Chicken and Chicken Dressing Recipes

ROAST CHICKEN
Having drawn and trussed the chicken put it betweensome slices of bacon, take care to fasten the feet to the spit to keepit together, baste it with its gravy, when well done through, serve withcress round the dish, season with salt and vinegar. The chicken andbacon should be covered with buttered paper, until five [...]

Dessert Recipes

KENTUCKY PUDDING. MAMIE FAIRFIELD.
CUSTARD.–Two quarts milk, six eggs, two tablespoons corn starch, one
cup sugar, a pinch salt, one tablespoon vanilla; add to this one quart
whipped cream, one pint each candied or preserved cherries, pineapple,
and strawberries. Let custard cool before adding cream and fruit.
Freeze as ice-cream.
Pork Recipes

Dessert Recipes – COOKIE RECIPES – Cookies

SOFT GINGER COOKIESPut a level teaspoon of soda in a measuring cup,add three tablespoons of boiling water, one-quarter cup of melted butteror lard, a saltspoon of salt, a level teaspoon of ginger, and enoughsifted pastry flour to make a dough as soft as can be handled. Shapesmall bits of dough, lay in the greased baking [...]

Baking Recipes

Cake Recipes
DEVILS FOOD CAKE. MRS. G. H. WRIGHT.
PART I.–One cup brown sugar, three quarters of a cup butter, one-half
cup sour milk, two and one-half cups sifted flour, one level teaspoon
soda, yolks of three eggs, whites of two. Stir this together, and
then add–
PART II.–One cup brown sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, one cup grated
chocolate, [...]

Salad Recipes – Recipes for Salads

EGG SALAD
6 Eggs—6d.
1 Lettuce—1d.
1 bunch Watercress—1d.
Mayonnaise or Salad Dressing—4d.
1 Beetroot—1/2d.
Total Cost—1s. 0 1/2 d.
Put the eggs into boiling water and boil fifteen minutes. Plunge into cold water till quite cold, peel and cut into quarters. Wash and cleanse the watercress and lettuce and cut into pieces. Put a layer of this at the bottom of [...]

Fish Recipes – Recipes For Fish

DEVILLED SARDINES
1 tin Sardines—6d.
1/2 oz. Mustard—1/2d.
Buttered Toast
Cayenne—1d.
Total Cost—71/2 d.
Time—5 Minutes
Make the mustard with vinegar instead of water, and stir into it some cayenne and salt. Rub the sardines over with this, and either fry them in a little dripping or grill them. Cut the toast into fingers, lay a sardine on each piece, and serve [...]

Cookbook Recipes – Palace Grill Salad

Select three hearts of celery and cut them Julienne. Cut some pineappleand pimentoes into dice. Mix all well together in a bowl and addmayonnaise sauce and a little whipped cream. Sprinkle some finelychopped green peppers on top and serve very cold.
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Dessert Recipes – CAKES, CRULLERS AND ECLAIRS

CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKEBeat a half cupful butter to a cream, addinggradually one cupful sugar. When light beat in a little at a time, ahalf cupful milk and a teaspoonful vanilla. Beat the whites of six eggsto a stiff froth and sift a teaspoonful and a half with two cupfulsflour. Add the sifted flour to the [...]

Cooking Recipes

FOR CANNING CORN. MRS. MARTHA WRIGHT.
To five pints green corn, add three pints water; cook five minutes;
then dissolve three level teaspoons tartaric acid, and add to corn;
cook a few minutes longer; then it is ready to can in new or nearly
new tin cans.
When preparing for table, drain off liquid; add a very little water;
season [...]

Bread Recipes

GOOD BREAD. MRS. SUSIE SEFFNER.
Take six good-sized potatoes; cook until very soft; take from the
water, and mash until creamy; turn the water over the potato scalding
hot, and stir in flour until the consistency of cake batter. When
cool, stir in one cup of good yeast dissolved in a little warm water;
let rise over night. [...]