The Magnolia Cook Book
Recipes contributed by the community of the Magnolia Avenue Christian Church
| Title | The Magnolia Cook Book |
| Author | Magnolia Avenue Christian Church |
| Publisher | Los Angeles |
| Year | 1910 |
| Copyright | 1910, Magnolia Avenue Christian Church |
| Amazon | Magnolia Cook Book |
To all who have so kindly contributed to the success of this little book, by their patronage, financial aid, and recipes, we extend thanks.
Table of Weights and Measures- One pint of liquid - - - one pound Two cups granulated sugar - - one pound Two and one-half cups powered sugar - one pound Four cups of flour - one quart or one pound Two heaped cups of butter - -...
- Time Table for Cooking
- Baking Bread, Cakes And Puddings. Loaf bread ............40 to 60 m. Rolls, Biscuit ..........10 to 20 m. Graham gems ......... 20 m. Gingerbread ...........20 to 30 m. Sponge-cake ...........45 ...
- Jingles For The Cook
- Mind the clock and we shall feel Quite refreshed from every meal. But if meats are late and hurried Every one feels cross and' worried. Cooking is an art they say, But for some it is but play. ...
- Bread
- Give us this day our daily bread. Hygienic Bread. Mix together the flour of love, made from the whole kernel (giving the all-inclusive flavor and quality), the leaven of spirit, the salt of comm...
- Bread. Continued
- Boston Brown Bread. One cup sour milk, 1 cup molasses, 11/4 cups graham flour, 1 egg, 1 heaping teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 cup corn meal, 2-3 cup white flour, 1 small t...
- Hot Breads
- Parker House Rolls. Three pints flour. 1 large tablespoon lard. Rub into flour with teaspoon salt. Then scald generous pint of milk with a small 1/2 cup of sugar, 2-3 cake of compressed yeast dissolv...
- Hot Breads. Continued
- Corn Meal Biscuits. One and a quarter cups flour, 3/4 cup corn meal. 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1/52 tablespoon butter, 2 eggs, 3/4 cup milk. Mix like biscuits....
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- Soups
- All human history attests That happiness for man - the hungry sinner- Since Eve ate apples, depends upon his dinner. Vegetable Soup. Chop coarse and place in 3 quarts of cold water the followi...
- Soups. Continued
- Spinach Soup. Two quarts spinach. 6 cups cold water, bit of bay leaf, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons butter, 3 tablespoons flour. 2 cups milk. 1 clove of garlic or 2 tablespoons chopped onion, cayenn...
- Salads and Dressings
- Mingle, mingle, mingle. You that mingle may. Fruit Salad Dressings. When the fruit salad is served with game, use either a mayonnaise or French dressing; the sweet dressing is served with the s...
- Salads and Dressings. Part 2
- Cream Salad Dressing. One cup cider vinegar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons mixed mustard, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon white pepper. Beat the eggs, then add vinegar, salt, pepper and mustard. Heat in double b...
- Salads and Dressings. Part 3
- Cheese Salad. Two cakes Neufchatel cheese, 1 ten cent bottle stuffed olives chopped, 1/4 pound pecans, chopped. Mix together and form into small balls. Place 2 or 3 on a lettuce leaf and serve with m...
- Salads and Dressings. Part 4
- Apple Salad. Scoop out the center of 8 red apples with a vegetable scoop. Mix with equal parts of finely chopped celery and boiled dressing. Fill apple shells and serve on bed of curled celery. Mrs....
- Meats And Proper Sauces
- Roast Beef - Grated horse-radish, tomato or cranberry sauce. Mutton - Caper sauce, a tart jelly. Roast Pork - Apple sauce. Roast Lamb - Mint sauce. Roast Goose - Apple sauce, cranberries. Roast T...
- Meats And Proper Sauces. Part 2
- Fish Turbot. Four pounds whitefish, steam and pick to pieces; 1 pint milk. 1 scant 1/2 cup of flour, 1 teaspoon grated onion, 2 or 3 eggs. Cook the milk over water, add gradually the flour, stirring ...
- Meats And Proper Sauces. Part 3
- Chicken Croquettes. Two tablespoons butter, melted, 2 tablespoons flour, add 1 cup stock, 1/2 cup cream, pepper and salt, boil 2 minutes. Cook until it thickens, add 2 cups of minced chicken and mold...
- Meats And Proper Sauces. Part 4
- Sauce. One quart tomatoes. 1 pint water, 1/2ion slieed. pepper, red pepper, 1 level teaspoon salt, 1 bay leaf. This burns easily, so cook if possible in an aluminum kettle set on an asbestos plate. S...
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- Vegetables
- Potatoes in seven ways, or for dinner each day of the week. Sunday - Mashed Potatoes Monday - Baked in their jackets. Tuesday - Peel and brown with roast. Wednesday - Escalloped potatoes. Thursda...
- Vegetables. Part 2
- Baked Tomatoes. Take large, smooth tomatoes, cut a slice off the top and remove most of the pulp. Cut tender corn off the cob, mix with the tomato pulp and season to taste with salt, pepper, and suga...
- Vegetables. Part 3
- Baked Beans. Pick over carefully a quart of beans and let soak over night; in the morning wash in another water and drain; put on to boil in cold water with 1/2 teaspoon of soda; boil about 30 minute...
- Cheese
- Cheerful looks make every dish a feast. Cheese Straws. One cup finely grated stale cheese, 1 cup sifted flour, 1 tablespoon melted butter, a dash of cayenne pepper, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and enough...
- Cheese. Continued
- Cheese Custard. Butter 3 thin slices of white bread, let them soak for 1/2 hour in a custard made with 1 pint of milk, 3 eggs, and a dash of cayenne pepper; lay slices in a buttered pudding pan. Put ...
- Eggs
- Life gives us the key to the larder, We choose for our feasts what we will. Never Fail Omelet. Beat the yolks of 6 eggs very light and stir in 1 tablespoon of flour and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Ad...
- Loaf Cakes
- With weights and measures just and true, Oven of even heat, Well buttered tins and quiet nerves, Success will be complete. Soft Ginger Bread. One and a half cups sifted flour, 1/2 cup sour mil...
- Loaf Cakes. Part 2
- Wedding Cake. One pound flour, 1 pound sugar, 1 1/8 pound butter, 1/2 pound citron, 4 pounds currants, 4 pounds raisins, 9 eggs, 1 tablespoon each of cloves, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg and 3 gills of cof...
- Loaf Cakes. Part 3
- Apple Sauce Cake. One and a half cups sugar, 2 level tablespoons butter, 1 cup raisins chopped (not too fine), 2 cups flour. 1 teaspoon cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves and salt. 1 level teaspoonfu...
- Layer Cakes
- Cream Cake. One and a half cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 4 whites of eggs, flavoring; makes 3 layers. FILLING - One cup sweet milk, 1 beaten ...
- Layer Cakes. Part 2
- Chocolate Cake. Two ounces chocolate (4 large tablespoons), 2 egg yolks, 1/2 cup milk; cook in double boiler till thick; 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, 1/2 teaspoon soda in a little warm water an...
- Layer Cakes. Part 3
- Devil's Food Cake. I. Three-quarters cup grated chocolate, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1/2 cup dark brown sugar. II. Half cup butter, 1 cup dark brown sugar, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 2 eggs, 1 teasp...
- Which Is The More Important And Healthful, A Good Cook Or A Good Automobile?
- Dear Friend:- In regard to your question as to which is the more important and healthful, a GOOD COOK or a GOOD AUTOMOBILE, I must say this is rather a delicate question to decide. We all know that ...
- Cookies and Doughnuts
- Centennial Cookies. One and a half cups sugar, 2-3 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 4 tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, 1 teacup raisins (seeded and chopped fine), spice with ground cinna...
- Cookies and Doughnuts. Continued
- Oatmeal Cookies. One tablespoon butter. 1/2 cup sugar. 1 cup rolled oats, 1 egg. Drop on buttered pan and bake. Mrs. O. Stewart. Oatmeal Cookies.. One and a half cups sugar. 3 packed cups oatmea...
- Pies
- Who'11 dare deny the truth. There's Poetry in pie? Pastry for One Pie. One cup sifted flour, 1 heaping tablespoon Suetene, a little salt. Rub the shortening in the flour, use cold water enough...
- Puddings and Sauces
- Man shall not live by bread alone. Marshmallow Cream Pudding. One tablespoonful granulated gelatine dissolved in 1/2 cup of cold water; put it over the fire and bring to a boil, stirring constan...
- Puddings and Sauces. Part 2
- Apple Dumplings (special). Mix 1 cup of sugar and 1 tablespoon flour with cold water to the consistency of cream. Then add 1 pint boiling water. Boil and add 1 tablespoon butter and flavor. Peal, cor...
- Puddings and Sauces. Part 3
- English Steam Pudding. One cup half filled with molasses and finished with brown sugar, 1 cup half filled with butter and finished with chopped suet; 1 cup raisins. 1 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour. 1 ...
- Desserts
- Dainty things for dainty people. Fruit Relish. Eight oranges, 3 lemons, 4 bananas, 3 grape fruit, 1 small can grated pineapple. Sweeten to taste. Mrs. F. C. Webber Breakfast Dish. Wash, cor...
- Desserts. Continued
- Date Forte. One cup sugar, 3 eggs, 1 cup chopped dates, 1 cup walnuts, 2 1/2 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Flour the nuts and dates. Beat sugar and eggs very lightly, add flour, then d...
- Ices
- Apricot Ice. One can apricots put through fruit press, 1 bowl sugar, juice of 3 lemons. Add water to make 3/4 gallon. Add 3 unbeaten whites of eggs last thing. Freeze as you would ice cream. Bavar...
- Pickles and Catsups
- Sweet Piccalilly. One peek green tomatoes, 12 chili peppers, 6 medium onions. Chop tomatoes, pour over them 1 cup salt and let stand over night; then drain off, add chopped onions and peppers, 1 1/2 ...
- Pickles and Catsups. Part 2
- Mixed Pickles. One quart small onions, 1 quart small green tomatoes. 1 head cabbage, 1 teaspoon celery seed, 2 cups sugar, 2 quarts cider vinegar, 1 quart small cucumbers, 1 large cauliflower, 4 tabl...
- Pickles and Catsups. Part 3
- Chili Sauce. One dozen large ripe tomatoes, 2 large onions, 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon, 2 teacups vinegar, 3 chili peppers, 2 tablespoon salt, 1/2 teacup sugar. Chop tomatoes and chili peppers, sea...
- Marmalades
- Orange Marmalade. Four large oranges, 2 lemons. Slice or shred all in fine pieces, add as much water as fruit and juice. Cook 1/2 hour or until tender. Add as much sugar as fruit and water. Cook fast...
- Beverages
- If the kettle boiling be, Seven minutes makes the tea. General Rules. 1. Keep tea and coffee in closely covered jars or cans. 2. Do not use tea pots or coffee pots made of tin. 3. Scald tea an...
- Sandwiches
- How could a hostess manage or society survive, Without the favored sandwich at luncheon, teas at five? What daring combinations achieves the housewife bold, In efforts to improve upon the many sor...
- Sandwiches. Continued
- Roast Beef Sandwiches. Chop rare roast beef very fine, taking care to use only the lean portions of the meat. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and a saltspoonful of horseradish. Mix and make into sandwiche...
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- Candy
- Sweets to the sweet. Panoche. Two and a half cups brown sugar, 1/2 cup of white sugar, 1 cup milk or cream, lump butter size of walnut. Boil until it forms a soft ball in water. Then take off fi...
- Miscellaneous
- Baking Powder. One pound pure cream of tartar, 1/2 pound soda and mix with an even pint of flour. Sift four or five times. Keep in covered cans in a dry place. Use three tea-spoonfuls to a quart of f...
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