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.
1/2 teaspoon mustard
1 teaspoon powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
Few grains cayenne
Yolks 2 eggs
1 1/2 tablespoons vinegar
Capers Pickles Olives Parsley
1/2. tablespoon each finely chopped
1/2 shallot, finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon powdered tarragon or 1 tablespoon tarragon vinegar
Mix mustard, sugar, salt, and cayenne; add yolks of eggs, and stir until thoroughly mixed, setting bowl in pan of ice-water. Add oil, at first drop by drop, stirring with a wooden spoon or wire whisk. As mixture thickens, dilute with vinegar, when oil may be added more rapidly. Keep in cool place until ready to serve, then add remaining ingredients.
1/2 cup White Sauce I 1/3 cup Mayonnaise 1/2 shallot, finely chopped 1/2 teaspoon vinegar
1/2 tablespoon each, finely chopped
To white sauce add remaining ingredients. Stir constantly until mixture is thoroughly heated, but do not let it come to the boiling-point. Served with boiled, steamed, or fried fish.
Yolks 2 eggs
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
1/4 cup hot water
Salt
Few grains cayenne
1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley
Add oil slowly to egg yolks, then pour on gradually vinegar and water. Cook over boiling water until mixture thickens, then add seasonings and parsley.
To three-fourths cup Mayonnaise add one-half tablespoon each finely chopped capers and parsley, one finely chopped gherkin, and one-half can tomatoes, stewed, strained, and cooked until reduced to two tablespoons. Serve with any kind of fried fish.
2 tablespoons chopped onion
4 tablespoons green pepper, finely chopped 2 tablespoons butter 2 tomatoes
1/4 cup sliced mushrooms 6 olives, stoned 1 1/3 cups Brown Sauce Salt and pepper Sherry wine
Cook onion and pepper with butter five minutes; add tomatoes, mushrooms, and olives, and cook two minutes, then add Brown Sauce. Bring to boiling-point, and add wine to taste. Serve with broiled beefsteak or fillet of beef. Boiled rice should accompany the beef, and be served on same platter.
3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup White Stock III 1/4 teaspoon salt Few grains pepper
1/2 teaspoon finely chopped chives 1/2 teaspoon made mustard 1 teaspoon grated horseradish 1/4 cup cream 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Melt butter, add flour, and pour on gradually White Stock; then add salt, pepper, mustard, chives, and horseradish. Cook two minutes, strain, add cream and lemon juice. Reheat before serving. Serve with Beef Tenderloins or Hamburg Steaks.
3 tablespoons butter 1/2 teaspoon mustard Few grains cayenne 1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire
Sauce 3/4 cup stewed and strained tomatoes
Cook butter until well browned, and add remaining ingredients.
 
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