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| Title | Corona Club Cook Book |
| Author | Corona Club |
| Publisher | Rincon Publishing Company |
| Year | 1910 |
| Copyright | 1910, Corona Club |
| Amazon | Corona Club Cook Book |
Preface- In presenting to our friends this compilation of recipes, all tested by Corona Club cooks or their friends, we feel that we are offering something which will prove a helpful addition to the culinary d...
- Soup
- Almond Cream Soup Take 1 quart seasoned stock, either beef, veal or chicken, a half pound blanched almonds, pound the almonds fine, use a few drops of the stock occasionally while pounding, lest the ...
- Soup. Part 2
- Bouillon Or Stock Soup Four pounds of solid fresh beef from the round, the same amount of bones, beef, veal or chicken which are on hand some time in a large family, put the same on a slow fire with ...
- Soup. Part 3
- Clam Chowder One quart claims, opened; 1 quart fresh milk, 3 medium sized potatoes, 1 onion, butter, pepper and salt to taste, 1/4 pound salt pork, buttered crackers. Clean clams, washing thoroughly ...
- Soup. Part 4
- Corn Chowder One pint of milk, small piece of fat salt pork. 1 small onion, 1 pint sliced raw potatoes, 1 pint raw sweet corn, cut from ear, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 saltspoon pepper, 1 rounding Tablespo...
- Soup. Part 5
- Delicious Dumplings For Soup Marrow from about 15 cents shank bones, cream with fork, add salt, pepper and little nutmeg, 1 egg and cracker crumbs enough so that the mixture can be molded into balls ...
- Soup. Part 6
- Mushroom Soup One quart rich milk, 1 pint mushrooms (juice and all), 2 tablespoonfuls butter, 1 tablespoouful flour, one minced onion, cayenne pepper and salt to taste. Stew the mushrooms and onion w...
- Soup. Part 7
- Dried Or Split Pea Soup One pint dried or split peas, 1 quart boiling water, 1 bunch celery, 1 small bunch parsley, 1 quart cream or milk, 2 onions, salt and pepper. Soak peas over night. In the morn...
- Soup. Part 8
- Cream Of Spinach Soup Two quarts spinach. Wash in several waters. Throw the leaves into a hot kettle, closely covered, and cook 5 minutes. Drain them, saving the liquid. Chop leaves fine and press th...
- Soup. Part 9
- Ox Tail Soup One ox-tail, 2 lbs. lean beef, 4 carrots, 3 onions, thyme. Cut tail into pieces and fry brown in butter. Slice the onions and 2 carrots and when you remove ox-tail from pan put these in ...
- Just Hints
- A teaspoonful of whipped cream on top of each portion will improve any cream soup, and the addition of a chopped bell pepper in cream of clam and many other cream soups is also good. A slice of apple...
- Fish
- Baked Fish Clean, rinse and wipe dry a white fish or any fish of 3 or 4 lbs. Rub fish inside and out with salt and pepper; fill with stuffing made like that for poultry, but dryer. Sew it up and put ...
- Fish. Part 2
- Baked Halibut Clean a piece of halibut weighing 2 or 3 lbs; season with salt and pepper. Put some strips of salt pork in a dripping pan and fry brown; add a bit of bay leaf, a sliced onion. Place the...
- Fish. Part 3
- Fish Timbales One cup cooked fish (cold), 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup milk (hot), 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon minced parsley, pinch of cayenne...
- Fish. Part 4
- Salmon A La Pacific Prepare 2 lbs. salmon by cutting into pieces 3 inches square and peppering it. Into the saucepan cut 1 carrot, 1 onion, and pour over 1 cup of cold water; allow this to boil until...
- Fish. Part 5
- Baked Smelts Clean smelts, wipe and lay in baking dish. Pour over them a wine glass of white wine. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and add 1/2 dozen whole mushrooms - Mrs. Cornell. Fish Souffle One...
- Fish. Part 6
- Baked Codfish Clean 4 lbs. cod, sprinkle with salt and pepper, brush over with lemon juice; stuff with 1 cup cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup melted butter, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, 1/2 teas...
- Entrees
- Swedish Timbales One teaspoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 1 cup flour. Beat eggs slightly with sugar and salt. Add cold milk. Dip timbale iron in hot fat, then in batter. Fry in dee...
- Entrees. Part 2
- Crab Chops Two cups crab meat, 3 tablespoonfuls of flour, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 cup of milk, yolks of 2 eggs. Make white sauce of flour and butter. Gradually stir in mi...
- Entrees. Part 3
- Creamed Oysters Melt a lump of butter the size of a walnut in a sauce pan. Stir into it 1 tablespoon of flour. Let this cook, but not brown. Then add 1 large cup of cream, a dash of cayenne, salt, an...
- Poultry And Game
- A Delicate Way To Cook Young Chickens Prepare a baking pan by putting little pieces of butter or good drippings in it; then cut up young chickens as for frying and put them closely together in the pa...
- Poultry And Game. Part 2
- Old fashioned English Chicken Pie - Cover chicken (cut in pieces for serving) with boiling water; add 2 sprigs of thyme, 1 sprig of marjoram, bit of bay leaf, 2 sprigs parsely, tied in a bag; simmer ...
- Poultry And Game. Part 3
- Canvasback Duck This bird requires no spices or flavors to make it perfect, as the meat partakes of the flavor of the food the bird feeds upon, being mostly wild celery and the flavor is best preserv...
- Meat Hints
- When browning a pot roast add a tablespoonful of sugar to the fat. It produces a beautiful brown and delicious flavor. After chops are fried pour about 1/2 cup of catsup or chutney into the hot dripp...
- Meat
- Albundigas (Monterey Spanish Dish) Twenty-five cents worth Hamburg steak, 3/4 cup germea. Season with salt, pepper, thyme and summer savory. Mix together into balls not too large; fry 3 onions cut fi...
- Meat. Part 2
- Curry From Original India Receipt Procure lamb or young mutton from shoulder. Cut in pieces about twice as thick as the usual chops and then cut in pieces about 2 inches; trim fat from mutton, or tak...
- Meat. Part 3
- French Meat Balls Make into a ball 2 pounds round beef steak, minced fine; 3 slices bread crumbed, 1 egg. Season with salt and pepper. Fry considerable salt pork with an onion and brown meat ball tho...
- Meat. Part 4
- Double Chops Ask butcher for double chop. They should be very thick; have them rolled like rib roast and fastened with toothpick. Place in well buttered pan; sprinkle with sifted bread crumbs; place ...
- Meat. Part 5
- Goulasch A La Italiana One thick slice round steak, small salt pork, 1 pound tagliarini, 1 1/2 cups grated cheese. Cut salt pork into small pieces. Place in stew pan, when well fried add 1 small onio...
- Meat. Part 6
- Ragout Of Beef For 6 pounds round beef, take 1/2 dozen ripe tomatoes, cut up fine 2 or 3 onions in a vessel with a tight cover; add 1/2 dozen cloves, stick cinnamon and a little whole pepper. Cut gas...
- Meat. Part 7
- Veal Croquettes One pint minced cooked veal, 1/2 pint milk, 2 tablespoons flour, 3 tablespoons butter, 1 level teaspoon salt, 1/3 teaspoon pepper, 1/2 teaspoon onion juice. Put milk in saucepan; beat...
- Meat Sauces And Dressings
- Mrs. Secretary Noble's Chicken Sauce, which has driven some epicures to whom it has been served to rise and exclaim! With such a sauce one could eat one's grandfather. Sauce for Pheasants, Quail, C...
- Luncheon Dishes
- Apple Pancake For Luncheon Two cups of flour, 2 teaspoon-fuls yeast powder, or 1/2 teaspoonful soda and 1 of cream tartar, 1 tablespoonful sugar, 1 apple cut in small pieces, sour milk if preferred. ...
- Luncheon Dishes. Part 2
- Minced Veal Take some gravy that has been left over from roast veal, put in a pan with 2 cups of cold veal, cut up in small pieces; 1 cup of bread crumbs. Add salt and pepper, and a piece of butter. ...
- Luncheon Dishes. Part 3
- Patitas As A Lunch Dish Get some sheeps' feet, properly prepared, at the market. Boil until very tender, then remove all the bones. Then beat up 4 eggs well. Dip the feet, which have previously been ...
- Chafing Dish Recipes
- Chicken Terrapin One chicken boiled in as little water as will cook it. When cooked cut the meat into small pieces. Put scant 1/4 cup of butter in sauce pan with 2 tablespoons flour rubbed smoothly t...
- Chafing Dish Recipes. Continued
- Welsh Rarebit One cup grated cheese (must be dry), 1 cup milk, butter size walnut, cook until cheese melts; add heaping teaspoon cornstarch stirred in a little milk. When it thickens remove from fire...
- Casserole
- Beefsteak En Casserole Select a sirlon or tenderloin steak at least an inch thick. Have ready cooked in brown stock until tender, balls cut from carrots and turnips, 1/2 dozen of each for each servic...
- Fritters And Croquettes
- Fritter Batter For Bananas Or Apples One cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt. Beat yolks of 2 eggs. Gradually add 1 cup milk, slowly sift in flour. Then add 1 teaspoon melted butter. - E. V. B. Fritters ...
- Salads
- Artichoke Salad Hearts of 6 artichokes cut into small dice. Add crisp celery cut fine, then 2 hard boiled eggs, the yolks rubbed to a paste and the whites chopped very fine. Mix and add mayonnaise. S...
- Salads. Part 2
- Crab Salad Shred crab meat. For a cup of meat mix a few grains each of salt and pepper with 3 tablespoons olive oil. Add 1 tablespoon vinegar gradually and mix thoroughly. Mix this dressing through c...
- Salads. Part 3
- Stuffed Eggs Boil 6 eggs hard, about 20 minutes. Put in cold water, shell and cut open carefully; take out the yolks; mash with a fork; chop very fine 1 radish, pickle, some heart of lettuce, green o...
- Salads. Part 4
- Pimiento Salad The following is enough for one dozen: 2 cups cold minced veal, 1 cup mashed potato or soaked bread crumbs. Use salt, pepper and paprika to taste, 2 teaspoons onion juice, 2 tablespoon...
- Salad Dressings
- Boiled Mayonnaise Dressing Beat 1 egg and add 1 teaspoon vinegar, a little pepper, a pinch of salt and mustard. Set the small saucepan in boiling water and stir the egg constantly until it begins to ...
- Salad Dressings. Continued
- Fruit Salad Dressing One egg, 4 tablespoons vinegar, 1 tablespoon butter. Boil until thick. When cool add 1/2 cup heavy cream about to turn. Beat until creamy and pour over salad. Mix well and serve....
- Pickles And Relishes
- Chili Sauce Twenty-four large tomatoes, 4 large onions, 8 red peppers, 2 tablespoons salt, 8 tablespoons sugar, 4 cups vinegar. Chop the onions and peppers fine. Add all together and cook slowly 3 or...
- Pickles And Relishes. Part 2
- Crab Canapes Cut bread in slices 1/4 inch thick, 3 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide. Spread with butter and brown in oven. Mix 1 cup chopped crab meat, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 2 drops tobasca sauc...
- Pickles And Relishes. Part 3
- Pickled Apricots Three quarts white sugar, 1 pint vinegar, 6 cloves, a little allspice, 2 tablespoons mustard or celery seed, 1 tablespoon red pepper. Mix pepper, sugar and other dry ingredients; the...
- Pickles And Relishes. Part 4
- Ripe Olives Bruise 1/2 clove of garlic, place in quart jar; fill with ripe olives which have been drained and dried. Pill jar with pure olive oil. Let stand a few days before using. The oil may be us...
- Vegetables Hints
- If new potatoes are mealy and you wish to serve them whole, pour in a cupful of cold water after they have boiled about 10 minutes. A squeeze of lemon in the water in which lettuce is put to cool cri...
- Vegetables
- Boiled Asparagus Cut off the lower part of the stalks, wash thoroughly, tie in bunches, and cook in boiling salted water until soft. Drain, remove string, and spread with soft butter, and serve on bu...
- Vegetables. Part 2
- Lima Beans Fry an onion in a little lard or olive oil. Add lima beans and tomatoes, then a little flour and water and let all steam until done. After they are cooked thoroughly, string beans taste fi...
- Vegetables. Part 3
- Fried Carrots Take young carrots, parboil and cut in thin slices. Put these in a spider with melted butter and fry them brown, sprinkling with brown sugar. Cauliflower With Tomato Sauce Boil a fr...
- Vegetables. Part 4
- Corn Oysters Two cupfuls of corn, 1 egg (well beaten), 1/2 teacupful of flour, salt. Mix well, drop from tablespoon into boiling fat. - C. M. B. Eggplant A La Bourbon Pour a cupful of cream into ...
- Vegetables. Part 5
- Macaroni (Mushroom Sauce) Cook macaroni 25 or 30 minutes. Meanwhile prepare sauce as follows: Fry 1 onion (sliced thin) in 1/2 cup olive oil. Pour hot water over 1 cup of dried mushrooms and allow to...
- Vegetables. Part 6
- Green Peas Melt a large piece of butter in a saucepan. Add a small onion and green peas and let them steam slowly for about 40 minutes, shaking occasionally so that they won't burn. Peas cooked in th...
- Vegetables. Part 7
- Scalloped Potatoes (Kentucky Style) Peel and slice potatoes thin, the same as for frying. Butter an earthen dish, put in a layer of potatoes and season with salt, pepper, butter and a bit of onion ch...
- Vegetables. Part 8
- Potato Cakes Two cups mashed potatoes, 1/2 cup flour, 1 egg, 1/4 teaspoonful of baking powder. Drop 1 tablespoon at a time in deep hot fat. - Helen Merrill. To Boil Rice Pick over the rice carefu...
- Vegetables. Part 9
- Stewed Tomatoes - Peel the tomatoes and cut into small pieces. Put in a stew pan on the fire. Boil gently for 1/2 hour. Season 5 minutes before the cooking is finished, allowing for each quart of tom...
- Vegetables. Part 10
- Canned Tomatoes Scald and skin tomatoes; put on to boil with pepper and salt until done (15 or 20 minutes). Pack in jars, drive out air bubbles by running silver fork down the sides; seal and set awa...
- Spanish And Italian Dishes
- Spanish Shrimps One pound picked shrimps, 1 1/2 cups boiled rice, 6 tablespoons Snyder's catsup, piece of butter size of an egg. Melt butter, add shrimps, rice and catsup. Heat thoroughly. Serve hot ...
- Spanish And Italian Dishes. Continued
- Rissoto Creole Creole Sauce: Two tablespoons chopped onion, 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper, 1 tablespoon chopped red pepper or pimentoes, 4 tablespoons chopped fresh mushrooms, 3 tablespoons butt...
- Cheese And Egg Dishes
- Baked Eggs Butter your muffin tins and break the eggs into them, filling the holes not needed with water. Put a piece of butter, salt, a few drops of Worcestershire sauce, and a generous quantity of ...
- Cheese And Egg Dishes. Part 2
- Egg Croquettes Six eggs boiled hard. Shell and force through a puree sieve. Mix with a cream sauce made by cooking 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 of flour together, seasoning and adding milk till thick...
- Cheese And Egg Dishes. Part 3
- Omelette Three eggs, separate yolks and whites. Beat the yolks and add a pinch of salt: 1/4 teaspoon each of cornstarch and baking powder, and 3 tablespoons milk. Have the whites beaten very stiff. T...
- Cheese And Egg Dishes. Part 4
- Cheese Entree One-fourth package dinner biscuits, 1/2 cup grated cheese, 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons milk, pinch of red pepper, 2 tablespoons butter. Melt butter, add cheese, then eggs beaten very light wi...
- Bread, Biscuits, Etc
- Graham Bread Make a sponge as for white bread of 1 pint sweet milk or water, 2 potatoes boiled, mashed and strained, I teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoonful butter or lard, 1/2 cake compressed yeast dissolv...
- Bread, Biscuits, Etc. Part 2
- Potato Split Biscuit Bake 4 large potatoes; when done remove from hulls. Mash and add teaspoon salt and 2/3 cup butter and lard mixed; add 1 egg. When cool add 1/2 yeast cake which has been dissolved...
- Bread, Biscuits, Etc. Part 3
- White Bread Two cups milk, 2 scant tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 1/2 cups water, 3 cooked potatoes, mashed, 1/2 yeast cake. Scald the milk with the butter and sugar. Dissolve the yeast in 1/2...
- Bread, Biscuits, Etc. Part 4
- Graham Puffs One pint sweet milk, 1 pint graham flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 egg. Beat the egg; add milk; then flour very slowly, beating all to a froth; bake in hot gem pans. Graham Gems One and ...
- Bread, Biscuits, Etc. Part 5
- Prune Brown Bread One cup corn meal scalded, 2 cups graham flour, 1/2 cups molasses, 1 cup sour milk, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped prunes. Steam 3 hours. - Mrs. J. D. Sweet Cr...
- Muffins
- Muffins Two cups of sifted flour, 1 cup milk, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon butter, salt. Measure 2 cups of sifted flour to which add a little salt and 1 cup of milk, stirring well. Beat the yolks of 3 eggs t...
- Pancakes
- Buckwheat Cakes Two cups buckwheat, 1 tablespoon of yellow cornmeal and 1 tablespoon molasses to each cup. Dissolve 1/2 yeast cake in 1/2 cup sweet milk, salt; sift dry ingredients and mix with milk,...
- Sandwiches
- Cheese Sandwich To Serve With Salad Thin slices of bread, butter, cheese, Worcestershire sauce, salt and cayenne. Cut the bread thin, cut out with muffin ring, toast brown; then place in muffin ring,...
- Sandwiches. Continued
- Cheese Sandwiches One hard-boiled egg, 1/4 pound of cheese, grated, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon mustard, 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, vinegar or cold water. ...
- Cracker Dishes
- Breakfast Relish Butter crackers. Put in pudding dish, chop ham, 1 layer of ham, 2 layers of crackers. Season well. Cover with milk. Bake 20 minutes. Children's Dessert Six soda crackers. Pour ov...
- Cakes
- Angel Cake One cup egg whites, 1/2 level teaspoon cream tartar, 1 cup of fine granulated sugar, 1 rounding cup of flour sifted 6 times before measuring, almond or gome other light colored flavoring. ...
- Cakes. Part 2
- Cheese Cake Line pan with crust made as follows: Two tablespoons butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 egg, little vanilla, flour to roll. Filling: Beat 1 pound schmierkase to a cream, add yolks 4 eggs, 1/2 cup s...
- Cakes. Part 3
- Cream Cake One cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups flour, 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons cold water, 1 teaspoon yeast powder. Bake in 2 pie tins, split open and fill with the following cream: 1 pint milk, let come to boili...
- Cakes. Part 4
- Dutch Apple Cake Mix 1 cupful of scalded milk, 1/3 cupful butter, 1/3 cupful sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. When luke warm add 1 yeast cake, 2 unbeaten eggs, and flour to make a stiff dough. Beat thor...
- Cakes. Part 5
- Feather Cake Seven eggs (reserve whites of 2 for frosting), 1 1/2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, 1 cup water, 1/4 cup ground chocolate, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon each of c...
- Cakes. Part 6
- Fruit Chocolate Layer Cake One cupful brown sugar, 1/2 cupful butter, 1/2 cupful milk (scant), 2 cupfuls flour, 2 teaspoon-fuls baking powder, 3 tablespoonfuls ground chocolate, and 3 tablespoonfuls ...
- Cakes. Part 7
- Gold Cake Yolks of 8 eggs, 2/3 cup butter, 1 1/4 cups sugar, 1 1/2 cups flour, 2/3 cup milk, lemon flavor, 1 scant teaspoon cream tartar, 1/2 teaspoon soda. Cream butter and sugar. Then add beaten yo...
- Cakes. Part 8
- Lady Baltimore Cake One cupful butter, 2 cupfuls sugar, 3 1/2 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful sweet milk, the whites of 6 eggs, 2 level teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon rose water. Cream the butter, ad...
- Cakes. Part 9
- Marble Cake One-half pound butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar; cream well; beat 5 eggs in a bowl and add to the creamed butter and sugar; 2 cups sifted flour with 2 small teaspoons baking powder, 3/4 cup mi...
- Cakes. Part 10
- One Egg Chocolate Cake One egg, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, butter size of egg (half beef drippings or lard may be used), vanilla, pinch of salt, milk to make a soft batter....
- Cakes. Part 11
- Plain Cake Five eggs beaten separately, 2 1/2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter creamed, 1 cup sweet milk, 4 cups flour sifted, 2 tea-spoonfuls baking powder; put whites of eggs in last, flavoring to suit. - ...
- Cakes. Part 12
- Snow Ball Cake One cup powdered sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, whites of 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Cream butter, sugar and egg; then add milk and flour before stirri...
- Cakes. Part 13
- Cream Sponge Cake Break 2 eggs in a cup and fill up with sweet cream; beat the eggs and cream until they are like froth; then add 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder. - L. M. C....
- Cakes. Part 14
- Velvet Cake Whites of 4 eggs well beaten, 1 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2cup sweet milk, 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup cornstarch, 1 teaspoon yeast powder. Beat butter and sugar to a cream; add milk; t...
- Cake Fillings And Frostings
- A Good Filling For White Cake Two tablespoons chocolate, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 tablespoons hot strong coffee, vanilla. Mix thoroughly and add cup chopped nuts. - E. McC. Filling ...
- Cake Fillings And Frostings. Continued
- Mocha Filling Ten-cent slice of sweet butter, work it to a cream with the hands, then add 1/2 cup of sugar, yolks of 2 eggs; then gradually add a little black strong coffee, a little at a time, until...
- Cookies
- Anise Seed Kisses Yolks of 4 eggs, 3/4 cup of sugar, 3/4 cup of flour, anise seed to taste. Beat very thoroughly; then drop by teaspoons and hake in very slow oven. - C. L. B. Almond Cookies Beat...
- Cookies. Part 2
- Cocoanut Kisses Whites of 3 eggs beaten stiff; add 1 cud granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla; ground crocolate enough to darken. When all mixed put on stove and stir until thin. While stirring put i...
- Cookies. Part 3
- Graham Wafers One-half cup of butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, graham flour, 1 level teaspoon soda, 2 tablespoons milk. Beat butter and sugar to cream. Add egg. Dissolve the soda in a tablespoon of hot wa...
- Cookies. Part 4
- Nut Wafers Two cupfuls walnut meats, chopped, 1 1/2 cup-fuls brown sugar, 3 heaping .tablespoonfuls flour, 1/4 teaspoonful baking powder, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, 2 eggs. Beat the eggs and add sugar, fl...
- Cookies. Part 5
- Rocks One and one-half cups brown sugar, 1 cup butter, 3 eggs (well beaten), 1 teaspoon soda in 1/2 cup water (cold), 1 pound raisins (rolled in flour), 1 pound walnuts (broken small), 2 1/2 cups flo...
- Pastry
- Filling For Pie One cup chopped rhubarb, 11/2 cups sugar, yolks of 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon cornstarch. Beat whites for the top and spread after pie is baked. Any fruit can be used. - Mary Sargent. Hi...
- Pastry. Part 2
- Mock Cherry Pie (Cranberry) Cut in halves 1 cup cranberries and mix them in a bowl with 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup cold water and 1 tablespoonful of flour. The flour should be mixed dry with the sugar befo...
- Pastry. Part 3
- Lemon Pie One lemon (juice and rind grated), add 3 tablespoonfuls sugar, butter size of a walnut, 2 tablespoonfuls of water. Let this come to a boil. Then pour this slowly over 3 well beaten yolks of...
- Pastry. Part 4
- Mince Meat One pound of suet chopped almost to a powder, all stringy parts removed; 3 pounds of lean beef, boiled until tender and chopped fine; 3 pounds of raisins, seeded; 1 pound of Sultana raisin...
- Pastry. Part 5
- Prune Pie One cup mashed cooked prunes, 1 cup prune juice or water, 3/4 cup white sugar, 1 heaping tablespoon flour. Cook all together. When thick add beaten yolks of 2 eggs, lump of butter, salt, ju...
- Light Desserts
- Ambrosia First - Dissolve 1 rounded tablespoonful of granulated gelatine in 1/2 cup cold water and stir over the fire until, thoroughly dissolved. Second - Add another 1/2 cup cold water to the hot g...
- Light Desserts. Part 2
- Banana Pudding Two dozen lady fingers, 2 dozen macaroons, 1 dozen large or 1 dozen small bananas, 1 1/2 pints of soft custard. Put a layer of lady fingers in the bottom of a glass dish, then a layer ...
- Light Desserts. Part 3
- Coffee Souffle Put in the double boiler l 1/2 cups of made coffee, 1/2 cup of milk, 2/3 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon granulated gelatine. When hot, add a pinch of salt and yolks of 2 eggs beaten a little;...
- Light Desserts. Part 4
- Chocolate Sponge Pudding Eight tablespoons ground chocolate, yolks of 8 eggs, 8 tablespoons sugar beat to a cream, pinch of salt. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons gelatine to a teacup boiling water and let it s...
- Light Desserts. Part 5
- Macaroon Souffle Twelve macaroons crumbed, 1 cup milk (scald milk); add macaroons, yolks of 3 eggs and 1/2 cup sugar beaten together and stirred into milk and macaroons. When it begins to thicken rem...
- Light Desserts. Part 6
- Prune Souffle (Without Baking) Whites of 4 eggs beaten to a very stiff frost, 1 1/4 teaspoons of gelatine softened in a tablespoon of cold water. When this is softened add a generous tablespoon of bo...
- Light Desserts. Part 7
- Snow Cream Beat the whites of 4 eggs until foamy; then add gradually 4 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, beating all the while; then beat until stiff enough to stand alone; add 1 tablespoonful of she...
- Frozen Desserts
- Caramel Ice Cream One quart heavy cream, 1/2 pint milk, 1 1/3 cups sugar, 1 tablespoon vanilla and pinch of salt. Heat iron spider hot and wipe clean. Melt 1/2 the dry sugar in the spider, stirring w...
- Frozen Desserts. Continued
- Mousse Whip 1 quart of pastry cream until quite stiff and sweeten to taste (about 2 cups of sugar). Divide into 3 parts and flavor 1 with vanilla, another with 3 tablespoons of chocolate that has bee...
- Puddings
- Baked Apple Pudding Stir a tablespoonful of butter and 1/2 cup of sugar to a cream. Add the yolks of 4 eggs well beaten, the juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, and 1/2 dozen sound green apples peeled ...
- Puddings. Part 2
- Date Pudding One and one-fourth pounds of dates chopped fine and stoned, 2 loaves of square bread; take soft, part and crumble it fine, 2 heaping cups suet chopped fine, 3 eggs, 1 cup of molasses, 1 ...
- Puddings. Part 3
- Plum Pudding One pound suet, shred and chop fine, 1 lb. raisins, stoned, 1 pound currants, wash and bake, 1 1/2 pounds flour, small piece of citron, sliced fine, 6 eggs, 1 teaspoon each of mace, nutm...
- Pudding Sauces
- Alameda Caramel Sauce One cup sugar, 1 cup boiling water, 1 level tablespoon cornstarch, 1 large tablespoon butter, lemon juice or wine to flavor. Caramel sugar by placing in a hot spider. Put over a...
- Apple Dainties
- Apples In Bloom Eight red apples as nearly of size as possible. Boil till tender, turning with a fork. Remove skin. With a teaspoon scrape the red from the skin. To the water apples were boiled in ad...
- Preserves, Jellies, Etc
- Amber Marmalade Shave 1 orange, 1 lemon and 1 grape fruit very thin, rejecting seeds and cores. Measure fruit and add 3 times as much water. Let stand over night in an earthen dish, and in the mornin...
- Preserves, Jellies, Etc. Part 2
- Gooseberry Sweets An old English recipe for gooseberry preserve, when once found a place in the store closet, will not be permitted to be missed again. Press the juice from 3 oranges and shave off th...
- Preserves, Jellies, Etc. Part 3
- Peach Marmalade Eighteen cups chopped peaches, 2 pineapples, 8 cups sugar, juice 6 (juicy) lemons. Cook like any kind of marmalade until smooth, stirring so contents do not burn. - Mrs. A. D. Peac...
- Confectionery
- Brownies Beat 2 eggs very light and add 1 cup sugar. Have ready to add to this 1/2 cup (scant) butter and 2 squares of chocolate melted together. Beat this into eggs and sugar, then add 1/2 cup floor...
- Confectionery. Part 2
- Seafoam Fudge Two and one-half cups brown sugar, scant cup of water, 1 teaspoon vinegar. Heat gradually until boiling, stirring only until sugar is dissolved. Boil until it ropes. Remove at once from...
- Confectionery. Part 3
- Toasted Marshmallows One tablespoon granulated gelatine, 1 cup boiling water, 1 cup sugar, whites of 3 eggs, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla, macaroons. Dissolve gelatine in boiling water, add sugar and as s...
- Invalid Cookery
- Barley Water Teacup of pearl barley; add 2 quarts of water; boil in a double porcelain boiler 21/2 hours. Add 1 cup table raisins an hour before you remove it from the stove. It will look milky and a...
- Coffee, Tea And Other Beverages Hints
- Do not boil water longer than 3 or 4 minutes. Longer boiling ruins the water for tea and coffee making, as most of its natural properties escape by evaporation, leaving a very insipid liquid, composed...
- Coffee, Tea And Other Beverages Hints. Continued
- Fruit Punch Two dozen lemons, 8 oranges, 1 can grated pineapple, 1/2 bottle Grenadine syrup, 1 bottle syphon soda, 1/2 at making, the rest at serving. Fruit Punch One and one-half dozen lemons, 1...
- Miscellaneous
- Hair Shampoo Dissolve 3 tablespoons of grated French castile soap in 1 quart of boiling water; place on back of stove until dissolved; stir 3 tablespoons of borax in 1 quart of cold water; beat yolks...
- Table Of Weights And Measures
- Four teaspoonfuls equal 1 tablespoonful liquid. Four tablespoonfuls equal 1 wine glass or 1/2 a gill. Two wine glasses equal 1 gill, or 1/2 a cup. Two gills equal 1 coffeecupful, or 16 tablespoonfu...
- Facts Worth Knowing
- To remove stains from a porcelain sink sprinkle chloride of lime in the sink, avoiding the metal on the drain. Place a damp cloth over and allow to stand over night. - Mrs. E. L. P. Mold can be preve...
- Household Hints
- An ordinary Mason jar cover makes an excellent pot scraper. A clove added to each apple when baking gives a pleasant change, also to prunes when stewing. One or two stuck into the roast beef gives a ...
- Lemon Remedies
- Biliousness Take daily the juice of 2 small lemons or 1 large one. Take no other remedy and you will soon be cured. Felon Cut off the end of a lemon and insert the finger and bind it on. In the m...
- Suggestions
- To keep a cut lemon fresh place unused portion in a small cup of water, not covering the pulp. Sliced lemon in stewed prunes is a great addition. In stuffing peppers if you will boil the peppers fir...
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