The New York receipt book / [D.B.Dewey & Co.].

  • D.B. Dewey & Co.
Date:
[1892]
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Credit: The New York receipt book / [D.B.Dewey & Co.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vegetables. Saratoga Potatoes.—Shave thin, soak in ice water thirty minutes, fry in boiling lard to light brown; drain and salt. Serve hot in folded napkin. Cooked Cucumber.--Peal and cut into quarters. Remove the seeds. Put into salted boiling water, and boil until tender. When done, place on buttered toast and spread with butter. Lvonnaise Potatoes.—Six potatoes, parboiled, and when cold, slice or cut into dice; one half onion, chopped; butter or dripping for frying; chopped parsley, pepper and salt. Add seasoning and serve dry. Boiled Peas.— First boil the pods in a little water. Skim out the pods and put the peas in; also a little butter, cream, salt and pepper. Cook thirty min¬ utes. When served, add the juice. A trifle of sugar assists the flavor. Boiled Asparagus.—Place heads one way; tie in small bundles and cut off to equal lengths. Put into salted boiling water and boil until tender. When well drained arrange upon thin slice of toast. Pour over them drawn butter sauce. Cook eighteen minutes. Spinach or Greens.—Of spinach, dandelion, cowslips, beet tops, &c. Wash thoroughly. Put into just enough salted boiling water to cover. When tender, squeeze out all the water and press through a cullender. Fry a few minutes with a little salt, pepper and butter. Serve wiih slices of hard-boiled egg. Pork and Beans—Soak one quart beans over night. Next day boil with one large onion. When nearly done, take out the onion and place beans in baking dish. In centre of the beans put half pound of salt pork, not to be fully hid. Pour in some of the water in which beans are boiled, and bake one hour. Stuffed Tomatoes.—Get them as large and firm as possible;- cut a round place in the top, scrape out all the soft parts; mix with stale bread crumbs, onions, parsley, butter, pepper and salt; chop very fine and fill the tomatoes carefully; bake in a moderately hot oven; put a little butter in the pan, and see that they do not bum or become dry. Devilled Tomatoes.—One pint tomatoes, one hard-boiled egg—the yolk only, two tablespoonfuls melted butter, one and one-half tablespoonfuls vine gar, one raw egg 'whipped light, one teaspoonful powdered sugar, salt, mustard and pepper. Pound the boiled yoke,’ rub in butter and seasoning. Beat light, add vinegar, heat almost to a boil. Stir in the beaten egg until the mixture thickens. Set in hot water while you cut the tomatoes in thick slices. Broil over a clear fire Lay on a hot chafing dish, and pour hot sauce over them. Baby’s Appeal. ** What makes I cry and folks say Ize naughty ?” Cause stomach ache, and sour in my mouffy; Cause, too, can’t sleep, and worms bite ze belly; 4‘Fever,” za say, feel like I was jelly. Guess your babies cry, Dick and Victoria, When 'mamma’s gone, and don’t have Castoria. “ You’re right, they fairly yell. “ There, Uncle C}r; Cousin Frank have Castoria, he don’t cry.
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