FoodNet

Durham cook book ...

1921

Page 12 · 2 recipe records on this page

Presented as published in 1921. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
USE DAN RIVER SELF-RISING FLOUR KNOX GELATINE makes dainty desserts for dainty people liquor, add clam liquor to other ingredients and cook with little parsley; last add seasoning. — Mrs. Annie Whitmoke Andrews. CHOWDER WITH POEK. Two dozen clams, one fourth pound salt pork, one bay leaf, three or four onions, six potatoes, diced, one-half can tomatoes, one and one -half quarts Avater, seasoning. Put pork cut up m kettle and cook until almost brown. Add clam liquor, water, bay leaf and onions and potatoes and cook fully one and one-half hours, adding chopped or cut clams last, cook- ing about ten minutes. — Mrs. Annie Whitmore Andrew^s. TOMATO SOUP. To one can tomatoes add one pint water, one-half bay leaf, two cloves, or a bit of mace. Cook until tomatoes are soft, then strain. After straining add one teaspoonful sugar, one teaspoonful salt, one-fourth teaspoonful soda. Thicken with two tablespoonfuls butter and three table- spoonfuls flour blended together. — Mrs. Annie Whitmore Andrews. CEEAM OF TOMATO SOUP. To one-half can tomatoes add one scant table- spoonful of finely chopped onion and three spikes of celery. Cook until tender and strain through Avire sieve. Season to taste and add soda the size of a pea. Scald milk. Mix a heaping teaspoonful flour vrith one of melted butter, dis- solve in little Avarm milk and stir into scalding milk. Add to strained tomato stock just before serving. — Mrs. Annie Whitmore Andreavs. CORN SOUP. Cook one can of corn Avith one pint of Avater tAventy minutes. Cook one tablespoonful of onion in four of butter till a light broAvn, then add four tablespoonfuls flour, tAvo teaspoonfuls salt, one-fourth j^epper. When Avell- mixed, gradually add one quart scalded milk and cooked corn. Add last and sloAvly the beaten yolks of tAvo eggs. — Mrs. Annie Whitmore Andreavs. VEGETABLE SOUP OR BARLEY SOUP. Two pounds of soup meat and knuckle bones, one cup barley, fragments of soup greens, (celery, onion, carrot, turnip, parsley), one-half can peas, one-half can lima beans, one can tomato, seasoning, four quarts of Avater. Put all on together, except parsley and tomatoes in four quarts of cold Avater, let come to a boil, then simmer very slowly until meat falls apart, add tomatoes, chopped tAvo hours before soup is cooked and parsley chopped a feAv minutes before. A very long cooking makes it nice. I simmer mine all day. For choAvder I use this same recipe Avith exception of quantity of Avater, (less) also less meat and no barley, although I often add clams to the soup just as it is Avhen I have it. Add clam liquor before serving, but clams cut up, only a few minutes before. Add diced potatoes and cook sloAvly all together fully an hour. — Mrs. Annie Whitmore Andreavs. CREAM OF CELERY SOUP. One pint chopped celery, one pint water, tAvo tablespoonfuls butter, three tablespoonfuls flour, one sliced onion, one quart milk, one teaspoonful salt and dash of cayenneCream of Celery Soup. Cook onion and celery in water until tender. Then press through a sieve. Rub butter and flour together. Add hot milk and stir till it thickens. Add celery, Avater, salt and cayenne. Serve hot. — Mrs. Ella Boone Dickson, R. N.