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.
Grate two cucumbers, drain, and season with salt, pepper, and vinegar. Serve with Broiled Fish.
Beat one-half cup heavy cream until stiff, and add one-fourth teaspoon salt, few grains pepper, and gradually two tablespoons vinegar; then add one cucumber, pared, chopped, and drained.
3 cups celery, cut in thin slices
2 cups Thin White Sauce
Wash and scrape celery before cutting into pieces. Cook in boiling salted water until soft, drain, rub through a sieve, and add to sauce. Celery sauce is often made from the stock in which fowl or turkey has been boiled, or with one-half stock and one-half milk.
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1 1/2 cups hot Chicken Stock
1/2 cup hot cream
1 tablespoon mushroom liquor
3/4 teaspoon lemon juice
Salt and pepper
Make same as Thin White Sauce, and add seasonings.
1/4 cup butter 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/2 tablespoon finely chopped parsley 3/4 tablespoon lemon juice
Put butter in a bowl, and with small wooden spoon work until creamy. Add salt, pepper, and parsley, then lemon juice very slowly.
1 tablespoon vinegar 1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
1/3 cup butter
Mix vinegar, lemon juice, salt, and Worcestershire Sauce in a small bowl, and heat over hot water. Brown the butter in an omelet pan, and strain into first mixture.
1/4 cup butter
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Cream the butter, and add slowly lemon juice.
1/4 cup butter
Cream the butter and add anchovy sauce to taste.
1/4 cup butter
Lobster coral
Clean, wipe, and force coral through a fine sieve. Put in a mortar with butter, and pound until well blended. This butter is used in Lobster Soup and Sauces to give color and richness.
Season Brown, Drawn Butter, or Hollandaise Sauce with anchovy sauce.
To Hollandaise Sauce II add one-fourth cup grated horseradish root.
To Hollandaise Sauce I add one-third cup lobster meat cut in small dice.
1 1/4 lb. lobster 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Few grains cayenne
1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
3 cups cold water
Remove meat from lobster, and cut tender claw-meat in one-half inch dice. Chop remaining meat, add to body bones, and cover with water; cook until stock is reduced to two cups, strain, and add gradually to butter and flour cooked together, then add salt, cayenne, lemon juice, and lobster dice.
If the lobster contains coral, prepare Lobster Butter, add flour, and thicken sauce therewith.
 
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