Presbyterian Cook Book 1873
Contents

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PRESBYTERIAN
COOK BOOK,

COMPILED BY

THE LADIES OF THE
First Presbyterian Church,


DAYTON, OHIO.

1873

 

 

CONTENTS

 

TITLE & PREFACE


SOUP.

Suggestions--Beef--Bean--Corn--Tomato--Okra Gumbo--Plain Gumbo--Plain Calf's Head--Corn and Tomato--Green Pea--Pea--Macaroni--Noodles--Meat Balls--Dumplings

 

FISH.

Boiled--Fried--Baked--Baked Codfish--Stewed Codfish--Fish Fritters--Clam Fritters--Fish Sauce--Turbot a la Creme--Pickled Salmon--Lobster Croquettes

 

OYSTERS.

Soup--Steamed--Escalloped--Broiled--Fried--Oyster Pie--Oyster Patties--Fritters--Croquettes--Chowder--Cove Oysters

 

MEATS.

Rules for Boiling Meat--Boiled Turkey--Roast Turkey--Plain Stuffing--Turkey, Dressed with Oysters--Potato Stuffing--Apple Stuffing--Chestnut Stuffing--Boiled Chicken Pie--Chicken Pie--Fricasseed Chicken--Turkey Scallop--Turkey or Chicken Croquettes--Croquettes--Curried Chicken--Stewed Chicken, with Oysters--Tomato Stewed Beef--Beefsteak Smothered in Onions--Stuffed Beefsteak--Pounded Beef--Pressed Beef--Corn Beef Pickle--Corn Beef--Spiced Beef--Veal Omelet--Veal Roll—Veal Cutlets--Veal Croquettes--Scolloped Veal--Marbled Veal--Irish Stew--Sweetbreads--Sweetbreads, with Tomatoes--Sweetbreads, with Mushrooms--Fried Liver--Mock Terrapin--Dried Liver--Boiled Ham--Baked Ham--Ham Sandwiches--Travelling Lunch--Sandwiches--Hash--Cracker Hash--Ham Balls--Fried Patties--Scrambled Eggs, with Beef--Omelette, or French Egg Cake--French Omelette

 

SAUCES AND CATSUPS.

Drawn Butter--Curry Powder--Celery Sauce--Tomato Catsup--Cold Tomato Catsup--Tomato Mustard--Mixing Mustard--Cucumber Catsup--Walnut Catsup--Mushroom Catsup--Wild Plum Catsup--Gooseberry Catsup--Currant Catsup--Grape Catsup--Chili Sauce--Celery Vinegar--Celery Soy--To Keep Horse-radish

 

VEGETABLES.

Suggestions--Baked Tomatoes--Broiled Tomatoes--Scalloped Tomatoes--Fried Tomatoes--Sliced Tomatoes--Tomato Salad--Stewed Corn--Succotash--Green Corn Pudding--Corn Oysters--Corn Fritters--Boiled Onions--Boiled Turnips--Green Peas--Fricasseed Peas--String Beans--Cooking Beans--Baked Beans--Asparagus--New Potatoes--Stewed Potatoes--Potato Balls--Potato Puffs--Potato Fritters--Potato Croquettes--Saratoga Potatoes--Cabbage a la Cauliflower--Cream Cabbage--Steamed Rice--Boiled Rice--Rice Croquettes--Fried Egg Plant--Egg Plant--Stuffed Egg Plant--Oyster Plant--Fried Oyster Plant--Boiled Hubbard Squash--Baked Squash--Spinach--Greens--Broiled Mushrooms--Stewed Mushrooms--Macaroni--Baked Macaroni

 

SALADS.

Chicken Salad--Mayonnaise Salad Dressing--Salad Dressing--Mustard Cabbage--Lettuce Salad--Celery Salad--Potato Salad--Celery Slaw--Cole Slaw--Dressing for Hot Slaw

 

PIES.

Pastry--Celebrated Puff Paste--Plain Pie Crust--Icing for Pies--Potato Paste--Baked Apple Dumplings--Boiled Apple Dumplings--Strawberry Shortcake--Peach Pie--Cream Pie--Lemon Cream Pie--Lemon Pie--Iowa Lemon Pie--Scoth Pie--Cocoanut Pie--Cocoanut Custard--Custard Pie--A Good Suggestion--Pumpkin Pie--Hasty Pumpkin Pie--Mock Apple Pie--Squash Pie--Orange Pie--Pineapple Pie--Potato Pie--Sweet Potato Pie--Apple Custard Pie--Apple Jonathan--Mince Meat (3)--Apple Mince Pie--Mock Mince Pie

 

PUDDINGS.

Boiling Puddings--Piccolomini Pudding--Boiled Bread Pudding--Cleveland Biscuit Pudding--Cracker Pudding--Minute Pudding--Virginia Pudding--Cream Pudding--Gelatine Pudding--Snow Pudding--Tapioca Snow Pudding--Gelatine Snow Pudding--Fuller Pudding--Dorrit Pudding--Plum Pudding--English Plum Pudding--Baked Indian Pudding--Tapioca Pudding--Baked Tapioca--Apple Tapioca Pudding--Boiled Tapioca--Rice Pudding--Lemon Rice Pudding--Rice Merangues--Fruit Rice Pudding--Farina Pudding--Florentine Pudding--Corn Starch Pudding--Valise Pudding--Wapsie Pudding--Sponge Pudding--Batter Fruit Pudding--Huckleberry Pudding--Seven-Cent Pudding--Dried Fruit Pudding--Eve's Pudding--Merangue Pudding--Young America Pudding--Jelly Cake Pudding--Savoy Pudding--Spanish Charlotte--Tipsey Charlotte--Lemon Pudding--Cocoanut Pudding--Rich Cocoanut Pudding--German Chocolate Pudding--Chocolate Pudding--Orange Cheese Cake

 

SAUCES.

Lemon Sauce--Cream Sauce--Pudding Sauce--Foam Sauce--Snow Sauce--Sauce for Minute Pudding--Hard Sauce--White Sauce--Sauce for Merangue Pudding--Vinegar Sauce for Puddings

 

CUSTARDS, CREAMS, ETC.

Float--Apple Float--Apple Coddle--Apple Omelet--Omelet Soufflee--Blanc Mange--Rice Blanc Mange--Gelatin Blanc Mange--Corn Starch Blanc Mange--Peach Blanc Mange--Chocolate Blanc Mange--Neapolitan Blanc Mange--Custard--Cream Custard--Almond Custard--Indian Custard--Lemon Cream--Wine Cream--Hamburg Cream--Italian Cream--Russian Cream--Spanish Cream--Tapioca Cream--Wine Jelly--Chocolate Jelly--Frost Jelly--Orange or Lemon Gelatin--Charlotte Russe--Chocolate Charlotte Russe--Soufflee de Russe--Lemon Sponge--Ice Cream--Chocolate Ice Cream--Chocolate Cream--Frozen Pudding--Lemon Ice--Orange Ice--Frozen Peaches--Frozen Strawberries

 

CONFECTIONERY.

Taffy--Molasses Candy--Cream Candy--Chocolate Caromels--Candy Drops--Cocoanut Candy--Butter Scotch

 

BREAD.

Yeast--Dry Yeast--Bread--Bread with Dry Yeast--Brown Bread--Rye Brown Bread--Rice Bread--Corn Bread--Mississippi Corn Bread--Corn Dodgers—Rusks

 

ROLLS AND BISCUIT.

English Rolls--Saratoga Rolls--Parker House Rolls--Graham Breakfast Rolls--Pounded Biscuit--Hunters' Biscuit--Soda Biscuit--Drop Biscuit

 

MUFFINS, ETC.

Rye Drop Cakes--Whigs--Muffins--Corn Muffins--Rice Muffins--Graham Gems--Potato Cakes--Sally Lunn--Sally Lunn without Yeast--Breakfast Puffs--Puffetts--Rosettes--Pop Overs--Yeast Waffles--Rice Waffles--Sour Milk Waffles

 

GRIDDLE CAKES, FRITTERS, ETC.

Buckwheat Cakes--Corn Batter Cakes--Hominy Fritters--Pancakes of Rice--Fried Mush--Crumb Cakes--Pennsylvania Flannel Cakes--Lemon Turn Overs--Peach Fritters--Spanish Fritters

 

CAKE.

Suggestions--Buckeye Cake--Pound Cake--Corn Starch Cake--Delicate Cake--Snow Cake--Silver Cake--Gold Cake--French Bun--Liverpool Cake--Social Cake--Queen Cake--Simple Sponge Cake--Sponge Cake--Cocoanut Sponge Cake--Cocoanut Pound Cake--Cocoanut Cake--Almond Cake--Hickory-nut Cake--Watermelon Cake--Coffee Cake--Erie Coffee Cake--Citron Cake--Currant Cake--Bread Cake--Fruit Cake--Black Fruit Cake--Black Cake--Ginger Fruit Cake--Dried Apple Fruit Cake--French Loaf Cake--Sponge Gingerbread--Black Gingerbread--Gingerbread--Marble Cake--Chocolate Marble Cake

 

LAYER CAKES.

Chocolate Cake--Springfield Almond Cake--Orange Cake--Lemon Cake--Ambrosia Cake--Jelly Cake--Washington Cake--Railroad Cake--Rolled Sponge Cake--Sponge Custard Cake--Sponge Cocoanut Cake--Cocoanut Cake--White Mountain Cake

 

SMALL CAKES.

Good Cookies--Aunt Betsey's Cookies--Canada Cookies--Cookies--Sand Tarts--Ginger Nuts--Ginger Snaps--German Crack Cake--Nancy's Doughnuts--Raised Doughnuts--Queen of Doughnuts--Excellent Crullers--Crullers--Drop Ginger Cakes--Savory Cakes--Shrewsberry Cakes--Chocolate Jumbles--Chocolate Puffs--Drop Jumbles--Cocoanut Jumbles--Almond Macaroons--Egg Kisses--Merangues--Cocoanut Cakes--Madelines--Cream Cakes--Boston Cream Cakes

 

PICKLES AND RELISHES.

Suggestions--Cucumber Pickles--Gherkins--India Pickles--Yellow Pickles--Stuffed Cucumbers--Cucumber Mangoes--Ripe Cucumber Pickles--Sliced Cucumber Pickles--Green Tomato Pickles--French Pickles--Pickled Tomatoes--Green Tomato Pickle--Walnut Pickle--Small White Onion Pickle--Onion Pickle--Picalily--Chow-Chow--Picalily, without Tomatoes--Oil Pickle Cabbage--Spiced Nutmegs--Watermelon Pickles--Pickled Plums--Sweet Grape Pickle--Cherry Pickle--Sweet Pickle Cherries--Spiced Apples--Spiced Currants--Sweet Pickled Peaches--Sweet Crab Pickle--To Pickle Pears Whole--Nasturtions

 

CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Canned Peaches and Pears--Brandy Peaches--Peaches for Pies--Preserved Strawberries--Preserved Quinces--Blackberries--Crab Apples--Oranges--Green Gage Plums--Citron Melon--Apple Sauce--Raspberry Jam--Jam--Peach Jam--Cherry Jam--Orange Marmalade--Pineapple Jam--Tomato Jam--Canned Corn

 

DRINKS FOR FAMILY USE.

Chocolate--Coffee--Tea--Grape Wine--Elderberry Wine--Blackberry Wine--Currant Wine--Currant Shrub--Raspberry Shrub--Raspberry Vinegar--Strawberry Acid--Elderberry Syrup--Orange Syrup--Lemon Syrup--Pineapple Syrup--Blackberry Cordial--Quince Cordial--Cherry Cordial--Summer Drink--Cream Nectar--Egg Nogg--Beer--Spruce Beer--Harvest Beer

 

FOOD FOR THE SICK.

Beef Tea--Mutton Broth--Gruel--Egg Gruel--Panada--Barley Panada--Egg Panada--Toast Water--Apple Water--Wine Whey--Buttermilk Whey--Tamarind Whey--Mulled Wine--Mulled Jelly--Egg Nogg--Black Tea--Coffee--Chocolate--Irish Moss Blanc Mange--Rye Mush--Oyster Toast--Boiled Custard--Meigs' Diet for Infants--Dried Flour for Infants--Beef Tea for Infants

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Remedy for Diptheria--Cough Syrup--Remedy for Burns--Remedy for Rheumatism--Dyspepsia--Fever and Ague--Ague Bitters--Antidote for Poison--To Prevent Lockjaw--For Frosted Limbs--To Stop the Flow of Blood--Cure for Wasp Sting--Cure for Sprain--To Remove Tar from the Hands or Clothing--To Remove Discoloration by Bruising--To Cleanse the Hair--Camphor Ice--Cologne--Cold Cream--Salve--Brown Salve--Excellent Liniment--Liniment for Cuts--Cure for a Felon--Lye Poultice--Cream Poultice--Lily Root Poultice--Hop Poultice--Potato Poultice--To Keep Cider--To Preserve Milk--To Preserve Butter--To Keep Pickles in Brine--To Cure Hams--To Cure Tongues--To Preserve Eggs--To Preserve Sausage--Washing Fluid--Cleansing Fluid--Cleansing Cream--Hard Soap--Soda Ash Soap--Soft Soap--Hint to the Laundress--To Wash Blankets--To Wash Brown Holland Chair Covers--To Clean Light Kid Gloves--To Wash Silk--To Clean Black Dresses--To Clean Alpaca--To Remove Ink Stains--To Remove Fruit Stains from Table Linen--To Clean Straw Hats--To Clean Bottles--To Kill Moths in Carpets--To Preserve Furs from Moths--To Destroy Cockroaches--To Destroy Bed Bugs--To Clean Paint--To Prevent Metals from Rusting--To Clean Steel or Iron--To Remove Rust from Steel--To Take Out Iron Rust--Rubber Cement--Tin Polish--Silver Polish--For Varnishing Gilded Frames--Varnish for Grates--Sweetening Kitchen Sinks--To Make Colors Permanent--To Color Black--To Color Red—Lye Collor