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The New York receipt book

1882

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Presented as published in 1882. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
the NEWYORK ReceiptBook Adapted from the Fifth- Avenue Hotel, New York. f s‘>'M>s. Beef Soup.— Sufficient soup stock ; boil onion, carrot, potatoes and vegetables to taste. Strain into soup stock and season. Tomato Soup.— Put 3 pints of tomatoes, stewed, strained and sweet¬ ened to 2 quarts of beef stock, add an onion, salt and pepper. Friday Soup.— 1 p. tomatoes, 1 p. milk, 1 q. water, 2 crackers rolled fine, and i teaspoon soda ; or, in place of the tomatoes, use potatoes. Roux. — A thickening for soup3 and gravies. Butter and flour cooked ; bring butter to a boiling point ; stir and sift in flour to right consistency. Bouillon Soup. — Id pounds beef, 1 pound bone, 2d quarts of water, 1 ounce salt, 2 carrots, 2 onions, about 2 cloves, 3 leeks, d head celery, 1 turnip and d parsnip. Strain and serve clear. Vegetable Soup.— Equal quantity each carrots and turnips cut small, with same of green or canned peas; boil separately. Put vege¬ tables in tureen, and pour bouillon over them to suit. Pea and Beau Soup.— Soak peas or white dried beans over night, boil in salt water, in morning, add a clove or garlic. When cooked, strain through a cullender into a pan and heat again ; add butter to suit. d Sauces for Meats, Puddings and Fish. Sauce for Lamb,— 2 spoonfuls chopped mint, 1 of sugar, d piftt vinegar ; add water and heat. Hard Sauce. — 2 cups powdered sugar, butter size of an egg, about spoonful hot water to moisten butter. Beat and keep cool. Liquid Pudding Sauce. — Beat 1 egg, 1 cup white sugar to froth; make a very thin batter with one pint water and butter half the size of egg. Pour batter boiling over the egg, See., as it goes to the table ; flavor. Sauce Hollandaise or Brawn Butter for Fish.— 2 spoon¬ fuls flour mixed with 1 p. water ; place on fire. Add pepper, salt, lemon juice, yolks of 2 eggs. Remove and add d lb. butter. Stir well. Mayonnaise Sauce. — For salad3, chicken, lettuce, tomato, &c. Yolk legg raw, beat with fork, d teaspoon salt, d mustard ; work 1 minute before adding oil ; add slowly a few drops oil, stir constantly. WThen in jelly, add a few drops vinegar, a gill of oil, 1 pinch of red pepper and more vinegar. Centaur Liniment.— The most Powerful, Pene¬ trating, Pain-reliever known to man. A household remedy for Rheumatism, Sprains, Wounds, Burns, Bruises, and Lameness uDon the human family and domestic animals. Calendar for 1883. a s8 •"S & © A w u cS Pi < s M T W T F 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 r> o 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 OA 25 26 .27 28 29 30 81 . . • . • . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11112 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 i 2 3 'i 5 ‘6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 QQ'an r n 1;; •- es pH a be a < is Mi T W r. t 2 2 6 7 8 9 13 14 15 16 20 21 22 23 27 28 29 30 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 17 18 19 20 24 25 26 27 1 2 ‘3 4 8 9 10 11 15 16 17 18 22 23 24 25 29 30 31 i 5 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 19 20 21 22 26 27 28 29 29 16 23 30 6 13 20 27 3 10 17 24 31 s M T W T F