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 tablespoon butter 1/3 cup currant jelly
Few grains cayenne 1/4 cup Sherry wine
1 cup cold cooked ham, cut in small strips
Put butter and currant jelly into the chafing-dish. As soon as melted, add cayenne, wine, and ham; simmer five minutes.
Wipe, core, and cut four apples in one-fourth inch slices. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, and add one-third cup Port wine; cover, and let stand thirty minutes. Drain, and saute in butter. Cut a slice of venison one-half inch thick in cutlets. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, and cook three or four minutes in a hot chafing-dish, using just enough butter to prevent sticking. Remove from dish; then melt three tablespoons butter, add wine drained from apples, and twelve candied cherries cut in halves. Reheat cutlets in sauce, and serve with apples.
2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1/4 teaspoon salt Few grains pepper
1 cup Brown Stock
1/3 cup currant jelly
1 1/2 tablespoons Sherry wine
6 slices cold cooked mutton
Brown the butter, add flour, seasonings, and stock, gradually; then add jelly, and when melted, add mutton. When meat is heated, add wine. If mutton gravy is at hand, use instead of making a Brown Sauce.
2 cups chopped cooked mutton Yolks 6 "hard-boiled" eggs 3/4 teaspoon mixed mustard
Salt
Cayenne
1 cup of cream
1/4 cup wine
Mash the yolks, and season with mustard, salt, and cayenne. Add cream and mutton. When thoroughly heated add wine. Serve on toast
2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon Chili Sauce 1 tablespoon Worcestershire
Sauce 1 tablespoon Walnut Catsup 1 teaspoon made mustard Few grains cayenne
Drumsticks, second joints, and wings of a cooked chicken Salt Pepper Flour
Cup hot stock Finely chopped parsley
Melt butter, and add Chili Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce, Walnut Catsup, mustard, and cayenne. Cut four small gashes in each piece of chicken. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour, and cook in the seasoned butter until well browned. Pour on stock, simmer five minutes, and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
2 ozs. blanched and shredded almonds Butter 1 tablespoon Chutney
2 tablespoons chopped pickies 1 tablespoon Worcestershire
Sauce 1/4 teaspoon salt
Few grains cayenne
Fry almonds until well browned, using enough butter to prevent almonds from burning. Mix remaining ingredients, pour over nuts, and serve as soon as thoroughly heated. Serve with oysters.
Shell one cup chestnuts, cut in thin slices, and fry until well browned, using enough butter to prevent chestnuts from burning. Season with Tabasco Sauce or few grains paprika.
Make German Toast in circular pieces, cover with stewed prunes, figs, or jam. Serve with Cream Sauce I.
Saute circular pieces of sponge cake in butter until delicately browned. Drain canned peaches, sprinkle with powdered sugar, few drops lemon juice, and slight grating nutmeg. Melt one tablespoon butter, add peaches, and when heated, serve on cake.
1/2 lb. washed figs Chopped salted almonds
2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 cup wine
Stuff figs with almonds. Put sugar, lemon juice, and wine in chafing-dish; when heated, add figs, cover, and cook until figs are tender, turning and basting often. Serve with Lady Fingers.
 
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