This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
1 3/4 cups cold flaked salmon 1 cup Thick White Sauce
Few grains cayenne 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Add sauce to salmon, then add seasonings. Spread on a plate to cool. Shape, dip in crumbs, egg, and crumbs again, fry in deep fat, and drain.
Mix equal parts of cold flaked salmon and hot mashed potatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Shape in form of cutlets, dip in crumbs, egg, and crumbs again, fry in deep fat, and drain. Arrange in a circle, having cutlets overlap one another, on a folded napkin. Garnish with parsley.
2 cups chopped lobster meat 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon mustard
Few grains cayenne
1 teaspoon lemon
1 cup Thick White Sauce
Add seasonings to lobster, then add Thick White Sauce. Cool, shape, dip in crumbs, egg, and crumbs again, fry in deep fat, and drain. Serve with Tomato Cream Sauce.
2 cups chopped lobster meat 1/2 teaspoon salt Few grains cayenne Few gratings nutmeg
1 teaspoon lemon juice Yolk 1 egg
1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley
1 cup Thick White Sauce
Mix ingredients in order given, and cool. Shape in form of cutlets, crumb, and fry same as croquettes. Make a cut at small end of each cutlet, and insert in each the tip end of a. small claw. Stack around a mound of parsley. Serve with Sauce Tartare.
1 cup chopped beef
(cut from top of round) 1/3 cup rice 1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper Few grains cayenne Cabbage Tomato Sauce
Mix beef and rice, and add salt, pepper, and cayenne. Cook cabbage leaves two minutes in boiling water to cover. In each leaf put two tablespoons mixture, and fold leaf to enclose mixture. Cook one hour in Tomato Sauce.
Tomato Sauce. Brown four tablespoons butter, add five tablespoons flour, and pour on gradually one and one-half cups each Brown Stock and stewed and strained tomatoes. Add one slice onion, one slice carrot, a bit of bay leaf, a sprig of parsley, four cloves, three-fourths teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon pepper, and a few grains cayenne. Cook ten minutes, and strain.
1 tablespoon finely chopped onion
2 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup flour
1 cup stock
1 cup cold cooked lamb, cut in small cubes 2/3 cup boiled potato cubes Salt and pepper 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley
Fry onion in butter five minutes, then remove onion. To butter add flour and stock, and cook two minutes. Add meat, potato, salt, and pepper. Simmer until meat and potato have absorbed sauce. Add parsley, and spread on a shallow dish to cool. Shape, dip in crumbs, egg, and crumbs again, fry in deep fat, and drain. Serve with Tomato Sauce.
2 cups chopped cold cooked veal 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper
Few grains cayenne Few drops onion juice Yolk 1 egg
1 cup thick sauce made of White Soup Stock
Mix ingredients in order given. Cool, shape, crumb, and fry same as other croquettes.
 
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