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.
To Hollandaise Sauce II add one teaspoon each of finely chopped parsley and fresh tarragon or one-half tablespoon tarragon vinegar.
Served with mutton chops, steaks, broiled squabs, smelts, or boiled salmon.
To Hollandaise Sauce II add gradually, while cookings one and one-half tablespoons Sherry wine.
To Hollandaise Sauce II add two tablespoons tomato puree (tomatoes stewed, strained, and cooked until reduced to a thick pulp), one teaspoon finely chopped parsley, and a few grains cayenne.
3 tablespoons grated horseradish root 1 tablespoon vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt
Few grains cayenne
4 tablespoons heavy cream
Mix first four ingredients, and add cream beaten stiff.
3 tablespoons cracker crumbs 1/3 cup grated horseradish root 1 1/2 cups milk
3 tablespoons butter 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper
Cook first three ingredients twenty minutes in double boiler. Add butter, salt, and pepper.
2 cups milk
1/2 cup fine stale bread crumbs
1 onion
6 cloves
1/2. teaspoon salt Few grains cayenne 3 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup coarse stale bread, crumbs
Cook milk thirty minutes in double boiler, with fine bread crumbs and onion stuck with cloves. Remove onion, acid salt, cayenne, and two tablespoons butter. Usually served poured around roast partridge or grouse, and sprinkled with coarse crumbs browned in remaining butter.
3 tablespoons rice 2 cups milk 1/2 onion
3 cloves
2 tablespoons butter
Salt and pepper
Wash rice, add to milk, and cook in double boiler until soft. Rub through a fine strainer, return to double boiler, add onion stuck with cloves, and cook fifteen minutes. Remove onion, add butter, salt, and pepper.
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1 cup White Stock III
1 cup scalded milk
Cooked flowerets from a small cauliflower Salt Pepper
Make same as Thin White Sauce and add flowerets.
1/4 cup finely chopped mint leaves 1/2 cup vinegar
1 tablespoon powdered sugar
Add sugar to vinegar; when dissolved, pour over mint and let stand thirty minutes on back of range to infuse. If vinegar is very strong, dilute with water.
To one cup Brown Sauce, from which onion has been omitted, add one-fourth tumbler current jelly and one tablespoon Sherry wine; or, add currant jelly to one cup gravy made to serve with roast lamb, Currant Jelly Sauce is suitable to serve with lamb.
To one cup Brown Sauce, from which onion has been omitted, add one-eighth tumbler current jelly, two tablespoons Port wine, and a few grains cayenne.
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon paprika
Few grains pepper
1 tablespoon tarragon vinegar
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
1 tablespoon chopped pickles
1 tablespoon chopped green pepper
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
1 teaspoon chopped chives
Mix ingredients in order given.
 
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