth is 
 much reduced. Cut up the meat and put it into the jar with the 
 tongue, mace, pepper, &c., add a few small slices of ham; put the 
 jar into the oven covered, and let it stand some hours until the con- 
 tents are thoroughly done; then mix it with the brains beaten up 
 
 
 

 
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 with an eee. Put pieces of hard boiled egg in a mold, pour the 
 mixture from the jar into it, and let it get entirely cold, then turn 
 it out. This dish can be made also with sheep’s head, carefully 
 scalded and soaked. 
 
 CALF’S HEAD HASH. 
 
 Take a ealf’s head or half a one, as you desire; parboil it, cut 
 off the best parts in slices, and set these aside for the hash. Put 
 the rest, bones and all, with any other bones you may have, es- 
 pecially a‘_ham bone, each into the liquor with a bunch of sweet 
 herbs, a sliced carrot, a fried onion, half head of celery, mace, 
 salt, and peppercorns, according to taste. Let these ingredients 
 stew gently together, until the liquor is so strong that, when it is 
 cold, it will form a jelly. Strain it through a hair sieve, and after- 
 wards through a cloth, and when cold, remove all the fat which 
 may rise to the top.. Take of this jelly the quantity that may be 
 required for gravy, put it into a sauce-pan, and add to it mushroom 
 catsup, Worcester sauce, a little lemon peel, and Chili wine. Now 
 put in the slices of meat, and let them warm gently, but do not let 
 them boil. Before serving to table add, if you desire, a wine-glass 
 of sherry, and a table-spoonful of brandy, and garnish with brain 
 cakes and slices of lemon. Butter may be added to the gravy to 
 make it thicker. 
 
 LAMB’S HEAD AND HINGE. 
 
 Soak the head well in cold water and boil it a quarter of an hour. 
 Parboil the heart, liver, and if desired, the lights; mince them 
 quite small, mix them with gravy, season them, pour them on sip- 
 pets of toasted bread in a soup dish, broil the bread and lay it 
 upon the mince. It can be garnished with sliced pickled’ cucum- 
 bers and slices of bacon. | 
 
 BRAIN CAKES. 
 
 Wash the brains thoroughly, first in cold and afterwards in hot 
 water; remove the skin and fibers, and then boil the brains in 
 water with a little salt, for two or three minutes. Take them up 
 and beat them in a basin with some very finely chopped parsley, 
 sifted sage, salt, mace, cayenne pepper, the well-beaten yolk of 
 
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62 SECONDARY MEATS. 
 
 an ege, anda gill of cream. Drop them in small cakes into the 
 frying pan, and fry them in butter a light brown color. A little 
 flour and grated lemon peel are sometimes added. Pe 
 
 TRIPE. 
 
 The tripe, after being corned, should be soaked in salt and water 
 five or six days, changing the water every day; then cut it in 
 pieces, scrape it and rinse it. Boil it until quite tender, which 
 will take half a day or more, and it will then be fit for broiling, 
 frying or pickling. Drop it into a jar of spiced vinegar. 
 
 FRIED TRIPE. 
 
 After being boiled, let it be quite cold; cut it in pieces, roll 
 them cornerwise, tie them with a thread, sprinkle a little salt and 
 mace over them, roll them in eggs and crumbs, fry in fat a nice 
 brown; serve with onion sauce, with a little lemon and tomato 
 catsup boiled in. 
 
 STEWED TRIPE. 
 
 Choose the thickest and whitest tripe, cut the white part into thin 
 slices, and put them into a stewpan with a little white gravy, a 
 spoonful of vinegar, a little lemon juice, and a little grated lemon 
 peel. Add the yolk of an egg well beaten, with a little cream and 
 chopped parsley, and two or three chives. Shake them together 
 over a slow fire until the gravy is as thick as cream, but do not let 
 it boil. Serve it with sippets, and garnish, if desired, with sliced 
 lemon. - € 
 
 BRAWN. 
 
 Take the lower half of a pig’s face, the feet and ears, rub then 
 well with salt, let them remain so a week or ten days. Salt 
 beef tongue the same way, for the same time. Then let the face, 
 ears, and feet boil half an hour in water enough to cover them ; 
 take them out and clean them thoroughly, then put them back with 
 the tongue also, and boil for three hours, or until the meat will slip 
 from the bones. Then take it off, remove the bone, cut the meat in 
 
 small pieces, the tongue into thin slices; mix all together and sea- - 
 son with plenty of pepper, a little ground allspice, &c. ‘Then put 
 
 
 

 
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 it into a mold in layers of fat and lean, press it down with a spoon, 
 add a little liquor from the saucepan, put a heavy weight on the 
 top, and let it stand till next morning, when it is ready to turn out 
 and send to table. It can be sent with a piece of white paper 
 fastened round and served, if desired, with a little sauce of mustard 
 vinegar, and brown sugar. The beef tongue makes it much 
 nicer, though some omit it, gonapee, ct.opping the pig’s tongue with 
 the face, ears and feet. 
 
FISH. 
 
 TO BOIL FISH. 
 
 Clean and rinse the fish, wrap it in a cloth, and place it in the 
 kettle with cold water, adding alittle salt; boil slowly but constant- 
 ly; let the water always cover the fish, remove the scum that rises, 
 add a little vinegar when nearly done. ‘The fish 1s done when the 
 flesh can be separated from the back bone by running a thin sharp 
 knife in; be careful not to let the fish be overdone. Drain it dry 
 on a sieve, keeping it hot; lay it on the fish platter carefully, so as 
 not to break it. Serve with sauces composed of drawn butter. 
 If a fish kettle with strainer is used, the fish need not be wrapped 
 in cloth. 
 
 Fresh cod, haddock, whiting and shad, are better for being salt- 
 ed the night before cooking them. The muddy smell that is some- 
 times noticed in fresh water fish, is obviated by soaking it, after 
 cleaning, in strong salt and water; after which, dry it on a napkin, 
 and dress it. 
 
 TO FRY FISH. 
 
 Cleanse them thoroughly, dry them well, dip them in flour, or 
 firstin the beaten yolks of eggs, and then in grated bread crumbs ; 
 fry in lard or beef drippings, or equal parts of lard and butter. 
 Butter alone takes out the sweetness, and givesa bad color. Turn 
 on both sides, and cook a rich yellow brown. Fried parsley, grated 
 horse-radish, or slices of lemon are used as garnish. ‘The fat fried 
 from salt pork is good to fry fish in. Some fish can be dipped in 
 Indian meal instead of flour, if preferred. Trout and Rare ch should 
 not be dipped in Indian meal. 
 
 
 

 
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 FISH. 65 
 
 WHITE FISH BROILED. (Lake Superior style.) 
 
 This is one of the most delicious of lake fish. Cut it in two pieces 
 down through the centre of the back, lay in a pan, and cover with 
 cold water, into which you have put a table-spoonful of salt. Let 
 t lay for two hours, this makes it firm. Then take it out, wrap it 
 ina dry cloth, and let it remain until ready for cooking. Have a nice 
 bed of coals, grease your gridiron well, put ona little salt, and 
 some pepper. Broil for twenty minutes, or half an hour, accord- 
 ing to size, turning it to brown on both sides. It will not break in 
 pieces. Serve with white sauce. 
 
 WHITE FISH BOILED. (Lake Superior style.) 
 
 This is a very delicate, and highly esteemed dish. Place the 
 fish whole, in a fish kettle; cover with cold water, add a table- 
 spoonful or more of salt, and let it come to a boil. Ten minutes 
 after it boils, will cook it. Take it out ‘carefully, serve with egg 
 sauce, which is white sauce, with a hard boiled egg chopped up 
 in it. 
 
 BOILED SALMON. 
 
 Draw the fish into the form of the letter S, by running a thread 
 through the tail, centre of the body and head; or if it is part of a 
 fish, fold it in a clean cloth. _When bent, cut two or three slant- 
 ing gashes on each side, to prevent the skin breaking and disfigur- 
 ing the fish. Plunge it in boiling water in which a handful of salt 
 to four quarts of water has been mixed, and the scum arising from 
 it skimmed off. Put in with the fish, a little horse radish. Boil 
 until very well done, about quarter of an hour to every pound of 
 fish ; and serve with lobster, or white parsley sauce; garnish with 
 sliced lemon, For vegetables, mashed potatoes, and cucumbers 
 sliced in vinegar, can be served. A salmon should be chosen for 
 its brightness of color, complete covering of scales, firmness of 
 flesh, whitness of the belly, brightness of the eye, and redness of 
 the scales. Artificial means, itis said, are sometimes adopted to 
 give redness to the gills of salmon and other fish, to deceive in- 
 experienced buyers. 
 
66 | FISH. 
 
 BROILED SALMON. 
 
 About an inch, is the proper thickness to cut ae slices ; try 
 them with a cloth, put salt on them, and lay them skin side dow 
 on a gridiron over hot coals. Before laying on the fish, rub the 
 bars with lard, to prevent them sticking. When broiled suflici- 
 ently on one side, turn the fish, by laying a plate upon it and 
 turning the gridiron over; then slip the salmon from the plate on 
 to the gridiron. This prevents its breaking. 
 
 SALMON AND SALAD. 
 
 The remains of boiled salmon, instead of being pickled, as is 
 usually done; are very good sent to table cold, to be eaten with 
 salad. ‘Trim the fish neatly, ornament it with sprigs of parsley, 
 and serve with a bowl of salad, made as follows: Boil a cauli- 
 flower till about two thirds done; let it get cold, break it in bunch- 
 es, lay them in a dish, and put to it salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar. 
 This is an excellent dish in hot weather. 
 
 TO KIPPER SALMON. 
 
 Lay the fish on its side and cut it from tail to head, taking care 
 not to injure the belly by inserting the knife too far; wash the fish 
 well, take out the eyes, and put a pinch of salt in their place; ther 
 sprinkle a handful or two of brown sugar over the inside, and 
 above the sugar the same quantity, or rather more, of common 
 salt; lay the salmon on a flat board, the inside up; cover with a 
 cloth and let it remain twenty-four hours (or if wished saltish, 
 thirty-six) inadry place, neither too hot nor too cold. If the weath- 
 er is fine, an hour or two of exposure to the sun and air will accel- 
 erate the curing process. The kipper is in perfection after it has 
 been dried twenty-four hours, but it will keep a considerable time. 
 To cook it, cut it in slices, wrap each in a piece of paper and ie 
 it; send it to the table in paper. | 
 
 PICKLED SALMON. 
 
 Seald, clean, and split the salmon; then cut into pieces and lay 
 them on the bottom of the kettle, with an equal quantity of water 
 and vinegar, enough to cover them; put in salt, pepper, six blades 
 
 
 

 
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 of mace, twelve bay leaves. When the salmon has boiled enough, 
 drain and lay it on a cloth, put more salmon into the kettle and 
 boil; continue doing this till allis done. When all is cold, pack 
 the fish, and cover with pickle; place something heavy upon the 
 fish to keep it down, that it may be covered entirely with the pickle, 
 which must be occasionally poured off andscalded. Cover it close- 
 ly to keep it from the air. 
 
 BROILED SHAD. 
 
 Shad should be baked, fried or broiled. For broiling, remove 
 the roes, clean and dry thoroughly, cut into straight halves, and 
 lay with the roes on a well-heated and well-greased gridiron, over 
 a moderate fire ; put the cover on so that it will cook through while it 
 is browning, and only turn once; when it is done remove it to a 
 warm dish, spread over a piece of butter the size of a walnut, a 
 little pepper and salt, and put it, for a moment, in the oven; gar- 
 nish with sprigs of fresh parsley before serving. 
 
 FRIED SITAD. 
 
 Divide the two halves in pieces two or three inches wide, salt and 
 pepper them and put them in a pan, in which the fat, to keep them 
 from sticking, has already been made boiling hot; fry a rich brown 
 on both sides, cooking the inside first, and serve hot. The roes 
 
 - may be fried in the same way. 
 
 BAKED SHAD 
 
 Baked shad does not require to be cut. down the back; only 
 cleancd, the roes removed, and the inside filled with a stuffing 
 made of bread crumbs, salt pork, an onion, sage, thyme, parsley, 
 and pepper and salt; chop all together fine, fill and sew up the 
 shad, and place in a pan with three or four slices of the pork over 
 it, and the roes at the side; bake one hour, and you will have a 
 dish fit for an editor. 
 
 SHAD MAITRE D’HOTEL. 
 
 Butter a pan and lay the shad in it, with an onion sliced, a bay 
 leaf, five cloves, the juice of half a lemon, a spoonful of vinegar, 
 and two of gravy; make four or five incisions on both sides of the 
 
 
 
 
 
68 MEATS. 
 
 shad, cutting down to the bone, cover with buttered paper, and 
 put into a rather slow oven; let it bake twenty minutes, then take 
 it out, remove the paper, baste thoroughly and put it back; let it 
 remain in the oven altogether about three quarters of an hour, or 
 an hour if the fish is a large one, basting frequently with the liquor 
 in the pan; then take it out, fill the incisions with chopped parsley 
 and butter, and put back, while making a sauce of a little butter, 
 flour, broth, and lemon juice, into which pour all the liquid sur- 
 rounding the shad; boil up once, dish the fish, and pour the sauce 
 over it. - 
 
 FRESH MACKEREL. 
 
 This is a Spring luxury. Purchased in the city they are already 
 cleaned, and require only to be rolled in a clean cloth, put in cold 
 water, and cooked for five minutes, after coming to a boil; serve 
 with parsley sauce, made with a table-spoonful of flour, mixed 
 smooth with cold milk, and a piece of butter the size of a small 
 egg; garnish with green parsley, and eat with stewed gooseberries. 
 
 SOUSED MACKEREL. 
 
 Take fresh mackerel, well cleaned, and boil them for a few min- 
 utes, or until tender, in salt and water. ‘Take of the water in which 
 they were boiled, half as much as will cover them; add the same 
 amount of good vinegar, some whole pepper, cloves, and a blade 
 or two of mace. Pour over hot. In twelve hours it willbe ready 
 for use. Shad is very nice soused in the same way. 
 
 BOILED BASS, ROCK FISH, ETC. ~ 
 
 These should be boiled plain, leaving on the head and ‘tail. Let 
 them boil steadily half an hour, serve with drawn butter mixed 
 with finely chopped eggs, which have been boiled three quarters of 
 an hour. 
 
 PICKED UP CODFISH AND POTATOES. 
 
 This is as old and esteemed a dish as pork and beans. Put 
 your salted codfish in soak the night before; pick it off in shreds 
 the next morning, and scald it in a saucepan, pouring off the wa- 
 ter just before it comes to a boil; this will freshen it sufficiently. 
 
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 Put in then a little more water, a small piece of butter, and a 
 few shakes of pepper, and let it cook till it is tender. When it is 
 done, thicken it with a beaten egg, but don’t allow it to boil; and 
 mix it with double its bulk in potatoes, mashed finely with milk, 
 and season with pepper anda little salt. Pile up as near like a 
 haystack as possible, pour over the whole some good egg sauce, 
 and garnish with parsley and egg rings. 
 
 BAKED COD, BLACK FISH, HADDOCK, ETC. 
 
 Spread little slices of bread with butter; pepper and salt them 
 and lay them inside the fish. ‘Then take a needle and thread and 
 sew it up. Putasmall skewer through the lip and tail, and fasten 
 them together with a piece of twine. Lay it into a dish, in which it 
 it may beserved; put two or three thin slices of salt pork upon it, 
 sprinkle salt over it, and flour it well. Baste it several times with the 
 liquor which cooks out of it. A fish weighing four pounds will cook 
 in an hour. 
 
 BROILED WHITINGS. 
 
 Make a brine with salt and water, sprigs of parsley, shallots and 
 onions, and let the whole boil together for half an hour; strain it 
 and boil the whitings in it, adding a third part of milk. Drain them 
 when done, and make the following sauce for them: A piece of 
 butter, some flour, two whole green shallots, pepper, and salt. 
 Thicken this with cream; take out the shallots, and pour the sauce 
 over the whitings. 
 
 WATER SOUCHY, OR SOODJEE. 
 
 This mode of dressing fish may be used for soles, flounders, and 
 also fresh water fish of almost any description. The fish should. be 
 thoroughly cleansed and put into a stew-pan, with sufficient cold 
 water for broth, .a very small quantity of white wine vinegar, and 
 some salt. While boiling they must be carefully skimmed; and 
 when thoroughly done, served in the liquor in which they were 
 boiled; to which should be added some roots of parsley, cut, 
 trimmed, and boiled. A few parsley leaves, boiled to a nice 
 green, should be strewed over the fish, and bread and butter sent 
 up to eat with the souchy. 
 
70 FISH. 
 
 FRIED COD AND HADDOCK. 
 
 Cut the fish in pieces about the size as to help attable; wash and 
 wipe them dry, roll them in Indian meal. Fry some pieces of salt 
 pork; take out the pork, and put into the frying-pan some lard; 
 when it is quite hot put in the fish and fry it a light brown; dish i it 
 with the fried pork, serve with drawn butter. ' 
 
 COD OR SALMON CUTLETS. 
 
 To one and a half pounds of cold boiled fish, put half a pound 
 of cold potatoes, half a pound of butter; pepper, salt, and a little 
 mace, and some anchovy sauce. Pound all these together in a 
 mortar, thoroughly. When well beaten, make the mixture into 
 the shape of small cutlets, dip them in egg and bread crumbs, and 
 fry them until they are of alight brown color. They are excellent 
 as a side dish or entree. 
 
 FISH ROES IN CASES. 
 
 Put the soft roes from half a dozen broiled mackerel or shad 
 into paper cases, with shred parsley, a little rasped bread, butter, 
 salt, and pepper. Bake them, and serve them up with lemon j juice 
 squeezed over them. 
 
 SMALL FISH FRICASSEED. 
 
 Fry the fish a nice brown color, and drain them. ‘Take another 
 small fish, remove all the meat from it, and chop it fine, mixing 
 with it a little grated bread, some lemon peel, chopped parsley, 
 pepper, salt, nutmeg, the yolks of an egg, and a little butter; 
 make this up into small balls and fry them. Into some good gravy 
 thickened with flour, put some red wine, and boil it up adding 
 cayenne pepper, catsup, and lemon juice; place the fish and balls 
 in it, simmer them a few moments, and serve, garnished with 
 lemon. 
 
 TRENTON FALLS FRY. 
 
 Let some small fish soak in the juice of two lemons, with salt, 
 pepper, and chopped sweet herbs. After taking them out, drain 
 them, and stuff them with crumbs of bread, boiled in milk, and 
 
 
 

 
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 beat up with the yolks of two eggs; then sprinkle them with flour, 
 and fry them of a good color. Serve them up on fried parsley. 
 - They should be very dry and crisp. 
 
 FISH AND MACARONI 
 
 Rub the inside of a mold with fresh butter, and strew grated 
 cheese at the bottom of it to the thickness of about an inch; then 
 put in a layer of macaroni of about the same thickness. Upon 
 this lay some fish of whatever kind preferred, boned, cut in pieces, 
 and strewed with parsley, thyme, and shallots finely chopped ; also 
 some pounded spices and cayenne pepper, adding another layer of 
 macaroni and cheese. Bake it for an hour in a moderate oven, 
 carefully turn it out into a dish, and serve it up with a little good 
 stock gravy round it. 
 
 FISH AND MACARONI. a 
 
 Boil the macaroni in water until tender, drain it, and cut it into 
 short pieces. Remove the bones and skin from any kind of white 
 boiled fish, tear it into small pieces, and mix it with the macaroni. 
 Then make a sauce of two ounces of butter, the yolks of one or 
 two eggs, salt, pepper and alittle lemon juice. Heat this ina 
 sauce-pan, pouring 1n half a pint of good melted butter, stir it, and 
 put in the fish and macaroni. When hot, pour it out in a dish, 
 heaping it in the centre; sprinkle fine bread crumbs over it and 
 bake the top a light brown color in the oven. 
 
 FRIED SMELTS. 
 
 Split them just far enough to clean them; lay them in salt and 
 water, and let them remain an hour; then wash and wipe them, 
 have ready two eggs beat up in a plate, and some cracker crumbs 
 in another plate; put about two pounds of lard into the frying 
 pan; set it on the fire until it is very hot; dip the smelts into the 
 eggs, roll them in the crumbs, and put them into the boiling fat ; 
 fry them a light brown; serve them hot, with drawn butter. 
 
 FRESfi HERRINGS 
 
 These can be broiled or fried. After scaling and cleaning them 
 nicely, split them quite open, wash the insides with care, dry them 
 
12 FISH. 
 
 in a cloth, remove the head, tail and back bones, rub the insides 
 
 with pepper, salt, and a little pounded mace; stick small bits of 4 
 
 butter on them; skewer two of the fish together as flat as possible, 
 the skin of both outside; flour and boil them in twenty to twenty- 
 five minutes, or fry them about ten minutes, until brown; and serve 
 with melted butter mixed with a tea-spoonful of staked some salt, 
 and a little vinegar or lemon juice. 
 
 TO DRESS FISH A SECOND TIME. 
 
 Put four table spoonsful of bread crumbs to a small quantity of 
 fish; add two eggs, two ounces of butter, a little essence of ancho- 
 vy, and a little pepper, salt and cayenne. Mix these all well with 
 the fish, which should previously be taken from the bones, and steam 
 it until it is heated ote as Any cold boiled fish may be dressed 
 this way. 
 
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 FISH PUDDING. 
 
 Take cold boiled fish, the part that is white, and mashed pota- 
 toes, an equal quantity; mix well together, breaking the fish very 
 fine; add two ounces of melted butter, or cream instead of the 
 butter; season with salt and pepper. Butter a pudding dish, put 
 the mixture in, keeping the top rough, and put it in the oven till 
 heated through, and the top nicely browned. 
 
 CHOWDER. 
 
 For a capital Spring chowder, put a layer of fresh fish, peda or 
 haddock; then a layer of split crackers, sliced onions, and raw 
 potatoes icag very thin; strew a little salt and pepper over this 
 layer; then put in more pork and fish, crackers, onions, and pota- 
 toes, and so on, until the ingredients are exhausted; over this 
 mixture pour a bowl of liquid, composed of two table-spoons of 
 flour, mixed smooth with milk and water; add milk and water to 
 the flour until there is sufficient to just cover the contents of the 
 pot; cover down tight, and cook slowly two or three hours. 
 
 FISH CHOWDER. 
 
 Pare, and cut into slices, seven or eight potatoes, and put them 
 ina basin of cold water; cut a fresh cod into slices, then fry a 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 FISH. 73 
 
 few slices of fat salt pork; lay the pork in the bottom of the stew 
 kettle; place two or three slices of fish on it, then a layer of split 
 crackers, then some potatoes, and so on, with alternate layers, 
 until the kettle is full; put in a little pepper and salt. Put ina | 
 quart of water; mix one table-spoonful of flour, in half a pint of — 
 water, and pour in, after it begins to stew. Cover very tight, and 
 stew three hours. 
 
 FISH CAKES. 
 
 Mix together a pound and a half of mashed potatoes, a pound 
 of cold boiled fish, either salt or fresh ; add a little milk and butter, 
 one egg if desired; pepper, onions, and a little chopped thyme, 
 and salt if the fish requires it; sprinkle on a little flour, and fry 
 them a light brown in small, thick cakes. 
 
 STEWED SALT COD. 
 
 Soak and scald the fish until sufficiently freshened ; pick it into 
 shreds, and stew it with-milk to moisten it, a little butter rolled in 
 flour, anid pepper to taste. Stew gently a few minutes, and serve 
 hot. 
 
 CAPE COD CHOWDER. 
 
 Fry some slices of sweet, salt pork till they are crisp; pour off 
 part of the fat; take out the rashers and set them aside, where 
 they will keep hot. Put in a layer of potatoes first, with a little 
 onion, then pepper, then a layer of butter crackers, then a layer 
 of fish, then a little more fat, more potatoes, more onion, more 
 pepper, more butter crackers, more fish, and so on until the ket- 
 tle is two thirds full; then put on top whatever fat may be left; 
 fill up with water, cover close, and Jet it cook an hour or an hour 
 and a half, according to quantity. A little salt may be required. 
 Serve with the rashers placed round the dish on toast and pickle. 
 
 CLAM CHOWDER. 
 This is made in the same way, only they require a great deal 
 of pork, and be careful to get soft shell clams. 
 SALT CODFISH AND POTATOES. 
 Soak a thick piece of fish over night, pour out the water and 
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74 FISH. 
 
 cover it with fresh, lukewarm water, and let it stand a short time, 
 then put it in lukewarm ‘water over the fire and let it simmer, but 
 not boil, for an hour and a half or two hours, until it is done; re- 
 move the skin; serve with drawn butter or egg sauce, with whole 
 boiled potatoes to be mashed or cut by each person with the fish, 
 or their own plate. Serve also, if convenient, cucumbers in vin- 
 egar, pickles or nasturtiums. ‘The fish can be garnished with hard _ 
 boiled eggs. The cold fish left, will make a fine hash, or may be — 
 
 prepared in fish cakes. . 
 
 
 

 
 SHELL FISH, EELS, Etc. 
 
 OYSTERS ETIQUETTE. 
 
 Procure two dozen oysters. Have them opened, and throw 
 them into a clean basin or soup plate. Take a small bunch of 
 parsley, chopped quite small, a little raw lemon rind ditto, half a 
 nutmeg grated, and the crumb of a stale French roll, also grated. 
 Let the latter be well mixed together, adding one drachm of cay- 
 enne pepper. Have at hand the yolks of three fresh eggs, beaten 
 up into a fluid; dip the oysters separately into the eggs, and roll 
 them in the crumb of the loaf until they are all encased in a bread 
 coating or covering. Put a quarter of a pound of good butter into 
 the oven, with a brisk fire, until the former is fully melted, arranging 
 your oysters on the tray of the oven at your convenience. Keep 
 the oysters continually turned until they assume a perfectly brown, 
 crusty appearance. When fully baked, serve them up with a 
 plate of bread and butter, cut thin, and use salt at discretion. <A 
 stick of celery eaten with them, adds greatly to the relish which the 
 fish impart when served in this way. 
 
 STEWED OYSTERS. 
 
 Boil up the oysters in their own liquor, with a piece of -butter 
 the size of a walnut, and pepper and salt to taste. Have ready a 
 pint or more of rich boiled milk, the quantity according to the 
 number of oysters. Pour it hot into the soup tureen, and as the 
 oysters come to a boil, skim them, let them boil up once, and then 
 pour them into the milk. 
 
 SCALLOPED OYSTERS. 
 
 Wash out of the liquor two quarts of oysters; pound very fine 
 eight soft crackers, or grate a stale loaf of bread; butter a deep 
 
76 SHELL FISH, EELS, ETC. ‘ 
 
 dish, sprinkle in a layer of crumbs, then a layer of oysters, a little 
 mace, pepper, and bits of butter; another layer of crumbs, an- 
 other of oysters, then seasoning as before, and so on until the dish 
 is filled; cover the dish over with bread crumbs, seasoning as 
 before; turn over it a cup of the oyster liquor. Set it inthe oven 
 for thirty or forty minutes to brown. This is an excellent way to 
 prepare oysters for a family dinner. | 
 FRIED OYSTERS. 
 
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 Select fine, large oysters, dry them out of their own liquor. 
 
 Have ready a plate of egg, and a plate of bread crumbs. Let 
 them lay in the eg¢ a few minutes, and then roll them in the _ 
 bread crumbs, allowing them fo remain in these also, fora minute _ 
 or two; this will make them adhere, and not come off as a skin; ate 
 when in the pans Fry in half butter and half latd,in orderto 
 
 give them arich brown. Make it very hot before A the ial a 
 ters in. é: 
 
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 OYSTER PIES. 
 
 Take a deep dish, cover it with puff ‘paste, lay . an extras dee a 
 
 around the edge of the dish, put in the oven and bake nicely. 
 When done, fill the pie with oysters; season with butter, salt, and 
 pepper, sprinkle a litile flour over them and cover with a thin crust 
 of puff paste; bake quickly; when the top crust is mot bons se 
 ters should be. | Serve immediately. | 
 
 OYSTER PATTIES. 
 
 Beard the oysters, and, if large, halve them; put them into a 
 saucepan with a piece of butter rolled in flour, some finely shred 
 lemon rind, anda little white pepper, and milk, and a portion of 
 the liquor from the fish; stir all well together, let it simmer fora — 
 
 few minutes, and put it in your patty pans, which should be al- 
 ready ee with a puff paste in the usual re Serve hot or oa ee 
 cold. isis dt ae 
 
 OYSTER LOAVES. 
 
 Cut out a piece of the size of a quarter of a dollar from the top — a 
 
 of half a dozen buns, scoop out most of the crumb, put a portion 
 of the latter with a good bit of butter, and about two dozen fresh 
 
 
 
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 SHELL FISH, EELS, ETC. 17 
 
 oysters into a frying pan and fry all together for five minutes, add 
 a little cream or milk and seasoning. Then fill the loaves, allow- 
 ing four oysters to each; replace the pieces of crust on the tops, 
 butter the outsides. and place them for a short time in an oven to 
 get crisp. Serve them hot or cold. 
 
 OYSTERS AND MACARONI. 
 
 Slowly stew some macaroni in good gravy till quite tender; 
 then lay it ina pie dish, put in a good layer of fresh oysters, beard- 
 ed; add pepper, salt, a little grated lemon rind, and a tea-spoon- 
 fal ‘of cream, or olive oil if preferred. Strew bread crumbs over, 
 
 a and just brown it in a tolerably brisk oven. Serve with plenty of 
 lemon juice, or a sauce piquante. . 
 
 OYSTERS FOR LUNCH. 
 
 Take a fine oyster, wrap it thinly with bacon, fastening it with 
 a little skewer. Lay it on a piece of toast, and put into a Dutch 
 oven or a hot stove oven, avery little time. Prepare as many in 
 this way as desired. 
 
 | PICKLED OYSTERS.—No 1. 
 
 Wash fifty large oysters in their own liquor; wipe them dry, 
 strain the liquor off, add to it a dessert-spoonful of pepper, the 
 same of mace, the same of salt, the same of whole cloves, and a 
 pint of vinegar. Let the oysters come to a boil in the liquor, then 
 drain them off with a skimmer ; put them intoa jar; boil the pickle 
 up, skim it, and when it is cold, pour over the oysters. ‘They will 
 be ready for use in twenty-four hours. 
 
 _ PICKLED OYSTERS.—No. 2. 
 
 Put the oysters, say two hundred, with their juice, into a large 
 saucepan on the fire ; let them simmer, but not boil, until the edges 
 curl, and they become solid, but not shriveled. Be carefil about 
 this. Strain off the juice, and wipe the oysters with a nice, clean 
 cloth. Let the juice settle, then pour off about a quart, leaving 
 
 _ the sediment undisturbed; to this clear juice add one pint white 
 wine, or other vinegar, a little mace, two dozen cloves, and a 
 handful of black peppers. Heat it over the fire, but don’t let it 
 
78 SHELL FISH, EELS, ETC. 
 
 boil ; pour it while hot, over the oysters. Put them in a stone 
 jar, ae in two days they will be very nice for use. 
 
 STEWED MUSCLES... 
 
 Open the muscles in their own liquor. When ready for use 
 drain’ off the liquor and wash them in clear water. Then add to 
 the liquor, or as much of it as is needed, an equal amount of water 
 and of white wine, a blade of mace and alittle whole pepper; boil 
 them, and after awhile drop in the muscles, letting them just boil 
 up, and thicken them with a piece of butter and Aoma They can 
 be served with sippets of bread and the liquor. ¢ 
 
 FRIED EELS. gh sd) 
 
 After the eels have been skinned and cleaned, split them open 
 and cut them in short pieces. Then make a pickle of vinegar, 
 lemon juice, sliced onion, salt and pepper; place the eels in it and 
 let them lie two or three hours. oll them in flout and fry in lard 
 or clarified butter. Place them on the table le’ gems fried | 4 2 
 ley, using plain butter for sauce 4 * 
 
 SPATCHED HELLS. 
 
 Take two pounds of eels, scour their skins with sand and salt, 
 wipe them dry with flannel, gut them, cut them into short pieces, 
 saturate them with the beaten yolk of an egg, and then roll into a 
 plate containing crumbs of the inside of stale bread, chopped 
 parsley, asprig of sweet marjoram, asprig of bruised anchovy, half 
 anutmeg grated, and some cayenne pepper, and salt all mixed. 
 When well rubbed in these, baste them before a clear bright fire, 
 with plenty of butter, until they are covered with a brown crust. 
 Serve them with plain or melted butter for sauce. 
 
 COLLARED EELS. 
 
 Select a large eel, gut it and bone it wwithiont slits it, and 
 rub the inside with salt, pepper, mace, allspice, powdered cloves, 
 chopped sage. Parsley, thyme, savory and knotted marjoram 
 also improve the taste. Roll it tight, tie it, and boil it well in salt 
 water. Then add vinegar, and when cold keep it in pickle. 
 
 
 

 
 SHELL FISH, EELS, ETC. 79 
 
 STEWED EELS. 
 
 Wash the eels well, and cut into pieces two or three inches long. 
 Place them in the pan with an onion, cloves, a bundle of sweet 
 herbs, a blade of mace, some whole pepper in a muslin rag, and 
 add enough water for sauce. Let them stew softly, and add the 
 juice of half alemon, anda piece of butter rolled in flour. When 
 they are tender, take out the onion, cloves, herbs, mace, and pep- 
 per, put in sufficient salt to season, and serve it with the sauce. 
 
 BOILED EELS. 
 
 Boil them in a little water with some parsley until tender, sea- 
 son them properly, and serve them with the liquor and the parsley. 
 Use chopped parsley and butter for sauce. 
 
 EEL PIE, 
 
 Cut up the eels in one or two inch lengths, line the dish with 
 potato paste, such as used for meat pies; put in the eels, season 
 with pepper, salt, parsley, and a little butter. Pour over a little 
 stock, or a few spoonsful of gravy, a spoonful of mushroom catsup, 
 and dredge with flour. Cover with potato paste, and bake an 
 hour and a quarter. This is for family use; if company is expect- 
 ed, a richer paste may be used. ~ 
 
 LOBSTERS. 
 
 To choose lobsters that are boiled, select those that are heaviest, 
 and of a middling size; if they are fresh the tail will flap back with 
 a springy motion, when raised up. 
 
 TO BOIL A FRESH LOBSTER. 
 
 Put it into a fish kettle of boiling water, into which a handful 
 of salt has been thrown; boil it briskly for half an hour, then wipe 
 off the skum, and rub over it a little sweet oil. When cold, break 
 off the claws, and crack the shell, but do not disturb the meat; 
 set the body upright in the dish, with the claws and tail around it. 
 
 MRS. MAJOR D.’s LOBSTER SALAD. 
 Boil the lobster about half an hour. When it is cold, take it 
 
80 - SHELL FISH, EELS, ETC. 
 
 from the shell, being careful to take out the vein in the back. To 
 six lbs of lobster, take two heads of salad, one cup of melted 
 butter; two table-spoons of mustard, mixed with a little vinegar. 
 Salt and pepper to taste. Chop these together, and spread on a 
 flat dish. Then beat six eggs, and mix with half a pint of vine- 
 gar. Put this on the stove to thicken, stirring constantly; when 
 cold spread it over the lobster. io8 
 For another receipt, see ‘‘ Salads.” 
 
 CRABS AND CRAYFISH. 
 
 These are boiled in the same manner as lobsters. 
 
 LOBSTER SAUCE. 
 
 Mash the fresh eggs of a hen lobster; strain, and reserye; di- 
 vide the flesh into small pieces, dust it with flour to prevent it ad- 
 hering together, and put it into a white sauce, allowing it to simmer 
 fora minute, before putting in the eggs; when these have been 
 added, it will assume a brilliant red, and should be removed from 
 the fire instantly, before it has time to darken. Such flayor as 
 anchovy, or lemon, may be added at the table. 
 
 CRAB AND LOBSTER CUTLETS. 
 
 Take out the meat of either a large lobster, or crab, mince it, 
 and add two ounces of butter browned with two spoonfuls of flour, 
 and seasoned with a little pepper, salt, and cayenne; add again 
 about half a pint of strong stock, stir the mixture over the fire 
 until quite hot, lay it in separate table-spoonsful on a large dish. 
 When they are cold, form them into the shape of cutlets, brush 
 them over with the beaten yolk of an egg; dip them into grated 
 bread crumbs, fry them of a light brown color in clarified beef drip- 
 ping, and place them round a dish, with a little fried parsley in the 
 centre. 
 
 LOBSTER BALLS. 
 
 Mince the meat with the coral, season, make it in balls mixed 
 with bread crumbs and butter, dip them with the yolk of an egg 
 and flour if desired, and fry them brown in hot lard; for lobster 
 patties, place minced lobster in the shell in puff paste, and bake. 
 
 
 
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 SHELL FISH, EELS, ETC. 81 
 
 LOBSTER CURRY. 
 
 Put the meat of a large lobster into a stew-pan with a blade of 
 mace, a large cup of veal stock or gravy, and a table-spoonful of 
 corn starch, mixed smooth with a little milk, or cream. Add salt, 
 _ asmall piece of butter, a dessert-spoonful of curry powder, and 
 the juice of half a lemon; simmer for an hour, and serve. 
 
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 To know the mushroom from the poisonous toadstool, observe 
 the mushroom has no bad smell, that its top skin will readily. peel 
 
 off; there is a thick meat between the skin and the red gills or 
 Sree the gills are of a pinkish or rosy hue, though turning e 
 
 brownish by age, but are never of the lurid brown of the toad- oe 
 stool; when sprinkled with salt and allowed to stand, the mush- 
 
 room gives out juice, the toadstool becomes dry and leathery. 
 
 MUSHROOM FRICASSEE. ge: 
 
 Put a quart of fresh mushrooms, cleaned, into a saucepan, with 
 three spoonsful of water, three of milk, and a little salt, and set 
 them on a quick fire. Let them boil up three times, after which 
 take them off and mix in half a pint of milk, a piece of butter 
 rolled in flour, and a little grated nutmeg. Put them into the 
 
 saucepan, shaking it well occasionally, and when the liquor is thick, 
 stirring them carefully in the saucepan with a spoon, all the time. 
 and seeing that they do not curdle. 4 
 
 MUSHROOM POWDER. 
 
 Wash half a peck of large mushrooms quite clean from grit, 
 and cut off the stalks. Put them in a saucepan, without water, 
 containing a quarter of an ounce of mace, two spoonsful of pound- 
 ed pepper, two onions stuck with cloves, a handful of salt, some 
 allspice and nutmeg, if liked, and a quarter of a pound of butter. 
 Let this stew till the liquor is dried up, then place them on sieves 
 until they are sufficiently dry to be beaten to a powder. Bottle 
 this and closely cork it. ‘To give a good flavor to soup or gravy, 
 
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 MUSHROOMS. 83 
 
 a tea-spoonful of the powder must be added a minute or two before 
 it is taken from the fire. 
 
 MUSHROOM POWDER.—2. 
 
 Wipe the mushrooms clean and pare the skin from the large 
 ones. Put them on paper, and place them in a cool oven to dry. 
 Lay them before the fire until crisp, then grind and sift them 
 through a fine sieve, and keep the powder in small closely corked 
 bottles. | 
 
 MUSHROOM LOAVES. ~ 
 
 Well wash some small button mushrooms, such as are generally 
 used for pickling, and boil them for a few minutes in a very little 
 water. Add to them a small quantity of.cream, a piece of butter 
 rolled in some flour, salt and pepper, then boil up all together 
 again. Cut off a piece from the end of some rolls, scoop out the 
 crumb ; in its place put the prepared mushrooms, and replace the 
 end of each roll. 
 
 MUSHROOM TOAST. 
 
 Remove the stems, and red inside, and skins, from a pint of 
 
 freshly gathered mushrooms. Dissolve a little butter in a stew- 
 pan, throw in the mushrooms, season with cayenne pepper, and 
 toss them over the fire for about ten minutes; add a tea-spoonful 
 of flour, and stir until all is slightly browned. Cut a crust about 
 an inch thick from the under part of a loaf: scoop it out in the 
 centre; butter it, and boil it over a brisk fire; then place.it upon 
 a hot dish before the fire. Pour in by degrees a tea-cupful of 
 cream or new milk to the mushrooms; flavor with a few drops of 
 catsup; stew gently for two minutes, and pour them into the crust. 
 Serve hot. 
 
 STEWED MUSHROOMS. 
 
 Choose large button mushrooms, wipe them with a wet flannel, 
 and put them into a stew-pan with a little water. Let them stew 
 gently for a quarter of an hour; then put in a pinch of salt, work 
 a little flour and butter to make it as thick as cream. Let it boil 
 for five minutes, and before dishing it up, add two large table- 
 
84 MUSHROOMS. 
 
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 sauce-pan over the fire for a minute or so, to warm | conte 
 but do not allow them to boil, for fear they might curdle. “Pat 
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 FOWLS AND GAME. 
 
 ROAST TURKEY, 
 
 Have 4 stuffing prepared of bread crumbs, sausage meat, or 
 sweet salt pork, chopped fine, thyme, summer savory, and one 
 onion; with pepper, and salt in about equal proportions. If the 
 liver and heart are not used with the gizzard, to make the gravy, 
 they also may be chopped, and mixed with the stuffing. Fill the 
 body, sew up the opening, truss it, and if you choose, place a ring 
 of sausages round the neck of the turkey. Put in the pan with a | 
 cup of hot water; roast slowly at first, and baste frequently ; if 
 there is danger of scorching, cover the breast with white paper. 
 It will require, if of good size, two and a half to three hours to 
 roast; and should be served with a rich brown gravy, and with the 
 sausages browned and lying on the breast. If sausages are not 
 liked, thin slices of sweet salt pork should be laid over the breast, 
 and round the neck. 
 
 BOILED FOWL. 
 
 Boil the liver, gizzard, heart and lower part of the legs, in avery 
 little water, chop them fine, mix them with drawn butter and 
 bread crumbs, and season with salt, summer savory, and a little 
 pepper. Stuff the fowl with this; put it in sufficient water to cover 
 it well, and stew it gently until tender; serve with drawn butter. 
 
 ROAST DUCKS. 
 
 Clean and truss them nicely, and fill their bodies with a stuffing 
 made of half mashed potatoes, and half sage, and onions, well 
 
86 FOWLS AND GAME. 
 
 seasoned with pepper and salt. Baste them with slices of sweet 
 fat pork in the pan, and baste frequently. Make arich gravy, 
 into which put a table-spoonsful of Worcestershire sauce. Serve 
 
 with apple sauce. 
 For a change one of a pair of ducks may be stuffed owitiea prunes. 
 
 ‘ROAST FOWL. 
 
 The fowl being drawn, and prepared, fill the body with a dress- 
 ing of bread and butter, seasoned with pepper, salt, and summer 
 savory; sew up the opening, truss it, oil it with butter, roast it 
 rather fast without scorching, the first half hour, heating all sides 
 evenly; baste it all over every five minutes, and after that, roast 
 rather slowly three quarters of an hour or more, until the fowl is 
 done through. If not sufficiently browned, wet it over with a little 
 yolk of egg, sprinkle it with flour, and let it stand a little longer 
 till browned evenly. Sy 
 
 BOILED FOWL. 
 
 Divide the fowl at the back, lay the sides open, and skewer the 
 wings as for roasting. Boil over a clear fire, seasoning with pepper, 
 salt, and a little butter. Serve them immediately, on a hot dish. 
 
 MR. DEMOREST’S CHICKEN FRICASSEE. 
 
 Prepare a couple of nice plump chickens; joint them, dividing 
 the wings, side, breast, and backbones, and let them lie.in clear 
 water half an hour; remove them then to a stew-pan, with half a 
 pound of good, sweet salt pork cut up in pieces; barely cover with 
 water, and simmer on the top of the stove or range for three | 
 hours; when sufficiently tender, take out the chicken, mix a table- 
 spoonful of flour smoothly with cold milk, and add a little fine 
 
 _ dried or chopped parsley, sage, and thyme, or summer savory, and 
 stir gradually into the liquor; keep stirring till it boils; season 
 with pepper and salt to taste; and then put back the chicken and 
 let it boil up for a few moments in the gravy; garnish with the 
 green tops of celery. 
 
 BOILED GOOSE. 
 
 Dress and singe it, put it into a deep dish, cover it with boiling 
 
 
 

 
 FOWLS AND GAME. 87 
 
 milk and leave it all night. In the morning wash off the milk and 
 put the goose into cold water on the fire; when boiling hot take it 
 off, wash it in warm water, and dry it with a cloth. This process 
 takes out the taste of oil. Fill the body with a dressing of bread 
 crumbs seasoned with pepper, salt, and butter, two chopped onions, 
 if relished, and a little sage, and close it. Putitinto cold water ~ 
 and boil gently until tender, about an hour. Serve with giblet 
 sauce, and with pickles, or acid jellies. For vegetables have beets, 
 turnips and cauliflower. 
 
 ROAST GOOSE. 
 
 Make a dressing of two ounces of onion, an ounce of green 
 sage chopped fine, a coffee cup of bread crumbs, a little pepper, 
 and salt; do not quite fill the goose, but leave room to swell. 
 The yolks of two eggs can be added to the dressing, if desired. 
 Roast two hours or less, and serve with gravy and apple sauce. 
 
 DUCK, WITH GREEN PEAS. 
 
 Roast a duck until about half done. Place it into a stew-pan, 
 with a pint of good gravy, and a very little sage; cover it close, 
 and let the duck continue to simmer in the pan, for half an hour; 
 then put in a pint of boiled green peas; the peas are put in the 
 pan to thicken the gravy. Place the duck on a dish, and pour the 
 gravy and peas over it. 
 
 NEW YORK MOCK DUCK. 
 
 ‘Procure a good rump steak, fill it with duck stuffing, bread, a 
 little sweet salt pork, sage, chopped onions, and pepper, and salt; 
 roll it up, skewer the ends tight; tie a string round the middle, and 
 simmer with a little stock, in a covered pan, for two hours; take it 
 out, put in the oven, and bake for another hour without cover. 
 
 TURKEY STEWED WITH CELERY. 
 
 Choose a fine hen-turkey, and stuff it with some force meat as 
 for veal, viz: four ounces of bread crumbs, the grated rind of 
 half a lemon, a quarter of an ounce of savory herbs, minced fine, 
 salt and pepper, two ounces of butter, and the yolk of an ege, 
 All these ingredients to be well mixed together. Skewer the 
 
88 FOWLS AND GAME. 
 
 turkey as for boiling, and put it into a large sauce-pan filled with 
 water, and let it boil until tender. Take up the turkey and put it 
 into another sauce-pan, with sufficient of the water in which it has 
 been boiled, to keep it hot. Wash well about four good sized 
 heads of celery, put these into the sauce-pan with the rest of the 
 water in which the turkey has been boiled, and stew them until 
 tender. Take them out and put in the turkey, breast downward, — 
 and let it stew for a quarter of an hour; place it on a hot dish be- 
 fore the fire, thicken the sauce with butter and flour, and a break- 
 fast-cup of cream; put it in the celery to warm, and pour the 
 sauce and celery hot over the turkey. 
 
 STEWED CHICKEN, : Sete aes 
 
 Divide a chicken into pieces by the joints, and put into a stew- 
 pan, with salt, pepper, some parsley, and thyme; pour in a quart — 
 of water, with a piece of butter; and when it has stewed an hour 
 and a half, take the chicken out of the pan. If there is no gravy, 
 put in another piece of butter, add some water, and flour, and let 
 it boil a few minutes. "When done, it should be not quite as thick 
 as drawn butter. 
 
 COLD CHICKEN FRIED. 
 
 Place the cold chicken, divided into small joints, into a deep 
 dish, and cover then with salt, pepper, a little melted butter, the 
 juice of a lemon, and some chopped parsley and onion. Let the 
 meat soak three or four hours in. this, turning it once in a while. 
 Then take them out, sprinkle flour over them, and fry them. 
 When done, pile them high on a dish, and pour a good gravy sauce, 
 seasoned and flavored with sweet herbs, round them. 
 
 VOL-AU-VENT OF CHICKEN. 
 
 Make a case of puff paste, and fill it, when baked, with minced 
 chicken, prepared as follows. Take the meat of a cold chicken, 
 and mince it'small. Take half a pint of stock, thicken it with a 
 little flour, flavor with salt, and nutmeg, and let it boil well; then 
 add two or three mushrooms chopped small, a teacupful of milk, 
 and the minced chickén. As soon as the mushrooms are cooked 
 the mince is done. This may be served on a dish alone. Or put 
 
 
 

 
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 into vol-au-vent cases, and ornamented with a few button mush- 
 rooms, stewed in white sauce, on the top. 
 
 CHICKEN WITH CHEESE. (A French dish). 
 
 Braise a couple of chickens, and when nearly done, add to 
 them some good stock, vegetables, white wine and butter, season- 
 ing according totaste. When done, strain some of the liquor into 
 a dish, and grate into it some parmesan cheese; place the chickens 
 in this, pour over them the remainder of the gravy, grate more 
 parmesan over them, and bake the whole. 
 
 CHICKEN PUFFS. 
 
 Mince up together the breast of a chicken, some lean ham, half 
 an anchovy, a little parsley, some shallot and lemon peel, and sea- 
 son these with pepper, salt, cayenne, and beaten mace. Let this 
 be on the fire for a féw moments, in a little good white sauce. 
 Cut some thinly rolled out puff paste into squares, putting on each 
 some of the mince; turn the paste over, fry them in boiling lard, 
 and serve them. ‘These puffs are very good cold. 
 
 CHICKEN LOAF. 
 
 Bone a chicken carefully, and fill it with chopped sweetbread 
 well seasoned ; make it as nearly as possible into its original form, 
 tie it up in bacon, and having wrapped a cloth round it, boil it in 
 some white wine, good stock, and sweetherbs. When done, untie 
 it, use the bacon as garnish, cut in narrow strips, andserve up with 
 some rich sauce. 
 
 CHICKEN POT PIE. 
 
 Divide the chicken into pieces at the joints; boil until part done, 
 or about twenty minutes, then take it out. Fry two or three slices 
 of fat salt pork, and put in the bottom, then place the chicken on 
 it with three pints of water, two ounces of butter, a tea-spoonful 
 of pepper, and cover over the top with alight crust, made the 
 same as for biscuit. Cook one hour. 
 
 MRS. MAJOR D.’S CHICKEN PIE, FLAVORED WITH OYSTERS. 
 Cut up a good sized chicken and stew until tender; meanwhile 
 
90 FOWLS AND GAME. 
 
 seasoning it. After lining the sides of your pan with paste, put 
 in it a quart of oysters, seasoning them. Then throw in the 
 chicken. Take the water in which the chicken was stewed, and 
 thicken it with flour. Fill the pan with the thickened liquor, cover — 
 it all with paste; ornament with pastry, and bake till the crust is — 
 a nice brown, or about twenty minutes in a quick oven. 
 
 PLAIN CHICKEN PIE. 
 
 Take a chicken and cut it in pieces. Stew it in water enough to 
 cover it. When tender, line a deep dish with pie crust, take the 
 chicken out of the liquor, put it in the dish with three or four slices 
 of pork, and two ounces of butter, the latter cut in small pieces; 
 add some of the liquor, flavor with mushroom catsup, and thicken 
 with flour. Cover it with pie crust, and bake it in a quick oven 
 about an hour. . 
 
 THANKSGIVING CHICKEN PIE. 
 
 Cut two chickens into small members as for fricassee; cover the 
 bottom of the pie-dish with layers of veal and ham placed alter- 
 nately ; season with chopped mushrooms and parsley, pepper and 
 salt, then add a little gravy; next place in the dish the pieces of 
 chicken in neat order, and round these put slices of hard boiled 
 egg in each cavity; repeat the seasoning and the sauce, lay a few 
 thin slices of dressed ham neatly trimmed, on the top; cover the 
 pie with puff-paste, ornament this with pieces of the same cut into 
 the form of leaves, &c.; egg the pie over with a paste-brush, and 
 bake it for one hour and a half. 
 
 AUNT ABBY’S CHICKEN PIE. 
 
 Joint two plump, tender chickens, stew them half an hour in 
 barely enough water to cover them, take them from the liquor, and 
 lay them in a deep dish, with some thin slices of very sweet, nice 
 salt pork, and a few halves of small butter crackers. Season the 
 liquor highly, and pour over the chicken. Have ready a nice top 
 crust, and put a rim of it first round the edge of the dish, wet it 
 slightly, so that the other edge will stick close, and ornament the 
 top with pastry. 
 
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 layer of cooked potatoes in. the bottom of the dish, The gravy 
 will form a thick jelly round them. Omit the crackers. 
 
 PRAIRIE CHICKENS. 
 
 Skin the chickens, which makes them sweeter; cut them open 
 on the back and through the breast. Fry them in butter, with 
 salt and pepper to the taste. Cook them to a nice brown. 
 
 ROAST PRAIRIE CHICKENS. 
 
 When they are nicely prepared, fill them with a stuffing of 
 bread crumbs, a slice of salt pork chopped fine; sage and onion 
 and pepper and salt to season sufficiently. Roast slowly for the 
 first half hour, briskly the last half hour. Serve with mushroom 
 sauce. 
 
 STEWED PRAIRIE CHICKENS. 
 
 Prepare the chickens the same as for roasting. Put them ina 
 stew-pan with some stock or water, and a cup of cold gravy,.a lit- 
 tle lemon, a clove or two, and some pepper and salt. Add after 
 awhile a few spoonsful of tomato sauce. Stew slowly for a couple 
 of hours, serve with a little tomato catsup added to the sauce, and 
 a light thickening of butter and flour. 
 
 DEVILLED TURKEY’S LEGS. 
 
 Score the legs of a roasted turkey ; sprinkle them with cayenne, 
 black pepper and salt; boil them well, and pour over them the 
 following sauce, quite hot: ‘Three spoonsful of gravy, one of but- 
 ter rubbed in a little flour, one of lemon juice, a glass of port 
 wine, a spoonful of mustard, some vinegar, two or three chopped 
 green chillis, a spoonful of mushroom catsup, and Harvey sauce. 
 
 ALICE CAREY’S MINCED CHICKEN. 
 
 Mince all that is left of cold roast, or boiled chickens. Warm 
 it with half a cup of cold gravy and a table-spoonful of mushroom 
 sauce. Pile it in the centre of a dish, and place round it alternate- 
 ly small and very thin slices of broiled ham, and voached eggs on 
 toast. 
 
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 HHASHED FOWL. | A 
 
 Take the meat from a cold fowl, and cut it in small pieces. 
 Put half a pint of well-flavored stock into a stew-pan, add a little 
 salt, pepper and nutmeg, and thicken with some flour and butter ; 
 let it boil, then put in the pieces of fowl to warm; after stewing 
 sufficiently, serve with some poached eggs laid on the hash, with 
 a sprig of parsley in the centre, and garnish round the plate with 
 pieces of fried bread. 
 
 BROILED PARTRIDGE, 
 
 Split the partridge, wipe it inside and out, but do not wash it; 
 broil it delicately over a clear fire, sprinkling it with a little salt 
 and cayenne; rub a bit of fresh butter over it the moment it is 
 taken from the fire. Serve immediately with a sauce made of a ~* 
 slice of butter, browned with flour; a little water, cayenne, salt, 
 and mushroom catsup. poured over it. Another way is to dip it, 
 after being dressed, flattened and seasoned, into clarified butter, 
 and then into bread crumbs; broil gently twenty or thirty minutes, 
 and serve with brown mushroom sauce. 
 
 PARTRIDGE SALAD. 
 
 Place the remains of roast partridge ina deep dish, with oil, 
 tarragon vinegar, shallot minced, salt and pepper. At the time of 
 serving, place the partridge in a dish, surround it with the hearts 
 of lettuce cut in halves or in quarters according to the size; garnish 
 the partridge with hard boiled eggs, cut in quarters, minced gher- 
 kins, pickled onions and, capers, and stir it in thoroughly with the 
 mixture remaining in the deep dish. 
 
 PARTRIDGE PIE. 
 
 Take two brace of partridges, pluck and draw them; carve three 
 of them into six pieces each, viz., wings, legs, breast, neck and 
 head, and back. One of the birds should be kept whole, trussed 
 in the usual form. Let the pieces be seasoned with pepper, salt, . 
 and a little ground mace, and laid in a deep dish. Stuff the body 
 of the bird left entire, and put it into the middle of the dish, breast 
 upwards. Pour over the game half a pint of cold strong beef gravy 
 
 
 
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 well strained, in which two well roasted shallots and a few corns 
 of allspice have been boiled; add the yolk of six hard boiled 
 eges, and half a gill of good catsup. Cover your dish with a 
 light puff paste, and bake in a moderately heated oven. 
 
 PIGEON PIE. 
 
 Make a fine puff paste, lay a border of it around a large disk, 
 and cover the bottom with a veal cutlet, or a tender rump steak 
 free from fat and bone, and seasoned with salt, cayenne, and nut- 
 meg or pounded mace; then prepare as many freshly killed young 
 pigeons as the dish will contain in one layer ; put into’each a slice of 
 butter seasoned with alittle cayenne and mace; lay them into the 
 dish breast downwards, and between and over them put the yolks of 
 half dozen or more boiled eggs; stick plenty of butter on them, sea- 
 son the whole with salt and spice ; pour in cold water or veal broth for 
 the gravy, roll out the cover three quarters of an inch thick, secure 
 it round the edge, ornament it and bake the pie an hour or more. 
 The livers of the birds may be put in them, or they may be filled 
 with small mushrooms. 
 
 CROQUETTES OF FOWL. 
 
 Mince very fine some meat from a cold fowl; put it ina pan 
 with a little stock, a table-spoonful of cream, a little salt, and nut- 
 meg, and make it of the right thickness with flour; let it boil 
 well, then pour it out on a deep dish, and put it aside to get cold 
 and set; then divide it into parts, form them into small balls, or 
 ege shapes; roll each in fine bread crumbs, then egg over with the 
 yolk of ege beaten; roll again in bread crumbs and fry, not too 
 brown. Serve, ornamented with parsley. 
 
 GAME PATTIES, 
 
 Make as many patties of asmall size as you require, of good 
 light puff paste; egg them over, and bake thema nice light brown. 
 Fill the centre with minced venison, or hare, or a mince of any 
 kind of game; dish them on a nappy, and send them to table 
 quite hot. . 
 
 IMITATION CRAB. 
 
 Mince the white meat of a roast or boiled fowl very fine with 
 
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 the liver so as to make about six table-spoonsful in all. To this | 
 put two table-spoonsful of pounded cheese, two moderate sized _ 
 onions, four or five green chillies (or if these cannot be procured, 
 some cayenne peppers, ) chopped very small. . Mix these thorough- 
 ly together, and afterwards add one spoonful of anchovy, -and one 
 of Harvey sauce, a large spoonful of mustard, two of mushroom _ 
 catsup, black pepper, and salt, and three spoonsful of sweet oil. 
 Well mix the whole. This makes a nice relish £0 eat with bread 
 and butter. 
 
 SMALL BIRDS. | 
 
 Dress them nicely, split them down the back and open them out 
 flat, cleaning them well. Broil them gently over a clear fire, sea- 
 son them with butter, salt and pepper; serve them on buttered 
 toast with pickles. 
 
 ROAST GROUSE. 
 
 Dress and singe them. Fill the bodies with a stuffing of bread 
 crumbs, seasoned only with pepper, salt and butter. Put some 
 cold stock or gravy into the pan, and baste frequently; three 
 quarters of an hour will cook them. Serve with gravy, enriched 
 with Harvey, or some other good game sauce, with mashed po- 
 tatoes and jelly. : : 
 
 FORCEMEAT FOR ROAST VEAL, TURKEY, ETC. 
 
 Mix thoroughly four ounces of the crumb of stale bread very 
 finely grated; the grated rind, pared thin, of half a fresh lemon; 
 quarter of an ounce of minced parsley and thyme, one part thyme, 
 two parts parsley ; pepper or cayenne sufficient to season. Add to 
 these the unbeaten yolk of an egg, and two ounces of butter in 
 small bits; work all smoothly together with the fingers. Other 
 savory herbs than parsley or thyme may be used if preferred, and 
 a little minced onion may be added, if desired. The proportions 
 given here may be increased when more is required. The above 
 will be sufficient for a middling sized turkey. Forcemeat for 
 Ducks or Geese. Two parts of chopped onions, two. parts of 
 bread crumbs, two of butter, one of ag sage, and a seasoning 
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 VENISON PASTRY. 
 
 Cut the Venison into pieces; line a dish with pie crust, place a 
 layer of beef suet eut up finely, in the bottom of the dish, then 
 put in the venison. Season it with salt and pepper, lay on butter, 
 cover it with crust and bake it. 
 
 VENISON PUFFS. 
 
 Shave some cold venison very thin, and cut into small pieces; to 
 to this add a little currant jelly and some rich brown gravy well 
 mixed. Roll out some light puff paste very thin, cut it in pieces 
 and in each piece put some of the meat, and make them into puffs. 
 Place them all ready to bake, and brush them over with white of 
 egg. Put them in a quick oven and bake a nice brown color. 
 
 VENISON STEAK. 
 
 _ Broil rare, and prepare a gravy with butter, pepper, salt, a tea- 
 spoon of flour, and some mushroom catsup. Cut the steak up into 
 small pieces, and when the gravy is hot put it in, and cover tight. 
 Set it back from the fire, or in the oven ten minutes, and serve 
 with toast, and jelly. 
 
 STEWED HARE OR RABBIT. 
 
 Wash and soak it thoroughly, wipe it quite dry, cut it into joints, 
 flour and brown it slightly in four or five ounces of butter, with 
 some bits of lean ham, then pour on by degrees a pint and a half 
 of gravy, and stew the meat very gently an hour and a half, or two 
 hours; add salt if needed. When it has stewed a half hour or 
 more, put in half the rind ofa lemon, cut thin, and ten minutes before 
 serving stir in. a large dessert-spoonful of rice flour, mixed smooth- 
 ly with two.table-spoonsful of mushroon catsup, quarter of a tea- 
 spoonful of mace and less of cayenne. 
 
 RABBIT IN SLICES. 
 
 Take a fresh rabbit, cut it in slices, and fry it brown sath some 
 slices of pickled pork and some onions chopped fine. When nice 
 
 and brown, take it out of the frying pan and put it in a stewpan — 
 
 with water sufficient to cover it; pepper and salt to taste; thicken 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 96 FOWLS AND Gal bg: ‘ - : 
 
 Ehivhfidks of a very rich cream. 
 
 ROAST RABBIT. 
 
 Dress the bie: parboil the liver with a slice of fat ‘Nida OF a 
 ‘sweet salt pork, and chop it up fine with bread crumbs, thyme, a 
 small onion, and pepper and salt. Fill the body, and sew it up. 
 Rub it over with sweet oil, or a little butter, and put a little butter 
 in the pan with the water to baste it. Baste frequently, roast an 
 hour and a half, and serve with mashed eine and black, ap 
 red currant jelly. a “i ‘is 
 
 Hare is prepared, and roasted in iehteary the same ay. ur 
 

 
 MEAT SAUCES. 
 
 WHITE SAUCE. 
 
 Boil well over the fire half a pint of milk, quarter of a pint of 
 stock of a light color, season with salt, and thicken with some 
 flour and butter. Mix the flour with milk instead of water, for 
 white sauce. 
 
 PREAD SAUCE.—l. 
 
 Boil thin slices of white bread without the crust, in milk, with 
 some whole white pepper, and a sliced onion; rub all through a 
 coarse colander, put it back into the stewpan with a small piece of 
 butter, a cup of veal stock or gravy, salt and alittle cream, if you 
 have it; warm, and serve it. 
 
 BREAD SAUCE.—2. 
 
 Pour quite boiling, on half a pint of the finest bread crumbs, an 
 equal measure of new milk; cover them closely with a plate, and ' 
 let the sauce remain for twenty or thirty minutes; put it then into 
 a saucepan with a small salt-spoonful of salt, half as much pound- 
 ed mace, a little cayenne, and about an ounce of fresh butter; 
 keep it stirred constantly over a clear fire, for a few minutes, then 
 mix it with a cup of milk, give it a boil, and serve it immediately. 
 
 RICE SAUCE. 
 
 Soak a quarter of apound of rice in a pint of milk, with onion, 
 pepper etc., as for bread sauce. When it is quite tender, remove 
 the spice, rub it through a sieve into astewpan, and boilit. If 
 too thick, add a small quantity of cream or milk. This is good 
 for game or chicken, as a change from bread sauce. 
 
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98 - MEAT SAUCES. 
 
 WHITE SAUCE. 
 
 Knead a large table-spoonful of butter in a little flour, melt it in 
 a tea-cupful of milk; beat the yolk of an egg with a tea-spoonful 
 - of milk or cream, stir it into the butter, and place it over the fire, 
 stirring it constantly. Chopped parsley may be added. 
 
 EGG SAUCE. 
 
 Mince two or three hard-boiled eggs, and mix in white sauce. 
 
 CAPER SAUCE. 
 
 . Add one or two spoonsful of capers to white sauce. 
 
 OYSTER SAUCE. 
 
 Boil up oysters in their own liquor, then beard them; mix some 
 butter with flour, and put into the strained liquor; when it is hot, 
 stir the oysters into it; add some melted butter, and a little cay- 
 enne pepper; let it boil up once; put in a little lemon juice and 
 it is ready for serving. 
 
 BROWN ONION SAUCE.—l. 
 
 Brown some sliced onions, in a stew pan, in a little butter; add 
 a little.good gravy, and stew them till quite tender. With the 
 round stéak of beef, this sauce is much admired. 
 
 TOMATO SAUCE.—l. 
 
 Take about one hundred and fifty good tomatoes, cut them into 
 thin slices, place them in a dish with a pound of salt strewn over 
 them, let them remain in the salt two days. Boil a quart of dis- 
 tilled vinegar with half ounce of mace, half ounce of cloves, half 
 ounce of ginger and mustard seed, and twenty-five ripe capsicums, 
 or long pepper pods, for half an hour; then add the tomatoes, hay- 
 ing first poured away all the water and juice extracted by the salt 
 from them, and boil all together for half hour; rub them through 
 a clean, fine sieve, and when cold, bottle and cork tightly. If the 
 tomatoes are gathered in dry weather, and carefully done, this 
 sauce will keep for two years. | 
 
 
 

 
 MEAT SAUCES. 99 
 
 TOMATO SAUCE.—2. 
 
 Put tomatoes perfectly ripe, into an earthen jar, and set into an 
 oven till they are quite soft; then separate the skins from the pulp, 
 and mix this with capsicum vinegar and a few shalots finely chop- 
 ped, which will be proportioned to the quantity of fruit. Add pow- 
 dered ginger and salt to your taste. Some white wine vinegar and 
 cayenne may be used instead of capsicum vinegar. Keep the 
 mixture in small wide-mouth ed bottles, well corked, and in a dry, 
 cool place. 
 
 TOMATO SAUCE.—83. 
 
 Remove the skin and seeds from about a dozen tomatoes, slice 
 them and put them in the stew pan with pepper and salt to taste, and 
 three pounded crackers. Stew slowly one hour, 
 
 HORSERADISH SAUCE.—1l. 
 
 Wash a good stick of horseradish, scrape off the outside, then 
 grate toa powder. ‘Then take one table-spoonful of the grated 
 horseradish, one salt spoonful of mustard, a pinch of salt, four 
 table-spoonsful of cream, and two table-spoonsful of vinegar, and 
 mix them well together. Add the vinegar last, stirring rapidly as 
 it is added. 
 
 HORSERADISH SAUCE.—-2. 
 
 Stir together until well mixed one dessert spoon of sweet cream, 
 the same quantity of powdered mustard, a table-spoonful of vine- 
 gar, and two table-spoonsful of scraped horseradish, with a little 
 salt to taste. Serve the sauce separately ina sauce tureen. — It. 
 will keep for two or three days or longer if olive oil is used instead 
 of cream. 
 
 CRANBERRY SAUCE. 
 
 Wash, and pick over one quart of cranberries, put them to stew 
 with a little water, and a pound of sugar, in a porcelain-lined sauce- 
 pan. Let them stew slowly, and closely covered for an hour, or 
 more. They can then be set away ready for use, or they can be 
 put into a mould and turned out in form the next day. 
 
 
 
100 MEAT SAUCES. 
 
 Another, and nicer way is to stew them soft, then strain off the 
 skins, add pound of sugar to quart of fruit, and boil all up togeth- 
 er again for fifteen minutes. This will make a fine jelly for game, 
 if put into a mould. . aie 
 
 MINT SAUCE. 
 
 Choose fresh and young mint, strip the leaves from the stems, 
 wash and drain, chop them finely, and add two table-spoonsful 
 of pounded sugar to three heaped table-spoonsful of mint. Mix 
 thoroughly, and pour in gradually, six table-spoonsful of good vin- 
 egar. The proportions can be varied according to taste. 
 
 CELERY SAUCE. 
 
 Cut the celery into inch lengths, fry it in butter until it begins to 
 be tender, add a spoonful of flour which may be allowed to brown 
 a little, and half a pint of good broth or beef gravy, with a season- 
 ing of pepper or cayenne. 
 
 ASPARAGUS SAUCE. © 
 
 Wash and drain half inch lengths of asparagus tops, about a half 
 pint of them, throw them into plenty of boiling salt and water, and 
 boil quarter of an hour or less until tender, then turn them into a 
 strainer to drain. When ready to serve put them into thickened 
 veal gravy, mixed with the yolks of two eggs, with seasoning of 
 salt and cayenne; or into melted butter into which a little lemon 
 juice has been squeezed. 
 
 SAUCE OF TURKEY’S EGGS. 
 
 Turkey’s eggs are supcrior to others for sauce. Boil three eggs 
 gently in plenty of water twenty minutes. Break the shells by 
 rolling them on the table; separate the whites from the yolks, di- 
 vide all the yolks into quarter inch dice pieces, mince one anda 
 half of the whites rather small, mix them lightly and stir them into 
 a pint of white sauce, and serve hot. The eggs of common fowl 
 may be prepared for sauce according to these directions, using 
 four yolks and two whites, and boiling four or five minutes less. 
 The eggs of guinea fowl also make a good sauce after ten minutes 
 boiling. 
 
 
 

 
 MEAT SAUCES. 101 
 
 MILD MUSTARD. 
 
 For immediate use mustard may be mixed with milk to which a 
 spoonful of very thin cream may be added. 
 
 FRENCH BATTER. 
 
 For frying vegetables and for apple, peach, or orange fritters, 
 pour a gill of boiling water on a couple of ounces of bits of butter. 
 When dissolved, add three gills of cold water to make it lukewarm ; © 
 mix in smoothly twelve ounces of dry flour and a small pinch of 
 salt if for fruit fritters, but more salt if for meat. Ifit is too thick, 
 add more water. Just before using, add the whites of two eggs 
 beaten to a solid froth. 
 
 BERKSHIRE SAUCE. 
 
 One full pint of nasturtium flowers must be placed in a stone 
 jar, with five shallots bruised, two tea-spoonsful of salt, and the 
 same quantity of cayenne pepper. Upon these, one quart of boil- 
 ‘Ing vinegar should be poured, and the jar closely stopped down 
 for a month or more. At the end of this time the liquid must be 
 strained, and three ounces of soy added for each pint, after which 
 the sauce may be bottled, and is fit for use. This is excellent for 
 either hot or cold meat, and easily made when nasturtium flowers 
 are plentiful. 
 
 A SAUCE FOR MADE DISHES. 
 
 One quart of vinegar, one ounce of cayenne pepper, six table- 
 spoonsful of walnut catsup, two table-spoonsful of soy, two cloves 
 of garlic, and the same quantity of shallots (both the garlic and 
 shallots must be well bruised). Mix all the ingredients well togeth- 
 er, bottle them, and keep the bottles closely corked. It will be fit 
 or use in six weeks. 
 
 SAUCE FOR BOILED TURKEY OR CAPON. 
 
 When the turkey is plucked clean, singed and neatly trussed, 
 stuff it inside with raw oysters, adding a lump of fresh butter and 
 some stale bread crumbs. Place the turkey or capon in a clean 
 cloth, fold it up carefully, put it in a saucepan of cold water, and 
 
 
 
102 MEAT SAUCES. 
 
 let it boil over a moderately heated fire until it is done. Have a 
 stick of white blanched celery at hand, and chop it up very small, 
 place it in a quart of new milk in a saucepan and let it boil, gen- 
 tly, with a few black pepper corns, till the quantity is reduced to — 
 one pint; keep stirring the esculent up with the milk until it as- 
 sumes the character of a consistent pulp. Thicken the whole 
 with the yolk of a fresh egg, well beaten up, with half a tea-cup 
 of fresh cream. Have upon the table a sauce boat of strong veal 
 
 gravy. 
 SAUCE FOR ROASTED CHICKEN. 
 
 Cut up some carrots and parsnips into any shape preferred, and 
 let them boil with some little onions in a small quantity of stock. 
 Add mushroom catsup, a little ham cut into small pieces, and let 
 all stew in butter, with sweet herbs, adding two cloves, some 
 thyme and a bay leaf. When these are colored, put in some veal 
 gravy. Let the whole boil slowly until sufficiently done. Skim 
 it and add it with a little good veal broth to the carrots and pars- 
 nips. Roast two chickens (nicely stuffed) rolled in bacon and 
 wrapped in pepper, and pour the mixture upon them. 
 
 SAUCE FOR BOILED FISH. 
 
 Pick and wash some fennel, parsley, mint, thyme and small 
 green onions, using only a small quantity of each. Boil them 
 until tender in a little veal stock; after which chop them up, add 
 to them some fresh butter, the liquor they were boiled in, some 
 grated nutmeg, the juice of half a lemon, a little cayenne pepper 
 and salt. Let it boil; thicken it with flour and send it up ina 
 sauce boat. 
 
 FISH SAUCE .TO KEEP A YEAR. 
 
 Chop up forty anchovies, bones and all, put to them ten shallots 
 cut small, a handful of scraped horseradish, a quarter of an ounce 
 of mace, a quart of white wine, a pint of water, one lemon cut in 
 slices, half a pint of anchovy liquor, a pint of red wine, twelve 
 cloves, and twelve peppercorns. Boil together until reduced to a 
 quart; strain it, put it into a bottle and cork it closely. It must 
 be kept ina cold, dry place. When required for use, one tea- 
 
 
 

 
 MEAT SAUCES. 103 
 
 spoonful should be heated and put to half a pound of butter and a 
 
 little flour. : 
 
 _ SAUCE FOR VENISON. 
 
 Two spoons of currant jelly, one stick of cinnamon, one blade 
 of mace, grated white bread, ten table-spoons of water, let it stew 
 with a little water, serve in the dish with venison steaks. 
 
 DRAWN BUTTER. 
 
 Rub two tea-spoonsful of flour into a quarter of a pound of 
 butter, add five table-spoons of cold water; set it into boiling wa- 
 ter and heat till it begins to simmer, then itis done. For fish, 
 
 _ chopped boiled eggs and capers can be put in. For boiled fowl, 
 
 oysters can be put in while it is melting, and cooked through 
 while it is simmering. 
 
 BROWNING FOR SAUCES. 
 
 Put half a pound of brown sugar into an iron saucepan, melt it 
 over a moderate fire for about twenty minutes, stirring it contin- 
 ually until quite black; but it must become so by degrees, or too 
 sudden a heat will make it bitter; then add two quarts of water, 
 and in ten minutes the sugar will be dissolved. Bottle for use. 
 
 SAUCE FOR ROAST BEAF. 
 
 One quart of grated horseradish, two tea-spoons black pepper, 
 two of mustard, one of allspice, two of salt, and a pint of best 
 vinegar. Mix well, and bottle immediately. 
 
 MUSHROOM CATSUP. —Il. 
 
 Break up the mushrooms and add to them a little salt, a handful 
 to a peck, let them lie over night, and in the morning strain them 
 through a coarse cloth; add to the liquor an ounce each of cloves, 
 black pepper, Jamaica pepper, and ginger; two or three anchovies, 
 and a glass of port wine for each quart, or in that proportion. 
 Boil it gently then until the liquor is reduced to one half; take it 
 off, let it cool, and bottle it air tight. 
 
 MUSERROOM CATSUP.—2. 
 
 Put in an earthen vessel layers of mushrooms, and thin layers 
 
 
 
104 MEAT SAUCES. 
 
 of salt, and allow them remain half a day, or. until the salt has pene- 
 trated them somewhat. Then mash them, and keep them standing 
 another whole day, frequently stirring them up from the bottom. ° 
 To each gallon of mushrooms add an ounce of peppercorns, an 
 ounce of cloves, and one of allspice. Set the jar in cold water, 
 and let it come to boiling heat. Simmer gently for two hours, 
 then strain, and reduce one half, skimming carefully as it comes 
 to a boil; strain it off, when it has settled, into small bottles for use, 
 adding a teaspoon of brandy to each bottle, and seal. Keep in 
 a dry place. 
 
 TOMATO CATSUP. 
 
 One gallon skinned tomatoes, three heaping table-spoonsful of 
 salt, same of black pepper, two of allspice, three of ground mus- 
 tard, half a dozen pods of red pepper. Stew all slowly together 
 in a quart of vinegar for three hours; strain the liquor, simmer. 
 down to half a gallon. Bottle hot, and cork tight. 
 
 WALNUT CATSUP. 
 
 Boil or simmer a gallon of the expressed juice of walnuts when 
 they are tender, and skim it well; then put in two pounds of an- 
 chovies, bones and liquor, two pounds of shallots, one ounce each 
 of cloves, mace, and pepper, and one clove of garlic. Let all 
 simmer till the shallots sink; then put the liquor into a pan till 
 cold; bottle and divide the spice to each. Cork closely, tie the 
 bladder over, and put it in small bottles. It will keep twenty 
 years-in the greatest perfection, but is not fit for use the first year. 
 
 ° 
 
 VINEGAR PLANT. 
 
 ‘To make vinegar from the vinegar plant, pour one gallon of 
 . boiling water on one and a half pounds of strong, clean, brown 
 sugar, keep stirring it until it is the warmth of new milk, then put 
 it into a large pickle jar, or any other convenient vehicle, and 
 place the plant on it. If at the end of two or three days the 
 plant does not float, take it out, put in a cork, and lay the plant 
 onit. The vinegar will take making from six weeks to three 
 months, and the above will make about three quarts. The jar 
 must be placed in a warm—not a hot place. 
 
 
 

 
 MEAT SAUCES. 105 
 
 EASY CIDER VINEGAR. 
 
 - Take the water in which dried apples have been soaked and 
 washed, strain it well and add a pound of sugar. 
 
 VINEGAR OF MARJORAM. 
 
 Pick sweet marjoram leaves before the plant flowers, wilt them 
 a little and steep in strong vinegar two weeks; bottle and cork 
 tightly. | 
 VINEGAR FOR SOUSE. 
 Steep black peppercorns and mustard seed in strong vinegar 
 for four weeks, strain and pour it over the souse after it is boiled 
 tender. 
 
 VINEGAR FOR SOUSED FISH. 
 
 Steep in strong vinegar a few cloves, some peppercorns, mustard 
 seed, and young walnuts bruised, until the vinegaris thoroughly, 
 spiced; strain, and pour it over the fish. The fish must be boiled 
 before it is soused. 
 
 CLOVE VINEGAR. 
 
 Steep two ounces of bruised cloves in one pint of strong vine- 
 gar, for six weeks; then filter it until itis clear, bottle and cork 
 closely, in half pint bottles. 
 
 TARRAGON VINEGAR. 
 
 Pick tarragon leaves from the stalk before the plant flowers, fill 
 a large, wide-mouthed bottle with them, steep them in strong vine- 
 
 gar for two weeks or longer, strain clear; bottle and cork closely,» 
 
 in half pint bottles. This is used to flavor mustards and salads. 
 
 SAVORY VINEGAR. 
 
 Steep summer savory in strong vinegar until it is thoroughly 
 flavored; strain, and bottle it tightly. 
 
 CELERY VINEGAR. 
 
 Into a pint and a half of boiling vinegar, throw a pint of fresh 
 celery roots and stems, sliced fine, a large salt-spoonful of salt, a 
 5* 
 
 
 
106 MEAT SAUCES. 
 
 few grain of cayenne, and half an ounce of peppercorns + let it 
 boil two or three minutes, turn it into a stone jar, and secure it 
 from the air when it is cold. It will keep two or three months in 
 the jar, or it may be strained off and bottled in three or four weeks. 
 
 GREEN MINT VINEGAR. 
 
 Put freshly gathered mint, chopped or bruised, into bottles un- 
 til they are nearly full; pour in pale vinegar, and in six weeks strain 
 it off and bottle it for use. Young leaves of mint stripped from 
 the stalk and minced for sauce will keep in vine: though the col- 
 
 or may not be very good. Ae oe. 
 
 RASPBERRY VINEGAR. | 
 
 Put three or four quarts of raspberries in a stone jar, and cover 
 them with vinegar. Let them stand twenty-four hours. Then 
 strain this juice through a jelly bag, and pour it on fresh berries, 
 letting this stand another day.. Repeat this process until you have 
 
 the quantity you desire. Add to each pint of juice one pound of -— 
 
 sugar. Put it into a preserving kettle, and allow it to heat suf- 
 ficiently to melt the sugar. Whenit is cold, put it into sealed bot- 
 tles. It will keep two years. 
 
 BLACK CURRANT VINEGAR. 
 
 Well bruise the currants, pour the vinegar over them, putting in 
 a little sugar to draw the juice. Let it stand three or four days, 
 stirring it well each day. Strain the juice from the fruit, and put- 
 ting one pound of sugar to one pint of juice; boil it gently three 
 quarters of an hour; skim, and when cold, bottle it. . 
 
 CHILI VINEGAR. 
 
 Let fifty small, ripe cayenne peppers chopped fine, remain in 
 strong vinegar for a fortnight, then strain and bottle. 
 
 
 

 
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 RELISHES. 
 
 SANDWICHES. 
 
 Make some nice biscuit which will be three-{uarters of an inch 
 thick, when baked. Split them, butter them lightly, and lay in a 
 slice of tongue, or ham, touched with French mustard or anchovy 
 sauce. 
 
 DRESSING FOR SANDWICHES. 
 
 Take three spoonsful of sweet.oil, three table-spoonsful of mixed 
 mustard, half-a-pound of good butter, a little red pepper, a little 
 salt, the yolk of one egg, beat them together smoothly, and keep 
 them cool; then chop together finely some tongue and ham, and if 
 convenient, alittle cold chicken. Spread the sliced bread with the 
 dressing, then with the meat; add the second ae press closely 
 together and trim off the Bae! 
 
 A COLD RELISH. 
 
 Cut odd scraps of meat into small pieces. If there is veal and 
 ham among it, so much the better. Add three table-spoonsful of 
 farina, some parsley, green or dried, a little sage, a little celery, 
 parsnip, or carrot, or all three, chopped fine, and pepper and salt. 
 Cover with water, and stew for two hours, very gently. Pour into 
 a dish, and when cold it will be solid; and should be cut in thin 
 slices, for the table. 
 
 A GERMAN ENTREMET. 
 
 Boil eight eggs quite hard, and when cold cut them in two length- 
 wise. ‘Take the yolks out very carefully, pass them through a fine 
 sieve, and mix them well with half a pint of cream (or more if re- 
 quired) and: then add pepper, salt, and herbs. Pour this sauce 
 
 
 
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 108 RELISHES. — 4 
 
 into a very flat pie dish that will stand heat, and place the white 
 half eggs carefully in it, arranging them in the form of a star, or, om 
 any pattern preferred. Fill up the vacancy left in them by the : 4 
 yolks having been removed, with the same mixture, and sinew 9.1 
 few bread crumbs over them. Bake this very slightly, just 13 | 
 to give ita bright yellow color, and serve it up “— e dish in 
 which it has been baked. 
 
 
 
 
 SAVORY CUSTARD. 
 
 Beat two eggs into one anda half gills of cream; season to 
 taste with pepper, salt, cayenne, chopped parsley, sweet herbs 
 and shallot ; add to these some chopped ham andtongue. Pour it, 
 into small round cups and steam ten minutes. ees 
 
 TOMATO TOAST. 
 
 Pare, slice, and cook green tomatoes until very tender. Add 
 sweet cream, sweet milk will do, but it will need more butter to 
 make plenty of gravy; season with peper, salt, and butter. Have — 
 the bread nicely toasted and placed in a deep dish, and pour the 
 contents of the frying-pan over it. This is an excellent way to’ 
 use up dry slices of bread. : 
 
 TOMATO OMELET. 
 
 Peel and chop a quart of tomatoes, simmer them for twenty 
 minutes with as much water as will cover them; chop a few onions 
 very fine, throw them in with crumbled bread and a lump of but- 
 ter; when nearly done beat up four eggs, and stir them in a few 
 minutes; salt and pepper to your taste. 
 
 SAVORY TOAST. 
 
 Put a piece of butter the size of a walnut into a saucepan, a 
 dessert-spoonful of mustard, a wine glass of vinegar (that in which 
 walnuts have been pickled is superior to all others), a dessert- 
 spoonful of anchovy sauce, some pepper and cayenne, quarter — 
 pound of cheese broken into pieces. Stir it well until dissolved, 
 then spread on toasted bread and serve. 
 
 TOASTED CHEESE.—1l. 
 
 Grate three ounces of fat cheese, mix it with the yolk of one 
 
 
 

 
 RELISHES. 109 
 
 egg, four ounces of grated bread and three ounces of butter, beat 
 the whole well in a mortar, with a dessert-spoonful of mustard, 
 and a little salt and pepper. Toast some slices of bread, lay the 
 paste thick upon it, put it for a minute before the fire and send to 
 table very hot. ; 
 
 i TOASTED CHEESE.—2. 
 
 Put into a clean sauce-pan a table-spoonful of either ale (not 
 bitter) or cold water; add some slices of toasting cheese, and let 
 it simmer until it is melted, stirring it all the time. Have ready 
 in a bowl some good ale, sweeten it to the taste with moist sugar 
 and add some grated nutmeg. ‘Toast slices of bread without 
 either burn or crust, put them hot into the bowl, to take the chill 
 off the ale, then put a slice of the toast ona hot plate for each per- 
 son, and pour upon it as much of the cooked cheese as may be 
 agreeable. ‘Take out of the bowl any remaining toast there may 
 be left; stir well the sugar from the bottom, and drink the ale af- 
 ter eating the cheese. 
 
 ANCHOVY CHEESE. 
 
 Put a piece of cheese into a stewpan, and, when soft, mash it 
 with butter or any other grease. Now add half a pint of water, 
 hot or cold, a little salt, and an anchovy cut small. Boil the whole 
 together, adding as much flour from time to time as the liquid will 
 absorb. When you have got a thick paste, pour over it some eggs 
 beaten up, and mix the whole well together. Lastly, pull your 
 paste into small lumps, and bake in an oven. 
 
 CHEESE OMELET. 
 
 Butter the sides of a deep dish, cover the bottom with thin slices 
 of cheese, place upon this very thin slices of bread, well buttered, 
 a little red pepper and mustard, another layer of cheese, and, 
 just before putting in the oven, beat the yolk of an egg in a cup of 
 ‘ eream and pour into the dish. Bake half an hour or until nicely 
 browned. 
 
 CHEESE FONDU. 
 
 A quarter of a pound of butter, one ounce and half of flour 
 
 
 
 
 
110 RELISHES. 
 
 four eggs, three ounces cheese grated, not quite half a pint of milk. a 
 
 Place the butter and flour in a saucepan on the hot plate, stir to- 
 gether: next add the grated cheese; stir on for twenty minutes, 
 when remove it, and let it get cold. Beat the eggs, yolks and 
 whites separately, add the yolks to the mixture cold, but the whites 
 
 must be beaten and added just before baking. Bake ina brisk - a 
 
 oven on a silver fondu dish, or a round cake tin concealed witha 
 frilled paper, about three quarters of an hour. Serve hot, asit 
 will fall in cooling. | 
 
 FONDU STRAWS. — ea 
 
 Quarter of a pound of puff paste and quarter of an ounce of 
 good cheese grated very fine, a little salt and cayenne pepper 
 mixed; sprinkle the cheese, salt, and pepper over the paste, and 
 roll it two orthree times; cut it into narrow strips about five inches 
 long; bake them in a slow oven and serve very hot. 
 
 PO TTED CHEESE. 
 
 One pound of cheese beaten in a mortar; two ounces of liquid 
 butter, one glass of sherry, and a very small quantity of cayenne 
 pepper, mace, and salt. All should be well beaten together and 
 put into a pretty shaped glass potting-jar, with a layer of butter at 
 the top. It makes a delicious relish for bread or toast. 
 
 POT CHEESE. 
 
 Scald a pint of sour milk till it curdles, strain off the whey and 
 form the curd into round cakes an inch thick, adding salt to taste. 
 The milk should not be old; if very sour, a little sweet milk scalded 
 with it improves the flavor. 
 
 MACARONI. 
 
 Put four or five ounces of macaroni in water, and boil for twen 
 ty minutes, until tender. Mix into half a pint of milk a little 
 flour, and a small piece of butter, half a tea-cup of cream, half a — 
 tea-spoonful of mustard, salt, pepper, and cayenne, and four ounces 
 of good fat cheese grated very fine; stir all together and boil for 
 ten minutes. Pour this over the macaroni, after draining it from 
 the water; boil five or six minutes and serve. 
 
 
 

 
 RELISHES. 111 
 
 TIMBALL OF MACARONI. 
 
 Roll some puff paste very thin, and cut it into narrow bands, 
 and twist each into a kind of cord, which coil around the insides 
 of small butter moulds. ‘Then fill each mould with macaroni, 
 cover the top with equal quantities of grated bread and good fat 
 cheese ; put them into a warm oven, and let them bake three quar- 
 ters of an hour, turn them out on a dish and serve them. 
 
 
 
PICKLES. 
 
 CUCUMBERS.—1. 
 
 To pickle cucumbers for market cut them from the vines without 
 bruising the stems, take them carefully to the cellar, pack in barrels 
 putting different sizes in separate barrels; spread a layer of salt 
 between each layer of cucumbers, sufficient to entirely cover the 
 pickles. Pack the cucumbers daily as they are picked, discarding 
 the crooked or those of slow growth. The brine will be formed 
 without the addition of water, by the juice extracted by the salt. 
 Keep boards over the pickles, with weights to press them under 
 the brine. Pickles packed in this way can be preserved for years 
 with pure salt; but if the salt is mixed with lime they will soften 
 and spoil. In two months after the barrel is filled, take them from 
 the brine, freshen and green. To green them, prepare alum water, 
 put the pickles in a vat or boiler lined with tinned copper; heat 
 the alum water, and pour it over them. Pickle makers usually 
 employ this process except that they throw steam into the vats to 
 heat the alum water, and if managed properly the pickles may be 
 greened with less action of copper than when scalded in the usual 
 method in bright brass kettles. Take the pickles from the vat when 
 a little green, and pour over them water boiling hot. If not 
 greened sufficiently, repeat the hot water until they are the desired 
 color, and when cold put them in good vinegar. Let them remain 
 until quite soured; then change to pretty strong vinegar, which will 
 keep the pickles hard and sour. Add six large peppers, without 
 bruising, to each barrel, and keep the pickles under the vinegar 
 with weights. | 
 
 CUCUMBERS.—2. 
 
 A simpler method is, pick the cucumbers with a bit of the stem 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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 on, wipe them clean and put them into the following pickle, at the 
 rate of one part vinegar, two parts water, and three salt, with a 
 good sized root of horseradish. When the tub is full, put a cloth 
 over the cucumbers and a clean flat stone over the cloth, cover the 
 tub and set it in the cellar. In the spring soak them and pickle 
 them in vinegar. 
 
 TOMATOES. 
 
 Wipe the tomatoes clean; slice them, if large, twice in two; if 
 small, only once. Sprinkle a thin layer of sugar on the bottom of 
 a stone jar, then a layer of tomatoes, and then a sprinkling of 
 sugar, and soon. When the jar is full, add vinegar and set it in 
 a warm place. In a few weeks they will be good pickles. The 
 tomatoes must be kept under the vinegar, and the jar tightly coy- 
 ered. 
 
 BEETS 
 
 Boil the beets till tender, then drop them whole or sliced into 
 spiced vinegar. 
 
 GREEN TOMATOES. 
 
 Let green tomatoes stand in salt and water for twelve hours. 
 Then stick four or five cloves ineach one, and pour-boiling vinegar 
 over them. Place them ina jar and set them in a cool place. 
 
 MUSTARD PICKLE. 
 
 Half peck of small cucumbers, half peck of green string beans, 
 one quart of green peppers, two quarts of small onions. Cut all 
 in small pieces; put cucumbers and beans in a strong brine for 
 twenty-four hours. Remove from brine and pour on two pounds 
 of ground mustard mixed with one pint of sweet oil, and three 
 quarts of vinegar. 
 
 GREEN PICKLE. 
 
 In two quarts of good vinegar, boil quarter of a pound of salt, two 
 ounces of shallots, two large tea-spoonsful of cayenne pepper, one 
 ounce of ginger, and one ounce of white pepper; when well boiled, 
 cool and pour it in a jar upon any freshly gathered green fruits and 
 vegetables desired to be pickled. 
 
114 PICKLES. 
 
 ONIONS.—1.. 
 
 Peel small onions and Jay them for one day in salt and water, 
 changing their position once during the time. Boil together good 
 vinegar, cloves, mace, and a little pepper, dry the onions, pour the 
 pickle over them in a jar, and cover them closely. 
 
 ONIONS—2. 
 
 To prevent watery eyes while peeling, put them ina pot of boil- 
 ing water. Let them stand a few moments to drain, then peel them, 
 put them into milk and water, with a little salt; when it boils, 
 strain off the onions, wipe dry, and put them in wide-mouthed bot- 
 tles. Have very old white wine vinegar, in which whole white 
 pepper, ginger, mace, and horseradish have been boiled. Pour it 
 over the onions, and cover down close with bladders. 
 
 PORTUGAL ONIONS. 
 
 The Portugal onion makes an excellent pickle prepared in the 
 following way: one large onion and one large baking apple, eut 
 up into small pieces, mixed well together, and put into a pickle 
 jar, into which enough boiling vinegar must be poured to cover 
 the mixture and fill up the jar. 
 
 FRENCH BEANS. 
 
 Make a strong brine of salt and water, gather the beans before 
 they have strings, lay them in the brine till yellow, drain them dry 
 and put boiling hot vinegar over them. Close them tightly for a 
 day and night. Boil the vinegar and pour it on again for several 
 days till they turn green. To one peck of beans put half an 
 ounce each of pepper, mace and cloves. 
 
 CABBAGE. 
 
 Cut a firm cabbage into thin slices, spread it on an open dish, 
 sprinkle it over with salt for two or three days, then strain it 
 through a sieve or colander, so as to take all water from it; place 
 it in your jar, and pour as much boiling vinegar as will cover it; 
 lay over the jar a cloth to keep in all the steam until quite cold, 
 then tie it down air tight. It will keep for a very long time. A 
 few slices of beet root gives a good color. . 
 
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 PICKLES. 115 
 
 CABBAGE WITH SWEET PICKLE. 
 
 Cut the heads into quarters, let them stand in cold water a short 
 time. Chop them fine, together with nice fine celery sufficient to 
 season it. Fill small jars or cans, make a sweet pickle of molasses 
 and vinegar, season with plenty of red pepper and cinnamon, and 
 other spices to the taste; boil altogether a few moments and pour 
 over the cabbage while hot. Cork the cans and place in the cellar. 
 This should not be eaten under three or four weeks. It is a nice 
 relish with cold meats, etc. 
 
 RED CABBAGE. 
 
 Put a quarter of an ounce of cochineal into a small bag, and boil 
 it with the quantity of vinegar considered sufficient for the cabbage 
 you wish to pickle, adding a little salt, and bay salt. When it 
 boils, seald the cabbage with it, having previously cut it into slices ; 
 boil the vinegar up again, this time adding ginger and pepper. 
 Let it cool, and when quite cold, having put the cabbage into jars, 
 pour the pickle upon it, and tie it down closely. The cochineal 
 preserves the color; beet root may be used instead. Both are 
 quite harmless. 
 
 MELONS, MANGOES AND CUCUMBERS. 
 
 Melons should not be much more than half grown, but cucum- 
 bers full grown. Cut off the top, but leave it hanging by a bit of 
 rind, which is to serve as a hinge to a box lid; scoop out all the 
 seeds with a spoon, and fill the fruit with equal parts of mustard 
 seed, ground pepper and ginger, or flour of mustard instead of the 
 seed, and two or three cloves of garlic. The lid which incloses 
 the spice may be sewed down or tied, by running a white thread 
 through the ends. ‘The pickle may be prepared with the spices, or, 
 if preferred, with the following ingredients: To each quart of 
 vinegar put salt, flour of mustard, curry powder, bruised ginger, 
 tumeric, half ounce of each; of cayenne pepper, one drachm; 
 rub all these together with a large glassful of salad oil; eschalots, 
 _ two ounces, garlic, half ounce, sliced. Steep the spice in the vin- 
 egar as before directed, and put the vegetables into it hot. 
 
116 PICKLES. 
 
 _ GHERKINS. “¥ 
 
 A quick mode of pickling gherkins, or prickly ‘cucumbers, i is to 
 prick them with a needle in several places, and put them in : a pan 
 of cold water, adding as much salt as will make a strong » brine. 
 
 Let them soak forthree hours. Take them out, wipe them dry ina 
 clean cloth; put in a saucepan, over a gentle fire, add somestrong, - 
 
 brown pickling vinegar, with allspice, half the quantity of whole 
 black pepper, a little brown ginger. and some cayenne pepper. 
 Let them simmer quarter of an hour; take them up, and when cold, 
 pour them over the gherkins in a jar, and stop them tightly down. 
 They will be fit for use in the course of three or four days. One 
 or two eschalots will be found an improvement. | ee, 
 
 PICCALILLI. 
 
 Use all kinds of vegetables that may be pickled. Slice cabbages, 
 and pull cauliflowers in bunches, put them on earthen dishes, 
 sprinkled over with salt, and let them stand three days to dry. 
 Sliced cucumbers, green tomatoes, gherkins, radish pods, onions, 
 beans, nasturtiums and anything you like that may be pickled, 
 put it into salt and water one day. ‘The nextday dry them; take 
 afew at atime and scald in brown vinegar, and when all are 
 scalded, set the vinegar away. ‘To four quarts of brown vinegar, 
 put a quarter of a pound of ginger, two ounces of allspice, quart- 
 er of a pound of shallots, two ounces of tumeric, and boil slowly 
 half an hour. Take some boiling vinegar, and mix eight ounces 
 of flour of mustard and pour it into the vinegar and spices; it 
 must not boil after the mustard is put in. Put the prepared veg- 
 etables and spices in a large jar, scatter some brown mustard 
 seed among the mixture, and stir it up well in the jar. If at any 
 time it should become too dry, add cold boiled vinegar; for the 
 vegetable must be kept covered with vinegar mixtare. Cover the 
 jar air tight and set in a cool place. 
 
 LEMON PICKLE. 
 
 The fruit should be small with thick rinds. Rub them with a 
 piece of flannel; then slit them down in quarters, but not quite 
 through the pulp, fill the slits with salt hard pressed in; set them 
 
 
 

 
 PICKLES. 117 
 
 upright in a pan for four or five days until the salt melts; turn 
 them three days until they become tender in their liquor. Then 
 make enough pickle to cover them, of ripe vinegar, the brine of the 
 lemons, Jamaica pepper and ginger; boil and skim it. When 
 cold, put it over the lemons. 
 
 TO PICKLE ROOTS. 
 
 Roots, such as carrots, salsify, and beet roots, may be pickled by 
 being sliced, or cut into small pieces, and slightly boiled in vine- 
 gar without destroying their crispness, and adding the common 
 spices; with beet roots put button onions, or cut some Spanish on- 
 ions in slices, lay them alternately in a jar; boil one quart of -vin- 
 egar, with one ounce of mixed pepper, half an ounce of ginger, 
 some salt, and pour it cold over the beet root and onions. 
 
 BARBERRIES.—1. 
 
 Gather when not over ripe, pick off the leaves and dead stalks. 
 Place them in jars, pour over them cold boiled salt and.water, and 
 close them tightly. They must be looked at occasionally, and as 
 soon aS a scum is seen to rise on them, they should be put into 
 fresh salt and water. | 
 
 BARBERRIES.—2. 
 
 Another method is to place them in a wide-mouthed bottle and 
 pour over them cold distilled vinegar that has been previous- 
 ly boiled with a little spice, and keep them well corked. ‘They are 
 delicious when eaten with fish, and look very pretty round the 
 dish. | 
 
 BARBERRIES, (Sweet.)—1. 
 
 Add half a pound of sugar and a pint of molasses to each 
 pound of the berries, simmer them together half an hour or more, 
 until they become soft. 
 
 BARBERRIES, (Sweet.)—2 
 
 With every half pound of moist sugar mix one pint of water, 
 and one pint of white wine vinegar: put the worst of the barber- 
 ries in this and boil till the liquor is a bright deep color... Put the 
 
118 — PICKLES. 
 
 rest of the berries in glasses, let the liquor stand till cold, then 
 strain it, wringing the cloth to get all the color from the barberries. 
 Let it settle, then pour it into the glasses. Cover te with Re: 
 bladder and leather. 2 Ne ee ie 
 
 _ WALNUTS. ' 
 
 Put them into strong salt, and water, for nine days; stir them % 
 frequently, and change the salt and water, every three days. Let 
 them stand in a hair sieve till they turn black. Put them into 
 strong stone jars, and pour boiling vinegar over them. Cover 
 them, and let them stand till they are cold. Scald the vinegar 
 three times more, pour it each time upon the walnuts, and let them 
 stand till cold between each boiling; cover them closely, and let 
 them stand two months. Make for them a pickle of two. quarts of | 
 vinegar, half an ounce of olives, the same of mace, one ounce of 
 ginger, the same of long-pepper, and two ounces of salt. Boil it 
 ten minutes, pour it hot on the walnuts, and cover them tight. 
 
 
 
 ASPARAGUS. 
 
 Fill a stone pot with asparagus, make a pickle of water and 
 have it salt enough to bear an egg; pour it on hot and keep it 
 covered tight. Before using, put the asparagus in cold water for 
 two hours. Then boil and butter and send to table. If they are ) 
 used for pickles take them out of the brine, boil them and cover E 
 them with vinegar. 
 vineg Satay, 
 
 BLACKBERRIES. a 1 
 
 To six wooden quarts of blackberries add three pounds of sugar 
 and one quart of good vinegar. Let them stand covered until a 
 syrup is formed, then pour it off, boil, and skim it off clear; put 
 in the fruit and let it just come to a boil. Take it out carefully. 
 Let the syrup boil up once more, then pour over and seal or tie 
 down. 
 
 MUSHROOMS. 
 
 Button mushrooms, to preserve their flavor, should be rubbed 
 with a piece of flannel dipped in salt. To preserve their color, 
 keep them in spring water both bgfore and after rubbing. From 
 
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 the larger mushrooms remove the red inside; when this is turned 
 
 black they are too old. Throw a little salt over them and put 
 
 ____ them into a stewpan with some mace and red pepper; as the _li- 
 
 | - quor comes out, shake them well and simmer them over a gentle 
 fire till all of it is dried into them again. Put as much vinegar 
 into the pan as will cover them; make.t warm, and then pour all 
 into glass jars or bottles, and tie down tightly, with a bladder. 
 They will keep two years, 
 
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 SALADS. it ge a 
 
 SPRING SALADS. - 
 
 - Use salads on the table as early as possible in the Spring; they 
 are pleasant and very healthful. Water-cresses should be a stand- 
 ing dish upon the breakfast table ; and lettuce, with chives, pepper- 
 grass, and whatever else is available, at dinner. Never mind the 
 regular salad mixture of sweet oil and the like, if it is not conven- 
 ient or agreeable. Pepper, salt and vinegar, are very good condi- 
 ments alone, and we must even confess a weakness for an old- 
 fashioned sprinkling of white sugar and vinegar on our lettuce, 
 occasionally ; but eat it at any rate, if only with salt. 
 
 CHICKEN SALAD. 
 
 Mince all the tender meat, white and dark, of a pair of chick- 
 ens, fine. ‘They should have been previously boiled or roasted. 
 Chop all the white part of a large head of celery, with one or two 
 young heads of lettuce, if they can be had, and mix with the chick- 
 en. Make a dressing of the yolks of eggs, boiled twenty minutes, 
 and rabbed smooth with a spoon, two tea-spoonsful of made Eng- 
 lish mustard, a tea-spoonful of salt, two table-spoonsful of salad 
 oil, a dessert-spoonful of white sugar, and half a pint of strong 
 vinegar. Pour the dressing over the chicken and celery, in a salad 
 bowl, and garnish with rings cut from the boiled whites of the 
 
 eggs. 
 CARROT SALAD. 
 
 Boil your carrots tender, chop them fine, with the whites of 
 hard boiled eggs. Pour over them a sauce made of the yolks of 
 the eggs beaten smooth, with a small piece of butter, a little pep- 
 
 
 

 
 SALADS. pe) 
 
 per and salt, a table-spoonful of vinegar, and a tea-spoonful of 
 made mustard. 
 
 FISH SALAD. 
 
 Cold fish may be made into a very excellent salad in this way: 
 Cut it as neatly as possible into pieces about one or two inches 
 square; put them into a deep dish, add a little salt, and a small 
 quantity of very finely chopped onions; squeeze the juice of a 
 lemon over it; cover the dish with a plate, and set it away for two 
 hours. ‘Then take fresh lettuce, well drained from the water, cut 
 it into pieces and pile it up high in the centre of a dish; drain the 
 fish from the lemon juice, and place in a circle round the pile of 
 lettuce as you would cutlets ;/ pour some salad sauce over the let- 
 tuce, only keeping the fish white. Place parsley leaves between 
 the pieces of fish, or a small piece of red beet-root, to garnish. 
 
 LOBSTER SALAD. 
 
 Mince the meat from the body and claws fine, mash the coral, 
 and mix it with scalded lettuce chopped fine. Make a sauce of a 
 little pepper, a very little cayenne, a tea-spoonful of French mus- 
 tard, four table-spoonsful of salad oil, and four table-spoonsful of 
 strong vinegar. Mash the yolks of three boiled eggs, mix them 
 with the coral and the sauce, and add it before serving. [For 
 another receipt, see Lobsters. ] 
 
 AN EAST INDIAN SALAD. 
 
 Take a large boiled crab, pick the meat clean from the shell, and 
 chop it up finely. Place it in a deep salad dish, adding one gill of 
 tarragon, and one tea-spoonful of Chili vinegar, one table-spoonful 
 of pure Lucca or Florence oil, with an anchovy bruised in a mor- 
 tar. Let these be well mixed together. Chop one blanched 
 endive, one stick of celery, and a small bunch of green chives, 
 with salt to taste, and arrange the ingredients with a spoon in 
 your salid dish. ‘This is a good relish eaten with toasted cheese, 
 or cold fowl, and other choice meats. 
 
 SALAD FOR COLD LAMB. 
 
 Wash and chop finely three large lettuces. Have ready a bunch 
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122 SALADS. | 
 
 of barbe de capuchin a bunch of water cresses, half a dozen young 
 
 radishes, a little punnet and cress, two or there sprigs of tarragon 
 
 leaves, a handful of corn-salad, twelve young chives, and a boiled 
 
 beet root. Pour into a salad bowl two table-spoonsful of Lucca or 
 Florence oil, a tea-spoonful of sweet anchovy sauce, ateaspoonful of 
 Chili vinegar, the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs beaten up with 
 
 cream, with salt to taste. Mix all together, adding a gill of vine- 
 
 gar. Cut up the roots and esculents, and stir them in till the 
 
 salad is evenly mixed. 
 
 - TOMATO SALAD. 
 
 Take ripe tomatoes and cut them in thin slices; sprinkle over 
 them a small quantity of finely chopped green onions, add salt, 
 pepper, vinegar, and oil if liked. The oil should be in the propor- 
 tion of three table-spoonsful to one of vinegar. Serve with any — 
 roast meats. 
 
 POTATO SALAD. 
 
 When materials fora salad are scarce, this is a good way of dis- - 
 posing of cold potatoes. Slice them, and dress them with oil, vine- 
 gar, salt, and pepper, precisely like any other salad ; adding a little 
 chives, or an onion, and parsley chopped fine. If oilis not agree- 
 able, use cream or a little melted butter. 
 
 THE POET'S SALAD. 
 
 Pass two well boiled potatoes through a sieve, add a tea-spoon- 
 ful of mustard, two tea-spoonsful of salt, one of essence of ancho- 
 vy, quarter of a tea-spoonful of very finely chopped onions, well- 
 bruised into the mixture, three table-spoonsful of oil, one of vine- 
 gar, the pounded yolks of two hard boiled eggs. Stir it up thor- 
 oughly before serving. 
 
 LETTUCE SALAD. 
 
 Chop lettuces small and mix in a little of young onions if liked, 
 make a sauce for them in the proportion of a table-spoonful of 
 sugar to two of vinegar, and a little black pepper. 
 
 HOTCH POTCH. 
 
 Green tomatoes, cabbage, and cucumbers, one pint of each, 
 
 
 

 
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 half-a-pint of onions; chop all very fine, salt well, let them stand 
 one night, after which strain through a sieve, and add pepper, 
 horseradish, white mustard seed, and half pint of sugar; mix 
 well, lightly, fill your jar, and cover with good vinegar. 
 
 CHOW CHOW. 
 
 One peck of green tomatoes, six onions, four green peppers ; 
 chop fine, mix salt with them, let them stand one night, then 
 squeeze through a cloth all moisture; after which add one table- 
 spoonful of allspice, one of cloves, one of black pepper, four 
 table-spoonsful of horseradish, one half pound of white mustard 
 seed, mix it well, pack it in your jar, and cover with good vine- 
 gar. 
 
 CABBAGE AND VINEGAR. 
 
 Take half a cup of vinegar and a tea-spoonful of butter heated 
 well. Beat an egg and stir into it, but after it is cool enough, so 
 as not to cook the egg. Then cut up your cabbage, add salt and 
 pepper; pour the mixture warm over it and set aside for dinner. 
 
 COLE SLAW. 
 
 Take the small head of a cabbage after removing six or seven 
 outside leaves and cutting off the stalk as close as possible, chop 
 fine, and mix with plenty of vinegar, salting it to taste. 
 
 AN EXCELLENT CHOW CHOW PICKLE. 
 
 Take one large head of slaw cabbage, two large bunches of 
 celery, and twelve onions; slice all fine and salt well. After 
 twenty-four hours, drain well and cover with vinegar, to remain 
 twelve hours; then drain from the vinegar; add four red peppers 
 and two green ones, finely cut up; one ounce of tumeric, quarter 
 of a pound of mustard-seed, two table-spoonsful of mixed mus- 
 
 tard, one spoonful of allspice, half the quantity of cloves, one 
 
 table-spoonful of black pepper, half a cup of sweet oil, one cup of 
 brown sugar; mix all together and cover with vinegar. More cele- 
 ry may be used if desired. 
 
 TOMATO SOY. 
 
 To a peck of green tomatoes put a tea-cup of fine salt anda 
 
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124 SALADS. 
 
 dozen green peppers. Chop tomatoes and peppers fine, work the 
 salt well through the whole. Let stand twenty-four hours; then 
 drain the brine off, spice to taste with cinnamon and cloves, pack 
 down in a jar, and just cover with vinegar, in which the spice has 
 been boiled, while it is hot. | 
 
 HANDY CHOW CHOW. 
 
 Chop together very finely a head of cabbage, six green peppers, 
 six green tomatoes, add two tea-spoonsful of mustard, sufficient 
 salt, vinegar to wet it, and if desired a little cloves and allspice. 
 It is ready then for use, and will keepalong time. No better 
 appetizer can be made. 
 
 
 
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 EGGS. 
 
 BOILED. ~~ 
 
 Put the required number of eggs into a saucepan containing boil- 
 ing water sufficient to cover them, and put it in a place on the range 
 where it will keep boiling hot, but not boil. Let them stand seven 
 minutes. When takenup, they will be found thickly and delicious- 
 ly jellied throughout, and perfectly digestible. It is a much better 
 and more certain way, than boiling them. 
 
 Another method is to let them boil gently for thirty minutes. 
 This is an excellent plan for persons who like hard boiled eggs, or 
 for invalids, as eggs cooked for this length of time can be easily 
 digested, by the most delicate stomach. 
 
 SCRAMBLED. 
 
 Beat up a dozen eggs and turn them into a pan in which a little 
 butter has been allowed to melt; throw in finely chopped boiled 
 ham or parsley, and a little pepper and salt, and toss about rapid- 
 ly, to prevent sticking. Serve upon buttered toast. 
 
 POACHED. 
 
 Carefully break fresh eggs into a shallow pan of boiling water ; 
 have ready slices of buttered toast, and when the white part has 
 set round the yolks, take them up with a skimmer and lay each one 
 upon a slice of bread. They are seasoned at table. 
 
 BUTTERED EGGS. 
 
 Warm a piece of butter in a saucepan, add pepper and salt, or 
 other seasoning. Break in the eggs, stirring them very quickly 
 with a fork over the fire, and take them off instantly they begin to 
 set. Continue the stirring for a minute, and serve on buttered 
 toast. 
 
126 aS EGGS. 
 
 FRIED (with ham.) — 
 
 Break eggs one by one, into a saucer, and slip them into a pan 
 in which ham has been lightly and quickly browned, (not dried up,) 
 and fry them alight brown on the underside; by this time they 
 will have assumed consistency on the top, and must be taken up 
 carefully with a fish-slice or skimmer, without turning, and placed 
 round the edge of the dish, the ham occupying the centre. 
 
 OMELET. 
 
 ‘The proper way to make an omelet is to take three tea-spoons- 
 ful of milk for each egg, and a pinch of salt toeach one also; beat 
 the eggs lightly for three or four minutes, and pour them into a 
 hot pan in which a piece of butter the size of a walnut has been 
 melted a moment before; the mass will begin to bubble and rise 
 immediately, and the bottom must be lifted incessantly with a clean 
 knife so that the softer parts run in. An omelet should be cooked 
 three or four minutes, and, made in this way, will melt in the 
 mouth. If desired, beat with the eggs finely chopped ham or 
 parsley. In sliding the omelet from the pan to the dish, fold it 
 double. 
 
 PUFF OMELET. 
 
 Beat the yolks of six eggs light, mix with a small tea-cup of 
 milk, and little salt. Beat together of sweet butter and flour each 
 a table-spoonful until smooth; add the mixture to the custard, and 
 beat the whole well together. Pour into a buttered pan, and when 
 it appears to thicken add the whites, well beaten; dust over a trifle 
 of salt, and when the whole is stiff, remove carefully to the dish. 
 
 OMELET wits KIDNEYS. 
 
 Take a calf’s kidney roasted, chop it finely and beat it with the 
 egos; cook them as directed for plain omelet. 
 
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 OMELET WITH HERBS. 
 
 Beit half a dozen eggs as for plain omelet, chop fine parsley 
 and cives, take two table-spoonsful of parsley; and one of cives 
 beat with the eggs, and put all ina pan in which three or four 
 
 
 

 
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 ounces of butter are melted; fry, dropping a piece of butter the 
 size of a nutmeg under it when half done, so that it will not adhere 
 to the pan, and serve . 
 
 ASPARAGUS AND EGGS. 
 
 Boil the good part of the asparagus in water and a little salt, 
 drain it and chop it fine, beat it with the eggs as for omelet; put 
 it in a pan with hot butter in it, fry and serve hot. Sorrel may be 
 cooked with eggs in the same manner. 
 
 EGGS AND APPLES. 
 
 Beat up the eggs as for omelet, pare and slice the apples, fry 
 them in a little butter, take them out, and stir them in with the 
 eggs. Melt a little butter in the pan, put in the eggs and apples ; 
 fry, turning over once and serve it hot. 
 
 EGGS AND MUSHROOMS. 
 
 Dress and chop the mushrooms, beat them with the eggs as for 
 omelets, melt a little butter in the pan, and put them in; fry them, 
 and serve hot. 
 
 FANCY OMELET. 
 
 Make four omelets of three or four eggs each, one plain, one 
 with herbs, one with apples, one with asparagus or sorrel. Serve 
 on the same dish, one lapping over the other. 
 
 EGGS AND HERRINGS. 
 
 Beat up three or four eggs, according to the quantity required, 
 with pepper, a little parsley, a green onion cut very fine. Also 
 open a red herring at the back, broil it and mince it fine. Add all 
 together, and fry in a frying-pan with a little grease. No salt is 
 required, as the herring is salt enough. 7 
 
 EGGS AND CHEESE. 
 
 Into a pie’ dish put four or five spoonsful of cream, or milk 
 thickened with flour; break into it some six or eight eggs without 
 breaking the yolks; sprinkle over the whole some grated cheese, 
 and a little pepper. Bake in an oven, without allowing the yolks 
 to harden. 
 
128 EGGS. 
 
 PICKLED EGGS. 
 
 Take as many eggs as you wish to pickle, cover them with cold 
 water, let them come to a boil, and boil five minutes. Take 
 off and put into cold water; remove the shells carefully, and put 
 the eggs ina jar. Take as much strong vinegar as will cover — 
 them, with cloves, allspice, black pepper, and a little red pepper ; 
 when it comes to a boil, pour it upon the eggs, with a little salt. ~ 
 Cover down when cold. They will be ready for use in three days, 
 but are best when about a week old. 
 
 TO PRESERVE EGGS.—1. 
 
 Make a pickle of quick lime and salt strong enough to bear up 
 anege. Putin your eggs point downward, and they will keep 
 perfectly for a year. Another method is to rub the outside of each 
 egg with a piece of fried fat, and then put them in a jar, small end 
 downward, in which has been placed a layer of coarse salt. Al- 
 ternate a layer of salt with a layer of eggs until the jar is filled, 
 rubbing each egg with grease, and placing always the small end 
 down. Cover down tight and keep in a cool, dry place, and they 
 will keep from June to June again. | 
 
 TO PRESERVE EGGS.—2. 
 
 Store them away before they are twenty-four hours old. Pack 
 them in a cask with plenty of bran, taking care that they do not 
 touch each other. Another method is to place them in a box, small 
 end downwards, in salt which entirely covers them. 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 VEGETABLES. 
 
 BOILED POTATOES. 
 
 New potatoes are scraped instead of peeled. In peeling, the 
 thinner the portion taken off, the better. ‘The nutriment of a po- 
 tato is contained within half an inch of its surface, and careless 
 hacking with a large knife will waste half of it. Late in the sea- 
 son, when potatoes are old, they may be pared and put to soak.in 
 cold water four or five hours before cooking. In boiling put a 
 small handful of salt in the water, and let it boil before putting in 
 the potatoes. Pour the water off, and let them stand uncovered 
 near the fire to dry. To steam them, the pot may be returned to 
 the fire covered with a coarse cloth. ‘The water should be poured 
 off the moment they show a tendency to crack, or a fork will pass 
 easily through them. The potatoes for each mess should be of as 
 equal size as possible. 
 
 MASHED POTATOES, 
 
 After being boiled break them to a paste and season with a lit- 
 _ tle butter, salt and cream or milk. If any are left over press them 
 down in a dish, and the next morning cut in slices and fry brown, 
 with butter and pepper and a little chopped parsley. 
 
 FRIED POTATOES. 
 
 Peel half a dozen medium potatoes, cut them up small, and put 
 them into cold water for about half an hour; take them out, dry 
 with a towel, and put them ina frying-pan, with two ounces of 
 butter and a little salt; cover down, and every little while, shake 
 and turn them; when they are tender, and of a clear, light, rich 
 brown, they are done; the grease should be drained off from them, 
 and they are ready to send to table. 
 
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130 VEGETABLES. 
 
 
 
 POTATO SHAVINGS. 
 
 Wash and peel three or four large potatoes, then continue cut- 
 ting them into thin wide ribbons, as evenly as possible. Have 
 ready boiling fat, drop them into it; when they are done a light 
 brown drain them well over the stove and send them to table i im- 
 mediately, before they lose their crispness. 
 
 STEWED POTATOES. 
 
 Pare the potatoes, cut them in slices, throw them into hot water 
 to rinse, then put them in the sauce pan with boiling water enough 
 for gravy. When nearly done season with pepper, salt, and a 
 little butter; and thicken with flour batter. Let it boil up two or 
 three times, and send to the table. Ske 
 
 BAKED POTATOES. 
 
 The -most. wholesome method of preparing potatoes is to bake 
 them in hot ashes, and eat them with butter. To bake them in a 
 stove, wash and rinse them, place them on a tin, and let them re- 
 main in the oven about two hours. Send them to the table with 
 the skins on, or mash them with a little salt and gravy or cream. 
 They are very good served with cold meat. 
 
 POTATO PIE. 
 
 Make a thin pie-crust in the usual way, and line with it a basin 
 or deep pie-dish. Fill to the top with finely-shred potatoes, among 
 which mix an onion or two, sliced very thin, pepper and salt, and 
 a little butter, dripping, or lard. Pour over all as much good milk 
 or cream as the dish or basin will hold. Hither cover with a crust 
 or not, according to option, and bake in a slow oven. 
 
 POTATO CAKES. 
 
 Take two pounds of very mealy boiled potatoes, mash them 
 very fine with a little salt, mix them with two pounds of flour, add 
 milk enough to beat this into dough, beating it up with a spoon, 
 and put in a little yeast. Set it before the fire to rise, and when 
 it has risen, divide it into cakes the size of a muffin, and bake them. 
 These may be cut open and buttered hot. 
 

 
 VEGETABLES. 131 
 
 POTATO PUDDING. 
 
 Mash up well all your cold potatoes with a fork, moisten with 
 milk, add two table-spoonsful of flour, two table-spoonsful of 
 minced onions, and one ounce of grease to every pound of mashed 
 potatoes. Put into a basin, bake till brown, which will be about 
 half an hour, and serve hot. 
 
 POTATOES A LA CREME. 
 
 Put into a saucepan about two ounces of butter, a dessert spoonful 
 of flour, some parsley and scallions, both chopped small, salt and 
 pepper; stir these up together, add a wine glass of ‘cream, and set 
 it on the fire, stirring continually until it boils. Cut some boiled 
 potatoes into slices, and put them into the saucepan with the mix- 
 ture, boil all together, and serve them very hot. 
 
 SCOLLOPED POTATOES. 
 
 Beat boiled potatoes fine with cream, a large piece of butter and 
 some salt. Put it in scollop shells, smooth them on the top, 
 score with a knife, lay thin slices of butter on them and brown 
 them quickly before the fire, or in the oven. 
 
 TO BOIL VEGETABLES GREEN. 
 
 Dress them, and throw them into plenty of boiling water which 
 has been salted and well skimmed; boil them fast until well done, 
 keeping them uncovered, but being careful that they are not smok- 
 ed. If the water is hard, a third of a tea-spoonful of carbonate 
 of soda may be added with the salt to improve the color, but too 
 much will injure them, and if green peas are being boiled, will re- 
 duce them to a mush. 
 
 GREEN CORN. 
 
 Take two dozen ears of green corn well cleaned from the silk, 
 slightly cut off the edge of the kernels with a sharp knife, and 
 scrape the remainder off. Place in a pot with two tea-cupsful of 
 water. When cooked out so there is danger of burning, thin with 
 sweet milk; when done, season with salt and pepper; add butter 
 to your taste. 
 
132. VEGETABLES. 
 
 GREEN CORN ON THE EAR. 
 
 Select a dozen more or less, of nice, young ears, free them from 
 every particle of silk, and throw them into’ boiling water with a 
 table-spoonful of salt. If very young, fifteen minutes will cook 
 them. As the corn grows older, it will require more time. Serve 
 hot, with butter, pepper and salt. . 
 
 CORN OYSTERS. 
 
 Take six ears of boiled corn, three eggs, one and a half table- 
 spoonsful of flour. Beat the yolks very thick; cut the corn off the 
 cob, season it with pepper and salt; mix it with the yolks, and add 
 the flour. Whisk the whites to a stiff froth, stir them in with the 
 
 corn and yolks; put a dessert-spoonful at. a time in a pan of hot 
 
 butter, and fry to a light brown on both sides. 
 
 SPRING GREENS. 
 
 Young beet and turnips tops make nice greens in the early 
 spring. Pick, and wash them carefully from dust and insects, and 
 boil with them a small piece of salt pork, bacon, ham or corned 
 beef. Drain free from water, and serve with vinegar. They may 
 be boiled plain, and served with gravy sauce. | 
 
 SUCCOTASH. 
 
 Strip off the kernels from a dozen ears of nice sweet corn, very 
 
 close to the ear, with a sharp, thin knife. Put them in a saucepan 
 
 with a quart of Lima beans, a little veal stock or gravy or plain 
 water, and let them simmer steadily, till the moisture is absorbed, 
 and the corn and beans tender. Add then, a cup of milk, a small 
 piece of butter, pepper and salt to taste, and let all simmer to- 
 gether until thoroughly amalgamated. Serve in covered dish. 
 Succotash is very good made with string beans, cut small, and 
 boiled with a slice of sweet salt pork; it then requires neither milk 
 nor butter. 
 
 = SQUASH FRITTERS. 
 
 One pint of cooked squash, one pint of milk, two eggs anda 
 little salt, and sufficient flour to make them turn easily on the grid- 
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 BOILED SQUASH. 
 
 Peel a nice spring squash, take out the seeds and coarse part 
 from the centre, eut it up in slices, and put it to stew with a little 
 water, in a small covered saucepan. When it is quite tender, 
 mash it, put to it a spoonful of cream or a little butter, pepper 
 and salt to taste, and keep hot, till wanted for the table. 
 
 SEA KALE. 
 
 This should be boiled quite white, in milk, and may be served 
 on toast like asparagus. 
 
 STEWED CUCUMBERS. 
 
 Cut them in quarters, peel and remove the seeds, boil until ten- 
 der, and serve with toasted bread and sweet cream. 
 
 SALSIFY OR VEGETABLE OYSTER. 
 
 The roots look like horseradish; they must be-well scraped, cut 
 in two, and parboiled. The water is then drained off, the plant 
 cut up fine and boiled up in milk, with a little butter, pepper and 
 salt. Some persons think it acquires more the taste of the oyster, 
 by having a little cod-fish stirred among it, but we prefer it with- 
 out. 
 
 JERUSALEM ARTICHOKES. 
 
 They should be boiled, putting them at first into cold water, and 
 must be taken up the moment they are done, or they will be too 
 soft. They may be boiled plain, or served with white fricassee 
 sauce. When boiled, if rubbed through a sieve with some fresh 
 butter and cream, they form a splendid purre as a sauce for cutlets, 
 or as a thickening for some sorts of white soup, or they may be 
 sliced and fried. 
 
 ARTICHOKE FRACIS. 
 
 Having parboiled the artichokes, remove the middle leaves, pare 
 it, stuff the centre with forcemeat and bake them until the meat is 
 done. Serve with melted butter. 
 
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 MASHED TURNIPS. 
 
 Pare the turnips, cut them in half and boil in a pot with either 
 beef, mutton, or lamb. When they become tender, press the li- 
 quor from them and mash them with pepper and salt. They may 
 be served in this way, or they may be sent to the table whole, 
 with white sauce. rust 
 
 EGG PLANT. 
 
 This is a delicious vegetable. Select a medium sized one. Peel, 
 and cut it in round, thin slices. Sprinkle a little salt between 
 each slice, and then cover them down with a bowl, and let them 
 stand for an hour. Then rinse off the salt with clear, cold water ; 
 throw away the liquid at the bottom of the dish, which will be dark 
 colored; wipe each slice dry, dip it in egg, and bread crumbs, and 
 fry it in half lard, and half butter, a fine brown. 
 
 SPINACH. 
 
 Pick apart and wash carefully in three or four waters; put ito 
 the saucepan with a little salt. Press it down with a spoon and let 
 it boil quickly about fifteen minutes. When tender turn it into a 
 colander, and press out the water. Place it in the dish, raising 
 it with a fork so that it may lie hollow; serve with melted butter or 
 ege sauce, and garnish with hard boiled eggs cut in rings. It re- 
 quires no water in boiling, the expressed juice being quite suffi- 
 cient to keep it moist, ey the spinach being much finer without, 
 than with it. “ 
 
 DANDELIONS. 
 
 These are relished by many as well as spinach cooked in the 
 seme way. ‘Take the young leaves before the plant blossoms or 
 while in the bud, mash quite clean, boil tender in salted water, 
 dram well and press them dry. They can be served plain with 
 melted butter, or can be chopped and heated afresh with pepper, 
 
 salt, and a little butter rolled in flour, and a spoonful or two of | 
 
 gravy or cream. A large quantity should be boiled, as they shrink 
 very much. The dandelion is considered very healthy, and the 
 slight bitterness is relished by most persons. 
 
 
 
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 FRENCH BEANS.—1. 
 
 _ Well drain the beans; after scalding them, color some butter in 
 a saucepan, toss up the beans in it over the fire, season them with 
 salt and pepper, and when dishing up add a very little vinegar. 
 
 FRENCH BEANS.—2. 
 
 String the beans, cut them in two and then across, sprinkle them 
 with salt, put them in boiling water and boil them up quickly. 
 
 YOUNG BEETS BOILED. 
 
 Beets are sweeter, and better when young, than when they 
 have attained full size. Wash, and boil them, take off the skins 
 after they are boiled, and put over them pepper, salt, and a little 
 butter. When they have grown older, they require vinegar, and 
 are indeed only fit for a pickle. Be careful never to prick beets 
 in putting them in the pot, or while they are cooking, as that 
 spoils the color, and injures the flavor. 
 
 ASPARAGUS. 
 
 Cut off the white ends, removing most of that which is hard ; 
 scrape the hard ends a little. Put them in cold water for a short 
 time, then tie them up in small bundles. When the water boils, 
 put them in with a little salt; boil until tender, about fifteen or 
 twenty minutes. Toast a slice of bread brown on both sides. 
 ’ Take them up carefully, dip the toast in the asparagus water, and 
 lay the heads on it with the white ends outwards. Pour melted 
 butter over them, and if desired garnish with quarters of an 
 orange. 
 
 STEWED TOMATOES. 
 
 Pour boiling water over ripe tomatoes to crack the skin, so that 
 it can be removed; then cut them into small pieces, squeeze out 
 some of the seeds without losing too much of the juice, then stew 
 them without water, seasoning them with butter and salt. An 
 onion, chopped fine may be stewed with them. Pepper may be 
 added while stewing, or added at the table to each person’s taste. 
 
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 GREEN PEAS. 
 
 These should be fresh and newly shelled. Wash them and put 
 them into enough boiling water to cover them, with a few leaves 
 of mint, and a small piece of butter. Stir them occasionally and 
 when tender drain the water from them, sprinkle on a little salt 
 and serve them with melted butter. 
 
 ONIONS, BOILED. 
 
 Put them, after being peeled, in boiling water. Then when they 
 are tender pour the water off, add butter, pepper, salt and a little 
 milk, stew them up again and send them to the table hot. 
 
 FRICASSEED PARSNIPS. 
 
 Boil them in water until they are tender, then cut them into 
 pieces two or three inches long, slice them and stew them in half a 
 cupful of cream or milk, half a cupful of broth, a piece of floured 
 butter, and pepper and salt. 
 
 FRIED PARSNIPS. 
 
 Boil them tender ;- when they are cool, slice them lengthwise, 
 and fry them with some thin slices of boiled salt pork. Put in the 
 parsnips when the fat is hot, pepper them, brown them on both 
 sides; crisp the pork, and serve with them. 
 
 BOILED PARSNIPS. ‘ 
 
 Wash, scrape, cut out every speck or discoloration, and if large 
 divide them. Put them in boiling water, skim it occasionally and 
 let them boil from twenty to thirty minutes. Serve them. mashed 
 or plain, with melted butter. 
 
 
 
 PORTUGAL ONIONS STEWED. 
 
 Boil in water until they begin to soften, let them drain, put in a 
 stewpan, cover with good thick brown gravy; let them remain 
 until they are perfectly tender, and send them to table. 
 
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 PORTUGAL ONIONS FRIED, 
 
 Peel and cut them in slices; fry in butter or lard, or fat from 
 

 
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 cooking meat; stir constantly while frying, and let them be of a 
 dark brown color. sik 
 
 LIMA BEANS. 
 
 Shell the beans, put them in a considerable water, boiling with 
 pickled parsley and sufficient salt; boil them quickly, and when 
 done strain off the water; take them out, and season them with . 
 butter, pepper, and salt; garnish with boiled parsley. 
 
 BEST PORK AND BEANS. 
 
 Pick over a quart of small white beans, put them to soak over 
 night. Set them to boil the next morning, throwing off the water, 
 just before they reach boiling point. Cover with cold water 
 again, put in a square pound of nice sweet salt pork and let both 
 boil together till the beans are tender. When the beans are done, 
 the water should have all become absorbed; they are then put in 
 one pan to brown, and the pork in another, scoring the latter 
 first, through the skin. Before serving set the pork in the centre 
 of the beans. Serve with pickles and horseradish. 
 
 BOILED CARROTS. 
 
 To boil carrots in their own juice, wash clean and scrape them, 
 cutting out discolored spots; cut them in rather thick slices and 
 throw them into as much boiling salted water as will cover or barely 
 float them, and no more. Boil gently till they are tolerably ten- 
 der, then boil very quickly to evaporate the water, of which only a 
 spoonful or so should be left in the saucepan. Sprinkle on them a 
 little pepper, put ina small piece of butter rolled in flour, turn and 
 toss them gently till their juice is thickened by them, and adheres 
 to them; serve immediately. ‘They are improved by adding a des- 
 sert spoonful of minced parsley, with the butter and a little thick 
 cream mixed with a very little flour to prevent its curdling, Gra- 
 vy may be used instead of cream. 
 
 CARROTS WITH PARSLEY. 
 
 Take boiled carrots, and divide them down the length once, if 
 very large divide again; then cut them in slices the thickness of a 
 silver quarter of a dollar. Take some sprigs of parsley, parboil 
 

 
 138 VEGETABLES. 
 
 and chop them small; then put the sliced carrots into a stewpan 
 with the chopped parsley, a little bit of butter, some pepper, and 
 salt, and a little cold gravy; toss them over the fire till hot, sie 
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 BOILED CABBAGE. a ore 
 Take off the outer leaves, cut the head in halves or quarters, and — 
 boil quickly in a large quantity of water, until done. Drain and 
 press out the water, chop fine and season. Boil from half an hour 
 toan hour. The water can be drained off when die are half 
 done, and fresh water added if desired. 
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 Cut the heads with short stalks, peel off the hard omega Mek 
 which is on the stalk and small branches, wash them, boil them fif- 
 - teen minutes, tie the shoots into branches, add a little milk or cream, 
 and stew gently for ten minutes more until the stalks are tender. 
 It should be eaten, like asparagus, on toast with drawn butter. 
 
 BROCCOLI. 
 
 BUTTERED CABBAGE. 
 
 Boil cabbage with a quanity of onions, then chop them together, 
 season with pepper and salt, and fry them in butter. It is a rather 
 homely but savory dish, and is frequently used with fried sausages 
 laid over it, or as an accompaniment to roast beef 
 
 A CABBAGE RELISH. 
 
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 Take the stalks of cabbage, scrape them, leave them in the wa- 
 ter all night, and the next day cook them like vegetable marrow, 
 and they will be found very good. 
 
 A RED CABBAGE RELISH. 
 
 Put the cabbage sliced into a stewpan, with sliced onion accord- 
 ing to taste; add half a teacup of vinegar, and let it simmer four 
 or five hours, stirring frequently. When dished, add a little flour 
 and butter. 
 
 RED CABBAGE STEWED. 
 
 After slicing a small red cabbage, and well washing it, put it 
 
 
 
VEGETABLES. 189 
 
 into a saucepan with pepper, salt, and butter, but no more water 
 than will hang about it after the washing. Cover it closely, and let 
 it stew two or. three hours or until very tender, and shortly before 
 serving add two or three spoonsful of vinegar, and give it one boil 
 over the fire. It may be served with cold meat, or with sausages 
 on it. 
 
 FRENCH CABBAGE 
 
 Boil together as many different vegetables as are convenient, but 
 with them must be a pint of split peas, and a cabbage cut into 
 quarters, and tied with thread. Add two spoonsful of nice olive oil, 
 melted butter, or cream, pepper, and salt. When cooked enough, 
 pour off the liquid, (which save for another time,) and leave the 
 rest to stew. 
 
 
 
 VEGETABLE MARROWS. 
 
 Peel the marrow, then divide down the centre, and take the 
 seeds out; cut the marrow in pieces, boil until quite soft, then 
 drain in a colander until all the water is out; beat well with a fork 
 and season with pepper, salt, and alump of sugar. They are also 
 very nice sliced and boiled, then laid upon toast, with melted but- 
 ter poured over, like asparagus. 
 
 VEGETABLE MARROW TART. 
 
 Peel and core the marrow, cut into small pieces, boil until quite 
 soft, drain the water well from it, and beat with a fork until all the 
 lumps are out. Have ready three eggs, well beaten with a little 
 milk, mix with the marrow until it is in the consistency of custard ; 
 sweeten it, and add a little grated nutmeg; pour into shallow dishes, 
 lined with short paste, similar to baked custards. 
 
 CAULIFLOWER. 
 
 Break off the green leaves, cut the flower close at the bottom, 
 from the stalk; if large, divide into four quarters. Put into cold 
 water, let it lie not over an hour, then put into boiling milk and 
 water, or water only—milk makes it white—skim while boiling. 
 When the stalks are tender, take it up, which must be done before 
 it loses its crispness. Lay it on a cloth or colander to drain, and 
 serve with melted butter. 
 
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 PUDDINGS AND PIES. 
 
 A great deal has been said lately against puddings and pies, 
 and desserts generally.. People have been warned against them 
 as unwholesome ; long catalogues of diseases,— in fact, all the ills 
 that flesh is heir to, have been laid to their charge; and all, we 
 verily believe, without any more reason than could be given for 
 stopping the use of fuel, because some people are careless enough 
 to set fire to their dresses, or their houses. 
 
 The dessert is to many people the most important part of the 
 dinner; it is always so to children, and there is no reason why it 
 should not be just as healthy, just as digestible as the dinner. In 
 fact, there are many persons, who neither eat puddings nor 
 pies themselves, nor allow their children to eat them, who will yet 
 compel them to swallow tough, ill-cooked meat, soggy potatoes, 
 and bread, heavy, sour, and indigestible, as so much lead. 
 
 Eating is not merely a duty, it is one of the pleasures of life; 
 and pains should be taken by every housekeeper to make ita 
 source of as much enjoyment as possible. The dessert is the holi- 
 day part of the dinner; it is a subject of expectation and antici- 
 pation—it affords an opportunity of making up for a rather slim 
 first course, and often drives away the unpleasant remembrance of 
 a cold leg of mutton, or impenetrable beef-steak. 
 
 Of course, it requires a little time and judgment—every detail 
 of housekeeping does, and should be adapted to the dinner which 
 has preceded it. 
 
 When the meal is hot,—and hearty, alight, simple dessert is 
 sufficient, but. when it consists of cold meat, or some make-shift 
 warmed up from the previous day, nice fruit puddings, and home- 
 made pies, deep and good, are very welcome. 
 
142 PASTRY. — 
 
 We always suspect a man who does not like pie or eid just 
 as we would a woman that did not love children; he is sure to be 
 cross, and hard to manage, difficult to please, ait never a cain 
 natured, not even after his dinner. ‘ 
 
 Solid flour puddings are always doubtful. may are too indy 
 for this climate, unless made a very important part of the dinner. 
 Desserts require to be fruity,—fruity in substance, fruity in flavor. 
 We do not condemn all pastry, but in puddings and pies, the more 
 fruit and less paste, the better.- 
 
 Fruit alone makes a very good dessert; and when in the season, 
 and plentiful, a very cheap one. Aaa grapes, melons, pears, 
 and peaches, are all fine for dessert, and can be used pinay: * 48 
 combined, according to means, and occasion. 
 
 Nuts, with apples, are excellent in winter; but nuts should never 
 be put on the table alone,—they are not Sly indigestible, but with- 
 out juicy fruit as an accompaniment, unpalatable. A dish of ap- 
 ples, or oranges, will be found a very welcome addition to a des- 
 sert composed of any kind of pie or pudding in which fresh fruit 
 is not an ingredient, such as plain rice, corn oe custard, and 
 the like. 
 
 Bread and butter, apple-sauce, and a cup of tea, winds up a 
 family dinner very nicely, on washing or any other day, when it is 
 not convenient to have anything else. 
 
 But whatever your dessert is composed of, be careful to have it 
 put upon the table with due ceremony. Children are great observ- 
 ers of small matters of etiquette, and quickly notice the difference 
 between company, and family manners. Do not, because ‘‘ there 
 is no one present,” allowit to be huddled upon the table, amidst a 
 confusion of meat and vegetables, without changing the plates, or 
 the knives and forks, and brushing off the table cloth. Go through 
 ‘¢all the motions.” A little ceremony in families is a good thing; - 
 it preserves the respect of the members for themselves and each 
 other ; it prevents the familiarity which breeds contempt, and teaches 
 children how to behave away from home. If circumstances require 
 a degree of hurry which compels you to waive ceremony, apologise 
 as you would to friends, were they present, and request the other 
 members of the family to proceed as usual. 
 
 But be sure, young housekeepers and young mothers, not to 
 
 
 

 
 ‘PASTRY. 143 
 
 relinquish your pies and puddings, it is one way of appealing to, 
 and winning the hearts of husbands, and children. Moreover, 
 acquire the practice, and as a general rule make them yourself 
 There are very few servants that can be trusted with the use of 
 the materials required, or who can make the same article twice alike 
 It is also a privilege which a good wife and mother will not like 
 to forego, to compound the particular dish of which husband and 
 children are so fond, and which they will always remember in con- 
 nection with her kind heart, and skillful hand, as long as they live. 
 Who that has lived to man’s or woman’s estate, but remembers 
 something which ‘‘ mother ” used to make, the like of which no one 
 could make or ever will again, and in nineteen cases out of twenty 
 it is some especial pie or pudding. 
 
 POTATO PIE CRUST. 
 
 Put a tea-cupful of’ rich sweet cream, to six good sized potatoes 
 after they have been well boiled, and mash fine. Add salt to 
 taste, and flour enough to roll out the crust. Handle it as little as 
 possible. It is better not to put crust at the bottom of a pie if 
 the fruit is very moist, for it will be clammy from the moisture, but 
 let the under crust only cover the rim of the plate. Prick the up- 
 per crust to let out the steam, else the juice will run over. This 
 paste is excellent for apple dumplings, or meat pies, and may be 
 eaten by the most fastidious dyspeptic. 
 
 PUFF PASTE. 
 
 Take four ounces of the best wheat flour, four ounces of sweet 
 butter; divide the butter into three parts; take one of the three 
 pieces and rub it into the flour with the hand, till well mixed; 
 then stir in a table-spoonful of water, and form with a spoon into 
 a very stiff paste; putit on a marble table or a very smooth board, 
 and roll it out once each way ; fold the four ends inwards, and roll 
 first lengthways, and then sideways; spread on half the remaining 
 butter in little pieces, sprinkle with flour, fold and roll as before ; 
 spread on the rest of the butter and repeat the process; now fold 
 and roll twice, and put it away to cool for ten minutes. Roll out 
 the paste very thin, and it is ready for whatever use required. 
 
144 PASTRY. 
 
 ‘CRUST FOR RAISED PIES. 
 
 
 
 Take two ounces of lard, two ounces of butter; put both togeth- 
 er into a stewpan with a tea-cupful of water to billy mix it with 
 one pound of sifted flour while it is boiling hot, first ‘with a@ spoon 
 and then with the hand. Roll out as other crust for pies. 
 
 SUET CRUST FOR MEAT PIES. 
 
 Take the fibre from eight ounces of soft beef suet, and pound it 
 to a soft mash; mix it with one pound of fine flour; then make the 
 crust in the same way as for puff paste, using the pounded suet in- 
 stead of butter. It may be used for a pie at once, without setting 
 it aside to cool. . 
 
 MINCE PIES. 
 
 Mince pies are not healthful, and one batch in a season is quite 
 sufficient. A shin of beef boiled down till very tender, one pound 
 of nice clear beef suet chopped very fine, a table-spoonful of salt, 
 six pounds of greening apples peeled, cored and chopped, three 
 pounds of raisins stoned, three of currants carefully cleaned, one 
 pound of brown sugar, a cup of maple syrup, half a pound of cit- 
 ron, shredded, half a pound of candied lemon peel, a quart of the 
 best cider. This mixture makes rich pies, but mince pies are noth- 
 ing if not rich. These are also particularly fine in flayor. In- 
 stead of cider, some persons put in a quart of Madeira wine, and. 
 a little brandy; but it is better not to use alcohol in food mban it 
 can be avoided. 
 
 ENGLISH MINCE PIES. 
 
 Three and a half pounds of good chopped beef, three and a half 
 pounds of suet, three and a half pounds of raisins, three and a 
 half pounds of currants, seven pounds of apples chopped, one 
 pound of candied citron, two pounds of sugar, one ounce of nut- 
 megs, four quarts of good cider, one pint best vinegar, salt, a pint 
 of golden syrup. Half the raisins should be stoned and are 
 the other half left whole. 
 
 The quantity, of course, may be reduced or increased ; how ex- 
 ample, by giving five, or seven pounds of beef, to fourteen pounds 
 

 
 PASTRY. 145 
 
 of apples. ven this proportion added to the others makes splen- 
 did pies. ‘To our taste, the proportion of suet is altogether too 
 large, one pound, especially if a shin of beef is used, being am- 
 ple to sectire rich pies. No common spices, such as cloves, or all- 
 spice, should be employed. 
 
 MRS. D.’S MINCE PIES. 
 
 Five pounds of beef, three of apples, one of suet, two of raisins, 
 two of currants, one tea-spoonful of salt, two of cloves, two of 
 _ mace, two of cinnamon, two of allspice, one tumbler of brandy, 
 one cup of wine, two pounds of sugar, one pint of ea 
 
 SQUASH PIE. 
 
 Having pared the squash and removed the sceds, stew it till soft 
 and dry, then pulp it through a colander. Stir into the pulp 
 enough sweet milk to make it thick as batter; spice with ginger, 
 cinnamon, nutmeg, or whatever is liked; sweeten with sugar, and 
 add four well-beaten eggs for each quart of milk used. Filla 
 pie-plate lined with crust and bake for about an hour. 
 
 CUSTARD PIES. 
 
 Very nice custard pies are made with two eggs, and two large 
 table-spoonsful of corn starch to a quart of milk; sweeten and 
 spice to taste; add also salt; the corn starch should be mixed 
 smooth with milk and the eggs beaten up in it, then thin out with 
 more milk; sweeten, season, pour into pans lined with paste, and 
 grate nutmeg over the top. 3 
 
 APPLE CUSTARD PIES 
 
 Grate, or stew to a pulp,.twelve large apples; to this add a tca- 
 - spoonful of salt, sugar, nutmeg, three eggs well beaten, a pint of 
 cream or milk, and a table-spoonful of melted butter, the grated 
 rind of two lemons and the juice of one; pour the mixture into 
 plates lined with rich paste, and arrange strips in a network over 
 the top; bake a light browh, and sift over them powdered sugar. 
 
 LEMON PIE.—1l. 
 
 One lemon, one orange, one sour apple, all peeled, seeds taken 
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 out, and sliced thin; put them in a sauce pan with one teacupful 
 of water, and stew till soft; set aside to cool, and add half a tea- 
 cupful of sugar, same of molasses, and a table-spoon ig tiegt on 
 of flour ; this makes one pie the size of a large ates plate. — 
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 ‘LEMON PIE.—2. 
 
 One cup of hot water, one table-spoonful of cornstarch, one cup 
 of white sugar, one table-spoonful of butter, juice and grated rind =, _ 
 of onelemon. Cook fora few minutes; add one egg, bake bilie a 
 top and bottom crust. This is for one ‘Pie. 
 
 e KITTY MAY'S LEMON CREAM PIE. a, | 
 
 The juice and grated rind of one lemon, one cup of white sugar, 
 the yolks of two eggs, three table-spoonsful of sifted flour, milk to 
 fill the plate. This makes a large pie, and should be made with 
 an under crust, but not any top crust. Bake until nearly done, 
 then take from the oven, and pour over it a frosting made of the 
 beaten whites of the two eggs, and two table-spoonsful of powder- — 
 ed sugar, then set back in the oven, and brown lightly. One of £ 4 
 the best pies ever eaten. ‘= 
 
 SWEET APPLE PIE. acme a 
 
 Pies made of sweet apples used in precisely the same , way as 
 pumpkins, omitting the ginger and adding a little lemon, if liked, — 
 for seasoning, are better to the taste of some than Kagel 
 itself. Pare cut,and stew the apples. If cooked in a cover i 
 deep earthen or other dish in the oven, they are bettas tac . 
 through a colander, add a little milk, cream is better. If there b ‘be 
 no eggs to spare, stir in a handful of flour, or about a aac to a # ‘ 
 apie. Sweeten to taste. a i 
 
 
 
 
 
 GREEN APPLE PIE. —l. 1 ae j ne a 
 Grate raw, six good apples, add a cup of sugar, three table- 
 spoonsful of melted butter, four eggs, a little lemon juice, afew — 
 dried currants, and a little spice; line plates with a paste, fill and - 
 bake without an upper crust. One or two tea-spoonsful of brandy 
 may be ased in the pie if desired. ‘ 
 

 
 PASTRY. 147 
 
 GREEN APPLE PIE.—2. 
 
 - Take ripe and rather tart apples such as pippins, russets or 
 greenings ; pare, core, and cut them into very thin slices, fill the un- 
 der crust, throw over them slices of fresh lemon, cinnamon, and 
 plenty of white sugar; lay on the upper crust and bake in a mild 
 oven. 
 
 ENGLISH APPLE PIE. 
 
 Lay some paste crust round the sides of a deep dish; quarter 
 the apples and take out the cores. Put in a thick layer of apples, 
 cover with half the sugar you intend for your pie, some lemon 
 peel grated fine and a few cloves; then put in the rest of the ap- 
 ples and sugar, and add a little lemon juice; boil the cores and ~ 
 peelings of the apples in water with a blade of mace, until they 
 are soft, then press it through a colander; boil it with sugar, and 
 pour it in the pie with a little quince or marmalade. Put on the 
 upper crust and bake. 
 
 } FRUIT PIES. 
 
 Fruit pies should be eaten fresh and baked in tolerably deep 
 
 earthen platters. Their excellence consists in a small, quantity 
 
 of pastry and a large amount of fruit and sugar. Line the dish 
 with good paste, leaving half an inch to project over the edge. 
 Fill with fruit, and cover thickly with sugar; no spice is needed 
 for fresh small fruit pies. Put ona lid of puff paste, and bring 
 the outer edge of the under paste up and over it, moistening 
 slightly with cold water, so that it will fasten down tight. This 
 prevents the juice from boiling out. Notch the edge and center. 
 
 CHERRY, PLUM, OR GOOSEBERRY PIE. (Hhglish method.) 
 
 Make a good crust and lay a little around ‘the sides of a deep 
 dish. Cover the bottom with sugar, and lay in the cherries, 
 plums, or gooseberries whole, sprinkle sugar over the top and 
 bake in a moderate oven. 
 
 WHORTLEBERRY PIE. 
 
 Wash and pick over the berries, place them an inch thick on the 
 
148 Bhi PASTRY. 
 
 under crust, cover them thickly with sugar, put on the upper crust 
 and bake -half an hour. Other berry pies, such as blackberry and 
 raspberry, are made in the same way. ‘They require no spice; but 
 we think whortleberries are greatly improved by having a few red 
 currants, or the juice of a lemon sprinkled among them. Sift 
 powdered sugar over all fruit pies before serving. 
 
 PUMPKIN PIES. 
 
 Take a small pumpkin, or half of a large one, stew long and 
 slowly, then strain it, after peeling, and cutting it in small pieces. 
 Mix with this quantity of pulp, one quart of sweet milk, three eggs, 
 and two table-spoonsful of corn starch mixed first smooth with a 
 little of the milk. Salt, sugar, and ginger must be put in to taste. 
 A large cup of sugar is about right; one nutmeg. The ginger is 
 indispensable to a genuine pumpkin pie. If part cream can be 
 used the pie is much richer, as well as more delicate in flavor. 
 Bake with an under crust only. 
 
 COCOANUT PIE. 
 
 For three pies one quart of milk, five eggs, one grated cocoa- 
 nut. Beat the eggs and sugar together to sweeten, and stir into 
 the milk when hot; then add the cocoanut and spice. Put itina 
 rich paste, and bake twenty minutes. 
 
 GRAPE PIE. 
 
 Pop the pulps out of the skins into one vessel, and put the skins 
 into another. Then simmer the pulp a little and run it through a 
 colander to separate the seeds. Then put the skins and pulp to- 
 gether and they are ready for jugging, or for pies. Pies prepared 
 in this way can hardly be distinguished from plum pies. 
 
 RHUBARB PIE. 
 
 Take off the thin skin, cut the stalks in small pieces, add a little 
 flour, place it in the pie. When the paste is done remove the top 
 crust and add sugar and butter, mixing it thoroughly with the rhu- 
 barb. Put the topcrust on and serve warm. A little nutmeg may 
 be grated over the top of the fruit before putting on the crust, if 
 it is relished. 
 
 
 

 
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 MOCK APPLE PIE. 
 
 Two soda crackers, one egg, one cup of sugar, and one of 
 water, the juice and yellow rind grated of alemon. This a good 
 recipe for Spring use. 
 
 DRIED APPLE PIS. 
 
 Wash the apples in two or three waters, and put them to soak 
 in rather more water than will cover them, as they absorb a great 
 deal. After soaking an hour or two, put them into a preserving 
 kettle with the same water, and with the thin peel of one or two 
 lemons, chopped fine. Boil tender; when they rise, press them 
 down, but do not stir them: When tender, add sugar, and boil 
 fifteen or twenty minutes longer. Dried apples, soaked over night, 
 are made tasteless, and are mashed up by being stirred. When 
 cooked, stir in a little melted butter, some cinnamon, and powdered 
 cloves. It is important that the apples should be of a tart kind. 
 
 DRIED PLUM PIES. 
 
 Soak the plums, and stew them gently; season them with spice 
 and sugar to taste; put a puff paste on to the plate; then put a 
 layer of the plums, stewed; roll out a piece of paste thin, cover 
 them, add another layer of plums, and cover for the last time. 
 . You may have as many stories to your pie as you choose. 
 
 CORN MEAL PIES. 
 
 Stir a small tea-cupful of very fine ground Indian meal into two 
 quarts of boiling milk; when nearly cool add four beaten eggs, 
 and sweeten to taste, like a custard, adding spice and orange peel, 
 if desired. Bake with a crust like custard pie. 
 
PUDDINGS. 
 
 BUFFALO PUDDING. 
 
 
 
 A quart of flour, two tea-spoonsful of baking powder, a table- 
 spoonful of maizena, a salt spoon of salt, a piece of butter the size 
 of a small egg, and cold water; mix the baking powder with the 
 flour thoroughly, put in the salt and maizena, and mix to the con- 
 sistency of drop cake. Have the butter melted and stir into the 
 mass. In berry time, drop a part of this mixture in a tin pail, ora 
 steamer if you have one, which has been buttered, then put ina 
 layer of berries doing up with batter. In the winter, chopped - 
 apples, dried currants, or any kind of dried fruit are an excellent 
 substitute. Zante currants will not require previous soaking, but 
 common garden fruits will. Steam the pudding for one hour and _ 
 a half, and serve with liquid sauce. A pudding can be steamed in 
 a tin pail, by inverting and old tin cup, and setting the pail upon 
 it in the pot. Be sure that the water boils and keeps boiling, and 
 that the pail is covered tight by its lid. ‘This pudding contains nei- 
 ther milk nor eggs, yet, if properly made, it will be thought by the 
 best judges to possess both. When mixed with milk however, it 
 is whiter than when mixed with water. 
 
 ENGLISH APPLE PUDDING. 
 
 Make a paste of a pint of sifted flour, a quarter of a pound of 
 finely chopped beef suet, a little salt, and cold water. Line a 
 pudding bowl, fill with tart apples cut in quarters. Sprinkle a lit- 
 tle sugar on the top, cover with paste, and boil an hour and a quar- 
 
 ter. Turn out, and serve with a sweet liquid pudding sauce, spiced 
 with lemon, and ginger. 
 

 
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 APPLE PUDDING.—1. 
 
 Stew six large apples, pared and cored, in six table-spoonsful of 
 water with the rind of a lemon. When they are tender, beat them 
 to a pulp and stir with them four ounces of brown sugar, a cup of 
 cream, two well-beaten eggs, and a tea-spoonful of lemon juice. 
 Put it in a dish lined with puff paste, bake it, and when done stick 
 chips of candied citron and lemon peel in the top. 
 
 APPLE PUDDING.—2. 
 
 Peel six apples, take out the core, leaving the apple whole, fill 
 them with sugar, place them in a pudding-dish, pour over them a 
 batter, prepared as for a batter pudding. Bake an hour in a mod- 
 erate oven. 
 
 APPLE PUDDING.—3. 
 
 Prepare six apples as for sauce, and mix with them two ounces 
 of melted butter, two well-beaten eggs, bread crumbs, a little 
 cream, nutmeg, sugar. Bake in small cups, turn them out and 
 serve with sifted sugar. 
 
 APPLE PUDDING.—4. 
 
 Pare and chop half a dozen good sour apples. Butter a pudding- 
 dish and put in a layer of grated bread half an inch thick, add 
 small bits of butter; put in a layer of chopped apples, with sugar 
 and nutmeg, and repeat till the dish is full. Pour over the whole 
 a tea-cup of cold water, and bake thirty minutes. ‘No sauce. 
 
 POOR MAN’S PUDDING. 
 
 Take some stale pieces of bread, pour boiling water over them, 
 and cover down tight. When they have absorbed the water, and 
 become soft, mash them to a pulp. Mix in one table-spoonful of 
 corn-starch, one evs, a cup of milk, a little salt, some sugar, and a 
 - few currants cleaned by rubbing in a colander with some flour. 
 Bake in a dish with a few small pieces of butter on the top, and a 
 little nutmeg grated over. It. is good hot or cold, and when cold, 
 will turn out, and cut like an English cheese-cake. Itis also inex- 
 
 pensive. 
 
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152. PUDDINGS. 
 
 VICTORIA PUDDING. 
 
 Take half a baad of mashed potatoes, half a pound of ee P 
 carrots, half a pound of grated bread, half a pound of “sugar, 
 quarter of a pound of suet, half-a pound of currants or raisins, 
 three well-beaten eggs, a little nutmeg, cinnamon, lemon peel : and 
 salt. Stir all well together; boil four hours and serve them with 
 sauce. 
 
 
 
 SARATOGA PUDDING. 
 
 Take one pint and a half of milk, two eggs, and a small table- 
 spoonful of flour; mix the flour with cold milk to the consistence 
 of thick cream ; nae the rest of the milk, and pour, boiling hot, 
 upon the flour, hoe all the time; add a salt-spoonful of salt, 
 sugar to your taste, and, when Be two eggs well beaten; have 
 ready a buttered dish, pour the whole into it, grate lemon or 
 nutmeg over it,-and bake thirty-five or forty minutes. It should 
 be out of the oven fifteen minutes before serving. It is delicious 
 to eat cold with fruit. 
 
 INDIAN FRUIT PUDDING. 
 
 Make a batter of a pint of hot milk and enough corn meal to 
 make it stiff, add a little molasses and a tea-spoonful of salt; then 
 mix in a pint of sweet apples chopped, or a pint of huckleberries. 
 Tie it in a wet cloth, leaving room for it to swell, put it in boiling 
 water, boil three hours and serve with sweet sauce. 
 
 SNOW PUDDING.—1l. 
 
 Take half a pound of the pulp of roasted apples, carefully sep- 
 arated from the skin and core, half a pound of powdered lump 
 sugar, and the whites of two eggs. First beat the eggs to a very 
 stiff froth, then add by degrees first the sugar and then the ap- 
 ples; beat all together for an hour, until, when taken up in the 
 spoon, it stands quite stiff. With the yolks of the two eggs make 
 a sweet custard for the bottom of the dish, and build the snow up 
 by spoonsful to any height you please. Savoy cakes and sweet- 
 meat likewise laid in the dish are an improvement. 
 

 
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 SNOW PUDDING.—2. 
 
 The juice of three lemons, one cup of white sugar, whites of 
 threeeges, half package gelatine. Let the gelatine stand half an 
 hour in a pint of cold water, then throw off that, and add a pint 
 of boiling water. Beat the eggs and sugar well, then add the 
 lemon-juice and gelatine, and beat till it looks like snow. 
 
 BIRD’S NEST PUDDING 
 
 Peel and core eight tart apples; in each hollow stuff sugar and 
 a blade of mace, or a little cinnamon; make a batter of a pint of 
 flour, a spoonful of corn-starch, a large tea-spoonful of baking 
 powder, milk, or water, and a table-spoonful of melted butter. 
 Mix almost as thick as drop cake, pour over the apples, and bake 
 three-quarters of an hour. Eat with sauce. 
 
 To make a richer pudding, stew the apples first, but gently, and 
 hot so asto break them, stuff them with sugar, and citron, pour 
 over a sweet custard, and bake. Boil ittwo or three hours and 
 serve with wine sauce. 
 
 WASHINGTON PUDDING. 
 
 Scald and pulp the apples, add well-beaten eggs, one egg for 
 each large-sized apple, an ounce of butter in pieces, a little cream, 
 candied or grated lemon peel, sugar, and a table-spoonful or more 
 of brandy; bake in a thin paste, in a mild oven. 
 
 FRUIT PUDDINGS. 
 
 One quart of flour, two tea-spoonsful of good baking powder, 
 and a little salt. Mix to the consistency of drop biscuit, with cold 
 milk or water, add two table-spoonsful of melted butter. Butter a 
 mould or a small tin pail, and lay it in a layer of the batter, then 
 a layer of any kind of fresh small fruit, alternating them until the 
 vessel is filled. Cover tight and steam an hour and ahalf. Eat 
 with sweet liquid sauce. Thisis excellent without either milk or 
 
 eggs. 
 FIG PUDDING. 
 
 Half a pound of bread crumbs, half a pound of figs, six ounces 
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 of moist sugar, four ounces of suet, two eggs, a little nutmeg, — 
 and a tea-cupful of milk; the figs and suet to be chopped very 
 fine, and all well mixed together ; to be boiled in a mould for four 
 hours, and served with sweet sauce ; it is oes fried i in slices next | 
 day, with pounded sugar sifted over it. a ae spent oS aoe 
 
 ENGLISH ROLL.PUDDING. _ ya bs 
 
 Roll out half an inch thick a paste made of suet hoped fine, 
 flour, water, and a little salt. Spread over it preserves of any 
 small kind—damsons, currants, berries, or the like, Dust a little 
 flour over it, roll up, wet and pinch the ends tight, and tie in a cloth 
 which has been wet with cold water and well floured. Boil or 
 steam one or two hours, according to size, and eat hot with rich 
 piv sauce. | i ed 
 
 CITRON PUDDING. 
 
 Half a pound of butter, half pound of sugar, well beatell to- 
 gether, half pound of citron cut fine, five eggs, and grated orange 
 peel to taste. Bake in puff paste half an hour. 
 
 MINNIE’S FRUIT PUDDING. 
 
 Mix a pound of red currants, stemmed, with an equal quantity 
 of raspberries, have ready bread and butter in slices; place a layer 
 of bread and butter in the bottom of a buttered pudding dish ; then 
 a layer of fruit, covered thickly with sugar, then another layer of 
 bread and butter, and so on till the fruit is used up, and the dish is 
 full. A thick layer of fruit and sugar should complete the top. 
 Bake slowly for an hour, and serve in the same dish. It is de- 
 licious and wholesome. 
 
 LITTLE BREAD PUDDINGS. (Birthday). 
 
 Steep the crumb part of a baker’s six cent loaf, in a pint of milk, 
 until it is soft and warm. Beat up two eggs with some sugar, an 
 ounce of butter warmed, a little essence of lemon, and a little 
 cream, or table-spoonful of condensed milk. Add quarter of a 
 pound of Zante currants, well cleaned and floured. Pour into 
 buttered cups, grate nutmeg over them, and bake half or three 
 quarers of an hour. Serve with pudding sauce. 
 
 
 

 
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 CHERRY PUDDING. 
 
 One pint of bread crumbs, one cup of sugar, four eggs, a quart 
 milk, grated lemon rind, a little powdered cinnamon, and salt. 
 Mix thoroughly, butter a mould, and spread in a thick layer of the 
 preparation, and then a layer of cherries, then another layer of 
 bread, etc., and one of cherries, alternately until itis filled. Close 
 tight, and steam for two hours. Eat with sweet liquid sauce. 
 Blackberries may be used instead of cherries. 
 
 INDIAN HUCKLEBERRY PUDDING. 
 
 Take a quart of boiling milk and water, stir into it Indian meal 
 enough to make a stiff batter. Add a little salt, a small cup of 
 chopped suet, a little molasses, and a pint of huckleberries. Boil 
 one hour and a half ina bag, leaving room to swell. Eat with 
 sweet liquid sauce. 
 
 Two eggs and half a teaspoonful of soda may be used instead 
 of suet, and the butter, in that case made a little thinner. This 
 makes a more delicate pudding. 
 
 LITTLE BATTER PUDDINGS. 
 
 Make a smooth batter with four fresh eggs, four table-spoonsful 
 of flour, and a quart of new milk. Fill little buttered cups, and 
 stick in chips of candied citron, or lemon peel. Bake, and serve 
 with wine sauce. 
 
 LEMON PUDDING. 
 
 Soak together the juice and peel of two lemons, the peel to be 
 rubbed off with lumps of sugar, six ounces of loaf sugar pounded, 
 except what has been used for the lemon peel, a good sized tea-cup 
 ful of grated bread crumbs; beat up four eggs leaving out two of 
 the whites, melt three ounces of fresh butter and mix all together. _ 
 Edge, and trim a dish with puff paste, pour in the mixture, and 
 bake in a quick oven three quarters of an hour. 
 
 ORANGE PUDDING. 
 
 Pound in a mortar three ounces of fresh butter and four ounces 
 of lump sugar; grate in the rinds of two Seville oranges, also the 
 
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 whole of a large, or two small apples. When thoroughly mixed iy 
 
 add three eggs well beaten. Spread it to the thickness ge an 
 inch on puff paste. Bake quickly. 
 
 ae “ARROWROOT PUDDING. ieee a i 
 
 Mix four spoonsful of arrow root with a teacup of new milk, 
 then boil nearly a quart of milk and stir in the arrowroot. When 
 almost cold add two well-beaten eggs, two ounces of good butter 
 in pieces, two ounces of pounded sugar, and a little grated nutmeg, 
 stir all together and bake it a Be of an hour or more, in a 
 buttered dish. 
 
 LINNIE’S APPLE PUDDING. 
 
 One pint of bread crumbs, six tart-apples chopped fine, a little 
 finely chopped suet, one egg, juice and rind of one lemon, and a 
 
 little salt mixed to the consistency of drop cake, with milk or milk 
 
 and water. Boil in a buttered bowl or well floured bag an hour 
 and a quarter, and serve with sweet liquid sauce flavored with nut- 
 meg. 
 
 AUNT MARY’S PLUM PUDDING. 
 
 Three quarters of a pound of grated bread, half a pound fresh 
 beef suet, chopped fine, half a pound of apples chopped fine, half 
 a pound of currants, same of chopped raisins, four eggs, one pint 
 of milk, a table-spoonful of brandy, another of sherry, a small cup 
 of sugar, a salt-spoon of salt. Boil in a bag four hours, eat with 
 rich sweet sauce. 
 
 APPLE AND SAGO PUDDING. 
 
 Peel and core as many apples as will set into the dish in which 
 the pudding is to be baked; fill the cavity in the cored apples with 
 ground cinnamon and sugar. Take as many dessert spoonsful of 
 sago as you have apples; mix it with a little cold water, and add 
 as much boiling water as will be required to fill the pudding dish; 
 stir it all the time till it begins to thicken; then cover it up and let 
 it stand about two hours, until the sago swells. Turn it into the 
 dish, set it into a rather hot oven, and bake it one hour. Serve 
 with sugar and cream, 
 
 
 

 
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 BAKED INDIAN PUDDING. 
 
 One quart of milk scalding hot, one cup of Indian mea, one 
 half cup of molasses, a piece of butter the size of an egg, a small 
 tea-spoonful of salt, a small tea-spoonful of ginger, a large tea- 
 spoonful of cinnamon. Wet the meal with cold water, and pour 
 the boiling milk on it to scald it. Add one egg when cold, before 
 baking. Bake one hour and a half. 
 
 BOILED RICE PUDDING 
 
 Pick and wash very clean in cold water, four ounces of rice; 
 add six ounces of raisins and mix them equally through the rice; 
 place them in a pudding bag, leaving sufficient room for the rice 
 to swell; boil two hours, and serve it with melted butter, sugar, 
 and grated nutmeg upon it. 
 
 RICE PUDDING. 
 
 To one quart of milk put a cup of rice, and simmer slowly until 
 it is thick and the rice perfectly tender. Then stir in a table- 
 spoonful of butter, three of sugar, and three yolks of eggs while 
 it is hot, with salt to tase. Pour it in a shallow pudding dish lin- 
 ed with rich paste, and bake a light brown. ‘To the whites of the 
 three eggs add six table-spoonsful of powdered sugar and the juice 
 of a lemon, (the rind should have been grated into the rice before 
 baking,) beat it up, cover the top of the pudding, and put it back 
 in the oven five minutes. 
 
 PORTUGUESE RICE PUDDING 
 
 Boil half a pound of rice in water until it begins to open, then 
 strain it from the water, and boil it slowly with .a quart of boiled 
 milk, half a pound of loaf sugar, and the peel of a lemon; when 
 the rice is sufficiently boiled, remove it from the fire and take out 
 all the lemon peel; stir it until it becomes cool, then add four eggs 
 that have been well-beaten (stirring it all the while) and a wine- 
 glassful of orange-flower water; when these ingredients have been 
 properly mixed, pour the whole into a flat dish, and, when cold, 
 cover it with cinnamon powder. ‘This is a birthday dish in Portu- 
 gal; as famous there as plum-pudding is in England. 
 
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 FRENCH oe PUDDING. 
 
 Put a pound of rice into a pint of milk and let them aed 
 
 over the fire until the milk is soaked up and the rice soft. Take ‘ 8 
 
 it from the fire, and when somewhat cooled put into it two eggs, a 
 table-spoonful of butter, a little loaf sugar, and the grated tind 
 of alemon, and stir them well together; then butter a pudding 
 mould, sprinkle in a layer of grated bread crust, pour in pa rice 
 and bake about an hour. 
 
 APPLE AND RICE PUDDING. 
 
 Add to some clean rice, a sufficient quantity of milk to boil it 
 soft; with a little sugar, lemon-peel, and cinnamon. Fill a large 
 high mould with the rice; put in a sauce pan of water and let it 
 stand in the oven thirty minutes. Have ready some fresh apple 
 sauce sweetened, and of lemon peel flavor. When the rice is 
 done, turn it out of the mould upon a dish, and fill in the hollow 
 centre with the apple sauce; beat the whites of three eggs toa 
 froth and put it upon the apples so as to make a top to the mould 
 of rice; sift pounded sugar over the whole. Brown it a little over 
 the top and it is ready for the table. 
 
 RICE FLOUR PUDDING. 
 
 Take a quart of milk, add a pint of the flour; boil them toa 
 pulp; beat up four eggs, to which add six spoonsful of sugar and 
 one spoonful of butter, which, well beaten together, add to the © 
 milk and flour; grate nutmeg over the mixture, and bake i in a 
 well-creased diss 
 
 BADEN PUDDING. 
 
 Boil in a pint of milk, a teacupful of rice, when it is ce a 
 a quarter of a pound of raisins, two ounces of chopped suet, two 
 eggs; stir well together and boil in a buttered mould. Serve with 
 sweet sauce, flavored with lemon or vanilla. 
 
 SEVILLE PUDDING. 
 
 Boil in a quart of milk a teacupful of Carolina rice. _ When the 
 rice is swelled and soft, mix in enough grated marmalade to color 
 

 
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 and flavor it; pour it in a buttered mould and boil it again to 
 make it turn out; serve with wine sauce. 
 
 SAGO PUDDING. 
 
 Wash and pick five table-spoonsful of sago, and boil it ina 
 quart of milk with a stick of cinnamon until soft. Mix in six 
 table-spoonsful of powdered loaf sugar, one table-spoonful of but- 
 ter; when cold add two well-beaten eggs and a little nutmeg. Stir 
 well together and bake ina buttered dish three quarters of an 
 hour. 
 
 TAPIOCA PUDDING. 
 
 Put a teacup of tapioca and a tea-spoon of salt into a pint and 
 a half of water, and let it stand several hours where it will be 
 quite warm, but not cook. Peel six tart apples, take out the cores, 
 fill them with sugar, in which is grated a litttle nutmeg and lemon- 
 peel, and put them in a pudding-dish; over these pour the tapioca, 
 first mixing with it a table-spoon of melted butter and a little cold 
 milk. Bake one hour. Eat with sauce. 
 
 ICE CORN STARCH PUDDING. 
 
 Take the cream from a quart and a pint of milk after it has 
 stood a few hours, or long enough to ‘‘ raise.” Set it away ina 
 cool place, and mix with a little of the cold skimmed milk four 
 heaping table-spoonsful of corn starch, and two beaten eggs. 
 Place on the fire meantime a quart of the skimmed milk, in a thick, 
 lined saucepan, and when it comes to a boil, mix rapidly and 
 smoothly with it the eggs and corn starch, allowing it to boil up 
 once. Pour into a mould or small oval dishes which have been 
 wet with cold water to prevent sticking. A little salt is an im- 
 provement. Set away ina cool place, and it will turn out clear 
 and quivering. at with the cream taken from the milk and pow- 
 dered sugar. ‘This is a cheap, easily made, and delicious summer 
 dessert. 
 
 BOILED YANKEE PLUM PUDDING 
 
 Three cups of flour, two thirds of a cup of molasses, an egg-size 
 of lard, one cup of chopped raisins, a small tea-spoonful of salt, a 
 
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 coffee-cup of milk, a small tea-spoonful of soda. Boil in a fui 
 or a bag made of thick cloth, or steam three hours. To be eaten 
 hot with a liquid sauce, or butter and sugar. > Tee Sah Se 
 
 MRS. CROLY’S CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING. 
 
 One pound of raisins, one of currants, one of brded-elcii: 
 half-pound of suet chopped fine, eight eggs, one quart milk, one © 
 tea-cup sugar, one nutmeg, quarter pound candied citron, quarter _ 
 candied lemon cut in strips, salt, and other spice to taste. Boil 
 slowly four hours, and eat with rich sauce. This is delicious. 
 
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 BAKED PLUM PUDDING. 
 
 Take two quarts of milk, ten soda crackers, eight eggs, one 
 pound of stoned rasins, spice to suit, and sweeten with sugar; a 
 little butter. Bake from two to three hours. 
 
 PRUNE OR DAMSON PUDDING. 
 
 Take two well beaten eggs, a quart of milk, sufficient flour to 
 make a batter, a little salt, and three spoonsful of ginger. Mix 
 the milk in gradually with a pound of prunes; put it in a pudding 
 bag and boil it an hour or more. Serve with melted butter poured 
 over it. 
 
 ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING. 
 
 One pound of the best raisins stoned, and chopped a little ona 
 paste board; one pound of currants washed and picked, quarter of 
 a pound of candied lemon peel; quarter of a pound of candied 
 citron, cut upin strips; quarter pound of the best Jordan almonds 
 blanched and chopped; one pound of beef suet picked and chopped 
 fine; half pound of flour, and quarter pound of biscuit powder; 
 half pound of moist sugar; nutmeg and mixed spices to taste; 
 half a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda, and half a teaspoonful of 
 
 salt; eight eggs, well beaten, yolks and whites separately; and a 
 gill ar old ale. Then take a little milk in a saucepan, and put 
 into it half a pod of vanilla. Let it simmer on the hob, with the 
 lid closed until the pod is quite soft. Take out the pod and mince 
 it small, put it ina mortar with a little of the milk, and bray it 
 until it is reduced to a paste; return it to the milk and pour all 
 
 
 

 
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 into the pudding. Jusi, before putting the pudding into the basin 
 or mould, give ita very good stir and mix ina gill of good brandy. 
 It willtake eight hours to boil. 
 
 PLUM PUDDING WITH SNOW. 
 
 Mix together a pound and a quarter of flour, half a pint of 
 sweet cream, a pound of stoned rasins, four ounces of currants, 
 four ounces of mashed potatoes, five ounces of brown sugar, and a 
 gill of milk. Work thoroughly together, season it, mix eight 
 table-spoonsful of clear snow very quickly throughout the mass ; 
 put the pudding in a bag and boil four hours. Two table-spoonsful 
 of snow are equal to an egg in any pudding. 
 
 SUET PUDDING.—l. 
 
 One small cup of chopped suet, one cup of molasses, one cup 
 of chopped raisins, one cup of sour milk, half a tea-spoonful each 
 of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, one tea-spoonful of soda. Stir 
 this thick with flour; put in a pudding bag, leaving room for it to 
 rise, and boil three hours. It will be quite light. 
 
 SUET PUDDING.—2. 
 
 __ Mix half a pound of finely chopped suet, two well-beaten exes, 
 
 salt, and half a pound of Zante currants in one pint of milk; make 
 it a thick batter with flour, then mix in another pint of milk and 
 boil it two hours. Serve with wine sauce. 
 
 EXHIBITION PUDDING. 
 
 Mix together a quarter of a pound of finely chopped suet, a 
 quarter of a pound of stoned raisins, two table-spoonsful of flour, 
 two table-spoonsful of sugar, three well-beaten eggs, the grated 
 peel of a whole lemon, and a little nutmeg. Boil three hours. 
 
 LEICESTERSHIRE HUNTING PUDDING. 
 
 Mix together half a pound of chopped suet, three-quarters of a 
 pound of currants, a quarter of a pound of raisins stoned and 
 chopped, a pound of flour, a tumbler of milk, two gills of brandy, 
 four beaten eggs, a cup of sugar, and some grated lemon peel. Boil 
 it two or three hours, and serve with wine sauce. 
 
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 H ‘BREAD PUDDING. —1 
 
 
 
 
 
 "Take the crumbs of stale bread, pour over : ib. one ‘pint < of ne 
 ing milk, and set it by to cool. When quite cold, beat it up very | 
 fine with two ounces of butter, sifted sugar sufficient to sweeten 
 it, grate in half a nutmeg, and add half a pound of well washed. cur 
 rants; beat up three eggs separately and mix them up with the rest, ue 
 adding, if desired, a few strips of candied orange peel. All the 
 ingredients must be beaten up together for about half an hour, as 
 the lightness of the pudding demunae upon that. Boil it an hour. 
 Serve with wine sauce. ‘ | 
 
 SALT CE OT} 
 BREAD PUDDING.—Z. 
 
 One pint of nice fine bread crumbs to one quart of milk, one 
 cup of sugar, the yolks of four eggs beaten, the grated rind of a 
 lemon, a piece of butter the size of anegg. Bake until done, 
 but not watery. Whip the whites of the eggs stiff, and beat in a 
 tea-cupful of sugar in which has been stirred the juice of the lemon. 
 Spread over the pudding a layer of jelly, or any sweetmeat you 
 prefer. Pour the whites of the eggs over this, and replace in the 
 oven and bake lightly. Eat cold with cream. 
 
 CHESTER PUDDING. 
 
 ‘wo ounces of butter, four ounces of white sugar, one and a 
 half ounces of almonds, blanched and pounded, (six bitter, twelve 
 sweet) the juice of one lemon, and the peel grated, the yolks of 
 four eges. Put all this in a stewpan over the fire, and stir it till 
 it nearly boils, then pour it into a pie dish lined with light pastry, 
 -and bake it. The whites of the eggs to be beaten up into snow, 
 and put over the pudding. Just before it is taken out of the oven, 
 strew a little pounded sugar over it. 
 
 MRS. STOWE’S BREAD AND FRUIT PUDDING. 
 
 Take thin slices of white bread, nearly fill a buttered mould 
 with layers of bread and layers of fruit alternately ; beat four eggs, 
 ‘mix them in a pint of warm milk, and pour it over the bread and 
 fruit. Boil it twenty minutes, and serve with white sauce. 
 

 
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 AN EDITOR’S FAVORITE PUDDING. 
 
 Butter thinly sliced bread, and place it in a deep dish; between 
 every layer sprinkle Zante currants, well cleaned, and, if you 
 please, chipped citron. Beat three eggs well, add them to a pint 
 and a half of milk, and a pinch of salt; pour over the bread, and 
 bake slowly, with a cover on, three quarters of an hour; then take 
 the cover off and brown. Eat with sauce. Instead of the currants 
 and citron, marmalade may be spread thickly upon the bread, and 
 the bread cut into small oblong pieces, to make marmalade bread 
 and butter pudding. Bake half an hour. 
 
 SALLY LUNN PUDDING. 
 
 Scoop outa piece from the under side of a Sally Lunn cake 
 without injuring the upper crust, and replace it. Put the cake in- 
 to a basin that will just hold it, pour boiling milk over it, let it 
 soak for three hours, and turn it out; mix one egg, well beaten, 
 with a glass of white wine and a little spice and sugar, and having 
 removed the piece previously cut out, stir in these ingredients, still 
 taking care not to break the crust, and replace the piece. Butter 
 the basin you boil it in, and if ‘not full, fill it with bread and cr ents 
 and boil three quarters of an hour. 
 
 NURSERY PUDDING. 
 
 Stew four pounds of rhubarb with one pound of brown sugar, 
 moisten quarter of a pound of arrowroot with cold water, then stir 
 it into the boiling rhubarb. It is best eaten cold, with milk or 
 eream, ‘The children like this pudding. 
 
 DANDY PUDDING. 
 
 One quart of milk, yolks of four eggs, three table-spoonsful of 
 corn-starch; sweeten to taste; scald the milk, and when very hot, 
 stir in the starch, previously dissolved in cold milk. Add the eggs 
 with the starch ; stir until it thickens well. To be boiled in a pail, 
 set in a kettle of boiling water. Pour, when done, into a pudding- 
 dish. When quite cold, pour over it a frosting, made of the beat- 
 en whites, with a table-spoonful of white sugar to each egg. 
 Flavor both the frosting and pudding with extract of lemon or 
 
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 vanilla. Set the pudding in the oven, and biowi the frosting a 
 delicate color. The colder when eaten, the better. sae 
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 ICE PUDDING. $5 enone ii vk 
 Boil one pint and a half of new milk with one tea-spoonful. of 
 isinglass. Beat five eggs and mix them with the milk as you would 
 for custards. ‘Take a tin mould with a cover, oiled, not buttered, 
 and line it with candied fruits, such as plums, green gages, ete. _ 
 Then pour the custard in very gradually, so that the fruit will re- 
 main at the bottom. Put on the cover and bury the mould in ice 
 for the whole day, only turning out the pudding at the moment it — 
 is wanted. 
 
 THE DEACON’S APPLE INDIAN PUDDING. 
 
 One pint of scalded milk, one-half pint of Indian meal, one tea 
 cup of molasses, tea-spoonful of salt, six sweet apples cut in thin 
 slices; bake three hours. ts pet 
 
 CORN PUDDING. 
 
 Twelve ears of corn, one quart of milk, two eggs, table-spoon- 
 ful of sugar, one of flour, two tea-spoonsful of salt. Bake four 
 hours; serve with butter and sugar. 
 
 LITTLE CURRANT DUMPLINGS. 
 
 A pint of flour, quarter of a pound of fresh beef suet chopped - 
 fine, a salt spoon of salt, a quarter of picked and clean Zante 
 currants, one egg, and milk, or water enough to mix to the con- 
 sistency of drop biscuit. Boil in dumpling cloths, three quarters 
 of an hour, a table-spoonful to a dumpling. Serve with sauce. 
 
 SMALL AND LIGHT PLUM PUDDING. 
 
 Soak three ounces of the grated crumb of a stale loaf in a gill 
 of boiling milk, and mix in four ounces of finely minced suet, an 
 ounce of dry bread crumbs, ten ounces of stoned raisins, a little 
 salt, the grated rind of an orange and three eggs, leaving out one 
 white; put no sugar init. Boil the pudding two hours or more, 
 and serve with very sweet sauce. 
 

 
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 THE POET’S PUDDING. 
 
 Well sugar any summer fruit, and fill a deep tart dish with layers 
 of it alternated with thin slices of the inside of a light stale loaf; 
 let the upper layer be of fruit, andif itis a dry kind, sprinkle 
 over it a dessert-spoonful of water or a little lemon juice. Rasp- 
 berries, currants, or cherries will not require this. The sugar must 
 be used according to the sweetness of the fruit. For a quart of 
 ripe green gages, split and stoned, five ounces will be sufficient. 
 Bake in a quick oven about half an hour. 
 
 THE PASTOR’S PUDDING. 
 
 Wash and pare some rhubarb; stalks, cut them into short lengths 
 and put a layer of them in a deep dish, with one or two spoonsful 
 of sugar; cover evenly with thin slices of a roll, then add a thick 
 layer of fruit and sugar, then one of bread, then one of rhubarb, 
 and then coyer with a thick layer of fine bread crumbs mixed with 
 a table-spoonful of sugar. Pour over a little clarified butter, and 
 bake thirty or forty minutes. Good apples sliced, sweetened and 
 flayored with nutmeg and lemon rind, and covered with well but- 
 tered. slices of bread, make an excellent pudding of this kind. 
 Black currants may also be used, leaving out the butter. 
 
 BOILED INDIAN PUDDING. 
 
 A quart of sour milk, half a cup of molasses, acup of raisins, a 
 cup of chopped suet, a tea-spoonful of saleratus, and meal enough 
 to make it stiff. 
 
 PLAIN INDIAN PUDDING. 
 
 Seren table-spoonsful of sifted Indian meal, scalded with boil- 
 ing water until the quantity is thoroughly wet; add three pints of 
 new or skimmed milk, cold, two thirds of a cup of molasses, little 
 salt, four eggs. Some persons think a little chopped suet improves 
 it. Place it in the oven, with a moderate heat, and bake it slowly 
 three hours. After being in the oven a half hour stir it from the 
 bottom, as that is apt to thicken at first. at with butter. 
 
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 NANTUCKET CORN PUDDING. 
 
 Take two dozen ears of young corn, husk, and grate or pound 
 
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 it fine; add three pints of new milk, cold, one half tea-cup of : 
 brown sugar, a little salt, two soda crackers pounded fine, si six § 
 eggs; put it in the oven, with a moderate heat “_ ‘bake three oy 
 hours. ‘Eat — butter. : eat bis cig i ne . 
 
 MRS. HOWITT’S PUDDING. 
 
 Butter lightly on both sides, some evenly cut slices of roll, ‘or 4 
 - of light bread freed from crust, and spread the tops thickly and 
 evenly with orange marmalade. Prepare as much in this way as 
 will cover the surface of the pudding without the edges of the - 
 bread overlaying each other, as this would make it sink to the bot- 
 tom of the dish. Pour in a custard of two well-beaten eggs, new 
 milk, a pinch of salt, and two ounces of sugar. Flavor with 
 French brandy only. Let it stand an hour, then place it carefully 
 in an oven and bake it until it is set, and no longer. Toofiercea 
 heat will spoil it. The bread should be a light, clear ss ‘eat a 
 the custard under it smooth and firm. 
 
 BOILED APPLE DUMPLINGS. 
 
 Select apples that will cook quickly, pare and core them, leav- 
 ing the apple whole. Prepare a plain paste, roll the crust about 
 quarter of an inch thick, cover each apple with it, and then steam 
 them about an hour; if you boil them instead of steaming them, 
 make the paste of suet, put them in boiling water, and boil an hour. 
 
 BAKED APPLE DUMPLINGS. 
 
 Select smooth, even-sized apples; peel, core them, and fill the 
 cavities with sugar, anda little cinnamon. Divide your paste into 
 as many parts as you have apples. Moll each one out square, and 
 inclose the apple in it, slightly wetting the edge, to make it stick. 
 Bake them in a shallow pan, and eat witha dry sauce made of 
 butter and sugar beaten together. 
 
 APPLE FRITTERS. 
 
 Beat three eggs very light, then stir in one tea-spoonful of salt, . 
 one table-spoonful of sugar, the grated rind of half a lemon and ~ 
 the juice, one pint of milk, one half pound of chopped apples, one 
 half pound of sifted flour; stir it well together, and fry in lard, 
 or can be baked on a griddle as pancakes. 
 

 
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 LEMON DUMPLINGS. 
 
 Mix with ten ounces of fine bread crumbs, half a pound of beef 
 suet, chopped fine, @ large table-spoonful of flour, the grated rinds 
 of two small lemons, or one very large one, four ounces of pound- 
 ed sugar, or if wished very sweet, more; three large or four small 
 eggs beaten and strained. Divide these into four equal portions, 
 tie in well-floured cloths, and boil an hour. 
 
PUDDING SAUCES, 
 
 
 
 MAPLE SUGAR SAUCE. 
 
 Take half maple sugar and half light brown sugar, boil them 
 together with a little water, clarify the syrup with an egg, strain it 
 and melt a small piece of butter in it. All maple sugar, or all 
 common sugar can be used. It is very good on puddings. 
 
 CHERRY SAUCE. 
 
 Take ripe cherries, mash them with the meat of the pits in their 
 own juice until tender, pulp through a sieve all that will pass, add ° . 
 wine and sugar; and spice if desired, and boil until it is of the con- 
 sistency of thick cream. 
 
 HARD SAUCE. 
 
 This is made simply by stirring together toa light cream two 
 cups of pounded loaf sugar to half of a large cup of sweet butter. 
 It may be flavored according to taste. For cream and plain bat- 
 ter pudding it may be thinned with a few spoonsful of boiling wa- 
 ter and flavored with vanilla. Nutmeg is the best flavor for apple 
 puddings. For rice puddings a little lemon juice or wine may be 
 added. 
 
 SWEET LIQUID SAUCE. 
 
 One table-spoon of flour mixed smooth with cold water, a pinch 
 of salt, piece of butter the size of a hickory-nut, half a cup of sugar, 
 and a little maple or other syrup. Stir into this mixture hot wa- 
 ter enough to make a pint bowl of sauce; boil all up, and grate in 
 lastly a little nutmeg. 
 
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 AN EXCELLENT PUDDING SAUCE. 
 
 Beat up, as for hard sauce, white sugar with butter, until very ' 
 
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 light, mn the proportion of half a cup of butter to one of sugar; 
 flavor with essence of lemon or bitter almonds. Fifteen minutes 
 before serving, set the bowl in a pan of hot water on the range, 
 and stir it till hot. It will raise in a white foam to the top of the 
 bowl. 
 
 WINE SAUCE. 
 
 Take half a cup of butter and two cups of sugar, beat them to- 
 gether and mix in slowly a cup of wine; melt all over steam but 
 do not stir it while melting. 
 
 BRANDY SAUCE. 
 
 This can be made the same as wine sauce, or as follows: Heat 
 over steam in a covered saucepan half a pint of brandy, beat two 
 egos, and beat together to a cream two cups of sugar, and half a 
 large cup of butter; stir the eggs into it, add also the brandy, mix- 
 ing quickly and thoroughly. Keep it in hot water until needed. 
 
 ROSE HIP SAUCE. 
 
 Take rose hips, open them and take out the seeds, soak them 
 and boil them to a paste, pulp them through a seive and stir them 
 in boiling wine with sufficient sugar, until of the consistency of 
 thick cream. 
 
 LEMON BRANDY. 
 
 This is used for flavoring sweet dishes. Fill a wide-necked bottle 
 with very thin rinds of fresh lemons, cover with good brandy, and 
 after two or three weeks strain off the spirit and cork it foruse. <A 
 few apricot kernels are sometimes blanched and added a, the 
 lemon peel to give a good flavor. 
 

 
 DESSERT DISHES. 
 
 
 
 CREAM PUFFS. 
 
 For shells: a pint of boiling water; melt in it half a pound of 
 lard, and stir, while boiling, into this, three-quarters of a pound 
 of flour. Boil until a thick paste is formed. The best way to boil 
 it, is to set one kettle in another, or a pail in a kettle of boiling 
 water with the ingredients in the pail, as in boiling a custard. When 
 thick, take from ‘the fire, and when cool add ten eggs, and a little 
 salt. Mix thoroughly, and bake in a quick oven for twenty-five 
 minutes; oven about as hot as for pies. This makes five dozen 
 cakes. Drop with a spoon, on buttered tins, some distance apart. 
 When cool open carefully with a knife, and fill with mock cream, 
 which is made as follows: 
 
 One quart of milk, four eggs, three-quarters of a pound of tiie 
 sugar, five ounces of flour, extract of vanilla to taste. Make a 
 smooth paste of flour, in some of the cold milk; put in a kettle of 
 boiling water with all the milk; when thickened a little, add the 
 eggs well beaten with the sugar. When creamy itisdone. Take 
 from the fire, and add a little extract of vanilla. Do not use until 
 cold. Se te . 
 This is the only receipt for making cream puffs that we have 
 used with success. But this never fails, if the directions are 
 followed; and when done they are nice enough to set before a 
 king, : 
 
 PASTIES. 
 
 Rub a quarter of a pound of lard into two pounds of flour; 
 beat the whites of two eggs light, and mix in two half-pints of 
 water; wet the flour, leaving out some to work the’ crust with; 
 take one pound of butter; roll out the crust four times, each time 
 putting in with a knife a quarter of the butter ; use flour freely, when 
 
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 rolling out; cut itround, lay in your preserve or apple, which must 
 be dry; turn over the paste, to join a half circle; nip the edge 
 with the thumb and finger, to confine the preserve; dip the hand 
 in water, pass it lightly over the paste, then sift sugar thick upon 
 them, and bake in a quick oven. 
 
 CUSTARD. 
 
 Use about four eggs to a pint of new rich milk. Flavor the milk 
 py putting six young laurel leaves, or grated lemon peel into it, 
 before beginning to make the custard, and leaving them in until it 
 is done; sweeten the milk with an ounce or more of sugar accord- 
 ing to taste. Beat up the eggs thoroughly with sugar and add the 
 milk to it boiling hot. Place all in the saucepan, and stir it over a 
 slow fire until it begins to thicken. Then remove it from the fire 
 and continue stirring it until it is of exactly the right thickness. 
 Turn it out immediately and keep stirring it until it is cool. 
 
 BOILED CUSTARD. 
 
 Put one quart of milk over the fire; when it steams up, add the 
 yolks of nine eggs and four table-spoons of sugar, well beaten 
 together. Stir the mixture well till it thickens. Remove it from 
 the fire, and set away to cool. Add flavor and salt to taste. To 
 make it extra nice, beat up the whites of the eggs with some ex- 
 tract of lemon and sufficient powdered sugar to make it stiff. Di- 
 vide it over the custard cups. 
 
 APPLE CHARLOTTE. 
 
 Make a nice syrup; cut up your apples very fine, and boil them 
 in the syrup with a peel of a lemon, till perfectly transparent ; 
 when done, put it into a large tumbler, or a mould, and the next 
 day it will be solid; turn it into a glass dish and pour over it a 
 rich soft custard ; if you choose, put a whip and some bits of cur- 
 rant jelly on the top. 
 
 CHOCOLATE KISSES. 
 
 One pound of sugar, two ounces of chocolate, pounded together 
 and finely sifted; then mix, with the whites of eggs, well beaten 
 to a froth. Drop this on buttered paper, and bake slowly. 
 
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 Soak half an ounce of gelatine in a pint of water for an hour, 
 
 then add a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar, the rind and juice of — 
 a large lemon; put ina pan and simmer on the fire until the ge- 
 latine is dissolved; strain it into a large pitcher, let it remain until 
 it is quite a jelly, when the white of an egg must be added, and 
 the whole whisked thoroughly well for an hour; put into moulds 
 previously rinsed in cold water. When turned out it should look 
 like snow. 
 
 CHOCOLATE CREAM CUSTARDS. CaN =| 
 
 Scrape quarter of a pound of the best chocolate, pour on it a 
 tea-cupful of boiling water and let it stand by the fire until entire- 
 ly dissolved. Beat six or eight eggs light, leaving out the whites 
 of one or two; stir them by degrees into a quart of sweet milk 
 alternately with the chocolate, and three table-spoonsful of white 
 sugar. Put the mixture into cups, and bake ten minutes. 
 
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 APPLE CUSTARD. 
 
 Select half a dozen sour apples, peel and core them, and cook 
 them in half a tea-cup of water. When they become a little ten- 
 der, take them out, place them in the pudding dish, sugar them 
 and pour over them a mixture of six or eight eggs, well-beaten 
 with four spoonsful of sugar and three pints of milk. Bake them 
 for about half an hour. 
 
 RASPBERRY CUSTARD. | 
 
 Take three gills of raspberry juice, and dissolve in it a pound of 
 white sugar, mix it with a pint of boiling cream, stir until quite 
 thick, and serve in custard glasses. 
 
 RICE CUSTARDS. 
 
 In a pint and a half of sweet milk, boil two ounces of ground ~ 
 rice ; mix with it four ounces of sugar, four ounces of cream, an 
 ounce of grated cocoanut, and bake in a mild oven. 
 
 
 

 
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 STRAWBERRY, OR APPLE SOUFFLE. 
 
 Stew the apples with a little lemon peel; sweeten them, and lay 
 them pretty high round the inside of a dish. Make a custard of 
 the yolks of two eggs, a little cinnamon, sugar and milk. Let it 
 thicken over a slow fire, but not boil; when ready, pour it in the 
 inside of the apple. Beat the whites of the eggs to a light froth, 
 and cover the whole; throw over it a quantity of pounded sugar, 
 and brown it of a fine brown. <Any fruit made of a proper con- 
 sistency will do for the walls. Strawberries when ripe, are delicious. 
 
 SWEET SOUFFLE. 
 
 Take a pint of milk and as much flour as will come to a thick 
 paste, over the stove; keep stirring it all the time; add six yolks 
 of eggs and a pinch of salt, as much sugar as you like. Beat six. 
 whites of eggs toa froth; stir them altogether. Put it into a quick 
 oven a quarter of an hour before it is wanted. Glaze it with: 
 white sugar, and send quickly to table. It may be made with 
 ground rice. ‘The rind of a lemon, grated, or lemon juice, gives it 
 a nice flavor. 
 
 SUPERIOR OMELETTE SOUFFLE. 
 
 Twelve eggs, four heaping table-spoonsful of sugar, six of 
 flour, one quart of milk. Boil the milk, stir the yolks of eggs, 
 sugar, and flour together, add them to the milk, and let it stand 
 hot but not boil. One hour before it is to be eaten, beat the 
 whites to a stiff froth, stir them into the mixture and bake ina 
 quick oven. Flavor to taste. 
 
 ORANGE CREAM. 
 
 Pare and squeeze two oranges on a cup of finely powdered 
 sugar, with half a cup of water. Add four well beaten eggs and 
 beat all together some time. Strain the whole through flannel in- 
 to a saucepan; set it over a gentle fire, and stir it one way until 
 thick and scalding hot, not boiling, or it will curdle. If lumps of 
 sugar ate rubbed on the oranges before they are pared, the flavor 
 may be extracted; or they may be grated. Serve as custard in 
 jelly glasses. 
 
174 3 DESSERT DISHES. 
 
 LEMON CREAM. — 
 
 ‘Take a pint of thick cream; the yolks of two eggs well-beaten ; 
 a cup of white sugar, and the rind of a lemon cut thin; boil it 
 up; then stir it until almost cold; put the juice of a lemon ina 
 dish and pour the cream upon it stirring well until cold. Serve 
 in a large glass dish, or in custard Sey either alone or with sweet- 
 meats. 
 
 VANILLA CREAM.—l1, 
 
 Boil a stick of vanilla in a pint and a half of rich new milk, un- 
 til it is highly flavored, take out the vanilla and sweeten the milk 
 to taste. Beat up thoroughly the yolks of six eggs, and the white 
 of one, and gradually mix in the milk, stirring them all the while. 
 Then cook the cream until it is thick enough. If the vanilla be 
 carefully dried it will serve several times provided it is good. 
 
 VANILLA CREAM.—2. 
 
 Make a jelly of isinglass with the proportion of one ounce to a 
 pint of water. Get a strong flavor of the vanilla in a little milk, 
 with sugar enough to sweeten one quart to taste; mix the isinglass 
 jelly, the flavored milk, and-one pint of good cream, and pour 
 them into a mould to set. The isinglass jelly should be made in 
 time to get cold before it is wanted for the cream, in’ case there 
 should be any sediment to cut from it. a 
 
 ITALIAN CREAM. 
 
 Take one pint of cream, and half pitt of iT ides it hot, 
 sweetening it to taste, and flavoring it with lemon seek: Beat up 
 the yolks of eight eggs; beat up all together, and set it over a 
 slow fire to thicken. Have ready an ounce of isinglass, melted 
 and strained, which add to the cream; whip it well, and pour it 
 into the mould. 
 
 TEA CREAM. 
 
 Boil two drachms or more of green tea in a quart of milk, after 
 several minutes strain it, add the well-beaten yolks of three eggs, 
 quarter of a pound of powered sugar; boil it to reduce it to one 
 half, strain it again and serve when cold. 
 
 
 

 
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 ROCK CREAM. 
 
 Boil a tea-cupful of good rice in sweet milk till soft, sweeten it 
 with powdered loaf sugar, and pile it up high on a dish. Lay on 
 it, here and there, square pieces of currant jelly, or any kind of 
 preserved fruits; beat up very stiff the whites of four or five eggs, 
 and a little powdered sugar, flavored with orange flower water or 
 vanilla, then add to it a tea-spoonful of cream, and drop it over 
 the rice, giving it the appearance of a rock of snow. 
 
 CHARLOTTE RUSSE.—1. 
 
 Make first a pint of custard—two eggs to the pint of milk— 
 then dissolve a box of gelatine in a pint of water, and let it 
 boil as in making jelly. Strain each into the same vessel—a tin 
 pan is the best—and stir it gently all the while, until it gets cold. 
 In the meantime, take a quart of cream, season with vanilla, 
 sweeten with a pound of sugar and churn it to a froth. Skim the 
 froth and stir it into the mixture as soon as it begins to thicken. 
 
 CHARLOTTE RUSSE.—2. 
 
 Boil one ounce of gelatine in two tumblers of milk, and boil 
 hard. Beat the whites and yolks separately of six eggs, adding to 
 the yolks half a pound of loaf sugar, and stir them into the boil- 
 ing milk long enough for them to thicken like a rich custard; then 
 stir in the whites, beaten to a stiff froth. Season with vanilla. 
 Whip a pint of rich cream to a stiff froth, and stir into the cus- 
 tard. When cold, arrange your cake in the mould and pour in the 
 mixture. Set it on ice. 
 
 EUGENIE RUSSE. 
 
 Whip a pint of cream to a sponge froth. Pound half a stick of | 
 vanilla with sufficient sugar to sweeten it; melt half an ounce of 
 isinglass and add all together to the cream. Plums and strawber- 
 ries, or other fruit are then laid round a plain mould, the vanilla 
 cream poured into the middle, and when cold the whole turned out. 
 
 MERINGUES. 
 
 Beat the whites of five eggs to a strong froth, mix in by degrees 
 
DESSERT DISHES. 
 
 
 
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 a table-spoon and a half of sifted sugar, then drop the mixture —— 
 
 - with a spoon on floured or sugared writing paper, put them into a 
 
 very. cool oven and let them remain until the outside is firm to the — 4 ; 
 touch ; when cold scrape out any remaining moist parts from the a 
 inside, fillthem with whipped and flavored cream or with preserve, «a 
 
 and join two together putting the flat sides upon each other. 
 
 LUCY STONE’S BREAD MERINGUE.  ~ ; 
 
 To a pint of nice, fine bread crumbs put a quart of sweet milk, 
 one cup of brown sugar, the yolks of four eggs beaten, the grated 
 rind of a lemon, and a piece of butter the size of an egg. Bake 
 until stiff, then take it out and pour over it the whites of the eggs, 
 beaten to a froth, with a tea-cup of powdered sugar and the juice 
 of the lemon. Return to the oven, brown it lightly, and you will 
 have a delicious ‘‘ company,” pudding, which may be eaten cold, 
 with or without fruit or cream. 
 
 ALMOND BLANC MANGE. 
 
 Break an ounce of isinglass in small pieces, wash well, pour on 
 a pint of boiling water; the next morning add a quart of milk; 
 boil till the isinglass is dissolved, and strain. Put in two ounces 
 of blanched almonds powdered; sweeten with loaf sugar, turn 
 into a mould, and stick thin slips of almonds all over it. Dress it 
 with whipped cream. 
 
 TAPIOCA BLANC MANGE. 
 
 In a pint of milk soak half a pound of tapioca for an hour. 
 Boil till tender, sweeten, and pour it into a mould. When cold 
 turn it out, serve it in a dish with jam round it and a little cream, 
 or flavored with lemon or bitter almond without jam or cream. 
 
 ARROWROOT BLANC MANGE. 
 
 Mix three well filled up table-spoonsful of arrowroot with a little 
 milk. Boil one pint anda half of rich, new milk, sweeten and 
 flavor to taste; pour it on the arrowroot, mixing them well, and 
 stir the mixture over a slow fire until it is thoroughly cooked and 
 thickened, taking care that it does not burn. Pour it into a jelly 
 shape, and do not turn it out until the next day. 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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 RICE FLOUR BLANC MANGE. 
 
 Boil one quart of milk, season it to your taste with sugar and 
 rose-water, take a table-spoonful of the rice flour, mix it very 
 smooth with cold milk; add this to the other milk while it is boil- 
 ing, stirring it well. Let all boil together about fifteen minutes, 
 stirring it occasionally ; then pour it into moulds, and put it by to 
 cool. 
 
 WHOLE RICE BLANC MANGE. 
 
 Put four ounces of whole rice in one quart of sweet milk. Boil 
 it slowly for a long time, and flavor with lemon peel, cinnamon, 
 and sweeten to taste. Put it into a mould, tie it down close, and 
 boil half an hour in a saucepan of water, taking care that the wa- 
 ter does not get into the mould. When cold, turn it out of the 
 mould on to a dish; place any kind of jam you like around it, and 
 serve with custards or cream. 
 
 GROUND RICE BLANC MANGE. 
 
 Put half a pound of ground rice into two quarts of new milk, 
 with a little cinnamon and lemon peel, and boil all together till 
 quite thick, stirring it well. When it is thoroughly boiled, take 
 out the cinnamon and lemon peel, and pour into a wetted mould ; 
 when quite cold, turn out of the mould, pour some fruit syrup 
 round it in the dish. Serve with cream and sugar. 
 
 RED ROBIN. 
 
 Put a pint of water into a stewpan, throw in one pound of lump 
 sugar, and boil till it becomes thick, then add two pounds of tart 
 apples peeled and cored, and the rind of a lemon cut thin, boil all 
 together till it is quite stiff; stir it often. Pour it into a mould, 
 and when cold turn out. Serve with a custard, or it is very good 
 without. 
 
 LOVE APPLES. 
 
 Make some blanc mange of maizena, in the proportion of four 
 table-spoonsful of maizena, to two eggs and a quart of milk. 
 While still warm, pour it into semi-circular moulds, the size of 
 
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178 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 half an ege, taking eae 4 first to tip the moulds in cold water, to 
 prevent sticking. “W. 1en cold, turn out, stick the halves together © 
 with a little gum a gar water, so as to. form shining balls. 
 With a little brush 
 carefully, and arrange | ona dish, ina pyramid, with apple, quince, 
 or currant jelly in the interstice, and white sugar sifted over the 
 whole. Nicely managed, this makes a very: pretty and Bare re 
 sive dish. oN 
 
 MASKED TARTS. 
 
 Line small tart-pans with puff-paste, and place in each half an 
 apple which has been boiled tender, in a rich syrup. Bake alight — 
 brown and, when done, dilute quince jelly, or jam, with a little of — 
 the syrup, and mask the apple with a spoonful of it. Sift over 
 white sugar. | 
 
 FRUIT TARTS. 
 
 Line your pans as for masked tarts; fill with any kind of sey, 
 preserve, or jam, and cover with a lattice of pastry. Glaze with 
 white of egg, bake a light brown, and sift over powdered sugar. © 
 
 APPLE TART. 
 
 Scald eight or ten large apples ; let them-stand till they are cold, 
 and then take off the skins. Beat the pulp as fine as possible, 
 with a spoon; then mix the yolks of six eggs, and the whites of 
 four; beat all together very fine, put in some grated nutmeg, 
 and sweeten to your taste. Melt some good fresh butter, and beat 
 it till it is of the consistency of fine thick cream; then make a 
 puff-paste, and cover a tin patty-pan with it; pour in the ingredi- 
 ents, but do not cover it with the paste. When it has baked a 
 quarter of an hour, slip it out of the patty-pan, ona dish, ad 
 strew over it some sugar, finely beaten. 
 
 APPLE MERINGUE.—1. 
 
 Prepare six large, tart apples, as for sauce. While hot, put in 
 piece of butter the size of an egg. When cold, add a cup of fine 
 cracker crumbs, the yolks of three eggs well beaten, a cup of sweet 
 milk or cream, a little salt, and nutmeg and sugar to taste. Bake 
 
 xtract of cochineal then tinge one side — ; 
 
 
 

 
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 in a large plate, with an under crust of rich paste and a rim of 
 puff paste. When done, take the whites of the eggs, half a large 
 tea-cup of white stgar, and a few drops of essence of lemon; beat 
 to a stiff froth, pour over, and put back in the oven to brown 
 lightly. . 
 
 APPLE MERINGUES.—2. 
 
 Scoop out the core from six apples, and fill them with quince 
 marmalade; stew them until tender in half a pint of water, with 
 some sugar, some lemon-peel, and a little more marmalade. Lay 
 the apples in a dish with the liquor. Beat up to a strong froth the 
 whites of four eggs, flavoring them with orange flower water and 
 sugar to taste. Cover the apples with this whip, and bake them half 
 an hour. | 
 
 APPLE SNOW. 
 
 Peel, core, and quarter a dozen Spitzenberg apples, and stew 
 them gently, with a cup of water, white sugar sufficient to sweeten, 
 and a little cinnamon; when reduced nearly to a pulp, turn into a 
 dish. Make a soft custard of a quart of milk, the yolks of four 
 eggs, a little sugar, and extract of lemon; when it is cold, lay it 
 over the apples, and whip up the whites of the eggs with a quar- 
 ter of a pound of powdered sugar, and heap lightly on the top. 
 
 APPLE MARMALADE. 
 
 Pare twenty pounds of pippin apples, make a syrup of ten 
 pounds of sugar, boil the apples sufficiently in it to mash, take 
 them out, beat them fine, put thein back, cut six oranges into small 
 pieces, and boil all together, stirring it till done. 
 
 BAKED APPLES. 
 
 There is nothing better for a simple ordinary dessert than plain 
 baked apples. Wash the apples, and place them whole without 
 peeling in the baking dish sprinkled with sugar, with a little water 
 added for sauce and bake until quite soft. A good way is to cut 
 out the stem, leaving a little cavity; fill this with sugar and place 
 three layers in the dish, the stem end up. Sprinkle over some 
 more sugar, add a little water and put a slice of lemon over each 
 

 
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 Make a clear syrup of half a pound of sugar to one pint of wa- 
 ter. Skim it; peel and core the apples without injuring the 
 shape. Let them be in cold water till the syrup is ready, to which 
 add the juice of a lemon and the peel cut very fine. Quarters of 
 oranges may be boiled in the syrup instead of apples. . 
 
 APPLE CREAM. ae 
 
 Boil rich, well-flavored apples till soft, rub the le py a 
 hair sieve, mix in sugar; when cold stir in sweet cream and serve 
 cold. . : 
 
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 DRIED APPLES STEWED. 
 
 Wash-the pieces, soak several hours, boil in sufficient water to 
 cover them, over a slow fire; when nearly done add sugar. ‘They 
 are better flavored with a few dried quinces or peaches. Orange 
 peel or lemon is excellent for flavor. 
 
 STEWED PIPPINS. 
 
 Pare and quarter golden pippins, remove the core, stew them 
 over a slow fire with sufficient sugar to sweeten, the juice and 
 rind of a lemon and a little water, let them cook till very tender. 
 
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 GINGER APPLES. 
 
 Take Newtown pippins, pare, core, and throw them into cold wa- 
 ter to preserve their color. Take a pint of water, and halfa 
 pound of sugar to every pound of fruit. Place it on the fire in a 
 stew pan and bring it to a boil before the fruit is put in. Now 
 take the apples out of the cold water and put them in the syrup; 
 and add one ounce and three quarters of cleaned ginger, for each 
 pound of fruit. Let them boil till they become clear, an hour or . 
 less. If not used immediately, put them in a jar closely covered 
 down, and set in a cool, dry place. They will keep some time. 
 
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 FLOATING ISLAND OF APPLES. 
 
 Bake or scald eight or nine large apples; when cold, pare them 
 and pulp them through a sieve. Beat this pulp with sugar, and 
 add to the whites of four or five eggs previously beaten, with a 
 small quantity of rose water, or essence of lemon; mix this into 
 the pulp a little at a time, and beat it until quite light. Heap it 
 up on a dish, with Savoy cakes, and jelly under, and around it. 
 
 APPLE SNOW BALLS. 
 
 Take six apples pare and quarter them and cut out the cores 
 completely. Place the quarters together in the shape of the ap- 
 ple before, and in the cavity made by removing the core put a 
 clove and a slice of lemon peel. Have six small pudding-cloths 
 at hand, and half pound of rice, and cover the apples severally, 
 one after the other in an upright position, with rice, tying them up 
 tight. Then place them ina large saucepan of scalding water, | 
 and let them boil for one whole hour. On taking them up, open 
 the tops, and intermix with the fruit a little grated nutmeg, with 
 butter and sugar to your taste. 
 
 COMPOTE Of APPLES. 
 
 Boil a sauce pan of clarified sugar, half sugar and half water on 
 the fire; skim it, have ready the apples pared, cut in halves, and 
 cored, drop them in the syrup and let them boil very slowly. Take 
 them off when done, and let them cool; if the syrup is too thin, 
 give them another boil. 
 
 NINA’S APPLE CREAM. 
 
 Take two pounds of apples, pare and core them, slice them into 
 a pan, add one pound of loaf sugar, the juice of three lemons, and 
 the grated rind of one. Let these boil about two hours. Turn it 
 in the mould and serve it with boiled custard, or cream. 
 
 MOTHER'S ‘‘ SURPRISE.” 
 
 Take a square loaf of baker’s bread, cut into thin slices, (crust 
 and all,) and butter them. Peel, core, and cut up sufficient. of 
 nice baking apples in proportion. Take a pie dish, line it with 
 
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 bread and butter. Next make alayer of apples at the bottom, dee 
 of sugar, then of bread and so on, till the dish is filled. Bake 
 until the apple is perfectly soft, then before serving, turn. it out 
 into adish. It ought to keep its shape, and eat almost ikea 
 
 sweetmeat, all the ingredients being thoroughly blonieaay ni 
 
 
 
 APPLE CHEESE. (hs a ee 
 
 Take equal weights of apple and sugar; boil the sugar in water, — 
 take off the scum as it rises, and when it is clear, put in the apples 
 with some lemon juice and peel, and boil until it is a of a Pe 
 thickness. ie 
 
 A cream for this cheese may be made by putting to a pint of | 
 
 cream or new milk, the yolks of two eggs, a stick of cinnamon, a _ 4 t 
 
 spoonful of rose water, and the peel of a lemon; let it quite boil, 
 and when it is cool, sweeten it to taste, and pour it over or around 
 the cheese. steak ORD 
 
 SARATOGA APPLE SAUCE. — 
 
 Take two pounds of apples, boil them with as little natal as 
 possible, and make them into apple sauce, then add a pound and a 
 half of sugar, and the juice of a lemon; boil all together till quite 
 firm, and put it into a mould. Garnish it with almonds stuck over 
 it. It will keep for many months, if allowed to remain in the 
 mould. : 
 
 . BAKED PEARS. 
 
 _ Take any kind of pears, wash them, and place them whole and 
 without peeling, in the baking tin, with merely the water that will 
 hang on them after washing. Sprinkle sugar over them, and bake 
 until quite soft. A syrup will be found in the bottom of the dish, 
 which may be poured over them. They are better and more 
 wholesome than any complicated pastry. 
 
 SCALDED PEARS. 
 
 Wash the pears, whole, and without pealing; boil them in just 
 enough water to cover them, until they are soft, then pour in molas- 
 ses, sufficient for a sauce, boil up until it is thick, and serve the 
 pears in a dish, with the sauce poured over them. 
 
 
 

 
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 TO MAKE A TRIFLE. 
 
 Make a boiled custard not very thick and let it cool. Break in 
 pieces some Naples biscuits, some macaroons in halves, add ratifia 
 cakes, cover the bottom of a dish with them, and wet with white 
 wine ; pour the custard over them, and put a syllabub over it. It 
 can be garnished with currant jelly, and if convenient with flowers. 
 
 GOOSEBERRY OR APPLE TRIFLE. 
 
 Scald the fruit, pulp it through a sieve, and add sugar to taste. 
 Make a thick layer of this at the bottom of the dish. Mix a pint 
 of milk, a pint of cream, and the yolks of two eggs, scald it over 
 the fire, stirring it well; add a small quantity of sugar, and let it 
 get cold. Then lay it over the apples, or gooseberries, with a 
 spoon, and put on the whole a whip made the day before. Ifyou 
 use apples, add the rind of a lemon grated. 
 
 RHUBARB TART. 
 
 Pare off the thin skin, and cut it in small lengths, stew them an 
 hour very slowly; to one pint of rhubarb add, while simmering, 
 a syrup of sugar, and a little water; when done let it cool, then 
 make it into tarts. . 7 ® 
 
 ICING FOR TARTS. 
 
 Beat the white of an egg with a quarter of a pound of powder- 
 ed sugar, and flavor with two spoonsful of almond, or lemon ex- 
 tract, stir them together one way till the mixture is quite thick, and 
 then lay it on the tarts with a feather or a bunch of feathers, then 
 let the tarts stand in a mild oven. until hard, but not long enough 
 to become discolored. 
 
 COMPOTE OF RHUBARB. 
 
 Take a pound of the stalks after they are pared, and cut them 
 in short lengths, have ready a quarter of a pint of water boiled 
 gently for ten minutes, with five ounces of good lump sugar, or six 
 ounces if the fruit is very tart; put it in and let it simmer for 
 about ten minutes. 
 
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 COMPOTE OF RED CURRANTS. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Make a syrup of a pint of water and five or six ou nces of wad ; 
 sugar, boiled ten minutes. Simmera pint of currants, freed from 
 the stalks, from five to seven minutes. They are an excellent ac 
 companiment to a pudding of batter, custard, bread or rice, or to 
 boiled rice. A compote of raspberries may be made in this way, — 
 or raspberries may be mixed with the currants. 
 
 COMPOTE OF ;CREED CURRANTS, 
 
 Make a syrup of half a pint of spring water and five ounces of | é 
 lump sugar boiled together ten minutes. Strip a pint of green 
 currants from the stalks, and simmer them in the syrup acid 
 utes. ; shhogegs: 
 
 COMPOTE OF GREEN GOOSEBERRIES. 
 
 Make a syrup of half a pint of water, and five ounces of good 
 lump sugar broken fine, boiled together gently for ten minutes, and 
 skimmed. Simmer gently in this syrup for eight or ten minutes a 
 pint of gooseberries freed from tops and stalks and well washed 
 and drained ; these compotes will only keep good two or three days ; 
 transparency of the fruit will be increased by using more sugar in 
 the syrup. 
 
 COMPOTE OF PEACHES. 
 
 Pare them, and remove the stone, boil gently until tender, take ~ 
 them off and put them in cold water. Then put them in clarified © 
 sugar, add a little boiling water, set them again over the fire, and 
 when done enough, pour them out into dishes. 
 
 CHERRY CHEESE. 
 
 Take the stones from twelve pounds of cherries, break the stones 
 of part of the cherries and blanch the kernels; take these with the 
 fruit and three pounds of loaf sugar, put into a kettle, and boil all 
 gently till the jam becomes quite clear; pour into small and rather 
 shallow pots, and keep in a dry place. : 
 

 
 DESSERT DISHES. . 185 
 
 GOOSEBERRY FOOL. 
 
 Put into adeep dish some green gooseberries, a quart or more 
 if desired, after baking them in the oven until quite soft, pulp 
 them through a colander and add pounded sugar to taste. When 
 it is cold, mix ina gill of cream to each quart of berries, and serve 
 in a glass dish. . 
 
 PINEAPPLE FRITTERS. 
 
 Take quarter of a pound of fine flour, one and a half pints of 
 new milk, the yolks of four fresh eggs, and make the same into a 
 light battter, adding the whites of two eggs, first beaten into a 
 light froth. Bruise half a dozen slices of a round ripe pineapple 
 into a pulp and stir it well up with the batter, adding at the same 
 time a little nutmeg and cinnamon grated fine. Put the pan over 
 a brisk fire, and ladle out the batter into the pan as it may be re- 
 quired, according to the size of the fritters. Fry them in fresh 
 butter turning them only once, when they will assume a brown, 
 crisp complexion. When quite done remove them into a dish, 
 sprinkling over them a dessert-spoonful of powdered loaf sugar. 
 Apple and currant fritters can be prepared after a like manner. 
 The cinnamon can be dispensed with if objected to. 
 
 ORANGE FRITTERS. 
 
 Take three oranges, or more if desired, peel them, and pick off 
 the white part without breaking the thin inner skin; then tear 
 them into the natural divisions of the orange; each one will Make 
 from seven to eight pieces. Dip each into a light batter; fry 
 them in hot fat, not too brown. Serve as soon as convenient with 
 sifted sugar over them. 
 
 STEWED PRUNES. 
 
 Soak the prunes in cold water, if not very dry, for one hour; 
 but if they are old a longer time is necessary. Stew them, closely 
 covered with a thin syrup, with lemon peel chopped finely, for three 
 
 hours. 
 GOOD COMMON PRESERVE. 
 
 Boil together in equal or unequal portions any kinds of early 
 
186 . DESSERT DISHES. 
 
 
 
 fruit until they can be pressed through a sieve, weigh the pulp and 
 and boil it over a brisk fire half an hour, add half a pound of sugar 
 for each pound of fruit, again boil it quickly, stirring and skim- 
 ming, from fifteen to twenty minutes; cherries if used, should be 
 stewed tender apart, as they require a longer time than sais sum- 
 mer fruits. i sang Ie ne 
 A NICE AND CHEAP DESSERT. pamecloc <> 
 Cook a teacup of rice very thoroughly, putting in water first, 
 afterwards milk, and a little salt. When it is done to a jelly, add 
 a table-spoonful of currant-jelly, or half a teacup of any fruit- 
 juice, that is of a bright color; and put it over the fire a few min- 
 utes. Turn it into a mould, to cool; and eat bi saath, sweetened 
 cream, or cream and dry white sugar. ac ahi cue 
 ANOTHER. ) BABAK: 
 Tie a cup and a half of rice, which has heen aes bey ina 
 bag with a few raisins. Allow plenty of room to swell, and boil 
 an hour or more. Turn out, and pour over it some boilling apeep, 
 in which a small piece of butter has been melted. | 
 
 LOPPERED MILK. 
 
 A delicious summer dessert consists simply of milk which has 
 thickened, take it out quivering, like custard, and eat with cream 
 and white sugar. It must not be allowed to whey, as it is then not 
 loppered but sour milk. It is a favorite dish in Germany. 
 
 STRAWBERRIES. 
 
 Tt is not necessary to urge upon any one-the eating of this de- 
 licious fruit; everybody, man, woman, and child, anticipates the 
 season with pleasure. But we should like to urge upon all who 
 possess a few feet of ground the wisdom of cultivating a ‘‘ straw- 
 berry patch.” So great a gift, so profusely bestowed in return for 
 a little labor, ought to be shared by the poorest. We hope the 
 time will come when fruit will be so plentiful and so cheap that it 
 can be picked by the weary, thirsty traveller on the roadside. 
 Why should not apple-trees, cherry-trees, plum-trees, peach-trees, 
 and pear-trees be planted along the unsightly fences, hiding them, 
 
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 DESSERT DISHES. 187 
 
 and supplying God’s good gifts, without money or price, to those 
 who need them? The man who shall first endow his farm in this 
 way will, at small cost, become a public benefactor, and establish 
 a claim to immortality. But to return to strawberries: this is so 
 perfect a fruit, so exquisite in flavor, so excellent in quality, that 
 cooking, or manipulation of any kind, rather impairs than improves 
 it. A little white sugar and cream is the only addition that can 
 be made, and even this is a concession to our unnaturally sweeten- 
 ed and perverted palates, rather than tothe necessities of the case. 
 As for strawberry pie, strawberry dumpling, strawberry pudding, 
 and the whole range of dishes in which strawberries are cooked, 
 they should be stricken out of every housekeeper’s list, with a sin- 
 ele reservation in favor of ‘‘ strawberry cake,” in which, however, 
 the strawberries are not cooked, and which is so great a pet with 
 the male as well as female part of every household, that we dare 
 not say a word against it, even if it was not one of our own special 
 
 weaknesses. 
 : STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. 
 
 Mix dough as for soda buscuit ; that is to say, one quart of sift- 
 ed flour, piece of butter size of an egg, two tea-spoonsful of 
 cream of tartar, one of soda, a pinch of salt, and sweet milk to 
 form a soft dough. Put cream of tartar in the flour, and soda in 
 dry also, and, when thoroughly mixed, roll out half an inch thick 
 and bake in a shallow pan fifteen or twenty minutes; have ready 
 two quarts of fresh, fine strawberries; split the cake, place half 
 the strawberries between and cover thickly with white sugar and 
 eream; put the other half on the top and cover in the same way; 
 send to the table immediately. ‘This is the method of making at 
 the finest city restaurants. 
 
 FRUIT FOR DESSERT. 
 
 Add a little water to the white of an egg, and beat it well; dip 
 the fruit in and immediately sprinkle it all over with powdered 
 sugar. ‘Then leave it for four or five hours, and serve with cus- 
 tard, loppered milk, or ice corn-starch pudding. Large and fair 
 bunches of red and white currants make a charming dish in this 
 way. Strawberries, blackberries, cherries or raspberries, are el- 
 ther of them suitable. 
 
188 DESSERT DISHES 
 
 SUMMER ‘FRUITS MIXED. 
 
 Take fine, fresh strawberries, white and eae corrants, . and 
 white or red strawberries; strip them carefully from the stalks, 
 and heap them high on a dessert dish in layers, strewing each lay- 
 
 er with sifted sugar. Before serving lay thick cream entirely over. (+. +5 
 the fruit, and penuly stir them wit a spoon when served. Some | 
 
 use instead of cream two wine-glasses full of Sherry, Madeira or — 
 any other good white wine. Either currants or strawberries by 
 themselves, are good, prepared in this way. . 
 
 RHUBARB, OR PIE PLANT. 
 
 This is one of the greatest of spring luxuries, though the quan- 
 tity of sugar required to be used with it renders it rather expen- 
 sive. Remove the stringy part and cut up into small slices either 
 for stewing or pies, no spice is required, but sugar may be put in 
 as long as your conscience will let you, and a handful afterwards. 
 
 - 
 
 QUINCES FOR THE TABLE. 
 
 - Bake them; remove the skin, slice them and serve with cream — 
 and sugar. 
 
 APPLE PIQUE. 
 
 Peel and stew some apples, but do not let them break. Place 
 them in a glass dish half full of syrup, and put a piece of currant 
 jelly on the top of each apple. 
 
 TOMATOES. 
 
 These can be eaten raw, when ripe, with salt, pepper and vine- 
 gar or sugar. By pouring boiling water on them, the skin can be 
 taken off, then cut them in pieces and cover them with powcr? 
 sugar. 
 
 A DESSERT OF CHESTNUTS 
 
 Boil Spanish chestnuts very soft and pulp them through a sieve. 
 Beat the whites of eggs with pounded white sugar, to a thick froth 
 pile the chesnuts in a dish, and cover thickly with the whip, ths 
 before stirring. 
 
 
 
DESSERT DISHES. 189 
 
 LEMON PASTE TO KEEP. 
 
 To one pound of butter, put one pound of loaf sugar, six eggs 
 (leaving out the whites of two,) the rind grated, and the juice of 
 three lemons. Put all in a pan, and let simmer till the sugar is 
 dissolved, and it thickens to the consistency of honey. Put it into 
 pots, and close them air tight. 
 
 LEMON FLAVOR. 
 
 When lemons are plenty procure a quantity, cut them into thin 
 slices, and lay them on the plates to dry in the oven; when dry 
 put them into a tight bag or close vessel, in the store room, where 
 they are both handy and agreeable for almost anything. 
 
 TINCTURE OF LEMON OR ORANGE PEEL. 
 
 A fine flavor for cake, sauces, and the like, may be easily, and 
 cheaply obtained, by taking a thin rind off any lemons, or oranges, 
 that may be used, and putting it into a bottle half full of brandy, 
 or proof spirit. A few weeks will suffice to impregnate it very 
 strongly with the flavor. , 
 
 COUNTRY ICE CREAM. 
 
 Any family having ice and milk, can make ice cream without a 
 freezer as follows: Scald two quarts of fresh milk,—if a little 
 cream be added all the better,—stirring in three table-spoonsful of 
 corn starch or arrow root, to give it body. These may be omitted 
 if not at hand. Stir well to keep from burning. Beat up four to 
 eight eggs, according to convenience, and pour the scalding milk 
 on the eggs, stirring well. When cold add sugar and essence of 
 lemon, or extract of vanilla, to suit the taste, and a very little salt. 
 Pour the cold contents into a deep tin pail, or can, holding about 
 three quarts; put on the cover, and set in an ordinary water pail. 
 Pound up ice to the size of hens’ eggs and less, some, of course, 
 will be quite fine; pack it around the tin can, mixing in about one 
 pint of either medium or fine salt; pack this till it reaches nearly 
 to the top of the can containing the mixture to be frozen, but be 
 careful none enters it. Now move the tin can or pail around by 
 means of its bail, lifting the cover occasionally to scrape off the 
 
190 DESSERT DISHES. 
 
 frozen cream on the inside, so that other portions may come in 
 contact with the freezing surface. From fifteen to twenty minutes 
 will be sufficient, and the dish may be served up at once or set 
 away, without removing from the wooden pail, in a cool pion 38 for 
 several sean covered with a flannel cloth. 2 L,I sia ae, 
 
 STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM. 
 
 Take two pounds of fresh strawberries, carefully picked, ann 
 with a wooden spoon rub them through a hair sieve, about half 
 pound of powdered sugar, and the juice of one lemon; color with 
 afew drops of prepared cochineal; cream, one pint. When the | 
 sugar is dissolved, ascertain that the sweetness is correct; then 
 freeze. This will make a quart. When fresh strawberries.are not — , 
 in season, take strawberry jam, the juice of two lemons, cream, to 
 one quart. Color, strain, and freeze. 
 
 APPLE ICE. 
 
 Take nice apples, grate them, make them very sweet and freeze 
 them. Pears, peaches, and quinces can be done in the same way. 
 
 MOLASSES CANDY. 
 
 Boil slowly a quart of molasses, stirring occasionally. To find 
 when it is done, drop a spoonful of it into some cold water; if it 
 breaks brittle, take it off. Have some flat pans well buttered, pour 
 the candy hot into them, and set it aside to cool. When nearly 
 cool, take it from the pans and stretch it for a long time until it be- 
 comes a clearlight color. While boiling, it can be flavored accord- 
 ing to taste, or mixed with nuts or pop corn. A small piece of 
 alum put in will make it more brittle. yo ich 
 
 SUGAR TAFFY. 
 
 Dissolve three pounds of sugar in a pint of water, in which half 
 a teaspoon of citric acid has been dissolved ; boil it, and remove the 
 scum. When it will crack after being dropped in cold water take 
 off, and squeeze and mix in the juice of three lemons or oranges. 
 Boil again until thick as before, then pour into buttered pans, in a 
 thin layer. Mark it off into square blocks before it cools, so that 
 it will break regularly. | 
 
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 DESSERT DISHES. 191 
 
 LEMON DROPS. 
 
 Boil clarified syrup until it will crack when dropped in water ; 
 flavor it with lemon, then pour it in small drops on buttered paper, 
 and set aside to get cold. 
 
 CHOCOLATE DROPS. 
 
 Throw into a well-heated metal mortar, from two to four ounces 
 of the best quality of cake chocolate, broken small, and pound it 
 with a warm pestle until it resembles a smooth paste or very thick 
 batter; then add an equal weight of sugar, in the finest powder, 
 and beat them until they are thoroughly blended. Roll the mixture 
 into small balls, lay them on sheets of writing paper, or upon 
 clean dishes, and take them off when nearly cold. While soft, the 
 tops may be encrusted with white nonpareil comfits. 
 
 SYRUPS FOR CANDIES. 
 
 To a pint of cold water put two pounds of loaf-sugar, let it dis- 
 solve, add the white of an egg and beat the mixture well. Put 
 it on the fire, when it boils up take it off and remove the scum. 
 Put it on the fire again, let it boil up and throw in a few drops of 
 cold water; take it off again and remove the scum, and so contin- 
 ue until no scum rises. 
 
 BARLEY suGAR, (for Children.) 
 
 Soak a quart of barley over night, in the morning boil it gently 
 i more water, until it becomes a clear and rather thin jelly. Add 
 to this two pounds of sugar, and the juice of a lemon, and boil 
 again, until clear and stiff, so that when poured out in buttered 
 plates or saucers, it will set hard. The white of an ege improves 
 it. 
 
SWEET CAKES. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 POUND CAKE. een eee ce 
 
 Beat six eggs to a froth, then add a pound of sugar and half a 
 pound of butter, beat all well together; dissolve half a tea-spoonful 
 of soda in half a cup of milk. ‘Take a pound of sifted flour and 
 rub a tea-spoonsful of cream of tartar through it with your hands ; 
 add the eggs, sugar, and butter ; stir all thoroughly together, flavor 
 it to your taste, and bake in a quick oven. ee = 
 
 SPONGE CAKE.—1. 
 
 Three egos well beaten, one cup of white sugar, one cup 0 ie sited 
 _ flour, a tea-spoonful of cream tartar, half a tea-spoonful o: “soda, 
 _ both put in one cup with two tea-spoonsful of sweet milk, and dis- 
 solved. Beat the cake very thoroughly, then add a half Es ‘ a 
 ful of extract of lemon. Bake in quick oven. This is good enough 
 for a party, yet not expensive. ‘ Pe 
 
 SPONGE CAKE.—2. ‘ 
 Four, six, eight, or ten eggs, weight of eggs in powder f 
 half that weight in flour. Beat the yolks ten we 
 
 whites hashes: and stir in last. | 
 
 ALMOND SPONGE CAKE. 
 
 Ten eggs, one pound of sugar, half pound of flour, a few drops 
 of lemon. When these ingredients are well beaten, add half-pound 
 of sweet almonds, blanched, and pounded ina white mortar or 
 stout bowl. To blanch them—that is, skin them—pour boiling 
 
SWEET CAKES. 193 
 
 water upon them. Add a little peach extract, and bake in a brisk 
 
 oven. ‘This is very rich. 
 
 RICE FLOUR SPONGE CAKE. 
 
 Make like sponge cake, except that you use three quarters of a 
 pound of rice flour, thirteen eggs, leaving out four whites, and add 
 a little salt. 
 
 MRS. V.S SPONGE CAKE. 
 
 One tumbler of flour, one of fine white sugar, five eggs, one tea- 
 spoon cream tartar, one half tea-spoon soda. LBeat.the whites of 
 the eggs toa froth, add the sugar, then the yolks, and lastly, the 
 flour ; flavor with lemon, and bake to cut in squares. 
 
 A NICE TEA DISH. 
 
 ‘This cake is very nice cut in thin. slices, and layers of canned 
 peaches, or canned strawberries laid between, sift over the whole 
 powdered sugar. The same receipt makes delicious jelly cake. 
 
 * A MAGNIFICENT CHRISTMAS CAKE.—1. 
 
 _ Two pounds of flour, two pounds of sugar, two pounds of rai- 
 sins, stoned and chopped, two pounds of currants cleaned, one 
 pound of citron, cut in strips, one pound of butter, ten eggs well- 
 beaten, four tea-spoonsful baking powder mixed with the flour, a 
 pint of sweet milk, lemon, nutmeg, and allspice to taste, and a 
 little salt. Mix and beat thoroughly. Put in plenty of spice. 
 Bake four or five hours, and then ice. Trim it with holly wreath, 
 and branch. 
 
 CHRISTMAS CAKE.—2. 
 
 Four eggs, two cups of brown sugar, half a cup of molasses, 
 one cup and a half of shortening, (half butter and half lard), one 
 eup of milk, either sweet or sour, five cups of flour, two large 
 tea-spoonsful of soda, two large tea-spoonsful of ground cloves 
 one grated nutmeg, a tea-spoonful of cinnamon, one pound of 
 chopped raisins, citron. A table-spoonful of brandy improves this. 
 Eggs not to be beaten. 
 
194 SWEET CAKES. 
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 ‘ FINE FRUIT CARs. o ga neuemane olla 3 
 Soak three cups of dried apples over night in ae edie snineon 
 = - to swell them, chop them in the morning ata put them on the fire | 
 aw with three cups of molasses. Stew nt soft, but not pulpy. 
 When cold, mix with them three cups of flour, a cup of butter, 
 three eggs, and a tea-spoon of soda. Bake in a steady oven. . 
 This will make two good-sized pans full of splendid cake. The 
 apples will cook like citron, and taste deliciously. Raisins may be 
 added if desired, and salt and plenty of BF ay if liked. 
 
 PORK FRUIT CAKE. 
 
 Take half a pound of fat corned pork, chop it very fine. Mix 
 it with one pound of raisins chopped, five cups of fluur; one 
 cup of molasess, two cups of sugar, two eggs, one cup of milk or 
 wine, and one tea-spoonful of saleratus. Spice it with a table- 
 
 spoonful of cloves, one nutmeg, and half a table-spoonful of cin- 
 namon. This will keep all winter and is better after being kept a 
 considerable ¢ time. 
 
 A FENE BRIDE CAKE. 
 
 Three pounds of fine flour well dried, three pounds of pounded 
 sugar, three pounds of fresh butter, six pounds of currants well 
 washed and dried, two pounds of raisins chopped fine, one pound 
 of sweet almonds, blanched and cut thin, one pound of citron,one  __ 
 pound of lemon peel, one pound of orange peel, quarter ounce of 
 mace powdered and sifted fine, quarter ounce of nutmeg grated, 
 twenty-four eggs, and half pint of fruit syrup. First work the 
 butter toa cream with the hand, then beat in the sugar for quarter 
 of an hour. Let the whites of the eggs be beaten to a strong froth, 
 then mix with the sugar and butter; beat the yolk half an hour at 
 least, and add them; next dust in the flour, beating the cake the 
 whole time ; and the other ingredients by degrees, and keepbeating = 
 until the oven is ready ; butter the hoop, and line it also with a but- _ 3 | 
 tered paper before’ Paiths in the cake. It will take four ‘hours: 
 in a moderate oven. 
 
 Lhe Almond Icing.—Beat the whites of six eges toa strong froth, 
 beat two pounds of almonds (which have been pounded in a mortar) 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 SWEET CAKES. 195 
 
 with a little rose-water ; mix the almonds and eggs lightly together, 
 and add by degrees two pounds of loaf-sugar pounded. When the 
 cake is done, lay this icing upon it, and put it in the oven to brown. 
 
 Sugar Icing.—TIwo pounds of sugar sifted, two ounces of fine 
 starch ; beat the whites of five eggs to a strong froth; sift in the 
 sugar and starch, and beat for half an hour; lay this onthe almond 
 icing, and spread smooth with a knife. If put on when the cake 
 comes out of the oven, it will be hard by the time it is cold. The 
 cake must be kept in a dry place until wanted for use. 
 
 CONNECTICUT ELECTION CAKE. 
 
 Ten pounds of flour, five pounds of shortening, equal parts but- 
 ter and lard salted. Work shortening into flour very fine, no 
 
 knobs, then add a quart of brewer’s yeast. Take enough sweet | 
 
 milk to make it a little softer than biscuit. Work it a long time, 
 until it begins to grow light. Ifyou see the butter round the dish 
 while rising do not be frightened. Let it stand and rise until it 
 cracks open. While it is rising, weigh five and a half pounds of 
 white sugar, break ten eggs in a large dish, work the sugar and eggs 
 together ; five pounds of raisins, either seeded or chopped; soak 
 them in two gills of the best sweet cider; two table-spoonsful of 
 powdered mace, two nutmegs, the rind of two oranges, chopped 
 fine. Add citron if you choose. After the cake is raised enough, 
 work in all the above ingredients, and let it stand in a warm place 
 until it rises again. Then bake. This makes twenty large loaves. 
 
 INDEPENDENCE CAKE. 
 
 Twenty pounds of flour, fifteen pounds of sugar, ten pounds of 
 ’ butter, four dozen of eggs, one quart of wine, one quart of brandy, 
 one ounce of nutmegs, three ounces each of cinnamon, cloves, and 
 mace, two pounds of citron, five pounds each of currants and rai- 
 sins, and one quart of yeast. Frost it, and dress it with box and 
 rose leaf. 
 
 NEW HAVEN COMMENCEMENT CAKE, 
 
 One pound of sugar, three quarters of butter, one of flour, one ~ 
 
 cup of yeast, three nutmegs, two tea-spoonsful of cinnamon, and 
 five eggs. Settorise over night. Inthe morning add a tea-spoon 
 
196 rs SWEET CAKES. 
 
 of soda, and as much chopped raisins and chipped citron as you 
 choose, and let it stand an hour before baking. A little’ _raspber- 
 Be vinegar or melted currant jelly will ik it. Tee it, 
 ie PLUM CAKE. 
 
 Take two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of milk or 
 butter-milk, one tea-spoonful of saleratus or volatile salts, a gill of 
 brandy, a tea-spoonful of essence of lemon and sufficient flour to 
 make a stiff batter. Beat this well together, add half a pound of: 
 raisins stoned and chopped, half a pound of currants, washed and 
 dried by the fire, and one quarter of citron, and bake in a brisk 
 oven. 
 
 NEW YEAR’S HICKORY-NUT CAKE. 
 
 One pound of flour, one pound of sugar, three quarters pound 
 of butter, six eggs, two tea-spoons of cream of tartar, one of soda, 
 half&cup of sweet milk. Beat the cake thoroughly, and then stir 
 in a small measure of hickory-nuts, first, of course, taking them 
 fromthe shell. Bake ina steady but not quickoven. ‘This isa 
 very fine cake. . 
 
 HUCKLEBERRY CAKE. 
 
 One cup of sugar, one egg, piece of butter size of an egg, half 
 a cup of milk, one tea-spoonful of soda, two of cream of tartar, 
 ‘a tea-spoonful of any preferred essence, and sifted flour to make a 
 stiff batter. Put cream of tartar in the flour, soda in the milk, 
 and beat thoroughly. Add last a pint of dried huckleberries, and 
 bake in a quick oven. This is cheap and good. 
 
 LOAF CAKE. 
 
 Stir into two quarts of flour a pint of milk, slightly warmed, 
 and a small tea-cup of yeast. Place it near the fire, where it will 
 rise quickly. When perfectly light, work in with the hand four 
 beaten eggs, a tea-spoonful of salt, two of cinnamon, a wine glass 
 of currant jelly, a grated nutmeg, and some chipped citron. Stir 
 a pound of sugar with three quarters of a pound of butter; when 
 white work it into cake; add another quart of sifted Ase and 
 beat the whole with the hand ten or fifteen minutes, then set it 
 
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 where it will rise again. When of a spongy lightness, put it into 
 
 ‘buttered cake pans and let them stand fifteen or twenty minutes 
 
 before baking. Add if you like, a pound and a half of raisins 
 just before putting the cake into pans. ’ 
 
 NEW YEAR’S CAKE. 
 
 Three and a quarter pounds of flour, one of butter, and a half 
 of sugar, one pint of milk, two tea-spoons of cream tartar, one tea- 
 spoon of soda, caraway seeds. 
 
 APPLE CAKE. 
 
 Take one pound of white sugar, two pounds of apples pared 
 and cut thin, and the rind of alarge lemon; puta pint of water to 
 the sugar and boil it to a syrup; put the apples to it and boil it 
 quite thick. Put it into a mould to cool, and send it cold to table, 
 with a custard or cream poured round it. 
 
 CURRANT CAKE. 
 
 Beat a pound of fresh butter to a cream; take one pound and a 
 quarter of sugar, and one and a quarter of currants washed and 
 picked, and beat up the whites and yolks of eight eggs; put in 
 the sugar by degrees, then.a pound of flour and currants; add a 
 gill of brandy, some candied orange and citron; beat the mixture 
 till very light; and bake it in pans. 
 
 FINE ALMOND CAKE. 
 
 Boil a pound and quarter of finely sifted loaf sugar to a candy; 
 have ready a pound of sweet almonds well blanched and pounded, 
 adding a little orange-flower water while pounding to keep them 
 from oiling; put them in the sugar with the rind of two lemons 
 grated very thin and as much juice as to make it of a sharp taste. 
 Place this in glasses in the oven; stir them often to keep them 
 from candying; when a little dry put the mixture upon paper in 
 small cakes to harden. 
 
 LEMON CAKE.—1. 
 
 Rub one tea-cup of butter and three tea-cups of powdered loaf 
 sugar to a cream; beat and stir in the yolks of four eggs, adda 
 
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 tea-cup of milk, the juice and grated peel of one lemon, and the 
 
 whites of the eggs; then sift in four tea-cups of prepared flour, 
 
 and bake for about half an hour in two long tins. It can be iced 
 ‘ to advantage. | | 
 
 LEMON CAKE.—2. . 
 
 Beat well together one egg, a small piece of butter, flour, and 
 the rind of alemon grated with sufficient lump sugar to sweeten 
 it. Roll them very thin, cut them into such shapes as desired, and 
 bake on a tin in a brisk oven. 
 
 
 
 PICNIC CAKES. 
 
 
 
 One cup of sugar, one half cup of butter, two eggs, one half cup g 
 of sweet milk, one tea-spoonful of cream. of tartar, one half tea- Mi 
 spoonful of soda. Mix with sifted flour to the consistency of 
 cookies, cut in strips, which roll in powdered sugar and twist into P 
 round cakes. Bake a very light brown. 
 
 MRS. BRISTOL’S BREAD CAKE. 
 
 Four cups of light dough, two cups of sugar, one eup of butter, i 
 three eggs, one tea-spoonful of soda, one nutmeg, raisins. This 
 
 makes two large loaves, and constitutes a fine, cheap and healthy BS 
 fruit cake. mA 
 ‘‘ PORTAGE FALLS” CAKE. F. 
 
 Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three fourths of a cup of * 
 
 sweet milk, four eggs, the yolks and whites beaten separate; two 
 tea-spoonsful of cream of tartar, one tea-spoonful of soda. Put - 
 “the cream of tartar in the. milk and the soda in the flour. Beat 
 long and well; bake in a mould, in each section of which drop 
 several strips of citron. It should be iced. 
 
 
 
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 POVERTY CAKE. 
 
 Two cups of sugar, two cups of sour milk, one tea-spoonful of 
 saleratus, piece of butter as large as an egg, spice to your taste, 
 mix to a batter. 
 
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 SNOW CAKE. 
 
 Take half a pound of buiter, half a pound of pounded loaf su- 
 
 
 

 
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 gar, whites only of six eggs, and one pound of arrowroot. Beat 
 the butter to a cream, then add the arrowroot and sugar gradually, 
 beating all the time; beat the six whites separately, in a basin, 
 and when a stiff froth, add to the mixture; put a few drops of any 
 sort of essence either lemon, almond, or vanilla, and beat all for 
 twenty minutes. Then put into a tin and bake in a moderate ov- 
 en, great care being taken that the outside is not burnt before the — 
 inside is done. Some persons cut snow cake into slices before 
 sending it to table, having previously cut off the outside and sifted 
 powdered sugar over each slice. 
 
 SMALL SEED CAKES. 
 
 One cup of butter, two of white sugar, three eggs, half a cup 
 of seeds, and flour enough to make a stiff paste. Roll it very thin, 
 with sugar instead instead of flour, on the board, and cut it in 
 round shapes. Bake it about fifteen minutes. 
 
 CREAM CAKE.—1. 
 
 One cup of sugar, one of sour cream, two of sifted flour, two 
 eggs, one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, half of soda, half of 
 salt. Flavor with essence of almond. It is quickly made, and 
 delicious eaten fresh. 
 
 CREAM CAKE.—2. 
 
 Mix a quart of flour, a pint or more-of sweet cream, to wet it 
 well, a tea-spoonful of saleratus, dissolved in a little sour cream 
 and bake. 
 
 CREAM CAKES. 
 
 ( Outside.) Two cups of flour, half-cup of butter, half-pint cold 
 water. Boil the butter and water together, and stir the flour in 
 gradually while boiling. Let it cool; then add five eggs, a pinch 
 of saleratus, and a little salt. Drop the mixture on tins, and bake 
 in a quick oven. 
 
 Cinside.) One pint of milk, one cup white sugar, half-cup of 
 flour, two eggs. Beat the eggs, sugar, and flour together, and 
 stir them in the milk while boiling. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. 
 Cut a slit in the side of each cake, and ‘put in the filling after the 
 cakes cool. 
 
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 CORNETS A CREME. 
 
 These are little cakes, made of the yolks of four egg os, ice 
 ounces of white sugar melted in a few drops of water upon the 
 fire, two table-spoonsful of flour, and a little essence of lemon; 
 this mixture is baked very thin upon buttered pans, and then roll- 
 ed round into small cornucopias, and filled with a whip of cream 
 and a little powdered sugar. 
 
 PORTUGAL CAKE. - 
 
 Take half a pound of fresh butter, a pound of fine sugar, and — 
 four eggs, beat the mixture well till it is light and looks curdling; 
 flavor it with mace, add half a pound of currants and a pound of 
 flour; mix all together, put it in pans and bake in a mild oven. 
 
 GLEN VIS CAKE. 
 
 Take one large cup of sugar, half a cup of butter, two eggs, 
 half a cup of milk, half a tea-spoonful of soda, one tea-spoonful 
 of cream of tartar, spice, and a proportionate quantity of flour. 
 By using the whites only of three eggs the cake is made finer and 
 whiter. 
 
 WARSAW WHITE CAKE. 
 
 Take one and a half large cups of flour, mix half of it with two 
 table-spoonsful of melted butter, one tea-spoonful of cream of tar- 
 ter, and some milk; mix the other half with some milk and one 
 tea-spoonful of soda. Add to these a coffee cup of sugar, beat all 
 together and bake. ‘The milk for cake should always be divided, 
 and the soda dissolved in one portion and the cream of tartar in 
 the other. 
 
 SOUTH CAROLINA CAKE. 
 
 One small cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, 
 four eggs, half a tea-spoonsful of soda, half a tea-cupful of milk, a 
 ~little brandy, and a cup of raisins. 
 
 CIDER CAKE 
 
 One cupful of sugar, one cupful of butter, mix them together, 
 
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 and break in two or three eggs; then add one cupful of flour, one 
 nutmeg, and one tea-spoonful of saleratus; put into it one cupful 
 of cider, or pour the cider foaming over it; then add two cups full 
 of flour; mix the whole well together, and bake it three quarters 
 of an hour. 
 
 CONNECTICUT COFFEE CAKE. 
 
 Two eggs, two cups of sugar, one cup of coffee (liquid), three 
 fourths cup of butter, three cups of flour, one tea-spoonful each of 
 csOves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, 
 and one half tea-spoonful of soda. 
 
 FRIED CAKES WITHOUT EGGS OR MILK. 
 
 Melt a small table-spoonful of lard in a pint of hot water; adda 
 heaping tea-spoonful of salt. Mix in smoothly a tea-spoonful of 
 soda, two tea-spoonsful of cream of tartar, and sufficient sifted 
 flour to make a batter; adda coffee cup of sugar, and a little 
 nutmeg if desired, and work the dough quickly, but thoroughly. 
 Roll it out thin, cut into round cakes and fry immediately. 
 
 FRIED CAKES. 
 
 Two cups sugar, two cups sweet milk, half-cup butter, two eggs, 
 two tea-spoonsful cream of tartar, one tea-spoon soda, a pinch of 
 salt, spice. Add flour in sufficient quantity to rollin shape, and 
 fry in hot lard. 
 
 GINGER POUND CAKE WITH FRUIT. 
 
 Three quarters of a pound of sugar, three quarters of a pound 
 of butter, two pounds of flour, six eggs, one quart of molasses, 
 half a pound of currants, quarter of a pound of raisins, three 
 table-spoonsful of ginger, one tea-spoonful of cloves, two tea- 
 spoonsful of cinnamon, three tea-spoonsful of baking powder dis- 
 solved in a few spoonsful of milk. Bake one hour. 
 
 CRULLERS. 
 
 Three eggs, one cup of sugar, halfa cup of butter, one cup of 
 milk, three tea-spoonsful of baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, 
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 and lemon juice to taste, flour sufficient to stiffen. Cut in stripes 
 and fry in lard. SIGE 
 
 CUP CAKE.—1. 
 
 Three cups of flour, one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, four 
 eggs, a tea-spoonful of saleratus, nutmeg, and essence of lemon. 
 
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 CUP CAKE.—2. 
 
 Cream half a cup of butter, with three cups of sugar, by beating ; 
 stir in five eggs; dissolve a small tea-spoonful of soda in a cup of 
 sweet milk; add six cups of sifted flour; stir all well together, — 
 and if too thick, add a little more milk, without any more soda. . 
 Flavor with essence of lemon, and a little grated nutmeg. Stir 
 all well together, and bake in three pans. 
 
 MOLASSES CUP CAKE. 
 
 Butter one half cup, molasses one cup, sugar one cup, sweet 
 milk one cup, three eggs, three cups of flour, one large table- 
 spoonful of ginger, half tea-spoonful of salt, one tea-spoonful of | 
 soda dissolved in molasses. Mix butter and sugar together well 
 first, then add the other ingredients, eggs well-beaten being the 
 last. ‘This is very good. 
 
 CAKE WITHOUT EGGS. 
 
 One pint of sour milk, a pint and a half or two pints of flour, 
 one pound of raisins, one cup of butter, three cups of sugar, a 
 spoonful of saleratus, and spice to taste. Mix together and bake 
 
 an hour. 
 HARD TIMES MOLASSES CAKE. 
 
 One large cup of molasses, one cup of sugar, one cup of but- 
 termilk, half-a cup of butter, one tea-spoonful of soda, one table- 
 spoonful of ginger, four cups of flour. Good sweet dripping, or 
 part lard, and part butter may be used. When lard is used in- 
 stead of butter, it should have a little salt worked into it. This is 
 ~ very good. : ye 
 
 JENNY’S CAKES. o 
 
 One cup of sweet milk, one small cup of sugar, two spoonsful 
 
 
 

 
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 of cream of tartar, one spoonful of soda, a very little salt and nut- 
 meg; mix very thin with sifted flour, and bake thin and quick. 
 
 MARY’S TEA-CAKE. 
 
 Two eggs, beaten well, with one cup of sugar, then add one 
 cup of sour milk, one half cup of butter, or pork drippings, one 
 spoonful of soda, one half tea-spoonful of essence of lemon, and a 
 little salt; mix about as stiff as pound cake, and bake in a loaf. 
 
 BIRTHDAY CAKES. 
 
 Into a pound of dried flour, put four ounces of butter, four ounces 
 of sugar, one egg, a tea-spoonful of baking powder, and sufficient 
 milk to wet to a paste. Put in currants, and cut in cakes. Sprin- 
 kle colored caraway seeds on top, and bake them a light brown. 
 
 SOCIETY. CAKES. 
 
 One quart of sponge, three cups of sugar, one cup of butter, 
 three eggs, saleratus, half a pound of stoned raisins, spice it and 
 bake slowly. 
 
 SALLY LUNN. 
 
 Six cups of light dough, one-half cup of milk, one-half cup of 
 butter, two eggs, and two spoonsful of white sugar; add flou 
 enough to make it the consistency of thick batter, mix well, and 
 pour in greased cake-pans; let them set in a warm place one-half 
 hour, and bake by a slow fire. 
 
 SALLY LUNN BREAD. 
 
 One quart of milk, alittle soda, three eggs, one tea cup of sugar, 
 piece of butter the size of an egg, yeast sufficient for two loaves 
 of bread. Make a stiff batter. Bake twenty minutes. 
 
 CHRISTMAS CAKES FOR GOOD CHILDREN. 
 
 Three heaping table-spoonsful of sugar, two heaping table- 
 spoonsful of butter, one egg, two table-spoonsful of corn-starch 
 or maizena, put into three cups of flour, a small cup of sweet milk, 
 a heaping tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, and half of soda, a 
 
 pinch of salt, a few Zante currants. Roll out in powdered sugar, 
 
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 cut in strips, and twist them round like champagne cakes. Sprinkle ~ 
 
 over them colored caraway comfits. Bake quick, a light brown. 
 
 JUMBLES. 
 
 Sift four cups of flour; cream two cups of nice brown sugar, and 
 half a pound—a small tea-cup—of butter is near enough; beat 
 
 - two eggs very light, grate a little nutmeg, add one-half a tea- 
 
 spoonful of soda in half a cup of sweet milk; add flour enough 
 to roll into cakes; handle as little as possible; bake in a long tin 
 pan, in a quick oven. 
 
 WONDERS. 
 
 Table-spoonful of butter, one of sugar, one egg, a little spice. 
 Mis stiff, with flour, and boil in lard. 
 
 ROCK CAKES. 
 
 With a pound of dried flour mix a third of a pound of powder- 
 ed sugar, quarter of a pound of fresh butter beaten to a cream, 
 three well-beaten eggs and half a pound of dried currants, wash- 
 ed; beat them all well together, and flavor with nutmeg and lem- 
 on peel grated, pounded mace and a spoonful of brandy. Prepare 
 the baking plates by sprinkling a little flour on them, and drop the 
 batter on them with a spoon, a spoonful atatime. ‘The batter 
 should be stiff, so that the top of the cakes will remain rough. 
 Stick them with blanched almonds sliced, and bake them in a slack 
 oven until of a light color. 
 
 SHREWSBURY CAKE, 
 
 Sift three pounds of flour, and a pound of sugar, flavor it with 
 cinnamon and nutmeg; beat three eggs with half a pound of melt- 
 ed butter, so that it will be of a proper consistency to roll into 
 paste; knead it well, roll it out and cut in small cakes, prick them, 
 and bake them in a brisk oven. 
 
 NEW ENGLAND DOUGHNUTS. 
 
 Two cups of sugar, one half a cup of butter, ‘one pound of 
 flour, one nutmeg, one tea-spoonful of cinnamon, one-half eup of 
 baker’s yeast. Mix into a dough, with warm milk, and set it to 
 
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 rise. When light, roll out half an inch thick, and cutinto diamonds. 
 Boil in a small iron kettle, in lard which is boiling hot, but must 
 not be allowed to burn. ‘Turn when brown on one side, and take 
 them up with a fish slice. 
 
 DOUGHNUTS. 
 
 One quart of milk, three eggs, one and one quarter pounds of 
 sugar, three fourths of a pound of butter; add ginger, nutmeg, 
 and a small cup of yeast. 
 
 COOKIES. 
 
 Two cups of sugar, one half cup of butter, one cup of sweet 
 milk, one tea-spoonful of baking powder, caraway seeds, flour 
 enough to roll. ‘These are deliciously light and tender. 
 
 PARTY PUFFS. 
 
 Make a rich paste, roll out thin, and cut with a biscuit-cutter. 
 Lay them on a shallow tin pan, which has been buttered, and roll 
 out a puff-paste, which cut of the same size. In the centre of 
 each of the pieces of puff paste cut a hole with a small wine glass, 
 leaving a rim, which place on the top of your first pieces of paste, 
 ‘and bake all together alight brown. Before putting in the oven, 
 brush them over with sweetened white of egg; it greatly improves 
 the appearance. Fill with jelly or sweetmeats of any kind. 
 
 ENGLISH BUNS. 
 
 Rub well together three and a half pounds of flour, and three 
 quarters of a pound of butter; mix it with sweet milk heated, half 
 a pint of ale yeast, spice, and caraway seeds; knead it into alight 
 paste, and put it before the fire to rise. Then work in three 
 quarters of a pound of sugar, roll it rather thin, cut into buns, 
 place them before the fire to rise again, then bake in a quick 
 oven. 
 
 BUNS. 
 
 Half a cupful of yeast, one and a half cupsful of sweet milk, 
 or water, half a cupful of sugar, stir to a thick batter; let it rise 
 over night, in the morning add one cupful of sugar, half a cupful 
 
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 of butter, a small tea-spoonful of saleratus; stir as stiff.as biscuit 5; 
 let it stand until light, mould, raise and bake. They are excellent 
 warm, for tea. 
 
 GINGER SNAPS. 
 
 One pint of molasses, one tea-spoonful of butter and lard, mixed, 
 two even tea-spoonsfuls of soda, dissolved in two thirds of a tea- 
 cupful of boiling water, two.table-spoonsful of ginger; mix as 
 quickly as possible, with flour enough to roll out thin, and bake 
 quickly to a light brown. Sorghum molasses is preferred. ‘They 
 will keep any length of time. 
 
 GINGER NUTS. 
 
 Take three quarters of a pound of butter, a pint of molasses, 
 
 and half a pound of sugar. Melt them together, and when cold — 
 mix it with three pounds of flour, half an ounce of ginger, and a 
 
 little lemon juice. 
 
 SPONGE GINGERBREAD. 
 
 One cup of sour milk, one cup of molasses, half a cup of butter, 4 
 
 one or two eggs, one and a half tea-spoonsful of soda, one large 
 
 spoonful of ginger, and flour to make it as thick as pound eake; 
 
 put the butter, molasses, and ginger together, and make them 
 quite warm, then add the flour, milk, and soda together, and bake 
 as soon as possible. 
 
 HARD TIMES GINGERBREAD. 
 
 Two cups of molasses, one cup of sugar, three parts of a cup of 
 butter, or sweet dripping, a coffee cup of water, a teaspoonful of 
 saleratus, a table or tea-spoonful of ginger. Knead soft, roll half 
 an inch thick. Bake quick. 
 
 RICE CHEESE CAKES.—1l. 
 
 Beat three eggs, the whites separately, and four ounces of white 
 sugar together, then take half a pound of finely sifted ground rice, a 
 quarter of a pound of butter, mix all together, with a small blade 
 of mace finely pounded, and the peel of two lemons, rubbed on su- 
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 Pour the batter into little tins not quite full, and bake in a brisk 
 oven. LEaten cold. 
 
 RICE CHEESE CAKES.—2. 
 
 Boil a quarter of a pound of rice till tender in three pints of 
 milk, put in four eggs, quarter of a pound of butter, half a pint 
 of cream, six ounces of sugar, a lemon extract, nutmeg. Beat 
 well, and put in paste in small saucers, or patty-pans, and bake. 
 
 ENGLISH CHEESE CAKES. 
 
 Take six ounces of potatoes, and the peel of four lemons; boil 
 them together until tender, and then beat thoroughly the lemon- 
 peel, with a quarter of a pound of sugar; and the potatoes with 
 the same quantity of butter, and a little cream or milk, into which 
 an egg has been beaten. Mix all well together, with a few nicely 
 cleaned Zante currants, and bake in patty-pans, lined with rich 
 paste, half an hour. Sift sugar over them. 
 
 APPLE CHEESE CAKES.—1. 
 
 ‘Pare, core, and boil twelve apples, with enough water to mash 
 them; beat them up very smooth, then add three eggs, the juice 
 of two lemons and some grated peel, quarter of a pound of fresh 
 butter, beaten into a cream and sweetened with pounded loaf su- 
 gar; beat all well in with the apples, bake it in a puff paste, and 
 send it up like an open tart. 
 
 APPLE CHEESE CAKE.—2., 
 
 Pare, core, and boil twelve apples, with enough water to mash 
 them; beat them up very smooth, and add the yolks of six eggs, 
 the juice of two lemons, and some grated peel, a quarter of a 
 pound of fresh butter, beaten into a cream, and sweetened with 
 pounded loaf sugar; beat all well in with the apples. Bake it in 
 a puff paste, and send it up like open tarts. It is well to make a 
 silver cake with these apple cheese cakes, as it makes a fine addi- 
 tion to the table, and uses up the whites of the eggs. 
 
 BREAD CHEESE CAKES. 
 
 Slice up a large French roll very thin, pour on it some boiling 
 
208 | SWEET CAKES. 
 
 milk; when cold, add four eggs, quarter of a pound of butter 
 
 melted, some nutmeg, a spoonful of essence of lemon, a little su- 
 gar, and half a pound of currants; when mixed together, pour the 
 mixture into puff paste as other cheese-cakes. 
 
 COCOANUT CHEESE CAKES. 
 
 Half a cocoanut, three ounces of lump sugar in half a quarter 
 of a pint of water, the sugar being first dissolved in the water, and 
 then the cocoanut, grated, to be added; let this boil for a few 
 minutes over a slow fire, and, when cold, add to it the beaten 
 yolks of three eggs and the white of one; put the mixture into 
 tins with puff paste, and bake them in a slow oven. 
 
 ALMOND CHEESE CAKES. 
 
 The yolks of three eggs well beaten, a quarter of a pound of 
 bitter and quarter of a pound of sweet almonds, and a quarter 
 pound of sifted sugar. The almonds must be pounded, but not 
 very finely. The eggs should be beaten to a cream, and the su- 
 gar mixed with them, and then the almonds added. To be put 
 into tartlet tins lined with puff paste. 
 
 NEW YEAR’S BISCUITS. 
 
 Boil a pound and a quarter of lump sugar, upon which you have 
 rubbed the rind of a lemon, in half a pint of milk; when cold, 
 
 rub half a pound of butter with two pounds of flour, make a hole ~ 
 
 in the centre, pour in the milk, with as much carbonate of soda as 
 would lie upon a sixpence, and a couple of eggs; mix the whole 
 into a smooth paste, lay it out upon your baking-sheet in what- 
 ever flat shapes you please, and bake them in a very warm oven. 
 The proper way to shape these biscuits is by wooden blocks hay- 
 ing pineapples, leaves, and other devices carved on them. 
 
 CREAM BISCUIT. 
 
 Rub one pound of fresh butter into one pound of flour, make a 
 hole in the centre into which put half a pound of powdered sugar, 
 upon which the rind of a lemon was rubbed previously to pound- 
 ing, and three eggs; mix the eggs well with sugar, and then mix 
 all together, forming a flexible paste; cut it into round pieces each 
 

 
 
 
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 nearly as large as a walnut; stamp them flat with a small stamp, 
 and bake them in a slack oven. 
 
 APPLE BISCUIT. 
 
 Boil apples in water until soft, then take them out and rub 
 through a wire sieve; flavor with a drop or two of essence or of 
 of lemon, and, if you like the taste, a drop of the oil of cloves. 
 Add lump sugar equal in weight to the pulp, and grind it with it; 
 roll the sugared pulp into flat cakes about a quarter of an inch 
 thick, and cut them into shapes. Finally dry them in a very slow 
 oven, the heat not being strong enough to bake them or melt the 
 sugar; they may be dried also by the summer’s sun. They often 
 require to be partially dried before they can be rolled out. They 
 may, instead of rolling, be dropped on to paper, or put in a ring 
 of paper upon a slightly greased iron plate. 
 
 ORANGE BISCUITS. 
 
 Grate the rind from five oranges, and put into a mortar with 
 quarter of a pound of sweet almonds, three quarters of a pound of 
 pounded lump sugar, and the whites of one or two eggs, and mix it 
 well together with the pestle until it is very light. Drop the mix- 
 ture, when ready, in small lumps about the size of a walnut, on 
 doubled paper, laid on a baking tin, and put them into moderately 
 hot oven. Do not drop them too near together on the paper, as 
 they spread while baking. When they are baked take them out, 
 and take them off the paper when they are cold. 
 
 MOSS BISCUITS. 
 
 Weigh half a pound of flour, to which add an ounce and a half 
 of butter and five ounces of sugar, rub them well together, and 
 mix with one whole and one white of egg, and a tea-spoonful of 
 milk; then add two ounces of ground almonds, which rub well 
 into the paste; afterwards rub the whole through a gauze wire 
 sieve, taking it off in small pieces, which lay upon a lightly butter- 
 ed baking sheet, and bake them in a moderate oven. 
 
 GINGER BISCUITS. 
 
 One pound of flour, half a pound of butter, turned to a cream, 
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 half-a-pound of white sugar sifted. These to be well mixed; 
 then add the yolks and whites of three eggs, beaten separately, 
 with two ounces of powdered ginger. These last mix gradually 
 with the rest. Roll out thin and cut it into biscuits; bake them 
 on tins in a quick oven. 
 
 JUDGE'S BISCUITS. 
 
 Break six eggs into a basin, whisk them well for five minutes ; 
 put in half a pound of powdered sugar, and whisk again for ten 
 minutes. Add some cararway seeds, if liked, and half a pound 
 of dry sifted flour, mixing all thoroughly.. Drop the mixture on 
 paper, each being the size of about a silver quarter dollar and 
 high in the middle. Sift sugar over them and bake them. Remove 
 them from the paper while they are hot. A wooden spoon is the 
 best to stir with. 
 
 KING’S BISCUITS. 
 
 Put half a pound of butter into a basin and turn it about well. 
 Whisk six eggs well, add half a pound of powdered sugar, whisk 
 another ten minutes, and then. mix with the butter, after which 
 stir in six ounces of currants, and an equal quantity of dried 
 flour. After mixing these all well together, drop the mixture on 
 paper and bake in a quick oven, taking the biscuits off the paper 
 while hot. 
 
 GRAHAM FIG BISCUIT. 
 
 Wash and scald figs and mix with enough Graham flour to make 
 a good dough by mae kneading ; roll and cut into biscuits half an 
 inch thick, bake quickly. . 
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 Scald a pound of almonds, let them lie awhile in cold water, 
 then dry them, and mash them together. Moisten them in the 
 white of an ege to prevent them turning into oil, and then take 
 an equal quantity of powdered sugar, and the whites of four eggs. 
 Mix the whole well together, shape them on wafer-paper and bake 
 on thin plates in a mild oven. 
 

 
 
 
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 COCOANUT CAKES. 
 
 Scrape off the rind and grate the nut quite fine, and mix it with 
 half its weight of finely pounded white sugar, and the white of an 
 egg. Drop the mixture on wafer paper in rough pieces, the size 
 of a nutmeg, and bake it in a moderate oven. 
 
 ICING. 
 
 To ice a good sized cake, put eight ounces of powdered sugar 
 into a mortar with four spoonsfuls of rose water, and the whites of 
 two eges, beating and straining it. Then whisk it well, and when 
 the cake is almost cold cover it with the iceing evenly, using a 
 feather or knife. Put it in the oven to harden, but not long enough 
 to discolor it, and keep it in a very dry place. 
 
 CHOCOLATE ICING. 
 
 A cup of milk, a quarter of a pound of good chocolate, one cup 
 of powdered sugar, one tea-spoonful of vanilla. Scald the milk 
 and chocolate, then add the sugar, and pour it on the well-beaten 
 white of anegg. This will ice a good sized cake or pudding. An 
 almond iceing is given in the receipt for a bride cake. 
 
PRESERVED FRUITS AND SWEETMEATS. | 
 
 CANNING FRUIT. 
 
 This new method recommends itself, not only on account of its 
 health, but its economy, especially since the price of sugar has 
 become so enormous as to be almost prohibitory. Properly put up 
 in the right kind of cans, there are many fruits which require no 
 sugar, and even the most acid only a very little, say, one fourth of 
 the weight; it should, however, be of the finest quality. 
 
 BLACKBERRIES. 
 
 Use the zinc-covered, self-sealing jars, as the covers of these 
 can be screwed down without difficulty, while the jars are in the 
 water, and we have never known fruit to spoil in them. 
 
 Fill the jars with fruit and sugar in the proportion of cne pound 
 of crushed sugar to four pounds of fruit. Set them in cold water 
 (a wash boiler is as good as any thing for the purpose), which heat 
 to boiling. ‘The jars, by the way, should not be filled to within an 
 inch of the top, and when the boiling process, by expelling the air, 
 has forced the fruit up to the top of the jar, it is exactly the time 
 to put on the cover, and with a small holder in the left hand, to 
 keep the fingers from being burnt, screw it tight down, before 
 taking the jar from the water. 
 
 Cherries, raspberries and plums, may be preserved in precisely 
 the same way; peaches and pears also, omitting the sugar, which 
 they do not require, as they keep just as well without. 
 
 STRAWBERRY JAM. 
 
 Separate the hulls from the berries, for each pound of berries 
 weigh out three quarters of a pound of pounded sugar; put the 
 
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 berries in a deep dish sprinkling the sugar among it, and Ict them 
 remain ten or twelve hours, then boil them together half an hour 
 very slowly. 
 
 RASPBERRY JAM. 
 
 This should be made in the same manner as strawberry jam. 
 Let it boil, after it commences to do so, fifteen or twenty minutes ; 
 another way is to bruise together a quart of raspberries, and a 
 pint of currant jelly ; boil them slowly six or seven minutes, stirring 
 them; then put into close pots. This will keep two years. 
 
 STRAWBERRIES IN CANS. 
 
 Walf a pound of sugar to every pound of berries; scald them 
 together, fill the cans while hot, arid seal at once. 
 
 DRIED STRAWBERRIES 
 
 Put ten pounds of strawberries into a jar, and sprinkle among 
 them four pounds of white sugar. Let them stand until the next 
 day, then scald them and put them back into the jar. On the third 
 day, put another pourid of sugar over them and scald them again, 
 pour out on plates, or dishes, and dry them in a cool oven, or the 
 back part of the range. They must be kept in tin canisters, and 
 will make a very good dessert dish in winter. 
 
 STRAWBERRY JAM. 
 
 Boil the strawberries gently until thick, and very much reduced ; 
 _ add loaf sugar, three quarters of a pound to a pound of fruit, and 
 stir constantly, until it is reduced to a paste. Putin small jars, 
 and cover with ege paper—that is paper covered on the under 
 side with white of eg¢,—and tie down a second paper over them. 
 
 PRESERVED RASPBERRIES. 
 
 Take five or six pounds of red, but not too ripe raspberries ; 
 
 pick and put them into a preserving pan, with an equal weight of - 
 
 clarified sugar; when they have boiled up about a dozen times, 
 skim and pour the whole into a pan, till the next day ; then drain the 
 fruit and put it into jars; put to the syrup about two glasses of 
 cherry juice, previously strained ; boil the sugar again, and pour it 
 
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 over the raspberries; add afterwards about a spoonful of currant 
 juice to each pot, and when cold, lay on brandy PAPOM, and tie 
 them down. 
 
 CURRANT AND RASPBERRIES SWEETMEAT. 
 
 Take equal weight of red currants and raspberries, and of 
 sugar, three quarters of a pound of best loaf, to each pound of 
 fruit. Cover the fruit with the sugar over night, and the next day 
 boil all together slowly for an hour, skimming if necessary. Put in 
 small jars, and fasten down while hot, with egg, or brandy paper. 
 It will keep well, and makes a delicious sweetmeat. 
 
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 CHERRY JAM. ‘ 
 
 Stone four pounds of Kentish cherries, add to them half a pint 
 red currant juice and a pound of fine sugar, and boil all together 
 briskly till the mixture becomes stiff. 
 
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 GREEN GRAPE JAM. 
 
 Put the grapes in.a jar, and let them cook in a kettle of boiling 
 water, until they are soft, and can be separated from the seeds. 
 Strain through a fine colander, and to every pound of grape, put a 
 
 | pound of crushedsugar. Boil all together very gently, until a thick 
 jam is formed, and then put in small moulds, or glasses, and cover 
 with egg paper. 
 
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 PLUM JAM. 
 
 Prepare the plums by skinning and stoning them, allow three 
 quarters of a pound of finely pounded loaf sugar to one pound of 
 fruit; lay them in a deep dish over night with the sugar sprinkled 
 among them, and in the morning let them boil twenty minutes, 
 after they have become sufficiently hot to bubble over their whole 
 surface. 
 
 PINEAPPLE JAM. 
 
 Cut the pineapple into small slices and then into square pieces, 
 removing all the skin and eyes. Allow three quarters of a pound 
 of loaf sugar to a pound of pineapple, and boul them very: slowly 
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 _ BLACK CURRANT JAM. 
 
 Boil together for quarter of an hour after it commences to bub- 
 ble, stirring well a mixture composed of a pint of juice of red cur- 
 rants, and a pound and a quarter of pounded loaf sugar, to each 
 pound of currants. 
 
 PRESERVED CHERRIES. 
 
 Stone the fruit, weigh it, and for every pound, take three quar- 
 ters of a pound of loaf sugar. First dissolve the sugar in water, 
 in the proportion of a pint of water to a pound and a half of sugar. 
 Then add the fruit, and let it boil as fast as possible for half an 
 hour, till it begins to jelly, as it soon thickens by keeping. Put it 
 in pots, cover with brandy paper next the fruit, and then closely 
 from the air. 
 
 PICKLED CHERRIES. 
 
 Procure white ‘‘ ox-heart” cherries, leave the stems on, and 
 prepare for eight pounds of fruit, four pounds of sugar, two quarts 
 very best vinegar, a little cloves and double the bulk in cinnamon, 
 mace and ginger root. Boil the vinegar, sugar and spices, skim- 
 ming thoroughly. Put the fruit in bottles, strain the syrup over 
 it, screw them down, and put them in a kettle of boiling water for 
 ten minutes. When they look like cracking they are done. 
 
 PINE APPLE MARMALADE. 
 
 Boil together for each pound of grated pineapple a pound of 
 double refined loaf sugar. When it is boiled thick, which will be 
 in about fifteen minutes, if the quantity is small, or more if large, 
 put it in tumblers, and paste over them papers wet with the beaten 
 whites of eggs. Keep it in a dry, cool place. 
 
 PRESERVED QUINCES. 
 
 Peel and core them, put in the kettle, and cover them with the 
 parings, cores, and considerable water. Cover close and boil till 
 tender; then take out the quinces, strain off the liquor, and to 
 every pint add one pound of loaf-sugar. Boil it a few minutes, 
 skim, put in the quinces, and boil slowly twenty minutes, or until 
 they are clear. 
 
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 CRAB APPLES PRUG ad 
 
 Weigh the apples, and with an equal weight of sugar make a 
 syrup with apple jelly, and after this is well boiled, erie: the crab- _ 
 apples and put them into it. When they have boiled a few min- 
 utes, take them out, and let them drain-on a sieve. Put t em 
 again into the syrup, when they are nearly cold, and after boiling 
 a few minutes more, drain them as before. Repeat this process a 
 third time, and afterwards place them in glasses or jars, pouring 
 the boiling jelly over them. 
 
 
 
 
 BRANDY GAGES. 
 
 Take green gages, wash and wipe them dry, prick them on opposite 
 sides and pack them in bottles or jars, with mouths large enough 
 to let the fruit in without pressing. Prepare a very rich syrup, 
 let it cool to blood heat, mix in the proportion of one third syrup 
 to two of brandy, mix thoroughly, fill the bottles, cork, and seal 
 perfectly air tight. If syrup is left, ogee it il future use. if 
 the skins are douvk remove them. | 
 
 PRESERVED PINEAPPLES. 
 
 Peel the pineapples, cut out the eyes, slice them and cut out the 
 ‘hard centre. ‘Then boil them till tender; skim the liquid and add 
 to it three quarters of a pound of sugar to a pound of pine apple. 
 Boil it, skim it again and putin the fruit, and boil it till clear of 
 soft, or put in lemons and one pound of sugar. 
 
 GREEN FIGS PRESERVED. 
 
 Take half ripe figs, and prick them near the stalk, scald them and 
 when half cold throw them into cold water and let them drain. 
 Boil clarified sugar in a covered preserving pan, put in the figs, let” 
 them boil three or four times; then take them from the fire, skim 
 them well and put them in a warm place over night. In the morn- 
 ing drain off the syrup, boil it up a dozen times, and when luke- 
 warm pour it on the figs. Let it stand till the next day, drain it 
 off and boil it up again, then add the figs to it, boil them together a 
 once in the covered preserving pan, skim again, and put in jars J 
 for use. 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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 TO PRESERVE PLUMS OR DAMSONS WHOLE. 
 
 Weigh your fruit, and to every pound allow three quarters of 
 crushed sugar. Put into stone jars alternate layers of fruit and 
 sugar, tie down with cloth, and let them stand in an oven after 
 bread has been baked init, until itis cold. The next day strain 
 off the syrup, boil and clarify it, and pour over the fruit, which in 
 the mean time has been carefully removed to glass jars or china 
 pots. Place over them egg tissue-paper, and over that thick white 
 paper pasted, or bladder tied strongly down. | 
 
 Another method is to put the plums into water over a slow fire 
 until they begin to peel, keeping them under the water, then take 
 the skins off carefully and put them into a jar with enough thin 
 syrup to cover them completely. Boil the syrup next day, put the 
 plums in, boil gently, allow them to stand till cold; repeat the pro- 
 cess, turning them in the syrup till nearly cold. Take the plums 
 out, strain the syrup, add more sugar, skim it, put the plums in 
 again and boil them till they become quite clear, then put them in 
 jars and tie them down with paper. 
 
 CURRANTS PRESERVED. 
 
 Scald a few of the currants at a time until all are done, put su- 
 gar into the juice in the proportion of a pound of sugar to a pound 
 of currants, and boil a few minutes; then put the currants back 
 into the syrup, and boil them up once. 
 
 RHUBARB PRESERVED. 
 
 Pare half a dozen oranges, remove the seeds and white rind, 
 slice the pulp into a stew pan with the peel cut very small. Then 
 add a quart of rhubarb cut fine, and a pound and a half of loaf 
 sugar; boil the whole down as for other preserves. ‘This is almost 
 equal to Scotch marmalade. 
 
 ORANGES PRESERVED. 
 
 - To preserve oranges whole, grate the rinds slightly, and score 
 them round with a knife, or cut the rinds into scollops or any other 
 pattern, not cutting deep; then put them into cold water for three 
 days, changing the water two or three times a day; afterwards tie 
 
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218 PRESERVED FRUITS. 
 
 them up in a bag, and boil them in water until a pin’s head will 
 
 penetrate their skins easily. Take a pound anda half of white — 
 
 sugar to every pound of oranges, and while they are boiling, put 
 the sugar on the fire with rather more than half a pint of water 
 to each pound. Let it boil a minute or two, and then strain it 
 through muslin. Then put the oranges into the syrup, and boil 
 until the syrup will jelly and is of a nice yellow color; it cannot 
 
 be too stiff. ‘The syrup need not cover the oranges, but they must 
 
 be turned so that each part gets thoroughly done. 
 
 PICKLING PEARS AND PEACHES. 
 
 This is a very nice way of preserving these fruits, particularly 
 for those who like such a relish with cold meats. Select smooth 
 freestone peaches, and medium sized juicy pears, and stick them 
 full of cloves, that is to say, like pins upon a pincushion, heads up; 
 and perhaps half an inch apart. Boil together, either the syrup 
 left from dried fruit, and vinegar, in the proportions mentioned in 
 the receipt for drying plums and small fruit, or seven pounds of 
 good Orleans sugar to one gallon of good vinegar, an ounce of 
 mace, and an ounce of allspice. When it boils, put in the fruit, 
 and let it all boil gently together, until a pin will slip in and out 
 easily. Then take the fruit out in jars, boil the spiced and sweet- 
 ened vinegar for a few minutes longer, and then pour over fruit 
 and set it away to cool. When cold, fasten thick paper over the 
 lids with paste or mucilage. 
 
 DAMSON PLUMS, (Zo pickle.) 
 
 To two pounds of plums, take one pound of brown sugar, and 
 one pint of vinegar, tea-spoonful of mace, one of cmnamon; boil 
 them well, and pour it on the fruit hot; when cold, drain it off, 
 boil it and pour it on again, repeating it six times. ae 
 
 PEACHES DRIED WITH SUGAR. ‘ 
 
 Peel yellow peaches, cut them from the stone in one piece, allow 
 two pounds of sugar for six pounds of the fruit, make a syrup of 
 
 three quarters pound of sugar and a little water, put in the peaches ~ 
 
 and let them stay till they are quite clear, take them up carefully 
 on a dish and set them in the sun to dry. Strew powdered sugar 
 
 
 
 
 
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 over them on all sides, a little at atime, and if any syrup is left re- 
 move them to fresh dishes. When they are quite dry lay them 
 lightly im a jar with a little sugar between each layer. 
 
 TO DRY PLUMS AND SMALL FRUITS. — 
 
 A very good method is to pit them, and put in jars, a layer of 
 fruit to a layer of sugar, in the proportion of half a pound of sugar 
 to a pound of fruit. Let them stand twenty-four hours, and then 
 boil them, taking the scum off, as it rises to the surface. When 
 they have boiled ten minutes, take them out of the syrup, drain 
 them, and spread them thin on dishes, or hair sieves, to dry in the 
 sun; they will need turning every few hours, until dry. 
 
 The syrup that is left can be used, in the proportion of a large 
 pint to a small quart of good vinegar, for pickling pears or peach- 
 es,—the method for doing which is explained in the receipt under 
 that head. | 
 
 Another method for drying plums, peaches and apples, is to 
 prepare them nicely, by pitting or peeling and cutting, dry them 
 partly, and then lay them in jars, strewing sugar between each lay- 
 er. ‘Tie them down, and they will keep well, and be delicious for 
 pies, or stewing. 
 
 Some people are troubled with insects among fruit, when it is 
 kept along time. A handful of sassafras bark thrown among it 
 will keep it free from worms. 
 
 PRESERVED CITRON. ' 
 
 Pare ripe citron melons, and cut them into half-moon shaped 
 pieces, about half an inch in thickness. Boil in soda water until 
 tender, when a straw will pass through them; skim them out and 
 lay them in weak alum water; let them remain three hours; then 
 put them in cold water for another hour. Then take ong quart - 
 of water, four pounds of sugar, and the same weight of citron; 
 boil this syrup and remove the scum ; when clear put in the citron, 
 let it remain till the sugar has penetrated it thoroughly ; then pack 
 it in jars. Boil the syrup until it is ropy, and pour it in the jars. 
 Flavor with extract of ginger. Add to each quart jar a table- 
 spoonful of extract of lemon peel, and seal them‘as soon as filled, 
 with paper wet in egg. 
 
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 APPLE SWEETMEATS. 
 
 Procure fresh gathered ripe apples, of a fine sort; peel them, 
 take out the cores, and cut them in quarters; place them in a pre- 
 serving pan with a glass of water, a little lemon or orange peel, 
 and a pound of sugar to a pound and a half of fruit. Let it boil 
 thoroughly, and then put it into preserve pots. : 
 
 APPLE PRESERVE. 
 
 Peel and weigh ten pounds of apples; stew them in a pan, with 
 one pint of water; when they are quite tender put in eight pounds 
 of pounded suger, two ounces of ground ginger, the juice and 
 grated rind of four or five lemons ; let it boil half an hour or more, 
 stirring it all the time, then put it in small jars or moulds. 
 
 APPLE BUTTER. 
 
 Take ten gallons of new sweet cider, before it has fermented ; 
 put it into a brass kettle; if the kettle will not hold all of the ci- 
 der, put ina part, and set it a-boiling; skim it, and as it boils 
 away keep adding, until you have put in all the cider; boil down 
 to about five gallons. For the ten gallons of cider, take half a 
 bushel of quarters of apples; part quince gives ita fine flavor. 
 Now wash and drain the apples, put them into the boiled cider, 
 and when they are soft, it must be stirred constantly until finished. 
 It requires a stick formed in such a way as to keep moving on the 
 bottom of the kettle, to prevent the apple from sticking and burn- 
 ing. Have a slow fire, and attend carefully to the stirring at the 
 bottom of the kettle. If for winter use, from one to two hours’ 
 boiling, after the apples first begin to boil, is sufficient; or a long- 
 er time if thought proper. Before taking it from the fire, season 
 with spice, cinnamon and cloves, to suit the taste. Remove the 
 kettle from the fire, dip the apple butter while hot into well glazed - 
 crocks, or stone jars; then set away to cool. When cold, cut pa- 
 per covers for each crock; soak it in apple-jack, lay it inside of 
 the vessel, on the apple butter, and cover it close. A barrel of 
 cider may be boiled down to about ten gallons, observing the same 
 proportions as given above. 
 
 
 

 
 PRESERVED FRUITS. 291 
 
 TO PREVENT WASTE IN APPLES. 
 
 An excellent way to prevent waste in apples, is to pick out all 
 that are beginning to speck, peel, cut up and stew as for sauce, 
 and fill into air-tight cans. As canned fruit is used through the 
 fall and winter, the cans can be re-filled in this way with apples, 
 and in that way they will be preserved for pies or sauce till summer. 
 
 PRESERVED PIPPINS. 
 
 _ Pippins and bell-flowers make a delicious preserve. Take half 
 a pound of sugar to each pound of fruit, make a syrup in which 
 boil the fruit till clear, take out the fruit and boil the syrup till 
 thick ; add extract of lemon to taste, and pour over the fruit to 
 prevent the necessity of long boiling, which injures the taste and 
 looks of preserves; they can be put while boiling into tin cans and 
 sealed. 
 
 PRESERVED CUCUMBERS. 
 
 ' Split the cucumbers and extract the seeds. Let them remain 
 for three days in salt and water. Put them now into cold water, 
 with a small quantity of alum, and boil them till tender. Drain 
 them and allow them to lie in a thin syrup for two days; then take 
 them out, boiling the syrup again, and pour it over the cucumbers, 
 repeating this operation twice more. Now boil some clarified su- 
 gar until, when a spoonful of it is taken up and blown through, 
 small sparks of sugar will fly from it; put the cucumbers into this 
 and let them>simmer five minutes. Leave them until the next day, 
 when the whole must be boiled up again, and afterwards put by 
 for use. 
 
 VEGETABLE MARROW PRESERVED. 
 
 Soak the vegetable marrow twelve hours in salt and water, then 
 pare it, remove the seeds and soft part, cut it into small, thick, 
 square pieces. Boil it in water until tender, put in a little prepared 
 cochineal to color it; then strain it. Make a syrup of powdered 
 sugar, boil in it two sliced lemons, and a quarter of a pound of 
 whole ginger; when cold, put in the vegetable marrow and let it 
 stand two days. Pour off the syrup, add more sugar to it, boil it 
 
22? PRESERVED FRUITS. 
 
 _ again and add it to the vegetable marrow; remove the vegetable 
 marrow, boil it up several times till the syrup is strong and trans- 
 parent, and the last time you do so boil the vegetable marrow in 
 the syrup. An equal weight of sugar and vegetable marrow is 
 used in making the syrup. ete 
 
 TOMATO FIGS. 
 
 Take pear shaped, or small single tomatoes, scald and skin them, 
 then to half a peck or eight pounds of them, take three pounds of 
 ‘orown sugar. Cook them with sugar over a fire without water, 
 until the sugar penetrates and they are clarified. ‘Take them out, 
 spread on dishes, flatten them and dry in the sun. Sprinkle on a 
 little syrup while drying, after which pack down in boxes treating 
 each layer with powdered sugar; the syrup that is left can be boil- 
 ed down and bottled for use. They will keep from year to year, 
 retaining their flavor, which is nearly like that of fresh figs. 
 
 PRESERVED ARTICHOKES. 
 
 Cook them half done, then separate the leaves from the fur and 
 preserve the fleshy part called ‘‘ the bottom,” and turn them still 
 warm into cold water to make them firm. Afterwards put them in- 
 to the oven four different times, when they will become thin, hard 
 and transparent. ‘They flay be eaten raw with salad sauce. 
 
 CANDIED ORANGE PEEL RINGS. 
 
 Cut some Seville oranges in half, remove the pulp, and let the 
 peel soak for three days in strong salt and spring water. ‘This 
 must be repeated three times, after which the peel should be plac- 
 ed on a sieve to dry. Put one pound of loaf sugar to one quart 
 of water, boil it, and skim it until quite clear. Double the orange 
 peel, and cut it across in narrow strips which, when opened, will, 
 of course, form rings. Let these simmer in the sugar until quite 
 transparent, and then dry them before the fire. Make a syrup of 
 the best loaf sugar using only enough water to dissolve it; and 
 while it is boiling put in the rings, stirring continually until the 
 sugar is candied round them, then put them to dry before the fire 
 or in a cool oven. 
 
 
 

 
 PRESERVED FRUITS. 993 
 
 PREPARING CITRON FOR CAKE. 
 
 Boil the citron in soda water until it is clear or tender, have 
 ready a nice syrup of sugar; put in the citron, and boil until the 
 sugar has struck through it; take it out on plates to dry slowly, 
 sprinkle pulverized sugar on both sides, two or three times until it 
 is dried enough. Then pack it in wooden boxes, with sugar be- 
 tween the layers. It is nearly as nice as bought citron. 
 
 FRIED PUMPKIN. 
 
 Select the ripest and largest. Peel and stew them dry, then 
 spread out on plates and dry in a cool oven until all the moisture 
 is extracted. It will then. be a dry, hard, thin layer, which may 
 be packed away in tin cans, or boxes, ina dry place until re- 
 quired for use. Be careful to dry, and not to cook or bake it while 
 in the oven. When required for use, soak it over night in sweet 
 milk. 
 
 TOMATO SWEETMEATS. 
 
 Scald and remove the skin, slice them thinly and stew them in 
 sugar like other preserves, using the best kind of sugar,— three 
 quarters of a pound, for a pound of tomatoes. 
 
JELLIES. HOW TO MAKE THEM. 
 
 APPLE JELLY. 
 
 Take one dozen of the largest apples, pare and slice them into 
 three quarts and one pint of water. Put them into a tin pan; and 
 boil them until they become a pulp and one half of the water is 
 consumed. Pour it into a jelly-bag, and after it has done running, 
 press what juice you can from the bag. To every pint of juice 
 add one pound of white sugar; set the juice and sugar on the fire 
 and let them boil twenty minutes skimming it all the time. Add 
 lemon juice and peel to taste. Pour it into tea-cups or jelly-glasses 
 at hand, and turn it out entire. The above quantity of apples will 
 make about three pints of juice. Remember, after you have 
 pared one apple, slice it immediately into the water, and do-not 
 pare them all together; moreover, let them lie, or it will render 
 them red, and you will lose a great quantity of the apple juice. 
 Golden pippin apples make the finest jelly. It is necessary to be 
 very careful about over-boiling all fruit jellies, else they soon 
 spoil; fifteen to twenty minutes after the sugar has been added is 
 generally sufficient. It is also important to put jellies and jams 
 into the moulds or jars, the moment they are taken from the fire. 
 
 Another method from the French is as follows :—Choose fine- 
 flavored, jucy, ripe apples, peel them, and cut them into quarters, 
 putting them into water as they are cut, to prevent their turning 
 black. When they are all cut, place them in the preserving-pan 
 and put to them just water enough to cover them. Let them cook 
 until they are quite soft; take them out of the preserving-pan, 
 place them in a seive, and let the juice drain from them. Boil the 
 juice with an equal weight of sugar until it will jelly, (when test- 
 ed by placing a little on a cold plate,) and pour it into the jelly 
 
 
 

 
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 jars. Quince jelly may be made in the same manner. If it is 
 desired to have the apple jelly of a full pink tinge, let a ittle 
 cochineal be put into it, and that will give it color. 
 
 MRS. WEBSTER’S WINE JELLY. 
 
 Take of American isinglass four ounces; dissolve it in three 
 quarts of hot water; add one half ounce of stick cinnamon, the 
 juice of two, and the peel of one lemon, one and one half pounds © 
 of pure white sugar; let it all come to a boil slowly, then adda 
 gill of Maderia wine and let it simmer a while longer; then strain 
 it twice through a jelly bag, and set it to cool; the extract of saf- 
 fron colors it beautifully. 
 
 CRAB APPLE JELLY.’ 
 
 Fill your preserving kettle with apples; then cover with water. 
 Boil until they are very soft. Drain the water off through a cloth, 
 and add to each pint of the water, one pound of white sugar. 
 Let the water come to a boil, before adding the sugar. Then boil 
 five minutes. ‘Turn off into glasses, or small jars, and when cold 
 cover with thick paper. 
 
 | CIDER JELLY. 
 ' . : ad ° 
 Boil new cider to the consistency of syrup, adding a pound of 
 - white sugar to a gallon of cider. Skim it. . Let it cool, and it will 
 be a beautiful clear jelly, very nice to make drink for the sick or 
 well. | 
 
 _ CURRANT JELLY. 
 
 Fill a jar with currants, and place it in a kettle of boiling water. 
 When the juice is expelled, strain through a cloth, and to every 
 pint add a pound of white sugar. Boil ten minutes, skimming till 
 it is quite clear. Black currant or grape jelly can be made in the 
 same way. 
 
 ' QUINCE JELLY. 
 
 If quinces are high a jelly may be made of the peels and cores, 
 but if the fruit is-plenty, boil the whole. Allow one quart of 
 water to ten pounds of quince. Cover the fruit and boil until ten- 
 
226 | JELLIES. 
 
 der; then pour them into a jelly bag without pressing, and let 
 them drain into an earthen dish, no matter if until the next morn- 
 ing. Allow a pound of the best white sugar for every pint of 
 juice. Place the syrup on the fire in a preserving kettle ; as soon 
 as it becomes hot, stir in the sugar, boil a few . pie and put 
 it in moulds. 
 
 BLACKBERRY JELLY. 
 
 Boil the berry a few moments, then strain it and add one pound 
 of sugar to one quart of juice. Boil it till it becomes a jelly. 
 
 
 
 To one pint of wine add one ounce of isi 
 sugar, and spice to your taste. 
 
 RICE JELLY. 
 
 Take quarter of a pound of rice flour, and half a pound of loaf 
 sugar, boil them in a quart of water; when they become a glutin- 
 ous mass strain off the jelly, add wine or lemon juice and let it 
 cool. 
 
 TAPIOCA JELLY. 
 
 Take four table-spoonsful of tapioca, rinse it thoroughly, then 
 soak it five hours in cold water enough to cover it. Seta pint of 
 cold water on the fire, when it boils, mash and stir up the tapioca — 
 that is in the water, and mix it with the_boiling water. Let the 
 whole simmer gently, with a stick of cinnamon or mace. When 
 thick and clear, mix two table-spoonsful of white sugar with half 
 a table-spoonful of lemon juice, and a glass of white wine——stir it 
 into the jelly ; if not sweet enough, add more sugar, and turn the 
 jelly into cups. t 
 
 JELLY FROM GELATINE. 
 
 To make two quarts, take a two ounce package of the pela 
 and soak for one hour in a pint of cold water; add to this one and 
 one-half pounds of sugar, the juice of four eae some orange 
 peel, stick cinnamon or other flavoring; when the gelatine is thor- 
 oughly soaked, pour on three pints of boiling water and strain im- 
 
 
 

 
 JELLIES. 227 
 
 mediately through a jelly bag or coarse toweling; next pour into 
 moulds and set aside to cool; in warm weather use a little more 
 gelatine. 
 
 CRANBERRY JELLY. 
 
 This is made like currant jelly, but it is hardly worth while to 
 make it to keep, when it is so easily made fresh all through the 
 winter. . 
 
 SAGO JELLY. 
 
 A tea-cupful of sago, boiled in three pints and a half of water 
 till ready. When cold, add half a pint of raspberry syrup. Pour 
 it into a shape which has se rinsed in cold water, and let it stand 
 until it is sufficiently set to turn out well. When dished, pour a 
 little cream round it, if preferred. 
 
 MEDLAR JELLY. 
 
 Take medlars when they are ripe (i. e. when eatable) and put 
 them into a preserving pan with as much water as will cover 
 them; simmer slowly until they become a pulp, then strain through 
 a thin jelly bag, and to every pint of juice add a qurrter of a 
 pound lump sugar. Boil for an hour and pour into jars; when 
 cold it will be a stiff jelly. Medlar jelly made from this recipe, 
 in some degree resembles Guava jelly. It makes a very good ad- 
 dition to a winter dessert. 
 
 CALF’S FEET JELLY. 
 
 Take well cleaned calf’s feet, put one quart of water to four calf’s 
 feet, and boil until reduced to one quart; then strain, and when 
 cold, take off the top. In taking out the jelly, avoid the settlings. 
 To the quart, put half a pound of sugar, the juice of two lemons, 
 and clarify this with the whites of two eggs, boil all together a few 
 moments and strain it through a cloth. 
 
 GRAPE JELLY. 
 
 Take garden grapes before they are fully ripe, pick them, and 
 boil gently with a little water, or small cupful, until the piece flows 
 freely, and the pulp is dissolved. Strain throgh a thin Swiss mus- 
 
228 JELLIES. | 
 
 lin bag, pressing the pulp through, and boil again for fifteen min- 
 utes before adding the sugar, a pound of loaf sugar, to every pint. 
 Boil with the sugar fifteen minutes longer, taking off any skum that 
 may rise. Put in moulds or glasses, and cover with egg paper. 
 Wild grapes will make jelly, but not so firm as the cultivated ones. 
 
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 FRESH FRUITS. 
 
 STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM. 
 
 Pick your strawberries over carefully; if they are dusty, wash 
 them, by pouring ‘water over them through a colander. Arrange 
 them in a glass dish, sprinkling a thick ok of powdered sugar 
 over them when it is half full, and another on the top ; sugar them 
 only a few minutes before they are to be eaten, and cover with 
 cream or condensed milk, partially diluted, when serving. [See 
 page 186, 187. ] 
 
 PEACHES. 
 
 Peel fine juicy rareripe peaches, cut them up, cover thickly with 
 powdered sugar, and serve with cream, or without. 
 
 HUCKLEBERRIES. 
 
 Some people like these without sugar, the best way therefore is 
 _ to pick them carefully, and put them on the table in a glass~dish, 
 
 flanked by a bowl of powdered sugar, and a pitcher of milk, and 
 let every one suit his or her taste. ‘They are delicious eaten in a 
 bowl with bread and milk, and in this way, constitute an excellent 
 summer morning, or mid-day meal. 
 
 BLACKBERRIES. 
 
 These are best without milk, and may be sugared either before 
 or after putting on the table. Plenty of white powdered sugar is 
 necessary, and a little lemon juice dropped upon the sugar is an 
 improvement. 
 
 WHITE AND RED CURRANTS. 
 
 Pick them large, and fresh from the stems, and put them either 
 together, or separate into glass dishes ; cover then thickly with white 
 
230 FRESH FRUIT. 
 
 pondered sugar an hour before they are wanted, and serve with 
 sugar in a glass bowl. Mixed white and red currants make a very 
 pretty dish, and with plenty of sugar are delicious to eat with 
 custard. 
 
 CURRANTS AND HUCKLEBERRIES. 
 
 Red currants, and huckleberries mixed, make a delightful and 
 refreshing dish, the sugar should be sprinkled through them half 
 an hour before they are eaten, served with milk, or cream. An 
 excellent breakfast dish; the currants just imparting to the huckle- 
 "berries the piquant taste that they lack. | 
 
 CURRANTS AND RASPBERRIES. 
 
 These are excellent mixed, and eaten in the same way, much 
 finer to our taste than raspberries alone, although in the absence 
 of ourrants, no one would object to raspberries, which are the 
 most delicate of all fruit, and are served precisely like strawber- 
 ries. i 
 
 CHERRIES. 
 
 These are less desirable than other small fruit, wncooked, and are 
 liable to be infected with worms. White-hearts, fine and smooth, 
 pitted, or only sprinkled whole, with powdered sugar, are however, 
 very nice. 
 
 
 

 
 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUITS, Erc. 
 
 YEAST. 
 
 _ Take twelve large potatoes, pare and grate them; have two 
 single handsful of hops boiled in one quart of water; strain upon ° 
 the potatoes ; set the pan on the stove, and stir till it scalds; take 
 off, and add one table-spoonful of brown sugar, one tea-spoonful 
 of ginger; when cool, add half a pint of good brewer's yeast if it 
 can be got, if not, take hop or cake yeast to start with, the flour 
 will soon work out. This is always ready, does not sour quickly, 
 and will keep two. months in a cool place without needing soda. 
 Tt should be put into a half gallon jug, corked, and tied down and 
 kept in a cool place. One tea-cupful will raise two large loaves 
 of prea, 
 CONNECTICUT YEAST. 
 
 - Put 2 a handful of hops in a bag, boil in two quarts of water with 
 five pared potatoes; when done, sift the potatoes, put with them 
 in a pan one table- -spoonfil of flour, half cup of sugar, half cup of 
 salt ; pour on this the boiling hop water. When Gage ate cool, 
 
 add yeast enough to ferment it well, then put it in a jug, cork tight, 
 
 keep in a cool place. 
 
 AN EXCELLENT YEAST. 
 
 Boil four good sized potatoes, mash or sift fine, then add one 
 half cup of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of salt, one quart of boil- 
 ing water, then put in one pint of cold water and a cup of old 
 yeast; cover and rise over night; it will then be fit to use; one 
 
 gill is sufficient for three pints of flour, 
 coat 
 
 POTATO YEAST. 
 This does not keep long, but it is very nice to use for anything 
 which requires raising. It is made by smoothly mashing a dozen 
 
232 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUITS, ETC. 
 
 large, mealy, boiled potatoes, into which mix a large handful of 
 white flour and a littie salt. Stir in a tea-cup of baker’s yeast to 
 make it a batter. When itis raised up light, bottle and cork it 
 tight and put it in a cool place. It may be used without any fear 
 of making bread or biscuit bitter, as is sometimes the case with 
 hop yeast. 
 
 YEAST CAKES. 
 
 Stir light fresh hop yeast into Indian meal until it becomes the 
 consistency of dough. Make this into thin cakes, and dry on a 
 board in the oven, or where there is sun, and a “current. of air. 
 Turn twice a day, until thoroughly dried, and then put them in a 
 bag and hang in a cool, dry place. ‘They keep good a long time. 
 
 BREAD.—1. 
 
 For about three loaves of bread, the saute before baking, bake 
 a pint of sifted flour, put itinto a pan, sprinkle on two tea-spoons- 
 fuls of cold water; then pour on it very gradually, stirring out the 
 lumps carefully as the flour becomes wetted, a quart of boiling wa- 
 ter. Let it stand and get nearly cold, and then add half a pint of 
 potato yeast, mixing it in thoroughly. Letit stand in the room, 
 not where it is too warm, over night, in the morning have ready 
 sufficient sifted flour in the tray, then make a pint of thin corn- 
 meal mush, clear and free from lumps, set it away till it cools, then 
 pour it in a hole made in the middle of the flour. Pour in also the 
 yeast batter instead of wetting, and mix the whole into dough. 
 Knead it and set it away to rise, being very careful to keep it an 
 equal temperature the whole time. When light mold it into loaves ; 
 let it stand ten or fifteen minutes in a warm place, then bake 
 about an hour, or until done. It should not be underbaked, and it 
 is just as important that it should not be over-done. It is a’ com- 
 mon error that over-done bread is healthy. If the crusts are thick 
 and hard they can be moistened up, covering the loaf fresh from 
 the oven with one or two thicknesses of damp cloth. Several 
 thicknesses of wet cloth wrapped around it in this way render it 
 indigestible. In making the batter over night, five or six middling 
 
 sized potatoes, boiled to a mush, and puiged baie a Siege 4 
 may be added to it. 
 
 
 

 
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 BREAD.—2. 
 
 An easier way of making bread, is to heat two bricks to one 
 hundred degrees or more, and place the pan you make the bread in, 
 on them. Put in the flour and salt; make for three loaves, a pint 
 of corn meal mush, free from lumps; set it away to cool; mix it 
 in the flour with a tea-cup of potato yeast, and make the whole in- 
 to dough with lukewarm water; the mixing and kneading all 
 being done on the hot bricks. Have well-greased tins, divide the 
 dough into them, set them to rise on the hot bricks by the stove, 
 with a piece of carpet over the bricks to moderate the heat, and 
 cover them well with woolens. Let it rise about two hours, then 
 bake in a steady oven. 
 
 GENERAL RULES. 
 
 Generally in making bread, one quart of wetting, either of milk 
 or water, is sufficient for five quarts of flour or meal. Ten quarts 
 of flour or meal will make four loaves of about three and a half 
 pounds each, to be baked in quart pans. Water mixed with flour 
 or meal should be about blood warm. When yeast is used, it 
 should be well stirred and diluted with lukewarm water before 
 being added to the flour. 
 
 RYE AND INDIAN BREAD 
 
 The proportions of rye and. corn meal used, may be varied ac- 
 cording to the taste. If the largest proportion of rye is used, 
 make the dough stiff; if the largest proportion of corn meal, make 
 the dough softer. The greater the proportion of corn meal, the 
 longer the bread requires baking. ‘The best way to mix the dough 
 is to put the corn meal into a glazed earthen pan; sprinkle salt over 
 it, pour on boiling water, work it till thoroughly wet, and when 
 
 about milk-warm add the rye flour with the yeast, and as much 
 more warm, but not hot water, as is required. Work the dough 
 until stiff, but not as stiff as flour dough. Putit then in a deep 
 greased pan, put your hand in warm water and pat down the top, 
 set it to rise in a warm place by the stove in winter, but in the sun 
 in summer. When it begins to crack on the top, which will be in 
 an hour or an hour and a half, put in a well heated oven. To 
 
" 234 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUITS, ETC. 
 
 make the bread two thirds of corn meal, take four quarts of sifted 
 
 corn meal, sprinkle a table-spoonful of salt over it, pour over it 
 two quarts of boiling water, as directed above; when lukewarm 
 add two quarts of rye meal, half a pint of ively yeast mixed in a 
 pint of warm water,—add more warm water if necessary. Bake 
 two or three hours. This makes a loaf weighing seven or eight 
 pounds. 
 
 GRAHAM BREAD. 
 
 Make a batter of Graham flour in the ordinary way, but mix it 
 rather thin. Let it rise, divide the loaves into tins just as soon as 
 it is light, for it becomes sour quicker than bolted flour; bake an 
 hour and a quarter, or an hour and a half, according to the size of 
 the loaf. - A little molasses can be added to the batter if desired. 
 
 ,SWEET BROWN BREAD. 
 
 One quart of rye flour, two quarts of Indian meal, one pint of 
 Graham flour, all fresh, half a tea-cupful of molasses or brown su- 
 gar, half a pint of potato yeast, and salt, Mix into as stiff a 
 dough as can be stirred with a spoon, using warm water for wet- 
 ting. Let it rise several hours or over night, then bake five or six 
 hours. 
 
 RICE FLOUR BREAD.—l. 
 
 Bail a pint of rice soft, add a pint of cream, then three quarts 
 of rice flour; put it to rise in a tin or earthen vessel until it has 
 risen suflicient; divide.it into three parts, and bake it as other 
 bread, and you will have three large loaves; or scald the flour, 
 ‘and when it is cold mix half wheat flour or corn. Raised with 
 leaven in the usual way. | 
 
 * 
 
 RICE FLOUR BREAD.—2, 
 
 One quart of rice flour; make it into a stiff pap by wetting with 
 warm water, not so hot as to make it lumpy; when well wet, add 
 boiling hot water, as much as two or three quarts; stir it contin- 
 ually until it boils; when it cools, put in half a pint of yeast and a 
 little salt; knead in as much wheat flour as will make it a proper 
 dough for bread; put it to rise, and when risen, add a little more 
 
 
 

 
 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUITS, ETC. 235 
 
 wheat flour. Let it stand in a warm place half an hour, and bake 
 it. ‘This same mixture, only made thinner, and baked in rings, 
 makes excellent muflins. 
 
 MOIST RICE BREAD. 
 
 In three quarts of Cold milk and water, mix a pint and a half 
 of ground rice. It will be a thin gruel; boil it three or four min- 
 utes, and then stir in Graham flour until it is too stiff to stir with 
 aspoon. Let it become lukewarm, add two gills of yeast and 
 salt; let it rise, and bake it an hour. 
 
 APPLE BREAD 
 
 Mix the pulp from a dozen good-flavored, boiled apples, with | 
 twice its quantity of wheat flour, or Graham flour; add salt, yeast, 
 and bake as usual. 
 
 PULLED BREAD. 
 
 Take the crumb out of a hot loaf of bread, and divide it into 
 rocky looking pieces, by pulling it to pieces quickly with the fin- 
 gers of both hands; place these pieces on a baking tin, lined with 
 paper, and bake them over again toa light-brown color. Do them 
 in a quick oven to ensure their being very crisp. 
 
 PIECES OF BREAD. 
 
 These need not be thrown away. Rich bread puddings may be 
 made of them; they may be made into crumb cakes, or dressing 
 for any kind of meat that can be stuffed, is made of softened crusts, 
 butter, herbs, and abeaten egg. In the summer when bread becomes 
 mouldy by keeping, the pieces that cannot be used immediately, can 
 be dried on tins in the oven and used pounded for puddings, or 
 crumb cakes, or to dress a ham, as cracker crumbs. Some have a 
 smail board on which to slice bread, and brush the crumbs from 
 it into a box. It is easier to save them than to scatter them over 
 the table or floor. 
 
 SHORT CAKE. 
 
 Put into a basin twelve ounces of flour, and six ounces of but 
 ter, or half the quantity if sufficient for your purpose; take off 
 

 
 236 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 
 
 
 
 little bits of butter with your fingers and rub thoroughly into the 
 flour; then moisten it with as little water as possible, only just 
 Sou to hold the paste together, as the less water used the short- 
 er the crust willbe. Moll out the paste upon a smooth board, of 
 the desired thickness. This quantity is sufficient for the cover of 
 two fruit tarts. While making pastry always endeavor to be ina — 
 cool place in summer, and a moderately warm one in winter; use 
 cold water in summer, and water a little warm in winter. 
 
 RUSKS. 
 
 Three pints of flour, one pint of sugar, a quarter of a pound of | 
 butter rubbed in the flour, one table-spoonful of yeast, one pint of 
 warm milk. Set asponge and put all in. Mix soft. This is 
 good for doughnuts. 
 
 BAKED BATTER. 
 
 Four pints of cold milk, three table-spoonsful of flour, two 
 crackers | pounded fine, a small piece of butter, table-spoonful of 
 sugar, two eggs, a little salt to be eaten with butter and white su- 
 gar. Flavor with lemon. 
 
 RYE DROP CAKES. 
 
 Mix together one quart of milk, two beaten eggs, a piece of but- 
 ter as large as an egg, two tea-spoonsfyl of cream of tartar, one 
 tea-spoonful of soda, half a tea-cup of white sugar, and sufficient 
 rye meal to make a thick batter. Bake half an hour. 
 
 RICE BISCUIT. 
 Mix with warm water, a tea-cup of boiled rice, two pounds of 
 flour, two spoonsful of yeast; let it rise, and bake it. 
 HOE CAKES. 
 
 First scald a quart of Indian meal in enough water to make a 
 thick batter; mix in two spoonsful of butter, a tea-spoonful of 
 soda, and two tea-spoonsful of salt. Bake about half an hour in a 
 
 buttered pan. ; 
 FANNY’S BREAKFAST CAKES 
 
 In one quart of thick’ sour milk, stir Graham flour, to make a 
 

 
 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 237 
 
 thick batter, add a little salt, a heaping tea-spoon of soda, anda 
 tea-spoon of melted butter. Make it into drop cakes, and bake. 
 
 CORN CREAM CAKE. 
 
 Take a quart of milk, or buttermilk, and put a sour thick cream 
 mixed with sufficient bi-carbonate of soda to sweeten it, add corn 
 meal enough to the milk and cream to thicken it to the consistency 
 of pound cake, stirring it in; put it an inch thick in floured pans, 
 and bake it in a quick oven. 
 
 MRS. D.’S TEA BISCUIT. 
 
 Six tumblers flour, one half pound butter, three tumblers milk, 
 two tea-spoonsful cream tartar, one half tea-spoonful soda; mix 
 soft, bake quick. 
 
 CORN BREAD. 
 
 One pint of sour milk, one pint of corn meal, one pint of white 
 flour, two even tea-spoonsful of soda, one tea-cupful of molasses 
 or brown sugar, one large tea-spoonful of salt; bake an hour. It 
 is nice and warm for dinner, and moist and eeoihteuie when cold. 
 Good Indian cake is made with buttermilk or sour milk, with a little 
 cream or butter rubbed on the meat, and a tea-spoonful of sal- 
 eratus. 
 
 BREAKFAST JOHNNY CAKE. 
 
 Mix over night six or eight table-spoonsful of fine yellow Indian 
 meal, with two of wheat flour, one of corn starch, a tea-spoonful 
 of salt, and water enough to wet thoroughly — milk is better, but 
 is not essential. In the morning add one egg, a tea-spoonful of 
 soda, a table-spoonful of brown sugar, and another of melted but- 
 ter; beat up well, and bake immediately. This is good enough 
 for ** company.” 
 
 BREAKFAST CORN CAKE. 
 
 Three cups of meal, and half a cup of flour, mixed with butter- 
 milk, or sweet milk, and water, over night, and left standing. In 
 the morning add a large tea-spoonful of soda, a table-spoonful of 
 sugar, or molasses, and as much melted butter, together with a lit- 
 

 
 238 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 
 
 the salt. Bake anhour. Itis very nice. A little cold hominy, or 
 farina, mixed smoothly with the meal, improves corn cake without 
 egg s, wonderfully. " 
 
 CORN MEAL WAFFLES. 
 
 Two eggs, yolks well beaten, one table-spoon of butter, one of 
 flour, one tea-spoon of salt, one pint of sweet milk, one pint of 
 meal twice sifted, half tea-spoon of soda; add last the whites of the 
 - egos well beaten. 
 
 WESTERN JOHNNY CAKE. ~ 
 
 One quart of milk, three eggs, halt cup of sugar or molasses, 
 tea-spoonful of saleratus, a cup of wheat flour, thicken with In- 
 dian meal to a batter. Bake in shallow pans. 
 
 BUTTERMILK BREAKFAST CAKES. 
 
 A quart of Graham flour, a piece of butter as big as a walnut, a 
 tea-spoon of salt, a tea-spoon of soda, and sufficient good butter. 
 Add enough milk to mix to the consistency of cup cake. Drop the 
 batter by the large spoonful on a buttered pan, and bake quick. 
 They will puff right up, and be ready for the table in fifteen min- 
 utes. 
 
 RICE PUFFS. 
 
 To a pint of flour put boiling water or milk sufficient to make a 
 batter. When it is cold beat four eggs and put in, together with 
 a tea-spoonful of salt. Drop mixture by the large spoonful 
 into hot fat. 
 
 RICE FLOUR PUFFS. ey 
 
 To a pint of the flour, add a tea-spoonful of salt, a pit of boil- 
 ing water; beat up four eggs, stir them well together, put from 
 two to ieee spoonsful of lard in a pan, make it boiling hot, and 
 fry as you do common fritters. 
 
 RICE FLOUR CAKES. 
 
 Take a pint of soft-boiled rice, half a pint of milk and water, to 
 which add. twelve spoonsful of rice flour. Divide it into small 
 cakes, and bake in a brick oven. 
 

 
 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 239 
 
 OAT CAKE. 
 
 Melt half an-ounce of salt butter or lard, in a pint of boiling 
 water, and having put a pound of oat meal into a basin, pour the 
 water, quite boiling, upon it. Stir it as quickly as possible into 
 a dough. Turn this out on a baking plate and roll it out until it 
 js as thin as it can be to hold together, then cut it out into shape 
 of small round cakes. Make these firm by placing them over the 
 fire on a griddle (a gridiron of fine wire bars) for a very short 
 time, and afterwards toast them on each side alternately before 
 the fire until they become quite crisp. <A simpler way is to make 
 a thick paste of coarse oat meal and water, knead it, spread it thin, 
 lay it on a griddle over the fire, turn and brown on both sides. 
 
 LEIGHT STREET CRUMPETS. 
 
 Mix a quart of warm milk, a tea-spoonful of sugar, and a gill 
 of potato yeast, with sufficient flour or meal to make a rather 
 thick batter. When light add a tea-cupful of sweet cream, let it 
 rise twenty minutes, and bake it as muffins or in cups. 
 
 FLOUR AND POTATO ROLLS. 
 
 Roil and dry one pound of potatoes, mix them with two ounces 
 of sweet cream and half a pint of milk, and rub them through a 
 wire sieve into a pound anda half of flour. Mixa gill more of 
 warm milk with a little yeast, and add to the flour. Make into 
 dough, let it rise before the fire, form into rolls, and bake quickly. 
 
 RICE WAFFLES. 
 
 Take a large coffee-cup of well-boiled rice, stir in two eggs and 
 a large table-spoonful of corn starch; add a tea-spoonful of salt, a 
 quart of milk, a table-spoonful of melted butter, and ‘* self-raising ” 
 flour enough to make a thick batter. If the flour is not ‘ self- 
 raising,” put ina tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, and half of 
 soda. See that your wafile-irons are well heated and greased. 
 
 GREEN CORN CAKES. 
 
 Mix a pint of grated green corn with a tea-cup of flour, half a 
 tea-cup of milk, half a tea-cup of melted butter, one egg, a tea- 
 

 
 240 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 
 
 spoon of salt, anda little pepper. Drop this mixture ona buttered. 
 pan by the spoonful, and bake or fry for ten or fifteen minutes. 
 They are very nice for breakfast. 
 
 BUTTER CAKES FOR TEA. 
 
 To half a pint of milk, stir in two well-beaten eggs, a tea-cup 
 of cream, half a tea-spoonful of saleratus dissolved in the cream, 
 a little salt, a table-spoonful of melted butter, and sufficient sifted 
 flour to make a thick batter. Drop it in thin round cakes ona 
 buttered pan or griddle, turn them while baking, and bake until 
 browned. Send to table piled on a plate with a little butter on 
 each. 
 
 SODA BISCUIT. 
 
 Stir into one quart of flour two tea-spoonsful of cream tartar, 
 one tea-spoonful of salt; dissolve in three gills of new milk a tea- 
 spoonful of soda; stir it into the flour quickly, pour all on the 
 board, roll out, cut in small circular cakes, bake in a quick oven. 
 
 ENGLISH BREAKFAST CAKES. 
 
 Warm a pint of milk and four ounces of good butter till luke- 4 
 warm ; add two beaten eggs, three ounces of sugar and two table- . 
 spoonsful of yeast; raise the flour, work the dough, usimg more ) 
 flour if necessary; divide into cakes, and let them rise for three 
 quarters of an hour and bake them in buttered tins. When done, 
 cut thogg to be used into slices, butter on each side and warm them 
 a minutserving them hot. In using the remainder for another 
 meal, they may be warmed and buttered in the same way. - 
 
 FRENCH ROLLS. 
 
 Warm a pint of new milk, melt two large spoonsful of butter, 
 add a little salt. When cool, sift in one pound of flour, one egg 
 well beaten, one spoonful of yeast. Beat these well together, but 
 avoid kneading. When risen, form it into rolls, handling as little 
 as possible. Bake on tins, and serve. ‘9 i: 
 
 GRAHAM BISCUIT.—1l. 
 
 These are quickly made, and very nice for breakfast. Take a 
 
 
 

 
 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC.- 241 
 
 ~ 
 
 quart of Graham or unbolted flour and mix it to the consistency 
 of drop cake with butter-milk, an even tea-spoonful of soda and a 
 little salt; add a table-spoonful of melted butter, and drop the 
 mixture on a shallow pan. Bake ina quick oven fifteen or twenty 
 
 minutes. b 
 
 GRAHAM BISCUIT. —2. 
 
 Mix together as for bread one quart of Graham fies two 
 spoonsful of molasses, one tea-spoonful of lard, two spoonsful of 
 wheat flour, half a cup of yeast, and salt. Let it stand all night 
 to rise, and in the morning put it in muffin rings; let them stand 
 half an hour, and then bake. 
 
 SOFT WAFFLES. 
 
 One quart of milk, four eggs, one quarter pound of butter, 
 yeast; to be made as thin as pancakes. 
 
 MUFFINS.—1. 
 
 Mix a quart of wheat flour with half a tea-cupful of potato yeast, 
 two beaten eggs, a heaping tea-spoonful of salt, a pint and a half 
 of luke-warm milk, and two table-spoonsful of melted butter; set 
 to rise, and when very light turn into well-buttered muffin rings, 
 and bake a clear, light brown. 
 
 MUFFINS.—2. 
 
 Two coffee-cups of milk, three of flour, two eggs, one table- 
 spoon of butter, two tea-spoonsful cream of tartar, one of soda. 
 Take half your milk, half your flour, eggs, salt, butter, and cream 
 of tartar; beat well until smooth, then add by degrees the rest of 
 the milk and flour, and lastly the soda, mixed with a little flour. 
 
 HOT CROSS BUNS. (GOOD FRIDAY.) 
 
 Take two pounds of flour well dried, rub in half a pound of 
 butter, add four eggs, four spoonsful of yeast, and as much new 
 milk as will make it into a soft dough. Put in while mixing, half 
 a pound of powdered sugar, and half an ounce of caraway seeds. 
 Set it by the fire to rise, and when it is light, divide it into the 
 
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242 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 
 
 proper size for buns. Make a cross upon each, and glaze the top 
 
 with white of egg, and sugar. 
 
 DRY TOAST. 
 
 Dry bread well and evenly toasted, without being burned, is — 
 
 the best food that can be taken for very acid and irritable stom- 
 achs. Nice, fresh-sliced bread toasted, may be well spread with 
 butter and served immediately as a good breakfast dish. Bread 
 a little soured or over fermented is improved, though not cured, 
 by toasting. 
 
 DIP TOAST, 
 
 Toast bread, and dip it quickly into boiling water; spread it 
 with plenty of butter, and serve immediately, or let it stand in the 
 oven if required to wait. 
 
 CREAM TOAST. 
 
 Toast slices of stale bread on both sides, and pour on them > 
 
 while hot, sweet cream diluted by an equal quantity of scalded 
 milk. 
 
 THE FAMILY OF GRIDDLE CAKES. 
 
 BUCKWHEAT CAKES. _ 
 
 Take equal quantities of buckwheat, Indian meal and Graham 
 flour, to make one quart, add halfa cup of new yeast, a tea-spoon- 
 ful of saleratus, a littlé salt and enough good milk, or luke warm 
 water to make a thick batter. Set it near the fire to rise, and 
 when risen, cook them in a well buttered griddle. 
 
 COMMON PANCAKES. 
 
 Mix together three spoonsful of flour, two beaten eggs and a 
 little salt, stir in good milk-by degrees, and fry them in boiling 
 lard a light brown color. The eggs may be dispensed with, or 
 yeast or snow used in their stead. 
 
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 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 243 
 
 SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKES. 
 
 _ Four eggs, four table-spoonsful of flour, one pint of milk and 
 pint of cream, or quart of milk, and table-spoonful of melted but- 
 ter; salt to taste, and add just before frying in hot lard, a quarter 
 of a pound of currants. 
 
 BREAD GRIDDLE CAKES. 
 
 - Take pieces of stale bread, soak them in water till quite soft, 
 drain them and rub the bread to a pulp; then add two or three 
 beaten eggs and sufficient milk to make a thick batter, and cook 
 them in the griddle. 
 
 SODA GRIDDLE CAKES. 
 
 Stir together in one pint of milk, one tea-spoonful of soda, two 
 tea-spoonsful of cream of tartar, sufficient flour to make a thick 
 batter, and fry-them on the griddle. 
 
 RICH CAKES. * 
 
 To one tea-cupful of cold boiled rice, put one of flour, one egg, 
 one table-spoonful of corn starch, tea-spoonful of salt, and sour 
 milk, or buttermilk, enough to make a batter; mix smoothly, and 
 at the last add a tea-spoonful of soda and a little melted butter ; 
 bake immediately. If sweet milk is used, put in rather less soda 
 and double the same quantity of cream of tartar. Cold boiled 
 hominy can be used in the same way; these are an excellent Spring 
 substitute for buckwheat cakes. 
 
 FLANNEL CAKES. 
 
 Put two ounces of butter into a pint of hot milk, let it melt; 
 add then a pint of cold milk, four beaten eggs, a tea-spoonful of 
 salt, two table-spoonsful of yeast, and sufficient flour to make a stiff 
 batter. Set it in a warm place three hours to rise, then fry on the 
 griddle. 
 
 CREAM PANCAKES. 
 
 Mix the yolks of two eggs with half a pint of cream, and two 
 ounces of sugar, fry them on the griddle thin, and serve hot, with 
 grated sugar over them. 
 
244 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 
 
 ECONOMICAL GRIDDLE CAKES. 
 
 A capital and economical way of making griddle cakes, is to keep 
 a stone jar or pitcher, into which put all the scraps, cold hominy, 
 rice, mashed potato, small pieces of bread, in short everything 
 eatable which is clean and good, and can be reduced to a pulp. 
 Into the mixture also put any stray drops of milk that may be left, 
 and when a pint, or more, or less, according to the size of the 
 family, has accumulated, mix it with flour into a batter, sweeten 
 with a tea-spoon of bi-carbonate of soda, or refined saleratus, and 
 reduce still further if necessary, with a little sweet milk. ‘These 
 cakes will be found delicious, and can be made without any eggs, 
 by putting in one or two table-spoonsful of maizena. 
 
 INDIAN GRIDDLE CAKES.—1l. 
 
 Mix together one pint of Indian meal, one cup of flouy, a table- 
 spoonful of molasses, a tea-spoonful of saleratus, a little salt and 
 ginger, and suflicient sour milk to make a stiff batter. Bake on 
 the griddle. 
 
 INDIAN GRIDDLE CAKES.—2. 
 
 In a quart of warm milk mix a quart of Indian meal, a handful 
 of wheat flour, a tea-spoonful of salt and two tea-spoonsful of 
 yeast, and two or three beaten eggs. Let it rise and bake on the 
 griddle. If the batter should sour, dissolve a little saleratus in 
 lukewarm water, stir it in the batter and let it stand half an hour 
 before using. 
 
 INDIAN GRIDDLE CAKES.—93. 
 
 Scald at night half the quantity of meal to be used; mix the 
 other half with cold water until it is thick batter; add a little salt 
 and set it to rise without yeast. This will make light, crisp cakes 
 in the morning. ‘The skimmings of boiled meat is the best to fry 
 them with. Fry slowly. 
 
 RYE GRIDDLE CAKES. 
 
 One quart of sweet milk, two eggs one-half tea-spoon saleratus. 
 Pinch of salt, enough rye flour to make batter. 
 
 
 

 
 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 245 
 
 RICE FLOUR CAKES LUGE BUCKWHEAT CAKES. 
 
 Mix one quarter of wheat flour to three quarters of superfine 
 rice flour, and raise it as buckwheat flour. Bake it like buckwheat 
 cakes. 
 
 TOMATO GRIDDLE CAKES. 
 
 Cover sliced ripe tomatoes with a nice batter, and fry them on 
 the griddle. 
 
 SCOTCH PANCAKES. 
 
 Mix together four table-spoonsful of sifted flour and four well 
 beaten eggs; after these are stirred together awhile, add gradually 
 a pint of milk, season-with a little salt and nutmeg. Put a shallow 
 frying pan with a small piece of butter in it, on the fire, and pour 
 into it half a tea-cup of batter. Turn the pan round over the 
 fire for a minute or two, then by taking it off the fire and holding 
 it upright in front of the bars it will rise immediately. When it 
 is done, cut the edges, sprinkle with sugar, and roll up. 
 
 THE POUGHKEEPSIE SEER’S INDIAN BANNOCK. 
 
 One pint of corn meal, one quart of milk, boil one pint of the 
 milk, and scald the meal thoroughly. Put in a tea-spoon of salt, 
 a table-spoon of melted butter, three well-beaten eggs, and thin 
 batter with the cold milk. Bake brown in shallow pans. 
 
 BOILED FARINACEOUS DISHES. 
 
 HOMINY AND FARINA. 
 
 Asa change from griddle cakes, housekeepers will find a dish 
 of boiled hominy, or farina, very palatable, and especially health- 
 ful for children. Farina shou!d be mixed thin, about like meal 
 mush, and boiled as long, say an hour. Hominy should be soaked 
 in cold water over night, and boiled for an hour, with a little salt, 
 in the morning. Itis eaten with sugar and milk, or butter and 
 sugar. It is a reliable breakfast dish the year round. 
 
246 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 
 
 HOMINY CAKES,” 
 
 Mix with cold hominy an equal quantity of white flour until per- 
 fectly smooth ; add a tea-spoon of salt, and thin off with butter-milk, 
 into part of which a tea-spoon of soda has been dissolved; when 
 of the consistency of griddle cakes, add a dessert-spoon of melted 
 butter, and bake as usual; with maple syrup they are delicious, 
 and the absence of eggs will not be noticed. 
 
 SAMP. 
 
 Soak a quart of cracked Indian corn, over night, and put it on 
 the fire, first thing after breakfast, with three pounds of beef, not 
 too salt, and one of pork. Cover with water, and let it cook slow- 
 ly five hours, being very careful not to let it burn. 
 
 HASTY PUDDING 
 
 Boil water, mix in a little salt, and then stir in gradually so as 
 to prevent lumping, sufficient corn meal to thicken it. It should 
 boil at least an hour, and may be eaten with milk, cream and su- 
 gar, or butter and syrup, or sugar. 
 
 RYE MEAL MUSH. 
 
 Stir gradually in boiling water in which a little salt has been 
 thrown, fresh-ground rye meal. Let it boil about an hour. 
 
 INDIAN MEAL GRUEL. 
 
 Boil a quart of water in the saucepan, mix in cold water three 
 table-spoonsful of Indian meal and half a table-spoonful of flour, 
 pour in the boiling water gradually stirring all the time; boil 
 twenty or twenty-five minutes, stirring occasionally. Take it off 
 and season sparingly with salt and nutmeg, and add if desired a 
 very little new milk; for a very sick person, the nutmeg and milk, 
 and even the salt, may be omitted. Oat meal gruel may be made 
 in the same way. 
 
 MILK PORRIDGE. 
 
 Take half a pint of boiling water, mix a large spoonful of flour 
 in a little cold water, stir it into the water while it is boiling, and. 
 
 
 

 
 YEAST, BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. 247 
 
 let it it boil fifteen minutes; then add a Are of milk, a little 
 salt, and give it one boil. 
 
 ENGLISH FRUMETY 
 
 Soak half a pint of wheat, and then boil it gently for three or 
 four hours. Beat up an egg in a quart of milk, and mix with it, 
 also a tea-cupful of raisins and currants, a little salt, nutmeg, or 
 cinnamon, and grated lemon peel. Boil all together for another 
 _ quarter of an hour, and serve. If preferred thinner, more milk 
 can be added. 
 
 OLD FASHIONED HULLED CORN. 
 
 Shell a dozen years of ripe, dry corn, put it in an iron kettle 
 and cover with cold water; put in the corn a bag of two tea-cups- 
 ful of fresh wood ashes, and boil until the corn looks yellow, and 
 tastes strong of the alkali, then take out the bag and boil the corn 
 in the lye over an hour, then pour off the lye, add fresh water, and 
 simmer until the corn swells. If the hulls do not then come off 
 by stirring, turn off the water and rub them off with a towel; add 
 more water and simmer for three or four hours, often stirring to 
 keep it from burning; when it swells out and becomes soft and 
 white, add salt to liking and let all the water simmer away. Eat 
 warm or cold with cream or milk. 
 
BREAKFAST. 
 
 BREAKFAST. 
 
 A great variety of dishes are unnecessary for breakfast, but see 
 that what you do have, is nicely cooked, and properly served. Un- 
 less sickness or some other circumstance prevents, the mistress of 
 the house should always add the finishing touches’ to the breakfast 
 room, and the breakfast table. ‘The most experienced servant will 
 fail in producing just the right degree of light and sunlight, in 
 getting rid of the last speck of dust, or the latest evidence of ashes, 
 and never thinks at all of transferring a branch of rosebuds, and 
 geranium from the garden to the mantel. piece; these belong to the 
 gentler thought, and more refined instincts of the cultivated lady, 
 and such duties are not at all beneath the dignity of the highest in 
 the land. 7 
 
 That the dishes may be well-cooked, and well served, they must 
 be adapted to the other services required on that day. On wash- 
 ing and ironing days, for instance, as little time, and as little of the 
 fire should be used as possible, and care should be taken to save 
 interruption to the important, and principal business of the day. 
 
 Broiled chicken, or warmed over chicken, and omeletts, are 
 always nice break fast dishes, but in cities the prices puts them out 
 of the reach of ordinary people, except on extraordinary occasions. 
 The regular dishes, such as beefsteak, mutton chops, fish, broiled 
 ham, eggs, and warmed over potatoes, are all understood, and in 
 the different kinds and degrees, constitute the daily breakfast proba- 
 
 “bly, of half the world. 
 
 There is a very important point however, to which little attention 
 is paid, and that is fruit. ‘‘ Fruit,” saith the old proverb, ‘‘ is golden 
 in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night,” yet it is only at 
 night, that in this country, we eat it at all, as part of ameal. This 
 is wrong, fruit is a most valuable part of food, it cannot be too 
 
 
 
BREAKFAST. 249 
 
 highly estimated; more fruit, with less saleratus, and rich greasy 
 compounds, such as butter with meats, gravies, and the like, would 
 take away the occupation of half the doctors, and reduce wonder- 
 fully the sum total of dyspepsia and liver complaints. 
 
 A distinguished physician has said that one or two tart Messina 
 oranges eaten before breakfast during the three spring months, 
 would cure the worst obstinate bilious disorder; but the cure would 
 undoubtedly be as effectual if they were eaten at breakfast, and the 
 usual amount of pork and melted butter on hot cakes, reduced 
 during that time. 
 
 The rule should be to have fresh fruit on the table every morning, 
 as long as it lasts, and then a preparation of dried, canned, or 
 preserved fruits, a small investment in Guava jelly; and that India 
 fruit, for breakfast, will not be thrown away, after your own stock 
 is exhausted, and you begin to tire of apples, and the common 
 dried varieties. 
 
 A very valuable faite to the breakfast table is the tomato; 
 highly prized as it is, its admirable medicinal qualities are only just 
 beginning to be discovered. Providentially, it is so cheap, and 
 grows so readily and profusely, that the poorest person can lux- 
 uriate in its excellence, as well as the richest, and derive all the 
 more benefit from not being able to destroy its virtue with butter, 
 and an excess of condiments. 
 
 Tomatoes are an almost soveriegn cure for dyspepsia, and should 
 be on the table, raw or cooked, the yearround. Persons habituated 
 to them, soon learn to love them in any form, sliced with a little 
 pepper, salt, and vinegar, stewed, baked, or even fresh from the 
 vines; the least healthful and generally the least palatable mode of 
 serving them, is sweetened, or cooked with sugar. 
 
 .Mush, hominy, wheaten grits, or some dish of that sort, should 
 be frequently seen upon the breakfast table, such food is excellent 
 for children, and soon becomes very palatable, and highly esteem- 
 ed by grown persons. Moreover if it is not eaten when first boil- 
 ed, it is not wasted; it is just as good fried, or used as a basis for 
 eriddle cakes. 
 
 In some families, warm soda biscuit for breakfast, is the regular 
 thing; this is very hurtful. Good home-made bread, not quite 
 fresh, is best. French bread, baked the day before, next best; 
 
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250 , BREAKFAST. 
 
 good baker’s twist, third best. For a change, warm corn bread, 
 or johnny cake may be made for breakfast, rice cakes, or waffles, 
 and if biscuits, make them from the light dough mixed over night, 
 shortened with a little butter. 
 
 When the spring water-cresses come in, there should be iank- | 
 fulness. Pile them up fresh, green, and crisp, upon a dish in the | 
 centre of the table, and eat them with new laid eggs boiled soft, 
 salt, nice Graham bread, and sweet butter. This is a breakfast. 
 suited to Lent, and fit for a Republican queen. 
 
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 BILL OF FARE FOR BREAKFAST. 
 1. Broiled chicken, toast, omelette, and Guava jelly. 
 tate 
 
 2. Broiled mutton chops, stewed tomatoes, fried potatoes, and 
 Graham drop biscuit. 
 
 3. Broiled ham, corn bread, sliced tomatoes, and toast, or bread. 
 4. Fried ham and eggs, stewed apples, hominy, and home-made 
 
 bread. 
 
 5 Broiled lamb chops, rice cakes, warmed over potatoes, and 
 marmalade. 
 
 6. Boiled No. 1 mackerel, potatoes warmed up with butter and 
 milk, sliced tomatoes, and Johnny cake. é 
 
 7. Fresh eggs cooked soft, fried potatoes, bread, and stewed 
 peaches. 
 
 8. (Lent.) Soft boiled eggs, water-cresses, and Graham bread. 
 9. Fried halibut, potatoes, salad, and French bread: 
 
 10. Beef hash, corn bread, stewed tomatoes, and toast. 
 
 
 
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 BREAKFAST. 251 
 
 11. Minced veal, toast, rice, waffles, and sliced oranges. 
 
 12. Cold roast veal, fried potatoes, apple sauce, and raised _bis- 
 cuit. 
 
 13. Broiled lamb chops, hominy cakes, tomatoes, twist bread. 
 
 14. Indian slapjacks, pork chops cut thin, and fried brown, 
 fried apples, and Graham bread. 
 
 15. (Haster Sunday Morning.) Fresh eggs boiled, French 
 bread, and Guava jelly. 
 
 16. Broiled salmon, potatoes, baker’s twist, and stewed cher- 
 ries. 
 
 17. Broiled shad, fried hominy, potatoes, and salad of water- 
 cresses. 
 
 18. Fried Indian mush, ham broiled very thin, poached eggs. 
 19. Broiled partridge, toast, rice cakes, and cranberry jelly. 
 
 20. Soused shad, fried potatoes, boiled hominy, and butter-milk 
 Graham biscuit. 
 
 21. Broiled mackerel, fried mashed potato, and hoe cake. Plain 
 lettuee or radishes. 
 
 22. Sausage cakes seasoned with sage, potatoes boiled in their 
 skins, and ‘‘ mixed” griddle cakes. 
 
 23. Minced chicken, rice waffles, boiled eggs, potatoes warmed 
 over in milk. 
 
 94, Veal cutlets, muffins, and fresh strawberries. 
 
 25. Fresh mackerel, stewed gooseberries, potatoes, corn bread. 
 
252 - BREAKFAST. 
 26. Fried blue-fish, fried hominy, twist bread, huckleberries. — 
 
 27. Veal sweet-bread, toast, tomatoes sliced, potatoes, and 
 fresh peaches. : . 
 
 28. Fried calves’ liver, with parsley, and thin slices of bacon, oe 
 tle corn cakes, Graham bread, and blackberries. 
 
 29. Cold corned beef, cabbage chopped fine, and warmed over 
 with vinegar and a little beef fat. French bread, and boiled Indian 
 mush. 
 
 Birthday Breakfast. 
 
 - 80. Broiled or fricaseed chicken, and cold boiled ham garnished, 
 or chicken pie ornamented, fried potato balls, rice currant fritters, 
 French bread, or biscuit, a dish of fresh, or canned fruit, and ae 
 glass dish of fruit, and flowers in centre. 
 
 31. Nothing in the shape of beverages has been added, because 
 all families follow their habits and traditions in this respect, and 
 also with regard to butter, etc., and the addition of such accus- 
 tomed articles in every instance, would be entirely superfluous. 
 
 
 
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 COFFEE, TEA, Erc. 
 
 COFTFEE. 
 
 It is better to buy whole coffee and grind it yourself. Let the 
 coffee pot be clean and free from the smell of stale coffee. Grind 
 sufficient coffee fresh for use at one time, then stir it about with 
 the white and shell of an egg, mixing them thoroughly. Or an egg 
 may be mixed with half a pound of ground coffee, which is to be 
 used as required, and the egg tends to preserve the aroma. Take 
 a table-spoonful of coffee or less for each person, pour upon it as 
 much boiling water as will be required, and boil it up as quickly 
 as possible. Pour out a tea-cupful and put it back again, or pour 
 the whole backwards and forwards several times. Take it from the 
 fire and pour half a tea-cupful of quite cold water into it and let it 
 stand five minutes by the fire; but do not let it boil again, before 
 you transfer it to the coffee pot in which it is to be served. Do not 
 shake it in doing this, as the egg shell and coffee powder will have 
 settled at the bottom, and the liquid ought to be perfectly clear. 
 A little isinglass is sometimes used instead of egg. Many insist 
 that it is quite unnecessary to use the egg at all. Loaf sugar and 
 boiled milk should be served with it, allowing each person to suit 
 their own taste. 
 
 COFFEE CREAM. 
 
 Some make coffee cream by boiling three cups of coffee after 
 it is made, with a pint of cream and sugar to taste, until they are 
 reduced nearly one half, and so serving it. 
 
 DINNER COFFEE. 
 
 Take pure Mocha coffee, one table-spoonful to each person, 
 mix with egg and cold water, and boil perfectly clear. Serve 
 
254 COFFEE, TEA, ETC. 
 
 without milk, but with loaf sugar, or if you choose with burnt 
 brandy, and sugar, in very small cups. ; 
 
 COLD COFFEE. 
 
 Make a quart of good coffee, pour it off clear, and add to it a 
 pint of new milk, a gill of cream, and enough loaf sugar to 
 sweeten it. Set it back on the fire, and let it all come to a boil. 
 This will be delicious cold, or itis good warmed up next day. 
 Bottles of such coffee are sometimes useful to take on a picnic. 
 Use the best lump, or coffee crushed sugar, for coffee, coarse brown 
 spoils the flavor. 
 
 CHOCOLATE (American). 
 
 Procure the best chocolate, grate it, allowing two heaping table- 
 spoonsful to a quart of mixed milk and water. Boil it fifteen 
 minutes, taking off the scum as it rises, and serve with sugar and 
 cream. 
 
 CHOCOLATE (french). 
 
 Break the chocolate in pieces, boil it in a little water, stirring all 
 the time, then add double the quantity of milk, and allow that to 
 boil also, stirring, but not skimming, until it has boiled up thick 
 for several minutes. Add loaf sugar to taste, and serve with cream, 
 or new milk to thin it off, if preferred. 
 
 COCOA. 
 
 To make good cocoa from the nibs, it should be boiled for three 
 or four hours, and strained when it is taken from the fire. Should 
 any grease rise to the surface after this it must be removed either 
 with writing paper, or by skimming. Sufficient quantity of cocoa 
 may be made at one time to last three or four days, as it will re- 
 main perfectly good for that time, and should be merely boiled up 
 when wanted and served with hot milk. In boiling, use a quart of 
 cold water to a quarter of a pound ‘of cocoa nibs, or vary according 
 to taste. 
 
 TEA. 
 
 “Tea,” as a meal is a lost institution in most of our large cities. * 
 

 
 COFFEE, TEA, ETC. 258 
 
 More’s the pity, for it was the cosiest, and pleasantest meal of the 
 day. Moreover, with it, has gone out early hours, and thrifty 
 habits, attention to home duties, and love of home pleasures. The 
 late breakfasts, which are the rule now, and the six o’clock dinners, 
 not only destroy health, but give the day to gossiping and visiting, 
 to shopping and the promenade, and afford an excuse for daily ex- 
 pensive lunches at fashionable restaurants, which make simple home 
 fare distasteful. 
 
 ** Tea,” in the old-fashioned sense, is still to be met with occas- 
 
 ionally in the country, and who that has ever assisted in a pleasant 
 family circle at that most enjoyable of all meals, but remembers it 
 with a longing to experience it once again. ‘The cosy table, the 
 light delicate food, the hot, fragrant beverage in small cups, han- 
 dled tenderly, as if with a due appreciation of their contents; the 
 leisure which all enjoy after the principal business of the day is over, 
 and the stimulus to lively and agreeable conversation, which the 
 meal affords. 
 * But the fea itself must be good; no luke warm infusion, no 
 mere slop, by quantity of which you seek to make up for the qual- 
 ity. One cup of really good, inspiring tea, is worth a gallon of 
 the liquid which well-intentioned housewives sometimes pour out, 
 with the assurance that it is not strong, and will not hurt you. Tlie 
 truth is, that the amount of liquid is a positive injury, while, what- 
 ever of virtue the tea possessed, is drowned in it; but there are 
 persons who still insist upon their ancient right to three or four 
 cups, and perhaps the less tea there is in these, the better. 
 
 HOW TO MAKE TEA. 
 
 Seald your. tea-pot for six persons, put in three tea-spoonsful 
 of best green tea, pour a little boiling water upon it, and set it to 
 steep. Put four tea-spoonsful of best black tea in a tin cup witha . 
 cover, pour cold water upon it, cover it tight, and bring it to a quick 
 boil; let it boil a minute, and then add it to the green, which 
 should only steep in boiling water, not boil. Fill up with the ne- 
 cessary quantity of boiling water, and it is ready for the table. 
 
 It is not known by many persons, that the Oolong and other 
 black teas require boiling, in order to extract their strength and 
 virtue. ‘Those who mourn over poor, weak, modern tea, are ad- 
 vised to try this method. 
 
PLAIN BILLS OF FARE FOR DINNER ALL 
 THE YEAR ROUND. 
 
 JANUARY. 
 
 Roast turkey, celery, cranberry sauce, boiled onions, mashed 
 potatoes browned, mashed turnips, apples and nuts. 
 
 Minced turkey, potatoes boiled in their jackets, cranberry sauce, 
 currant dumplings. 
 
 Shank end of a leg of mutton, boiled with Be mashed pota- 
 toes, pickled beets, and mince pie. 
 
 Leg of mutton boiled, then roasted, with caper sauce, mashed 
 potatoes, and turnips, stewed tomatoes, and baked apple dump- 
 lings. 
 
 A good soup made from leg of mutton broth, the shank bone, 
 and fresh beef bone, with bunch of sweet herbs, and vegetables ; 
 mutton sliced, and warmed over, roast potatoes, fried parsnips, 
 and mince pie. 
 
 Fish chowder, plain boiled potatoes, macaroni, pickled beets, 
 and boiled apple pudding. 
 
 Company Dinner. 
 
 Vermicelli soup, boiled turkey stuffed with oysters, roast chick- 
 en, boiled ham, cranberry jelly, celery, fried potatoes, canned 
 * corn, tomatoes, stewed parsnips, cauliflower, macaroni, plum pud- 
 -ding, nuts, oranges, and raisins. . 
 
 
 

 
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 BILLS OF FARE FOR DINNER. - Q57 
 
 FEBRUARY. 
 Irish stew, fried parsnips, roast potatoes, pickles, and apple pie. 
 
 Boiled corned beef, cabbage, carrots, mashed turnips and pota- 
 toes, rice, and raisins with sauce. 
 
 Cold corned beef, roast potatoes, macaroni, fried parsnips, pick-. 
 led beets, and apple pie. ; 
 
 Broiled mutton chops, potatoes boiled in their skins, stewed to- 
 matoes, and tapioca pudding. 
 
 Baked pork, and beans, and boiled codfish, with mashed pota- 
 toes, and pickles, apple sauce. Baked apple pudding. 
 
 Roast leg of mutton, and currant jelly, mashed potatoes, boiled 
 onions, fried parsnips, and bread currant pudding. 
 
 Stuffed and stewed prairie chickens, stewed tomatoes, mashed 
 canned corn, and lemon pie. 
 
 Extra Dinner. 
 
 Tomato soup, boiled salmon trout, with anchovy sauce, roast 
 turkey, cranberry sauce, canned corn, Lima beans, celery, brown 
 mashed potatoes, fried oyster plant pickles, bread and butter pud- 
 ding, apples, oranges, biscuits and French coffee. 
 
 Sunday Dinner. 
 
 Oyster soup, roast ribs of beef, cold slaw, succotash of corn 
 and Lima beans, mashed potatoes, fried parsnips, and apple merin- 
 
 gue pie. 
 
 MARCH. 
 
 Beef a la mode, from the upper part of the leg, roast potatoes 
 boiled parsnips, stewed cabbage with vinegar, and apple fritters. 
 
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 258 BILLS OF FARE FOR DINNER. 
 
 Soup made from shin of beef, and split peas, bacon, and cab- 
 bage, boiled potatoes, pickles and apple pie. 
 
 Fillet of veal larded, potatoes, fried parsnips, apple sauce and 
 ‘¢ birdnest” pudding. 
 
 Knuckle of veal stewed with rice, fried potatoes, stewed toma- 
 toes and mince pie. 
 
 Cold beef, roast potatoes, fried parsnips, cold slaw and ‘ Buf- 
 falo” pudding. a Ng : 
 
 Boiled codfish with egg sauce, beef hash, mashed potatoes, cold 
 slaw, and pumpkin pie. 
 
 Boiled ham, and spinach, lobster salad, plain boiled potatoes 
 and rice pudding. 
 Sunday Dinner. 
 
 Baked salmon trout, fricasseed chickens, mashed potatoes, a 
 fy, currant jelly, and bread and butter pudding. 
 
 > APRIL, 
 
 Lamb stew with potatoes and greens, currant dumplings. 
 
 Veal cutlets with bacon, spinach, mashed fiatesaee sliced fresh 
 tomatoes, and Indian * pai 
 
 Stuffed and baked Rind salad of early lettuce, boiled rice used 
 as a vegetable instead of potatoes, lemon pie. 
 
 Roast lamb, mint sauce, new potatoes, sliced fresh tomatoes, 
 spinach and rhubarb pie. 
 
 Boiled leg of mutton, caper sauce, greens, mashed potatoes ora 
 tapioca pudding. 
 
 hy 
 Cold leg of mutton, with salad and mashed potatoes, rly poly 
 pudding. 
 
 
 

 
 BILLS OF FARE FOR DINNER. 259 
 
 ‘** Medley” pie made of a few scraps of cold meat, an onion, 
 apples, sugar and spice, fried potatoes and rice currant fritters. 
 
 Sunday Dinner. 
 
 Roast chickens, stewed tomatoes, new, or Bermuda: potatoes, 
 spinach, canned corn, and lemon meringue pie. 
 
 MAY. 
 
 Roast lamb, green peas, mint sauce, spinach and potatoes, rhu- 
 barb batter pudding. 
 
 Boiled blue fish with parsley sauce, fried potatoes, lamb cro- 
 quettes, or balls made of cold meat, done up with an egg, etc., stew- 
 ed tomatoes and bread pudding. 
 
 Trish stew of mutton with greens, and baked beans, sliced to- 
 matoes and currant dumplings. 
 
 Veal pot pie, with potatoes, salad and rice, and raisins. 
 
 Boiled leg of lamb, caper sauce, stewed tomatoes, mashed po- 
 tatoes, and rhubarb pie. 
 
 Boiled fresh mackerel, green gooseberry sauce, hashed lamb, 
 mashed potatoes, and rhubarb dumplings. 
 
 Stewed pigeons, with thin slices of fried bacon, spinach, pota- 
 toes, salad and lemon pie 
 Company Dinner. 
 
 White soup, olives, baked blue fish, salad, fillet of veal stuffed, 
 and roasted Bermuda potatoes, sweet potatoes, spinach, stewed to- 
 matoes, jelly, and kidney beans, custard in cups, rhubarb pie.. 
 
 JUNE. 
 
 Stewed rabbit, early potatoes, greens, salad, green gooseberry 
 pie. . 
 
260 BILLS OF FARE FOR DINNER. 
 
 Boiled lamb chops, potatoes, kidney beans, slicodgtomanaaaatnd 
 rhubarb batter lai ee 
 
 Roast leg of Peet potatoes, asparagus, and sliced tomatoes. 
 Blane mange with jelly. 
 
 Stewed mutton with rice, early potatoes, salad, gooseberry pie. 
 Veal pot pie, ey sliced tomatoes, and rice pudding. 
 
 Roast chickens, jelly, early potatoes, aspaxeame and corn starch 
 pudding, with cream, and fresh strawberries. 
 he: 
 Chowder of blue fish, with potatoes, sliced tomatoes, odld boiled 
 ham, and fresh currant pie. 
 
 JULY. | ees 
 Shoulder of veal stuffed, potatoes, asparagus, salad and straw- 
 berry pie. 
 
 Small ribs oe lamb stewed with new potatoes, errr peas, toma- 
 toes, and blackberry batter pudding. 
 
 Boiled ham, with potatoes, spinach, and dessert of breffa and. 
 milk, and berries. 
 
 ’ Boiled salmon with green peas, and egg sauce, potatoes, salad, 
 and strawberry dumplings. 
 
 Corned beef, early cabbage stewed with vinegar, young turnips, - 
 potatoes, and cherry gi 
 
 Roast beef, potatoes, asparagus, Lima beans, Indian corn, toma- 
 toes, and green apple pie. 
 
 Chops cut off leg of mutton, and cooked ane ratudbeowe pale 
 toes, kidney ean and eh batter pudding. ! 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 BILLS OF FARE FOR DINNER. 261 
 
 ~ Roast leg of mutton, green peas, stewed tomatoes, potatoes, and 
 huckleberry pie. ‘ 
 Extra Dinner. 
 
 _ Tomato soup, boiled salmon, with anchovy sauce, salad, roast 
 lamb, green peas, mint sauce, potatoes, stewed tomatoes, succo- 
 tash of Lima beans and Indian corn. Ice blanc mange, with 
 pineapples, and open currant tart. ? 
 
 AUGUST. 
 Fillet of veal larded, new potatoes, stewed tomatoes, spinach, 
 
 and huckleberry ns 
 
 Cold veal, succotash of corn and string beens) potatoes, salad, 
 and cherry pie. 
 
 Veal pie, stewed tomatoes, potatoes, horseradish, and rice dump. 
 lings. 
 
 Lamb chops with tomato sauce, string beans, and new potatoes, 
 huckleberry, or blackberry pie. 
 
 Cold lamb, potato salad, stewed tomatoes, green corn boiled, 
 and ary pudding. 
 
 Roast leg of lamb, mint sauce, new potatoes, new mashed turnips, 
 salad, green peas, and currant, or gooseberry pie. 
 
 Dish of pickled cod with melted butter, cold boiled ham, potatoes, 
 salad, corn, and fresh fruit pie, or pudding. 
 
 Stewed pigeons, lobster salad, potatoes, asparagus, currantjelly, 
 Lima beans, currant, and custard tarts. 
 
 SEPTEMBER. 
 
 Roast prairie chickens, with apple sauce, potatoes, and spinach; 
 cori starch pudding, and sliced peaches. 
 
262 BILLS OF FARE FOR DINNER. 
 
 Fillet of mutton slightly corned, potatoes, green corn, new ae 
 nips, and currant jelly. Bread pudding. 
 
 Cold mutton, mashed potatoes browned, mashed turnips, salad, 
 and blackberry pudding, ‘‘ Buffalo” style. 
 
 Shank end of leg of mutton stewed with rice, stewed tomatoes, 
 fried potatoes, and peach pie. 
 
 Sirloin of beef roasted, potatoes, cauliflower, succotash, and 
 tomato salad. Yorkshire puddding. 
 
 Cold beef, hot potatoes, salad, or pickles, green corn, and plum 
 batter pudding. : 
 
 Oyster soup, the beef-bones being used to make the small 
 amount of stock necessary, minced beef with potatoes, stewed to- 
 matoes, string beans, and green apple pie. 
 
 Birthday Dinner. 
 
 Oyster pie, roast chicken with jelly, potatoes, corn, Lima beans, 
 salad, bread and butter, pudding, and dish of fresh pears, peaches, 
 plums, etc., arranged with leaves, and flowers. 
 
 OCTOBER 
 Mutton chops, with mushroom sauce, potatoes, suceotash, and 
 lemon meringue pie. 
 
 Boiled mutton, caper sauce, mashed turnips, potatoes, sliced to- 
 matoes, or stewed; any rice pudding. 
 
 Broiled beef steak, baked potatoes, tomatoes, and baked apple 
 dumplings. 
 
 Irish (mutton) stew, with dish of rice, as vegetables, tomatoes, 
 and fresh apple pie 
 
 
 
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 BILLS OF FARE FOR DINNER. 263 
 
 Vegetable soup, chowder made of haddock, potatoes, salad, and 
 currant dumplings. 
 
 Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, turnips, carrot, and.stewed beets, 
 Tapioca apple pudding. — 
 
 Tomato soup, alamode beef, stewed cabbage, potatoes, Lima 
 beans, celery, and baked rice pudding, with fruit. m 
 
 NOVEMBER. 
 
 _ Stewed rabbit, with dish of pork and beans, boiled onions, po- 
 tatoes, and pickles. Apple pie. 
 
 Roast haunch of mutton, mashed white turnips, potatoes, and 
 jelly. Pancakes with jelly. 
 
 Chicken pot-pie, mashed potatoes, celery, pickled cauliflower, 
 and squash or pumpkin pie. 
 
 Ox tail soup, soused fish, cold beans, hot potatoes, pickles, and 
 English roll pudding. 
 
 Beef stew, mashed potatoes, fried parsnips, pickled beets, and 
 baked apple pudding, 
 
 - Roast chickens, mashed potatoes, cold slaw, egg plant, fried in 
 butter, stewed tomatoes, and bread pudding. 
 
 Thanksgiving Dinner. 
 
 Oyster soup, cod, with egg sauce, lobster salad, roast turkey, 
 cranberry sauce, mixed pickles, mangoes, pickled peaches, cold 
 slaw, and celery ; boiled ham, chicken pie ornamented, jelly, mash- 
 ed potatoes browned, tomatoes, boiled onions, canned corn, sweet 
 potatoes, roasted broccoli. Mince, and pumpkin pie, apple tarts, 
 Indian pudding. Apples, nuts, and raisins. 
 
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 DECEMBER. 
 
 Spare rib of pork, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, and baked 
 apple dumplings. 
 
 Ribs of beef, boned and stuffed, potatoes, boiled onions, fried 
 parsnips, and pickled cabbage; pumpkin pie. 
 
 Soup, broiled chops, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, and boiled 
 rice, with raisins. 
 
 Soup meat, made into a stew with vegetables, and stock spice 
 and sweet herbs, Indian dumplings, potatoes, and apple pie. 
 
 Roast turkey, cranberry jelly, mashed potatoes, stewed parsnips, 
 salsify, or vegetable oyster, celery, mince pie, and apples. 
 
 Young goose, with onion stuffing, par-boiled, then roasted, 
 mashed potatoes, apple sauce, broccoli, and apple pie, with cheese. 
 
 Cold fowl, cold boiled ham, roast potatoes, fried parsnips, mac- 
 caroni, cranberry sauce, or pickles, and mince pie with cheese. 
 
 Christmas Dinner. 
 
 Mock turtle soup, salmon, or baked trout, with anchovy sauce. 
 Roast turkey with necklace of sausages, cranberry sauce, boiled 
 fowls stuffed, with mushrooms, bread sauce. Boiled ham, apple 
 sauce, mashed potatoes, potato balls, boiled onions, egg plant 
 fried in batter, Lima beans, and stewed tomatoes; oyster fritters, 
 oysters vol 4 vent, celery and pickles. | 
 
 Dessert. Christmas plum pudding, lemon cheese cakes, tipsy 
 cake, champagne jelly, apples, nuts, raisins, and grapes. 
 
 
 
“WINES AND DRINKS. 
 
 CURRANT CHAMPAGNE. 
 
 Ingredients for thirty gallons: —Three bushels, or one hundred 
 and fifty pounds of currants, seventy-five pounds of white Havanna 
 or refined crushed sugar; three pints white brandy, with suffi- 
 cient pure soft water.- The fruit should be gathered in dry 
 weather, when ripe; mash them to break every berry, but not 
 bruise the stems; add a portion of the water, and after stirring 
 well, turn the mass on to a strainer, over a grain sieve, or riddle, 
 rubbing and pressing very gently with the hands. The usual 
 practice of squeezing and wringing through the strainer forces 
 through too much pulp, occasioning too great a degree of fermen- 
 tation. The sugar should be put into a tub or other open vessel, 
 with the brandy, and the liquor strained on to it. When the su- 
 gar is dissolved, strain the whole through a fine hair, or grass 
 cloth, into a strong, sweet cask of thirty-two gallons, and fill up 
 to within two gallons, which leaves sufficient room for the fermen- 
 tation to proceed, and drive in the bung tight. It is desirable 
 that all parts of the process should go on at the same time, and be 
 finished with all possible dispatch. ‘The sooner the wine is bottled 
 after itis perfectly fine, the more briskness it will exhibit. In 
 producing champagne, it is necessary to give air for a short time, 
 to increase the fermentation and deprive it of a great portion of 
 its sweetness. ‘The white currant is sweeter, and pleasanter fla- 
 vored, when ripe, for table use, than the red. The wine made 
 from it is nearly colorless, of sweet and pleasant flavor. Bottled 
 before the fermentation has entirely subsided, it makes a fine 
 
 champagne. 
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266 WINES AND DRINKS. 
 
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 CURRANT WINE. 
 
 Bruise-ripe currants stripped from the stem, and add to every 
 gallon of pulp, half a gallon of water, first boiled and cold; let it. 
 remain in a tub twenty-four hours to ferment; strain it through a 
 hair sieve, not pressing it with the hand, but letting it take its 
 time torun. Then stir well in two pounds and a half of white su- 
 gar to every gallon of liquor. Add a quart of best rectified spirit 
 of wine to every six gallons. After it has stood six weeks, bottle 
 it. If it is not very fine empty it into other bottles, let it stand 
 two weeks and then rack it off into smaller bottles. - 
 
 BLACK CURRANT WINE. 
 
 Put the currants, after picking out the stems and leaves, into an 
 open vessel, and cover them with water, keeping an account of the 
 amount; then with a pestle or pounder mash every berry; let them 
 stand for twenty-four hours to dissolve the pulp, then put the mass 
 into a coarse bag and submit them to pressure, when the juice will 
 run freely. After deducting the amount of water, the remainder 
 will be the pure juice; and now, to every gallon of the juice add 
 two of water, including that first put in, and to every gallon of the 
 mixture, add four pounds of crushed sugar. Put it into a cask, 
 reserving sufficient to fill up while fermenting. Put the cask in a 
 moderately cool dry room to ferment; ‘as the refuse works at the 
 bung; fill up with the liquor reserved. When it has ceased work- 
 ing, bung it close for nine months, and it will be fit for bottling 
 and use. ‘This will have much of the flavor of Port wine, and 
 make an excellent article for sacramental purposes. By reducing 
 the quantity of sugar and adding water, it will be a fair imitation 
 of claret wine, for a summer drink. ) “at 
 
 GRAPE SYRUP. 
 
 Pick the grapes from the stems, and to every four pounds of 
 grapes, add a pint of water. Set them over.a moderate fire till 
 the grapes are well boiled, keeping the pan, which should be block 
 tin or brass, covered; strain through a hair sieve, gently pressing 
 the grapes; when cool, cover it with a plate and let it remain till 
 the next day in either wood, or an earthen vessgl. Then careful- 
 
 
 

 
 WINES AND DRINKS. 267 
 
 ly clear it off, and to each pint allow a pound of loaf sugar brok- 
 en, put the sugar into a pan, adding a pint of water to every four 
 pounds; stir it while cold till the sugar is partly dissolved; then 
 put it on a moderately brisk fire with the pan covered, stirr ing it 
 often till nearly boiling; watch it carefully that it may not rise 
 too much; let it boil up several times, skim it off quite clean, 
 then pour in the juice, cover the pan until it nearly boils ; remove 
 the cover and let the syrup boil fifteen minutes, skiaaiie it well. 
 Pour the syrup into a stone jar, with a little grated Ee ora 
 few pieces of broken cinnamon, and let it remain one day. Then 
 strain it into bottles, cork, and keep it in a cool place. This is 
 recommended as an unalcoholic wine. 
 
 GRAPE WINE.—1l. 
 
 Crush five gallons of ripe grapes, and let them soak seven days 
 in four and a half gallons of soft water; add to it seventeen and 
 a half pounds of white sugar. Strain it, put it into a clean cask, 
 leave it open until fermentation ceases, then bung tightly. 
 
 GRAPE WINE.—2. 
 
 Gather the grapes when they are just turning color, or about 
 half ripe. Pound them in a tub with the stalks, and to every 
 quart of pounded fruit, put two quarts of water. Let this stand 
 in a mash tub fourteen days, then draw it off, and to every gallon 
 of liquor put three pounds of loaf sugar; when this is dissolved, 
 eask the wine. After it has worked, bung it securely down, and 
 keep it for six months; then bottle it, and tie down or wire the 
 corks, if it be intended to be kept more than one year. 
 
 Se . , MEDER WINE. 
 
 Take the- Juice of three gallons of elder berries, which will 
 about equal six quarts. Add twenty-four pounds of sugar, and 
 wash the husks of the berries, in sixteen quarts of water. Boil 
 six ounces of ginger in water, strain and boil a second time. Add 
 this and the juice of the berries, to the water in which the husks — 
 have been washed. Cask it, and when the fermentation is over, 
 put into the cask some well-dried spices. 
 
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 268 WINES AND DRINKS. 
 
 -ELDER FLOWER WINE. ~ i 
 Allow a gallon of water, and three pounds of sugar to every 
 quart of the blossoms stripped from the stalks, boil and skim the 
 sugar and water, and pour it over the flowers boiling hot. To 
 every gallon of the liquor add a small table-spoonful of home- 
 brewed hop yeast, and the juice of a lemon; stir it thoroughly to- 
 gether. Let the whole ferment for three days in an open vessel 
 of wood or earthen, the top entirely covered with a thick woolen 
 blanket. At the end of three days, strain it through a sieve and 
 whisk the white of an egg beaten to a froth, through the wine. 
 Put at the bottom of the cask chopped raisins, in the proportion 
 of three or four pounds to every six gallons of wine, pour in the 
 wine, and close the bung. In six months it will be fit to bottle. 
 
 = RLACKBERRY. WINE. 
 
 First pour boiling water on the fruit and when cool, bruise it. 
 Let it stand until the berries rise to the top; then drain off the 
 clear liquor, measure it and add two pounds of sugar to every 
 gallon of liquor; stir it well and let it stand open a week or ten 
 days, then draw off the wine and pan it through ajelly-bag. Take 
 half an ounce of isinglass for every three gallons, dissolve it in a 
 little of the wine and mix it through the whole. 
 ee RHUBARB WINE. 
 
 Chop the stalks, and for fifty pounds of rhubarb, allow thirty 
 pounds of sugar; press the juice, add the sugar and enough water 
 for nine gallons of wine; put it into a cask, cover it with a cloth — 
 until if ceases to ferment ;. plug the barrel for three months, then 
 bottle the wine, or if this is not convenient draw it off into a clean 
 cask that it will fill completely. 
 
 GOOSEBERRY WINE. 
 
 Take a quantity of ripe, white or yellow gooseberries, bruise 
 them with a pestle in a tub, and to every eight pounds of fruit add one 
 gallon of cold spring water. Stir them and let them stand twenty- 
 four hours; then strain the mash through a fine sieve or a grass 
 cloth atéainers To every gallon of juice add four pounds of white 
 
 
 
WINES AND DRINKS. 269 
 
 loaf sugar. When all is dissolved, stirit well, and when settled put 
 
 it into a cask with two quarts of brandy to every ten gallons of juice 
 
 and half an ounce of isinglass. Set the cask in a cool place, leav- 
 
 ing out the bung until the fermentation has nearly ceased. Then _ 
 draw off into bottles, and cork tight immediately. 
 
 GREEN GOOSEBERRY WINE. 
 
 Having thoroughly bruised eight gallons of green gooseberries, 
 put them into eight gallons of cold water, and allow them to stand 
 for twenty-four hours; at the end of that time drain the liquor 
 well off through a sieve, and for each gallon add three pounds and 
 a half of loaf sugar; pour the liquor into a cask and put to it one 
 quart of the best gin. After standing for six months it will be 
 ready for bottling. [ é 
 
 / GINGER WINE. 
 
 To every gallon of water put nearly three pounds of loaf sugar, © 
 two lemons, and two ounces of ginger, bruised. Boil the sugar 
 and water for half an hour, skimming it, then pour it on the rinds 
 of the lemons and the ginger. When the liquor is milk warm, 
 squeeze in the juice of the lemons, and put in it a little yeast at 
 the same time, Let it work for two or three days, then put it in- 
 to a cask closely stopped for six weeks. Bottle it with one gallon 
 of brandy to twelve gallons of wine. The pulp of the ginger and 
 lemons must be put into the cask with a little isinglass, to refine the 
 wine; but the pips and white part of the lemons should be remov- 
 ed, as they make it bitter. 
 
 BLACKBERRY BRANDY. 
 
 Bottle equal quantities of blackberry juice and brandy, allowing 
 a pound of loaf sugar to every gallon. Or, a gallon of black- 
 berries can be put to each gallon of deodorized pure spirits, and 
 the berries dissolved in thespirits. ‘These are very good for bowel 
 complaints. 
 
 CHERRY BRANDY. 
 
 Crush cherries, and allow one quart to every gallon of spirits. 
 Wild cherries are the proper ones to be used. Rum, brandy, or 
 deodorized pure spirits can be used. 
 
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 RASPBERRY SYRUP. 
 
 Add one quart of vinegar to three quarts of erries, let it stand 
 one day then squeeze it through a cloth. iy nd of sugar 
 for each pint of juice and boil it twenty m ieee = “ 
 
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 HOP BEER. = = » <a ae: 
 
 To make fifteen gallons, take twelve ounces of hops, ‘six quarts 
 of molasses, ie eggs. Put the hops in a bag, and boil them fifteen 
 minutes in three ee pails-full of water. Put in the ‘maples eS Vi A ts it a 
 and pour immed iately into a strong ale cask w an be 
 perfectly air tight, and put in the remai Je re 
 the mixture stand until cool, and then add the eee “(This beer will 
 not ferment in cold weather unless put in quite a warm place. It 
 will keep six or eight months. Three months after it is fermented 
 
 it is almost equal to ale. a oe “# 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 ‘GINGER oa 
 
 Stir up in a gallon of boiling water, fe " of lot sugar, one "ial 
 ounce and a half of the best ginger bruised, and one ounce of 
 cream of tartar, or, if preferred, a lemon sliced, until the heat falls 
 to that of new milk. _ Then having poured one -table-spoonful of 
 good yeast upon a piece of bread, put it in the middle of the vessel 
 letting it float in the — mixture. Coie the whole ith a , cloth, and 
 let it stand twenty shoei fy hours, after which, strain it a1 say aes s 
 
 em tightly, 
 
 
 
 
 bottles, filling each only about three arts fu I, cork t 
 
 and tie them down. In warm “weather t this ginger beer wil se 
 
 ready to drink in two days. . * % 
 TO MAKE A CASK OF GINGER BEER. “ 
 
 Take ten gallons of soft water, and fifteen pounds of loaf sugar, 
 clarified with the whites of six eggs; bruise half pound of white 
 ginger; boil half an hour, Pare off the thin yellow rind of twelve 
 lemons, and pour the liquor when it is boiling, over the lemon 
 peel. As soon as it is cool, mix a gill of good yeast with it, and 
 put it in a cask. Retain two quarts of the liquor, in which dissolve 
 two ounces of shred isinglass; mix it with the wine, and shake 
 well. Let the cask stand open all night; then close the bung, 
 
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 WINES AND DRINKS. 271 
 
 and in three weeks bottle it off. It will be fit to art in three 
 months. iil: 
 
 SPRUCE BEER.—1. 
 
 Water ten gallons; sugar ten pounds; essence of spruce quar- 
 ter of a | pound ; reast half pint. Dissolve the sugar and essence 
 of spruce in the water, previously warmed; then allow it to cool 
 a little, and add the yeast as in making ginger beer; bottle i imme- 
 diately in half pint bottles. 
 
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 ol os _ SPRUCE BEER.—2,. 
 
 To a gallon of water, alféwan ounce of hops and a spoonful of 
 ginger. Boil it well, strain it, and add a pint of molasses and half 
 an ounce of the essence of spruce ; let it cool, pour in a tea-cup of 
 yeast and put it into a clean cask. After it has fermented a day or 
 
 two, bottle it. ei 
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 To six gallons of water, add six quarts of strained honey, the 
 yellow rind of two large lemons, pared very thin, and the whites 
 of three eggs beat to strong froth. Mix and boil all together 
 three quarters of an hour, skimming it well. Pour into a tub. 
 When lukewarm, add three table-spoonsful of good fresh yeast, 
 cover and leave it to ferment. When it is well worked, pour it 
 into a barrel with lemon peel in the bottom, and let it stand six 
 months. It will then be ready to bottle, — 
 
 SHRUB. — 
 
 Take three quarts of red currant juice, three quarts of good rum, 
 dissolve in it two pounds of lump sugar, stir together and strain 
 through a jelly bag. When it is entirely clear, bottle it. 
 
 QUICK BEER. 
 
 Fourteen quarts of cold water, one quart of molasses, one quart 
 of hop yeast and four table-spoonsful of ginger ; mix it well, strain 
 through a fine sieve and bottle it immediately. In twenty-four 
 hours it will be ready for use. 
 
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 GINGER POP. 
 
 Take three quarters of a pound of white sugar, one ounce of 
 cream of tartar, the juice and rind of a lemon, one ounce of gin- 
 ger, put the whole into a pan, and pour over it four quarts of boil- 
 ing water; let it stand till lukewarm, and then add a table-spoon- 
 ful of yeast. When it has ceased boiling, bottle it off in small 
 soda water bottles or jars. It will be fit for use in twenty-four 
 hours. 
 
 IMPERIAL. . 
 
 Put into a jug that will contain three pints, half an ounce of 
 cream of tartar, the juice of alemon and the rind pared very thin ; 
 pour boiling water over these, and add sugar to taste. When 
 cold, it is fit foruse. It is refreshing and wholesome for persons 
 heated from the weather, or feverish from indisposition. 
 
 BERRY DRINK. 
 
 Put two quarts of ripe, fresh raspberries into a stone or glazed 
 vessel, whose glazing will not be affected by acids, and pour on 
 them a quart of good vinegar. Let it stand twenty-four hours, 
 and then strain out the juice and vinegar. To each pint of this, 
 add a pound of pulverized white sugar, and put it into a porcelain 
 kettle to boil smartly for about half an hour, removing all the scum 
 as it rises. When cold, bottle and seal. Half a gill of this, stir- 
 
 red in a tumblerful of cold water, makes a delicious drink. Straw- 
 
 berries, dewberries, or blackberries can be used in the same man- 
 ner, only using just as much vinegar as will cover the fruit. Add 
 no alcohol. With bottles well sealed, it will keep two years. 
 
 YANKEE CORN DRINK. 
 
 To five gallons of cold water, add one quart of sound corn, and 
 two quarts of molasses. Put it into a keg, shake well, and in two 
 or three days it will be fit for use. Bung tight. It may be fla- 
 vored with essence of spruce or lemon. ‘The corn will last to make 
 five or six brewings; if it becomes sour, add more molasses and 
 water. It is a cheap and simple beer, and is called very good. 
 
 A QUICK DRINK. 
 
 Take a glass of sherry, a small bit of mint, and some sugar to 
 
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 taste; mix together ina large tumbler, add some pounded ice, 
 and then pour on it a pint of cider; drink it when it effervesces. 
 Half the quantity will generally be found enough, or the ingredients 
 may be divided into two glasses, unless you have a soda water 
 glass. © ; ae 
 
 MILK LEMONADE. 
 
 Put one quart of boiling water, the juice of six fine lemons, the 
 peel of three, pared very thin, two wine glasses of syrup, and half 
 a pint of Maderia or Sherry into a covered vessel and let it stand 
 twelve hours. ‘Then boil half a pint of new milk, pour it on the 
 mixture, and run it through a jelly bag until clear. It makes a 
 refreshing drink. 
 
 PORTABLE LEMONADE. 
 
 Mix strained lemon juice to loaf sugar, in the proportion of 
 four large lemons to a pound of white sugar, or as much as it will 
 hold in solution. Grate the rinds, which add to this. Preserve in 
 a close jar, or large mouthed bottles. Use a table-spoonful for a 
 tumbler of water. 
 
 FOURTH OF JULY SHERRY COBBLER. 
 
 A large tumbler two thirds full of pounded ice; half a dozen 
 strawberries, a few fine chips from the yellow rind of a lemon, a 
 table-spoonful of powdered sugar; fill with fine Sherry, shake, 
 and take in the usual way. 
 
 EGG NOG. 
 
 To the yolks of six eggs, add six table-spoonsful of powdered 
 sugar, a quart of new milk, half a pint of French brandy, and a 
 pint of Maderia. Beat the whites up separately, and stir them 
 through the mixture, just before pouring into cup glasses. 
 
 STATEN ISLAND LEMONADE. 
 
 Take half a dozen fresh lemons, and half a dozen smooth Se- 
 ville oranges, and rub loaf sugar on the outside, until the flavor- 
 ing oil is all extracted from the rind; roll them soft, press out the 
 juice, add the sugar to the juice, strain off the seeds, a bowl of 
 
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 pounded ice, a pint of Sherry, and a quart of water. Shake all 
 together very thoroughly. It is a delicious summer drink. , 
 
 CLARET PUNCH. 
 
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 A pint bottle of claret, a gill of French brandy, four table- 
 spoonsful of powdered sugar, the juice and thinly cut rind of a 
 lemon, a lump of ice, and a pint of water. 
 
 A COOL CUP. 
 
 Weigh six ounces of sugar in lumps, and extract the essence 
 from the rind of a large, fresh lemon by rubbing them upon it, 
 then put them into a deep jug, and add the strained juice of one 
 lemon and a half. When the sugar is dissolved, pour in a bottle 
 
 of good cider, and three large wine-glasses full of Sherry; add . 
 
 nearly half a small nutmeg, lightly grated, and serve the cup with, 
 or without some sprigs of fresh balm or borage init. If closely 
 covered down, and placed on ice for a short time, it will be more 
 agreeable as a summer beverage. 
 
 MAY DRINK. ((ferman.) 
 
 Put into a large, deep jug one pint of light white wine, to two 
 of red, and dissolve in it sufficient sugar to sweeten it agreeably. 
 Wipe a sound China orange, cut it in rather thick slices without 
 paring it, and add it to the wine; then throw in some small bunches 
 of the fragrant little plant, called woodruff, cover the jar close- 
 ly to exclude the air, and leave it until the following day. Lemon 
 rind can be used instead of oranges. Serve this to May-day 
 visitors. 
 
 OXFORD SWIG 
 
 Put into a bowl a pound of sugar, pour on it a pint of warm 
 beer, grated nutmeg, and some ginger, also grated; add four 
 glasses of sherry and five pints of beer, stir it well, and if not 
 sweet enough, add more sugar, and let it stand covered up four 
 hours, and it is fit for use. Sometimes adda few lumps of sugar 
 rubbed on a lemon to extract the flavor, and some lemon juice. If 
 the lemon rind is pared very thin, without any of the white skin 
 left, it answers better, by giving a stronger flavor of the lemon. 
 
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WINES AND DRINKS. 275 
 
 Bottle this mixture, and in a few days it will be in a state of effer- 
 vescence. When served in a bowl fresh made, add some bread 
 toasted very crisp, cut in narrow strips. 
 
 SACK POSSET. 
 
 Four ounces of fine brown sugar, a pint of sweet wine or sack, 
 and a nutmeg; let them simmer till the sugar is dissolved; beat 
 ten eggs, and put them on the fire to warm with a quart of milk, 
 stir them one way to prevent curdling; when cold mix all together 
 aud put it on the fire to warm, but not boil; serve hot. 
 
 CHRISTMAS EGG NOG. 
 
 Take the yolks of eight eges and six table-spoonsful of pulver- 
 ized sugar, and beat them to the consistency of cream; to this 
 add half a nutmeg, grated, and beat well together, then mix one 
 third of a pint of good Jamaica rum, and a wine glass of brandy 
 or Madeira wine; have ready the whites of the eggs beaten to a 
 stiff froth, and beat them into the above mixture; when this is 
 done, stir in three pints of good rich milk. No heat is used. 
 
 MILK PUNCH. 
 
 Beat up two eggs, well mix them with a quart of milk, adding 
 sugar, nutmeg, and lemon peel, to taste. Boil this gently, and 
 stir it all the time until sufficiently thick. Remove it from the fire 
 for a very few minutes, then add to it a full gill of rum, stirring it 
 all the time it is being poured in. 
 
 MILK PUNCH TO KEEP. 
 
 Pare six oranges and six lemons, as thin as possible, and grate 
 them afterwards to extract the flavor. Soak the peel for twenty- 
 four hours in a bottle of rum or brandy, closely stopped. Squeeze 
 the fiuit on two pounds of sugar, and add to it four quarts of wa- 
 
 ‘ter and one of new milk, boiling hot. Stir in the rum, and run it 
 through a jelly bag until quite clear, then bottle and cork it closely 
 immediately. 
 
 COLD PUNCH. 
 
 Put into a saucepan a full pint of cold water and one pound and 
 
276 WINES AND DRINKS. 
 
 a half of white sugar; let it be on the fire until the sugar is dis- 
 solved. Add three bottles of white wine, some lemon syrup, and 
 a little ginger, let it get hot, but not boiling. When quite hot, 
 pour half a bottle of fne rum into it and immediately take it off 
 the fire. As soon as the punch begins to cool, it must be bottled 
 and well corked. It will keep good for some time, 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 KEEPING GRAPES. 
 
 Pick the grapes before they are dead-ripe and when perfectly 
 dry; remove all the defective ones; wrap each bunch well in old 
 paper or cotton, and not allow more than two layers in a box; 
 place in a cold, dry room where they will not freeze. : 
 
 The French preserve grapes the year round, by coating the clus- 
 ters with lime. The bunches are picked just before they are thor- 
 oughly ripe, and dipped in lime water of the consistency of thick 
 cream. ‘They are then hung up to remain. ‘The lime coating 
 keeps out the air, and checks any tendency to decay. When want- 
 ted for the table, dip the clusters into warm water to remove the 
 lime. : : 
 
 In preserving grapes, with cotton, they are sometimes placed 
 gently between layers of cotton in a glass or earthen ware jar. 
 The jar is then corked down and the corks dipped in melted resin, 
 or otherwise rendered air tight. 
 
 KEEPING APPLES. 
 
 Apples, potatoes, etc., are well preserved in barrels and boxes 
 in a dry cellar, with light and air excluded, and the temperature 
 quite cold without freezing. Apples aresometimes kept excellent- 
 ly in river sand dried in an oven, placing in a large box a layer of 
 sand and a layer of apples, taking care that the apples do not touch 
 each other. 
 
 KEEPING PEAS FOR WINTER USE. 
 
 Shell the peas, throw them into boiling water with a little salt in 
 it, allow them to boil five or six minutes. Then drain in a colan- 
 der and afterwards on a cloth until completely dried. Then place 
 
278 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 them in air tight bottles. Some place them into wide mouthed 
 bottles, not quite filling them, and pour in fried mutton fat so as to 
 cover them. Then cork tightly, securing the cork with resin or 
 with a bladder. Whenused boil them until tender with some but- 
 ter and a very little mint. Another methcd is after they are dried 
 as above, place them on a tin or earthen dish in a mild oven once 
 or twice until they harden, and then place them in paper bags hung 
 in the kitchen. 
 
 KEEPING CABBAGES. 
 
 When the weather becomes frosty, cut them off near the head, 
 and carry them with the leaves on, to a dry cellar. Break off su- 
 perfluous leaves, and pick into a light cask or box, stems upward, 
 and when nearly full, cover with leaves. Secure the box or barrel 
 with a lid against rats. | 
 
 KEEPING CABBAGES IN THE COUNTRY. 
 
 Take up the eabbages by the roots, set them closely together in 
 rows up to the head in soil, roots down, the same as it grows ; 
 drive in posts at the corners of the bed, and intermediate spaces, 
 if necessary, higher on one side than the other; nail strips of board 
 or lath on these posts ; lay upon these old boards, doors, or if you 
 have notning else, bean. poles and corn fodder, so that the roof 
 will be clear of the cabbages, and allow the air to circulate; close 
 up the sides with yard or garden offal of any kind, and the cab- 
 bages will keep all winter, fresh and green, and be accessible at 
 all times, or nearly so, the frost not being so severe under this 
 protection as in exposed places, Exclude moisture, but never 
 mind the frost. ee 
 
 KEEPING MUSTARD. 
 
 Dissolve three ounces of salt in a quart of boiling water, and 
 pour it hot upon two ounces of scraped horseradish. Closely cover 
 the jar, and let it it stand twenty-four hours, strain it, and by de- 
 grees mix it with flour of mustard. Beat them well together for a 
 long time, until the mixture becomes of the proper thickness. 
 Put it into wide-mouthed bottles, and cork it down closely, when it 
 will Keep good for many months. 
 
 
 
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 TO PRESERVE PAINT. 
 
 Wash white paint with warm water, soap, a soft flannel; do not 
 scrub it with a brush, and wipe it dry with a large, old we cloth. 
 This will keep it nice for years. 
 
 TO KEEP LEMONS. 
 
 Keep them in cold water, changed every week. This also adds 
 
 to the juice. ‘ 
 
 TO PRESERVE PARSLEY FRESH AND GREEN: 
 
 Put it into a strong pickle of salt and water, boiling hot, and 
 keep for use. Or it is good for soup, stuffing, etc., hung up in 
 bunches, in a dry attic or store- room. 
 
 TO PRESERVE MUSHROOMS 
 
 Put your mushrooms, cut as for stewing, into a saucepan; stew 
 till all the liquor is drawn, and then till all again is absorbed; and 
 when quite dry, put in a good lump of butter, cayenne pepper, and 
 salt. After it has boiled, pour into sweet-meat pots the sizes that 
 will be sufficient for a dish, and well cover them with butter; and 
 they will be, when warmed up and well finished off with a little 
 white sauce, as good as when fresh gathered. 
 
 TO KEEP MEAT, GAME, OR POULTRY, IN HOT WEATHER. 
 
 If you wish to keep meat a day or two longer, and there is danger 
 of its being effected by the hot weather, sprinkle roughly pounded 
 charcoal over it, and put the same under it; for birds, put a lump 
 of charcoal in the inside, and sprinkle it breast, and under the . 
 wings, with the pounded charcoal. ; 
 
 TO REMOVE TAINT FROM MEAT OR POULTRY. 
 
 Wash the part affected, with chloride of soda first, and then in 
 fresh water. It should be cooked as soon as possible after being 
 wet. Broiling, or roasting, is the best way to cook meats that 
 have been kept a little too long, If salted, wash it and throw away 
 the brine, then leave it, for a few days in.the followmg composition : 
 Fresh burnt charcoal powdered, twelve parts; common salt eleven 
 
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 parts, saltpetre four parts. Mix and use the same as common salt. 
 Before cooking remove the black color with clear water. 
 
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 SNOW AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR EGGS. : 
 In making pancakes or puddings, snow is an excellent substitute | . 
 for eggs; two table-spoonsful of snow stirred in quickly are equal 
 to an egg in puddings or pancakes for making them light. It is 
 
 explained by the fact that snow contains in its flakes much atmos- 
 pheric air, which is set free as it melts. 
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 CORN STARCH INSTEAD OF EGGS. 
 
 For most cakes and puddings, for which eggs are used, a table- 
 spoonful of corn starch or maizena will be found an excellent sub- 
 stitute for one egg. 
 
 EGG PAPER. 
 
 Soft, tough paper cut to fit jars, and dipped in a saucer of white of 
 egg, put over steamed jars of fruit or preserves, will keep them bet- 
 ter than all the late inventions. When the jars and fruit are scalded 
 hot as possible, it will keep them nicely. For jellies and all kinds 
 of pickles, it makes a cheap, convenient cover. The paper must 
 turn over the rim of the jar. 
 
 FROZEN POTATOES. 
 
 Frozen potatoes give more starch or flour than fresh ones. 
 
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 SIZE OF TURNIPS. 
 Small sized turnips have double the nutritious matter that larger 
 ones have, but the largest ruta bagas are the most nutritious. 
 TO WASH FRUIT STAINS FROM THE HANDS. 
 Rub them with sorrel, rhubarb stalks, lemon, apple or tomat 
 skins. Pato 
 DAMP WOOLEN CLOTHING. 
 
 Before putting damp woolen clothing to the fire, rub it with a 
 moist sponge, the way of the nap, until the smoothness is restored ; 
 
 brushing will not remove the roughness, unless this precaution is 
 taken. . 
 
 
 
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 DIAMOND CEMENT. 
 
 This is the best cement for broken glass, or china, because it is 
 colorless, and perfectly resists moisture. - It requires to be liqui- 
 fied by placing the vial in boiling water, and should then be ae 
 plied with a camel’s hair brush. j 
 
 HOW TO ‘PREVENT THE INROADS OF VERMIN. 
 
 On entering a new house, have it thoroughly clean, and every hole 
 and crevice, in cupboard, closet, or room, stopped up with a cement 
 made of putty, and chloride of lime. Before putting carpets, or 
 oil-cloth down, dust the edges of the boards with Lyons’ or Per- 
 sian powder, which will prevent the attacks of moths, and cock- 
 roachts. A dollar spent in this way, will be found an excellent 
 investment. Repeat the process, when general cleaning time 
 comes, and with ordinary precaution in cleaning bedsteads, and 
 taking care of furs, you will never be troubled with bugs, moths, 
 or cockroaches. 
 
 LOBSTER’S EGGS. 
 Lobster’s eggs boiled, and pounded in a mortar, constitute a per- 
 fectly safe, harmless, and beautiful rouge. 
 TO STRENGTHEN THE HAIR. 
 
 Dilute an ounce of borax, and an ounce of camphor in two 
 quarts of water, and wash the hair thoroughly twice a week, clip- 
 ping the ends Sogesiopny: It will quickly grow long, thick, and 
 even. 
 
 TO CLEAR, AND STRENGTHEN THE VOICE. 
 
 The best method is in vogue among all distinguished vocalists, 
 viz: swallow the yolk of a raw egg, whole, every morning on ris- 
 ing; also avoid pastry, and sponge the throat and chest well with 
 cold water daily. 
 
 BUTTER COOLER. 
 
 A simple mode of keeping butter in warm weather, where ice is 
 not handy, is, to pour about a pint of water, in a round dish, and 
 
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 place half a prick, r gmat size of half a brick, in the water, 
 and put the plate « f butte upon it, then invert a common flower 
 pot over the butter, so that the pot will set down in the. water. 
 ‘The porousness of the arthen ware will keep the butter cool. 
 It will be better still if the pot be covered with a wet cloth, the 
 rapid abstraction of heat by external evaporation causing the but- 
 ter to become hard. 
 
 tf eS “a KITCHEN ODORS. 
 
 Odors from boiling ham, cabbage, etc., may be prevented by 
 
 
 
 throwing red pepper pods, or a few pieces + charcoal into the ‘Ase 
 
 FRUIT SINKING. 
 
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 _ To prevent fruit from sinking in puddings or cake, roll it inflour 
 before putting it in. 
 
 COCHINEAL, 
 
 In using cochineal to give color, they may be broken and tied up 
 in fine muslin, which obviates the difficulty of getting them out 
 when the color is given. 
 
 IMPROVING CORN MEAL. 
 
 Indian meal is improved by being kiln dried. It may be spread 
 
 ona dripping pan and heated in the oven. 
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 » . TO MAKE HENS LAY IN WINTER. 
 
 Keep them warm, keep corn by them constantly, but do not feed 
 it to them; feed them with meat scraps, where lard or tallow has 
 been tried, or fresh meat. Some chop up green peppers finely, 
 and feed them. Let them have a frequent taste of green food, a 
 little gravel and lime, or clam shells. 
 
 TO FATTEN TURKEYS 
 
 Every morning for a month, give them mashed potatoes mixed 
 with buckwheat flour, barley or beans; take away what remains 
 in the evening. After a month, add half a dozen balls made of 
 barley flour, when they go to roost. Give them these eight days 
 successively ; turkeys thus fed are fat and good. 
 
 
 
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 Chifekens are hatched in twenty-one turkeys, twenty-six ; ; 
 ducks and geese, thirty ; pigeons, eightes | the 
 TO. CLARIFY DRIPPING. ait: 
 
 Place the dripping in a large pan, pour on abouta quart of boil- 
 ing water, and pass the whole through a muslin or a sieve. _ Let it 
 get cold, and the dripping can be taken out in a ¢ cake; the refuse 
 being at the bottom, will be easi ily scraped off. If it be not sufli- 
 elently clarified, the ye mu i be repeated. ne 
 
 TO CLARIFY MOLASSES. 
 
 Common molasses may be clarified and rendered much 06 
 palatable by heating it over the fire and pouring in sweet milk, in 
 the proportion of one pint toa gallon of molasses. When the 
 molasses boils up once, the albumen in the milk collects all thei ne 
 purities in a thick scum upon the top, which must be carefully 3 re- 
 moved, and the molasses is then fit for use. Bullock’s blood is 
 also used for this purpose, but milk is more agreeable in many 
 ways for domestic use. 
 
 HOME MADE BREAD. 
 
 The quantity of bread is greatly increased by using bran water 
 for mixing the dough. A quart of bran should ba hieiled for an 
 hour in water, and then strained through a sieve. 
 
 IVORY HANDLES, de icegs 
 
 Ivory handles should not be wet in washing. Itis hard 16 re- 
 move stains from ivory, without, at the same time, removing the 
 polish. Muriatic acid removes the polish. If the stain arises from 
 ordinary wear, it may be soaked in strong lime water, and after- 
 wards exposed to the air, repeating the operation | until it becomes 
 white. It should not be exposed to the sun, or it will erack. A 
 solution of muriatic acid will remove ink stains; to restore the 
 polish, rub with fine putty powder, or gilder’s whiting till the pol- 
 ish returns. Another method to remove stains from ivory handles 
 is to take alum water, boil it and let it grow cold. Then soak the 
 
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 handlés in it for an hour, take them out and brush them well with 
 a tooth brush. Dip a clean towelin pure water, squeeze it out and 
 while wet wrapit around the handles, soaked and brushed as above, 
 and leaye all to dry gradually. If dried too rapidly out of the 
 alum water, the handles will be injured; if dried slowly, they will 
 become white. 
 
 TO FASTEN KNIFE HANDLES. 
 
 Handles of knives or forks that have come off by being put in 
 hot water, by mixing powdered resin with chopped hair or tow, 
 chalk, whiting, or quick lime; partly fill the hole with it, heat the 
 spike of the knife or fork and force itin. Melted resin or brick 
 dust, mixed, is also used. Or put a small portion of a quill pen 
 into the handle, heat the blade, put it in the quill in the handle, 
 and press it in firmly. 
 
 TO TAKE OFF STARCH OR RUST FROM FLAT IRONS. 
 
 Tie a piece of yellow beeswax in a rag, and when the iron is 
 nearly hot enough to use, rub it quickly with the wax and then 
 with a coarse cloth. 
 
 RUST ON STEEL IMPLEMENTS, OR. KNIVES. 
 
 Cover the steel with sweet oil, well rubbing it on. Let it remain 
 for forty-eight hours and then, using unslacked lime finely powder- 
 ed, rub the steel until all the rust has disappeared. 
 
 ROUGH FLAT IRONS. 
 
 Rub them with fine salt, and it will make them smooth. 
 
 CRACKS IN STOVES. 
 
 Ashes and common salt wet and mixed, will stop the cracks in a 
 stove and prevent smoke escaping. 
 
 CEMENT FOR METAL AND GLASS. 
 
 The following cement will firmly attach any metalic substance to 
 glass or porcelain. Mix two ounces of a thick solution of glue 
 with one ounce of linseed oil varnish, or three fourths of an ounce 
 of Venice turpentine. Boil them together, stirring them until they 
 
 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 285 
 
 mix as thoroughly as possible. The pieces cemented should be 
 tied together for two or three days and nights. 
 
 POLISHING PASTE. 
 
 Cut half a pound of mottled soap into pieces, mix with half .a 
 pound of rotten stone in powder; put them into a saucepan with 
 sufficient cold water to cover the mixture,—about three pints ; boil 
 slowly till dissolved toa paste. 
 
 VARNITH TO PREVENT RUST. 
 
 Make a composition of fat, oil and varnish, mixed with four 
 fifths of highly rectified spirits of turpentine. Put this varnish on © 
 metal with a sponge. 
 
 TO PRESERVE LAMP CHIMNEYS FROM BREAKING. 
 
 Place a cloth at the bottom of a large pan, fill the pan with cold 
 water, and place the glass into it. Cover the pan and let its con- 
 tents boil one hour. Take it off the fire and leave the glass in the 
 water until it is cold. 
 
 SOFT SOAP. 
 
 Slice up four pounds of white bar soap into four gallons of wa- 
 ter, and add a pound of sal soda. Mix, dissolve it thoroughly 
 over the fire, and set aside for use. A smaller quantity can be 
 made in the same proportions. 
 
 CREAKING HINGES. 
 
 Rub the hinges with a very little soft soap. 
 
 ICE ON WINDOWS. 
 
 Windows may be kept free from ice, and polished, by rubbing 
 the glass with alcohol, with a brush or sponge. 
 
 WATER AND FIRE PROOF CEMENT. 
 
 A cement which is a good protection against weather, water and 
 fire to a certain extent, is made by mixing a gallon of water with 
 two gallons of brine, in two and a half pounds of brown sugar, and 
 three pounds of common salt. Put it on with a brush, like paint. 
 A smaller quantity can be made in the same proportions. 
 
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 RAYS OF THE SUN. 
 
 The rays of the sun may be kept from penetrating a window, by - 
 applying to it an ounce of powdered gum tragacanth in the istoslia 
 of six eggs, well beaten, 3 
 
 FIRE PROOF CEMENT. 
 
 Two pounds of brown sugar, three pounds of fine salt, one 
 pound of alum; mix thoroughly, put on like white-wash, on roofs 
 of houses, fences, around fire-places, etc. 
 
 WATER PROOF PASTE. 
 
 Mix oil or lard with fine pieces of- India rubber, simmer over 
 a slow fire until thick as paste. | 
 
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 FIRE IN tas CHIMNEY. z 
 
 Salt put on the fire in the grate below, acts chemically on the 
 flaming soot above, and will often extinguish the fire in a short 
 
 time; or shoot a gun loaded with powder, up the chimney, 
 TO DRIVE NAILS. 
 
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 Common cut nails, or screws, are easily driven into hard wood, 
 if rubbed with a little soap, either hard or soft, 
 
 TO REMOVE GREASE FOR PAINTING. 
 
 Before painting greasy furniture or a greasy partition, white- 
 wash it over night, and wash all you can of the white-wash off in 
 the morning. This removes the grease for painting. 
 
 TO CLEAN MARBLE. c 
 
 Pulverize a little stone blue with four ounces of whiting, mix 
 them with an ounce of soda dissolved in very little water and four . 
 ounces of soft soap, boil the mixture quarter of an hour over a 
 slow fire, stirring constantly ; lay it on the marble with a brush while 
 hot, and let it lie halfan hour; wash it in warm water with flannel 
 and scrubbing brush, and wipe it dry. 
 
 MARKS ON A TABLE. é 
 To remove a whitish mark left by a hot dish or boiling water, 
 
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 pour lamp oil on, and rub hard with a soft cloth. Then pour on a 
 little spirits of wine or cologne water, and rub dry with another 
 
 cloth, et re | 
 
 Beeswax and strong lye will clean and polish furniture. 
 
 FURNITURE. 
 
 TO GIVE A FINE COLOR TO MAHOGANY. 
 
 Let the tables be washed perfectly clean with vinegar, having 
 first taken out any ink stains there may be, with spirits of salts. 
 Use the following liquid :—Into a pint of cold-drawn linseed oil, 
 put four penny-worth of alkanet root, and two penny worth of rose 
 pink, in an earthen vessel; let it remain all night, then stirring 
 well, rub some of it all over the tables with a linen rag; when it 
 has lain some time, rub it bright with linen cloths. 
 
 TO CLEAN PAINT. 
 
 Smear a piece of flannel with common whiting, mixed to the con- 
 sistency of common paste in warm water. Rub the surface to be 
 cleaned quite briskly and wash off with pure cold water. Grease 
 spots and other filth will be removed. 
 
 SOILED CARPETS. 
 
 Sprinkle the carpet with dry Indian meal or wheat bran and 
 sweep it hard. 
 
 SCOURING FLOUR. 
 
 A pound of soft soap, half a pound of soda and four quarts of 
 water. Boil two hours and stir in a quart of silver sand. Use a 
 small quantity at a time on the scrubbing brush. 
 
 CHEAP PAINT. 
 
 A cheap paint for a barn or rough woodwork, may be made of 
 six pounds of melted pitch, one pint of linseed oil, and one pound 
 of brick dust or yellow ochre. 
 
 APERED WALLS. 
 
 Rub the walls with a cloth sprinkled with Indian meal. Or gent- 
 ly sweep off the dust and rub with soft muslin cloth. 
 
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 ee TO STIFFEN CRAPE. 
 
 Hold it over potatoes or rice while boiling, and let it dry by 
 the fire. 
 
 TO REMOVE BROKEN SPOTS FROM VELVET. Bd 
 
 Hold the wrong side of the velvet over steam, and while damp 
 draw the wrong side across a quite clean stove pipe, or a warm 
 iron several times. i 
 
 TO CLEAN BLACK LACE VAILS. 
 
 These are cleansed by passing them through a warm liquor of 
 ox-gall and water, after which they must be rinsed in cold water, 
 then finished as follows: Take a small piece of glue about the size 
 of a bean, pour boiling water upon it, which will dissolve it, and 
 when dissolved, pass the vail through it, then clap it between your 
 hands and frame it or pin it out, taking care to keep the edge 
 straight : and even. < 
 
 WATER SPOTS IN BLACK CRAPE. 
 
 * Clap it while wet until dry. Spread the spot on the hand damp- 
 ening it, if it has previously dried, and slap it with the other till 
 the spots disappear. 
 
 TO RENOVATE BLACK SILK. 
 
 Sponge it with clear strong cold tea, shake it out, and hang it up 
 to dry, or iron it while damp. Another way is, rip out the seams, 
 rub it with a piece of crape, then put it in cold water twenty-four 
 hours, iron it with a hot iron on the wrong side; be careful not to 
 wring the silk. 
 
 TO TAKE OUT MILDEW. 
 
 Take your cloth when dry, wet thoroughly with soft soap and salt, 
 mixed. Let it lie a short time, then wash it in a good suds and 
 lay out to bleach. If one operation does not answer two will, 
 and the linen will be clear and clean as ever. 
 
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 TO TAKE INK OUT OF LINEN. 
 
 Dip the portion that is stained in pure melted tallow; then wash 
 out the tallow and the ink will come out with it. Lemon juice, or 
 any acid will generally take out any stain. Or dip the part stained 
 incold water, fill a basin with boiling water, place a pewter plate on 
 the top, lay the muslin on the plate, put salts of lemon or tartaric 
 acid on the ink spots, rubbing it with the bowl of a spoon, the spots 
 will disappear. 
 
 WASHING PRINT OR LAWN DRESSES. 
 
 Boil a quart of bran, in a bag, in a gallon of water for an hour ; 
 take out the bran and divide the water in which it was boiled, put- 
 ting one-half to one gallon of warm water, in which the dresses 
 
 ‘are to be washed the first time, and the other half to a second gal- 
 
 lon, in which they are to be rinsed or washed a second time; this 
 process needs neither soap nor starch, and makes the colors and 
 consistency of the goods precisely the same as when new; the ex- 
 tract of bran cleans, sufficiently stiffens, and preserves the colors ; 
 
 dry in the shade and iron on the wrong side. he 
 
 TO RESTORE LINEN THAT HAS LONG BEEN STAINED. 
 
 Rub the stains on each side with wet, brown soap. Mix some 
 starch to a thick paste with cold water, and spread it over the 
 soaped places. Then expose the linen to the sun and air, and if 
 the stains have not disappeared in three or four days, rub off the 
 mixture, and repeat the process with fresh soap and starch. After- 
 wards dry it; wet it with cold water and put it in the wash. 
 
 ; PAINT SPOTS ON CLOTH, SILK, ETC. 
 
 When the stain is not yet dried, lay the cloth on a number of 
 thicknesses of sheet, rub on soap with a tooth brush, then dip the 
 brush in warm water and wash the paint away, the sheet beneath 
 absorbing the water. Then wash the brush, dip it in the water, 
 and with it wash the soap away. Then rub both sides of the ma- 
 terial with a dry towel and hang it up to dry. If the paint is dry 
 dip a piece of flannel in spirits of turpentine, rub the stain fill re- 
 moved, then wash out the turpentine quickly with soap and water, 
 
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 or if the color is very delicate with warm water alone, the tur- 
 pentine will leave a stain of itself. Spots of paint, or of mich or 
 tar anywhere, may be removed with spirits of Teo 
 
 
 
 WASHING COLORED MUSEENR: 
 
 To set the color of muslin, pour boiling water on the dress be- 
 
 fore washing, and allow it to remain till quite cold. For ye tes 
 zreen or blue muslin, take a little sugar of lead, dissolve it i 
 gallon of cold water, dip the dress in it, let it remain quarter of 
 
 an hour, then wring it out and send it to be washed. Have no 
 
 scars or scratches on your hand, and throw the water away im- 
 mediately, for the sugar of lead is a rank poison. — | 
 
 TO CLEAN SILK. 
 
 Take a quarter of a pound of soft soap, a tea-spoonful of bran- 
 dy, and a pint of gin; mix all well together, and strain through a 
 
 cloth. With a sponge or flannel, spread the mixture on each side — 
 of the silk without creasing it; wash itin two or three waters, and Re 
 iron it on the wrong side. It will look as good as new, and the ‘ 
 
 process will not injure silks of even the most delicate color. 
 
 TO CLEAN KID GLOVES. 
 
 First see that your hands are clean, then put on your gloves, 
 and wash them as though you were washing your hands, in a basin 
 of turpentine until quite clean; hang them up in a warm place, or 
 where there is a current of air, which will carry off the smell of 
 the turpentine... 
 
 ANOTHER METHOD. 
 
 Put the gloves on your hands, and rub them lightly,’ but thor- 
 oughly, wherever soiled, with apiece of flannel, soaked in benzine. 
 As they. dry off, rub them over with pearl powder, and expose 
 them to the air to take off the smell ¢ of benzine. This is the way 
 ' they are cleaned by French cleaners, and if done, before they are 
 too much soiled, they can be made to look very nice > by this 
 method. 
 
 IRON STAINS. 
 These may be removed with juice of lemon, or of sorrel leaves, 
 
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 but if these fail, moisten the stain spots with water and rub on a 
 little powdered oxalic acid. Wash the acid off thoroughly soon 
 after it is put on, or it will eat the cloth. Also wash it from your 
 hands, and keep it away from children, for it is poisonous in the 
 mouth. Ink stain may be taken out in this way. It must be no- 
 ticed however that acids had better only be used on white as they 
 vill discharge pink, lilac, and some other colors. 
 
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 GREASE SPOTS. 
 
 An ounce of pulverized borax put into a quart of boiling water 
 and bottled for use, will be found invaluable for removing grease 
 spots from woolen goods. 
 
 INK SPOTS IN BOOKS. 
 
 Ink on printed leaves of books, may be removed by a solution 
 of oxalic acid in water. ‘The lamp-black of printers’ ink is not affect- 
 ed by it. 
 
 GREASE ON A LEATHER COVERED BOOK. 
 
 To remove this, rub the leather with white flannel briskly, and 
 repeat until it disappears. This will remove grease from anything 
 that will bear rubbing. 
 
 TO REMOVE SPERMACETI SPOTS. 
 
 First scrape off all you can, then place a piece of brown paper 
 on the garment, or floor, covering the spots, and put a warm iron 
 on the paper until the oil shows through, continue until no oil is 
 drawn by the paper. 
 
 MARKING INK. 
 
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 Put a little lunar caustic (nitrate of silver) into half a table- 
 spoonful of gin, and ina day or two it is fit for use. Wet the linen 
 with common soda and dry it before using the ink on it. ‘The col- 
 or will be faint at first; but will become durable on exposure to 
 the sun or fire. 
 
 GREEN INK 
 
 Mix a solution of the neutral sulphate of indigo, with a solution 
 
292. MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 of bichromate of potash, until the desired shade is obtained, then 
 add alittle mucilage. A solution of verdigris also forms green 
 ink. a? 
 
 BLUE INK. 
 
 Mix in a glass bottle, one ounce of pure powdered Prussian 
 blue, and an ounce and a-half to two ounces of concentrated muri- 
 atic acid. After twenty-four hours, dilute the mass with a sufli- 
 cient quantity of water. 
 
 GOLD AND SILVER INKS. 
 
 Grind gold leaf with white honey upon a slab of porphyry, with a 
 muller, until it is reduced to an impalpable powder in a pasty condi- 
 tion; this golden honey-paste is then diffused in water which dis- 
 solves the honey, and the gold falls to the bottom in the form of very 
 fine powder. Wash off the honey carefully, mix the gold powder 
 with gum arabic mucilage. When used allow it to dry on the pa- 
 per, when it may be made brilliant by burnishing it with an agate _ 
 burnisher. Silver ink is prepared in the same way by using silver: 
 leaf. . 
 
 COCKROACHES. 
 
 It is said that red wafers, and also the roots of black hellebore 
 will destroy them. They may be caught in vessels partly filled 
 with molasses. 
 
 RATS AND MICE. 
 
 You can have a little sport, by placing a barrel with a little meal 
 in it where they run, two or three nights, and then fill it a third 
 full of water, and sprinkle the meal two or three inches deep on 
 the top of it. You may find eight or ten in the barrel in the 
 morning if they are plenty. You can use a smooth kettle, filling 
 it to within five or six inches of the top with water and covering 
 the surface with bran, or chaff. 
 
 MOTHS. 
 One ounce of gum camphor, and one ounce of powdered red 
 pepper, macerated in eight ounces of strong alcohol for several 
 
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 days, then strained. With this tincture, the furs or cloth are 
 sprinkled over, and then rolled up in sheets. Or give them a 
 good beating, and do them up tightly in several thicknesses of 
 paper, so that one covers the cracks of the other; or in linen or 
 . cotton so that the moth cannot get in. 
 
 BED BUGS. 
 
 Wash the bedstead with salt and water, filling the cracks where 
 they frequent, with salt. It is preferable to ‘‘ ointments.” 
 
 CRICKETS, 
 
 Put Sctoch snuff in the holes where they come out. 
 
 NOSEGAYS. 
 
 Flowers should not be cut during sunshine or kept exposed to 
 the sun, or tied tightly together in bundles. When putting them 
 in water, cut the stems squarely across with a knife, scissors close 
 the tubes through which the water ascends. ‘The water should be 
 changed every day or once in two days, and a thin slice cut off the 
 end of the stalk every time. 
 
 TO PRESERVE THE FLOWERS OF if BOUQUET, 
 
 Let a spoonful of charcoal powder be added to the water, and 
 the flowers will last as long as they would on the plant, without any 
 need of changing the water or taking any trouble at all. 
 
 HOW LADIES CAN MAKE THEIR OWN PERFUMES. 
 
 If we spread fresh, unsalted butter upon the inside of two 
 dessert-plates, and then fill one of the plates with gathered fra- 
 grant blossoms of clematis, covering them over with the second 
 greased plate, we shall find that after twenty-four hours the grease 
 has become fragrant. The blossoms, though separated from the 
 parent stem, do not die for some time, but live to exhale odor, 
 which is absorbed by the fat. ‘To remove the odor from the fat, the 
 fat must be scraped off the plates and put into alcohol; the odor then 
 leaves the grease and enters into the spirit, which thus becomes 
 ‘* scent,” and the grease again becomes colorless. The flower 
 farmers of the Var, follow precisely this method, on a very large 
 
294. MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 scale, making but a little practical variation, with the following 
 flowers: rose, orange, acacia, violet, jasmine, tube-rose, and 
 jonquil. 
 
 TINCTURE OF ROSES. 
 
 Take the leaves of the common rose (centifolio) and place, with- 
 out pressing them, in a common bottle; pour some good spirits of 
 wine upon them, close the bottle, and let it stand till required for 
 use. This tincture will keep for years, and yield a perfume little 
 inferior to attar of roses; a few drops of it will suffice to impreg- 
 nate the atmosphere of a room with a delicious odor. Common 
 vinegar is greatly improved by a very small quantity being added 
 to it. 
 
 POT POURRI 
 
 Take three handfuls of orange flowers, three of cloves, 
 carnations, or pinks, three of damask roses, one of marjoram, one 
 of lemon thymes, six bay leaves, a handful of rosemary, one of 
 myrtle, half a handful of mint, one of lavender, the rind of a lemon, 
 and a quarter of an ounce of cloves. Chop these all up,-and place 
 
 them in layers, with bay salt between the layers, until the jar is full. _ 
 
 Do not forget to throw in the bay salt with each new ingredient put 
 in, should it not be convenient to procure at once all the required 
 articles. ‘The perfume is very fine. 
 
 : EASTER EGGS.—1. 
 
 Immerse eggs in hot water a few minutes, inscribe names or dates 
 etc., on the shell with the end of a tallow candle or with grease, 
 then place them in a pan of hot water saturated with cochineal or 
 other dye-woods; the parts over which the tallow has passed being 
 impervious to the dye, the eggs come out presenting white inscrip- 
 tions on colored grounds. Or boil the eggs hard and paint subjects 
 on them with a camel’s hair brush, or etch them with a steel pen in 
 India ink. Or dye the shells first, then scrape off the dye in any 
 design desired. 6 , 
 
 EASTER EGGS.—2. 
 
 An egg boiled in the coat of an onion will turn to a beautiful 
 
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 brown color. To give ablue color, boil the eggs in powdered 
 indigo with the addition of a tea-spoonful of dilute sulpluric acid. 
 
 To give an ege a mottled appearance, with bright colors blended, 
 
 and contrasted, obtain pieces of silk of the brightest colors, cut them 
 
 into bits an inch long, half an inch wide, add a few chips of log- 
 
 wood and a little tumeric; let the egg be well inbedded in this so 
 
 that the silk may forma thick layer round it, sew it up in very 
 coarse brown paper and boil it half an hour or more. 
 
FOOD FOR IN VALIDS. 
 
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 The diet for invalids depends so much upon the condition 0 
 the patient, that only the most general directions can be given; 
 the special application must be left in every case to the judgment 
 of the nurse. 
 
 « Neatness, cleanliness, and promptitude are the great requisites 
 in a sick chamber. The best prepared food is spoiled by want a 
 care and punctuality in placing it before the patient. 
 
 When persons are ill, their senses are often preternaturally acute ; 
 slight marks of neglect which would not be noticed at another 
 time, become extremely offensive; and afew minutes delay, not 
 only seems unpardonable, but is sometimes really injurious. Pa- 
 tience, tact, and natural kindness of disposition are essential qual- 
 ities in a good nurse, and when to these are added firmness and 
 good judgment, the sum total of excellence in this line has been 
 reached. Asa general rule however, one half the nurses injure 
 their patients by absurd restrictions, and the other half by foolish 
 
 indulgence. 
 
 GRUEL. 
 
 This simple refreshment is invaluable in sickness, and is made 
 with little trouble and less expense, yet it is scarcely ever prepared 
 exactly right. 
 
 One table-spoonful of fine Indian or oat-meal, mixed smooth 
 with cold water and a salt-spoon of salt; pour upon this a pint of 
 boiling water and turn into a saucepan to boil gently for half an 
 hour; thin it with boiling water if it thickens too much, and stir 
 frequently ; when it is done, a table-spoonful of cream or a little 
 new milk may be put in to cool it, after straining, but if the patient’s 
 
 
 
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 stomach is weak it is best without either. Some persons like it 
 sweetened and a little nutmeg added, but to many it is more palat- 
 able plain. \ 
 
 PANADA. 
 
 Break up three arrow-root crackers into small pieces; pour up- 
 on them boiling water and cover close for a minute, then adda 
 tea-spoon of white sugar and a little pure milk. It is an excellent 
 breakfast or supper for a child oran invalid. Instead of the milk, 
 the juice of a lemon may be squeezed in and another tea-spoon of 
 sugar added. 
 
 ‘6 SOFT” TOAST 
 
 Some invalids like this yery much indeed, and nearly all do 
 when it is nicely made. 
 
 Toast well, but not too brown, a couple of thin slices of bread ; 
 put them ona warm plate and pour over boiling water; cover - 
 quickly with another plate of the same size, and drain the water 
 off; remove the upper plate, butter the toast, put it im the oven 
 one minute, and then cover again with a hot plate and serve at 
 once. 
 
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 EGG TOAST. 
 
 Make a soft toast, and have ready one or more fresh eggs which 
 have been boiled twenfy minutes; remove the shells, cut them in 
 slices and place upon the toast, with a little butter, pepper and 
 salt; without the butter they may be eaten with impunity by the 
 most delicate invalid, as an ego cooked for twenty minutes is real- 
 ly more easy of digestion than one that is technically boiled soft. 
 
 CALVES-FOOT JELLY. 
 
 Boil four nicely cleaned calves-feet in three quarts of water un- 
 til reduced to one, very slowly; strain and set away until cold, 
 then take off the fat from the top and remove the jelly into a stew- 
 pan, avoiding the settlings, and adding half a pound of white pow- 
 dered sugar, the juice of two lemons, and the whites of two eggs— 
 the latter to make it transparent. Boil alltogether a few moments 
 and set away in bowls or glasses; it is excellent in a sick room. 
 
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298 FOOD FOR INVALIDS. 
 
 A SICK BREAKFAST. 
 
 A small waiter, covered with a clean tea-napkin; a-cup of nice 
 warm tea, two slices of thin, lightly-browned toast, a tiny pat of 
 sweet butter, and a small saucer of fruit or jelly of some kind. 
 Guava is very nice, if strawberries or other fresh fruits are not in 
 season. 
 
 A SICK DINNER. 
 
 The thick, tender part of a mutton chop broiled, a roast mealy 
 potato, a little jelly, a slice of Graham bread, and half of an ** in- 
 valid’s cup pudding.” 
 
 A SICK TEA. . 
 
 A bowl of cracker panada, or a cup of weak black tea, one or 
 two slices of Graham bread, with a little butter, and fruit if allow- 
 ed. 
 
 INVALID CUP PUDDING. 
 
 One table-spoonful of flour, one ege; mix with cold milk, and 
 a pinch of salt to a batter. Boil fifteen minutes in a buttered 
 cup. Eat with sauce, fruit, or plain sugar. 
 
 BEEF TEA. 
 
 Cut up half a pound rump steak into small pieces, and put it 
 
 into a bowl of lukewarm water; cover it, and set it where it will 
 
 gradually heat. In about half an hour, turn it into a lined sauce- 
 pan, and cover close, and set it on the range to boil; skim it well 
 as it reaches the boiling point, and after boiling up once or twice, 
 withdraw it from the fire and let it simmer gently in a cooler place 
 for an hour. Strain, and season as preferred. In winter this will 
 keep good, in a cellar, several days; but in summer it is required 
 fresh every day, even if kept in a refrigerator. Mutton broth is 
 made in the same way. 
 
 SOFT BOILED EGGS. 
 
 Fresh eggs for invalids who like them cooked soft, should be put 
 in a pan of boiling water, and set ona part of the range where 
 
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 they will not boil, for several minutes. At the end of that time 
 they will be like jelly, perfectly soft, but beautifully done, and 
 quite digestible by even weak stomachs. 
 
 INVALID APPLE PIE. 
 
 Slice up one or more nice, tart apples in a saucer, sweeten with 
 white sugar, and cover with a moderately thick slice of bread but- 
 tered slightly on the under side. When the bread is browned, 
 the apples, if of a tender kind, and thinly sliced, will be done. 
 
 ROAST APPLES. 
 
 These can nearly always be eaten with safety, when they are eat- 
 en with relish. Choose good sized, fair apples of a tart, and juicy, 
 but not sour kind. Rub them off clean, and put them in rather a 
 slow oven, which may increase in warmth, so that they shall be 
 thoroughly done in an hour. When so soft that the savory pulp 
 breaks through the browned skin in every direction, take them 
 out, sift white sugar over them, and carry one at atime on a China 
 saucer to the patient. 
 
 a LEMONADE, 
 
 This is invaluable in fevers, and also in rheumatic affections. 
 Rub the lemons soft, cut them half through the centre and squeeze 
 out the juice, take out the seeds with a tea-spoon. Put two table- 
 spoonsful of white sugar to each lemon, and fill up with cold or 
 boiling water, according as you desire the lemonade, hot, or cold. 
 Two medium sized lemons will make a pint or more of lemonade. 
 
 APPLE WATER. 
 
 Roast two tart apples until they are soft, put them in a pitcher, 
 pour upon them a pint of cold water and let it stand in a cool place 
 an hour. It is used in fevers and eruptive diseases, and does not, 
 require sweetening. 
 
 STEWED PRUNES. 
 
 These are extremely good in small pox, measles, - scarlet fever, 
 and the like, both as food and medicine. Get the box prunes, as 
 they will not need washing, and because they are generally of 
 
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 300 _ FOOD FOR INVALIDS. 
 
 a much better quality than the open sort. Soak them for an hour 
 in cold water, then put them in a porcelain lined saucepan with a 
 little more water if necessary, and a little coffee crushed sugar. 
 Cover, and let them stew slowly an hour, or until they are swollen 
 large and quite soft. They are excellent as an accompaniment to 
 breakfast for a sick woman. 
 
 DRY TOAST. 
 
 Cut your slices of bread even, and not too thick. Toast before 
 a clear fire, a nice light brown. Cover with a napkin, and serve 
 quickly while it is hot. Dry toast is not always good for invalids, 
 especially when the bowels are confined, and itis desirable to keep 
 them open. In this case, Graham bread not toasted is much better. 
 
 TAPIOCA CUP PUDDING. 
 
 This is very light, and delicate for invalids. An even table- 
 spoonful of tapioca, soaked for two hours in nearly a cup of new 
 milk, Stir into this the yolk of a fresh egg, a little sugar, a grain 
 of salt and bake in a cup for fifteen minutes. A little jelly may 
 be eaten with it, if allowed, or a few fresh strawberries. 
 
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 MILK TOAST, 
 
 This is a favorite dish with nearly all sick people when they are 
 ‘ getting well. Cut stale baker’s bread in rather thin slices, toast a 
 fine br own, and lay them in a deep dish. Meanwhile, boil a quart 
 of new milk, in a lied saucepan, into which you have first put a 
 very little cold water to prevent burning. As soon as it boils, pour 
 
 itover the toast, cover, and serve quick. For an invalid, no butter 
 
 should be put in the milk. Some people put in a thickening of 
 flour, but this spoils’ it to our thinking. 
 
 THICKENED MILK. 
 
 With a little milk, mix smooth a table-spoonful of flour and a 
 
 pinch of salt. Pour upon it a quart of boiling milk, and when it 
 is thoroughly amalgamated put all back into the saucepan, and boil 
 up once, being ¢areful not to burn, and stirring all the time, to 
 
 keep it perfectly smooth, and free from lumps. Serve with slices 
 of dry toast. It is excellent in diarrhea and becomes a specific by 
 
 scorching the flour before mixing with the milk. 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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 OYSTER SOUP. 
 
 Make a little broth of lean veal, or mutton, simmer with it some 
 root, or essence of celery. Strain it, put again on the fire, and 
 when it boils throw in the oysters with their liquor, and a trifle of 
 pepper, and salt. Serve as soon as it comes to a boil on little 
 squares, or sippets of toast. 
 
 BROILED TENDERLOIN. 
 
 This is a choice piece from a sirloin steak, and is highly enjoyed 
 when the patient is becoming convalescent. Cut out the round 
 piece from the inside of a sirloin steak, boil it quick over a bright 
 fire, upon a small, heated gridiron, turn it, with its gravy, upon a 
 piece of freshly made toast, sprinkle with salt, and pepper, but no 
 butter, place between two hot plates, and serve directly. A ten- 
 der mutton chop, or half of the breast of a chicken may be served 
 the same way, only the chicken will require longer, and somewhat 
 slower cooking. 
 
 MILK AND. EGGS. 
 
 Beat up a fresh egg, with a grain of salt, pour upon it a pint of 
 boiling milk, stirring all the time. Serve hot, with or without 
 toast. Itis good incase of weakness for an early breakfast, or 
 for a traveller before starting on a journey. 
 
FOOD FOR INFANTS. 
 
 FOOD FOR INFANTS. 
 
 It is a sad, and significant fact, that at least half the children at 
 the present time, are deprived of their proper sustenance, and 
 left to the tender mercies of wet nurses, or the bottle. Between 
 the two evils, it is difficult to say which is the least; but unless a 
 superior nurse can be found—one intelligent, and thoroughly clean 
 in her personal habits—we should say, choose the last, and bring 
 it up by hand. 
 
 It is the opinion of the .best physicians, and the conviction is 
 borne out by every mother’s experience, that the moral, mental, 
 and spiritual, as well as physical condition of a child is greatly in- 
 fluenced during its nursing period. Mothers who nurse their own 
 children know that it is of the greatest importance to the quiet and 
 healthful condition of the child, that they should be free from all 
 sources ‘of agitation, anxiety, and irritability. Overwork, giving 
 way to fretfulness, or being subjected to the unreasonable temper 
 and caprices of others, frequently induces a state of mind that shows 
 itself plainly in the uneasiness and disquiet it produces in ‘the in- 
 fant, and would be seen with still greater distinctness were women 
 - accustomed to trace results more strictly to their causes. 
 
 If this is the case with the mother, if her mental and spiritual 
 condition finds itself reflected so minutely in the lights and shadows 
 of the little life which is dependent upon her, why should it not re- 
 ceive a coloring from the milk which it derives from a dull, coarse, 
 appetite-loving wet nurse of the ordinary stamp? ‘Two thirds of 
 these nurses make a necessity of strong tea and coffee, and malt 
 liquor, two or three times a day; they are often anything but 
 scrupulous in their personal habits, and so accustomed to the ex- 
 
FOOD FOR INFANTS. 303 - 
 
 ercise of a violent will by virtue of their office, as to be unwilling 
 to bear the slightest control or contradiction. These are not the 
 influences which a thoughtful mother would like to have her child 
 drink in with its milk, 
 
 We believe it to be a misfortune, the extent of hier: is not at 
 all realized, when the mother cannot nurse her own child. The 
 mother’s milk contains all the elements necessary for its proper 
 growth in every direction, and no substitute can be found for it; 
 but where this is impossible, unless, as before remarked, a very 
 superior nurse can be obtained, it is safer to trust to the simple 
 food, which at least sustain life, and do no hurt if given at right 
 times and in proper quantities, leaving the mental and spiritual ac- 
 tivities unimpeded, though probably subject to a slower growth 
 than if aided by the sympathetic magnetism of the mother’s na- 
 ture. 
 
 STARCHY FOOD. 
 
 Such as arrowroot, sago, corn-starch, and the like, is commonly 
 held to be very healthy and nutritious for infants, yet the experi- 
 ence of every physician, furnishes numerous instances of feeble, 
 sickly children that are so fed, while the number is small that sur- 
 vive it. The reason of this is, that the digestive organs of infants 
 are not sufficiently powerful to convert the starchy matter into 
 nourishment; it therefore only serves to clog, and impede the ac- 
 tion of the system, while the little victim is gradually being starved 
 on the trifle of sustenance which it can obtain, from whatever su- 
 gar and milk is given with its other food. 
 
 ENGLISH ‘* PAP. 
 
 English and French babies, when brought up by hand, are fed 
 almost altogether on ‘‘ pap,” which is made, in England, in the fol- 
 lowing way : 
 
 Boiling water is poured on a small piece of the iihahe part of 
 white, light bread. This is covered up for a moment, and then 
 the water poured off. ‘The softened bread is then put in a little 
 porcelain stewpan, with a trifle more of water, and allowed to boil 
 up, and it is then a pulp. A lump of white sugar and a little cold 
 milk, added, brings it precisely. up to the ideas of most young 
 
304 FOOD FOR INFANTS, 
 
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 Britishers, who grow very stout and healthy upon it. This is ex- 
 cellent. ae where the mother is capable of parey nursing her 
 child. — 
 
 Heath pap is made of flour instead of bread, which is decided- 
 
 ly objectionable, as it is not only less agreeable, but much less — 
 
 easily digested. 
 Cow’s MILK. 
 
 A diet of cows’ milk exclusively is not good; it is too rich and 
 very provocative of eruptive diseases. But if the bottle is pre- 
 ferred to spoon-feeding, half of one good cow’s milk may be given, 
 diluted with half of boiling water and sweetened Bike: with 
 white sugar. 
 
 An excellent change from this consists of a thin strained gruel 
 
 from the best prepared barley, with a little milk and sugar added. * 
 
 A little sugar is necessary in infants’ food, but be particularly 
 careful not to make it sweet, as this provokes continual thirst, as 
 well as disorders the child’s. stomach. 
 
 INFANT’S BROTH 
 
 After the baby is three months old, it may occasionally be treat- 
 ed to a little clear chicken, or mutton broth, made in the following 
 way. Cut upa pound of lean mutton imto small pieces, and put 
 them into a small jar, cover them with cold water, set-the jar in a 
 kettle of warm water, let it come to boiling point, and simmer the 
 mutton until the strength is extracted. One pound of meat should 
 make a quart of broth—simmer at least six hours—strain and put: 
 in a trifle of salt, but no other spice. Treat part of a chicken 
 in the sameway, for chicken broth. 
 
 BABY PUDDING. 
 
 Grate a little stale bread, pour some boiling milk upon it, cover, 
 and when it becomes a pulp, stir into it the yolk of an egg, and a 
 grain of salt. The quantity should fill a tea-cup, m which boil it 
 fifteen minutes, 
 
 ESSENTIALS. 
 
 Warm, sensible clothing, quiet, with food and sleep at regular 
 intervals are the essentials to health and comfort of babies. 
 
 
 
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 FOOD FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. ~ . 
 
 The great danger in feeding young children lies not so much in’ 
 the food, as in its preparation, or want of preparation. A hard 
 indigestible potato is bad for them, and a little tendér, stewed 
 _ meat is good, but if the potato were mashed, and mealy, and 
 
 the meat hard, and tough, the case would be just the reverse. 
 
 The principal danger is in their swallowing indigestible sub- 
 stances, and whether these are hard apples, or lumpy potatoes, 
 tough meat, or sour bread, rich cake, or hickory nuts, makes very 
 little difference, the irritation, and derangement produced is the 
 same. 
 
 Meat for children under the age of ten years, should be cooked 
 very tender, and cut up very small, or given in the form of soup. 
 Potatoes should be mashed, apples roasted, or stewed, and if 
 bread and milk could form their breakfast, and some kind of 
 mush,with milk, their supper, they would be all the better for it, 
 for the rest of their lives. 
 
 CHILDREN 8S. PIE. 
 
 Cover the bottom of a pie dish with slices of bread and _ butter, 
 cover it with fresh berries, sprinkled with sugar, or with stewed 
 fruit, fresh or dried. Set it in the oven fifteen or twenty minutes. 
 Sift a little sugar over it, when it comes out, 
 
 BROWN MUSH FOR SUPPER. 
 
 Stir into a quart of boiling water, a tea-spoonful of salt, and 
 Graham flour enough to make it as thick as Indian mush. Let it 
 boil gently half an hour, keeping it covered. at it with cream, 
 or milk, and sugar. 
 
 BREAD AND MILK. 
 
 Cut, or break stale bread up into small pieces, and let them come 
 to a boilin milk. It makes an excellent breakfast for children 
 with a slice of toast, or without. 
 
 CRANBERRIES, 
 
 Should be stewed soft, strained through a colander, which will 
 
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 306 LADIES’ LUNCHES. ~ lee 
 
 
 
 pass every thing but the skin; boild up a second time with the as 
 sugar, and set away to cool. They may then be eaten witht im 4 
 punity by fae most delicate children. : a 
 
 LADIES’ LUNCHES. th 4 » 
 
 
 
 
 These are not at all difficult, and the less fuss and preparation ' 
 there is for them, the better; they may of course be made ce x 
 elaborate, but in this case, it ies become the fashion for ladies to - 
 engage a private room and lunch, for a certain number of guests, 
 at a stylish restaurant, the hour, and extensive preparation, inter- 
 fering with domestic economies, and regulations of the household, 
 if allowed to take place at home. 
 
 Ordinarily however, ‘‘ ladies’ lunches,” are simple affairs, delicate, 
 recherche, and more famous for the wit they evoke, and the enjoy- 
 ment they create, than for the dishes, which are not unfrequently ud 
 quite incongruous. ‘‘I will come,” says one, ‘if you will have some 
 of your delicious chicken salad; ” ‘‘ and I,” says another, ‘‘if 
 you can persuade your cook to make an omelette,” and I,—I 
 want a cup of your chocolate,” exclaims a third. 
 
 But whatever be the bill of fare, let it be such, that the presence 
 of the hostess will not be required i in the kitchen, nor a large at- 
 tendance of servants in removing dishes. 
 
 Many of the pleasantest lunches are quite sapeliaee one or 
 more ladies call,—gentlemen nearly always lunch down town, in 
 cities,—and the hostess without ceremony invites them to share her 
 mid-day meal. In such'a case, no apology is necessary for very 
 simple fare, the friendliness of the invitation being worth much 4 
 more than variety, and costliness of dishes. . 
 
 A dish of poached eggs and boiled ham, will answer for such an 
 occasion, or delicate rice cakes, added to the cold ham, and chickens 
 or sliced tomatoes with tender broiled lamb chops; all dishes easily : 
 and cheaply prepared, and sure to be appreciated. A box of 
 sardines is useful to have on hand, but we do not consider them 
 healthful eating, and recommend them only in case of emergency. 
 
 To a ladies’ lunch, not more than six or eight guests should be a 
 
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 invited, and the food should be all placed on the table at one time, 
 tea, coffee, or chocolate being served from a side table by a ser- 
 vant. 
 
 vim BILL OF FARE. 
 
 Roast chicken garnished, ham sandwiches, pancakes with jelly, 
 French rolls, potato balls, or croquettes, wine jelly, lady cake, tart- 
 lets, and oranges. 
 
 iA ae Lobster salad, mixed ‘pickles, French bread, cold tongue, mar- 
 a malade, meringues, oranges, and claret punch. 
 
 Chicken pie, compote apples, or apples stewed whole; cold ham 
 garnished with sliced lemon and parsley, bread, biscuits, pickled 
 cucumbers, tartlets, sponge cake with a custard poured over it, 
 and whip on top of it, making floating island; and bottled 
 peaches, or strawberries. 
 
 Potted salmon, and pigeon pie, currant and raspberry jelly, 
 delicate biscuits, celery or salad of lettuce, cheese cakes, cocoa- 
 nut cake, and fresh fruit in season. 
 
 Cold roast turkey, pickled oysters, cranberry jelly, celery, 
 French rolls, small English mince pies, (made without meat), jel- 
 ly cake, and grapes, or preserved pineapple. 
 
 Cold pigeons which have been stuffed and roasted, little oyster 
 patties, or vol au vente, blackberry jelly, and pickled cauliflower, 
 with slices of red beet root; blanc mange, with tarts, and cream, 
 fruit cake, with grapes, and wine, 
 
 A STAG SUPPER. 
 
 A stag supper is one to which only gentleman are invited, and 
 
 it is necessary, therefore, to pay particular attention to the dishes 
 
 _ which gentlemen usually prefer. The centre of the table should 
 be occupied by a large punch-bowl, filled with claret punch, and 
 
308 A STAG SUPPER. vil, 
 
 
 
 
 set in a deep reservoir, containing blocks of clear ice. At’t 
 of the table should be a cold roast turkey witha string of sz 
 round its neck; at the bottom, a boiled turkey, stuffed with oys- 
 ters. On one bat of the table should be a large chicken pie, or- __ 
 namented with pastry, on the other, a pair of roast ducks, one a 
 stuffed with onions, the other with prunes. At opposite corners, | * a 
 tureens of pickled oysters, a cold boiled ham, and cold tongue, e 4 
 garnished with slices of lemon, and green parsley. French bread, — 
 pickles, pineapple, cheese, sardines and champagne jelly, where- _ 
 -ever it is possible to put them; also oval a of lobster salad, BS 
 potted meat sandwiches, and “pickled salt Celery, grapes, . 
 apples, oranges, ice cream, and cream ont: or 1 Charlotte Russe. 
 Beverages, according to taste and means. 
 
 
 
NEW YEAR’S TABLES, PARTIES, Etc. 
 
 It does not come within the scope of this work to give direc- 
 tions for the getting up of elaborate and expensive entertainments. 
 People who do these things, generally have a professed cook, or 
 have their table supplied from some fashionable restaurant. We 
 propose only to furnish useful hints to plain housekeepers with 
 limited resources, and shall therefore not go beyond those simple 
 means of entertainment that are within the power of most Ameri- 
 can families. 
 
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 NEW YEAR’S TABLE 
 
 The custom of receiving calls is becoming so very general out 
 of New York city, that a few hints on the method of setting the 
 table for the occasion may not come amiss. 
 
 What is called a substantial table, is out of fashion now, except- 
 ing among old-fashioned people, but it must still be remembered 
 that as it is the taste of gentlemen, and not of ladies that are to be 
 cousulted on this day, sweets, cake and the like, should be subor- 
 dinated to chicken salad, pickled oysters, potted salmon, sardines, 
 and the like, which gentlemen generally greatly prefer. 
 
 An average table displays one handsomely ornamented cake, 
 raised high on a china, glass or silver plateau, im the centre, sup- 
 ported by bouquets of flowers. All the dishes are cold, of course, 
 and may be decorated with little bits of evergreen, with flowers or 
 with lemon in slices. Small biscuit sandwiches made of tongue 
 and ham, or ham and potted veal, are very good. Pickled oys- 
 ters, are indispensable, and sardines, and chicken, or lobster salad, 
 will be found yery popular. Jellies, fruit, one or more baskets of 
 mixed cake, and whatever is thought requisite in the way of con- 
 fectionery, should be arranged tastefully so as to produce the best 
 
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 310 NEW YEAR’S TABLES, PARTIES, ETC. 
 
 effect. A dish of oranges ornamented with tufts of green moss, 
 
 and sprigs of scarlet geranium looks very nice. 
 
 It would be much better if no wines were offered New Year’s day, 
 —if beverages were limited to coffee, lemonade, and cold water ; 
 but as most persons seem to think otherwise, it would be Quixotic 
 to attempt here to stem the tide of fashionable opinion. Cherry, 
 old Bourbon, and claret punch are in great demand where they 
 are to be found. Coffee is always served from a side table. 
 
 A FAMILY DINNER. BILL OF FARE FOR TEN. 
 
 Soup is not considered so indispensable to even elegant dinners ~ 
 
 in this country, as in England and France; though it is generally, 
 
 even here, the first course. For our family dinner party however, _ 
 
 we have no soups; but we have two kinds of fish,— baked salmon 
 trout, with anchovy sauce, and boiled white fish, with caper sauce. 
 We have, also, small side dishes of lobster and chicken salad; pick- 
 les, and glass dishes of white, crimped celery, and cranberry jelly. 
 The fish is followed by a roast turkey with its necklace of sau- 
 sages, or a roast fowl, and dish of stewed pigeons, ; and these are 
 accompanied by an army of vegetables, sauces, and gravies. A 
 boiled ham makes it appearance, but itis chiefly ornamental. The 
 next course is plum pudding, and then comes a dessert of white, 
 
 and black grapes, oranges, apples, and nuts, Charlotte Russe, or 
 cream puffs, and finally, coffee. ‘Sometimes we have wine, and 
 sometimes we don’t, at family dinners. 
 
 A SMALL SUPPER PARTY. BILL OF FARE FOR FIFTY PERSONS. 
 
 Have at one end of the table a tureen of pickled oysters, at the 
 other, a large dish of chicken salad. Side dishes should contain 
 neat slices of ham, tongue, cold chicken, and sardines, ornamented 
 with sprigs of parsley, slices of lemon, red beet root, cut in stars, 
 or the curled leaves of celery. Chicken salad may be garnished 
 with egg rings, and celery hearts, cut in shapes, and stuck all 
 over the surface. Two pyramids of ice cream will occupy the 
 spaces next to the top and bottom dishes, and will be followed by 
 two handsome baskets of cake, which will just leave room fora 
 pyramid of confectionery, or a high glass dish of fruit in the cen- 
 tre. Filling up the corners, will be glass dishes of jelly, Charlotte 
 
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 NEW YEAR’S PARTIES, REFRESHMENTS, ETC. 311 
 
 Russe in forms, and little dishes of pickles, and plates of. biscuit 
 
 everywhere; there should also be at least two dishes of mottoes, 
 
 and two of almonds and raisins. Care should be taken to have - 
 abundance of plates, saucers, spoons, and napkins. Hot coffee 
 should be served round at the beginning, and champagne punch at 
 the close; or if not that, claret punch. It is a good idea to have 
 an immense punch bowl of iced lemonade, for the guests to go to 
 whenever they choose. 
 
 REFRESHMENTS. 
 
 For sociables, receptions, and small evening companies, re- 
 freshments are generally handed round, and are of a very simple 
 character. A variety of cake with jelly, and ice cream, are per- 
 haps the most frequently employed, with or without wine. Coffee, 
 and little biscuit sandwiches, with cake, and fruit, are sometimes 
 substituted. 
 
 At simple receptions, a cup of tea, or coffee, and a little cake, 
 or biscuit is all that is required. 
 
 Do not, however, confine yourself to lady-fingers, or any of the 
 polite forms of starvation. Ifyou have only tea and cake, let the 
 tea be good, and the cake good; and allow your visitors the priv- 
 ilege of having their cups refilled. 
 
 A CHILDREN’S PARTY. 
 
 Let the children give a party at least once a year, and make out 
 a programme of amusements for them; a magic lantern is very 
 useful, in addition to games and dancing. Let the children them- 
 selves principally do the honors, it will teach them how to receive 
 and entertain guests. 
 
 It is best to have a table set for the children, and make the re- 
 freshments as light and simple as possible. Little baked custards 
 in cups, apple snow, ice cream, baskets of kisses, lady-fingers, 
 and ‘‘ christmas cakes for good children” [see Sweet Cakes], small 
 apple tarts, oranges, and mottoes, with water and lemonade, con- 
 stitute a sufficient, and to juveniles, a most attractive variety. It 
 is still better if the mottoes are not given them to eat, but are 
 fewer in quality, and sufficiently handsome to carry home as a 
 souvenir. The party should close with a lively game before twelve 
 
812 PARTIES, REFRESHMENTS, ETC. 
 
 o'clock, so that the little ones may be at home by midnight at 
 least. 
 
 A CHRISTMAS PARTY. 
 
 A Christmas party, which includes a Christmas tree, is the most 
 delightful of all parties; it is not particularly fashionable, and itis 
 particularly unceremonious, but on that account all the more en- 
 joyable. 3 
 
 At first sight, a Christmas tree, with a gift for every person in- 
 vited, would seem to involve great expense, but it need not, if 
 people will content themselves with furnishing the tree with such 
 gifts as their means will admit. ‘Twenty-five dollars will purchase 
 a large tree, decorate it with flowers and lights, and supply pretty 
 and amusing gifts for fifty or more persons. Fifteen or twenty 
 dollars more, will supply all the refreshments, in the shape of cake, 
 and ice cream, and home made jellies, or fruits needed. . An im- 
 provised Santa Claus distributes the gifts by lot at a certain hour, 
 then follows refreshments, and the evening closes with saeng 
 and perhaps a game of blind man’s buff. 
 
 Of course, family and other Christmas trees, may be made as 
 elaborate and expensive in their furnishing, as means will allow; 
 we have only thrown out the suggestion, e show how cheaply.it 
 may be done. 
 
 
 
WASHING DAY. 
 
 
 
 ae WASHING DAY. 
 
 This is the dreaded event of every household, large, and small; 
 it is proverbially associated with wretchedness and discomfort, and 
 many have been the plans, methods, and receipts, which have been 
 
 ae upon housekeepers, through their desire to relieve them- 
 selves of this constantly recurring source of trouble and annoy- 
 ance. 
 
 Such efforts, are Aa vain, and useless however, sometimes 
 worse—positively injurious. Clean clothes are a luxury, that must 
 be paid for in some shape or other—and no substances have been 
 discovered, and few machines invented, to rival the stout a and 
 strong hand of the professional wash-woman. 
 
 Never use soda to soften water, it rots the clothes in proportion 
 to its strength; buy crude borax by the pound, and put in half an 
 ounce for an ordinary washing; it whitens, and cleanses, and 
 softens, wonderfully, and injures nothing, The women of Holland, 
 whose washing is proverbial, use borax. 
 
 Use a really good brand of soap well dried—not the soft, gela- 
 tinous, yellow bars, which melt away in a moment, and really 
 stain rather than cleanse the clothes, and always destroy the hands. 
 
 Have the clothes soaked over night in warm water, rubbing all 
 creased and soiled places with soap, and they will require only 
 one washing, and that nota laborious one, before boiling. Boil 
 quick, rinse thoroughly, wring through a first-rate clothes wringer, 
 (the barbarism of wringing by hand, is now happily at an end) 
 and bring them in, and fold them as soon as they are dry. Fine 
 shirts, ruffles, and linen, and cambric under clothing, are much 
 injured by being exposed an unnecessary length of time to frost, 
 wind, or dust. 
 
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814 WASHING DAY. 
 
 TABLE-CLOTHS, NAPEENS? ETC. 
 
 These articles, and any others that are likely to be disfigured 
 with fruit, or coffee stains, should be kept back from the general 
 soaking, in order to undergo special treatment. Put these in a 
 small tub by themselves—and pour a kettle of boiling water upon 
 them—not hot, but boiling, hot water sets stains, boiling water 
 takes them out clean. When the water has cooled a little 
 them thoroughly, and boil them, the stains will have pro Zh , 
 disappeared, but if they should prove very obstinate, lay the 
 the grass wet, when the sun is hot, and they will vanish. 
 
 
 
 
 
 WHITE FLANNELS. 
 
 White flannel garments, such as petticoats, underskirts and 
 
 drawers, baby flannels and the like, require also to be put in boil- . 
 
 ing water. The very best way to wash white flannels is by ma- 
 chine. Put in the flannels, pour in boiling suds, mild, let them 
 stand a few minutes, then grind them out. Pour the suds away, 
 put the flannels in again, and pour over them a kettle of clear 
 boiling water with a pinch of crude borax in it, and grind them 
 out of that. ‘This finishes the process, and makes them beautiful- 
 ly soft and clean, with little labor, and no danger of shrinkage. 
 
 ZEPHYR GOODS AND COLORED FLANNELS, 
 
 Colored flannel dresses, sacks, Garibaldis and other artis of 
 
 knitted wool, such as baby socks, knitted sacks and the like, should 
 all be washed in cold water, in which alittle crude borax has been dis- 
 solved, and with fine white soap, white Castile is best, but don’t take 
 colored Castile, as that may strin. The process will be found very 
 easy, and perfectly satisfaci.;.. ; the dirt will come out in the cold 
 water without any trouble ; there will be no shrinking, and th + col- 
 or will remain bright in the colored woolens, or fancy borderings. 
 
 
 
 TO WASH LACES AND NEEDLEWORK. 
 
 Fine handkerchiefs, collars, undersleeves, chemisettes and edg- 
 ings should never be put into the large ‘‘ wash,” they should be kept 
 till a sufficient number has accumulated, and then on a rainy day, 
 when visitors are not expected, collect them, mend carefully every 
 
 
 
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 little hole, soap them and put them in a clean, bright tin pail that 
 will cover down close, and fill up with cold water with a pinch of 
 borax init. Let them come toa slow boil, then squeeze them 
 . out; if they are very yellow, and very dirty, the operation may 
 have to berepeated. Rinse and dry; in the meantime pour a little 
 boiling water over a few lumps of loaf sugar, and if you wish a 
 yellow tinge add a table-spoonful of clear liquid coffee, instead of 
 starch; lay the articles straight out in clean, dry towels, and by 
 the tim e the last one is folded up, the first will be ready to iron. 
 Point I .ce can be washed in this way to look like new. 
 
 BLONDE LACE, TO WASH. 
 
 Very old point, or blonde lace, can be washed successfully in the 
 following way. Wind the lace smoothly round a bottle, and astrip 
 of old linen outside of it, so as to cover it. Let it lay in the bot- 
 tom of a wash tub while the first and best clothes are being wash- 
 ed, and transfer it to the top of the clothes while they are boiling. 
 Thence take it and lay it in boiling water, which has been slightly 
 colored with liquid coffee, and sweetened with loaf sugar. Press 
 out the moisture, and dry near a fire, or in the sun, and iron care- 
 fully while still damp. 
 
 MUSLIN, LAWN, OR PRINT DRESSES. 
 
 An excellent, and sure way to wash lawn, print, or muslin dress- 
 es, is to put one or two quarts of bran in a bag, and boil it in two 
 or four gallons of water. When the strength is extracted, take 
 out the bag, and wash the dresses in the bran water. It will act 
 both as soap and starch, cleansing and stiffening them perfectly, 
 without any danger to their color. Once rinsing is sufficient, in 
 water into which some of the bran water has been poured. 
 
 COLORED STARCH. 
 
 Colored starch is the latest and greatest novelty in the laundry 
 line. It is made in pink, buff, the new mauve, and a delicate 
 green, and blue will soon be produced. Any article starched with 
 the new preparation is completely colored—dyed we should have 
 said, but as it washes out, and the garment that was pink to-day 
 may be green to-morrow, and buff afterwards, we can hardly say 
 
316 WASHING DAY. 
 
 «« dyed.” Itis intended especially for those bright but treacherous- 
 ly colored muslins, that are costly, wash out, and perplex their 
 owners. If the pattern has been mauve, they only need the mauve 
 starch; if green, green starch; and they can be rendered one 
 even and pretty shade, thus becoming not only wearable again, 
 but stylish. 
 
 HOW TO STARCH SHIRTS, AND OTHER THINGS. 
 
 Put into a thin muslin bag, a quarter of a pound of best £ 
 starch. Soak it for ten or fifteen minutes in three pints of pure, 
 soft water, into which drop a minute quantity of fine French * blue.” 
 Squeeze all the starch out of the bag, and dip the shirts, and those 
 articles that require to be very stiff first. Afterwards it can be 
 thinned for children’s aprons, and such things as only require to go 
 through water starch. This quantity will stiffen three or four 
 dozen miscellaneous articles, which will be ready for ironing im- 
 mediately. One trial will convince the most sceptical that. this 
 method isinfinitely better, less laborious, and more economical than 
 boiled starch. 
 
 SAVING SOAP. 
 
 Pour on half a pound of washing soda two quarts of boiling 
 water, take half a pound of soap, cut up fine in a saucepan, and 
 pour over it two quarts of cold water; let it boil, and when_per- 
 fectly dissolved, add it to the other. Mix it well upon the fire, 
 set it away to get cold, and it will look like jelly. Soak your 
 clothes over night, rub them out. of the water, put half a pint of 
 your saving soap into your boiler, with cold water, and put your 
 clothes into the cold water, let all come to a boil together, then 
 take out the linen, and rinse thoroughly. This will keep clothes a 
 splendid color, with half the usual labor. 
 
 
 
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 THE COWS. 
 
 Attend very particularly to.the food and drink of the cows; 
 and see that they have clean pasture of timothy, or herds grass, 
 and have pure, clean, water to drink. If cows are suffered to run 
 where they can find such things as leaves, garlic, and weeds, they 
 will often eat them, and drink stagnant water; all of which tend 
 to give a bad flavor to butter. 
 
 THE MILK ROOM. 
 
 The milk room is much cooler when situated on the north side 
 of the house, where it is not exposed to the hot sun through the 
 whole day; or the shade of large tall trees is very beneficial. The 
 object should be to have it as cool as possible, without being damp. 
 The room and utensils should be kept as clean and sweet, as hot 
 and cold water and pure air, can make them. Close watchfulness 
 of the milk is required; if it stands too long, it will make bad 
 flavored butter, less of it, and will require more labor to. churn 
 and workit. Strain your milk into shallow pans; it should not 
 stand over thirty-six hours; if your pans have no legs, that raise 
 them a little from the shelves, place small blocks of marble or 
 wood, under them, so that the air can circulate under them. When 
 washing dairy pans, and pails, always put cold water in them first 
 and wash thoroughly; add a little warm water if you prefer it. 
 
 MAKING BUTTER. 
 
 Cream should not be kept more than two days in summer, and 
 if there is sufficient cream to churn daily, it is better to do so. 
 Skim the milk before it becomes very sour; pass a silver spoon 
 
318 wee DAIRY. 
 
 ~ handle around the edge of the pan, lift the cream with a perforated 
 skimmer, and put it immediately into the cream crock; stir the 
 cream two or three times each day briskly until it is ready to churn, 
 when usually it will come quickly. Churning should be done, dur- 
 ing warm weather, early in the morning in a cool place; the dash- 
 er ought to be moved slowly and regularly at first, and then more 
 brisk until the butter separates from the milk; when it is gather- 
 ed, wet the bowl and ladle, first with a little warm water, and 
 then put plenty of cold or ice water to them; pour out the water 
 and take up the butter; drain off as much of the butter-milk, as 
 possible, pressing the butter a moment gently with the ladle. 
 
 Scatter a handful of salt in the bowl before putting in the butter ; 
 then throw a little salt upon the butter, and mix it in; drain off 
 all the water, and make indentations in the butter with the ladle, 
 fill them with nice salt, and set the bowl in acool place. At eve- 
 ning, when the butter is hard, work it gently, without breaking 
 the grain, and squeeze out all the milk that can be removed with- 
 out too much pressure. - Salt to the taste, and let it stand until 
 morning, then finish it, making it into rolls, or packing it. When 
 it is finished and becomes hard or set, every working over or 
 changing from one vessel to another injures it, rendering it soft, 
 and pasty, and breaking the grain. It will never again be as firm 
 or nice in flavor, and will not keep sweet as long. If the butter 
 is for packing, put it in the firkin as soon as possible, from the air. 
 Pack close until nearly full, for room should be left to pour on 
 enough nice brine to cover the butter. This is made by pouring 
 boiling water upon salt, and when it is cold, straining it through a 
 cloth. Pour enough of this brine upon the butter to cover it, say 
 a quarter of an inch, or half an inch in thickness; this kept upon 
 butter entirely excludes the air, and keeps it sweet and good as 
 when first packed. If it is to be sent away, pour off the brine, 
 saturate a cloth in it, lay it on the top, and cover it with a thick 
 layer of salt. / 
 
 
 
 
 
JEWISH RECEIPTS. 
 
 These are all original and reliable,—the contribution of a su- 
 perior Jewish housekeeper in New York. 
 
 WHITE STEWED FISH. 
 
 Put on as much water to boil as is required to cover six or eight 
 steaks of striped bass, boilin it one onion, sliced thin, a little ground 
 ginger, salt, black pepper and asmall quantity of whole red pepper. 
 When these are done put in your slices of fish; when boiled take 
 them up carefully, drain them and layin adish. Beat up six eggs, to 
 which add a little nutmeg, a little cayenne pepper, and some parsley ~ 
 chopped fine. In a separate bowl strain the juice of three or four 
 lemons, to this add one half pint of the liquor in which the fish has 
 been boiled, which must. be strained; when this is done, take the 
 liquor which is mixed with the lemons and throw it into the eggs, 
 beating them all the time. Take a china or iron saucepan, into it 
 put the sauce, set it on a gentle fire, stirring it all the time until it 
 thickens a little, it must on no account be boiled as it will curdle ; 
 then throw the sauce over the fish and put it to cool. Chicken 
 can be served in the same way. 
 
 BROWN FRICASSEE CHICKEN. 
 
 Take a chicken, cut it up in pieces and fry them brown, either in 
 the best sweet oil or rendered fat. Then take six onions, slice 
 them and cover them in a frying-pan with enough oil or fat to fry 
 them; when soft take the cover off, so as to let them brown, then 
 scald and peal two tomatoes, cut them up and put them in the pan 
 with the onions to simmer a little. Put the fried chicken into a 
 saucepan with the onions etc., add a little thyme, pepper, salt and 
 
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320 JEWISH RECEIPTS. 
 
 a few grains of allspice, and enough hot water to make a rich gra- 
 vy ; cover it up and let it cook for half an hour or an hour, according 
 to the tenderness of the chicken; a very small piece of garlic and 
 mace can be added when cooking, if liked. 
 
 A GOOD PUDDING. 
 
 Take one half pound of bread crumbs, six ounces of white su- 
 gar, pour over it one half pint of boiling milk, let it stand till 
 nearly cold, then work into it one fourth pound of fresh butter un- 
 til it becomes very white. Then add four eggs, one ata time, 
 stirring ; it must be well beaten between each; then add the rind 
 grated, and the juice of a lemon; take a mould, butter and paper 
 it well, then ornament it with candied peel and raisins, according 
 to fancy. Pour into it the ingredients, put a paper over the top, 
 also tie in a cloth, and let it steam gently for two hours. Serve 
 it with arrow-root, or custard sauce. 
 
 PURIM FRITTERS 
 
 Take a loaf of baker’s bread, cut off the crust and cut in’ slices 
 of one half inch thick; put them in a dish and soak them in cold 
 milk, but not so long as to allow them to mash; when soaked, 
 take them out and drain them. Beat eight eggs very thick, and 
 pour a little of the egg over each slice of bread, so as'to penetrate 
 them ; then take each slice of bread and dip it into the eggs that 
 are beaten, and fry a light brown sale, in rendered. ers from 
 
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 over the fritters a little aE cinnamon, and. serve with a 
 
 syrup made of white sugar. . x 
 
 CODFISH FRITTERS. 
 
 Take two pounds of salt codfish, put to soak in water; when 
 fresh enough, boil and drain; pick out the bones, and pound the 
 fish fine in a mortar; to this add chopped parsley, pepper, a little 
 nutmeg, and a.tablesapoon of butter. ‘Take three or four onions, 
 chop fine and fry them in butter; scald and peel two tomatoes, 
 and let them simmer with the onions; mix this. with the fish 
 
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 LEMON PUDDINGS. 
 
 To be added to four eggs, well-beaten, one fourth pound of’ loaf 
 sugar and two ounces of butter which have been previously well 
 mixed together, then the peel of two lemons and the juice of one, 
 and bake either in cups or pie dish. 
 
 A RICHER LEMON PUDDING.—l1. 
 
 Six yolks and two whites of eggs to be well-beaten, ahd then 
 added to three ounces of butter and one fourth of sugar, the juice 
 of one lemon and the rind of two, which must be taken by rubbing 
 a lump or two of loaf sugar upon it. 
 
 LEMON PUDDING.—2. 
 
 One fourth pound of fine boiled bread crumbs added to the 
 above, and a little more sugar to taste, and boil in a form. 
 
 APPLE PUDDING. 
 
 Grate one half pound of apples, mix with four eggs well-beaten, 
 and six ounces of sugar, and bake in a form and turn out. 
 
 ALBERT SANDWICHES. 
 
 Take one half pound of butter, melt it to an oil before the fire, 
 add one half pound light weight of flour, and one half of pounded 
 loaf sugar; mix well together, add six eggs well beaten, and then 
 beat all well together, either flavor with a few pounded almonds or 
 the rind of lemon rubbed on sugar; put this mixture on well but- 
 tered tins about a third of an inch thick, and bake in a quick oven; 
 it must be taken out when it is a very pale color, and loosened 
 whilst itis hot, from the tin, the edges always get too dark, but they 
 are cut off. When nearly baked, sprinkle pink sugar over half the 
 quantity. When cold cut in diamonds and put sweatmeats be- 
 tween, like sandwiches; arrange them nicely in the dish and 
 put whipped cream, flavored with vanilla, and the least bit of su- 
 gar, in the middle. The vanilla is best grated. Perhaps you will 
 find it easier to put the mixture on buttered papers laid in tins. 
 
 MERINGUES. 
 
 Take the whites of eight eggs quite fresh and just broken, beat 
 
322 JEWISH RECEIPTS.. 
 
 them with a whisk till as firm as possible. Have ready prepared 
 eight table spoons of ground not powdered sugar, which mix with 
 the egg as quickly as possible, so as not to give time to melt. Have 
 ready a piece of board and sixteen pieces of white paper; put a 
 tablespoon of the mixture on each paper in the shape of an egg; 
 make it thick but not too spread out, smooth them off nicely, and 
 sprinkle with sugar, blow off what sugar falls on the paper, and 
 then put board and all into the oven ; watch them well and take them 
 out as soon as firm. Have ready another piece of board with clean 
 papers, roll off the meringues on to them, making them stand on 
 their tops; take out a little of the inside with a tea-spoon, and put 
 them backin the oven or the board for the inside to get firm, fill 
 with whippedcream flavored with vanilla and some ‘sugar, and 
 join the two halves together to form an egg. 
 
 The papers must neither be buttered or have sugar on rthem, and 
 they must not be baked without boards. 
 
 BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING. 
 
 When you make a bread and butter pudding, put only the yolks 
 inside, and whip the whites; sweeten and flavor, and when the 
 pudding is baked, put this on the top, and put it in the oven again 
 for a few minutes, to crisp, and you will find it a great improv- 
 ment. 
 
 SALLY LUNN 
 
 Three table-spoons butter, two table-spoonsful sugar, two cups 
 milk, scant four cups flour, five eggs, one tea-spoon soda, two tea- 
 spoons cream of tartar. Bake twenty-five minutes. Eat hot, 
 spread with butter. . } 
 
 ANOTHER METHOD IS AS FOLLOWS. 
 
 One pint of flour, piece of butter half as large as an egg, one 
 egg, two table-spoonsful sugar, one tea-cup milk, one tea-spoonful 
 cream of tartar, one half tea-spoonful soda, one tea-spoon salt. 
 Bake twenty minutes. 
 
 CUP CAKE. 
 
 One cup of butter, two sugar, three cups flour, five eggs, one 
 
 
 
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 teaspoon soda, dissolved in tea-cup of milk. Two tea-spoonsful 
 cream tartar, flavor to fancy. 
 
 HICKORY NUT CAKE. 
 
 Three cups flour, two cups sugar, two eggs, one half cup but- 
 ter, one pint hickory nuts, one half cup milk, one half tea-spoon 
 soda. 
 
 MARMALADE. 
 
 Twenty-four yolks of eggs, one half pound white sugar, clarify, 
 boil, and strain; add one table-spoonful beaten sweet almonds to 
 the syrup, while boiling. When the syrup cools, pour the eggs, 
 which must be well beaten, with a spoon gently. Keep stirring 
 on a gentle fire, till it becomes thick. 
 
 ae ORGENT. 
 
 Two pounds sugar; clarify and make thick, three ounces sweet 
 almonds, one ounce bitter almonds, well beaten fine, one quart 
 water to the almonds, stir up well, and then squeeze; add them 
 to the syrup, and boil; when cold add orange flower and rose 
 water according to taste. 
 
 COCOA NUT PUDDING. 
 
 One pound of ground cocoa nut, one pound of crushed sugar 
 made into a syrup, one half pint water, six eggs. 
 
 Throw the cocoa nut in the syrup, when boiling, and let it cook 
 say ten minutes, stirring it occasionally to keep from burning ; when 
 perfectly cold throw in your eggs, and beat them well in, then 
 bake for fifteen to twenty minutes. 
 
 CUP CAKE. 
 
 One cup butter, two cups sugar, five cups flour, one nutmeg, four 
 eggs, a little saleratus 
 
 SWEET CRACKERS. 
 
 One pint flour, three fourths cup sugar, two spoonsful of cinna- 
 mon, one fourth pound butter, a little salt. 
 
 Roll very thin; bake quick; mix all up ina dough with sweet 
 milk. 
 
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 ALMOND PUDDING. | 
 
 Pound together half a pound of sweet almonds and six or seven 
 bitter almonds, mix with: half a pound of sifted sugar, a little fine 
 orange flower water, and the yolks of ten and the whites of seven 
 well-whisked eggs. Mix thoroughly, and bake in a quick oven half 
 an hour, or until it is sufficently firm to turn out of the dish; sift 
 sugar thickly over it or pour round it a rich syrup flavored with 
 orenge flower water ; serve hot or cold. 
 
 LEMON DUMPLINGS. 
 
 Three fourths pounds of flour, one half pound moist sugar, the 
 juice of two lemons, the grated rind of one, one half pound of 
 chopped suet, all well mixed together with very little water ; make 
 with it six dumplings. To boil without ceasing, for one hour, and 
 be eaten as soon as served with melted butter, well sweetened, 
 and the rind of one lemon in it, or any other sweet sauce will do. 
 
 LIGHT PUDDING. 
 
 Beat five yolks with sugar to suit, add two tea-spoons very full 
 of flour, the juice and grated rind of one lemon; lastly add the 
 five whites beaten well to frost, and bake immediately; it takes 
 about half an hour to cook; grease the dish, serve a sauce 
 with itif liked. 
 
 TOMATOES FOR WINTER USE. 
 
 See that your tomatoes are quite fresh, else. they will break 
 the bottles when they ferment. Pour scalding water over them, 
 and take off the skins. It is psual to remove all the green parts, 
 though some housekeepers think it is not. necessary. Put them 
 over the fire in a tin, or china lined saucepan, and let them boil 
 half an hour. Have your cans ready, fill them full, and screw 
 them tight; they require no seasoning till you are ready to use 
 them. ‘Then add pepper, salt, thyme, sweet marjoram and onion. 
 Too much seasoning spoils the taste of the tomato, but a little of 
 these herbs is an addition; also add grated bread crumbs and but- 
 ter; they are much improved by putting them in a deep dish; 
 season as above, and spread thin slices of bread and butter, or 
 
 
 
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 grate the bread, and add the butter ; put them in the oven and bake 
 till brown. 
 
 PICKLED CUCUMBERS 
 
 Put them in a wooden or stone vessel, pour over strong salt and 
 water boiling hot, put a weight on to keep them under the pickle. 
 After three days pour it off, boil and turn it over them again ; 
 stand three days again; then take them out and let them lie one’ 
 night in plain cold water; next day put them over the fire, but do 
 not let them boil, allowing one table-spoonful of alum to a gallon 
 of vinegar; mace, cinnamon, pepper corns, white and black, mus- 
 tard seed and grated horseradish. One table-spoonful of each to 
 every gallon of vinegar, and one tea-spoonful of tumeric. Fold 
 - a double piece of linen and a soft thick brown paper, and tie the 
 jars tight; throw in the vinegar, keep in adry place. A bladder 
 and linen cloth are nice to be over the pots. 
 
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INDEX. 
 
 
 
 Page. 
 
 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF 
 
 COOKING. 
 
 HOUSEKEEPING. 
 
 Cake Box, 
 
 Children, label them, 
 
 Chamber, Mantel and Toilet 
 Covers, 
 
 Dusters, © 
 
 Fire, to put out, 
 
 Household management, 
 
 Household memoranda, 
 
 Kitchen Furnishing, 
 
 Kitchen Holders, 
 
 Looking Glasses, to clean, 
 
 Mattresses, 
 
 Mending, 
 
 Night Clothes, 
 
 Paper and String, 
 
 Pay as you go, 
 
 Piece Bags, 
 
 Packing away clothes, 
 
 Rainy Days, 
 
 Scorch, to take out, 
 
 Sheets, 
 
 Table, To clean a, 
 
 Wash Rags, 
 
 HINTS ON ECONOMY. 
 
 Apples, to save specked, 
 Buckwheat Cakes, 
 Cheap Dishes, 
 
 Children eating between meals, 17 
 
 Children eating gravy, 
 
 Corners and holes, 
 Examine Safes, Refrigerators, 
 
 &e., 
 Family Worship, 
 Morning Dresses, 
 Outside Garments, 
 Pickle and Preserve Jars, 
 Provide for Monday, 
 Purchase things in season, 
 Rise early, 
 Saturday Night, 
 Servants, fewer the better, 
 Stew for family dinner, 
 Sweeping, preparing for, 
 Table, serve neatly, 
 Tea-leaves on carpets, 
 
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 THE USE OF FUEL. 
 
 Grate Fires, 
 Kitchen Ranges, 
 Parlor Heaters, 
 Spring Fuel, 
 
 SOUPS. 
 
 Asparagus Soup, with green 
 peas, 
 
 Artichoke Soup, 
 
 Barley Soup, 
 
 Brown Gravy Soup, 
 
 Bread Soup, 
 
 Baked Soup, 
 
 Broth, Scotch Mutton 
 
 Broth for an Invalid, 
 
 Carrot Soup, 
 
 Common Soup, 
 
328 INDEX. ° 
 = Fate. 
 
 Concord Soup, 25 | Beef Croquettes, 
 
 Calf’s Head Soup, brown, 26 | Boiled Beef, 
 
 Chicken Soup, 
 Colandered Soup, 
 English Pea Soup, 
 
 Fish Soups, 
 
 French Soup, 
 
 Gumbo, 
 
 Green Pea Soup, 
 
 Gourd Soup, 
 
 German Pancake Soup, 
 Hotch Potch, 
 Inexpensive, 
 
 Jenny Lind’s Soup, 
 Jardiniere Soup, 
 
 Mock Turtle Soup, 
 Onion Soup, with milk, 
 Onion Soup, with water, 
 Oyster Soup, 
 
 Oyster Mouth Soup, 
 Parsnip Soup, ; 
 
 Pea Soup, without meat, 
 Pea Soup, green, 
 
 Pea Soup, English, 
 Pumpkin Soup, 
 
 Rabbit Soup, 
 
 Stock from Bones, 
 Stock without Meat, 
 Stock, Bran 
 
 Stock, Cowheel 
 
 Stock, four quarts of Brown 
 Stock, four quarts of White 
 
 Soup or Stock from one pound 
 
 of beef, 
 Sorrel Soup, without meat, 
 Spring Soup, 
 Sheepshead Soup, 
 Soup, Jardiniere 
 Soup, inexpensive, 
 Soup for Invalids, 
 Tomato Soup, 
 Vermicelli Soup, 
 Winter Soup, 
 White Soup, 
 
 MEATS. ¢ 
 A-la-mode Beef, 
 Beef Balls, 
 
 Brisket of Beef for sens 
 
 cured, 
 Broiled Beef steaks, 
 Braised Beef, 
 Brisket of Beef stuffed, 
 Boiled Leg of Mutton, 
 Broiled Mutton Chops, 
 Broiled Cold Mutton, 
 Breast of Veal, stuffed, 
 Breast of Veal, stewed, 
 Blanquette of Veal, 
 Beefsteak, mock, 
 Boston Pork and Apple pie, 
 Bacon Omelet, 
 Bacon Egg-cap, | 
 Boiled Ham, 
 Broiled Ham, 
 Beef Tea, i 
 Cured Beef to eat <ontar 
 
 Cold minced Beef, eats. 
 
 Cold Mutton broiled, 
 Croquettes, mghors NET 
 
 Cutlets, veal, . oF 
 
 Cheese, veal, 
 Cutlets, pork, 
 Curing Hams, 
 Dried Beef cooked, 
 
 English pork or raised pie, ; 
 
 Egg-cap, bacon, 
 Fillets of beef, 
 
 Fillets of Beef with Anchovy, 
 
 Fillets of Beef with Forcemeat, 38 
 
 Fried Mutton Chops, 
 Fritters, veal, 
 
 Hashed Beef, 
 
 Hamburgh Pickle for Beef, 
 Hunter’s Beef, 
 
 Hung Beef, 
 
 Hashed Mutton, 
 
 Hashed mutton with mushroom. 
 
 Hash, the Epicure’s 
 Hams, to cure, 
 
 Ham, boiled, 
 
 Ham, sugared, 
 
 Ham, potted, 
 
 Ham, broiled, 
 
 Ham and tongue toast, 
 
 
 
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Joint of Mutton roasted, 
 Keeping Beef, . 
 
 Knuckle of veal, 
 
 Knuckle of Veal with rice, 
 Leg of Mutton in four meals, 
 _ Leg of Mutton, broiled, 
 
 Leg of Mutton, roasted, 
 
 Leg of Mutton with Oysters, 
 Loin of Veal, 
 
 Leonis Favorite dish, 
 Loaves, Westphalia 
 
 Mock Duck, 
 
 Meat Pie for Lunch, 
 
 Minced Beef, cold, 
 
 Mutton chops broiled, 
 Mutton chops fried, 
 
 Mutton chops with cucumbers, 
 
 Mutton chops, savory, 
 Mutton broiled, cold, 
 Mutton Pudding, 
 Mutton croquettes, 
 Mutton, hashed, 
 Minced uncooked Mutton, 
 Mutton hashed with © 
 Mushrooms, 
 Minced Mutton, - 
 Minced Mutton with 
 Cucumbers, 
 Minced Veal with maccaroni, 
 Mock Beefsteak, 
 Minced Veal 
 Ox cheek stuffed and baked, 
 Omelette, veal, 
 Olives, veal, 
 Pudding, mutton 
 ‘Pig, roast, 
 Pork, roast, 
 Pork, spare rib of 
 ~Pork cutlets, 
 Pork and Apple pie, Boston 
 Pork pie, English or raised 
 Pork and potato pie, 
 Pork relish, 
 Potted Ham, 
 Quarter of lamb, roasted, 
 Quarter of lamb as a savory 
 dish, 
 Roast leg of mutton, 
 Roast shoulder of lamb, 
 
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 Roast quarter of lamb, 
 Roast joint of mutton, 
 Roast fillet of veal, 
 Roast pig, 
 
 Roast pork, 
 
 Stewed beef, 
 
 Spiced beef, 
 
 Shoulder of lamb, roasted, 
 Savory mutton chops, 
 Stew, Western 
 Shoulder of veal, 
 Stewed loin of veal, 
 Stewed breast of veal, 
 Spare rib of pork, 
 Sugared ham, 
 
 Tough beef, 
 
 Veal, shoulder of 
 Veal, stewed loin of 
 Veal, breast of stuffed 
 Veal, breast of stewed 
 Veal, roast fillet of 
 Veal, loin of 
 
 Veal, knuckle of 
 
 Veal cutlets, 
 
 Veal minced with maccaroni, 
 Veal fritters, 
 
 Veal, blanquette of 
 
 Veal rolls, 
 
 Veal, minced, 
 
 Veal omelette, 
 
 Veal olives, 
 
 Veal cheese, 
 
 Westphalia loaves, 
 
 SECONDARY MEATS. 
 
 Baked Irish Stew, 
 
 Boiled Tongue, 
 
 Balls, Grandmother’s 
 Breakfast, 
 
 Brain Cake, 
 
 Brawn, 
 
 Cold Meats, to cook, 
 
 Cowheel, 
 
 Cowheel fried, 
 
 Calf’s Head Cake, 
 
 Calf ’s Head Hash, 
 
 Dalma, Turkish 
 
 Fried Tripe, 
 
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 Grandmother’s Breakfast 
 Balls, 
 
 Hash, Savory Winter 
 
 Hash, Calf’s Head 
 
 Head and Hinge, Lamb’s 
 
 Trish Stew, 
 
 Lamb’s Head and Hinge, 
 
 Meat Omnium, 
 
 Pie, Yale Boat, 
 
 Risibles, 
 
 Stew, Irish 
 
 Stew, baked Irish 
 
 Sweet Breads, 
 
 Sausage meat and Sausages, 
 
 Savory winter hash, 
 
 Sheep’s Trotters, 
 
 Sweetbread, Liver, and 
 Heart, 
 
 Stewed Tripe, 
 
 Tongue, boiled 
 
 Turkish Dalma, 
 
 Toad-in-the-hole, 
 
 Trotters, Sheep’s 
 
 Tripe, 
 
 Tripe Fried, . 
 
 Yale Boat Pie, 
 
 FISH. 
 
 Boiled Fish, 
 Boiled White fish, 
 Broiled White fish, 
 Boiled Salmon, 
 Broiled Salmon, 
 Broiled Shad, 
 Baked Shad, 
 
 Boiled Bass, Rock fish, ete. 
 
 Baked Cod, Black fish, Haddock, 
 
 &e.; 
 Boiled Whitings, 
 
 Codfish and potatoes ‘* picked 
 
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 Pp, 
 Cod, Blackfish, Haddock, &c., 
 
 baked, 
 Cod, Haddock, etc., fried, 
 Cod or Salmon cutlets, 
 Chowder, Fish, 
 Cakes, Fish, 
 Cod, Salt stewed, 
 
 Cape Cod Chowder, 
 Cod Fish and Potatoes, — 
 Fried Fish, 
 
 Fried Shad, 
 
 Fried Mackerel, 
 Fish Roes, in cases, 
 Fricasseed small fish, 
 Fry, Trenton Falls, 
 Fish and Maccaroni, 
 Fried Smelts, 
 
 Fresh Herrings, 
 
 Fish, to dress a second time, 
 
 Fish Pudding, 
 Fish Cakes, 
 
 Haddock baked and fried, 
 
 Herrings, fresh, 
 Kippered Salmon, 
 Mackerel, fried, 
 Mackerel, soused, 
 Maccaroni, Fish and — 
 Pudding, Fish, 
 
 Roes, fish in cases, 
 ralmon, boiled, 
 
 Salmon, broiled, 
 
 Salmon and Salad, 
 Salmon, to kipper, 
 Salmon, pickled, 
 
 Shad, broiled 
 
 Shad, fried 
 
 Shad, baked _ 
 
 Shad maitre d’ hotel, 
 Soused Mackerel, 
 
 Souchy or Soodjee, water 
 Salmon Cutlets, or Cod 
 Small fish fricasseed, 
 Smelts, fried 
 Second time, To dress fish 
 Salt Cod, stewed 
 
 Salt Cod and Potatoes, 
 Trenton Falls Fry, 
 
 White fish broiled, 
 
 White fish boiled, 
 Whitings boiled, 
 
 Water Souchy or Soodjee, 
 
 OYSTERS, SHELLFISH, 
 
 EELS, ETC. 
 Boiled Eels, 
 
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 Boiled Lobster, 
 Balls, Lobster 
 Collared Eels, 
 Crabs and Crayfish, 
 Crab and Lobster Cutlets, 
 Eels Fried, 
 
 Eels Spatched, 
 
 Eels Collared, 
 
 Eels Stewed, 
 
 Eels Boiled, 
 
 Eel pie, 
 
 Fried Oysters, 
 Fried Eels, 
 
 Loaves Oyster 
 Lobsters, 
 
 Lobster, to boil 
 Lobster Salad, 
 Lobster Sauce, 
 Lobster and Crab Cutlets, 
 Lobster Balls, 
 
 _ Lobster Curry, 
 Maccaroni, Oysters and 
 Muscles, stewed 
 Oyster Etiquette, 
 Oysters Stewed, 
 Oysters Scalloped, 
 Oysters Fried, 
 Oyster Pies, 
 
 Oyster Patties, 
 Oyster Loaves, 
 Oysters and Maccaroni, 
 Oysters for Lunch, 
 Oysters Pickled, 
 Pie, Oyster 
 
 Patties, Oysters 
 Pickled Oysters, 
 Pie, Eel 
 
 Stewed Oysters, 
 Scalloped Oysters, 
 Stewed Muscles, 
 Spatched Eels 
 Stewed Eels, 
 
 MUSHROOMS. 
 
 Fricasseed, 
 Loaves, 
 Powder, 
 Pickled, 
 
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 79 | Stewed, 838 
 80 | Toast, 83 
 78 | To know them, 82 
 80 
 . FOWLS AND GAME. 
 78 | Alice Cary’s Minced Chicken, 91 
 78 | Boiled Fowl, 85 
 79 | Broiled Fowl, 86 
 79 | Boiled Goose, 86 
 79 | Broiled Partridge 92 
 76 | Birds, Small 94. 
 78 | Chicken Fricassee, 86 
 76 | Chicken Stewed, 88 
 79 | Cold, Chicken Fried, 88 
 79 | Chicken, vol-au-vent of, 88 
 80 | Chicken with Cheese, 89 
 80 | Chicken Puffs, 89 
 80 | Chicken Loaf, 89 
 80 | Chicken Pot Pie, 89 
 81 | Chicken Pie, 89 
 77 | Chicken Pie, Thanksgiving, 90 
 78 | Chicken Pie, Aunt Abby’s 90 
 75 | Chickens, Prairie, 91 
 75 | Chickens Prairie, Roast and 
 75 Stewed, 91 
 76 | Chicken, Minced, Alice Cary’s 91 
 76 | Crab, Imitation, 93 
 76 | Croquettes of Fowl, 98 
 76 | Duck, roast 85 
 77 | Duck with Green Peas, 87 
 77 | Duck, New York Mock 87 
 77 | Devilled Turkey Legs, 91 
 76 | Fricassee, Chicken 86 
 76 | Fried cold Chicken, FL SS 
 77 | Forcemeat for Roast Turkey, 
 79 Veal, &c. 94 
 75 | Goose boiled, 86 
 75 | Goose, Roast 87 
 78 | Game Patties, 93 
 78 | Grouse, Roast 94 
 79 | Hashed Fowl, 92 
 Hare or Rabbit, Stewed 95 
 Imitation Crab, 93 
 Pot pie Chicken, 89 
 82 | Pie, Chicken, 89 
 83 | Prairie Chickens, Roast and 
 82 Stewed 91 
 82° Partridge, Broiled 92 
 
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 Partridge Salad, 
 
 Partridge Pie, 
 
 Pigeon Pie, 
 
 Patties, Game 
 
 Roast Turkey, 
 
 Roast: Duck, 
 
 Roast Fowl, 
 
 Roast Goose, 
 
 Roast Prairie Chicken, 
 Roast Grouse, 
 
 Rabbit Stewed, 
 
 Rabbit in Slices, 
 
 Roast Rabbit, 
 
 Stewed Turkey with Celery 
 Stewed Chicken, 
 
 Stewed Prairie Chicken, 
 Small Birds, 
 
 Stewed Hare or Rabbit, 
 Turkey, Roast 
 
 Turkey, Stewed with Celery 
 Thanksgiving Chicken Pie, 
 Turkey’s Legs, Devilled 
 Vol-au-vent of Chicken, 
 Venison Pasty, 
 
 Venison Puffs, 
 
 Venison Steak, 
 
 MEAT SAUCES 
 
 Asparagus Sauce, 
 Bread Sauce, 
 
 Brown Onion Sauce, 
 Batter, French 
 Berkshire Sauce, 
 Butter, Drawn 
 Browning for Sauces, 
 Caper Sauce, 
 Cranberry Sauce, 
 Celery Sauce, 
 Catsup, Tomato 
 Catsup, Mushroom 
 Catsup, Walnut 
 Drawn Butter, 
 
 Egg Sauce, 
 
 French Batter, 
 Horseradish Sauce, 
 Mint Sauce, 
 
 Mild Mustard, 
 
 Made Dishes, sauce for 
 
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 Mushroom Catsup, 
 
 Oyster Sauce, 
 
 Onion Sauce, brown 
 
 Rice Sauce, 
 
 Sauce for made dishes, 
 
 Sauce for boiled Turkey, or 
 Capon, » 
 
 Sauce for roast Chicken, 
 
 Sauce for boiled Fish, 
 
 Sauce, Fish to keep a year 
 
 Sauce for Venison, 
 
 Sauce for roast Beef, . 
 
 Tomato Sauce, 
 
 Turkey’s Egg Sauce, 
 
 Tomato Catsup, 
 
 Vinegar Plant, 
 
 Vinegar, easy cider 
 
 Vinegar of Marjoram, 
 
 Vinegar for Souse, 
 
 Vinegar for Soused Fish, 
 
 Vinegar, clove 
 
 Vinegar, tarragon 
 
 Vinegar, savory 
 
 Vinegar, celery 
 
 Vinegar, green mint 
 
 | Vinegar, raspberry 
 
 Vinegar, black currant 
 Vinegar, Chili 
 
 White Sauce, 
 
 Walnut Catsup, 
 
 RELISHES. 
 
 Anchovy cheese, 
 Custard, savory 
 Cheese, anchovy 
 Cheese, omelet 
 Cheese, fondu 
 
 Cheese, potted 
 Cheese, pot 
 Entrement, a German 
 Fondu, straw 
 Maccaroni, 
 Maccaroni, timball of 
 Pot Cheese, 
 
 Relish, a cold 
 Sandwiches, 
 Sandwiches, dressing for 
 
 Tomato Toast, 
 
 
 
 
 
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Tomato Omelet, 
 Toast, savory 
 Toasted Cheese, 
 
 PICKLES. 
 
 Asparagus, 
 Beets, 
 
 Beans, French 
 Barberries, 
 Barberries, sweet 
 Blackberries, 
 Cucumbers, 
 Cabbage, 
 
 Cabbage with sweet pickle, 
 
 Cabbage, red 
 Cucumber, *- .- 
 Green tomatoes, 
 Green pickle, 
 Gherkins, 
 Lemon, 
 Mustard, 
 Mangoes, 
 Mushrooms, 
 Onions, 
 
 Onions, Portugal 
 Oysters, 
 Picealilli, 
 
 Roots, 
 
 Salmon, 
 Tomatoes, 
 Tomatoes, green 
 Walnuts, 
 
 SALADS. 
 
 Chicken, 
 
 Carrot, 
 
 Chow-chow, 
 Cabbage and Vinegar, 
 Cold Slaw, 
 Chow-chow Pickle, 
 Chow-chow, a handy 
 East India Salad, 
 Fish, 
 
 Hotch Potch, 
 Lobster, 
 
 Lettuce, 
 
 Potato, 
 
 Poet’s salad, 
 
 Spring Salads, 
 Salad for Cold Lamb, 
 Suffolk Salad, 
 Tomato Salad, 
 Tomato Soy, ~ 
 
 EGGS. 
 
 Asparagus and Eggs, 
 Apples and Eggs, 
 Boiled, 
 
 Buttered, ~ 
 
 Cheese and Eggs, 
 Fried with Ham, 
 Fancy Omelet, 
 Herring and Eggs, 
 Mushrooms and Eggs, 
 Omelet, 
 
 Omelet, Puff 
 
 Omelet with Kidneys, 
 Omelet with Herbs, 
 Poached, 
 
 Pickled Eggs, 
 Preserve Eggs, to 
 Scrambled, 
 
 VEGETABLES. 
 
 Artichokes, Jerusalem, 
 Artichoke Fracis, 
 Asparagus, 
 
 Beans, French 
 
 Beets, Young Boiled 
 Beans, Lima, 
 
 Beans, Pork and 
 Broccoli, 
 
 Corn, Green, 
 
 Corn, green on the Ear, 
 Corn Oysters, 
 Cucumbers, Stewed, 
 Carrots, Boiled, 
 Carrots with Parsley, 
 Cabbage, Boiled, 
 Cabbage, Buttered 
 Cabbage Relish, 
 Cabbage red, Relish, 
 Cabbage, red, Stewed, 
 Cabbage, French 
 
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 133 
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 137 
 137 
 1388 
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 182 
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 1387 
 137 
 188 
 188 
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 138 
 138 
 139 
 
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 Cauliflowers, 
 Cauliflower, Rarebit, 
 Dandelions, 
 Egg Plant, 
 Green Corn, 
 Greens, Spring 
 Onions, Boiled 
 Onions, Portugal, Stewed 
 Onions, Portugal Fried 
 Odors from Boiling 
 Vegetables, 
 Potatoes, Boiled 
 Potatoes, Mashed 
 Potatoes, Fried 
 Potato Shavings, 
 Potatoes, Stewed 
 Potatoes, Baked 
 Potato Pie, 
 Potato Cakes, 
 Potato Pudding, 
 Potatoes a-la-creme, 
 Potatoes Scalloped, 
 Peas, Green 
 Parsnips, fricasseed 
 Parsnips, Fried 
 Parsnips, Boiled 
 Succotash, 
 Squash Fritters, 
 Squash, Boiled 
 Sea Cale, 
 
 Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster 
 
 Spinach, 
 
 Turnips, Mashed 
 Tomatoes, Stewed 
 Vegetables to boil green, 
 Vegetable Marrows, 
 Vegetable Marrow Tart, 
 
 INDEX. 
 
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 139 
 
 PASTRY, (INTRODUCTORY. ) 
 
 Puddings and Pies, 
 Potato Pie Crust, 
 
 . Puff Paste, 
 
 Pies, Crust for Raised 
 Pies, Meat Suet, Crust for 
 
 PIES. 
 Apple custard, 
 
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 Apple, sweet 
 Apple, green 
 Apple, English 
 Apple, Dried 
 Apple, mock 
 Apple, invalid 
 Custard, 
 Custard, apple 
 
 Cherry, Plum, or Gooseberry, 
 
 Cocoanut, 
 
 Corn Meal, 
 Fruit, . 
 Gooseberry, etc. 
 Grape, 
 Huckleberry, 
 Lemon, 
 
 Lemon cream, Kitty May’s, 
 
 Mince, 
 
 Mince, English 
 
 Mince, Mrs. D’s. 
 
 Mock apple pie, : 
 
 Plum, Cherry, or Gooseberry, 
 
 Pumpkin, 
 Plum, dried 
 Rhubarb, 
 Squash, 
 
 PUDDINGS. 
 
 Apple, English, 
 
 Apples, 
 
 Arrowroot, 
 
 Apple Linnie’s, 
 
 Apple and Sago, 
 
 Apple and Rice, 
 
 Apple Dumplings, Boiled 
 Apple Dumplings, Baked 
 Apple Fritters, 
 
 Buffalo, 
 
 Bird’s Nest, 
 
 Bread, little Birthday, 
 Batter, Little, 
 
 Baden, 
 
 Bread, 
 
 Bread and Fruit, Mrs. Stowe’s 
 
 Citron, 
 
 Cherry, 
 Cornstarch, Ice, 
 Chester, 
 
 
 
 
 
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Corn, 
 
 Currant Dumpling, Little 
 
 Corn, Nantucket 
 
 Dandy, 
 
 Deacon’s Apple Indian 
 
 Dumplings, ; 
 
 English Roll, 
 
 Exhibition, 
 
 Editor’s Favorite, 
 
 Fruit, 
 
 Fig, 
 
 Fruit, Minnie’s 
 
 Fritters, Apple 
 uckleberry, Indian 
 
 Hunting, Liecestershire 
 
 Howitt’s, Mrs. 
 
 Indian Fruit, 
 
 Indian Huckleberry, 
 
 Indian, Baked 
 
 Ice, Cornstarch 
 
 Ice, 
 
 Indian, Boiled 
 
 Indian, Plain 
 
 Invalid Cup, 
 
 Lemon, 
 
 Lemon Dumplings, 
 
 Minnie’s Fruit, 
 
 Nursery, 
 
 Orange, 
 
 Poor Man’s 
 
 ‘Plum, Aunt Mary’s 
 
 Plum, Boiled Yankee 
 
 Plum, Mrs. Croly’s Christmas 
 
 Plum, Baked _ 
 
 Prune or Damson, 
 
 Plum, English 
 
 Plum with Snow, 
 
 Plum, Small and Light 
 
 Poet’s, 
 
 Pastor’s, 
 
 Rice, Boiled 
 
 Rice, 
 
 Rice, Portuguese 
 
 Rice, French 
 
 Rice, Apple and 
 
 Rice Flour, 
 
 Saratoga, 
 
 Snow, 
 
 Seville, 
 
 INDEX. 
 
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 165 
 1638 
 164 
 166 
 154 
 191 
 1638 
 1538 
 1538 
 154 
 166 
 155 
 161 
 166 
 152 
 155 
 157 
 159 
 164 
 165 
 165 
 300 
 155 
 167 
 154 
 163 
 155 
 151 
 156 
 159 
 160 
 160 
 160 
 160 
 161 
 164 
 165 
 165 
 157 
 157 
 151 
 158 
 158 
 158 
 152 
 152 
 158 
 
 
 
 Sago, 
 
 Suet, 
 
 Sally Lunn, 
 
 Tapioca, 
 
 Tapioca, Cup, Invalid 
 Victoria, 
 Washington, 
 
 PUDDING SAUCES. 
 
 Brandy, 
 Cherry, 
 Excellent, 
 Hard, 
 
 Lemon Brandy, 
 Maple Sugar, 
 Rose Hip, 
 Sweet Liquid, 
 Wine, 
 
 DESSERT DISHES. 
 
 Apple Charlotte, 
 
 Apple Custard, 
 
 Apple Soufile, 
 
 Almond Blanc mange, 
 Arrowroot Blanc mange, 
 Apples, Love 
 
 Apple Tart, 
 
 Apple Meringue, 
 
 Apple, Snow 
 
 Apple Marmalade, 
 
 Apples, Baked 
 
 Apples, Stewed 
 
 Apple Cream, 
 
 Apples, Dried Stewed 
 Apples, Pippin Stewed 
 Apples, Ginger 
 
 Apples, Floating Island of 
 Apple Snowballs, 
 
 Apples, Compote of 
 Apple Cream, Nina’s ~ 
 Apples, Mother’s Surprise 
 Apple Cheese, 
 
 Apple Sauce, Saratoga 
 Apple or Gooseberry Trifle, 
 Apple Pique, 
 
 Apple Ice, 
 
 Blanc Mange, Almond 
 
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 Blanc Mange, Tapioca 
 Blanc Mange, Arrrowroot 
 Blanc Mange, Rice Flour 
 Blanc Mange, Whole Rice 
 Blanc Mange, Ground Rice 
 Barley Sugar for Children, 
 Cream Puffs, 
 
 Custard, 
 
 Custard, Boiled 
 
 Charlotte, Apple 
 
 Chocoiate Kisses, 
 Chocolate Cream Custard, 
 Custard, Apple 
 
 Custard, Raspberry 
 Custard, Rice 
 
 Cream, Orange 
 
 Cream, Lemon 
 
 Cream, Vanilla 
 
 Cream, Italian 
 
 Cream, Tea 
 
 Cream, Rock 
 
 Charlotte Russe, 
 
 Cream, Apple 
 
 ' Compote of Apples, 
 Cream, Nina’s Apple 
 Compote of Peaches, 
 Compote of Rhubarb, 
 Compote of Red Currants, 
 Compote of Green Currants, 
 
 Compote of Green Gooseber- 
 
 ries, 
 Cherry Cheese, 
 Chestnuts, a Dessert of 
 Candy, Molasses 
 Chocolate Drops, 
 Dessert, a nice and cheap 
 Dessert, Fruit for 
 Dessert of Chestnuts, 
 Eugene Russe, 
 Fruit Tarts, 
 Floating Island of Apples, 
 Fritters, Pineapple 
 Fritters, Apple 
 Fritters, Orange 
 Fruit for Dessert, 
 Fruits, Summer Mixed 
 Ginger Apples, 
 Gooseberry or Apple Trifle, 
 
 INDEX. 
 
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 176 | Green Gooseberries, Compote .— 
 176| cic?! olvsik: sullen? tate 
 177 |. Gooseberry Fool, .. . 185 
 177 | Italian Cream, 174 
 177 | Icing for Tarts, 183 
 191 | Ice Cream, Country — PRPS 
 170 | Ice Cream, Strawberry 190 
 171 ; Ice Apple, 190 
 171 | Kisses, Chocolate . 171 
 171 | Lemon Sponge, 172 
 171 | Lemon Cream, . 174 
 172 | Love Apples, 177 
 172 | Loppered Milk, 186 
 172 | Lemon Paste, to keep 189 
 172 | Lemon Flavor, 189 
 178 | Lemon or Orange Peel, 
 
 174 Tincture of 189 
 174 | Lemon Drops, 191 
 174 | Meringues, 175 
 174 | Meringue, Lucy Stone’s bread 176 
 175 | Mashed Tarts, 178 
 175 | Marmalade, Apple / 179 
 180 | Meringues, Apple 178 
 181 | Mother’s Surprise, 181 
 181 | Milk, Loppered . 186 
 184 | Molasses Candy, - 190 
 184 | Orange Cream, 178 
 184 | Orange Fritters, 185 
 184 | Pasties, '. .170 
 
 Puffs, Cream 170° 
 184 | Pippins, Stewed - 180 
 184 | Pears, Baked 182 
 188 | Pears, Scalded ' 182 
 190 | Peaches, Compote of 184 
 191 | Pineapple Fritters, 185 
 186 | Prunes, Stewed 185 
 187 | Preserve, Good Common 185 
 188 | Quinces for the Table, 188 
 175 | Rice Custard, 172 
 178 | Raspberry Custard, 172 
 181 | Rock Cream, 175 
 185 | Rice Flour Blanc Mange, 177 
 
 Rice, Whole Blanc Mange, 177 
 Rice, Ground, Blanc Mange 177 
 
 Red Robbin, 177 
 Rhubarb Tart, 183 
 Rhubarb, Compote of — 183 
 Rhubarb, 188 
 
 
 
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 Souffle, Strawberry or Apple ee Currant, 197 
 Souffle, Sweet 173 | Cream, 199 
 Souffle, Omelet x 178 | Cornets a Creme, - 200 
 Strawberries, 186 | Cider, 200 
 Strawberry Shortcake, 187 | Connecticut Coffee, 201 
 Sugar Taffy, 190 | Crullers, 201 
 Syrup for Candies, 191 | Cup, 202 
 Sugar Barley, for Children 191 Cup "Cake, Molasses 202 
 Tea, Cream 174 | Cake without eggs, 202 
 Tapioca Blanc Mange, | 176 | Christmas, for good children 203 
 Tarts, Mashed 178 | Cookies, 205 
 Tarts, Fruit 178 | Cheese Cakes, Rice 207 
 . Tart, Apple 178 | Cheese Cakes, English #207 
 Trifle, 183 | Cheese Cakes, Apple 207 
 Trifle, Gooseberry or Apple 183 | Cheese Cakes, Bread 207 
 Tart, Rhubarb 183 | Cheese Cakes, Cocoanut 208 
 Tarts, Icing for 183 | Cheese Cakes, Almond 208 
 Tomatoes, 188] Cocoanut, 911 
 Tincture of Lemon or Orange Doughnuts, ely 205 
 Peel, 189 | Fruit, a fine rg 194 
 Taffy, Sugar 190 | Fruit, Pork is 194 
 Vanilla Cream, 174 | Fried, without eggs or milk 201 
 Fried, 201 
 SWEET CAKES. Glen Vis, 200 
 
 Ginger Pound with fruit, 201 
 
 Almond Sponge, _ 192 | Ginger Snaps, 206 
 Apple, ; 197 | Ginger Nuts, . 206 
 Almond, fine 197 Ginger bread, Sponge 206 
 Apple cheese cakes, 207 Gingerbread, Hard times 206 
 Almond cheese cakes, 208 Ginger Biscuits, - 209 
 Apple biscuit, 209 | Graham Fig Biscuits, 210 
 Bride, 194 | Hickory-nut, New Years- 196 
 Bread, Mrs. Bristol’s 198 | Huckleberry, 196 
 Birthday, 203 | Hard times, molasses 202 
 Buns, 205 | Independence, 195 
 Bread cheese cakes, 207 | Icing, Almond 194 
 Biscuits, New Years’ 208 | Icing, Sugar 195 
 Biscuits, Cream 208 | icing, Chocolate 211 
 Biscuits, Apple 209 Icing, 211 
 Biscuits, Orange 209 | Jenny’s 202 
 Biscuits, Moss 209 | Jumbles, 204 
 Biscuits, Ginger 209 | Loaf, 176 
 Biscuits, Judge’s 210 | Lemon, 197 
 Biscuits, King’s 210 | Molasses Cup, 202 
 Biscuits, Graham Fig 210 | Molasses, Hard times 202 
 Christmas, a magnificent, 198 | Mary’s Tea, 208 
 Christmas, 193 | Macaroons, 210 
 Connecticut Election, 195 | New Year’s Hickory-nut, 196 
 Commencement, New Haven 195! New Years, 197 
 
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338 INDEX. 
 Page. Page 
 New Year’s Biscuit, 208 | Citron Preparing, for Cake 223 
 Orange Biscuit, 209 | Fies, Green Preserved 216 
 Pound, 192 | Green Grape Jam, 214 
 Pork, Fruit 194 | Green Figs Preserved, 216 
 Plum, 196 | Jam, Strawberry . 212 
 Picnic, 198 | Jam, Raspberry 213 
 ‘* Portage Falls,”’ 198 | Jam, Cherry 214 
 Poverty, 198 | Jam, Green Grape 214 
 Portugal, 200 | Jam, Plum 214 
 Party Puffs, 205 | J. am, Pineapple 214 
 Rock, 204 | Jam, Ble eCirrant 215 
 Rice Cheese Cakes, 206 | Oranges, Preserved 217 
 Spomge, 192 | Plum Jam, 214 
 Sponge, Almond 192 | Pineapple Jam, 214 
 Sponge, Rice flour, 193 | Pineapple Marmalade, 215° 
 Sponge, Mrs. V’s. 193 | Pineapples Preserved, 216 
 Snow, 198 | Plums or Damsons Preserved 217 
 Small Seed, 199 | Pickling Pears and Peaches, 218 
 South Carolina, 200 | Pickling Damson Plums, 218 
 Society, 203 | Peaches Dried with Sugar, 218 
 Sally Lunn, 203 | Plums and Small Fruits Dried, 219 
 Shrewsbury, 204 | Pippins, Preserved 221 
 Tea dish, a nice 193 | Pumpkin, Fried 223 
 Tea, Mary’s 208 | Quinces, Preserved 215 
 Warsaw White, 200} Raspberry Jam, 218 
 Wonders, 204 | Raspberries, Preserved 21 
 s Rhubarb, Preserved 217" 
 PRESERVED FRUITS AND oe a 5 
 } rawberries in Cans, 
 SWEETMEATS. Strawberries, Dried os 
 90 | Tomato Figs, 22 
 ene Sib foas ni Tomato Sweetmeats, 223 
 Apple Butter, 220 | Vegetable Marrow, Preserved 221 
 Apples, to Prevent Waste in 221 
 Artichokes, Preserved, o22 JELLIES. 
 Blackberries, 212 . 
 Brandy Gages, 216 | Apple, 224 
 Canning Fruit, 212 | Apple, Crab 295 
 Currant and Raspberry Sweet- Blackberry, 226 
 meat, 214 | Crab Apple, 225 
 Cherry Jam, 214 | Cider, 225 
 Currant Black, Jam 2165 | Currant, 225 
 Cherries, Preserved 215 | Cranberry, 226 
 Cherries, Pickled 215 | Calf’s feet, 226 
 Crab apples, Preserved 216 | Gelatine, 226 
 Currants, Preserved 217 | Grape, 227 
 Citron, Preserved 219 | Medlar, 227 
 Cucumbers, Preserved 221 | Quince, 225 
 Candied Orange Peel Rings 222 ' Rice, 226 
 
 
 
Sago, 
 
 ' Tapioca, 
 
 Wine, Mrs. Webster’s 
 Wine, 
 
 FRESH FRUITS. 
 
 Blackberries, 
 
 Cherries, 
 
 Currants, ‘is 
 Currants and Huckleberries, 
 Currants and Raspberries, 
 Huckleberries, 
 Strawberries, 
 
 229 
 230 
 229 
 230 
 230 
 230 
 229 
 
 YEAST BREAD, BISCUIT, &c. 
 
 Bread, 
 
 Bread, General Rules, 
 Bread, Rye and Indian 
 Bread, Graham 
 
 Bread, Sweet Brown 
 Bread, Rice Flour 
 Bread, Moist Rice 
 Bread, Apple 
 
 Bread, Pulled 
 
 Bread, Pieces of . 
 Baked Batter, 
 
 Butter Cakes for Tea, 
 Breakfast Cakes, English 
 Biscuit, Graham 
 Breakfast Cakes, Fanny’s 
 Biscuit, 
 
 Biscuit, Mrs. D’s Tea 
 Breakfast Johnny Cake, 
 Breakfast Corncake, 
 
 Buttermilk Breakfast Cakes, 
 Buns, Hot. Cross, Good Friday 
 
 Corn Cream Cake, 
 
 Corn Bread, 
 
 Corn Meal Wafiles, 
 Crumpets, Laight Xt. 
 Green Corn Cakes, 
 
 Hoe Cakes, 
 
 Johnny Cake, Breakfast 
 Johnny Cake, Western 
 Muffins, 
 
 Oatcakes, 
 
 239 
 238 
 233 
 
 Rusks, ; 
 Rolls, French 
 Rice Biscuit, 
 
 Rye Drop Cakes, 
 Rice Puffs, 
 
 Rice Flour Puffs, 
 Rice Flour Cake, 
 Rolls, Flour and Potato 
 Rice. Waffles, 
 Shortcake, 
 
 Soda Biscuit, 
 Soft Waffles, 
 Toast, Dry 
 
 Toast, Dip 
 
 Toast, Cream 
 Yeast, 
 
 Yeast, Connecticut 
 Yeast, Excellent 
 Yeast, Potato 
 Yeast Cakes, 
 
 339 
 
 Page. 
 236 
 240 
 236 
 236 
 238 
 238 
 
 - 238 
 
 939 
 939 
 935 
 240 
 241 
 249 
 242 
 249 
 231 
 231 
 931 
 231 
 932 
 
 GRIDDLE CAKES AND FARI- 
 
 NACEOUS DISHES. 
 Buckwheat, 
 
 ‘Bread, . 
 Bannock, Poughkeepsie Seer’s 
 
 Common, ™ 
 
 Cream, 
 
 Economical, 
 
 Frumety, English 
 
 Flannel, 
 
 Gruel, Indian Meal 
 
 Hominy and Farina, 
 
 Hominy Cakes, 
 
 Hasty Pudding, 
 
 Hulled Corn, 
 
 Porridge, Milk 
 
 Rice, 
 
 Rice Flour, — 
 
 Rye Meal Mush, 
 
 Shrove Tuesday, 
 
 Soda, 
 
 Scotch, 
 
 Samp, 
 
 Tomato, 
 BREAKFAST. 
 
 Bills of Fare for Breakfast, 
 
 242 
 248 
 245 
 242 
 243 
 244. 
 247 
 233 
 246 
 245 
 246 
 246 
 247 
 246 
 248 
 245 
 246 
 243 
 243 
 245 
 246 
 245 
 
 250 
 
TEA, COFFEE, ETO. 
 
 - Coffee, s 
 Cream Coffee, ‘ 
 
 - Cold Coffee, pe 
 Chocolate, American 48 
 
 Chocolate, French 
 Cocoa, 
 
 Dinner Coffee, 
 Tea, 
 
 Tea, to make 
 
 DINNER. 
 
 Plain Bills of Fare for Dinner 
 all the year round, ~ 
 
 Je ees * 
 February, 
 March, 
 April, 
 May, 
 June, 
 July, 
 August, uh 
 September, eh ae 
 October, 
 November, — 
 December, 
 Birthday Dinner, 
 Thanksgiving Dinner, 
 Christmas Dinner, 
 
 4 
 > 
 
 WINES AND DRINKS. 
 
 Black Currant, 
 Blackberry, 
 Blackberry Brandy, 
 Berry Drink, 
 Currant, 
 
 Currant, Black 
 Cherry Brandy, 
 Corn Drink, Yankee 
 Claret Punch, 
 
 Cool Cup, 
 Christmas Egg nog, 
 Cold Punch, 
 
 Elder, 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Page. 
 
 i et 
 Elder Flower, 
 
 Egg Nog, 
 Egg N og, Christmas — 
 
 | Grape, 
 
 3 | Grape Syrup, 
 
 
 
 
 ie: Gooseberry, - 
 | Green Gooseberry, 
 | Ginger, 
 
 Ginger Beer, 
 
 . Ginger Beer, Cask 
 Ginger Pop, . 
 
 Hop Beer, 
 
 Imperial, 
 
 Lemonade, Milk 
 Lemonade Portable, 
 Mead, 
 
 Milk Lemonade, 
 
 May Drink, 
 
 Milk Punch, . 
 
 Oxford Swig, 
 
 Portable, Lemonade | 
 Quick Beer, 
 
 Quick Drink, 
 
 Rhubarb, - 
 
 Raspberry Syrup, 
 Spruce Beer, 
 
 Shrub, 
 
 Sherry Cobbler, 4th July 
 Staten Island Lemonade, 
 Sack Posset, 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 har 
 
 Apples, to keep 
 Butter Cooler, 
 Bread, Homemade 
 
 Bed Bugs, 
 
 Bouquet, to Preserve 
 Cabbages, to Keep. 
 Cornstarch instead of Eggs, 
 Cement, Diamond 
 Cochineal, 
 
 Cornmeal, Improving 
 Cement for Metal and Glass, 
 Cracks in Stoves, 
 
 Creaking Hinges, 
 
 Cement, Water and Fire Proof 2 
 
 Chimney, Fire in» 
 Carpet, Soiled 
 Crape, to Stiffen 
 
 
 
—— Water Spots in Black 
 
 Cockroaches, 
 
 Crickets, 
 
 Damp Woolen Clothing, 
 
 Diamond Cement, 
 
 Drippings, to clarify 
 
 Eggs, Snow Substitute for 
 
 Eggs, Corn Starch instead of 
 
 Egg paper, 
 
 Easter Eggs, 
 
 Frozen Potatoes, 
 
 Fruit Stains, to Wash From 
 Hands 
 
 Fruit Sinking, 
 
 Flatirons, Rust on 
 
 Flatirons, Rough 
 
 Fire in Chimney, 
 
 Furniture, 
 
 Floors, Scouring 
 
 Grapes, Keeping 
 
 Grease, to Remove 
 
 Grease Spots, 
 
 Grease on a leather covered 
 , Book, 
 
 Hair, to Strengthen 
 
 Hens, to make lay 
 
 Hatching, 
 
 Handles, Knife to Fasten 
 
 Ivory Handles, 
 
 Ice on Windows, 
 
 Iron Stain, 
 
 Ink Spots on Linen, 
 
 Ink on Books, 
 
 Ink, Marking 
 
 Ink, Green, Blue, Gold and 
 
 _. Silver 
 
 Kitchen Odors, 
 Kid Gloves, to Clean 
 Lemons, to Keep 
 Lobster’s, Eggs, 
 Linen, To take Ink out of 
 Linen, To Restore Stained 
 Mustard, 
 Mushrooms, To Preserve 
 Meat, Game, &c., To keep in 
 
 ‘Hot Weather 
 
 -Meat, To Remove Taint from 
 Molasses, To Clarify 
 
 - Marble, To Clean 
 
 
 
 Marks on Table, 
 
 Mahogony, To give fine Color 
 Mildew, to take out 
 
 Muslins, Washing 
 
 | Marking Ink, 
 
 Mo OS, 
 
 Peas, To keep for Winter Use 
 Parsley, to Keep 
 
 Potatoes, Frozen 
 
 Polishing Paste, 
 
 Paste, Water Proof 
 
 Paint, To clean 
 
 Paint, Cheap 
 
 Papered Walls, 
 
 Rust on Knives, id 
 Rough Flatirons, 
 
 Rust, Varnish to Prevent 
 Rays of Sun, 
 
 Ribbons, To Iron 
 
 Rats and Mice, 
 
 Roses, Tincture of ~ 
 Snow. Saba for Eggs, 
 Soft Soap, 
 
 Silk, To Renovate Black 
 Silk, To Clean isi 
 Spermaceti Spots, 
 
 To keep Grapes, 
 
 To keep Apples, 
 
 To keep Pears, 
 
 To keep Cabbages, 
 
 To keep Mustard, 
 
 To keep Lemons, 
 
 To keep Parsley, ; 
 To preserve Mushrooms, | 
 
 Hot Weather, 
 
 | To remove taint from Meat, 
 
 Turnips, Size of 
 
 To Wash Fruit Stains: from 
 Hands, 
 
 To Make Hens layin Winter, 
 
 To fatten Turkeys, 
 
 To Clarify Drippings, . 
 
 To Clarify Molasses, 
 
 -To fasten Knife Handles, 
 
 Paint Spots on Cloth, Silk, &e. 
 
 Perfume, Home made ie 
 Pot Pourri, $6 Oe. 
 284 
 284 
 
 To keep Meat, Game, &e. in 
 
 Page. 
 286 
 287 
 288 
 290 — 
 291 
 202 
 2938 
 277 
 279 
 280 
 285 
 286 
 287 
 287 
 287 
 289 — 
 298 
 
 285 
 286 
 228 
 292 
 294 
 280 . 
 285 
 288 
 290 
 291 
 277 
 277 
 277 
 (278 
 278 
 279 
 279 
 279 
 
 279 
 279 
 280 
 
 280 
 282 
 282 
 283 
 283 
 284 
 
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 To take out Mildew, 288 
 To take Ink out of Linen, 289 
 To wash print or lawn Dresses, 289 
 To wash Colored Muslins, 290 
 
 To restore Stained Linen, 289 
 To Clean Silk, 290 
 To clean Kid Gloves, 290 
 To remove Spermaceti Spots, 191 
 To Preserve Bouquets, 298 
 Tincture of Roses, 294 
 Vermin, , 281 
 
 Voice, to Clear and Strengthen 281 
 Varnish to prevent Rust, 288 
 Velvet, to remove broken spots 288 
 
 Veils, To Clean 285 
 Woolen Clothing, Damp 280 
 Windows, Ice on 285 
 
 285 
 286 
 288 
 
 Water and Fire Proof Cement, 
 Water Proof Paste, 
 Water Spots in Black Crape, 
 
 FOOD FOR INVALIDS. 
 
 Apple water, = 299 
 Breakfast, ‘a sick =. 298 
 Beef Tea, 298 
 Broiled Tenderloin, 801 
 Dinner, 298 
 Eggs, soft boiled, 298 
 Gruel, 296 
 Jelly, Calf ’s foot 297 
 Lemonade, 299 
 ‘Milk and Eggs, 801 
 
 342 : “INDEX, 
 
 Page. “ Page. 
 
 “To take off rust oe Flatirons, 284 | Milk thickened, 800 
 To prevent Lamp Chimneys Oyster Soup, 801 
 Breaking, 2 Panada, 297 
 
 To drive Na ails, 286 | Pudding, Invalid 298 
 To Remove Grease, 286 | Pie, Apple 299 
 To Clean Marble, ‘286, Prunes, stewed 299. 
 Table, Marks on 286 | Pudding, Tapioca oe 800 
 To give fine color to Mahogony, 287 | “Roast Apples, 299 
 
 * To Clean Paint, 287 | Soup, Oyster 801 
 To Scour Floors, 287 | Toast, Soft 297 
 To Iron Ribbons, 288 | Toast, Ege 297 
 To Stiffen Crape, 288 | Tea, a sick 298 
 To remove broken Spots from | Toast, Dry 800 
 Velvet Tapioca Cup pudding, 800 
 
 To Clean Black Lace Veils, 288 | Toast, Milk 800 
 
 To Renovate Black Silk, 288 
 
 FOOD FOR INFANTS AND 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Bread and milk, * 805 
 Baby Pudding, - 804 
 Brown Mush for supper, 895 
 Cow’s milk, | 804 
 Children’s Pie, 805 
 Cranberries, 805 
 English Pap, 808 
 Essentials, 804 
 Infant’s Broth, 804 
 Pudding, Baby 804 
 Pie, Children’s 805 
 Starchy Food, 803 
 Young Children; Food for 305 
 
 LADIES LUNCHES. 
 
 Bill of Fare, 807 
 NEW YEAR'S TABLE, EVE 
 NING REFRESHMENTS, 
 PARTIES, ETO. 
 
 New Year’s Table, 809 
 A Family Dinner Party, 810 
 A small Supper Party, 810 
 Refreshments, 811 
 A Children’s Party, 811 
 A Christmas ahs 812 
 
 
 
WASHING DAY. 
 
 Washing Day 
 
 Blonde Lace, to wash 
 Colored Starch, 
 Laces and Needlework, 
 
 d14 
 
 Muslin, Lawn or Print nai 315 
 
 Saving Soap, 
 
 Shirts, how to starch 
 
 Starch, Colored 
 
 Table Cloths, Napkins, etc., 
 
 White Flannels, 
 
 Zephyr Goods and Colored 
 Flannels, 
 
 ns THE DAIRY. 
 Cows, 
 Milk Room, 
 Making Butter, 
 
 JEWISH RECEIPTS. 
 
 Crackers, Sweet 
 
 316 
 816 
 815 
 314 
 314 
 
 823 
 
 Chicken, Brown fricassee 
 Cake, Cup 
 
 Cucumbers, Pickled 
 Dumpling, Lemon 
 
 Fish, White stewed 
 
 F ritters, Purrin 
 
 Fish, Codfish fritters 
 
 Meringue’s 
 
 Marmalade, 
 
 Orgent, 
 
 Pudding, a good 
 Pudding, Lemon 
 Pudding, rich Lemon 
 Pudding, Apple 
 Pudding, Bread and Butter 
 Pudding, Sally Lunn 
 Pudding, Light 
 
 Pudding, Cocoanut 
 Pudding, Almond 
 Pickled Cucumbers, 
 Sandwich, Albert 
 Tomatoes for Winter use, 
 
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