Tested And Tried Recipes Of Azusa And Vicinity Housekeepers | by Azusa Woman's Club
In presenting this book to you, we beg to explain that there has been no attempt to compile a complete cook-book, but simply to arrange some of the choice recipes, so kindly donated by the ladies of Azusa and vicinity and a few of the pioneers of this valley.
| Title | Tested And Tried Recipes Of Azusa And Vicinity Housekeepers |
| Author | The Azusa Woman's Club |
| Publisher | The Azusa Woman's Club |
| Year | 1909 |
| Copyright | 1909, The Azusa Woman's Club |
| Amazon | The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl |
Azusa Woman's Club- Organized - - - 1901 Federated - - - 1901 Officers Of 1909 President.....Mrs. J. H. Anderson First Vice-President - Mrs. J. T. Lindley Second Vice-President - Mrs. W. A. Davis Recording Secre...
- Things Good Housekeepers Should Know
- One rounded tablespoonful butter makes................................ 1 oz. granulated sugar......... 1 ...
- How To Make Soups
- Cream Of Corn Soup Three pints sweet milk, 4 ears green corn,' scraped from cob, first splitting each row of grains, or, 1 can of tender corn passed through meat grinder, 1 tablespoonful butter, 2 ...
- How To Make Soups. Continued
- Home Made Noodles Beat up an egg, add a little salt and enough flour to make-stiff dough. Roll out in very thin sheets. Let dry and cut in fine strips. These will keep a long time. - Mrs. Katz. ...
- How To Cook Fish
- Cusk-A-La-Creme Put 1 pint milk in double boiler; add small bay leaf, sprig of parsley, little celery seed, tiny slice of onion and a little mace if desired. Scald. Rub 1 tablespoonful of butter an...
- How To Make Breads With Yeast
- Bread Take 3 cupfuls of sweet milk, 3 tablespoonfuls of sugar, 3 teaspoonfuls of salt, a piece of butter size of an egg. To this add 3 cups of boiling water. When this is about cool dissolve 1 cake...
- How To Cook Meats
- Meat Relishes Roast pork or roast goose - apple sauce. Roast beef - catsup or horseradish. Roast veal - Tomato or mushroom sauce. Roast mutton - currant jelly. Roast lamb - mint sauce. ...
- How To Cook Meats. Part 2
- Stewed Fresh Tongue Soak the tongue in cold water 1 hour, boil 3 hours and set one side till cold. Then put it into a. stew pan and cover with stock. Add salt to taste, a dash of cayenne pepper, 1 ...
- How To Cook Meats. Part 3
- Veal Gowlash Take 4 or 5 pounds of the hind quarter of veal, trim off all fat, cut in pieces 4 or 5 inches square, roll in paprika. Take bacon, not too fat, and slice thin. Put a kettle on stove - ...
- How To Cook Meats. Part 4
- Pan Tamales 1 - Lean beef and chicken or pork and veal, 1 ½ pounds each. 2 - Corn meal mush, not too thick, 1½ quarts. 3 - Tomatoes. 2-3 quart (heated and seasoned). 4 - Raisins and olives, 1 pint ...
- How To Cook Meats. Part 5
- Mint Jelly For Roast Lamb One cup of vinegar and ½ cup sugar boiled until sugar is dissolved. Add 1 teaspoon gelatine softened in cold water. Season with pepper and salt and add 1 cup chopped mi...
- How To Cook Chicken
- Stewed Chicken Joint a fowl A fat hen is the best. Put in stew pan, salt and cover with water; when the water boils skim, and add the juice of a lemon. Cook until tender; brown it in its own fat, o...
- Vegetables At Their Best
- To have good, fresh vegetables is a happiness; but to know how to cook them is a fine art. The lack of knowledge in this behalf is lamentable. All green vegetables should be dropped into water whic...
- How To Cook Vegetables
- Stuffed Bell Peppers Take 12 large peppers, cut off stem ends, saving ends to be replaced when peppers are stuffed, remove all seeds, saving seeds of 4. For the stuffing use 1 loaf of bread, removi...
- How To Cook Vegetables. Part 2
- Spanish Rice One tablespoon lard or butter, 1 cup rice, 1 onion, tomato, pepper and salt, Let fry in lard until it begins to scorch, add hot water and let cook until done. Take nearly an hour to co...
- How To Cook Vegetables. Part 3
- Dulce De Camote No. 1. Cook sweet potatoes until soft, mash and add an equal quantity of sugar. Cook without water in double boiler until it does not stick. No. 2. Cut small sweet potatoes into ...
- How To Cook Tomatoes
- Fried Tomatoes Select firm, ripe tomatoes and cut in thick slices. Season with salt, pepper and a little sugar, roll in flour and slowly fry brown in butter. Remove the slices to a hot platter, pou...
- How To Make Rice Balls
- One cup cold meat, 1 teacupful of rice, fresh or canned tomatoes to equal 1 quart, onion the size of an ordinary walnut, 1 bay leaf. 1 whole clove, 1 dried chili pepper, ½ teaspoon of celery seed. Aft...
- How To Cook Eggs
- Timbals Four eggs beaten slightly,¾ cupful milk. ½ teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Put. in buttered dishes and set in pan of hot water. Bake until firm. Surround timbals on platter with well co...
- How To Make Breads With Baking Powder
- Cream Biscuits One quart flour, 1 tablespoon lard, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 pint with flour. Add pinch of salt. Pour into this a coffee cupful of sour cream with ½ teaspoon soda. Add enough sweet milk to...
- How To Make Breads With Baking Powder. Continued
- Nut Bread Four cups flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, sifted together. Beat 2 eggs thoroughly, add 2 cups sweet milk, then flour mixture, and last, large cup of walnut meats choppe...
- Brown Bread
- One cup sweet milk, 1 cup sour milk, 1 pint graham flour, 1 cup corn meal, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in sour milk, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Add currants, raisins, etc., if desired, f...
- Muffins Or Waffles
- Muffins Cream 1-3 cup of butter, add gradually ½ cup of sugar and ¼ teaspoonful of salt, 1 egg beaten light, ¾ cup of milk, 2 cups of flour, 2 level teaspoons baking powder. Bake in hot gem pans 25...
- How To Make Salads
- Banana Salad No. 1. Take 4 large, firm, but fully ripe bananas, split them and then cut across. Place over a very slow fire 1 tablespoonful of butter in skillet and as soon as just melted lay in th...
- How To Make Salads. Continued
- Chicken Salad Boil 1 chicken tender; chop moderately fine the whites of 12 hard-boiled eggs and the chicken; add equal quantities of chopped celery and cabbage; mash the yolks fine; add two tablesp...
- Salad Dressings
- Boiled Salad Dressing Eggs, 8; cream, 1quart; white pepper, 1 tablespoon; salt, 1 tablespoon; sugar, 1 tablespoon; mustard, 2. tablespoons; butter. 1 cup; juice of 2 lemons; vinegar, ½ cup. Mix tho...
- Cheese
- Cheese Croquettes Make a cream sauce with 2 tablespoons of butter, 3 level tablespoons of corn starch and a cup of milk. Beat into this the yolk of an egg and season highly with red pepper or papri...
- How To Make Pies
- Time Saving Pie Crust One good full cup of lard, cold, 3 cups (round) full of flour, 1 even teaspoon salt. Rub together until thoroughly mixed, set away in cold place till you wish to make a pie. I...
- How To Make Pies. Continued
- Orange Pie Juice and grated rind of 2 oranges, 4 eggs. 4 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon butter. Cream butter and sugar. Add the beaten yolks of eggs, then the orange. Lastly beat in half the whites...
- How To Make Pickles, Spiced Fruits, Etc
- Cold Catsup One-half peck ripe tomatoes, chopped fine and drained over night with 1 small cup salt, 2 red peppers chopped fine, 1 cup onion chopped fine, 2 roots of horseradish, grated, ½ cup musta...
- How To Make Pickles, Spiced Fruits, Etc. Part 2
- Tomato Catsup To 1 gallon tomatoes after being boiled and strained, add 3 tablespoons salt, 1 tablespoon each of cloves, cinnamon, allspice and black pepper, ½ small teaspoon cayenne, ½ pint good v...
- How To Make Pickles, Spiced Fruits, Etc. Part 3
- Tomato Catsup Twelve large ripe tomatoes, 2 onions, 2 tablespoons salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons cinnamon, 1 teacup vinegar, boil slowly for half day, put through sieve and bottle. 2 or 3...
- How To Make Preserves, Etc
- Currant Relish Currants. 6 pounds; raisins, 3 pounds; oranges, 6 pounds; sugar, 6 pounds (less if desired). Chop the raisins; cut oranges in small pieces; stem currants. Cook the same as for jam, b...
- How To Make Marmalade
- Orange Marmalade Six oranges, 3 lemons sliced thin. Cover with 4 quarts cold water and let stand 24 hours. Then boil 1 hour and then stand 24 hours Longer. Then measure equal quantity sugar and boi...
- How To Make Cakes
- Sponge Cake Two cups of fruit sugar, 4 eggs. Beat sugar and eggs together until very light. Add to this 2 cups of flour and 1 teaspoon of baking powder, sifted together, and flavor to taste. Add 2-...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 2
- Chocolate Cake Butter, 1 cup; sugar, 1½ cups; eggs, 3; sweet milk, ¾ cup; flour, 2½ cups; cream of tartar, 2 teaspoonfuls; soda, 1 teaspoonful. Sift the flour. Bake in jelly pans. For the icing: Su...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 3
- Gold Cake One cup of sugar. ¾ of a cup of butter, 2 cups of flour, ¾ of a cup of water, the yolks of 8 eggs, 1 teaspoonful baking powder. - Mrs. James J. Ayres. White Loaf Cake One-half c...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 4
- Mocha Cake Two eggs well beaten, 1 cup of sugar gradually beaten in 1 cup of flour. Add at last ½ cup of boiling hot milk, 1 teaspoonful baking powder. Bake in 2 layers. Filling: ¼ cup of butter cr...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 5
- Silver Cake One-half cup of butter, 3 cups of sifted flour, 2 cups sugar, ¾ of a cup of water or milk, the whites of 8 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor with almond extract. - Mrs. J...
- Chocolate Loaf
- 3 eggs, beaten separately, 1½ cups granulated sugar, ½ cup butter, ¾ cup sweet milk, 2½ cups flour, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, ½ teaspoon soda, 2 squares chocolate. To the chocolate add ½ the milk and s...
- "Wellesley Fudge Cake"
- (Miss Rogers' Recipe That Captured Her Multi-Millionaire Husband). Take 1 cup sugar, 2-3 cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2½ cups flour, 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, ¼ cup of chocolate, ½ cu...
- A Prize Cake
- Two-thirds cup of butter beaten to a cream 2 cups of granulated sugar. 1 cup of milk, whites of 8 eggs, 3 cups of flour, 2 heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder: After butter has been beaten to a cream, ...
- How To Make Doughnuts And Small Cakes
- Marguerites (My own way of making them). Take of pulverized sugar, 2 cups; shredded walnut meats, ½ cup; vanilla to suit. Stir this all up with some nice thick cream (condensed milk is good if you ...
- How To Make Cookies
- Excellent Cookies One cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 3 eggs, ½ cup sour cream. 1 cup chopped raisins, 1½ cups chopped walnuts, 1 teaspoon vanilla. ½. teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda. Flour to mix soft d...
- How To Make Gingerbread
- Soft Gingerbread One cup sugar. 1 cup New Orleans molasses, ½ cup butter, ½ cup lard, 1 cup boiling water in which 2 level teaspoons soda have been dissolved, 3 cups rifted flour, 1 teaspoon each o...
- How To Make Sandwiches
- Advice In Preparing Evening Supper One gallon of ice cream for every 20 guests; 150 sandwiches for every 100 people; 5 chickens and 1 dozen heads of celery to fifty persons; twenty cakes for every ...
- How To Make Puddings
- Yorkshire Pudding Beat 2 eggs very light, Add 1 scant teaspoon salt and 1 pint of milk. Pour ½ cup of this mixture over ¾ of a cup of flour and stir to a smooth paste. Add remainder of mixture and ...
- How To Make Puddings. Part 2
- German Apple Pudding Sift together 2 cups flour, ½ cup sugar, 3 level teaspoons baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt. Work in 1-3 cup butter. Then mix to a soft dough with 1 beaten egg diluted with 1 cup...
- How To Make Puddings. Part 3
- Suet Pudding One cup suet. 1 cup molasses. 1 cup raisins, 1 cup currants, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 1 of nutmeg, pinch of salt, 1 cup sour milk. 1 egg. Stir thick as cake batter. St...
- How To Make Puddings. Part 4
- Rice Pudding Four tablespoons rice washed well. Place in large milk pan with 2 quarts of new milk, not skimmed milk, ½ cup sugar, pinch of salt. Bake slowly 3 hours, pressing scum that forms toward...
- How To Make Desserts
- Pineapple Snow One can of chopped pineapple, ½ box of gelatine dissolved in 1 pint of cold water. Add juice of pineapple and let come-to boil. Two cups of sugar and juice of 2 lemons beaten until l...
- How To Make Desserts. Part 2
- Cream Puffs One cupful hot water, ½ cup butter. Boil together and while boiling stir in 1 cup of sifted flour. Take from stove and stir to a thin paste, and after this cools stir in 3 eggs (unbeate...
- How To Make Desserts. Part 3
- Macaroon Cream Jelly Soak ¼ box of gelatine in ¼ cup of cold water. Beat yolks of 3 eggs and add 3 teaspoons of sugar. Pour over this ½ cup scalding milk. Put 2 more cupfuls of milk in a double boi...
- How To Make Frozen Desserts
- Pineapple Sherbet One quart of sugar, 1 quart of water, 1 small can pineapple, juice of 2 lemons, whites of 3 eggs beaten stiff. Boil sugar and water to a thick syrup and add pineapple while hot. W...
- How To Make Frozen Desserts. Continued
- Candy Nougat Three and one-half cups white sugar, 1 cup Wild Rose syrup, ½ cup water. Boil until it threads and then pour slowly into the beaten whites of 3 eggs. Beat until stiff. Just before pour...
- How To Make Beverages
- Tea Punch Put 1 tablespoon of Ceylon tea in a pitcher and pour over it 1 quart of boiling water. Cover and let stand 10 minutes, strain and add a pound of sugar, juice of 6 lemons and 2 oranges. St...
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