Orange recipes and jelly method from a domestic guide
A dated domestic science style guide outlines orange specific treats including orange salad cookies and jelly. It gives step by step prep for orange salad slices with salt pepper oil and vinegar and for orange cookies with butter sugar rind orange juice egg flour and baking powder. It then describes a detailed process for orange jelly from fruit prep to boiling filtering sugar addition and sealing.
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University of California
English Stuffed Peppers and Dried Lima Bean Puree
Directions for stuffed peppers with green peppers halved and parboiled then baked with bread crumb stuffing spiced with onion juice savory thyme salt and pepper and finished with browned crumbs and butter. Also recipe for dried lima bean puree from soaked beans mashed and sieved with butter salt pepper and optional cream.
Excellent Nut Bread
Two cupfuls white flour and two cupfuls graham or whole wheat flour sifted. One half cup New Orleans molasses. A pinch of salt. Two cupfuls milk or water. One cupful walnut meats cut fine. One teaspoon soda dissolved in milk. About two tablespoonfuls melted butter. Let rise 20 minutes. Bake about one hour in a moderate oven.
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New Orleans
Chocolate Caramels from a Vintage Recipe
A vintage recipe instructs to combine one cup sweet milk, one cup molasses, half cup sugar, half cup grated chocolate, and a walnut sized piece of butter. Stir constantly and boil until thick, pour onto buttered plates, then cut into squares as it stiffens. Flavor with vanilla.
Waxed paper trick for easy cake pan release
Waxed paper lining inside cake pans helps release baked cakes. Cut to fit, flour, pour in batter, bake, then cool on a wet cloth for five minutes before inversion to drop out cleanly.
Ginger Wine Recipe From Historic Kitchen Note
A compact recipe describes making ginger wine by boiling four pounds loaf sugar, one pound brown sugar, and five quarts water for 45 minutes, then cooling and adding a 25 cent bottle of ginger essence.
Boiling Beef Cuts For Stock And Bouillon
The article notes the shift to boiling beef cuts like the heel of the round for stock and bouillon as a cost effective practice. It prescribes two and a half pounds of heel of the round yielding about three quarts of stock, plus instructions on salting simmering times and options with a fireless cooker.
Apples Baked With Rice Filling And Nuts
Instructions describe coring bright red apples and filling with a dry rice and cracker crumb mix plus chopped apples sugar raisins and almonds. Cook a milk custard with egg butter lemon rind and juice then fold into filling, bake in moderate oven and serve with whipped cream or custard.
Metropolis Pudding Recipe From Local Pantry
A historical dessert recipe uses milk flour eggs butter lemon rind finger biscuits and preserve. Butter a dish layer sponge and biscuits with preserve, cook a milk flour paste ten minutes then yolks fold in. Bake 45 minutes, top with stiffly beaten whites and sugar, return to a golden finish.
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Metropolis
Rising Bread Care and Pricking Brown Loaves
The guide advises covering rising dough with a wrung warm damp cloth or placing it over a dry cloth in cold weather to keep the top from drying and ensure uniform leaves on bake. To avoid holes in brown bread, prick twice with a needle: once when placing loaves in tins and again before baking.
Peas and Celery Delight
A brief recipe describes cooking two cupfuls of diced raw celery in boiling water until tender. Drain, measure one cupful, thicken with two tablespoonfuls flour rubbed into one tablespoon butter, boil smooth, then add celery and one can peas soaked in cold water. Bake lightly browned in ramikins.
Potato Puff Recipe From Old Kitchen Instructions
Take half a pound of mashed potato and mix in a dessert spoon of butter and a beaten egg yolk. Add enough flour to roll on the pastry board. Cut into rounds, fold in the potato paste, seal edges with egg yolk, and pinch. Coat with egg and crumbs. Let stand ten minutes then fry or bake in a floured tin.
Squash Muffins Recipe Summary
A recipe for squash muffins says to sift four tablespoons squash with one cup sugar two tablespoons melted butter two cups sweet milk three and three quarter cups pastry flour six tablespoons cream of tartar and one and a half teaspoons soda. Mix in order and bake in gem pans twenty minutes in a hot oven.
Rules for Veal and Chicken Salad Preparation
This guide outlines how to prepare chicken and veal for salad, including boiling method with onions celery bay leaves and peppercorns, cooling in the cooking liquid, mixing with veal and canned chicken, and using celery crumbs almonds and mayonnaise. It emphasizes economy and proper seasoning for large quantities and wedding or entertainment menus.
Rice Croquettes From Simple Rice Dish
Cook half cup rice with half cup boiling water until absorbed. Stir in one cup boiling milk and continue until soft. Off heat add salt yolks butter then cool. Shape scoop coat with egg white and crumbs fry. Serve with marmalade or with lamb and curry sauce.
Jelly Whip and Fish Chowder and Lemon Hard Sauce
Jelly whip combines gelatin water sugar and fruit layers with whipped cream and decorations. Fish chowder uses halibut milk butter potatoes and onion boiled five minutes for a hearty soup. Lemon hard sauce blends butter lemon juice nutmeg and sugar to a fluffy finish.
Sultana Rice Dessert Steamed With Sugar and Butter
A simple recipe says boil a teacup of rice until cooked and drained. Stir in a teacup of washed sultanas a tablespoon of butter and two tablespoons brown sugar. Steam for 30 minutes and serve hot with golden syrup.
First Aid for the Cream in Hot Coffee
Practical tip from a vintage cooking note advises adding a pinch of soda to cream to prevent curdling in hot coffee. The guidance emphasizes a simple fix when no other stabilizing agents are available.
Honey: A Sweet Substitute In Breakfast And Desserts
Many housewives underestimate honey but its sweetening power surpasses sugar. Honey enhances grapefruit and baked apples, with recipes for stuffed apples, honey bread crumb filling, a honey custard for bread pudding, and a spice cake using honey in place of sugar.
Using Soft Fruit In Cooking And Preserving
Soft fresh fruit should be cooked with a little sugar to make a sauce or jelly. Leftover canned fruit can be sieved to a sauce or used in ice cream or a cornstarch or rice pudding. Apple parings pulp and jelly improve apple tart and flavor tapioca pudding. Orange and lemon peels flavor sauces and stewed fruits and can be dried for storage.
Stale Bread Uses and Storage Tips
Stale bread can be dried to make crumbs for frying croquettes or coating foods. Keep crumbs in a covered glass jar for later use. Large pieces may be eaten with soup or made into croutons. small pieces suit stuffing griddle cakes bread omelet and puddings.
Tomato Sauce and Desserts From A Household Page
Instructions cover tomato sauce for baked eggplant with steps for simmering thickening and finishing with cream. Also notes March housecleaning aims including fly control moth prevention and garden fertilizer. Additional recipes include Kings Pudding Custard Pie and boric acid usage as pantry antiseptic.
Left-Over Food Tips From New York City Pamphlet
Practical guidance from Mayor Mitchel’s food supply committee on using leftovers. Reheating meat briefly, enhancing flavor with seasonings, and making hash stews croquettes pies and omelets. Tips also cover preserving sour milk or cream for baking and cheese crumb usage for revived dishes and crackers.
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Mitchel
Food Supply Committee
City Hall
New York
Cherry Cream and Pork Tenderloins From A Vintage Cookbook
A recipe passage covers Cherry Cream with gelatin, eggs, cream, and canned cherries plus notes on coloring and serving. It also details Pork Tenderloins with stuffing, oven roasting, and basting. A mildew stain remedy uses soft soap, starch, salt, lemon juice, and sun exposure.
Special fudge and peas feature in kitchen tip
A Kitchen note explains fudge made with sour cream instead of milk or cream. It also describes how adding a lettuce leaf and a tablespoon of sugar to peas produced vibrant green color and a fresh taste, making them resemble sweet green peas.
Creamed Salmon on Toast Recipe
Melt butter, stir in flour to form a paste. Gradually whisk in warm sweet milk to make a smooth white sauce. Season to taste, fold in one small can of salmon, and spoon over hot toast.
Pineapple Lemonade Recipe
A historical recipe describes a pineapple lemonade mix using sugar water pineapple juice and two lemons. Boil sugar and water to a light thread then press pineapple and combine with syrup and lemon juice. When serving add water and sugar to taste.
Meeting the Needs of All in Family Meals
The article stresses planning to meet all family members needs with a balanced diet. It advises tailoring main dishes and desserts so children can enjoy equally attractive alternatives to adult portions and suggests cost effective desserts like custard or rice pudding to please children.
Easy Method to Polish Silver Without Rubbing
A household tip describes cleaning silver by a simmering salt and soda solution in a galvanized pan. Add zinc or a Mason jar lid to the solution to create a polishing action, avoiding laborious rubbing while preserving the silver.
Colonial Fritters and Homemaking Tips From Old Cookbook
A collection of kitchen notes covers Colonial Fritters with bread crumbs milk eggs and spice adding raisins for extra flavor. Salmon is prepared with bones crushed for lime and a 24 hour spice marinade. Also includes stove polishing with sand soap kerosene oil and wood ashes and a celery toast with a creamy sauce for hot buttered toast.
Salted Almonds in Oil Recipe Method
Boil shelled almonds to loosen skins then drain. Toss with two teaspoons olive oil and one teaspoon salt. Let stand two hours, then spread in a dripping pan and brown in a moderate oven, stirring often.
Save Your Candy Tongs for Gentle Strawberry Hulls
The article advocates using candy tongs to hull strawberries, noting they do not bruise the fruit and protect fingers from staining. It emphasizes the tool’s suitability and safety for delicate fruit preparation.
Revenge and Kidney Pills Endure in Small Town Ads
A short reader note jokes about fines for late library books. An Arkansas man credits Foley Kidney Pills with curing kidney trouble and back pain. A Battle Creek reader praises Chamberlain's Tablets for indigestion and sour stomach. Sold by all druggists.
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J. P. Jones
Boothe, Ark
Foley
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Wm. M. Thompson
Battle Creek, Mich
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