Chapter II: Part II: Choice Family Receipts

YEAST.

Yeast 385

Another 385

Yeast-Cakes 385

BREAD.

General Rules 386

Bread without Sponging 386

Good Bread 386

Bread with Sponging 387

To make Bread from Flour that runs 387

Bread by Scalding the Flour 388

To make Stale Bread fresh 388

Graham Bread 388

Steamed Brown Bread 389

Corn Bread 389

Rice Bread 390

BISCUIT.

Morning Biscuit 390

Tea Biscuit 390

Soda Biscuit 391

Indian-Corn Biscuit 391

Parker House Rolls 391

Rusk 392

Sweet Potato Buns 392

Potato Pone 392

Gems 392

Gems, No. 2 392

Graham Gems 393

BREAKFAST AND TEA CAKES.

Corn Cakes 393

Another Way 393

Another 393

Another 393

Steamed Johnny-Cake 394

Corn-Meal Cake with Apples and Suet 394

Muffins 394

Another Way 394

Cream Muffins 394

Another Way 394

Raised Muffins 395

Hominy Muffins 395

Quick Muffins 395

Graham Flour Muffins 395

Raised Waffles 395

Corn-Meal Waffles 396

Buckwheat Cakes 396

Rice Griddle-Cakes 396

Sour-Milk Griddle-Cakes 396

Green-Corn Fritters 396

Mock Oyster Fritters 397

Corn Oysters 397

Rice Cakes 397

Rice or Hominy Cakes 397

Rosie’s Sally Lunn 397

Strawberry Shortcake 397

Cream Toast 398

SOUPS.

General Directions 398

Stock for Soups 399

Tomato Soup 399

Another 400

A Vegetable Soup 400

Mock-Turtle Soup 400

Bean Soup 401

Soup with Eggs 402

Green Pea Soup 402

Turtle Bean Soup 402

Nursery Soup 403

Oyster and Clam Soup 403

Potato Soup 403

FISH.

To Boil Fresh Fish 404

Baked Salmon Trout, with Cream Gravy 404

Boiled Salmon Trout 404

Fried Halibut 405

Fish Chowder 405

To prepare and dress Cold Fish 405

Newport Fish Pudding 406

Fish-Balls 406

Codfish Balls 407

Scalloped Crabs 407

Oyster Pie 407

Oyster Fritters 408

To Fry Oysters 408

Lobster Patties 408

Lobster Rissoles 409

Fish Sauce 409

A good Breakfast Dish 409

Best Mode of Roasting Fish, Ducks, &c. 409

MEATS.

BEEF.

Leicestershire Hunting Beef 410

Spiced Beef 410

Curried Beef 411

Meat Pie 411

Beef Collops 411

To Cook a Beefsteak 412

Rump Steak, with Oyster Sauce 412

A French Broil 412

Beefsteak Rolls 413

Beef Croquettes 413

Mock Duck 413

A Nice Breakfast Dish 413

Mock Venison 413

To prepare Cold Roast Beef or Mutton 414

Economical Breakfast Dish 414

A “Two Story” 415

MUTTON AND LAMB.

Shoulder of Mutton Boiled 415

Shoulder of Mutton Spiced 415

Mutton Stew 416

Roasting a Leg of Lamb 416

To use Cold Lamb 416

Mint Sauce 416

VENISON.

Jerked Venison 417

Venison Steaks 418

COOKING IN A “RUMFORD BOILER.”

To Roast Beef or Mutton 418

To Boil a Leg of Lamb or Mutton 418

Corned Beef 418

To Cook a Ham 419

Fish 419

VEAL.

Meats for June 420

Calf’s Head and Harslet 420

Head and Harslet Hash 420

Veal Pie 421

Sweetbread Croquettes 421

Veal Patty 422

Minced Veal 422

Veal Hash 422

Veal Loaf 423

Croquettes 423

POULTRY AND GAME.

Steamed Turkey 423

Broiled Chickens 424

To Bake a Chicken 425

Gravy for Roast or Baked Poultry 426

Chicken Pot-Pie 426

Fried Chickens 427

To Cook an Old Fowl 427

Roast Duck 428

To Roast a Goose 428

Wild Goose 429

To Roast a Green Goose 429

To Boil a Goose 429

To Stew a Goose 430

To Stew Pigeons 430

Wild Squabs 431

Chicken Pudding 431

Chicken Jelly 432

Chicken Patties 432

To make Remnants of Meat, Chicken, etc., palatable 432

Meat Croquettes 433

PORK AND HAM.

To Boil a Ham 433

Broiled Ham 433

Ham Croquettes 433

Ham and Toast 433

Ham Toast 434

To use Cold Boiled Ham 434

Another Way 434

Ham Ball 434

How a Pig was Roasted on a Sugar Plantation 434

Good Sausage Meat 435

A Dutch Dish 435

SALADS AND OMELETS.

Chicken Salad 436

Italian Chicken Salad 436

Lobster Salad 437

Potato Salad 437

Plain Omelet 437

Puff Omelet 438

Oyster Omelet 438

Omelet with Jelly 438

Baked Omelet 438

Omelette Soufflé 439

EGGS.

Boiled Eggs 439

Fried Eggs 439

Poached Eggs 439

Hard Scrabbled 440

Fricasseed Eggs, or Egg Baskets 440

Egg Toast 440

Scrambled Eggs 441

Scrambled Eggs 441

Dropped Eggs 441

Cottage Cheese 441

Cheese Toast 442

VEGETABLES.

Corn 443

Another Way 444

Boiling Potatoes 444

Another Way 444

To Boil New Potatoes 445

Mashed Potatoes 445

Potato Croquettes 445

Saratoga Fried Potatoes 445

Scalloped Potatoes 445

Snow Potatoes 446

Potato Cakes 446

To Fry Sweet Potatoes 446

Macaroni 446

Egg-Plant 447

Another Way 447

Fricasseed Egg-Plant 447

To Stew Tomatoes 448

Baked Tomatoes 448

Scalloped Tomatoes 448

Boiled Rice 449

Cooking Rice 449

Peas 449

Green Peas 450

Beans 450

Asparagus 451

Spinach 451

To Boil Cabbage 451

To Boil Cabbage with Meat 452

Another Way 452

Cabbage like Cauliflower 452

Cauliflower 452

Hot-Slaw 452

Cold-Slaw 453

To Cook Onions 453

CAKE.

GENERAL RULES.

Loaf Cake 454

Mrs. Breedley’s Fruit Cake 455

Rosie’s Raised Cake 455

Fruit Cake 455

Farmer’s Fruit Cake 455

Whortleberry Cake 456

Olic Cake 456

Nice little Cakes 456

Queen Charlotte’s Cake 456

Lemon Cake 456

Molasses Drop Cake 457

Chicago Fruit Cake 457

Cider Cake 457

Snow-flake Cake 457

Cocoa-nut Cake 457

Macaroons 457

Delicate Cake 458

Sponge Cake 458

Pineapple Cake 458

Molasses Cup Cake 458

Loaf Cake 458

Walnut Cake 459

Loaf Cake 459

Western Cake 459

Snowball Cake 459

Molasses Cake 459

Corn-Starch Cake 459

Moss Cake 459

Jenny Lind Cake 460

Sugar Cookies 460

Cookies 460

Another Way 460

Molasses Gingerbread 460

Plain Gingerbread 460

Excellent Ginger-Snaps 461

PIES, PUDDINGS, AND DESSERTS.

Pastry 461

Puff Paste 461

Potato Pastry for Meat Pies 462

Pumpkin Pies 462

Dried-Apple Pies 462

Pies of Canned Fruit 463

Mince Pie 463

Rice Pie 464

Apple Puffs 464

Marlborough Pie 464

Chess Pie 464

English Christmas Plum Pudding 464

A Family Christmas Pudding 465

A Simple Christmas Pudding 465

Bread Pudding 466

Boiled Indian Pudding 466

Baked Indian Pudding 466

Palmyra, or Date Pudding 466

Sponge-Cake Pudding 467

Steamed Pudding 467

An Excellent Pudding 467

Apple and Tapioca Pudding 467

Sweet-Apple Pudding 468

Fig Pudding 468

Barley Cream for Invalids 468

Apple Float 468

Sago Pudding 468

Cocoa-nut Custard 468

Apple Pudding 468

Sauce 469

Nice Cheap Pudding 469

Orange Pudding 469

Custard without Eggs 469

A Quick Pudding 469

Rice Meringue 470

Sago Pudding 470

Lemon or Orange Honeycomb 470

Apple Snow 470

Snow Pudding 470

Cocoa-nut Pudding or Pies 471

Bohemian Cream 471

Spanish Cream 471

Rennet Wine 472

Cold Custard 472

Baked Apples 472

Apple Snow 472

PRESERVES AND JELLIES.

To Can Peaches 472

Mixed Marmalade 473

Jellies 473

Peach Jelly 474

Quince Jelly 474

To Preserve Quinces 474

Candied Orange Peel 475

Apple and Quince Sauce 475

Apple Sauce 475

Baked Pears 476

CHEESE.

Stilton Cheese 476

Cottenham Cheese 476

Parmesan 476

Cheddar 477

Dunlop 477

New Cheese 477

Swiss Cheese 477

Sage or Green Cheese 477

Cream Cheese 477

Potato Cheese 478

Cheese Straus 478

PICKLES.

Peach Pickles 478

Pickled Plums 480

Green Tomato Pickles 480

To Pickle Green Tomatoes 481

Pickled Nasturtiums 481

Pickled Cauliflower 481

Tomato Pickles 482

To Pickle Onions 482

To Pickle Red Cabbage 482

Cucumber Pickles 482

To Pickle small Cucumbers and Gherkins 483

Tomato Catsup 483

MISCELLANEOUS HINTS.

To make Tea 484

Substitute for Milk in Tea and Coffee 485

Bread Crumbs 485

GLEANINGS.

To Clean Kid Gloves 486

To keep Grapes 486

To Clean Oil-Cloths 486

Fill your Lamps in the Morning 486

Colored Silk 487

To Remove Fruit Stains 487

Bee or Wasp Stings 487

To Preserve Brooms 487

Glossy Starch 488

Salt with Nuts 488

To take Ink Stains from Mahogany 488

To keep Quinces 488

Fruit Stains 488

Ink Stains 489

Buying Furs 489

Drying Umbrellas 490

A Tight Ring 490

Scrubbing White Paint 490

How to wash Graining 490

To keep Codfish 491

Zante Currants 491

To keep Cheese 491

To keep Smoked Beef and Hams 491

To keep Preserves 491

Care of Flour-Barrels 491

Indian Meal 491

Coffee and Tea 492

Raisins and Starch 492

Household Weights and Measures 492

To test Flour 492