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Kentucky receipt book

1903

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Presented as published in 1903. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
One and one-half cups of cold boiled or canned salmon, % cup of cream or milk, 2 tablespoons of bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, 3 eggs, ^ teaspoon of salt, a dash of cayenne pepper and a few drops of onion juiceSalmon Timbales. Put cream in saucepan, add all seasoning, when hot, add salmon and mash fine, when boiling, add the beaten yolks. Remove from fire, and fold in lightly the beaten whites. Fill greased timbale cups 2-3 full. Place in a pan of hot water, and bake 20 minutes. Turn out on plates, and serve with HoUandaise sauce. KENTUCKY BECEIPT BOOK. 193 Ham SalacL Cut cold ham in thin slices, and place 04 crisp lettuce. Make a French dressing, with 4 tablespoons salad oil, 1 tablespoon vinegar, % teaspoon Rochefort cheese, a little minced onion, a dash of cay- enne pepper and salt. Pour over dressing, and serve salad with reception flakes. White Ohicken Salad. One pound of chicken breast, % pound of white crisp celery, 1 pint of mayonnaise dressing, 1 pint of creamWhite Chicken Salad. Boil chicken, and dice the white meat, and cut celery in cubes. Set on ice to chill, when ready to serve, add the whipped cream to mayonnaise, marinate some with the salad. Pour rest over, and garnish with stufEed olives. Salad. Six ripe tomatoes, 6 fresh cucumbers, 4 green bell peppers, 1 small white onion. Peel cucumbers and tomatoes, and slice very thin. Remove seed from peppers and cut into rings, chop the onion fine. Mix ingredients and sprinkle with salt and set on ice, then drain and pour on dressing. Make a French dressing, of oil, vine- gar and sweet cream. Chill and pour on salad, which must be serv- ed on crisp lettuce leaves. Endive Salad. Take 2 bunches of endive, cut off the root, and pick the crisp leaves, wash and drain, add a few chives. Serve with mayonnaise dressing. Bean Salad. String tender green beans, and break into ^-inch pieces, wash and cook in salted water. Drain, and mix with the beans, chopped onion, pepper, salt and vinegar, when cold, add melted butter or olive oil. , Fish Salad. Take a white fish or trout, boil and dice it, add an equal quanti- ty of lettuce, cabbage or celery. Garnish with tender leaves of let- tuce. Serve with mayonnaise dressing. Grab Salad. Boil 2 dozen hard shell crabs for 25 minutes, drain and cool gradually. Remove upper shell and tail, break apart and pick out meat. Place in salad bowl white leaves of crisp lettuce, add the crab meat, and pour over mayonnaise dressing. Garnish dish with the claws and hard boiled eggs cut in rings, watercress added to salad gives a piquant flavor. Fruit Salad. Take an equal quantity of fresh pineapple, and fresh cherries 13 194 KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. seeded, reserving all juice from the latter. Mix, and place on crisp lettuce, and cover with mayonnaise dressingFruit Salad. Serve immediately. Fresh Fruit Salad. Have an equal amount of diced pineapple, seeded cherries and fresh strawberries. Chill, and place on crisp lettuce. Serve with French dressing. Shrimp Salad. One can of shrimp, 6 tablespoons olive oil, yolks of 4 eggs, 4 teaspoons lemon juice, salt and cayenne pepper. Boil hard the yolks of 2 eggs, and combine with the yolks of 2 unbeaten eggs. Mix eggs until smooth, add oil slowly, with vinegar, lemon juice, when light, add salt and pepper. In winter have as much crisp celery cut in blocks, as there is shrimp. In summer, can substitute crisp let- tuce leaves. Place dressing on ice until ready to serve, then com- bine with the salad. Delmonico Salad. Six small cucumbers sliced very thin, 1 small head of white cab- bage (chopped fine), 4 green bell peppers, remove the seed. Cut fine. Put on a flat dish and garnish with slices of fresh tomatoes. Can be served either with a mayonnaise or French dressing. Have all ingredients very cold. Nut Salad.