+ Complete Food Guide +

Food Preparation, Meal Planning & ...

Last Update: Sat Jan 26 18:20:46 2008

+ Stewed Rice + Take one-half cup of rice; wash it twice; cover with water two inches above rice; cook dry; then cover with a cup or more of milk; ...

+ Spiced Beef + Take five pounds of beef from the shoulder and cover with cold water; boil until very tender; chop fine and season with salt and [...] down to one pint; strain it over the meat, which must be pressed down with a plate. Set in a cool place. Slice cold for serving.

+ Veal Stew + Cut four pounds of veal into strips three or four inches long and about one inch thick. Peel twelve large potatoes; cut them into [...] cover with potatoes; pour in water until it rises an inch over the whole; cover close; heat fifteen minutes; simmer one hour.

+ Potato and Meat Pie + Take mashed potatoes, seasoned with salt, pepper, and butter; line a baking dish with it; lay upon this slices of cold meat (any [...] till pan is filled, having the last a cover of potatoes. Bake until thoroughly warmed. Serve in the dish in which it is cooked.

+ Beef a al Mode + Take a round of beef, four or five inches thick, and for a piece weighing five pounds soak a pound of white bread in cold water [...] flour, and add a little butter. It is a favorite meat, eaten cold for suppers and luncheons. When thus used, remove the gravy.

+ Oyster Gumbo + Cut up a chicken; roll in flour and brown well in a soup-pot, with a spoonful of lard, two slices of ham, one large onion (chopped [...] of boiled rice in each soup plate. “Gumbo File” is made of the red sassafras leaves, dried and ground into a powder.

+ Simple Vegetable Soup + Three onions, three carrots, three turnips, one small cabbage, one pint tomatoes. Chop all the vegetables, except the tomatoes, [...] in butter and flour; let it boil up, and it is ready for the table. Serve with fried bread chips or poached eggs, one in each dish.

+ Tomato Soup III + Put on soup bone early to boil. Have two quarts of liquor on the bone. When done, remove the bone from kettle; put one can of [...] of flour mixed with a half cup of cream or milk; salt and pepper to taste. After the flour is in let boil up three times, and serve.

+ Tomato Soup II + One quart canned tomatoes, one quart of water, a few stalks of celery; boil until soft. Return to stove, and add three-fourths of a [...] one quart of oysters, one quart boiling milk and one cup of cream. Salt, butter, and pepper to taste. Boil a few moments and serve.

+ Tomato Soup I + Take half a can, or six large fresh tomatoes; stew until you can pass through a course sieve. Rub one tablespoonful of butter to a [...] to a good boil; add just before serving; season with a little pepper, a lump of loaf sugar, a dust of mace and a teaspoon of salt.

+ Bean Soup + To one quart of beans add one teaspoon of soda, cover with water, let boil until the hulls will slip off, skim the beans out, throw [...] together, add to the soup, pour over toasted bread or crackers, and season with salt and pepper. Add a little parsley, if desired.

+ Roast Beef Soup + To a good loin roast add six tablespoons of vinegar and small piece of butter; salt and pepper; stick six cloves in the roast; [...] finish roasting it and when done add celery-salt to suit the taste, and one cup of sweet cream and some catsup, if preferred.

+ General Theory of the Cake + In making cake, the ingredients used should be of the best quality—the flour super-fine, and always sifted; the butter fresh [...] baking she will, in a very short time, be able to tell by the appearance of either bread or cake whether it is sufficiently done.

+ Another Chicken Pie + Take a pair of young, tender chickens and cut them into neat joints. Lay them in a deep pudding-dish, arranging them so that the [...] done pour this gravy into it through a small funnel inserted in the opening in the top. The pie should not be cut until it is cold.

+ Chicken Pie + Stew the chicken until tender. Line a pan with crust made as you would baking powder biscuit. Alternate a layer of chicken and [...] to bake until the top crust is done. A layer of stewed chicken and a layer of oysters make a delicious pie. Use the same crust.