FoodNet

The housekeeper's companion

1883

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Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Bread, wheat and Indian 188 Breakiast, for §7 Bride cake, rich 305 Brittania metal, to clean Sl> Bronze, to clean 918 Buns, common 191 Cabbage 174 C abbage jelly 18S Cabbage^ to prepare the 165 Cake, Icing for 805 Cake, Indian griddle IW Cake, Johnny 189 C ake, loaf 208 Cake, molasses cup SOS Cake, plum 9M Cake, pound 906 index: Cake, rich bride. , 205 Cake, Boft gingerbread 202 Cake, spice 202 Cake, sponge 203 Cake, to ice or frost 205 Cake, wedding 204 Cake, wine 202 Cakes 202 Cakes, almond 206 Cakes, common cup 203 Cakes, currrant short 206 Cakes, drop 204 C akes, flannel <^ 193 Cakes, French tea 204 Cakes, griddle Buckwheat 190 Cakes, griddle Indian 189 Calf's brains, to make a dish of 141 Calf s head 140,141 Calf's head-cheese 141 Calf's head soup Ill Candlesticks, to clean 217 Canning and preserving 207 Canning, general rules for 208 Carpets, how to clean 210 C arpets, to remove grease from 210 Carpets, to remove ink from 210 Carrots 176 Carrots, old or winter 181 Carrot pudding 200 Carving 90 Cauliflower 174 Cauliflower, boiled 182 Cement for glass 220 Cheese, calf's head 141 Cherry pie 197 Chicken, escalloped 153 Chicken, fricassee 153 Chicken jelly 154 Chicken pie 153 Chicken pie and rice 153 Chickens, jellied 150 Chickens, prairie 151 Chickens, roast or boiled 148 Chicken, stuffing for 151 Chicken, to boil 151 Chocolate 105 Chops, veal 142 Chowder 122 Clam chowder 125 Clams, fried hard shell 125 Clams, hardshell 124 Clams, stewed 124 Clams, to boil 124 Clams, to boil soft shell 124 Clams, to fry soft shell 124 Cloths, to clean floor 211 Cocoanutpie 197 Cod, baked 117 Cod, cold boiled 116 Codfish cakes 116 Codfish, dried 115 Codfish steaks fried 116 Cod, fresh 116 Cod, fresh, to boil 116 Cod, stewed salt 115 Coffee, cream and milk for 104 Coffee, good New England 104 Coffee, Vienna 104 Cold slaw 182 Cookies 206 Cookies, soft 206 Condiments and beverages 100 Copper, to clean 216 Corned beef 134 Corn beef, to boil salted or 164 Com, green 181,183 Corn green, fritters 183 Corn oysters 181 Corn pudding 183 Corn soup Ill Crabs, to boil 123 Crabs, to choose 123 Cream and milk for coffee 104 Crickets, to kill 219 Crullers and doughnuts 192 Crust, plain pie 1 94 Crust, tart 194 Currant short cake 206 Curtains, to clean 216 Custard pie 197 IDiniug room, the 81 Dinner table, the 89 Doughnuts 192 Doughnuts, to fry and crullers 192 Duck, canvass-back 157 Duck, roast 148 Duck, to choose 156 Dumpling, apple 198 Dyein g 222 Dyeing, black 222, 225 Dyeing, blue on cotton or linen 225 Dyeing, blue, quick process 223 Dyeing, chrome black for woolen goods.222 Dyeing, crimson 226 Dyeing, dark colors 224 Dyeing, green 223, 225 Dyeing, green, on wool or silk 223 Dyeing, green, with oak bark 226 Dyeing, madder red 223 Dyeing, orange 224 Dyeing, pink 224 Dyeing purple .224 Dyeing, red 225 Dyeing, scarlet with cochineal 224 Dyeing, silver drab 224 Dyeing, snuff brown, dark 223 Dyeing, stocking yarn or wool 223 Dyeing, wine color 223 Dyeing, yellow — 225 EJels 120 Eels, fried 121 Egg plant 182 Eggs and ham fried 163 Eggsandham. omelet 169 E ggs baked 1 69 Egg omelet 169 Egga poached 170 Eggs Bur le Plat 170 Eggs, to boil 169 Eggs, to choose 168 English breakfast or Oolong tea 105 Fish 113 Fish, baked cod 117 Fish, black, stewed 118 Fish, black to fry 118 Fish, cold boiled, cod 116 Fish, dried cod 115 Fish, fresh cod 116 Fish, fresh cod to boil 116