FoodNet

The National home cook book

1900

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Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
fee mill make an old fowl cook nearly.as quick as a young. » one, and does not injure the flavor in the least. in double roaster. Serve with currant jelly, apple sauce and _ green peas. _ the fowl DPOB: its back to brown the breast. ~_ come hard or grainy and can be placed on your cake three- ahaa OWL HELPS _ =F % WHEN SINGEING CHICKENS, I aiwaxe use whte. ping paper, and I never have black or ‘smoked chicker s t clean. a: TO COOK OLD FOWL—Half a cup of vinegar in the wae FULL GROWN DUCKS should roast for one hour, or mor ea HOW TO ROAST FOWL—A fowl should always be placed” 3: on its knees, instead of on its back; then the juice will nat- — urally fall, making the white meat, which is apt to be dry, juicy, and ‘delectable. Twenty minutes before serving, ae - Frostings neat “BOILED FROSTING—Secret of making good | polled frost- ing: One and one-half cups-sugar, one-half cup water, whites of two eggsBoiled Frosting. Beat your eggs so stiff that you tan turn the . bowl over without their running out. Boil your sugar and water together until the thread is about three inches long; if : Shorter your frosting will not become firm; if longer it will — be grainy. Pour sirup slowly on egg whites, beating all the time. Then take your egg beater and beat as long as you can, finish beating with spoon; it may take 15 minutes. In If these directions are followed your frosting will never be- - quarters of an inch thick a -. moisten with water, stir till very smooth; don’t put in to é water (about two tablespoons), then pour over the hot water, mes strawberries, crush thoroughly; stir into crushed -berrie % i a delectable filling. - jt does not run from cake. Flavor with vanilla. xe - minutes, stir until cool; if too hard add a teaspoon of milk. “late: when soft add one tablespoon hot water, then one egg creams, This is an original recipe of my own... 4 - glossy appearance confectioners give. Grate your chocolate always ready - spoons sweet milk or cream and enough pulverized sugar to make it stiff enough to spread easily; will frost one cake. eee ones satisfactory than egg frosting’ even when Cees - chea icing and is easy to make. hairs, or is brittle in cold water. Stir it into the ibe Bort thick sweet cream, using about two pecsnacnes Th _ almost make a poor cake good. : CARAMEL FROSTINGS—One and one-half cups brown Sugar (dark), one-half cup cream or milk (if milk is used add a piece of butter the size of a hickory nut), and boil un- til it threads. Take from fire and beat until thick enough SO_ Two-cups white sugar, three tablespoons milk, putter size of walnut, one teaspoon flour; mix with milk, boil about 15 Boil one large cup of light brown sugar and a little water long enough to become fairly firm when dropped in water when testing it. - Have ready one tablespoon sweet cream and one table ‘spoon of butter in a dish and pour the boiled sugar over it. Beat till cold, or till it is thick enough to spread on the cake. CHOCOLATE FROSTINGS—Melt three squares of choco- well beaten, one cup powdered. sugar; flavor with veuen This is enough for a three-layer cake. CHOCOLATE CREAM FROSTING—Take pulverized Sura much water, make just a good cream. I sometimes put on ~ the white frosting and then put in a little chocolate and put | on top of white. Flavor with vanilla; tastes like chocolate ‘CHOCOLATE FROSTING HELPS—Put a bit of paraifing size of hazel nut in chocolate frosting or fudge, to give the en a lemon grater, then put in an air tight tin can and it bes” EASY FP ROSTING FOR CAKE—One and one-half tabi EGGLESS FROSTING—Teaspoon powdered gelatin, three tablespoons hot water, one cup sugar; soften gelatin in col If not dissolved put on stove until it is, then put in suge and beat hard until Nght and white; lemon juice araists thi is I always use this recipe for icing. It is always good