Council cook book

One hundred medium sized cucumbers, sliced thin lengthwise, add one pint salt, let stand over night, drain thoroughly in morning, add two pints Best in the World. Have held the Market 128 Years of sliced onions, then add dressing, consisting of four tablespoons black mustard seed, four of white mustard seed, two of celery seed, one-half pint best olive oil, one-half pint of white vinegar. Put cucumbers and onions into this, add one teaspoon powdered alum, dissolved in a little warm water, add enough vinegar to cover it well, let stand three weeks before using. Salt Dill Pickles. Allow fifty medium size pickles to stand over night in fresh water; wash thoroughly and in your crock, put a layer of pickles, two or three green peppers (cut up), and slice of horseradish root, a little fresh dill, another layer of pickles, peppers and dill, etc., until pickles are all utilized. The crock should not be more than two-thirds full. Cover with plate and weight to keep ' pickles from floating. Make enough strong salt brine (to which a tea cup orvinegar has been added) to fill crock. Cover pickles with brine, and stand near stove for two weeks. Skim off the top of brine and keep in a cool place. SWAN DRUG CO. p^re^ drugs Devisadero and Fulton Sts., S. F. Phone West 3942 BEVERAGES "Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends." Boiled Coffee. Mix one tablespoon coffee for each cup of water and an extra tablespoon for the pot with a clean egg shell and a little cold water, and let it draw a few minutes. Add the freshly boiling water and boil five minutes. One Cup of Coffee. Put in a saucepan three-quarters cup milk, half cup cold water, one tablespoon coffee. Let it boil up once and strain into cup. Chocolate. One quart milk or one quart milk and water, about three tablespoons sugar and two squares unsweetened chocolate. Melt the chocolate, add the sugar to the hot liquid slowly, boil three or four minutes. If sweet chocolate is used, omit the sugar. Egg-Nog. (Six Drinks.) Six eggs, one pint rich milk, six tablespoons sugar, half pint best brandy, a little Jamaica rum, nut- WALTER BAKER'S ™"°* SJocolates Best in the World. Have held the Market 128 Year* BEVERAGES 163 meg; beat the six yolks and the sugar thoroughly, beat the whites separately, very stiff, mix the beaten yolks and sugar with the milk, fill the glasses half full with this. Grate in a little nutmeg, put the brandy and rum together and divide evenly in the six glasses, fill over this the beaten whites, stir but very little with a little spoon so as to make the whites form into nuggets. Frozen Egg Nog. Mix half a pound of sugar with eight eggs, whipping well. Add a quart of milk, a pint each of brandy and of rum. Strain. Add grated nutmeg and freeze. Serve in sherbet glasses. Raspberry Syrup. Put any amount of berries into a crock or large bowl and stir every morning for seven days. On the seventh day strain through a cheesecloth, then put the juice on to boil with two cups of sugar to one of juice, allow the sugar and juice to boil together for ten minutes, let it run once more through the cheesecloth and fill into bottles. It does not have to be air-tight. Raspberry Syrup. (This syrup, combined with lemonade, is highly esteemed for fever patients.) Take the berries just as they come from the market and put them into wooden or stone vessel, add a Qs.^^^ ■§•■§■ r\ *%^ €» Young Mei's, Boys' and Children's oiraiion s Nothing Incorporated^ 136 Geary St. San Francisco