The Peoria Women's Cook Book
Among the recipes are a number of originals which have not heretofore been published. All have been tested and recommended by those whose names are signed.
| Title | The Peoria Women's Cook Book |
| Author | Young Women's League of First Methodist Episcopal Church, Peoria |
| Publisher | J. W. Franks & Sons |
| Year | 1915 |
| Copyright | 1915, J. W. Franks & Sons |
| Amazon | How to Cook Everything |
First Methodist Episcopal Church.
Corner Perry Avenue and Hamilton Boulevard Peoria. Illinois
Compiled by the Members of the Young Women's League of the First Methodist Episcopal Church Peoria, Illinois
Good Cooks are born, not made, they say.
The saying is not true; Hard trying and these tried recipes
Will make good cooks of you.
T. G. Lowry
Preface- The Peoria Women's Cook Book has been compiled and published by the young women of this society in order to raise funds for our pledge to the new Church enterprise. An attempt has been made to secu...
- How To Make Soups
- Muse, sing the man who did to Paris go, That he might taste their soups and mushrooms know. -W. King. Soup Stock To each quart of cold water allow one pound of meat and bone in about equ...
- How To Make Soups. Continued
- Ground Meat Soup 1 ½ lbs. ground steak with fat and celery. ½ head cabbage, 2 large onions, 2 carrots, put through grinder. Place in soup kettle, boil gently one hour, then add 2 big potatoes...
- How To Cook Fish
- Lest Men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. - John Gay. How To Bake Fish Have the fish well washed, and if it is haddock, small cod or any small whole fish, the black sk...
- How To Cook Crabs
- Curried Crab Cut the crab meat into small pieces. Take butter the size of an egg, add a teaspoonful of chopped onion or shallot. Fry to a golden brown. Add a heaping teaspoonful of flour and a smal...
- How To Cook Oysters
- Oyster Loaf Take a five cent loaf of bread. Cut the top off like a slice of bread. With a sharp knife work loose the center, taking care to remove it whole. Now butter the inside of the loaf also t...
- How To Cook Meats
- This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers or very honest men. - Issac Walton. Beef Steak En Casserole Select a sirloin or tender-loin steak at least an inch thick; have ready coo...
- How To Cook Meats. Part 2
- Stuffed Steak 1 large flank steak, 1 pint bread stuffing, 1 small onion, Flour, 2 cups stock, 1 cup strained tomatoes, Salt and pepper. Pound and score the steak, cover with the stuffin...
- How To Cook Meats. Part 3
- Meat Loaf With Rice, Peas And Tomato Sauce 2 pounds veal from the shoulder, ground, ¼ pound fresh pork, ground, ½ teaspoonful celery salt or 2 tablespoonfuls finely cut fresh celery, 1 cup bread...
- How To Cook Meats. Part 4
- Roast Turkey And Gravy Wash and wipe dry. Do not salt. Fill with dressing. Put without water in double roaster. Do not baste. Keep fire enough to hear a gentle sizzle. Bake twenty minutes for each ...
- Mint Jell-O
- Wipe six loin chops and put in a stew pan with one-half onion, eight slices carrot, two stalks celery, one-half teaspoon pepperonis, 4 cloves and 2 tablespoons butter. Cover with boiling water and coo...
- How To Cook Ham
- Ham With Mushroom Sauce Thick slice from the center of a ham. Three cloves, 1 tablespoon sugar. Cover with cold water and cook one hour. Pour off all broth except one cup full; roast the ham in ...
- How To Cook Veal
- Veal Oysters Cut 1½ lbs. veal cutlets into pieces the size of an oyster, season with 1 tablespoon salt, dust with flour, dip into beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs and fry light brown on both sides....
- How To Cook Chicken
- Chicken Croquets 2 cups cooked chicken, Cook: 1 cup cream or milk, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon onion juice, ¼, teaspoon nutmeg, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon finely choppe...
- How To Cook Sausage And Hominy Dressing
- For medium sized turkey cut two loaves of bread in slices and toast; put in pan which will hold all the dressing and moisten with cold water. Fry 1 ½ pounds of bulk sausage until brown and crisp, take...
- How To Cook Eggs
- The warmest hearted hen cannot lay a boiled egg. - The Foolish Almanack. Hard And Soft Boiled Eggs To cook eggs so that they will be firm all the way through and yet not tough or indiges...
- How To Make Bread
- Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart. - Matthew Henry. Yeast Bread At night put 1 cake of yeast in ½ cup of luke warm water, let soak for ½ hour. In a gallon crock put 5 cups of ...
- How To Make Bread. Continued
- Dixie Biscuits Put 2 pints milk on stove in doube boiler, add 2 teaspoonsful of lard, 4 of butter and 4 of sugar, scald milk and when cool add the rest. Mix 1 cake yeast with a small portion of thi...
- How to Make Pan Cakes
- Yolks of 2 eggs, ¼ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat the above well and add nearly a pt. of milk. 2 heaping teaspoons of baking powder in enough flour to make a medium batter. Butter size...
- How to Make Coffee Cake
- Hasty Coffee Cake One scant cup sugar, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons baking powder, pinch salt, ½ cup sweet milk and same of water, ½ tablespoon butter, ½ tablespoon lard and flour enough to make like cake do...
- Brown Bread
- 2 cups sour milk, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons soda, 1 cup white flour, 2 cups graham flour, 1 cup raisins. Bake ¾ hour in baking powder cans. - Mrs. E. J. Shafer. ...
- How To Make Nut Bread
- Nut Bread Three cups flour in which 3 teaspoons baking powder have been mixed. ½ cup sugar (granulated) 1 egg, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 scant teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped nuts, Shape in t...
- How To Make Corn Bread
- Rich Corn Bread 1 cup yellow corn meal, 1 teaspoon molasses, 2 eggs, well beaten, 2 cups sour milk, 1 teaspoon baking soda stirred in milk. Grease pan on bottom and sides with heaping s...
- How To Make Bread Rolls
- French Rolls 2 cups milk (scalded), ¼ cup butter, ¼ cup sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cake compressed yeast, 3 cuds flour. When light add one egg or yolks of two thoroughly beaten, and suff...
- How To Make Muffins
- Graham Muffins 1 cup of graham flour, ¼ cup of sugar, 1 cup of milk, 1 tablespoon of melted butter, 1 cup of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 egg, 4 teaspoons baking powder. Mix...
- How To Make Waffles
- Yolks of 3 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 3 tablespoons of melted butter, Beaten whites of 3 eggs, A little salt, 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, If this dough is too thick a...
- How To Cook Tomatoes
- Stuffing For Tomatoes Melt a tablespoon of butter in a saucepan, add four sound pealed and finely chopped shaliots and while cooking mix well rather briskly for one minute. Add the scouped out toma...
- How To Cook Potatoes
- Potato Pouffers 1 pint of cold mashed potato, 1 cup of flour. 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder. Mold in small potato shaped croquettes and fry in deep fat. Mrs. C. U. Collins. ...
- How To Cook Vegetables
- To every thing there is a season. - Old Testament. Cauliflower With Cheese Boil the cauliflower in salt water until tender. When cool cut into small pieces. Place a layer in baking pan, spri...
- How To Cook Vegetables. Part 2
- Baked Rice Boil rice until tender, not too soft, place in baking dish and pour over the juice of a can of tomatoes, salt and pepper, then on top lay slices of bacon, as many as it takes to cover di...
- How To Cook Vegetables. Part 3
- Corn In Husks Remove the husks, pull down remaining husks and take out silk. Tie husks around corn, put in cold water and heat until bubbles begin to rise. Cook four minutes. Drain and serve in hus...
- How To Make Entrees
- It is the entrees that cooks usually invest with their greatest cunning. Banana Compote Boil together 1 cup sugar and two-thirds cup water for ten minutes. Add the grated rind and juice ...
- How To Make Entrees. Part 2
- Cranberry Sauce With Nuts Cook 1 qt. of cranberries in about ½ pt. of water, when done put through sieve, add 1½ pt.of sugar, cook until jelled. Have one cup of English walnuts in mold, pour cranbe...
- How To Make Entrees. Part 3
- Cheese Straws One cup flour in bread bowl, a little salt, a dash of cayenne pepper, 2 tablespoons of butter mixed in flour. Put on bread board and roll, toss together and roll again. Now add one-th...
- How To Make Salads
- Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat. -Sydney Smith. Potato Salad Boil potatoes in skins. Do not peel until cold. Cut in dice. To every pint of potato add ½ tab...
- How To Make Salads. Part 2
- Cucumber Salad Place in a bowl a small piece of ice, over this pour 1 tablespoon of Worchester sauce. Stir into this a tablespoon olive oil and a teaspoon lemon juice. Stir until thick. Take out ic...
- How To Make Salads. Part 3
- Bean Salad 1 can kidney beans, ½ cup pickles chopped, 1 cup chopped celery, medium sized onion. Serve with mayonnaise dressing. - Mrs. W. D. Starnes. Green Bean Salad 1 pt. cook...
- How To Make Salad Dressings
- Mayonnaise Dressing. (Boiled.) 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful sugar, 1 small teaspoonful salt, ½ cup vinegar, 1 heaping tablespoonful flour, - Butter, size of egg, 1 tablespoonful mustard (gro...
- How To Make Cakes
- Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. - Bible. White Cake. ½ cup butter, (scant), 1½ cups sugar, (sifted), 1 cup cold water, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 2
- Gold Cake 1 scant cup of butter, 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon vanilla, Yolks of 8 eggs, 1 cup milk, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 2½ cups flour, White of egg. Cream sugar and butter, then a...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 3
- Apple Sauce Cake 2 cups brown sugar, Two-thirds cup butter, 1 cup raisins, 4 cups flour, 2½ cups apple sauce, 3 teaspoons soda in hot apple sauce, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon ginge...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 4
- Date And Nut Cake Two eggs, ¾ cup of sugar, beaten together, 1 cup of dates, 1 cup of nuts cut in small pieces. To the beaten eggs and sugar, add 1 heaping tablespoon of flour, sifted with 1 teaspo...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 5
- Strawberry Caramel Cake ½ cup brown sugar, ½ cup preserved strawberries, ½ cup milk, ¾ cup butter, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Enough flour to give usual cake thickness. Cr...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 6
- Spanish Bun Cake 2 cups sugar, Two-thirds cup butter, 1 cup sour milk, 1½ teaspoon baking powder, ½teaspoon soda, 1 cup raisins (chopped), 4 eggs, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, ½ teaspoon...
- How To Make Angel Food Cakes
- Angel Food Cake Whites of 1 0 eggs, 1½ cups sugar, sifted 6 or 8 times, 1 cup flour, sifted 6 or 8 times, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, Candied cherries. Beat whites of e...
- How To Make Devil's Food Cakes
- Devil's Food Cake 1 cup of sugar, 2 eggs, ½ teaspoon baking soda, 2 cups of flour, ½ cup of butter, 1 cup of milk, ½ cup of grated chocolate, 1 teaspoon of baking powder. Cream...
- How To Make Fruit Cake
- This cake weighs over 1 6 pounds and when baked in one cake will half fill a medium sized dish pan, which has been fitted with a large baking powder can inverted, for a stem. Grease the pan heavily, f...
- Scripture Cake
- One cup butter.................................Judges 5:25 Three and one-half cups flour....................... I King, 4:22 Two cups sugar ..............................Jeremiah, 6:20 Two cu...
- How To Improve Your Cake
- The excellence of a cake depends upon its lightness, texture, color and taste. Cake is made light by the enlargement of the cells in the cake batter and this is accomplished in two ways. First, by ...
- How To Make Icings
- Marshmallow Icing 2 cups sugar, 1 level teaspoon vinegar, 1 cup water, Whites of 2 eggs, ¼ lb. marshmallows. Boil sugar with vinegar and water until it hairs when run off the end of for...
- How To Make Cookies, Etc
- O weary Mothers mixing dough, Don't you wish that food would grow? Your lips would smile, I know, to see A cookie bush or doughnut tree. Filled Cookies ½ cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg...
- How To Make Cookies, Etc. Part 2
- Shaum Tart Beat the whites of three eggs until very dry and stiff, add one teaspoon vinegar, one teaspoon vanilla, and one scant cup sugar, beat again until very dry and drop into buttered gem pans...
- How To Make Cookies, Etc. Part 3
- Brownies 1 cup of sugar, ½ cup of flour, 2 eggs, Nuts of any kind, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, ½ cup of butter, 2 squares chocolate. Stir up like cake, pour into greased pan and bake from...
- How To Make Cookies, Etc. Part 4
- Ginger Bread One cup molasses, ½ cup sugar, ½ cup water, 1 tablespoon butter, put these in a pan and warm. When the shortening is melted, cool a little and stir in 1 beaten egg. Sift 2 cups flour w...
- How To Make Doughnuts
- Drop Doughnuts 1 gill milk, (a gill is ¼ pt.) 1 gill sugar, 3 gills flour, 3 grated nutmegs, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, 1 egg, One-third teaspoon salt, Grated rind of le...
- How To Make Desserts
- All human history attests, that happiness for man-the hungry sin-nei-since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. - Byron. Meringue Dessert Whites of 3 large eggs, 1¼ cups sugar, ½ teas...
- How To Make Desserts. Part 2
- Apple Tapioca Soak ¾ cup pearl tapioca for 1 hour in enough cold water to cover; drain, add 2½ cups boiling water and ½ teaspoon salt. Cook in double boiler until transparent. Core and peel 7 sour ...
- How To Make Desserts. Part 3
- Caramel Custard One egg to each individual, 1 cup milk to each egg. Boil and cool. Cook ½ cup sugar and 4 teaspoons water in a pudding dish until caramel color. Beat eggs, milk, salt, vanilla and a...
- How To Make Desserts. Part 4
- Angel Parfait Whites of 2 eggs (beaten dry) 1 ½ cups cream (beaten light), 3 tablespoons of syrup from maraschino cherries, 2 tablespoons cold water, 2 tablespoon gelatine, 5ct bottl...
- How To Make Ice Creams And Ices
- Life's a mockery and cheat, So much you like and dassent eat. - Old Song. Lemon Cream 1 quart milk, 2 cups sugar, Juice of 3 lemons. Freeze the milk slightly, then add the sugar...
- Pear, Meringue, Custard Sauce
- Select 6 pears of uniform size. Wipe and remove a thin paring, leaving stems on. Put in casserole and add ½ cup sugar and a few thin shavings from the lemon rind. Then pour over one-third cup of water...
- How To Bake Puddings
- English Plum Pudding Adopted from my great great grandmother's Recipe. The original receipe is nearly 300 years old. Recipe: 1 lb. beef suet chopped fine, 1 lb. each raisins and cleaned currants...
- How To Bake Puddings. Part 2
- Steamed Chocolate Pudding One egg, ½ cup sugar, ½ cup milk, 1 teaspoon butter, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 and one-third cups flour. Steam one hour. Sauce: 3 eggs beaten separately, 1 cup sugar, va...
- How To Bake Puddings. Part 3
- Louisiana Fruit Pudding Put in a sauce pan the juice of one can of pineapple, juice of 1 lemon, ½ cup sugar, ½ box of gelatine that has been dissolved, ½ cup of cold water. Let come to a scald, the...
- How To Bake Puddings. Part 4
- Nesslerode Pudding One-half box gelatine, 1 pt. milk, ½ pt. cold water, two-thirds cup of raisins, ¼ lb. of maccaroons, 3 tablespoonsful of almonds, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Soak gelatine in cold ...
- How To Bake Puddings. Part 5
- Cracker Pudding One pt. milk, 2 eggs yolks well beaten, scant ½ cup cracker crumbs rolled fine, 2 tablespoonsful cocoanut. Bake ½ hour and then spread over it a frosting from the whites of the 2 eg...
- How To Make Pastry And Pies
- A good pastry maker is as rare as a good orator. - I'Almanach des Gourmands. Pie Crust Two and one-half tablespoonsful lard, ¾ cup flour, 1/8 teaspoon baking powder. Sift flour, baking p...
- How To Make Pastry And Pie. Part 2
- Lemon Pie Grated rind and juice of one lemon, 1 scant cup sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 egg yolks, 1 cup hot water, butter size of walnut. Mix lemon, sugar, egg, water, flour should be worked into m...
- How To Make Pastry And Pie. Part 3
- Amber Pie Filling: 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon flour, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ½ teaspoon cloves. Mix well and add 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 cup sour milk, 1 cup raisins, 2 yolks eggs, and 1 tablespoon butte...
- How To Make Pickles, Preserves And Canned Goods
- A exquisite and poignant sauce for which I'll say unto my cook, There's gold, go forth and be a knight! - Ben Johnson. Canning To can fruit, one-fourth to one-third is the most common ...
- How To Make Pickles, Preserves And Canned Goods. Part 2
- Grape Marmalade Pick over, wash, drain and remove stems from grapes, separate pulp from skins. Put pulp in preserving kettle. Heat to boiling point, and cook slowly until seeds separate from the pu...
- How To Make Pickles, Preserves And Canned Goods. Part 3
- Green Tomato And Onion Pickle 1 pk. green tomatoes, 4 red peppers, 1 qt. scant of little onions, 4 green peppers. Chop tomatoes and onions and stand in salt 24 hours, drain, cover with vinega...
- How To Make Pickles, Preserves And Canned Goods. Part 4
- Spanish Pickles Two dozen large green cucumbers, slice ½ in. thick and let stand 24 hours in salt water, 2 large heads cabbage, chop and let stand 2 hours in salt water. 2 dozen chopped onions, 2 d...
- How To Make Candies
- Plain Fondant Beat the white of an egg very stiff. Put in this ½ teaspoon vanilla. Add enough powdered sugar to make a stiff dough. This may be used many different ways. - Frances K. Stowell. ...
- How To Make Candies. Continued
- Caramal Nougat Four cups brown sugar, 1 pt. cream, 1 cup nuts. Stir well. Mrs. F. C. Stewart. Baked Peanut Candy Shell and remove skins from one quart roasted peanuts. Put through ...
- How To Make Beverages
- Drink you to her that each loves best. - Thomas Campbell. Fruit Beverage 12 lemons, 2 ½ lbs. sugar. 1 qt. ripe raspberries, 1 pineapple. Peel the lemons very thin, squeeze the j...
- Miscellaneous
- Cookery is become an art. A noble science. - Robert Burton. Shredded Wheat Biscuit For Breakfast Warm the biscuit in the oven to restore crispness, don't bum, pour hot milk over it, dipp...
- Miscellaneous. Continued
- Tomato Rarebit ½ cup of milk, 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 teaspoon of mustard, 1 cup of cheese, grated, 1 cup of strained tomatoes, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 egg. Make a sauce of the flour and m...
- Time Table For Cooks
- Beef, loin or ribs, rare, per lb. ................. 8 to 10 minutes Same, well done, per lb ............................... ...
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