This section is from the "The Fireless Cook Book" book, by Margaret J. Mitchell. Also see Amazon: The Fireless Cook Book.
7 1/2 qts. water
4 tablespoons salt
3 qts. Pettijohn's Breakfast food
Cook it as directed on page 50. Serves forty or fifty persons.
8 1/2 qts. water
3 tablespoons salt
5 cups cream or wheat
Cook it as directed on page 56. Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it in the same way as cream of wheat.
Cook it in the same way as cream of wheat.
1 cup dried lima beans 3 pts. water
2 slices onion 2 slices turnip
1 cup cream or milk 4 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Wash the beans and soak them over night. Drain them, and, when boiling, cook them with the prepared onion and turnip and the water in a cooker for four hours or more. Rub this through a strainer, add the seasoning and cream or milk, and bind it.
Serves seven or nine persons.
5 to 7 qts. water
1/4 cup salt
1 1/2 qts. rice
Wash the rice, add it to the boiling salted water; let it boil and put it into a cooker for one hour.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
10 lbs. meat and bone
10 qts. water
1 1/2 teaspoons peppercorns
1 teaspoon cloves
3 bay leaves
1 tablespoon chopped thyme
1 tablespoon sweet marjoram 3 tablespoons chopped parsley
2 cups carrot 2 cups turnip 2 cups celery 1 cup onion
1/4 cup salt
Make it as directed on page 60. Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
10 lbs. knuckle of veal 10 qts. water 1/4 cup salt
2 teaspoons peppercorns
1/2 cup onion
2 cups celery, or
1 tablespoon celery seed
Make it as directed on page 62. Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
15 lbs neck of mutton 10 qts. cold water 1/4 cup salt
1 teaspoon pepper 1 cup rice, or I cup barley
Make it as directed on page 63. Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
12 lbs. cod or other firm, white fish 3 qts. potatoes, in 3/4-inch dice 3/4 cup sliced onion 1/2 cup butter
3 qts. scalded milk
1/4 lb. fat salt pork
3 tablespoons salt
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
2 cups oyster crackers
Make it as directed on page 75. Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make this as directed for fish chowder, substituting two quarts of stewed fresh or canned tomatoes for the milk, which may be added to the chowder before putting it into the cooker.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
6 lbs. codfish 12 qts. water 1 1/2 cups butter
2 doz. eggs
3 cups milk
3/4 teaspoon pepper
Cook it as directed for Creamed Salt Codfish, No. 2 on page 84.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
2 qts. raw, salt codfish, in small pieces 4 qts. potatoes, in 1-inch pieces
About 12 qts. cold water
8 eggs
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon pepper
Cook it as directed on page 85. Serves forty or fifty persons.
12 lbs. beef from round or rump 1 1/2 oz. beef drippings
(3 tablespoons) Flour 1 tablespoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper 1 cup carrot 1 cup turnip 1 cup onion 1 cup celery 4 bay leaves
3 qts. water
Have the butcher bone and roll the meat, if it is from the rump. Wipe it with a damp cloth, dredge it with flour and brown it on all sides in the drippings. Wash, pare, and cut the vegetables into pieces. Put all the ingredients with the hot, browned meat, into a cooker-pail, add the water, boiling hot, let it boil for thirty minutes and put it into a cooker for nine hours or more. Before serving bring the meat to a boil, remove it, put it in a warm place, and make three quarts of brown sauce. Strain the liquor in the pail and use it for the sauce. If there is fat on the top of the liquor remove it and use it in making the sauce.
Serves fifty persons.
1/2 cup butter or fat 3/4 cup flour
2 teaspoons salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 qt. stock or water
Make it as directed on page 184. Serves sixteen or twenty persons.
12 lbs. round of beef
1/4 lb. fat salt pork
Flour
3 tablespoons salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 cup sliced onion
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon whole cloves
1/3 cup rendered beef fat
About 3 qts. water
Cook it as directed on page 95, except that there need not be an outer pail of boiling water. Serves fifty persons.
8 lbs. lean, salt pork 1/4 pk. turnips 1/3 pk. beets 1 qt. carrots
5 heads cabbage 1 1/4 pks. potatoes 2 teaspoons pepper Water to cover
Cook it as directed on page 96. Serves forty or fifty persons.
6 lbs. lean meat, chopped Grated rind 1 1/2 lemons 1/3 cup chopped parsley
1 doz. eggs
2 tablespoons grated onion
2/3 cup clear fat or butter 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg 3 tablespoons salt 3/4 teaspoon pepper 1 1/2 qts. soft breadcrumbs
Cook it as directed on page 101. Serves forty or fifty persons.
1 pk. potatoes 4 qts. milk
1/3 cup salt
1 tablespoon pepper
1 1/3 cups butter
One peck of potatoes will make about ten quarts when prepared for creamy potatoes.
Melt the butter in the cooker-pail, add the milk, and, while it is heating, slice the potatoes which have been pared and soaked, for two hours or more, in cold water. As each quart of potatoes is sliced put it into the hot milk. The potatoes will thus be heated to boiling point, quart by quart. Add the seasoning. When boiling, after the last quart of potatoes has been added, put all into the cooker for one hour or more. Serves forty or fifty persons.
 
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