Westminster Cook-Book
We may live without poetry, music, and art We may live without conscience, and live without heart. We may live without friends, we may live without books. But what civilized man can live without cooks? He may live without books - what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope - what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love - what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?
| Title | Westminster Cook-Book |
| Author | Anonymous |
| Publisher | Hollowbush And Carey |
| Year | 1876 |
| Copyright | 1876, Hollowbush And Carey |
| Amazon | Westminster Cook-Book |
Every Recipe Tried And Proved.
One Hundred And Eighty-Three Recipes.
How To Make Soups- We have deemed it unnecessary to give recipes for the common every-day soups. Beef and veal form the stock, with such vegetables and herbs as suit the tastes of the household. For white soups veal is ...
- How To Cook Meats
- Asparagus Take two bunches of freshly gathered asparagus, cut in small pieces, and boil until tender in water enough to cover it, having first put into this water one dessertspoonful of sugar. Then...
- How To Make Breads
- Bridgeton Rolls One quart of new milk, one cup and a half of lard and batter mixed, two eggs, two table-spoonsful of sugar, one and a half cups of yeast, and a little salt; make up soft, let them r...
- How To Make Cakes
- A Cheap Cake Four eggs, three cups of flour, two cups of sugar, one cup of milk, half cup of butter, two and a half teaspoonsful of yeast powder. Flavor with almonds, and bake in a quick oven. ...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 2
- Delicate Cake One and a half cups sugar, half cup butter, two cups flour, four eggs, half cup milk, two teaspoons baking powder in the flour. Doughnuts Four pounds and a half of flour, tw...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 3
- Indian Meal Cakes One pound of meal, one pound of Havana sugar, half pound of butter, beat butter and sugar to a cream, take out one handful of meal and add one of wheat flour, four eggs. Rose-wate...
- How To Make Cakes. Part 4
- Parkton Rusk Two cups of sugar, four ounces of butter, four eggs, one nutmeg; cream the sugar and butter together, then put in the nutmegs, and add the eggs, and when well mixed stir in one cup of ...
- How To Make Ginger Bread
- Two pounds of flour, one pound and a quarter of sugar, one pound of butter, and a spoonful of lard, nine eggs, nearly a cup of ginger, and either a half-cup of cinnamon or two nutmegs, and a desertspo...
- How To Make Muffins
- Take three eggs, half pint of milk and water in equal quantities, melt therein a tablespoon-ful of lard, then add half pint cold water, one teacup of yeast, mix all together and stir in flour to make ...
- How To Make Chocolate Cake
- Two cups sugar, two-thirds cup of butter, two cups flour, yolks and whites of six eggs beaten separately, one teaspoon cream of tartar, half teaspoon soda dissolved in half cup sweet milk. Bake in lay...
- How To Make Sugar Cakes
- Four eggs, one pound sugar, one teacup butter, one teacup milk, one teaspoon soda, one of cream of tartar, flour enough to roll. Sugar Cakes (Another) Six eggs, four and a half cups light-brown ...
- How To Make Cup Cake
- Two cups of white sugar stirred into one cup of butter until quite light, three cups of sifted flour, four eggs beaten light (whites and yolks separately); beat the yolks into the sugar and butter, st...
- How To Make Sally Lunn
- One pint of milk, three eggs, one quart of flour, half a teacup of yeast. Put this to rise, and when light beat in one cup of melted butter. Then put it into your pan or pans, and let it rise again, a...
- How To Make Jelly Cake And Jumbles
- Jelly Cake One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, whites of seven eggs, and one cup of milk. Jelly Cake Ten eggs, three-quarters pound sifted flour, one pound white sugar,...
- How To Make Desserts
- Blanc-Mange Three tablespoonsful of corn-starch mixed with a little milk, the yolks of four eggs beaten light, four tablespoonsful of sugar - when the milk boils pour it over the eggs, put in the c...
- How To Make Desserts. Part 2
- Flavoring For Custards, Cakes, Etc Take twenty drops of oil of bitter almonds, drop them on a small lump of magnesia. Place a funnel in the mouth of a bottle. Get a piece of filtering paper from ...
- How To Make Desserts. Part 3
- Irene Spanish Cream Take half box gelatine to a quart of milk, let it dissolve in the milk while heating, which is best stirred all the time to prevent burning. Beat the yolks of four eggs with fiv...
- How To Make Apple Desserts
- Apple Charlotte Butter several thin slices of bread and line the sides of a deep earthen dish with them, always placing the buttered side next the dish. Then put in a layer (about two inches thick)...
- How To Make Puddings
- A Plain Pudding (Without Eggs) Three cups flour, one cup molasses, two of suet, one of milk, half pound raisins (cut), half pound currants, two teaspoons cream of tartar rubbed through the flour, h...
- How To Make Puddings. Continued
- Lemon Pudding The juice and rind of one lemon, one cup of sugar, the yolks of two eggs, three tablespoons-ful of flour, and milk to fill the plate. Meringue. Meringue Pudding Pour one qua...
- How To Make Pickles
- Black Walnut Pickles Take them in the spring when you can run a needle easily through them. First wash and wipe them, then stick them all over with a large needle. Take three large onions and stick...
- How To Make Sweet Pickles
- Sweet Pickled Damsons Take seven pounds damsons, wipe dry, add one ounce cinnamon, one ounce cloves, put a layer of each in a jar. . Then boil one quart of sharp vinegar with three pounds of sugar,...
- Cucumber Pickles And Catsup
- Cucumber Catsup, No. 1 Pare your cucumbers closely and grate them. Season to your taste with salt, pepper, and vinegar. Mix and put in bottles, which without corking you will place in a vessel of c...
- Preserves
- Apple Jelly To one peck of sour, juicy apples, take two quarts of water, boil the apples until they are perfectly soft, then strain through flannel. To one pint of juice add one pint of sugar; afte...
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