Tasty Dishes | by James Clarke
"What shall we have?" is a question daily asked in thousands of homes by troubled housekeepers, as often calling forth only the same ever-repeated answer. It is this perpetually-recurring query that has suggested the publication of the present book, as an attempt to furnish a ready answer of a more satisfactory nature. It is not a Cookery Book, in the ordinary sense of the term: making no profession of teaching how to cook, or even of embracing a very wide range of recipes. It pretends to be simply what its title describes - a selection of fresh and choice recipes for Tasty Dishes; nearly every one of which have been personally tested by the compiler. The volume is published with the hope that it may, by suggesting a pleasing variety of simple palatable dishes, be the means of lifting a burden from many a housewife's heart, and increasing in some degree the general peace and comfort of many a household. The Publishers believe that it will be warmly welcomed as affording opportunity of enjoying variety without vexation, and they have full confidence that the recipes will commend themselves in all homes where it is desired to have excellence without extravagance.
| Title | Tasty Dishes |
| Author | James Clarke |
| Publisher | James Clarke & Co. |
| Year | 1880 |
| Copyright | 1880, James Clarke & Co. |
| Amazon | Tasty Dishes |
Tasty dishes; Made from tested recipes. Showing what we can have for breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper.
How To Make Soups- General Directions For Soupmaking Lean beef, mutton, or veal, is the basis of all good rich soups, but fresh bones and those from cooked meat and poultry, with trimmings of meat, make very good sto...
- How To Make Soups. Part 2
- Mutton Soup Use the above directions, substituting mutton for beef, pearl barley for rice, and onions for tomatoes. Do not skim either of the above-named soups. Note. - These soups are made in t...
- How To Make Soups. Part 3
- Jugged Soup Ingredients 2 quarts of stock - it need not be very good, 5 or 6 slices of streaked pork cut very thin, 6 parboiled potatoes, 1 sliced onion, 6 sliced tomatoes, 1 carrot grated, 1 cu...
- How To Make Soups. Part 4
- Palestine Soup Ingredients 3 lbs. of Jerusalem artichokes, 3 turnips, 1 head of celery, 1 onion, 1 lump of sugar, salt and cayenne to taste, and sufficient white stock (from mutton or veal) to c...
- How To Make Cutlets Of Cod Or Salmon
- Ingredients 3 lbs. fish cut in slices three-quarters-of-an-inch thick from the body of the fish, a handful of fine breadcrumbs, with which should be mixed pepper and salt, and a little minced parsl...
- How To Cook Fish
- Curried Oysters Ingredients 2 doz. oysters, 1 onion, 1 table-spoonful of curry-powder, 1 dessert-spoonful of flour, 2 ozs. butter, juice of a lemon. Method Chop the onion up quite fine, mi...
- How To Cook Fish. Continued
- Filleted Soles (White) Ingredients 1 pair moderate-sized soles, lemon-juice, a little butter. For the Sauce: 1/2 oz. butter, 1/2 oz. flour, 1 tablespoonful of cream or milk, finely-chopped parsl...
- How To Cook Salmon
- Moulded Salmon Ingredients 1/2 lb. of cold boiled salmon, 2 eggs beaten light, 2 tablespoonfuls of butter (melted but not hot), 1 tablespoonful of fine breadcrumbs, seasoning of pepper, salt, an...
- How To Cook Rolled Steak
- Rolled Steak. No. 1 Ingredients Rump steak, forcemeat of breadcrumbs, pork, half an onion, pepper and salt; browned flour and butter for the gravy. Method Take a good steak, not too thick,...
- How To Cook Beef
- Stewed Beef Steak Ingredients 2 lbs. of beef steak cut 1 1/2 inch thick, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, 1 onion, bunch of herbs, small piece of celery, 1 oz. of butter, 3/4 -pint of stock or water. Meth...
- How To Cook Lamb
- Stewed Breast Of Lamb Ingredients One breast of lamb, pepper and salt to taste, sufficient stock to cover it, thickening of butter and flour. Method Skin the lamb and cut it into pieces, a...
- How To Make Bondinettes Of Veal, Rabbit, Chicken, Etc
- Ingredients Cold meat, potatoes, crumbs, seasoning, and gravy. Method To every pound of finely minced meat, add a 1/4 of a pound of mashed potatoes or very fine breadcrumbs, and a little minc...
- How To Cook Turkey
- Pulled Turkey Ingredients Remains of cold roast or boiled turkey, milk to cover it, thickened with a little flour, a few slices of bacon, rolled and toasted. Method Take the remains of a r...
- How To Cook Rabbit
- Rabbit Pie Ingredients 1 rabbit, a few slices of salt pork, 1 hard-boiled egg, a little mace, a few drops of lemon-juice, pepper and butter. Method Cut the rabbit into eight pieces, soak i...
- How To Cook An Old Fowl
- Skin the fowl and cut it up; place it in a stewpan with just enough water to cover it, and let it stew gently till the bones can be easily taken from the meat. The time required for this will depend a...
- How To Cook Chicken
- Potted Chicken Ingredients 1/4 lb. cold roast chicken, 2 oz. ham, 2 oz. fresh butter, 1/2 teaspoonful of pounded mace, 1/4 of a small nutmeg, salt and cayenne to taste. Method Cut the ham ...
- How To Cook Curries
- Ingredients 1 1/2 lbs. of steak, or veal cutlets, 2 ozs. butter, or good beef-dripping, 2 onions, 1 apple, 1 tablespoonful of curry-powder, 1 table-spoonful of flour, salt to taste, 1/2 pint of wat...
- How To Cook Kidneys
- Fried Kidneys Ingredients 3 large kidneys, 3 tablespoonfuls of butter, 1/2 teacup good brown gravy, 1 teaspoonful of chopped parsley, 1/2 teaspoonful of minced onion, pepper and salt. Method ...
- How To Cook Mutton
- Mutton Cutlets. No. 1 Ingredients Cutlets from the neck of mutton, thin batter of flour and water, slightly salted, fine brown toast raspings, lard or dripping. Method Trim the cutlets and...
- How To Cook Veal
- Veal Pates Ingredients Cold roast veal, cold ham, pepper, salt, lemon-peel, a little gravy and milk; pastry. Method Mince some cold roast meat very fine, also some ham, and mix with the ve...
- How To Make Jellied Tongue
- Ingredients 1 large boiled tongue, 1 1/2 ozs. gelatine, dissolved in 1/2 a pint of water, 2 teacups of rich browned veal gravy, 1 bunch of savoury herbs, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, 1 tablespoonful o...
- How To Make Pudding Pastes and Crusts
- Puff Paste Ingredients 1 lb. flour, 6 oz. butter, 6 oz. lard, rather less than 1/2 pint of water. Method If the butter is very salt, it should be washed in cold water, then well squeezed t...
- How To Make Apple Puddings
- Apple Méringue Pudding Ingredients 1 pint of stewed apples, 3 eggs - whites and yolks separate - 1/2 teacup white sugar, 1 teaspoonful of butter, 1 teaspoonful of essence of almond (for the méri...
- How To Make Puddings
- Agra Pudding Ingredients 4 eggs, 1 1/2 pint of milk, 1 table-spoonful of sugar, vanilla to taste, bread-and-butter, marmalade, and 1 pint of boiled custard. Method Cut thin slices of bread...
- How To Make Puddings. Part 2
- Bachelor's Pudding Ingredients 1 egg, with its weight in minced apple, flour, sugar, currants, breadcrumbs, suet. Method Mix these with the egg and add a little milk. Boil in a mould from ...
- How To Make Puddings. Part 3
- Curate Puddings Ingredients 3 eggs, with their weight in flour, pounded sugar, and butter, flavouring of lemon, almond, or vanilla. Method Warm the butter and beat to a cream gradually dre...
- How To Make Puddings. Part 4
- Marmalade Custard Pudding Ingredients 1 teacup of fine breadcrumbs, 1 1/2 cups of milk, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls of butter, 1 teacup of marmalade. Method Beat the b...
- How To Make Puddings. Part 5
- Pearl Barley Pudding. No. 2 Ingredients 2 oz. best pearl barley, 1 quart milk, 5 oz. moist sugar. Method Soak the barley in cold water for twelve hours, then drain the water away, put the ...
- How To Make Puddings. Part 6
- Snow-Drift Pudding Ingredients 1/2 ounce of gelatine soaked in cold water, 1/2 pint of water, 1/2 pound of white sugar, the juice of 4 lemons, and whites of 2 eggs. Method Dissolve the gel...
- How To Make Gooseberry Puddings
- Gooseberry Pudding (Baked) Ingredients 1 pint of gooseberries, 1 teacup of milk, 1/2 teacup of sugar, 1 tablespoonful of butter (melted), toasted bread. Method Stew the gooseberries gently...
- How To Make Christmas Pudding
- Christmas Pudding. No. 1 Ingredients 2 1/2 lb. flour, 1 1/2 lb. breadcrumbs, 1 1/2 lb. suet, 1 1/2 lb. raisins, 1 lb. currants, 1 lb. sugar, a little candied peel, 6 eggs, 1/2 pint of milk. M...
- How To Make Jellies
- Claret Jelly Ingredients 1 oz. gelatine, soaked in cold water, 1/2 pint of water, 1 pint of claret, 1/2 lb. loaf sugar, 1 wineglass of brandy, 1 egg. Method Put soaked gelatine, sugar, and...
- How To Make Fritters
- Currant Fritters Ingredients 4 tablespoonfuls of flour, one teacup of currants, 1/2 pint of milk, 3 eggs - the whites beaten separately. Method Mix all well together, and fry quickly in bo...
- How To Make Fig Pudding
- Fig Pudding. No. 1 Ingredients 1/2 lb. of figs, 1/2 lb. breadcrumbs, 6 oz. brown sugar, 2 eggs, 1/4 lb. suet, 2 oz. flour, nutmeg to taste, a little milk. Method Chop the suet very fine, a...
- How To Make Pies
- Cream Raspberry Pie Ingredients Puff paste, 1 quart of raspberries, sugar to taste, a good teacupful of milk, a pinch of soda, 1/2 a teaspoonful of cornflour, 1 tablespoonful of white pounded su...
- How To Make Meringues
- Cornflour Meringue Ingredients 1 quart of milk, 4 good teaspoonfuls of cornflour, 4 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls of pounded white sugar, 1 tablespoonful of jelly or jam, flavouring of vanilla or lemon...
- How To Make Cheesecakes
- Rice Cheesecakes Ingredients 2 eggs, 1/4 lb. butter, 1/4 lb. sugar, 1/4 lb. ground rice, a few drops of essence of lemon. Method Well whisk the eggs and add to them all the other ingredien...
- How To Make Sweets
- French Pancakes Ingredients 2 eggs, 2 oz. of butter, 2 oz. of sifted sugar, 2 oz. of flour, 1/2 a pint of new milk. Method Beat the eggs thoroughly, and put them into a basin with the butt...
- How To Make Creams
- Lemon Creams Ingredients 1/2 pint of water, the juice of 2 lemons and peel of 1, 3 eggs well beaten, and 6 oz. loaf sugar. Method Put the water, lemon peel, and sugar in a saucepan over th...
- How To Make Custards
- Solid Custard Ingredients 1 quart of milk, thin rind of 1 lemon, 7 oz. sugar, 1 oz. gelatine, yolks of 4 eggs, well beaten, 15 bitter almonds, 11 sweet almonds-blanched and chopped very fine. ...
- How To Make Gingerbread Cakes
- Gingerbread Loaf Ingredients Butter, treacle, and sugar, 1 tea-cupful of each; 1/2 a teacup of cold water, 1 table-spoonful of ground ginger; soda dissolved in water, and cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful...
- How To Make Orange Cake (In Layers)
- Ingredients 3 oz. butter, 3 oz. white pounded sugar, 1 teacup of milk, 2 eggs, flavour to taste, 5 oz. flour. Method Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar, then the milk and yolks of the ...
- How To Make Cakes
- A Plain Cake Ingredients 1/2 lb. of good beef dripping (clarified), 1 1/2 lb. flour, 1/2 lb. sugar, 1/2 oz. caraway seeds, 1 pint of milk, 1 tablespoonful of carbonate of soda. Method Rub ...
- How To Make Cakes. Continued
- Soda Cake Ingredients 1 lb. of flour, 1/2 lb. sugar, 1/2 lb. butter, 1/2 lb. currants, 1/2 oz. of candied peel, 1 tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda, 1 pint of milk, 3 eggs. Method Rub the ...
- How To Make Rice Cakes
- Ingredients 1/4 lb. ground rice, 2 oz. butter, 2 oz. pounded white sugar, 1 egg. Method Beat the butter to a cream, stir in the rice and sugar and moisten with the egg, which should be well b...
- How To Make Sponge Cakes
- Ingredients 3/4 lb. powdered loaf sugar, 1/2 lb. flour, 1/4 pint water, the yolks of 8 eggs, the whites of 4. Method First prepare the tins in the following manner: - Take two medium-sized ca...
- How To Make Tea Cakes
- Tea Cakes. No. 1 Ingredients 1 lb. of flour, 2 oz. butter, 1 1/2 tea-spoonfuls of baking powder, 1 egg, 2 teaspoonfuls of sugar, and a few currants. Method Mix all together with a little c...
- How To Make Baked Eggs
- Baked Eggs. No. 1 Ingredients 6 eggs, 4 tablespoonfuls good gravy - veal, beef or poultry, the latter is particularly nice - 1 handful breadcrumbs, 6 rounds buttered toast or fried bread. Met...
- How To Make Eggs
- Eggs Sur Le Plat Ingredients 6 eggs, 1 tablespoonful of butter or nice dripping. Pepper and salt to taste. Method Melt the butter on a stone-china or tin plate, or shallow baking-dish. Bre...
- How To Make Eggs. Continued
- Potted Eggs Ingredients The yolks of 6 hard-boiled eggs, 1 ounce of butter, 1 teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, a little salt and cayenne pepper. Method Pound the eggs and butter well together...
- How To Make Cheese Dishes
- Cheese Fingers Ingredients 3 oz. grated cheese, 3 oz. flour, 2 oz. butter, 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder, salt and cayenne to taste. Method Mix these ingredients to a stiff paste with a...
- Four Ways Of Using Crusts
- 1. Bread Pudding A pint of crumbs as fine as can be broken or chipped with a knife to a quart of milk, a teacup of sugar, 2 eggs, and flavouring or raisins. Cover the top, after baking, with jelly ...
- How To Cook Celery
- Stewed Celery Ingredients Celery, boiling water salted, 1/2 pint of white sauce. Method Cut off all the decayed leaves and outside pieces of the celery, and well wash it. Cut each head len...
- How To Cook Potatoes
- Whipped Potatoes Ingredients Good mealy potatoes, a little melted butter, milk, pepper, and salt. Method Boil the potatoes till tender, and instead of mashing them in the ordinary way, whi...
- How To Cook Spinach
- Spinach, With Egg Dressing Ingredients 2 pailfuls of spinach, 1 oz. butter, pepper, salt, 1 teaspoonful of sugar, 3 hard-boiled eggs, a little milk. Method Well wash the spinach;in two wat...
- How To Cook Tomatoes
- Tomato Salad Ingredients 6 large tomatoes, 1 teaspoonful of sugar, 1/2 teaspoonful each of salt, pepper, and made mustard, 2 tablespoonfuls of oil, the yolk of 1 egg, 5 tablespoonfuls of vinegar...
- How To Make Lemon Syrup
- Ingredients 4 lbs. loaf sugar, 2 1/2 oz. tartaric acid, 2 drachms essence of lemon, 1 quart of water, boiling. Method Put the sugar in a basin and pour the boiling water upon it. When dissolv...
- How To Cook Vegetables
- Fried Apples Ingredients 3 or 4 large juicy apples, butter or ard for frying. Method Pare the apples and cut into rounds about 1/4 of an inch thick, carefully remove the core, without brea...
- How To Make Macaroni, With Tomato Sauce
- Ingredients 1/2 lb. of macaroni, 1 teacup of gravy or stock, 4 ripe tomatoes, seasoning of pepper, salt, and grated cheese, 1 oz. of butter rolled in flour. Method Break the macaroni into inc...
- How To Make Preserves
- Apple Jelly Ingredients To each quart of juice add 1 1/2 lb. of loaf sugar, 1 lemon. Method Pare and core 2 quarts of apples, cut them as for pies; boil the cores and parings in as much wa...
- How To Make Jam
- Ripe Gooseberry Jam Ingredients To every 1 lb. of fruit allow 3/4 lb. of sugar. To every 6 lb. of fruit, 1/2 pint of red-currant juice. Method Select red, hairy gooseberries, which should ...
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