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 CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 PUBLISHED FOK THE BENEFIT 
 
 OF CHURCH WORK AND 
 
 CHARITY 
 
 WILLIAMS <fe TVILKINS COMPANY 
 BALTIMORE, U. S. A. 
 

 
 LIBRARY of OONQRESS 
 Two Oopios Received 
 
 NOV 5 1908 
 
 Cooyrignt tfitry 
 CLASS (X. .>vXc, No. 
 COPY b. I 
 
 Copyright, 1908, by 
 WILLIAMS & WILKINS COMPANY 
 
 PRESS OF 
 ■WILUAMS & WILKINS COMPANT 
 BALTIMORE 
 
PREFACE 
 
 The need of a cook book, which has the merit of embracing 
 terse, easily understood receipts, has been emphasized. With 
 this object in view The Church Cook Book is placed before the 
 public for its approval. In its pages will be found numerous 
 valuable receipts which have never hitherto appeared in print. 
 Receipts from other sources which appealed to the compiler of 
 being of special service to the users of cook books have been 
 inserted, and acknowledges obligation for some of these to Mrs. 
 Sarah Tyson Rorer, Miss Ellen L. Duff, the Baltimore Sun and 
 Harper's Bazar. 
 
 A Classified Alphabetical Index makes an easy reference to any 
 receipt in the book. 
 
 The Publishers. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Beverages 155 
 
 Bread 73 
 
 Butter and milk 93 
 
 Cakes 123 
 
 Candy 139 
 
 Cereals 70 
 
 Classified alphabetical index 174 
 
 Cooking fruits 101 
 
 Desserts 104 
 
 Eggs 97 
 
 Fish 15 
 
 Freezing 148 
 
 Meats 24 
 
 Miscellaneous 171 
 
 Pickles 168 
 
 Poultry and game 42 
 
 Preserves and jellies 162 
 
 Salads 63 
 
 Sandwiches 90 
 
 Soups 7 
 
 Vegetables 48 
 
SOUPS 
 
 Fresh, canned or dried vegetables may be used for soups. 
 Dried peas, beans and lentils have a higher nutritive value than 
 meats or the best cereals so far as composition is concerned, 
 being especially rich in proteid and starch. Vegetable proteid, 
 however, on account of the cellulose which accompanies it, is 
 less readily digested than the proteid of meat. The tough skins 
 of dried peas and beans, etc., are wholy indigestible. The proteid 
 of peas, beans and lentils is called vegetable casein from its 
 resemblance in many respects to the casein of milk. 
 
 Peas, beans and lentils have a small proportion of fat, therefore 
 it is usual to add it in some form. They should be soaked in cold 
 water several hours, and long cooking is needed to soften the 
 cellulose and develop the flavor. A small quantity of cooking 
 soda (bicarbonate of soda) added while cooking will soften them 
 more quickly, but too much will injure the flavor. Vegetable 
 soups are thickened with flour to prevent the separation of the 
 thicker and thinner parts of the soup. 
 
 Agate or porcelain kettles should be used in making soup. In 
 meat soups the salt should be added at first to aid in extracting 
 the juices in meat and cause the scum to rise. Allow 1 quart 
 of cold water and a teaspoonful of salt for each pound of meat. 
 
 Split Pea Soup 
 
 i cup split peas 1 tablespoonful flour 
 
 1 quart cold water 1 teaspoonful salt 
 ^ small onion pepper 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 or 2 cups hot water or milk 
 
 Pick over and wash the peas. Soak 8 to 12 hours or over night 
 in cold water. Drain off the water, and cook peas and onion in 
 
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 1 quart of water until soft. Press through a strainer, and add 
 butter and flour cooked together. Add seasoning, and thin with 
 hot water or milk, and reheat. Peas will not soften in salted 
 water, so salt should not be added until they are cooked. A 
 small piece of fat salt pork or a ham-bone may be cooked with 
 the peas, and if so, the butter may be omitted. Lentil soup may 
 be made as directed for split pea soup. 
 
 Baked Bean Soup 
 
 2 cups baked beans 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 3 cups water 1 tablespoonful flour 
 
 i onion salt and pepper to taste 
 
 1^ cups tomatoes 
 
 Cook beans, onion and tomatoes in the water 15 minutes. 
 
 Mash and strain, and add remaining ingredients as directed in 
 
 split pea soup. 
 
 Potato Soup 
 
 1§ cup mashed potatoes. ^ teaspoonful salt 
 
 2 cups milk | teaspoonful celery salt 
 
 1 cup water sprinkling white pepper 
 
 § small onion 1 teaspoonful finely chopped pars- 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter ley , 
 2 tablespoonfuls flour 
 
 Freshly boiled or cold mashed potatoes may be used. Add 
 onion to milk and scald ; add the mashed potatoes to the milk. 
 Melt the butter, add the flour and a little of the potato mixture; 
 boil 5 minutes, combine with remaining potato mixture, add sea- 
 soning. Strain, reheat and add parsley. Serve with croutons 
 or crisp crackers. 
 
 Bean Soup 
 
 Soak 1 pint of beans over night in J gallon water, in which 
 they are to be cooked. In the morning put on the stove, adding 
 water as needed, with 1 pound of middling. Boil until beans 
 
SOUPS 9 
 
 are very soft, then remove the bacon, and press the beans through 
 a sieve. Add salt and thicken with a tablespoonful flour. 
 
 Gumbo Soup 
 
 Cut up a spring chicken in small pieces, also a small slice of 
 ham. Put into a pot with a heaping spoonful of lard ; wait until 
 the lard is hot enough to fry these. When fried add gumbo cut in 
 small pieces, add 1 or 2 large tomatoes and a spoonful of flour. 
 Now cover the whole with water and let it simmer over a slow 
 fire. Season the whole highly. Salt to the taste. Should be 
 eaten with boiled rice, served in the soup plates. 
 
 Chicken Soup 
 
 Cut up 1 old chicken; put on in 2 quarts of cold water and 
 salt. Let this boil J hour; then push back and simmer until 
 chicken is tender ; then take off the soup and strain, and if there 
 is much grease, skim it. Put back over the fire with J cup of rice 
 and a teaspoonful salt, and cook until the rice is soft. Serve with 
 croutons. 
 
 Egg Noodles for Soup 
 
 Beat up 2 eggs light, add 1 tablespoonful of melted butter, 
 and as much flour — into which 1 teaspoonful of baking powder 
 has been mixed — as will make a stiff dough. First roll out 
 thin, then roll up tightly, cut in very fine slices and throw into 
 boiling soup. 
 
 Clam Soup 
 
 To 1 quart of clams and a pint of their liquor add 3 pints 
 of water, a small teaspoonful of butter, a few whole peppers, 
 J slice of bread, and salt. Cover it close. Stew for 1 hour, 
 then strain, thicken with a little flour; just before serving stir in 
 J pint of cream. Serve with croutons. 
 
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 Crab Soup 
 
 meat of 6 hard crabs 2 small tablespoonfuls of flour to 
 
 1 quart fresh milk taste 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls of butter salt and pepper to taste 
 
 Put crabs and milk in kettle, stir in butter and flour, which has 
 been previously worked smoothly together and boil 15 minutes. 
 
 Terrapin Soup 
 
 Four quarts of water to 4 terrapins. First scald them, peel 
 skin, take them out of shell, and cut them up for stewing. Put 
 in water, and when it boils clear, put in 2 onions, a slice of bacon, 
 J teaspoonful of allspice; a scant J teaspoonful of mace, 1 
 teaspoonful of pepper, a little thyme and parsley. Brown a little 
 flour, and stir in 1 tablespoonful of butter just before serving. 
 After it is in the tureen add the yolks of 2 eggs in butter; wine 
 if you use it. 
 
 Eggs for Terrapin or Turtle Soup 
 
 Beat the yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs in a mortar, make into 
 balls, using the yolk of a raw egg to form a paste. Drop in boiling 
 water to harden for 2 minutes. 
 
 Bisque of Lobster 
 
 meat of one boiled lobster, or i cup rolled cracker 
 
 a can of preserved lobster 4 tablespoonfuls of butter 
 
 1 quart of milk pepper (cayenne) and salt 
 1 quart of boiling water 
 
 Pound the coral and other soft parts of the lobster to a paste, 
 and simmer 5 minutes in the boiling water ; then rub through a 
 collander back into the water. Cut the rest of the lobster meat 
 into dice, and put into the saucepan with the cracker crumbs. 
 Pour the red water over them and heat to a boil ; then add pepper, 
 
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 salt and butter. Simmer, covered, i an hour, taking care it 
 does not scorch. Heat the milk, with a pinch of soda in another 
 vessel, and after the lobster is in the tureen, pour this in, boiling 
 hot. Pass sliced lemon with it. 
 
 Oyster Soup 
 
 1 quart of oysters 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 1 quart rich milk 1 tablespoonful flour 
 
 1 teacupful of hot water pepper and salt 
 
 Strain all the liquor from the oysters, add water ; heat ; when 
 near boiling add the seasoning, flour (mixed in water), then the 
 oysters. Cook about 5 minutes from the time they begin to 
 simmer, until they curl at the edges. Stir in the butter; cook 1 
 minute and pour into the tureen. Stir in the boiling milk and 
 send to the table. 
 
 Bouillon 
 
 a large beef shin 1 small onion 
 
 2 J gallons water 3 stalks of celery or use celery seed 
 2 bunches soup herbs to taste 
 
 Boil all down to half the quantity ; add salt, dash of cayenne, 
 strain, and when cold skim off the grease. When to be used, 
 put on the fire with shells and whites of 3 eggs, and boil until 
 clear. Color with caramel and pour through a flannel bag. 
 
 Caramel 
 
 Take a large spoonful of brown sugar, put it in a frying pan 
 over the fire ; let it melt, add about ^ pint of water, and let it 
 boil. One large spoonful will brown soup. 
 
 Potato Soup 
 
 Cut 4 large potatoes into small pieces. Boil in 3 pints water, 
 with salt and pepper to taste. When the potatoes are done, add 
 
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 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley, 1 tablespoonful of flour 
 made smooth in milk, and 1 tablespoonful of butter. Boil 2 or 
 3 minutes, add 1 pint of fresh milk, let come to the boiling point, 
 and serve. 
 
 Corn Soup 
 
 Ten ears corn, grated, put in the kettle with the cobs and 1 
 quart of salted water, boil for 10 minutes. At the end of that 
 time remove cobs, add 1 quart of sweet milk, small lump of butter, 
 season with salt and pepper and cook 10 minutes longer. Serve 
 with browned crackers. 
 
 Tomato Bisque 
 
 1 can of tomatoes 2 tablespoonfuls of butter rubbed 
 
 2 cups of boiling milk, with ^ tea- in 
 
 spoonful of soda stirred in 1 pepper and salt 
 
 tablespoonful sugar handful of dry bread crumbs 
 
 1 tablespoonful of flour 1 cup boiling water 
 
 Put tomatoes over fire, boil J hour, strain and rub through 
 a colander. Boil milk in another kettle, stir in butter and flour, 
 and after one boil, keep hot. Add pepper, salt, sugar and soda 
 to the tomatoes; simmer 5 minutes, pour into tureen, stir in 
 crumbs, and lastly the thickened milk. Serve at once. 
 
 Cream of Celery 
 
 4 heads of celery 1 cup of milk 
 
 1 pint of water or 1 pint of soup pepper and salt 
 
 stock 1 teaspoonful of flour wet in cold 
 
 1 tablespoonful of butter milk 
 
 Scrape and cut celery in 1-inch lengths. Cook 15 minutes in 
 hot water; drain and add stock; stew gently until celery is soft; 
 put through a colander into the soup ; season and return to fire. 
 
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 Boil up ; pour into the tureen ; add cup of boiling milk thickened 
 with the flour. 
 
 Beef Stock for Soups 
 
 Put a shin of beef in IJ gallon water; simmer all day; do not 
 add seasoning ; cool ; remove fat. Use for either soups or gravies. 
 
 Okra Soup 
 
 Take a piece of shin; if you have it, a ham bone. Pepper and 
 salt the shin and dredge it with flour. Put it with 2 onions and 
 a bunch of parsley in the kettle, add 1 gallon of water and boil 
 until meat is tender. Strain, return to the kettle, add 1 dozen 
 peeled tomatoes and J peck of green okra, cut in slices, and 3 
 ears of corn cut carefully from the cob. 
 
 Duchess Soup 
 
 1 quart milk 2 tablespoonfuls flour 
 
 1 sliced carrot 1 tablespoonful grated cheese 
 
 1 sliced onion 2 eggs, yolks only 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 blade mace 
 
 Put milk, carrot, onion and mace to cook in a double boiler; 
 cream butter and flour, over which slowly strain the hot milk; 
 add cheese, and stew 3 minutes. Beat the eggs well, and pour 
 hot soup over them. Season with salt and pepper. Serve at 
 once. 
 
 Pepper Pot 
 
 3J pounds beef 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 onion 1 quart potatoes (cut small) 
 
 small piece of lady-finger pepper 1 tablespoonful sweet marjoram 
 
 Put the beef in the pot, second cut from the shoulder, trim 
 off all fat and boil about 3 hours, with the onion and pepper. 
 About i hour before serving remove meat, cut in small pieces 
 
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 and put about 1 pint back, with the potatotes. Just before 
 serving add some dumplings. Boil 1 minute. 
 
 Dumplings 
 
 1 lump butter size of an egg i teaspoonful baking powder 
 
 1 lump lard size of an egg pinch salt 
 
 2^ tablespoonfuls flour 
 
 Moisten with a little milk or water ; take small pieces, roll on 
 board with your hands, in rolls a little thicker than a lead pencil, 
 and cut in small pieces. 
 
FISH 
 
 To Boil Rock Fish 
 
 Take a good-sized fish, clean, season with salt and pepper and 
 wrap in cheese-cloth. Have ready a large kettle containing boil- 
 ing water, place the fish in the water, and keep very hot, but do 
 not boil. Cook until the flesh will separate easily from the bones. 
 Lift the cloth carefully, drain, and place fish on hot platter. 
 The skin may be removed. Serve hot with a sauce. 
 
 Sauce for Boiled Fish 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 pint of water in which fish was 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls flour boiled 
 
 1 egg i teaspoonful salt 
 
 Mix butter and flour, add water and egg ; let boil until a thick 
 cream, stirring until smooth. Garnish with hard boiled egg, 
 sliced, and a few sprigs of parsley. 
 
 Creamed Fish 
 
 Separate bones and skin from cooked fish. Heat the fish in 
 thick white sauce. Serve plain or on toast. 
 
 White Sauce 
 
 2 cups milk 3 tablespoonfuls flour 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter h teaspoonful salt 
 
 white pepper to taste 
 
 Scald the milk; melt butter in a saucepan, and stir in the flour; 
 add the hot milk, one-third at a time, each time stirring 
 thoroughly until smooth; before adding more milk let it boil 
 
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 1 minute, stirring constantly; add salt and pepper, and serve 
 hot. If not used at once, cover to keep scum from forming. 
 
 Baked Shad 
 
 Take off the head, and, without cutting open, draw and clean 
 the fish. Stuff with dry stale bread crumbs, into which has been 
 mixed 1 onion, cut thin and fried in butter; 2 ounces butter, 
 salt, pepper, and 1 teaspoonful each of nutmeg, parsley, and the 
 well beaten yolks of 2 eggs. Salt and pepper the fish, put in a 
 baking pan with a little water, and bake until done. 
 
 Scalloped 
 
 Break into small pieces 1 can of salmon, or 2 cups of cooked 
 fish; moisten with thin white sauce or tomato sauce, into the 
 fish mix 2 or 3 hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine. Stir all together, 
 cover top with bread crumbs and small pieces of butter. Bake 
 until crumbs are brown. 
 
 Fish in Aspic 
 
 Add a tablespoonful lemon juice or vinegar to a large cup of 
 hot water, heat with salt, pepper, a slice of onion, and a sprig of 
 parsley; dissolve a tablespoonful of gelatine in cold water, and 
 pour the hot water over, strain and pour on 2 cupfuls of cold 
 cooked fish ; mix well, put into a mold, and set on ice ; turn out on 
 a cold dish and surround with lemon slices and parsley. Lamb 
 may be prepared in the same way, adding a little mint if you 
 
 choose. Copyright, Harper's Bazar. 
 
 Fish Hash 
 
 Combine equal parts of mashed potatoes and cooked fish, 
 season to taste, and brown in smoking hot fat. 
 
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 Butter Dressing for Fish 
 
 4 tablespoonfuls of butter dash of cayenne 
 
 J teaspoonful salt 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley 
 
 i saltspoon pepper 1 tablespoonful lemon juice 
 
 Put the butter in a bowl, rub until creamy; add salt, pepper 
 and parsley; then the lemon juice very slowly. The parsley 
 may be omitted. 
 
 Broiled Fish 
 
 Small fish may be cleaned and broiled whole, or they may be 
 split down the back, the halves being separated or not, as pre- 
 ferred. Large fish are cut into slices for broiling. 
 
 For broiling, all fish should be wiped as dry as possible, and 
 sprinkled with salt and pepper. Lean fish should be rubbed 
 with melted butter or other fat, and the broiler should be well 
 greased. 
 
 The general rules for broiling fish are similar to those for broil- 
 ing meat. The outside should be seared as quickly as possible 
 by holding the broiler close to the heat, and the inside should 
 then be cooked more slowly by holding the broiler farther away. 
 Fish should be broiled on the flesh side first, then turned and 
 cooked on the skin side long enough to make it crisp. Slices of 
 fish should be turned frequently while broiling, and all fish 
 should be well done, and served as soon as cooked. 
 
 Salmon Loaf 
 
 1 can of salmon, chopped fine 3 eggs 
 
 i cup fresh bread crumbs salt, butter and pepper to taste 
 
 Mix all together, put in a pan, and set the pan in the oven in 
 pan of hot water to bake. Bake J hour. 
 
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 Creamed Cod Fish 
 
 One box of shredded cod fish, soak over night. Boil J hour, 
 pour off water, add 1 pint of milk, 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, 
 
 1 egg, 1 tablespoonful of flour rubbed smooth in the eggs. Let 
 boil until it thickens. 
 
 Cod Fish Balls 
 One box shredded codfish, add twice the quantity of mashed 
 potatoes, prepared with 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1 cup of 
 cream or milk, 1 saltspoonful of pepper; beat very light, mold 
 into balls, and fry in hot lard until a light brown. 
 
 Sauce for Fish 
 Reduce the yolks of 2 hard boiled eggs to a smooth paste ; add 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls of olive oil, 1 saltspoonful each of mustard and 
 pepper, vinegar to taste. 
 
 Lobster Cutlets 
 
 2 cupfuls of lobster, chopped fine 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley 
 
 1 cupful of milk or cream 2 tablespoonfuls of flour 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls of butter yolks of 2 eggs 
 
 Scald the milk, rub the butter and flour together until smooth, 
 
 and stir in the hot milk. Add the yolks of the eggs, beat light, 
 
 take from the fire, and pour over the lobster, mixing gently. 
 
 Season with salt, cayenne pepper and parsley. When cool 
 
 form into cutlets, cover with egg and bread crumbs, and fry in 
 
 hot lard. 
 
 Lobster a la Newburg 
 
 1 quart of lobster 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 pint of cream pinch of cayenne pepper 
 
 3 egg yolks 
 
 Put cream and beaten yolks together in a saucepan and cook 
 until it thickens. Put in the lobster, and let it become thoroughly 
 heated. Season and serve. 
 
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 Salmon Croquettes 
 
 1 can salmon yolks of 2 hard-boiled eggs 
 
 2 raw eggs ^ cup of bread crumbs 
 
 1 tablespoonful of butter 
 
 Mince the fish; work in the butter, sUghtly warmed, the 
 ''powdered" yolks, raw eggs, and finally the crumbs. Form into 
 pyramid shaped croquettes. Roll in dish covered thickly with 
 flour and fry in hot fat. 
 
 Deviled Crabs 
 
 12 fresh, heavy crabs 1 tablespoonful of butter 
 
 yolks of 4 hard-boiled eggs i tablespoonful of nutmeg 
 
 i pint of cream 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls of flour salt and cayenne pepper to taste 
 
 After removing spongy fingers and stomachs, pick out meat and 
 fat from shell and meat from claws. Put on cream to boil, rub 
 butter and flour together and add to boiling cream ; stir and cook 
 2 minutes ; add crab meat, yolks of eggs mashed fine, parsley and 
 spices. Clean the shells, fill with the mixture, brush over with 
 beaten eggs. Cover with white soft bread crumbs, and brown in 
 a quick oven. 
 
 Soft Shell Crabs 
 
 To clean : cut off the heads, remove the stomach, raise the ends 
 of the shell and remove the spongy fingers ; take off the pocket- 
 lap on under shell; have ready a pan in which are melted equal 
 quantities of lard and butter ; put in the crabs, shell uppermost; 
 pepper and salt well, turn 3 or 4 times until the crabs are a soft 
 brown. Garnish with parsley and lemon cut into quarters. Pass 
 sauce of tartare in a separate dish. 
 
 Sauce a la Tartare 
 
 Three teaspoonfuls of French mustard; yolk of 1 egg; J cup 
 of olive oil ; J bottle of capers ; pepper to taste, and a little onion 
 sliced fine. 
 
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 Stewed Oysters 
 
 1 quart of oysters salt very slightly and pepper to 
 
 1 cup of milk taste 
 
 butter size of an egg 
 
 Drain the liquor from the oysters into a saucepan and heat to a 
 boil. Put on the milk in another vessel, set within a pan of boil- 
 ing water. When the liquor in the sauce pan boils, put in oysters, 
 stew until the edges ruffle. Stir in butter, dissolve, pour in 
 tureen, add the boiling milk, and serve. 
 
 Oyster Pates 
 
 1 quart of oysters, cut fine with kitchen scissors 
 butter size of an egg in a cup of cream thickened with a teaspoonful 
 
 of flour previously moistened with cold milk 
 salt and pepper to taste 
 
 Drain the liquor from the oysters, cut as directed. Boil the 
 
 cream, thickened, dissolve the butter, add the oysters, stew 
 
 several minutes, stirring all the while. Put in the shells, heat in 
 
 the oven a few minutes, and serve. 
 
 Scalloped Oysters 
 
 1 quart of oysters | cup of cream 
 
 1 cup of bread crumbs season with salt and pepper 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls of butter 
 
 Cover the bottom of a baking dish with crumbs, moisten with 
 
 the cream, dot with pieces of butter. Season with pepper and 
 
 salt, add the oysters, with a little of their liquor, and cover with 
 
 crumbs, seasoned and butter, cook with a cover, then remove 
 
 cover and brown. 
 
 Broiled Oysters 
 
 1 quart of the finest, firmest oysters pepper to taste 
 
 ^ cup of melted butter 
 
 Butter a wire broiler, lay in the oysters, hold them over a 
 clear fire, turning them until they look plump and the edges curl ; 
 
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 butter and pepper a hot dish, lay on the oysters. Serve immedi- 
 ately. 
 
 Broiled Oyster, with Brown Sauce 
 
 1 quart of oysters 3 level tablespoonfuls flour 
 
 1 cup of milk pepper and salt 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 Stir butter in pan until a light brown, add flour, stirring con- 
 stantly, then milk gradually. Season and stand in a pan of 
 hot water until needed. Prepare oysters, according to recipe 
 above and add them to the sauce. 
 
 Fried Oysters 
 
 Select the largest and finest oysters you can procure, lay them 
 on a clean cloth, picking them up by the heart, so as not to tear 
 them, and pat gently with another cloth to dry them. Beat an 
 egg light, stir in tablespoonful of cold water. Dip the oysters 
 in the crumbs, then in the beaten egg, and then in the crumbs. 
 Fry them in deep, hot fat, in wire basket, drain on brown paper. 
 Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Serve on a hot dish. 
 
 Spiced Oysters 
 
 2^ quarts of oysters 1 level tablespoonful each of 
 
 1 full pint of liquor whole mace, allspice and 
 ^ pint vinegar white pepper 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls salt 1 dessertspoonful whole cloves 
 
 Put half of the vinegar, the salt and liquor on the stove together' 
 when it boils, skim, then put in spices and when that boils add 
 the oysters. Be careful not to let them burn; let them stay on 
 until the oysters plump and the edges curl. Put the oysters in a 
 jar, and when the liquor is quite cool pour it over them and stand 
 24 hours. Just before serving add the rest of the vinegar. 
 
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 Oyster Pie 
 
 Line a pudding dish with a rich pie paste. Drain the oysters 
 and put them in layers, seasoning with pepper, salt, and a little 
 mace, with a few dots of butter. Add about half as many sliced 
 mushrooms and continue until the dish is full. Pour in the 
 oyster liquor with a little cream, cover with crust, and bake until 
 brown. 
 
 Oyster Cocktail 
 
 Put 6 large oysters into a cocktail glass, add a saltspoonful 
 of horseradish, 1 teaspoonful tomato catsup, 3 drops tabasco 
 sauce, 10 drops of Worcestershire sauce, ^ teaspoonful lemon 
 juice, J teaspoonful salt. Mix well together. Serve ice cold. 
 This may be served with the shredded meat of lobster. 
 
 Oysters, Deviled 
 
 Clean, drain, chop slightly 1 pint oysters. Cook J cupful 
 butter, i cupful flour and f cupful milk which have been well 
 mixed. When the sauce bubbles, remove from the fire and add 
 1 egg yolk, season to taste with salt, cayenne pepper, lemon 
 juice, and J tablespoonful chopped parsley. Bake in ramekins 
 with crumbs and butter. 
 
 Terrapin 
 
 Put the terrapin in boiling water 10 or 20 minutes, then change 
 to another pot of boiling water and boil until the scales on the 
 back slip readily upon pressure of the finger. To prepare for 
 dressing, place it on its back and remove the undershell ; in the 
 center of the breast will be observed a small purplish looking sac, 
 embedded in the liver, carefully remove this substance with a 
 knife, being careful not to cut or break it, as it is the gall. Cut 
 up the entrails and liver with the other meat, and place in a 
 chafing dish. When the lamp is lighted put in a J pound of 
 
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 butter cut up, then add pepper and salt; let simmer gently till 
 butter is melted, keeping the dish covered, except when stirring. 
 
 Baltimore Sun. 
 
 Horseradish Sauce 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 2 tablespoonfuls flour 
 1 cup fish liquor or milk 
 
 1 tablespoonful horseradish 
 1 egg yolk 
 
 Mix the butter and flour, add the fish liquor or milk and bring 
 to a boil; season just before serving with the horseradish and the 
 well-beaten yolk. Pour over boiled fish. 
 
MEATS 
 
 The methods of cooking meat vary according to the object in 
 view, which may be to extract the juice as in soups, broths and 
 beef tea; to retain the juice, as in boihng, roasting, frying, etc., 
 or it may be a combination of both these methods, as in stews, 
 where it is desired to retain part of the juice in the meat, and to 
 extract part of it, to enrich the gravy. 
 
 The meat which is strained from beef tea, broth, etc., hasHttle 
 or no flavor, according to the size of the piece and the length of 
 time it has stood in the water. The chief muscle-proteid remains 
 in the meat after the soluble albumen, etc., has been extracted; 
 therefore this meat, although lacking in flavor, still contains con- 
 siderable nutriment. If combined with fresh meat or vegetables 
 and well seasoned, this tasteless meat may be made palatable as 
 well as nutritious. 
 
 Meat should be removed from the paper in which it is wrapped 
 as soon as brought in from the store, as the paper will absorb the 
 juice and may impart an unpleasant flavor to the meat. 
 
 In cooking meats for soups and broths place in cold water to 
 extract the juice, and do not add salt until done. 
 
 Boiling 
 
 Meats, when the juice is to be retained, should be put in boiling 
 water, salted, and allowed to boil 10 minutes", then remove to 
 cooler part of the stove and simmer until tender. 
 
 Roasting 
 
 In roasting the juice should be kept in the meat. The oven 
 should be hot ; place on the shelf of the oven 10 minutes to harden 
 
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 the albumen on the outside; remove to the floor of the oven; baste 
 every 10 minutes. 
 
 Broiling 
 
 The object in this method of cooking is to keep the juice in the 
 meat. The meat is first held over a clear fire 10 seconds, until 
 the albumen on one side hardens. Then as soon as the juice 
 begins to rise, the meat is turned and the albumen on the other 
 side is hardened. Continue to turn the meat once in 10 seconds 
 until cooked. 
 
 Stewing 
 
 Stewing is cooking slowly or gently a long time in a small 
 quantity of water. 
 
 In stews, the meat and the broth, or the water in which the 
 meat has been cooked, are served together, with or without the 
 addition of vegetables. 
 
 In making a stew, the object is to cook the meat in such a 
 way that part of the juice will remain in the meat, and part of 
 it may be extracted, in order to flavor the gravy or broth. 
 This may be accomplished by dividing the meat, after cutting 
 into pieces suitable for serving, into two portions. The juice may 
 be extracted by putting the first portion into cold water, and then 
 heating slowly to the boiling point. The juice may be kept in 
 the other portion by adding it to the first when the water reaches 
 the boiling point, or by broiling, or browning in hot fat before 
 adding it. The whole should then be cooked gently 3 hours, or 
 until the meat becomes tender. 
 
 Tough meat is suitable for stews because it is juicy, and be- 
 cause by this long, slow cooking in water, it can be made tender. 
 The tougher portions of beef, mutton, lamb or veal may be used. 
 Meat with some bone and fat makes a richer stew than one made 
 with lean meat only. Pieces of cold cooked meat may also be 
 used. 
 
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 Browning in smoking, hot fat helps to keep the juice in the 
 meat, and also gives a richer flavor and color to the stew. The 
 vegetables, also, are sometimes browned for the same reason, 
 before adding to the stew. The pieces of meat are usually rolled 
 in flour before cooking in the hot fat, to dry the surface, and thus 
 make them brown more quickly. The flour also helps to thicken 
 the stew. 
 
 The vegetables commonly used in stews are onions, carrots, 
 turnips and potatoes. Tomatoes, also, are sometimes used, 
 as well as string beans and green peas. 
 
 The usual seasonings are salt and pepper. Sweet herbs, 
 parsley, a piece of bay leaf, one or two cloves, or a little catsup 
 may be used to give variety, but care must be taken to use only 
 enough of these materials to give a delicate flavor. 
 
 Dumplings are often served with stews. 
 
 The materials for a stew may be put into a covered pan or 
 bean pot, and cooked in a moderate oven instead of on the 
 stove, for the same length of time. This method is called brais- 
 ing. Besides braising, other variations of stewing are : the fricas- 
 see, smothering, pot-roasting, etc. 
 
 Pan Broiling 
 
 If not possible to broil meat it may be cooked in a dry hot pan. 
 Fat is drawn from the meat in cooking and should be poured off 
 from time to time. 
 
 Beef Juice 
 
 To obtain the pure juice of beef, heat in a double-boiler; press 
 out the juice; do not add water; season with a pinch of salt. 
 
MEATS 27 
 
 Roast Beef 
 
 Buy tender beef, wipe the meat with damp cloth (do not wash) ; 
 sprinkle with salt and pepper; put in hot roasting pan in hot oven 
 for 15 minutes to brown outside. Then place on floor of the 
 oven , cover the bottom of the pan with boiling water, and baste 
 every 15 minutes until done. Allow 15 minutes for small roast 
 per pound and 20 minutes for large. 
 
 Gravy 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 2 cups of water from meat 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls chopped onion ^ teaspoonful salt 
 
 3 tablespoonfuls flour | teaspoonful pepper 
 
 Cook chopped onion in the butter until slightly browned, but 
 not burned. Mix salt and pepper with the flour, and add onion ; 
 cook until the mixture begins to brown, then add the water grad- 
 ually and stir constantly. Let boil 5 minutes and strain and 
 serve in sauce-boat or around the meat. Cooked tomatoes 
 may be used with the water from the meat and less onion if 
 preferred. 
 
 Pot Roast 
 
 For this purpose take the chuck, cut off some of the fat and 
 melt in a deep iron kettle. When hot, put meat in and brown on 
 both sides, add 1 pint of boiling water, 1 teaspoonful of salt, cover 
 and simmer until tender. Serve with brown gravy. 
 
 Brown Gravy 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls fat from roast ^ teaspoonful onion juice 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls of flour i teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 cup of water or stock pepper 
 
 Brown fat and flour together, add liquid gradually, season, 
 stir constantly and boil until smooth. 
 
28 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Beef Stew 
 
 2 pounds beef 1 carrot 
 
 3 tablespoonfuls of flour 4 potatoes 
 2 onions, sliced water 
 
 1 turnip salt and pepper 
 
 Beef from the neck, shoulder or lower part of the round may be 
 used. Wipe meat with a damp cloth, and cut into 1 J inch or 2- 
 inch cubes. Extra fat may be removed, and part of it heated to 
 brown the meat. Put the poorer meat, as ragged, bony, gristly 
 pieces, into a kettle; cover with cold water and heat to a boiling 
 point. Heat the fat in a frying pan until smoking hot. Roll 
 the more choice pieces of meat in flour. Put them into hot fat, 
 and turn them until the surface is slightly browned. Brown the 
 onions also, and put into the frying pan the rest of the flour, and 
 if any remains after meat has been rolled. 
 
 Put the meat and onions into the kettle when water reaches the 
 boiling point ; rinse out the frying pan with a little of the water, 
 and then return it to the kettle, which should be placed where the 
 water will be kept very hot, but cannot boil. Cook slowly until 
 meat is tender. Prepare turnip and carrot, and cut into thin 
 slices. Three-quarters of an hour before stew is to be served, 
 move kettle where water will boil and add turnip and carrot. 
 Wash and pare the potatoes, cut into quarters, parboil 5 minutes, 
 drain and add to stew; cook 20 minutes. Season to taste with 
 salt and pepper, adding boiling water if necessary. There 
 should be enough liquid to reach nearly to the top, but not to 
 cover the vegetables. The stew may be thickened with flour 
 if desired. Dumplings, if used, should be added 10 minutes 
 before the stew is to be served. Place them so they will rest 
 on top of the meat and vegetables. The stew should boil 
 steadily during the 10 minutes required to cook the dumplings. 
 
MEATS 29 
 
 Dumplings for Stews 
 
 2 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 4 tablespoonfuls of baking powder | cup water or milk 
 
 Sift dry ingredients together ; add liquid gradually. Drop the 
 mixture by the spoonful on top of the stew. Boil 10 minutes 
 without lifting the cover. 
 
 Hamburg Steaks 
 
 1 pound round steak 1 small onion 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley 
 
 Season the steak with salt and pepper, then scrape or chop 
 the meat, add onion, parsley, and mix thoroughly; make into 
 small cakes, and broil on greased broiler. Serve with tomato 
 sauce. 
 
 Broiled Steak 
 
 Wipe the steak with a damp cloth, remove the skin and bone; 
 grease wire broiler with the fat, lay in the meat and broil over hot 
 coals (turning constantly), from 5 to 8 minutes if preferred rare, 
 and from 8 to 10 minutes if well done. Serve on hot platter with 
 maitre d' hotel butter. 
 
 Maitre d'Hotel Butter 
 
 Cream J cup of butter, i teaspoonful of salt, J saltspoonful 
 of pepper, 1 tablespoonful parsley, and 1 tablespoonful of lemon 
 juice. Serve on hot steak or broiled fish. 
 
 Stuffed Beefsteak 
 
 Pound well a flank or round steak, season with salt and pep- 
 per, sprinkle over 1 teaspoonful each of chopped onion, sage, 
 parsley, and bits of butter. Have ready 3 or 4 mealy white 
 
30 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 potatoes, mashed fine and beaten well with 1 egg ; spread evenly 
 over all, roll up tightly, fasten the ends and sides with skewer 
 pins. Fry out some of the beef fat in a pan, into which put an- 
 other teaspoonful of the chopped onion, a little pepper and salt 
 and 2 cups of boiling water. Put the roll in and bake in hot oven 
 about 2 hours, basting frequently. 
 
 Mock Duck 
 
 2 pounds of round steak 1 chopped onion 
 
 1 cup of bread crumbs 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley pepper 
 1 egg 
 
 Grind the meat, add all the ingredients, mix well, add egg 
 unbeaten. Mold into a roll, put into a greased baking pan, 
 with a little water or stock, and baste frequently, bake 2 hours. 
 May be served hot or cold. 
 
 Beefsteak Smothered in Onions 
 
 Cut the onions in slices, and fry in hot bacon fat for 15 min- 
 utes, add salt, pepper and a cup of boiling water, and simmer until 
 a light brown ; have ready a broiled steak, pour over the onions, 
 set in the oven a few minutes, and serve. 
 
 Beefsteak with Mushroom Sauce 
 
 Stew the mushrooms in i cup water until tender, drain and let 
 stand until cold. Then pour into them a cup of cream, or J 
 cup of the water in which they were cooked, a tablespoonful of 
 butter rolled in flour, 1 teaspoonful salt, a dash of cayenne; 
 stew gently until perfectly done. Serve around the broiled 
 steak. If the mushrooms are canned they need only be added to 
 the cream sauce; stand over hot water for 10 minutes. 
 
MEATS 31 
 
 Frizzled Beef with Scrambled Eggs 
 
 Have the dried beef finely chipped, put on in cold water and 
 boil 5 minutes ; drain off the water and add enough fresh milk to 
 cover the beef. Rub 1 tablespoonful each of butter and flour 
 until smooth, and when the milk boils up add this to it. Have 
 ready 3 well-beaten eggs, stir these in with a sprinkle of pepper, 
 2 minutes before taking from the fire. Serve hot on toast. 
 
 Frizzled Beef 
 
 Heat a good sized lump of butter in a skillet, add the beef, 
 stirring constantly, sprinkle in 1 tablespoonful of flour, add slowly 
 1 pint of milk, stir until smooth and thick. Serve hot. 
 
 Stewed Kidney 
 
 Cut the white membrane and fat from a fresh beef kidney, 
 slice it in small thin pieces ; put in frying pan 2 tablespoonfuls of 
 butter and let it begin to brown; put in the kidney and let it 
 brown rapidly, add a heaping teaspoonful of dry flour and stir 
 until the flour is brown, then pour in 1 pint of boiling water, 
 salt and pepper (and if you prefer J teacupful of tomato catsup). 
 Stir and cook until smooth and serve hot. It is not necessary 
 to parboil kidney, the more quickly it is cooked the more tender 
 it will be. Parboiling kidney makes it tough unless vinegar be 
 cooked with it. 
 
 Kidney 
 
 Boil the kidney the day before you need them until tender and 
 let them be in their broth over night. The next morning cut 
 them in fine pieces ; put in a stew pan with a little water, salt and 
 pepper, 1 tablespoonful of butter and enough flour to thicken 
 them a little. Let stew until boiling hot and add 3 tablespoonfuls 
 of cream. Serve hot. 
 
32 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Sweetbreads 
 
 Wash the sweetbreads, parboil and cool. Rub 1 tablespoonful 
 of butter in 1 of flour, add slowly 1 cup of milk, stiring constantly 
 until smooth ; season with salt and a dash of cayenne. Break the 
 sweetbreads in pieces and add to the sauce, and stand in a pan 
 over hot water. Serve over toast or in pate shells. 
 
 Broiled Sweetbreads 
 
 Wash the sweetbreads, parboil and cool, cut in halves, sift a 
 
 little salt and pepper over them; put in broiler, brown one side 
 
 then the other. Serve on a hot dish ; put a little melted butter on ' 
 
 each piece. 
 
 Fricassee Cold Meat 
 
 1^ tablespoonfuls butter 1 saltspoonful salt 
 
 1 tablespoonful flour 1 cup stock 
 
 ^ teaspoonful onion juice pepper 
 1 cup water 
 
 Cut the meat in slices, season with salt and pepper. Put the 
 butter in a frying pan, when it melts add the flour, stir until 
 smooth, gradually add water and stock; season with onion juice, 
 salt and pepper; simmer until smooth; add the cold meat and 
 cook gently until thoroughly heated. Serve on toast on a hot 
 dish. 
 
 Minced Meat on Toast 
 
 Prepare the toast, arrange on a hot platter, and keep hot. 
 Remove gristle, fat, etc., from cold cooked meat. Chop the meat 
 very fine, measure it and put into a saucepan; add 1 cup of gravy 
 for each cup of meat. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and, 
 if liked, with finely chopped or grated onion, or a few drops of 
 onion juice, or a little Worcestershire sauce. Grated nutmeg 
 may be added to lamb or mutton, if liked. Place sauce pan over 
 
MEATS 33 
 
 the heat, and stir until meat is heated. Pour over the hot toast 
 and serve at once. The toast may be buttered or not, as 
 preferred. 
 
 French Hash or Cottage Pie 
 
 Prepare the meat as directed for the meat on toast, and put it 
 into a baking dish. Cover the top with a thick layer of well- 
 seasoned mashed potatoes. Use a fork to form the potatoes into 
 a mound, with the highest point in the center. Bake on the 
 grate of a hot oven until the potatoes are slightly browned on top. 
 More gravy will be needed than for the meat on toast, as part of 
 it will be absorbed by the mashed potatoes. 
 
 Hash 
 
 Prepare meat as for cottage pie. Use equal parts of mashed 
 or finely-chopped potatoes and meat ; mix together and moisten 
 with gravy, water or milk. Allow from a teaspoonful to a table- 
 spoonful of liquid for each cup of hash. Use more liquid if the 
 hash is very dry. Season to taste. Other vegetables besides 
 potatoes may be added to give variety. Heat the fat in a frying 
 pan until smoking hot. Use from a teaspoonful to a tablespoon- 
 ful or more, according to the quantity of hash. Spread the hash 
 evenly over the bottom of the pan, cover, and place where the 
 hash will heat slowly until a brown crust is formed on the bottom. 
 Slip a knife under the hash, fold over double, and turn out on a 
 warm platter. The hash may be formed into small cakes, rubbed 
 over the top with melted butter, placed on a buttered baking 
 pan, and heat on the grate of a rather hot oven until slightly 
 browned on top. The materials used in making hash may also 
 be heated in a saucepan, with enough milk or gravy to keep from 
 burning. Stir until heated thoroughly and serve at once. 
 
34 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Liver Saute 
 
 Wash and cut in thin shces, season with salt and pepper, 
 dredge with flour, fry in butter, and when well browned stir in a 
 tablespoonful butter, and gradually a cup of boiling water. 
 Boil until it thickens and serve. 
 
 Calves Liver and Bacon 
 
 Cut the liver in thin slices, season with pepper and salt; put 
 in the frying pan with some sliced bacon and fry them quickly. 
 Put the meat on a hot dish, add to the essence left in the frying 
 pan a little flour and boiling water to make the gravy, pour over 
 it, then serve. 
 
 Veal Loaf 
 
 3 pounds of veal 2 tablespoonfuls of milk 
 
 2 slices of salt pork, finely chopped 10 crackers rolled fine 
 
 3 eggs 1 tablespoonful salt 
 
 Bake slowly about 2 hours. To be shced when cold for tea or 
 lunch. 
 
 Veal Cutlet 
 
 Trim the cutlets smoothly, sprinkle over pepper and salt, 
 dip in beaten eggs, then in bread crumbs. Have ready the 
 frying pan with hot lard; fry a light brown, turn and keep the 
 pan covered, as veal must be thoroughly done. When perfectly 
 done, place on hot platter ; with a dredge sprinkle some flour in 
 the lard, add 1 tablespoonful butter, a sprinkle of pepper, salt, 
 1 tablespoonful each of chopped onion and parsley. Pour over 
 all 1 teacupful of fresh milk, stirring constantly. When it boils 
 up pour over the cutlets and garnish with parsley. 
 
MEATS 35 
 
 Veal or Lamb Stew 
 
 Pieces from neck, the ends of the ribs, the shoulder of the leg 
 may be used. The flavor of mutton or lamb will be more delicate 
 if the tough membrane and fat surrounding the meat are removed 
 before cooking. Wipe the meat with a damp cloth, and cut 
 into pieces suitable for serving. Put the meat and a sliced 
 onion into a kettle, cover with cold water, and heat quickly to 
 boiling point. Reduce heat and cook slowly until tender. 
 Remove meat to a hot platter, cover and keep hot. Thicken 
 part of the water to make a sauce, pour over the meat and serve 
 at once. Half a small carrot or turnip may be cut into dice and 
 browned in fat and then cooked with the meat, if more flavor is 
 desired. Half cup barley or rice may be cooked with the meat. 
 The broth may be varied by flavoring with a tablespoonful of 
 finely chopped parsley. The liquid may be thickened with flour, 
 or the following sauce may be used. 
 
 Sauce for Veal or Lamb 
 
 1 teaspoonful sage 2 cups of meat broth or 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 cup of broth and 1 cup of milk 
 
 3 tablespoonfuls flour salt and pepper to taste 
 
 Combine materials as directed for white sauce. 
 
 Roast Mutton 
 
 Select tender meat. Take off the shank, wash well and let 
 lie in salt water 20 minutes ; then wipe dry and rub with salt and 
 pepper ; lay on the rack dripping pan ; break the shank and put in 
 the pan with 1 pint of boiling water, adding more pepper and 
 salt; put in a hot oven and baste frequently to prevent it from 
 being hard and dry. Roast 20 minutes to the pound — it must 
 be perfectly done. 
 
36 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 To Bake a Shoulder of Lamb 
 
 Have a pocket cut in the shoulder. With dry bread crumbs, 
 a tablespoonful each of butter, finely chopped onion and chopped 
 parsley, a sprinkle of pepper and salt, mix well together, fill the 
 pocket. Put in a dripping pan with 2 cups of boiling water and 
 brown. 
 
 Pan Broiled Chops 
 
 Heat the frying pan very hot. Trim the chops, remove fat 
 and wipe the meat with a damp cloth. Put chops in the frying 
 pan. When one side is seared, turn, and sear the other, then 
 cook the inside more slowly; turn the chops frequently, but 
 do not pierce them with a fork when turning. Cook from 6 to 10 
 minutes, according to thickness of chops. If necessary, stand the 
 chops in the pan so that the edges may be cooked. Season 
 with salt and pepper, arrange on hot dish and serve at once. 
 
 Curry of Lamb 
 
 4 cupfuls coarsely chopped lamb 1 tablespoonful lemon juice 
 
 4 cupfuls of stock, or hot water and 3 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 butter or gravy 2 teaspoonfuls curry powder 
 3 tablespoonfuls flour salt and pepper to taste 
 
 Brown butter and flour together, add meat and curry powder 
 and stir until brown ; add stock, stir until sauce thickens ; add the 
 lemon. Serve in a border of boiled rice. Veal or chicken may 
 be substituted for the lamb. 
 
 Mutton Reheated 
 
 Slice the mutton. Make a sauce of a green pepper, from which 
 the seeds have been removed, butter the size of an egg, and 3 
 tablespoonfuls of flour, and a little minced onion. Cook this 
 together until smooth, and then add 1 cup of stock and J cup 
 
MEATS 37 
 
 of tomatoes, strained; season with salt and pepper, and when 
 it thickens add the meat. Serve hot. 
 
 Warmed-over Mutton 
 
 3 tablespoonfuls butter 1 cup gravy 
 
 3 tablespoonfuls flour ^ tumbler currant jelly 
 
 ^ teaspoonful salt 1^ tablespoonfuls sherry 
 
 i teaspoonful pepper 6 slices mutton 
 
 Brown the butter and flour; salt and pepper, and cook 2 
 minutes; add gravy. When thick, beat the jelly, and add; 
 allow meat to heat, and add sherry. 
 
 Crust for Meat Pies 
 
 One quart of sifted flour, 3 tablespoonfuls of good firm lard 
 well chopped in, 2J cupfuls of sweet milk, 1 teaspoonful of 
 soda, wet with a very little hot water and mixed in with the milk ; 
 2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, sifted into the dry flour; 
 little salt; work quickly, and do not make very stiff. 
 
 Yorkshire Pudding 
 
 Beat 3 eggs very light. Add 1 teaspoonful of salt and 1 pint 
 of milk. Sift | cup of sifted flour, pour in a little of the milk and 
 eggs, and mix perfectly smooth; add the remainder and beat well. 
 Raise the beef on to a rack, pour in the pudding so that as much 
 of the dripping as possible will fall on it, and cook until done, 
 nearly 30 minutes. Cut in squares and serve on the platter 
 with the beef. 
 
 White Sauce 
 
 White sauce is used as the basis of many sauces and gravies; 
 it may be made of milk, cream, or milk and water, thickened 
 with flour or cornstarch, combined with butter; the usual sea- 
 
38 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 sonings are salt and pepper. The proportion of flour to each 
 cup of Uquid varies from 1 to 2 tablespoonf uls ; the proportion 
 of butter from 1 teaspoonful to 2 or more tablespoonfuls, ac- 
 cording to the use to be made of it. One-fourth teaspoonful of 
 salt is the usual quantity for each cupful of sauce, a little more 
 being used if the amount of butter is small. Pepper is added 
 according to taste. By substituting sugar and flavoring for 
 salt and pepper, a simple pudding sauce may be made. 
 
 Methods of combining the materials for white sauce: 
 
 First Method. Substitute milk for water, and mix as for 
 starch or flour paste; add butter, salt and pepper when cooked. 
 
 Second. Melt the butter, and add all the flour ; when well 
 mixed, add the hot liquid, one-third at a time, each time stir- 
 ring until perfectly smooth before adding more liquid. 
 
 Third. Warm the butter until soft, and blend the flour with 
 it thoroughly ; add all the liquid at once, and heat, stirring con- 
 stantly, until it boils 5 minutes. In the latter two methods, 
 the seasoning may be mixed with the butter and flour, or added 
 at the last. 
 
 The first method takes longer, but it is preferable when sauce 
 is to be used for those with weak digestion, as the cooking of 
 butter is thought to render it less digestible. 
 
 Mint Jelly 
 
 Use apples that make a light jelly, cut but do not pare; remove 
 seeds and cores, cover with water, let boil slowly until tender; 
 strain through a jelly bag, do not squeeze. Put the juice back 
 and heat, and to each pint of juice allow | pound of sugar that 
 has been heated in the oven; boil about 20 minutes. When 
 ready to put in glasses allow for each pint of juice, 7 drops of 
 green coloring matter (made from spinach) and 3 drops of oil of 
 
MEATS 39 
 
 spearmint dissolved in 1 tablespooiJul cold water. Pour into 
 glasses boiling hot. 
 
 Tomato Jelly 
 
 1 lemon i teaspoonful each of cinnamon, 
 
 sugar cloves, allspice 
 
 Peel and cut tomatoes, and to each pound add the juice and 
 
 grated peel of a lemon. Boil together until tomatoes are soft 
 
 and strain through a jelly bag, and to each pint of juice allow 
 
 1 pound sugar. Heat the juice, add the heated sugar, put the 
 
 spices in a bag and boil gently until it jeUies; put in glasses and 
 
 when cold seal. Serve with cold meats. 
 
 Mint Sauce 
 
 I cup finely chopped mint leaves ^ cup vinegar 
 1 tablespoonful sugar 
 
 Wash the mint leaves, drain, and chop very fine. Mix sugar 
 and vinegar, and add the mint leaves. Let stand 15 to 20 min- 
 utes in a warm place before serving. 
 
 Tomato Sauce 
 
 1 can tomatoes or 1 dozen raw 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 tomatoes 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 4 cloves 2 tablespoonfuls flour 
 
 3 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful pepper 
 
 Stew tomatoes, strain and put all the ingredients into a sauce 
 pan and cook until it thickens. 
 
 Gravy for Mutton 
 
 2 cups hot water from meat I cup cold water 
 
 3 tablespoonfuls flour salt and pepper to taste 
 
 Add the cold water to the flour gradually, and stir until the 
 mixture is smooth. Add the 2 cups hot water slowly, and stir 
 constantly. Put mixture into a saucepan, place over the heat, 
 
40 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 and boil 5 minutes, stirring all the time. Add seasoning, and 
 serve hot. For caper sauce, add J cup of capers to the gravy. 
 
 Calf's Foot Jelly 
 
 If the feet are large allow a quart of water to each foot and 
 boil for 5 or 6 hours, or until the meat is falling from the bones, 
 and the liquid is reduced one-half. Season, strain, and set 
 aside until next day. Before using remove every particle of 
 fat from the top, and the sediment from the bottom, as the least 
 bit will cause the jelly to be cloudy. 
 
 To Souse Pig's Feet 
 
 The feet can be bought already cleaned and prepared. Put 
 them on in hot water and boil until well done, 4 or 5 hours, but 
 they must not drop from the bones. Put them hot into a jar, and 
 pour over them in equal quantities, vinegar and the water in 
 which they were boiled. Season with pepper and salt, and cover. 
 They can be used the next day, eaten cold, or dip them in a thin 
 batter of flour, water and egg, and fry in hot lard. Add a little 
 chopped onion if you prefer. 
 
 Scrapple 
 
 Cut in slices and brown without fat. 
 
 Smoked Sausage 
 Prick the sausage with a fork, put in the frying pan with a 
 little water, and cook a few minutes. Pour off the water, add 
 a little fat and fry until brown. 
 
 Fresh Sausage 
 Heat the frying pan and when hot put in the sausage and fry 
 a delicate brown. Do not add fat. Drain, and serve on hot 
 dish. 
 
MEATS 
 
 To Scramble Brains 
 
 41 
 
 Clean thoroughly and soak in salt water for several hours to 
 get out the blood, drain and put in a sauce pan with enough water 
 to cover them ; boil i hour, pour off water and mash. Allow to 
 every pound of brains 2 eggs and scramble. 
 
POULTRY AND GAME 
 
 Fried Chicken 
 
 Cut them up and lay in salt water for J hour. Then take them 
 out and dry, season with pepper and salt and cover with as much 
 flour as they will hold. Have the lard boiling hot in the frying 
 pan, into which put a teaspoonful of butter, lay each piece in 
 carefully not forgetting the liver and gizzard. Fry till a fine 
 amber color ; then turn each piece. Be careful that the chicken is 
 well done, but not scorched. Serve on a hot dish. Pass cream 
 gravy. 
 
 Cream Gravy for Fried Chicken 
 
 After taking the chicken out of the frying pan, pour off the top 
 fat, put in a tablespoonful of butter, add 2 tablespoonfuls of 
 flour rubbed smooth, to which add milk, parsley, salt and pepper. 
 Cook until creamy. 
 
 Stewed Chicken 
 
 Cut up the chicken, put on the fire in a saucepan, add quart 
 of water, an onion chopped fine and simmer. When perfectly 
 tender, stir in J pound of butter well rolled in flour, and a J pint 
 of cream. Season with salt and pepper. If you prefer, an hour 
 before serving you may add a cup of rice. 
 
 Smothered Spring Chicken 
 
 When ready to draw the chickens cut them open down the 
 back, place in weak salt water,'^wipe dry and place in pan just 
 large enough to enable you to spread chickens open, breast down. 
 Place on each chicken a tablespoonful of butter, cut in small 
 
POULTRY AND GAME 43 
 
 pieces ; pour J pint of water over them and place in oven for J 
 hour; add another J pint of water and a little salt and pepper. 
 Add water occasionally to prevent cooking dry. It will take 
 about an hour to cook chickens weighing 1 J to 2 pounds. About 
 10 minutes before they are done add a cup of cream to each 
 chicken, sprinkle with a very little flour, return to the oven. 
 Serve on a hot dish, pouring the gravy around them, and 
 form a border of boiled rice on the dish. 
 
 Fricasseed Chicken 
 
 Clean, wash and cut up the chicken. Lay in salt water for i 
 hour. Put them in a pot with just enough water to cover them, 
 add J pound of sliced bacon, and simmer until tender ; then add 
 tablespoonful each of chopped onion, parsley and celery; pepper 
 and salt; a tablespoonful of butter, and some cream, into 
 which has been added 2 well beaten eggs and 2 tablespoon- 
 fuls of flour. Let boil. Arrange the chicken on a hot platter, 
 pour the gravy over it and serve. 
 
 Panned Chicken 
 
 Split the chickens (they must be young), down the back and 
 clean carefully; lay them in fresh water and wipe dry, and rub 
 with butter, pepper and salt. Put them split side down in a pan 
 in which is 1 teaspoonful of hot butter and a little stock, baste 
 every 10 minutes with melted butter and set on top rack to 
 brown. Garnish with parsley and pass cream gravy with them. 
 
 Roast Turkey or Chicken 
 
 Thoroughly clean and remove the tendons in the leg, stuff with 
 grated dry bread crumbs, i pound butter, J teaspoonful pepper, 
 very little salt, as the bread and butter is already salted. The 
 
44 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 inside of -the fowl should be rubbed with salt, one cup of celery 
 chopped fine. Mix all together and fill from where the craw was 
 taken to a natural shape; tie skin over the neck, put the rest 
 in body of the fowl. Rub the fowl well with butter, sprinkle with 
 pepper and salt, dredge with flour. Cover well the bottom of 
 the pan with boiling water. Roast in a moderate oven, allowing 
 20 minutes to every pound. Serve on a hot dish and pass brown 
 gravy. 
 
 Brown Gravy 
 
 Use the fat in the pan in which the fowl was roasted, first pour- 
 ing off the top fat and thicken with flour; add J pint of cold 
 water. Stir constantly until it boils, season with teaspoonful of 
 kitchen bouquet; salt and pepper. 
 
 Oyster Stuffing for Turkey 
 
 1 pint of oysters strained from 1 raw egg 
 
 liquor f cup of butter 
 
 2 stalks of celery- 
 Chop all fine and mix with dry bread crumbs, season with 
 
 salt, pepper and nutmeg. Boil the giblets until tender, chop 
 fine, and put in gravy of- turkey or chicken. 
 
 Raisin and Nut Stuffing for Poultry 
 
 sufficient dry bread crumbs to 1 pint of chestnuts shelled, par- 
 fill the fowl boiled, blanched and chopped 
 2 stalks of celery, chopped fine J teacupful of English walnuts, 
 i cup of butter, cut in small lumps chopped fine 
 1 pound of raisins, halved 
 
 Sprinkle celery and nuts with teaspoonful of salt, add butter 
 and crumbs, stirring together with a sprinkle of pepper; then 
 add raisins, mixing thoroughly; fill the fowl and roast as usual. 
 
POULTRY AND GAME - 45 
 
 Scalloped Chicken or Turkey 
 
 Cut into small pieces the cold fowl ; to each pint of meat add 
 1 pint of white sauce and 3 hard-boiled eggs; season with salt, 
 dash of cayenne. Mix altogether. Cover top with bread crumbs 
 and small pieces of butter, and brown in oven. 
 
 Chicken Pates 
 
 1 pint of cooked chicken ^ pint of milk 
 
 1 tablespoonful of butter a teaspoonful of chopped parsley 
 
 1 tablespoonful of flour salt and pepper 
 
 Miiice the chicken, rub the butter and flour together, add the 
 milk ; stir until it thickens ; season with the parsley, pepper and 
 salt. Fill the shells and set in the oven and brown slightly. 
 
 Chicken Croquettes 
 
 1 quart of cold cooked chicken ^ pint of milk 
 
 1 tablespoonful of butter 1 teaspoonful of chopped parsley 
 
 2 tablespOonfuls of flour salt and pepper 
 
 Chop the chicken fine, rub the butter and flour together ; then 
 the milk; stir until it thickens, add the chicken, seasoned with 
 the parsley; a little onion juice if you prefer; salt and a dash of 
 cayenne, and stand until cold. Then make in pyramid shaped 
 croquettes, dip them in beaten egg, thinned with a tablespoonful 
 of warm water, roll in bread crumbs and fry in hot fat. Drain on 
 brown paper and serve on a hot dish. 
 
 Pilaff of Chicken 
 
 One small chicken, half cup rice, one teaspoonful salt. Cut 
 up the chicken the same as for a fricassee. Put it in a stew pan, 
 half cover it with boiling water, and set on a moderate fire to 
 simmer. Now wash the rice, add it to the chicken and the salt, 
 
46 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 and let all simmer until the chicken is tender. Make a tomato 
 sauce. Dish the chicken and rice together, and pour over it the 
 tomato sauce. This dish is very nice made from cold pieces of 
 chicken or mutton. 
 
 Molded Chicken 
 
 Boil 2 full-grown fat chickens in as little water as possible 
 until the meat falls from the bones; pick off and chop it fine, 
 season with salt and pepper. Put slices of hard-boiled eggs in a 
 mold and cover it with a layer of the chicken. Then more eggs 
 and chicken until nearly filled. Boil down the water in which the 
 chicken was boiled. Season and pour over the chicken. Set 
 on ice; when cold turn out and slice very thin. 
 
 To Broil Partridges 
 
 Split them down the back and clean carefully; lay them in 
 salt water for 1 hour ; then wipe dry and rub with butter, pepper 
 and salt. Put them split side down in a pan in which is 
 1 teaspoonful of melted butter. When nearly done, baste with 
 butter and set in the top grate of oven to brown. It is well 
 to keep them covered while on the stove. Squabs may be cooked 
 the same way. 
 
 Stewed Pigeons 
 
 Clean and wash the pigeons, dust with flour, put on in a sauce 
 pan with just enough water to cover them, and a lump of butter, 
 and let them cook slowly for J hour. Mix together flour and 
 water, salt and pepper and a little parsley; stir in and let it 
 boil up. Serve on a hot dish and pour the gravy over them. 
 
 Stewed Rabbit 
 
 Cut a rabbit in 8 pieces. After soaking it in salt and water 
 put in a stew pan with more than enough water to cover it, 
 
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 When nearly done, strain off the water, saving enough, with 1 
 cup of milk, to cover the rabbit ; return to the pan, add the cup of 
 milk, one tablespoonful each of chopped onion and parsley. 
 After this boils up, add 1 heaping tablespoonful of butter mixed 
 with the same quantity of flour. Let come to a boil once more 
 and serve in a heated dish, garnished with hard boiled eggs, 
 sliced. 
 
 To Fry Rabbits 
 
 Cut up the rabbit, wash and drain; season with salt and pepper; 
 rub each piece in flour, and drop them separately in a frying 
 pan of hot lard. Fry until brown. Dish and keep the rabbits 
 hot; strain the gravy; add a tablespoonful of flour, rub in a 
 tablespoonful of butter; a cup of rich milk, salt and chopped 
 parsley. Let it boil a few minutes, stirring constantly. Serve. 
 
 To Cook Reed Birds 
 
 Thoroughly clean 1 dozen birds; wash them and lay on a 
 dry towel; spread another over them and press them quite flat. 
 Season with salt and pepper, a slight dash of cayenne. Put a 
 little butter in the pan and when hot put in the birds and cover. 
 When brown serve hot on toast, with a lump of butter on each 
 bird. 
 
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VEGETABLES 
 
 General Rules for Cooking Vegetables 
 
 Wash thoroughly, pare, peel, or scrape, according to the kind. 
 Let them stand in cold water until ready to cook to keep them 
 crisp, or to freshen them when wilted, or to prevent them from 
 turning dark. 
 
 Cook in fresh boiling salted water, enough to cover and keep 
 the water boiling. Allow 1 teaspoonful of salt to 1 quart of 
 water. Salt may be added when vegetables are put in, except in 
 the case of delicate green vegetables, as peas, spinach, etc., when 
 it should not be added until they are nearly done. To preserve 
 the color, cook green vegetables uncovered. Cook cabbage, 
 onions and turnips, uncovered, in a large quantity of water; 
 by changing the water once or twice during cooking, much of 
 the strong odor and flavor will be lost. 
 
 Vegetables should be cooked only until tender, drained when 
 necessary, and served promptly. 
 
 The water in which vegetables have been cooked is called vege- 
 table stock, and if of agreeable flavor, may be used in making 
 sauces to serve with the vegetables, or as a basis for vegetable 
 soups, thickened with flour, combined with butter. Time for 
 cooking varies, according to the freshness, age and size of vege- 
 tables. They are cooked when a fork will go through them easily. 
 Serve plain, with salt, pepper and butter, or with cream, milk 
 or stock sauce. 
 
 Seasoning 
 
 To 1 pint of cooked vegetables, allow 2 tablespoonfuls of 
 butter, i teaspoonful of salt, and J saltspoonful of pepper. 
 
VEGETABLES 49 
 
 Scalloped Dishes 
 
 Cold meats, or fish and oysters, some vegetables and some fruits 
 are used in scalloped dishes. 
 
 The crumbs for scalloped dishes are prepared from the inside 
 of a loaf of bread, a day or more old. Grate the bread, or if 
 dry enough, crumb by rubbing two pieces together. Cracker 
 crumbs may also be used, but will need more liquid to moisten 
 them. 
 
 Place the food material in 2 layers, using one-fourth of the 
 crumbs for the bottom of the dish, the other one-fourth in the 
 middle, and the remaining one-half for the top. Buttered 
 crumbs are used for the top. 
 
 White Sauce 
 
 1 tablespoonful butter i teaspoonful salt 
 
 li tablespoonful flour white pepper to taste 
 
 1 cup milk 
 
 Scaldthe milk, melt the butter, add to it the flour, and mix 
 
 thoroughly; add the milk gradually, stir until perfectly smooth. 
 
 One-half cup of milk and J cup of vegetable stock may be used 
 
 instead of all milk for a sauce for vegetables. 
 
 Potatoes 
 
 They should be kept in a cool, dark, dry place. If stored in 
 a light place an unpleasant flavor will develop. 
 
 Boiled Potatoes 
 
 Choose potatoes of about the same size. Wash, pare thin, 
 and drop at once into cold water to prevent discoloration. Cook 
 in fresh boiling salted water, until a fork will penetrate them 
 easily. When soft, drain, uncover, and shake gently over the 
 heat until the outside is dry and mealy ; sprinkle a little salt over 
 them. Serve hot in an uncovered dish. 
 
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 New potatoes have thin skins, so can be scraped instead of 
 pared. In the spring, old potatoes are improved by soaking 1 
 hour in cold water. 
 
 Sweet potatoes are cooked in the same manner as white pota- 
 toes. They are not usually pared, as without the skins they 
 would lose some of the sugar to which they owe the sweetness 
 which gives them their name. 
 
 Masheui Potatoes 
 
 6 medium sized potatoes 3 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt i to J cup hot milk 
 
 I saltspoonful pepper 
 
 Boil the potatoes, and drain them; mash in the saucepan in 
 which they were boiled. Season; add the hot milk gradually; 
 beat until light and creamy, and pile on a hot dish without 
 smoothing. 
 
 Riced Potatoes 
 
 Press hot mashed potatoes through a potato ricer, or coarse 
 strainer, into a hot vegetable dish. Serve at once, or brown 
 lightly in a hot oven. 
 
 Baked Potatoes 
 
 Wash and scrub potatoes of uniform size. Bake on the grate 
 of a hot oven from 30 to 45 minutes, or until soft. Turn them 
 every 15 minutes, to keep them from burning. Test by pressing 
 them, with the hand wrapped in a towel. When soft, break open 
 the skins, to let the steam escape, and serve at once. If any 
 are left over, remove skins and use for warming over. 
 
 Creamed Potatoes No. 1 
 
 Cut cold potatoes into cubes, and for each cupful allow J cup 
 of milk, J tablespoonful butter, J teaspoonful salt and a dash of 
 
VEGETABLES 51 
 
 pepper. Heat the milk in a shallow pan, add the potatoes and 
 stir slowly until they have absorbed nearly all the milk; add 
 seasoning and stir until well mixed. Cook 5 minutes longer. 
 Serve hot. One teaspoonful of parsley, chopped fine, may be 
 added to the seasoning. 
 
 Creamed Potatoes No. 2 
 
 Cut up the cold potatoes into cubes, and heat in thin white 
 sauce, allowing IJ cup of sauce for 2 cups of potatoes. 
 
 Potato Cakes 
 
 Form cold mashed potatoes into balls and flatten them into 
 cakes i inch thick; arrange them on a buttered baking pan, putting 
 a small piece of butter on the top of each. Bake on the grate of a 
 hot oven, until slightly browned. 
 
 Creamed Potatoes with Cheese 
 
 The sliced potatoes may be seasoned, put in a baking dish and 
 covered with milk; grated cheese thickly sprinkled over the top. 
 Cover, and bake until the milk is nearly absorbed; then remove 
 cover, and cook until cheese is melted. The potatoes may be 
 fixed in the same way, substituting bread crumbs in place of the 
 cheese. 
 
 Stuffed Potatoes 
 
 Select good-sized potatoes, wash, and bake in a brisk oven. 
 When cooked, remove from the oven and cut in half lengthwise. 
 Remove the interior and pass through a vegetable press into a 
 hot bowl. To each pint of potato allow tablespoonful of butter, 
 teaspoonful of salt, J teaspoonful of white pepper, and J cup 
 of hot cream. Whisk all together briskly until it looks light and 
 snowy white, then add the white of an egg beaten to a stiff froth. 
 
52 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Put the potato back in the shells, heaping it slightly, smooth the 
 top of each with a knife dipped in cold water, put them into a 
 baking pan, and return to the oven to brown the tops. Serve. 
 
 Potato Croquettes 
 
 2 cups fresh mashed potatoes a grating of nutmeg . 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls cream yolks of 2 eggs 
 
 1 teaspoonful onion juice 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 Beat yolks light, add to the potatoes, then the other ingredi- 
 ents. Mix thoroughly and turn into a saucepan ; stir over the fire 
 until the mixture leaves the side of the pan. Mold in pyramid 
 shaped croquettes, roll in beaten eggs, then in bread crumbs, 
 and fry in boiling hot lard. Drain and serve. 
 
 Baked Sweet Potato Puree 
 
 Wash and scrub 4 large sweet potatoes and bake in a hot oven. 
 When done peel and rub through a colander. Stir into them 2 
 tablespoonfuls of butter, salt and pepper to taste and sufficient 
 rich milk to make them into the consistency of a soft dough. 
 Butter a pan and heap the potato in a neat mound, smoothing it 
 with a knife. Brush with beaten egg and put in a hot oven until 
 well browned. 
 
 Sweet Potato Croquettes 
 
 Pare and boil 4 large sweet potatoes until tender when stuck 
 with a fork, and put through a potato press; add 1 teaspoonful 
 sugar, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 tablespoonful butter, dash of white 
 pepper ; beat light. When cold, form in pyramid shape, dip in egg 
 and bread crumbs, and fry in hot lard. Drain and serve. 
 
VEGETABLES 53 
 
 To Wash Rice 
 
 Put rice in a strainer, place strainer in a pan of water, and rub 
 the rice between the hands ; change water 2 or 3 times, or until 
 rice is clean, when the water will be clear. 
 
 How to Boil Rice 
 
 Prepare a sauce pan with water and a little salt. When it boils 
 sprinkle in the rice gradually so as not to stop the boiling. Boil 
 hard for 20 minutes, keeping the pot covered. Then take it 
 from the fire and pour off the water, after which set the pot on 
 the back of the stove with the lid off, to allow the rice to dry 
 and the grains to separate. 
 
 Remember — Boil rapidly from the time you cover the pot until 
 you take it off, this allows each grain to swell to three times its 
 normal size and the motion prevents the grains from sticking 
 together. Do not stir it as this will cause it to fall to the bottom 
 and burn. When properly boiled rice should be snowy white, 
 perfectly dry, and soft, and every grain separate and alone. 
 
 Spanish Rice 
 
 Wash 1 pound of rice and soak it for an hour ; cut up 1 pound 
 sausage and 1 pound ham; a small piece red pepper, 2 onions, 
 2 large tomatoes and a sprig of parsley. Fry these in a heaping 
 spoonful of lard, and then add about a pint of boiling water. 
 Stir in the rice slowly, cover the pot and set where it can cook 
 slowly. Salt to taste and serve while hot. 
 
 Rice and Beans 
 
 Boil i pound red kidney beans, well done, add parsley and 
 onions, black pepper and salt. When done add enough hot water 
 to cover li cups of rice, cook until it comes to a boil, then put on a 
 
54 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 slow fire 20 minutes, covering the pot but leave small opening for 
 the steam to escape. Serve hot with a piece of butter. 
 
 Rice Croquettes 
 
 Boil a teacupful of rice in milk until soft, a teaspoonful each of 
 sugar and melted butter, J teaspoonul of salt, 1 beaten egg. 
 After thoroughly beating and mixing, shape into oval balls and 
 dip in beaten egg, follow by dipping in bread crumbs. Fry in 
 hot lard, turning with care, and when done to a nice brown put 
 into a heated colander. 
 
 Fried Rice 
 
 Boil sufficient rice soft and let it stand until cold, then cut 
 into slices of proper thickness and fry to a nice brown, turning it 
 carefully so as not to break the slices. This is an excellent 
 breakfast dish. 
 
 Rice with Milk 
 
 Wash well a cup of rice, put it into a quart of milk over night to 
 soak; in the morning add a large spoonful of butter, a little salt, 
 grated nutmeg, a little ground cinnamon, pint more of milk, then 
 put it into the oven, and when it is warm stir the pudding without 
 removing it from the oven; stone i pound raisins and add at 
 this time; then let it cook until the rice is perfectly done. 
 
 Stewed Tomatoes 
 
 Scald and peel 1 dozen tomatoes, adding 2 tablespoonfuls 
 water, or 1 can of tomatoes, pouring off half the liquor. Put 
 in a pan, with 1 saltspoon salt, a dash of pepper, 2 teaspoonfuls 
 sugar, and stew until quite smooth. Just before serving, beat 
 in 2 tablespoonfuls butter. When well dissolved serve. Bread 
 crumbs may be cooked with the tomatoes if you prefer. 
 
VEGETABLES 55 
 
 Fried Tomatoes 
 
 Slice the tomatoes, dredge each sHce with a Uttle flour, salt 
 and pepper. Fry in hot lard. Drain the tomatoes, put on a hot 
 dish, pour most of the grease from the pan, rub in a tablespoon- 
 ful of flour, add a little milk, let it boil up, pour over the tomatoes. 
 
 Stuffed Tomatoes 
 
 Remove a small, circular piece from the top of each tomato, 
 having selected good-sized, firm fruit, remove the seeds with your 
 fingers so as not to spoil the shape of the tomatoes, fill the cavities 
 with the following: For every 6 tomatoes allow a cup of finely 
 chopped chicken or veal, 1 cup of chopped celery, 3 heaping table- 
 spoonfuls of bread crumbs, 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley, 
 1 tablespoonful of melted butter, 1 tablespoonful sugar, 1 tea- 
 spoonful salt; pepper to taste. Mix all the ingredients together, 
 fill the tomatoes and place in a baking dish. Bake 30 minutes 
 in a moderate oven, basting with melted butter. 
 
 Scalloped Tomatoes 
 
 2 cups tomatoes H cups of crumbs 
 
 li teaspoonful salt 3 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 speck pepper 
 Cook tomatoes 10 minutes, with salt and pepper, butter crumbs 
 and arrange as for scalloped dishes. Cook, covered, 20 minutes, 
 uncover, and brown on grate. If raw tomatoes are used, bake 
 1 hour. 
 
 Macaroni with Cheese and Tomatoes 
 Boil i pound of macaroni in salted water, until perfectly done, 
 drain, and add 1 cup of grated cheese, putting macaroni, cheese 
 and a well-made tomato sauce in alternate layers in a heated 
 vegetable dish. 
 
56 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Baked Macaroni 
 
 Boil i pound of macaroni in salted water until soft, and the 
 water has boiled down until there is just sufficient water to 
 cover the macaroni well. Then turn into a baking pan, sprinkle 
 with pepper and cover thickly with grated cheese and dot all over 
 with bits of butter. Bake until brown, but do not allow to dry. 
 
 Lazania 
 
 (Italian Winter Dish) 
 
 2 pounds round or lean beef | pound macaroni 
 
 1 quart onions 4 ounces butter and lard mixed 
 
 I pound cheese (grated) 
 
 Heat beef thoroughly, season and flour, put in a pan in the 
 oven, baste frequently; when brown, add hot water to cover. 
 While the meat is cooking cut onions in small pieces ; fry a nice 
 brown in the butter and lard. Draw meat from the oven; cover 
 with the onions and let it cook until the gravy is a rich brown. 
 Boil the lazania (dough rolled in sheets cut in squares of about 
 2i by 2^ inches) in salted water, drain. Serve in dish a layer 
 of lazania; then a layer of cheese; then, using a large spoon, 
 dress with the beef gravy, and so on until the dish is full. Serve 
 meat on separate dish. 
 
 Macaroni can be used in place of lazania. 
 
 Stewed Corn 
 
 Cut the grains of 1 dozen ears of corn down the middle, and 
 scrape; stew until tender; add | cup of milk, 1 tablespoonful 
 butter, salt and pepper to taste. 
 
 Corn on the Cob 
 
 Let the water be boiling, and add a little salt, drop in the 
 corn and boil 10 or 15 minutes. 
 
VEGETABLES 57 
 
 Corn Pudding 
 
 1 pint of scraped or grated corn 1 tablespoonful melted butter 
 
 2 eggs, whites and yolks beaten 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 separately pepper 
 
 2 cups of cream or rich milk 
 
 Add the corn to the beaten yolks, then the butter, salt, pepper, 
 cream; lastly the well beaten whites. Bake in a hot oven, 
 being earful to have it cooked on the bottom. 
 
 Succotash 
 
 Boil 1 pint of lima beans until tender, cut J dozen ears of corn 
 down the middle and scrape. Drain the beans, add the corn and 
 season with salt and pepper; put in 1 tablespoonful butter, and 
 cook about 20 minutes. 
 
 Com with Peppers 
 
 Drain a can of corn and chop the kernels somewhat, chopping 
 with them two green peppers. Put the hquor back with them 
 and cook gently on the back of the stove, adding a little milk, 
 butter and salt. 
 
 Baked Peppers and Corn 
 
 Score and scrape from the cobs enough corn to make 1 pint ; 
 open 2 sweet green peppers, remove seeds, and shave fine. Put 
 corn and peppers in baking dish, season with salt, pour over the 
 top a cupful of thin cream into which has been beaten 1 egg and 
 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter. Bake 40 minutes in quick oven. 
 
 Stuffed Peppers 
 
 Select the sweet Spanish peppers, cut off the stem end, and 
 remove the seeds. Mix together for every 4 peppers i cup of 
 chicken or veal chopped fine, J cup of bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon- 
 
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 ful of chopped parsley, salt and pepper to taste, and 2 tablespoon- 
 fuls of melted butter. Carefully fill the peppers, stand in a 
 baking pan, with a little water or stock, and bake 20 minutes 
 in a moderately quick oven. 
 
 Boiled Cabbage 
 
 Prepare the cabbage by taking off the outer leaves, cut and 
 throw into cold water for an hour or so ; shake, and put in a kettle 
 of boiling, salted water, enough to cover it, and boil until tender, 
 about 1 hour. It may be cooked in ham liquor with the fat 
 skimmed off, or with a piece of bacon or corn beef. Serve with 
 a cream sauce. 
 
 Creamed Cabbage 
 
 Cut up a fine head of cabbage, put in a saucepan and cover 
 with boiling salted water; let boil 15 minutes, then drain. Pour 
 over it a dressing made of: 
 
 I pint vinegar 1 tablespoonful salad oil 
 
 ^ teaspoonful salt 1 tablespoonful made mustard 
 
 1 saltspoonful pepper 
 
 Put on fire, let boil, add a teacupful of milk and 1 egg, mix well. 
 After pouring on the cabbage, cook 5 minutes. 
 
 Lady's Cabbage 
 
 Cut the cabbage fine, and cook in boiling water J hour. Drain, 
 season highly with salt and pepper, and 5 tablespoonfuls milk 
 and 1 tablespoonful of butter rubbed with one of flour. Put on 
 the fire and cook a few minutes. Serve. 
 
 Brussels Sprouts 
 
 Soak them in cold water for 1 hour. Put then into boiling, 
 salted water and cook until tender, for about J hour; drain, put 
 in a hot dish, pour over them melted butter, and dust with pepper. 
 
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 Spinach 
 
 Wash the spinach carefully, getting it free from all grit; put it 
 in the pot with a piece of corned beef or bacon, and cook about 
 20 minutes. Dust with pepper and salt, and garnish with hard 
 boiled egg. Serve in a heated uncovered vegetable dish. 
 
 Stewed Celery 
 
 Wash the celery, and cut in pieces, stew in a little stock until 
 tender, add some cream, butter, with enough flour to thicken the 
 cream ; season with salt and pepper. 
 
 Cauliflower 
 
 Lay a head of cauliflower in cold water for i hour, shake, and 
 put in boiling salted water, cook until tender ; always keep covered 
 in the water, and remove the scum. When well done, serve with 
 butter and pepper or a cream sauce. It may be garnished with 
 small smoked sausage; if so, the green leaves must be left on the 
 cauliflower. 
 
 Green Peas 
 
 In shelling, pick out the freshest and greenest pods, place them 
 on the fire in 2 quarts of cold water; let them boil well 1 hour. 
 Take from the fire, strain out the water, and place the peas in it to 
 boil. Boil 20 minutes, take from the fire, strain off the greater 
 part of the liquor, add a lump of butter, cream if you prefer, salt 
 and pepper. 
 
 Lima Beans 
 
 Wash the beans, put in the saucepan, cover with boiling water, 
 salted slightly ; boil slowly until tender, drain, pour in a hot dish, 
 sprinkle with salt and pepper and butter. 
 
60 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Asparagus 
 
 Wash, scrape, cut off tough ends; tie in bundles, and put in 
 boihng water with 1 spoonful salt ; boil about J hour, or until 
 tender. Lay on sHces of toast on a dish, pour melted butter over 
 it. Serve hot. 
 
 Stuffed Egg Plant 
 
 Cut a large egg plant in half, remove the center and chop it fine. 
 Mix with bread crumbs, 1 teaspoonful each of minced onion and 
 parsley, a good sized lump of butter, salt and pepper. Put back 
 in the shells. Grate over it a crust of bread, dot with small 
 pieces of butter and bake. 
 
 Egg Plant 
 
 Peel and cut the plant in slices, stand in salted water for 1 hour, 
 drain and dip each slice in beaten egg and bread crumbs ; fry in hot 
 lard until brown. 
 
 Boiled Carrots 
 
 Wash and scrape off the thin skin, they may be left whole, if 
 small, or cut in thirds, or in cubes or straws; cook in enough fresh 
 boiling salted water to cover, until a fork will go through them 
 easily. Serve with white sauce, or in a sauce made of stock. 
 They may be finely chopped, seasoned with salt, pepper and butter, 
 reheated, and pressed closely into a cup or mold and turned out 
 on a hot dish. Serve hot. 
 
 To Fry Oyster Plant 
 
 Scrape the roots, throw into cold water to prevent turning 
 dark; boil until perfectly tender, mash them through a colander. 
 Add butter, salt and pepper; make into small cakes, flour them 
 and fry brown. Parsnips may be used in the same way 
 
VEGETABLES 61 
 
 Parsnips 
 
 Wash and scrape parsnips, cut in quarters, cook in fresh 
 boiling salted water until soft. Drain, cut in pieces. Serve with 
 white sauce, or mash, and season with salt, pepper and butter. 
 
 Boiled Onions 
 
 Peel under cold water to avoid irritating the eyes; if onions 
 are too strong in flavor, change water once or twice during 
 cooking. Cook until tender but not broken; drain, add butter, 
 salt, pepper, a small quantity of milk, and reheat. It is well to 
 wash all utensils in cold water, without soap, to remove odor. 
 
 Scalloped Onions 
 
 Arrange boiled onions between the layers of crumbs, using 
 thin white sauce to moisten them. Cook 20 minutes covered, 
 uncover and brown. 
 
 Boiled Turnips 
 
 Cut off a paring thick enough to remove all the skin, cut in 
 quarters, cook in fresh boiling salted water until tender. 
 Drain, mash, and season with salt and pepper and butter, or serve 
 in white sauce as creamed turnips. 
 
 Fried Cucumbers 
 
 Pare and lay in ice water i hour; cut lengthwise into slices 
 nearly J inch thick, and lay in ice water 10 minutes longer. Wipe 
 each piece dry with a soft cloth. Sprinkle with pepper and salt, 
 dredge with flour; fry to a delicate brown in sweet lard, drain 
 and serve. 
 
 Hominy 
 
 To 1 quart of large hominy add 1 gallon of water, 1 cup of 
 beans, a little salt, and boil it all day, slowly. 
 
62 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Hominy Pudding 
 
 2 cups cold boiled hominy 3 well beaten eggs 
 
 2 tablespoonfiils melted butter 1 cup sweet milk 
 
 Mix thoroughly, season with salt and pepper ; bake in buttered 
 pan for J hour. 
 
 Boston Baked Beans 
 
 1 quart soup beans i teaspoonful mustard 
 
 ^ pound pork dash cayenne 
 
 ^ cup molasses 
 
 Soak the beans over night, pour off the water ; cook in fresh 
 water until beans crack open, put into a bean pot, sprinkle v/ith 
 mustard and cayenne ; lay the pork on top, scored on the rind, 
 pour over all the molasses, cover with boiling water, cover and 
 place in the oven, until nearly done, then allow them to bake 
 brown. 
 
SALADS 
 
 Simple salads consist of fresh vegetables which require no cook- 
 ing, as lettuce, endive, cress, etc. served with a dressing. Cooked 
 vegetables, meat, fish, etc. are also used for salads. French 
 dressing is easily prepared, and is suitable for any salad. 
 
 Salads should be prepared daintily, arranged attractively, and 
 should always be served cold. 
 
 Lettuce and other salad plants should be fresh, crisp and clean. 
 Wash thoroughly, without crushing, leaf by leaf; chill in very 
 cold water until crisp, and dry by placing on a clean towel, so that 
 thewater will drain from the leaves; or fold lightly in a towel 
 and place on ice until serving time. 
 
 The dressing should not be added to green vegetables until just 
 before serving as it wilts them. 
 
 Cooked Salad Dressing 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt 1 egg yolk 
 
 1 teaspoonful mustard ' h cup scalded milk 
 
 1 tablespoonful sugar \ cup hot vinegar 
 
 few grains of cayenne 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 Scald the milk. Mix salt, mustard, sugar and cayenne together 
 in a bowl. Add egg yolk and mix thoroughly. Add scalded 
 milk slowly, return to double boiler, add the hot vinegar, and 
 cook until mixture thickens. Add the butter, stir till melted, 
 and strain. Cool before using. If desired thicker use another 
 egg yolk, or mix 1 teaspoonful flour with enough of the cold milk 
 to make a smooth mixture; add to remainder of the i cup of 
 milk and boil 3 minutes before adding to the egg mixture. 
 
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 French Dressing 
 
 i teaspoonful salt | teaspoonful pepper 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls vinegar or lemon 2 tablespoonfuls olive oil 
 juice 
 
 Mix together and stir thoroughly until well blended ; or dissolve 
 
 salt and pepper in the vinegar and pour it over the salad material. 
 
 Toss lightly with a fork until all is seasoned, then add the oil, 
 
 and mix gently until it is well distributed; 3 or 4 drops of onion 
 
 juice or a few grains of cayenne may be used to vary the 
 
 flavor. 
 
 Shredded Cabbage or Cold Slaw 
 
 Remove wilted leaves and cut a quarter from a small head of 
 cabbage and let stand in cold water until crisp. Cut out stalk 
 and cut the cabbage into very fine pieces. Serve with cooked 
 salad dressing. 
 
 Water Lily Salad 
 
 Remove shells from hard-cooked eggs. Divide eggs into 
 halves crosswise, cutting through the whites in such a way that 
 the edges will be cut into sharp points. Remove the yolks, put 
 them in a bowl, mash them, and season to taste with salt, pepper 
 and melted butter, or moisten them with salad dressing. Refill 
 the whites with the yolk mixture and arrange the halves on a bed 
 of lettuce leaves which have been washed, dried and chilled. 
 Serve with cooked salad dressing. Radishes, washed and chilled 
 until crisp, may be used to garnish the salad. 
 
 Cream Dressing 
 
 2 eggs i teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 teaspoonful sugar ^ teaspoonful mustard 
 
 Beat the eggs well; add sugar, salt and mustard; mix well and 
 add 3 tablespoonfuls of vinegar and one of cream. Set the bowl con- 
 taining this mixture into a pan or kettle of boiling water and stir 
 
SALADS 65 
 
 until it thickens. Tliis dressing should be perfectly cold before 
 using it and is nice for cauliflower, cabbage, or asparagus. 
 
 French Mustard 
 
 1 box good mustard 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 tablespoonful olive oil 1 saltspoonful black pepper 
 
 1 tablespoonful of sugar 
 
 Six large onions cut in thin slices, pour over them 1 pint of 
 cider vinegar, let stand until the next day, strain and mix into 
 it the mustard, sugar, salt and pepper ; then drop in the oil. Mix 
 in a bowl and set in a pan of hot water; stir constantly until 
 thick; put in a jar and it will keep for years. 
 
 Mayonnaise Dressing 
 
 Have aU the ingredients and utensils chilled. Put the yolk of a 
 hard boiled egg and a raw one carefully freed from the whites, in a 
 bowl ; add half a teaspoonful salt, and stir until the yolks are well a 
 mixed; add the oil drop by drop, constantly stirring in the same 
 direction, adding a drop or two of vinegar as it is needed, that is, 
 when the emulsion looks oily. As the mixture becomes thick, the 
 oil may be added faster, stirring, not beating, adding acid enough 
 only to keep the dressing from separating. Season with pepper 
 and lemon juice, and add tablespoonful ice water. 
 
 Chicken Salad Dressing 
 
 10 hard boiled eggs i teaspoonful cayene 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls sugar 6 tablespoonfuls of olive oil 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt 1 cup cream 
 
 1 teaspoonful black pepper 1 cup vinegar 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls mustard 
 
 Cream the yolks of the eggs with the oil ; add sugar, salt, pepper 
 and mustard; then vinegar, lastly the cream. Put in a double 
 
66 THE CHUKCH COOK BOOK 
 
 boiler ; stir until thick. Chop whites of the eggs into the chicken 
 and add one-third as much celery as chicken. 
 
 Salmon Salad 
 Place on a bed of lettuce leaves, in a flat salad bowl, the con- 
 tents of J can of salmon, freed from oil and bones, and flaked. 
 Pour over the fish a little boiled salad dressing or mayonnaise, 
 and garnish with slices of hard-boiled egg and lemon. 
 
 Lobster Salad 
 Cut the boiled lobster into good-sized pieces and marinate with 
 a French dressing, then set aside until ready to serve. For each 
 pint of salad add 1 dozen olives cut into strips and i cup of 
 thick mayonnaise. Line the salad bowl with blanched lettuce 
 leaves and on them heap the prepared lobster. Cover with a 
 thick mayonnaise and serve cold. 
 
 Shrimp Salad 
 Take a can of shrimps, open and turnout at once. Wash 
 thoroughly in cold water, and dry. When ready to serve, cut 
 the shrimps into small pieces, cover with mayonnaise dressing 
 and serve on crisp lettuce leaves. 
 
 Walnut Salad 
 Crack J pound of English walnuts in halves and cover with 
 lemon juice, after standing in the juice for 1 hour, pick out and 
 serve on watercress with French dressing. 
 
 Fruit Salad 
 
 1 stalk of celery i pound Malaga grapes 
 
 3 apples 
 
 Cut up celery and apples, halve the grapes, remove the seeds, 
 mix together and over all pour mayonnaise. Serve on crisp let- 
 tuce leaves. 
 
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 Grape Fruit Salad 
 
 Cut in halves; with a spoon remove the pulp in as large pieces 
 as possible; do not leave any seeds in it. Make a syrup of i cup- 
 ful sugar, 1 tablespoonful boiling water and 2 tablespoonfuls of 
 sherry. When cool add to it 2 more tablespoonfuls sherry and 1 
 teaspoonful rum. Mix with the pulp. The shells must have all 
 the skin and pith removed and kept on ice. Just before serving 
 fill the shells with the pulp. It must be chilled. 
 
 Pineapple Salad 
 
 Cut off the top of pineapple, and remove all the heart of the 
 fruit, leaving the shell whole. Shred the pineapple, add pecan 
 nuts or English walnuts, mix with mayonnaise, put back in the 
 shell. Serve in the shell. 
 
 Tartare Sauce 
 
 To one cup of mayonnaise dressing, add one tablespoonful of 
 capers, one of chopped cucumber pickles, one of chopped parsley, 
 and one teaspoonful of onion juice. Mix well and serve. 
 
 Egg Sauce 
 
 Rub the yolks of two hard boiled eggs through a sieve, add to 
 them a teaspoonful of French mustard, a pinch of salt and four 
 tablespoonfuls of soft (not melted) butter. Cut the whites of 
 the eggs in thin rings, and place about the edge of the dish. 
 
 Chicken Salad 
 
 1 well boiled chicken 2 hard boiled eggs 
 
 2 bunches celery 
 
 Remove skin and chop the meat in small pieces; cut celery and 
 chop the eggs and mix all together ; add pepper, salt and a dash 
 
68 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 of cayenne. Make a dressing of 2 raw eggs, beaten, J teaspoon- 
 ful salt, 4 even teaspoonfuls sugar, saltspoonful pepper, J cup 
 vinegar, 1 teaspoonful mustard. Beat all together to consist- 
 ency of cream ; if too stiff add milk, or dress salad with regular 
 mayonnaise with oil. 
 
 Potato Salad 
 
 Boil potatoes and when cold remove the skins, cut in cubes. 
 For 3 cups of potatoes mix 1 cup of celery; cut in small pieces, 
 season with pepper and salt. Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise 
 and garnish with parsley. 
 
 Tomato Salad 
 
 Take small, well shaped tomatoes; skin them cold; cut off 
 a circular piece from the stem end, remove the seeds with the 
 finger, and fill with finely chopped celery sprinkled with salt. 
 Put on a plate with crisp lettuce leaves and cover with mayon- 
 naise. 
 
 Tomato Aspic 
 
 1 pint tomatoes, strained 1 teaspoonful onion juice 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt i box of gelatine 
 
 1 saltspoonful pepper 
 
 Mix all together, stand for half an hour, bring to boiling point. 
 Pour into small molds, when hard serve on crisp lettuce leaves, 
 with mayonnaise dressing. 
 
 Fish Salad 
 
 Pick bones from any cold large fish, season with mustard, 
 pepper, salt and lemon juice; add small piece of butter and mois- 
 ten with cream ; put in a saucepan and stir gently until it sim- 
 mers. When cold put on lettuce, garnished with hard boiled egg. 
 
SALADS 09 
 
 Apple and Nut Salad 
 
 2 bunches celery J pound English walnuts 
 
 2 large apples 
 
 Cut celery and apples into small pieces, add nuts. Garnish 
 with fringed celery tops, and pass mayonnaise. 
 
 To fringe celery tops, cut in pieces 2 or 3 inches long. Slash 
 the ends and stand in cold water for an hour or so to curl. 
 
 Cucumber Salad 
 
 Pare, slice and lay in ice water for an hour, drain and serve 
 with French dressing poured over them. 
 
 Asparagus Salad 
 
 Take cold boiled asparagus, chill and serve with French dress- 
 ing. 
 
 String Bean Salad 
 
 Boil until tender, chill, and serve with French dressing. 
 Egg and Beet Salad 
 
 Remove the shells from hard boiled eggs, cut in halves, and 
 season the yolks, with salt, pepper, melted butter, and moisten 
 with a little vinegar, dip the white shells in the juice of the beets 
 and color a deep pink. Garnish with the pickled beets cut in 
 dice. 
 
 Salad a la Heney 
 
 Peel and cut in slices 4 oranges and arrange on lettuce leaves ; 
 over the oranges put J pineapple finely shredded; on the pine- 
 apple put i pound Tokay grapes, cut in halves and seeded. 
 Make a dressing with the juice of an orange, twice as much olive 
 oil as orange juice, a saltspoonful of salt, a sprinkle of paprika. 
 The addition of pecan nuts to this salad is considered an improve- 
 ment. 
 
CEREALS 
 
 All cereals may be used for mush, and by using more water, 
 may be made into gruel. Cold mushes may be sliced, dipped 
 into flour, and browned in a small quantity of smoking hot fat. 
 
 Directions for Making Mush and Gruels 
 
 Use a double boiler; put the required quantity of boiling water 
 and salt in the upper part of the double boiler, place directly 
 upon stove, and when the water boils rapidly, stir the cereal slowly 
 into it. If cereal is a coarse meal, stir it in dry ; if it is a fine meal 
 or flour, wet it with an equal quantity of cold water before stirring 
 it into the boiling water. 
 
 Cook directly over the heat 10 minutes, stirring constantly; 
 then place upper part of double boiler over the lower part, which 
 should be one-third full of boiling water; keep the water boil- 
 ing. The time for cooking depends upon the cereal used ; long 
 cooking improves the flavor, and makes it more digestible. Do 
 not stir more than once while over the boiling water. If mush 
 or gruel requires thinning, use boiling water. 
 
 Granulated wheat preparations, as wheat germ, wheatlet, 
 etc., need nearly four times their bulk of water. To prevent 
 lumping, sprinkle slowly into the boiling water, stirring con- 
 stantly. Boil 10 minutes over stove or gas, and cook over 
 boiling water 20 to 30 minutes. 
 
 Shredded wheat biscuits have already been thoroughly cooked; 
 they may be used as a breakfast cereal by dipping quickly into 
 boiling water, and heating in the oven between buttered plates ; 
 serve with milk or cream and sugar. 
 
CEREALS 71 
 
 Rolled Oats or Rolled Wheat 
 
 1 cup rolled oats or wheat 2 cups boiling water 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 Pick over the cereal, and remove foreign substances; follow 
 directions for making mush. Boil 10 minutes, stirring con- 
 stantly, then cook over boiling water 20 to 30 minutes or longer. 
 Serve with cream or milk, and sugar. Steamed apples and 
 rolled oats make an agreeable combination. 
 
 The rolled oats being crushed and partially cooked, need less 
 cooking than coarse oatmeal. 
 
 Coarse Oatmeal 
 
 1 cup oatmeal 5 cups boiling water 
 
 1^ teaspoonful salt 
 Look over the meal ; follow directions for rolled oats, cooking 
 from 8 to 12 hours. It may be cooked the day before it is needed, 
 and reheated, adding more water if necessary. 
 
 Oatmeal Gruel No. 1 
 
 i cup rolled oats i teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 cup boiling water 1 cup milk 
 
 Prepare as for mush; cook in a sauce pan 30 minutes, stirring 
 all the time, or in a double boiler 1 to 2 hours; strain the gruel, 
 add the milk, and heat just to the boiling point. Serve hot, with 
 1 tablespoonful sugar, and a sprinkle of nutmeg, if desired. 
 
 Cold oatmeal mush may be used to make gruel by adding more 
 water and reheating. It may be served strained or unstrained. 
 
 Oatmeal Gruel No. 2 
 
 ^ cup coarse oatmeal 1^ to 2 cups of cold water or 
 
 i teaspoonful salt milk 
 
 Roll or pound the meal until floury; add one-third of the water, 
 stir well, and let settle a few seconds; pour the milky-looking 
 
72 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 water into a saucepan; repeat twice, using remaining water, 
 being careful each time not to allow any of the coarse portions 
 to go into sauce pan. Boil 30 minutes, stirring, to prevent burn- 
 ing. Add milk to make of desired consistency, and proceed as 
 in Gruel No. 1. 
 
 Molded Cornmeal 
 
 1 cup cornmeal 1 cup of cold milk 
 
 1 tablespoonful of flour 2 cups of boiling water 
 
 1 tablespoonful salt 
 
 Mix dry ingredients, add cold milk until smooth, then add 
 boiling water. Cook directly over stove or gas 10 minutes, stir- 
 ring all the time to prevent burning. Cook 1 or 2 hours over boil- 
 ing water. If wanted for frying, turn into a wet pan to stiffen; 
 cover to keep a hard crust from forming. When cold cut in 
 slices i inch thick; dip each slice in flour, and brown in enough 
 smoking hot fat to keep from burning. Serve hot. May be 
 eaten with syrup or molasses, or caramel sauce or not as pre- 
 ferred. 
 
BREAD 
 
 White Bread 
 
 1 pint milk 1 pint of water 
 
 1 compressed yeast cake 1 level teaspoonful of salt 
 
 Scald the milk, add the water, and, when lukewarm, add the 
 yeast cake, dissolved, and the salt. Mix and add 1 quart of good 
 strong flour; beat 5 minutes; then continue adding the flour, stir- 
 ring all the while until you have the dough sufficiently thick for 
 kneading. Dust the board with flour, turn out the dough and 
 knead thoroughly until it is soft and elastic and perfectly free 
 from stickiness. Do not add too much flour at a time; it is the 
 kneading that removes the stickiness, not the flour. The bread is 
 dry and tasteless where too much flour is added. The grain will 
 be finer and the dough whiter and more elastic, if you devote the 
 last 5 minutes to pounding with a good strong potato masher, or 
 you may take the dough in your hand and drop it on the board. 
 Put this back into the bowl or pan, cover and stand in a warm 
 place (75°) for 3 hours. Now turn it out on the board, and 
 carefully cut into 4 loaves. Mold each, put into greased pans, 
 either the long French or the square pans, cover and stand aside 
 1 hour; if in the square pans bake in a moderately quick oven 
 (indicator at 8) for about f hour; if in the long French pans, in 
 a quick oven (indicator at 9, temperature 400°) for 30 minutes. 
 Where home made yeast is used, sponge must be made at night 
 using J cupful of yeast. The dough must be kneaded early in 
 the morning. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
74 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Home Made Yeast 
 
 Pare and grate 4 good-sized potatoes into 1 quart of boiling 
 water, and boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly. When cool, add 
 i cup of sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls of salt, and 1 compressed yeast 
 cake in J cup of cool water, or J cup of yeast that you have saved 
 from the previous brewing. Turn the mixture in a stone or glass 
 jar, cover and stand in a warm place (68°) for at least 3 hours, 
 stirring down the mixture each time it comes to the top of the 
 vessel. 
 
 When fermentation has ceased, cover the jar closely and stand 
 in a cool place to keep. 
 
 Caution: The yeast must not be allowed to fall; it must be 
 stirred down. It must be put into a cool place as soon as fermen- 
 tation ceases. A large bottle is a good and convenient receptacle 
 for keeping. Save J cupful of this yeast to start the next brew- 
 ing. It will keep in a cool place in the winter for 3 weeks; in the 
 summer, 10 days to 2 weeks. A cupful of this yeast will make 4 
 loaves of bread; sponge made at night. 
 
 Copjo-ight, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Twentieth Century Bread 
 
 1 pint of milk 1 pint of water 
 
 1 compressed yeast cake 1 level teaspoonful salt 
 
 This bread, of course, is made from whole wheat flour. The 
 liquids used may be either milk, or milk and water, or all water. 
 Scald the milk, 180°, being very careful not to allow it to boil. 
 Scald and add the water. When the mixture is lukewarm, add 
 the yeast, dissolved in 4 tablespoonfuls of cool sterilized water, 
 the salt, and then stir in sufficient whole wheat flour (about 1 quart) 
 to make a stiff batter. Beat continuously for 5 minutes, lifting 
 the dough into the air and folding it over. Remove the spoon 
 
BREAD 75 
 
 and scrape down the sides of the bowl; cover with a cloth or in 
 a bread pan with the ordinary tin cover, and stand in a warm 
 place (75°) in winter for 3 hours; in summer 2^ hours. By this 
 time the mixture will be light and spongy. Stir in, slowly, suffi- 
 cient whole wheat flour to make a dough. Turn this out on the 
 bread board, which has been slightly dusted with flour, knead 
 continuously until the dough is soft and elastic and has lost its 
 stickiness. With a sharp knife, cut the dough into 4 portions; 
 mold each into a loaf; put into greased square pans, cover and 
 stand in the same warm place 1 hour, or until the dough has 
 doubled its bulk and feels very light when lifted. Brush the 
 top carefully with warm water using for the purpose the pastry 
 brush, and place it in moderately quick oven (360°) for J hour. 
 When done, turn at once from the pans, resting the loaves so that 
 the air will pass around them, and when perfectly cool, put them 
 into a clean tin bread box. 
 
 If home made yeast is used, add a cupful, making the sponge at 
 night; stand it in a warm place (about 60°) from, say* 10 o'clock 
 until 5 or 6 the next morning. Add flour and knead it and mold 
 at once into loaves. The time for second standing must also be 
 
 increased from 1 to 2 or 3 hours. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Graham Bread 
 
 To make one loaf of Graham bread take 1 pint of whole wheat 
 sponge when it is light and ready for kneading, add to it a table- 
 poonful of molasses, and sufficient Graham flour to make a stiff 
 batter; beat thoroughly, turn into a square greased pan, and 
 when it has doubled its bulk and is light in weight, bake it in a 
 moderate oven (300°) about | hour. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
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 Rye Bread 
 
 1 pint of milk 1 pint of water 
 
 1 yeast cake 1 level teaspoonful of salt 
 
 The manipulation of this bread is precisely the same as for 
 whole wheat bread. Follow the recipe for whole wheat bread, 
 substituting in your mind the word "rye" for" whole wheat." 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Oatmeal Bread 
 
 2 cups of Quaker oats tablespoonful lard 
 
 1 cup of molasses salt 
 
 Pour over 1 quart of boiling water and let stand until cool; 1 
 yeast cake dissolved in a cup of lukewarm water, and add enough 
 white flour to handle. 
 
 Boston Brown Bread 
 
 3 cups cornmeal 1 teaspoonful soda 
 
 2 cups of sweet milk 1 teaspoonful salt 
 1 cup of sour milk li cups white flour 
 
 1 cup of molasses 
 
 Dissolve one-half the soda in the sour milk, one-half in the 
 molasses. Mix all well, boil in tin molds 3 hours and then dry 
 a few minutes in the oven. 
 
 Potato Egg Rolls 
 
 2 cups of potatoes boiled and 1 tablespoonful sugar 
 
 mashed through a colander 1 cup yeast or one cake compressed 
 
 1 scant cup of lard, melted yeast 
 
 3 eggs 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 Mix well and allow the sponge to rise about 2 hours ; knead in 
 enough flour to make a soft dough; let rise about 1 hour, then 
 roll and cut into portions for rolls ; place in pans so the portions do 
 not touch and bake about 8 minutes in a quick oven. 
 
BREAD 
 
 77 
 
 Potato Rolls 
 
 2 good sized white potatoes boiled 1 tablespoonful melted butter 
 and mashed 1 tablespoonful white sugar 
 
 1 cup sweet milk, slightly warmed i teaspoonful soda 
 i cup yeast or ^ cake compressed i teaspoonful salt 
 yeast 
 Mix mashed potatoes, milk and yeast with enough flour to 
 make a thin batter, and let rise 4 hours. Add butter, salt, 
 sugar, and soda, and flour enough to make a soft dough. Let 
 rise 2 hours. Roll the dough out to about i inch thickness. 
 Cut into pieces about 4 by 3 inches, turn one of the longer sides 
 just over the other, and pinch down; place in a bread pan and 
 bake 20 minutes in a quick oven. 
 
 Parker House Rolls 
 
 1 quart of sweet milk (heated) 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 I cupful sugar 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 tablespoonful lard h cake compressed yeast 
 
 Mix all the ingredients except the yeast in the heated milk; 
 let cool and add the yeast; add sufficient flour sifted to make a 
 soft dough ; let rise about 4 hours, or until light ; and roll out with- 
 out kneading; spread with butter, cut and fold; let rise about 2 
 hours and bake in a hot oven. 
 
 Parker House Rolls 
 
 2 quarts flour, sifted 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 large tablespoonful sweet lard enough boiled milk (cold) to 
 
 1 cupful fresh yeast make a soft dough 
 
 Rub sugar, flour and lard together, and into the center pour 
 the milk and yeast. Do not work up; let rise over night. In 
 the morning mix to a soft dough and let rise until light; roll out 
 the dough to | inch thick, and cut into circular pieces. Fold 
 half the circle on itself; place a piece of butter in the fold. Fold 
 
78 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 the other half to meet the first fold, placing the butter beneath it. 
 Bake in a hot oven until light brown. 
 
 White Rolls 
 
 1 pint milk 4 ounces of lard 
 
 3 pints flour ^ cake compressed yeast, dissolved 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt in ^ cup water 
 
 1 teaspoonful sugar 
 
 Scald milk until a thin scum forms, and set aside to cool. 
 Mix flour, salt, sugar and lard thoroughly. Make a well in the 
 center. Add the yeast and water to the lukewarm milk and pour 
 into the well. Do not stir or mix, but with your finger. Toss a 
 little of the flour over the surface of the milk; cover and stand in 
 a warm place for 4 hours. This should be done about 10 o 'clock 
 a. m. After 4 hours stir in the flour; knead thoroughly, adding 
 as little extra flour as possible. When the dough has lost its 
 stickiness, pound it 15 minutes, knead up, and put back in vessel ; 
 cover, put in a warm place until very light ; roll out on board J inch 
 thick; cut with round cutter; brush one-half lightly with butter, 
 fold the other half over, place in a greased pan, cover and stand 
 in a warm place J hour. Bake in a quick oven 15 minutes. 
 
 French Rolls 
 
 1 quart flour ^ compressed yeast cake dissolved 
 
 1 tablespoonful butter in ^ cup cold water 
 
 1§ level tablespoonful sugar scant pint milk 
 
 1 tablespoonful mashed potatoes 1 egg 
 
 Knead in soft dough, mold in small balls, putting 3 in each 
 mufl^in ring. Bake when light. 
 
 Cinnamon Buns 
 
 Take any good raised dough, rolled in a sheet about J inch 
 thick; sprinkle thickly with granulated sugar and ground cinna- 
 
BREAD 
 
 79 
 
 mon; roll it and cut in inch slices. Set to rise and when light 
 bake in a hot oven. 
 
 Currant Buns 
 
 2 cups raised dough h teaspoonful soda 
 
 1 cup of sugar 1 cup dried currants 
 
 1 cup of melted butter nutmeg 
 flour 
 
 Mix all together thoroughly with hands, adding sufficient flour 
 to make it stiff enough to mold. Set to rise. Work in 1 cup of 
 currants, wash and rubbed in flour. Mold with your hands into 
 balls, set close together in pans, and stand until light. Bake in 
 moderate oven until brown. Glaze with hot milk, beaten egg 
 and sugar. 
 
 Sweet Rusk 
 
 2 quarts flour, sifted 4 eggs 
 
 1 cup butter h cup lard 
 
 2 cups sugar 1 cup of yeast 
 
 Beat the eggs, lukewarm milk, butter, lard and sugar, into the 
 flour; then the yeast, and set to rise. Sweet rusk, if to be used 
 at night should be mixed early in the morning and set to rise 
 about 3 o'clock; work them out as you would rolls, and set for a 
 second rising. Bake in a tolerably quick oven. 
 
 Maryland Biscuit 
 
 1 quart of winter wheat flour 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 large tablespoonful lard h pint ice water 
 
 Rub the lard into the flour; add the salt; add gradually the 
 water, which will make a stiff dough; pound it with an axe on a 
 biscuit block until it will break off short and is smooth ; cut it up 
 in small pieces, and work into round biscuits ; stick with a fork, 
 stand in baking pan so they will not touch each other, and bake 
 in quick oven 20 minutes. 
 
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 Baking Powder Biscuit 
 
 1 quart of flour 2 heaping teaspoonfuls baking pow- 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls of butter or lard der 
 
 1 pint milk I teaspoonful salt 
 
 Sift baking powder and salt in flour, add shortening and mix 
 thoroughly ; then the cold milk. Mix quickly and lightly ; handle 
 as little as posp'ble. The dough must be just stiff enough to roll 
 out. Roll in sheets | inch thick; cut in circular cakes; put in 
 greased pans dusted with flour, just far enough apart not to 
 touch, and bake 15 or 20 minutes in quick oven. 
 
 Soda Biscuit 
 
 3 pints of flour 1 heaping tablespoonful lard 
 1 teaspoonful of soda pinch of salt 
 
 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar 1 pint of sour milk 
 
 Sift flour with soda and cream of tartar several times ; add salt, 
 then rub in the lard; add gradually the milk; work it well and 
 cut into biscuits and bake in quick oven. 
 
 Sally Lunn 
 
 1 pint flour (sifted) 1 teacup milk 
 butter half as large as an egg ^ teaspoonful salt 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful baking powder 
 1 egg 
 
 Mix and bake 20 minutes in oven. 
 
 Sally Lunn 
 
 1 pint of boiled milk 4 tablespoonfuls of yeast 
 
 1 tablespoonful of butter 2 eggs, beaten very light 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar flour, to make a thick batter 
 
 Set to rise about 10 o 'clock in the morning for tea. 
 
BREAD 
 
 81 
 
 Popovers 
 
 2 cups of milk 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 2 cups of flour 3 eggs 
 
 Beat the eggs without separating until very hght, then add the 
 milk and salt. Add this little by little to the flour to prevent its 
 being lumpy ; strain it through a sieve, and beat it well ; fill well hot 
 greased pans half full. Bake in quick oven 20 minutes. Serve hot 
 as a breakfast muffin. The hollow space in the middle maybe 
 filled with rich custard and used as cream puffs when cold, or 
 with a hot sauce, or filled with jam. This quantity makes 16 
 popovers. 
 
 Breakfast Gems 
 
 2 cups of flour 2 teaspoonfuls melted butter 
 
 1 cup of milk 1 teaspoonful sugar 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder ^ teaspoonful salt 
 
 Bake in gem pans in a quick oven. 
 
 MuflBlns 
 
 2 cups of milk 2 teaspoonfuls yeast powder 
 
 3 cups of flour (sifted) 1 scant teaspoonful salt 
 2 eggs 
 
 Sift the ingredients into a bowl. Beat the eggs, pour the milk 
 into them and stir in the flour gradually to make a smooth batter. 
 Bake in greased gem pans for about J hour. 
 
 Muffins (fine) 
 
 I of cake of yeast 1 tabespoonful sugar 
 
 i cup milk (large) 1 teaspoonful salt (small) 
 
 1 tablespoonful butter H cup flour (sifted) 
 1 egg 
 
 Heat the milk barely lukewarm and dissolve yeast and butter 
 in it. Then add to the beaten egg sugar and salt; add flour to 
 
82 THE CHUECH COOK BOOK 
 
 right stiff batter. Leave in greased muffin rings over night in 
 warm room. It should not be set to rise before 10 o'clock at night. 
 
 Muffins 
 
 2 cups of milk 1 teaspoonful salt, and pinch of 
 
 1 cup of cold water soda 
 
 2 eggs 1 tablespoonful sugar 
 
 1 yeast cake flour to make a stiff batter 
 
 Mix all the ingredients except the eggs into a sponge, and set 
 to rise over night, dissolving the yeast cake in lukewarm water. 
 In the morning, beat the eggs very light, put in mixture and 
 beat well with a spoon, add the soda dissolved in a little hot water, 
 and bake in quick oven in gem pans. 
 
 English Muffins 
 
 1 pint milk ^ cake of compressed yeast 
 
 1^ pint flour 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 Heat the milk, add butter and cool. When lukewarm, dissolve 
 the yeast, salt and flour, and beat well. Set to rise for 2 hours, 
 add sufficient flour to make a soft dough. Cut in small pieces, 
 and roll into balls, and set to lighten on a griddle in a warm place. 
 When light, bake on the griddle, turning only once. 
 
 Hominy Muffins 
 
 2 cups of boiled hominy 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 
 2 cupfuls sour milk or cream 2 teaspoonfuls salt 
 
 i cupful melted butter 1 teaspoonful soda 
 
 2 cups flour 3 eggs 
 
 Beat hominy smooth with melted butter, milk, salt, sugar, well 
 beaten eggs, soda dissolved in hot water, and flom*. Beat hard 
 for 2 minutes after all is mixed. Put in greased mufl&ns tins and 
 bake in quick oven. 
 
BREAD 83 
 
 Cornmeal Muffins 
 
 2 cups of corn meal 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder 
 1 cup of flour 3 eggs, beaten light 
 
 3 cups of milk 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter 
 
 Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl; beat the eggs and add the 
 milk to them, and stir into the dry mixture and then the melted 
 butter; pour into greased muffin rings and bake in quick oven. 
 
 Corn Muffins 
 
 1 pint of buttermilk 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 heaping teaspoonful of soda 2 eggs 
 
 Dissolve the soda in a little warm water ; put into the butter- 
 milk with the salt; the eggs very light. Mix together ; beat in 
 enough meal to make a tolerably thin butter. Bake in muffin 
 rings and serve as soon as baked. 
 
 Waffles 
 
 Mix, at night, 1 pint of milk, } yeast cake, 1 pint of flour, and J 
 teaspoonful of salt. In the morning add 1 tablespoonful of melted 
 butter and 2 eggs. Bake quickly on a hot waffle iron. 
 
 Waffles 
 
 1 pint of flour 1 saltspoonful salt 
 
 2 eggs 1 tablespoonful of butter or lard 
 1| teaspoonful baking powder 
 
 Sweet milk to make a thin batter. 
 
 Rice Waffles 
 
 Stir into 2 pints of well boiled or soft rice 1 large spoonful of 
 butter and a pinch of salt, when cool add 2 eggs well beaten, 1 pint 
 milk, 1 pint sifted flour, J cake yeast; let it stand 1 or 2 hours 
 and then bake on a waffle iron. 
 
84 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Buckwheat Cakes 
 
 1 quart of buckwheat flour (sifted) 2 tablespoonfuls molasses (not syr- 
 
 4 tablespoonfuls yeast or § cake of up) 
 
 compressed yeast warm water, enough for a thin 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt batter 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls corn meal 
 
 Mix the meal in the buckwheat, stir in gradually enough warm 
 water to make a moderately thick batter, then stir in the yeast. 
 Set to rise over night. In the morning, add the salt, lastly 
 molasses. Beat thoroughly. Thin with a little water if neces- 
 sary, or if too thin, add a little more buckwheat flour ; if it should 
 be the least sour dissolve a little soda in hot water and put in. 
 
 Griddle Cakes 
 
 1 pint of flour 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder 
 
 2 eggs pinch of salt 
 1 pint of milk 
 
 Have the griddle hot. Sift the dry ingredients together. 
 Beat the eggs, add the milk, sour milk or cream may be used, but 
 if so, put in 1 level teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water and 
 make a smooth batter; pour by spoonful on griddle and cook to 
 a light brown, turning only once. The cakes may be made in the 
 same way only adding a cup of boiled rice, canned corn or hominy, 
 or i pint of Graham flour, bread crumbs or rye flour with J pint 
 of white flour for variety. 
 
 Corn Meal Griddle Cakes 
 
 1 pint of scalded milk 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 cup of corn meal 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder 
 
 1 cup of flour 1 tablespoonful sugar 
 
 2 eggs 
 
 Scald the meal with the boiling milk add the sugar and stir 
 well and cool, sift in the remaining dry ingredients; lastly the 
 well beaten eggs, and bake immediately. 
 
BREAD 85 
 
 Cornmeal Griddle Cakes, Sour Milk 
 
 1 quart of sour milk 2 eggs, beaten 
 
 1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in salt 
 
 hot water 
 
 Mix in enough sifted meal to make a thin batter. 
 
 Pancakes 
 
 1 pint of flour 1 level saltspoonful salt 
 
 4 eggs (beaten separately) milk to make a thin batter 
 
 2 level teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 Beat the egg, stir in the milk, sift in the flour, salt and baking 
 powder; lastly the well-beaten whites. Bake on a griddle over 
 a quick, clear fire, first on one side, then on the other. Serve im- 
 mediately, pass sugar and ground cinnamon, mixed in the pro- 
 portion of 5 tablespoonfuls sugar to 1 of cinnamon. 
 
 Caramel Syrup for Griddle Cakes 
 
 Melt 1 cup of granulated sugar, stirring it until a light brown. 
 Add 1 cup boiling water, stir and boil up once. 
 
 Fritter Batter 
 
 1 pint of flour 1 cup of milk 
 
 ^ teaspoonful of salt 2 eggs 
 
 1 tablespoonful butter melted 
 
 Sift the flour, add the salt. Beat the egg separately to the yolk, 
 add the milk and stir in the flour, then the melted butter. Beat 
 the white stiff and beat into the batter and fry in deep hot fat. 
 
 Rice Fritters 
 
 Cook J pound of rice soft, when cool add 3 eggs, i pound flour, 
 1 teaspoonful of yeast powder, sugar to the taste, and water 
 enough to make a thick batter. Cook by dropping a spoonful at 
 a time in boiling lard. 
 
86 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Banana Fritters 
 
 4 eggs pinch salt 
 
 1 pint milk flour for a thin batter 
 
 Beat the eggs into the milk, add salt and flour. Stir in thickly 
 bananas sliced thin. Fry in hot lard in which has been dropped a 
 lump of butter; drain on brown paper. Sprinkle with powdered 
 sugar. 
 
 Hoecake 
 
 1 quart of meal enough warm water to make a 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls melted lard thick batter 
 2 teaspoonfuls salt 
 
 Mix the salt with the meal, pour in water, and lastly the melted 
 lard, beat thoroughly, and bake in greased pan in quick oven. 
 
 Corn Bread 
 
 1 pint corn meal 1 teaspoonful sugar 
 
 1 pint milk 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 1 pint water 2 eggs 
 
 1 teaspoonful salt 1 tablespoonful of lard 
 
 Mix salt and baking powder with sifted flour, into which rub 
 
 the lard; beat the eggs light and add milk and water, then the 
 
 flour. Bake in tins in quick oven till brown. 
 
 Corn Pone 
 
 1 pint corn meal 1 pint boiling water 
 
 1 pint milk 1 tablespoonful flour 
 
 1 tablespoonful brown sugar 2 tablespoonfuls butter or lard 
 
 1 tablespoonful baking powder 3 eggs well beaten 
 
 Scald the meal with the boiling water, and let it stand until 
 
 cold. Sift the other ingredients into a bowl. Separate the eggs, 
 
 beat the yolks and add the milk to them ; stir the milk and eggs 
 
 into the scalded meal gradually and beat well. Then add the dry 
 
 ingredients, the melted butter, and lastly fold in the well beaten 
 
 whites. Bake in hot oven. 
 
BREAD 87 
 
 Spoon Batter Bread 
 
 Take 2 cupfuls of water, 1 saltspoonful salt, and bring to a boil 
 and stir in slowly 1 cup of sifted cornmeal and 1 tablespoonful of 
 lard and butter mixed. Stir until it thickens and set aside to 
 cool. When cool, mash in this 3 eggs one at a time, and when 
 well mixed add 1 cup rich, sweet milk, mix smooth, cook on top 
 of stove for a few minutes in a deep dish and brown in the oven. 
 
 Rice Corn Bread 
 
 1 cup meal scalded in 2 cups boil- 1^ cups milk 
 
 ing water 1 cup boiled rice 
 
 1 saltspoonful salt 2 eggs, beaten separately 
 1 heaping tablespoonful butter 
 
 Pie Crust 
 
 1 quart of flour, sifted ^ teaspoonful salt 
 
 I pound of lard enough ice water to make a stiff 
 
 J pound of butter dough 
 
 Sift the flour into a bowl, mix with the salt and then the lard. 
 Chop half the butter up fine into the flour, wet with the ice water 
 to a stiff dough. Flour the hands, and make the dough into a 
 lump with as little handling as possible. Put it on a marble slab 
 and roll into a sheet J of an inch. Always roll from you, with as 
 little pressure as possible. Stick little pieces of butter over it, 
 dredge with flour, roll up, and roll out again, and stand in a cold 
 place, for several hours if you have the timcj. When ready to 
 bake roll out thin again, butter the pie plate, lay the paste lightly 
 on it. You may save enough for a top crust, or stripe the tops 
 with paste, or not at all according to the ingredients to be used. 
 Bake in a moderate oven, being careful to have the bottom as hot 
 as the top. If a richer crust be desired, increase the proportions 
 of lard and butter. 
 
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 Croutons 
 
 Cut bread a day or more old into J inch cubes. Put in pan and 
 bake in a moderate oven until light brown. Stir occasionally to 
 prevent burning. 
 
 Dried Bread Crumbs 
 
 Dry pieces of stale bread in a warm oven until crisp, but not 
 brown. Crush fine with a rolling-pin; sift, and when quite cold, 
 store in glass jars, to use in covering croquettes, etc., for frying. 
 Tie double cheese-cloth over the top of jars, instead of the usual 
 covers, as the crumbs are less likely to acquire a stale taste and 
 odor. 
 
 Dry Toast 
 
 Cut stale bread into slices i of an inch thick; dry first on one 
 side then on the other by holding it several inches above a clear 
 fire ; then hold nearer the fire, moving it from side to side to avoid 
 scorching, and toast until a delicate brown. 
 
 Water Toast 
 
 Allow ^ teaspoonful salt to 1 cup boiling water. Dip slices of 
 
 dry toast quickly into the salted water; spread with butter, and 
 
 serve hot. 
 
 White or Cream Sauce for Toast 
 
 1 cup milk 1 teaspoonful butter 
 
 1 tablespoonful flour or | table- J teaspoonful salt 
 
 spoonful cornstarch 
 
 Reserve 2 tablespoonfuls of milk, cold; scald the remainder; 
 mix flour or cornstarch with cold milk, until smooth; add hot 
 milk slowly, stirring all the time ; boil 5 minutes ; add butter and 
 salt; serve hot. This quantity of sauce is sufficient for from 4 to 
 6 slices of toast. Pour sauce between and over slices. Toast 
 
BREAD 89 
 
 may or may not be dipped in salted water before adding sauce, 
 as preferred. 
 
 Milk Toast 
 
 Milk toast is made as water toast, substituting hot milk for the 
 water. After dipping the slices, the remaining milk is poured 
 over them. 
 
 Cream Toast 
 
 Substitute cream for milk, or thicken milk to the consistency 
 of cream, with flour or cornstarch. 
 
SANDWICHES 
 
 Use bread a day old. Remove the crust from a loaf of bread 
 and cut in thin slices, they may be cut in fancy shapes, or diag- 
 onally across the slices, being very careful to keep them even. 
 Put in piles on a plate and cover with a damp cloth or wrap 
 them in paraffin paper. 
 
 Filling for Sandwiches 
 
 A nice filling for sandwiches is made from slices of thin bacon 
 fried and rubbed to a paste in butter. 
 
 Nut Sandwiches 
 
 1 cupful finely chopped nuts 1 saltspoonful salt 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls olive oil dash cayenne 
 
 1 teaspoonful mixed mustard juice of 1 lemon 
 
 Mix all together thoroughly, and spread on thin slices of 
 Boston brown bread. 
 
 Egg Sandwich 
 
 Chop the whites of the hard boiled eggs very fine. Mix the 
 yolks smooth with mayonnaise. Mix together and spread. 
 
 Cheese Sandwich 
 
 Grate the cheese ; rub it to a paste with melted butter. Season 
 with salt and pepper and spread. 
 
 Nut and Cheese Sandwich 
 
 Mix equal parts of cream cheese and English walnuts, chopped 
 fine, season with a little salt, and spread. 
 
SANDWICHES 91 
 
 Nut and Fruit Sandwich 
 
 Mix equal parts of English walnuts, chopped fine with chopped 
 figs and spread on thin slices of bread. 
 
 Lettuce or Cress Sandwiches 
 
 Butter thin sUces of bread, put on mayonnaise and fill with 
 crisp lettuce leaves or cress. 
 
 Cucumber Sandwiches 
 
 Pare and slice the cucumbers, stand in cold water for 1 hour, 
 spread the dressing on the bread and fill with slices of cucum- 
 ber. 
 
 Sardine Sandwiches 
 
 Drain the oil from a can of sardines, remove the skin, mash to a 
 paste, add a teaspoonful lemon juice, and spread on thin shces of 
 bread. 
 
 Chicken or Ham Sandwiches 
 
 Take i pound of butter and rub into it a little mustard and 
 spread on thin slices of bread, using as a filling the minced white 
 meat of chicken or ham. 
 
 Club Sandwiches 
 
 3 shces of bread, toasted. On one side place a lettuce leaf, and 
 on that a slice of the breast of chicken, then put another slice of 
 toast with another lettuce leaf, followed by thin slice of broiled 
 breakfast bacon, topped with a third slice of toast. Finish the 
 the sandwich with a thin slice of pickle, cut lengthwise of the 
 cucumber. The bread and bacon should be hot. 
 
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 Apple Sandwiches 
 
 Take 2 thin slices of bread buttered, and place between them a 
 thin slice of tart apple, which has been steeped in a mixture of 
 lemon juice and sugar for an hour. 
 
 Fig Sandwich 
 
 i pound finely chopped figs ^ cupful boiling water 
 
 J cupful sugar 2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice 
 
 Mix these ingredients, and cook in double boiler until thick 
 
 enough to spread. Spread between thin slices of bread. 
 
 Olive Sandwiches 
 
 Between thin slices of buttered bread place a layer of Neuf- 
 chatel cheese mixed to a paste with equal quantities of cream and 
 salad dressing and covered thickly with chopped olives. 
 
 Salted Almonds 
 
 Blanch the almonds and sprinkle with salt while damp, melt a 
 large lump of butter in a baking pan, pour the nuts into the pan, 
 and toast a delicate brown in a quick oven. 
 
 Salted Peanuts 
 Shell the nuts and remove all the brown skins. To a cup of 
 nuts put 1 tablespoonful of olive oil or butter; let stand for 1 
 hour, then sprinkle over them 1 tablespoonful of salt. Spread on 
 tin pans and brown carefully in a moderate oven. 
 
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BUTTER AND MILK 
 
 Devonshire Cream 
 
 Put 3 or 4 quarts of fresh milk in a large pan, stand in a cold 
 place for 12 hours; then stand over a pan of boiling water, with- 
 out disturbing the cream; keep the water boiling until a line of 
 bubbles i inch wide forms all around the pan of milk; take it 
 from the fire, cool; skim off the cream with a perforated skim- 
 mer. Serve over fruits, pies or pudding. Use the milk for any 
 kind of cooking. 
 
 Butter 
 
 Put in a glass butter churn that comes for the purpose, and 
 churn until the butter separates from the liquid portion. Collect 
 the particles of butter with a spoon, pressing out as much of the 
 milk as possible. Wash the butter in very cold water until the 
 water is clear ; put butter into a dry bowl, sprinkle with the salt, 
 and work the salt thoroughly into the butter with a spoon. Form 
 butter into a cake or fancy shapes. The salt may be omitted. 
 
 Butter Balls 
 
 Small wooden paddles, or "butter-hands," plain or grooved, 
 are used for forming butter into balls or other fancy shapes. 
 Let the butter-hands stand in boiling water five minutes; then 
 put them into very cold water, and chill thoroughly. Have 
 ready a large bowl of cold water. Cut the butter into pieces f 
 inch square, and drop into the cold water. Roll them lightly 
 one at a time, between the butter-hands until of the desired shape. 
 Arrange them on a fiat dish, and chill. Use a small fork in serv- 
 ing them. 
 
94 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Milk 
 
 Sterilization will undoubtedly kill the germs in milk, but the 
 high temperature required alters the flavor and also renders the 
 milk less digestible for many. The method called pasteurization 
 consists in heating the milk to 158° F. and keeping it at that 
 temperature for 20 or 30 minutes. It is then cooled rapidly, and 
 will usually keep 3 or 4 days when covered and kept in a cool place. 
 
 Pasteurized Milk 
 
 Fill sterilized bottles or jars nearly full with milk; cork with 
 cotton which has been baked in the oven till yellow. Place bottle 
 on a rest in a deep pan so that they will not touch the bottom 
 of pan. Fill the pan with enough cold water to reach as high 
 as the milk in the bottles. Place over the fire, and heat to 
 158° F., if a thermometer is used. If not, heat until small bub- 
 bles appear in the milk next to the glass. Remove to back of 
 stove where milk cannot become any hotter; keep it there from 
 20 to 30 minutes ; then place the bottles first in lukewarm and 
 then in cold water until milk is also cold. Keep them in a cold 
 place. Do not remove stoppers until ready for use. 
 
 Sour Milk Cheese 
 
 1 quart thick sour milk | teaspoonful salt 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls butter 1 tablespoonful cream 
 
 Put the milk into a sauce pan, and heat slowly until the curd 
 separates from the whey. Place a piece of cheese-cloth in a 
 strainer; place strainer over a bowl, and pour in the milk. 
 Lift the edges of the cloth and draw them together and twist, 
 pressing the curd as dry as possible. Put curd in a small bowl, with 
 butter, salt and cream ; mix together lightly with a fork. 
 
BUTTER AND MILK 95 
 
 Creamed Cheese on Toast 
 
 1 tablespoonful flour 1 teaspoonful butter 
 
 i cup cold cream | teaspoonful salt 
 
 I cup scalded milk speck cayenne 
 
 1 cup chopped cheese 1 egg 
 
 Mix the flour with the cold milk; stir in the scalded milk, and 
 boil 5 minutes, stirring all the time. Add the cheese, and when 
 melted add salt, pepper and butter, and the beaten egg. Cook 
 1 minute and pour over slices of toasted bread or crackers. 
 Serve at once. 
 
 Baked Crackers with Cheese 
 
 Split common crackers in halves, and butter the inside slightly. 
 Put them, buttered side up, in a pan, and bake in a hot oven until 
 light brown. Remove from oven , and sprinkle each half with 
 grated cheese. Allow for each whole cracker 1 tablespoonful of 
 cheese, a few grains of salt, and pepper, if liked. Return to 
 oven, and cook until cheese is melted. 
 
 Cheese Straws 
 
 Take } pound of flour, 2 tablespoonfuls butter broken in the 
 flour and rubbed until smooth, 2 tablespoonfuls good cheese 
 grated, the yolks of 2 eggs and the white of 1 ; season with a 
 little salt, mix all together ; roll out to the thickness of rather 
 less than J inch ; place on a well buttered tin and cut into very 
 narrow strips 4 or 5 inches long; bake in a moderate oven 
 for 5 minutes. 
 
 Cheese Croquettes 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 cup milk 
 
 4 tablespoonfuls flour 1 cup grated cheese 
 
 I teaspoonful salt 1 tablespoonful parmesan cheese 
 
 ^ teaspoonful mustard 2 egg yolks 
 
 Let mixture get very cold. Shape and fry in boiling lard. 
 
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 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Welsh Rarebit 
 
 Take J pound cheese, cut in small pieces and melt it in a sauce 
 pan and add 1 tablespoonful butter, when about melted, 2 eggs 
 beaten, without separating. Mix well, and add 4 tablespoonfuls 
 cream, stir and cook until smooth, season with salt and a dash of 
 cayenne and serve on crackers. 
 
 Welsh Rarebit 
 
 1 pound chopped cheese 
 1 tablespoonful butter 
 1 teaspoonful dry mustard 
 
 1 half glass ale 
 salt 
 
 cayenne 
 
 Put the butter in sauce pan and when soft add cheese and stir 
 until it melts. Add quickly the mustard, salt and cayenne. Stir 
 all the time. Add a little ale to keep from burning, adding more 
 as necessary. When it has melted to a smooth thin paste, serve 
 immediately on toast. 
 
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EGGS 
 
 Soft Cooked Eggs 
 
 Put into a sauce pan enough boiling water to cover the eggs. A 
 general rule is to allow 1 pint of water for 2 eggs, and an extra 
 cupful for each additional egg. If eggs are very cold pour warm 
 water over them before putting into boiling water, or use more 
 boiling water. Put the boiling water into a sauce pan, place the 
 eggs in the water with a spoon, and cover the sauce pan. Remove 
 at once from the fire to the table and let stand 8 to 10 minutes. 
 Serve in heated cups. 
 
 Hard Cooked Eggs 
 
 Cook in the same manner as preceding receipe, placing sauce 
 pan on back of the stove, where the water will keep hot but not boil, 
 for from 30 to 45 minutes. When removed from the hot water 
 the shells may be more quickly removed if the eggs are put into 
 cold water for a few minutes. 
 
 Poached Eggs 
 
 Prepare a slice of buttered toast for each egg, and keep it hot. 
 Have ready a shallow pan containing enough boiling salted water 
 to cover the eggs, allowing 1 teaspoonful of salt to 1 pint of water. 
 Before putting in the eggs place the pan where the water will 
 keep hot but not boil. Break each egg separately into a saucer 
 and slip it carefully in the water. Cook until the white is firm, 
 and a film forms over the top of yolk. Pour water over the yolk 
 with a spoon if necessary. Remove eggs with a skimmer, drain, 
 
98 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 and slip on the toast, add salt, pepper and butter to taste. Serve 
 immediately. 
 
 Golden Rod Eggs 
 
 3 hard-cooked eggs ^ saltspoonful pepper 
 i teaspoonful salt 4 or 5 slices of toast 
 
 Make 1 cup of thin white sauce, as previously directed. Sepa- 
 rate yolks from white of eggs. Chop whites fine, and add them to 
 the white sauce. Arrange the toast on a hot platter, and cover 
 with white sauce. Press the yolks through a coarse strainer or a 
 vegetable strainer, over the white sauce. Cover, and place in 
 a moderate oven 5 minutes and serve hot. Hot cooked rice may 
 be used instead of toast. The dish may be garnished with 
 'Hoast points," made by cutting slices of toast into pieces about 
 1^ inch square, and dividing each square diagonally. 
 
 Steamed Eggs 
 
 Separate white and yolk of egg. Beat white to a stiff froth, 
 and put into a cup. Put the yolk (whole) into the center. Place 
 cup in a steamer, or in a sauce pan containing enough boiling water 
 to reach half way to the top of cup. Cover the sauce pan, remove 
 from fire, and let stand 5 to 10 minutes. Serve at once; season to 
 taste. The yolk may be beaten and mixed lightly with the beaten 
 white before cooking, if preferred. 
 
 Creamy Eggs 
 
 4 eggs i teaspoonful salt 
 2 cups of milk pepper to taste 
 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 Scald the milk ; beat eggs until thoroughly mixed, but not frothy, 
 
 add salt and pepper if used. Pour the milk on slowly, and when 
 
 well mixed put into the top of double boiler, and stir until mixture 
 
EGGS 99 
 
 becomes thick and creamy. Add butter and pour over slices of 
 toast. Serve hot. The butter may be omitted. 
 
 Scrambled Eggs 
 
 5 eggs i saltspoonful pepper 
 
 ^ cup milk 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 ^ teaspoonful salt 
 
 Beat eggs slightly, and add salt, pepper and milk. Melt the 
 butter in a frying pan, pour in the egg mixture, and cook slowly, 
 continually scraping from bottom of pan. When creamy, turn 
 upon a hot dish and serve at once. Finely chopped cold ham 
 may be added, using a tablespoonful for each egg. If ham is used 
 omit salt, and season to taste. 
 
 Cheese Omelet 
 
 Beat the yolks of 3 eggs, add 1 tablespoonful of milk and a little 
 salt, then the beaten whites. Melt 1 tablespoonful of butter in a 
 frying pan; when bubbling, pour in the omelet, let it cook till 
 light brown underneath. Sprinkle over the top 1 or 2 tablespoon- 
 fuls of grated cheese. Place in the oven to dry, fold and serve 
 very hot. 
 
 Ham Omelet 
 
 Beat 4 eggs till feathery, then add 3 large spoonfuls of finely 
 minced ham ; butter the frying pan well, and pour all in ; when 
 well set, roll up all like a jelly roll, and serve immediately. 
 
 Corn Omelet 
 
 ^ dozen ears corn (grated) 2 large eggs (or 3 small ones) yolk 
 
 1 cupful rich cream and milk and whites beaten separately 
 
 Beat yolks, add cream, and stir in a cupful of corn at a time, stir 
 
 into the stiff whites, put in a hot frying pan, with a little butter 
 
 over the bottom, fry brown and serve immediately. 
 
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 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Timbale of Ham 
 
 1 cup ham, chopped fine 3 eggs 
 
 1 cup cream, thickened with flour 
 
 Mix all well together, bake for J hour, turn out on a flat dish 
 and pour over it a cream sauce. 
 
 Eggs and Peppers 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 2 tablespoonfuls grated cheese 
 4 tablespoonfuls chopped green 3 eggs 
 
 peppers i cup of cream 
 
 Cook 1 minute, add 3 eggs well beaten, and J cupful cream 
 and cook until thick. 
 
COOKING FRUITS 
 
 General rule for cooking dried fruits. Wash thoroughly but 
 quickly, in cold or slightly warm water, rubbing the fruit between 
 the hands. Change the water until the fruit is clean. Cover the 
 fruit with clean water, and let it soak several hours, if possible. 
 Allow 1 quart of water for J pound of dried fruits. Cook until 
 soft, in the water used for soaking. Long soaking, and quick cook- 
 ing give a flavor most like that of the fresh fruit. During hot 
 weather fruit is liable to sour when put to soak over night; to 
 avoid this put it in the refrigerator while soaking. 
 
 Stewed Prunes 
 
 Wash and pick over the prunes, put them to soak over night 
 in the water they are to be cooked in. Cook until soft, and if 
 you desire more sweetness add a little sugar about 5 minutes 
 before taking off the fire. 
 
 Steamed Apples 
 
 Wipe, core and pare sour apples ; put them on a plate in a 
 steamer, and cook until the apples are tender; strain the juice 
 and make a syrup, using J cup sugar to J cup juice; boil 5 
 minutes and pour over the apples. 1 teaspoonful lemon juice 
 may be added. 
 
 Coddled Apples 
 
 Wipe, quarter and pare 8 sour apples. Make a syrup by boil- 
 ing together 1 cup sugar and 2 cups water, for 3 minutes; cook as 
 
102 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 many pieces of the apple as will float in the syrup ; when soft, re- 
 move them, and add more apple. Pour the syrup over the apples 
 when all are cooked. They may be cooked whole. The syrup 
 may be flavored with the rind and juice of J lemon, or an inch 
 of stick cinnamon may be cooked with it. 
 
 Baked Apples 
 
 Wipe and core sour apples ; they may be pared, if liked. Put 
 them in an agate or earthenware baking dish; fill each center with 
 sugar; use 1 teaspoonful of water for each apple, and pour it 
 around, not over them. Bake until apples are soft, from 30 to 45 
 minutes, basting them every 10 minutes. Place them in a dish, 
 and pour the juice over them. Serve cold. 
 
 Baked Bananas 
 
 6 bananas juice of 1 lemon 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter melted J cup sugar 
 
 Use firm bananas, not over-ripe. Remove skins, cut in J length- 
 wise, and place in shallow baking dish. Mix melted butter, 
 sugar and lemon juice, and spread half of the mixture over 
 bananas. Use remainder for basting fruit while baking. Bake 
 20 minutes in slow oven. 
 
 Stewed Evaporated Apricots, Peaches and Apples 
 
 Wash thoroughly, soak in cold water over night, put on in the 
 morning in the water in which they were soaked, just enough to 
 cover them, and simmer slowly two hours, closely covered; add 
 sugar 5 minutes before taking from the stove. Serve cold or 
 use for pies, puddings, etc. 
 
COOKING FRUITS 103 
 
 Cranberry Sauce 
 
 1 quart of cranberries 2 cups sugar 
 
 1 pint water 
 
 Pick over and wash cranberries. Put cranberries and water in 
 sauce pan; cover and cook 8 minutes or until skins burst. Press 
 them through a collander, add sugar, and boil 5 minutes. 
 
 Stewed Rhubarb 
 
 Wash the rhubarb and cut it in 1 inch pieces, do not peel it, allow- 
 ing 1 pound of sugar to 2 cups of rhubarb. Put it into the sauce 
 pan, cover with the sugar, and put on the back of the stove until 
 it melts, then bring it to a boil without stirring. Cool and 
 serve. 
 
 Spiced Prunes 
 
 Wash and soak over night 1 pint of prunes in water enough to 
 cover well. Stew until the skins are soft, then pour off the water 
 and add a cupful of good cider vinegar, 2 cups of sugar, cloves and 
 cinnamon to suit the taste. 
 
DESSERTS 
 
 Christmas Plum Pudding 
 
 2 pounds bread crumbs, sifted 1 pound currants, washed, dried 
 
 1 pound moist brown sugar rubbed in flour 
 
 1 pound suet, chopped fine and J pound candied peel 
 
 rubbed well in flour, with a 1 cup nuts, chopped fine 
 
 pinch of salt 1 teaspoonful each of cinnamon, 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls flour allspice, nutmeg, ginger and 
 1| pound raisins, chopped, not too cloves 
 
 fine 3 eggs 
 
 Mix all well together, moisten with a little milk. Dip pudding 
 bags in boiling water and flour, put the batter in the bags ; tie, 
 steam 5 hours. Eat with hard sauce. 
 
 Carrot Pudding 
 
 1 pound flour 1 cup moist brown sugar 
 
 1 pound cooked and mashed carrots ^ pound chopped suet 
 
 1 pound currants 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 1 pound raisins 
 
 Boil 3J hours. 
 
 Queen Pudding 
 
 li cup sugar 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 2 cups grated bread crumbs ^ cup jelly or jam 
 
 ^ 1 quart rich sweet milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 4 eggs 
 
 Cream the butter and 1 cup sugar, add the well beaten yolks, 
 stir, then the milk in which the bread crumbs have been soaked, 
 and flavor, put in a pudding dish two-thirds full, bake in the oven, 
 until the custard is set. Spread with the jelly, make a meringue 
 of the whites, and remaining i cup of sugar, return to the oven 
 
DESSERTS 105 
 
 for a few minutes or until the meringue is slightly browned. 
 Serve with hot or cold sauce or cream. 
 
 Fig Pudding 
 
 i pound figs, chopped fine 1 nutmeg, grated 
 
 ^ pound of suet, chopped fine 1 lemon, juice and grated rind cup 
 
 ^ pound brown sugar of milk 
 
 ^ pound bread crumbs glassful grape juice 
 
 3 eggs beaten light 
 
 Steam 4 hours in a mold and serve with a boiled sauce. 
 
 Huckleberry Pudding 
 
 li cups of sugar 1 cup of fresh milk 
 
 ^ cup butter 2 eggs 
 
 3 cups flour 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 1 pint huckleberries 
 
 Mix and stir in the berries lightly and bake. 
 
 Apple Tapioca or Sago Pudding 
 
 I cup tapioca or sago 6 or 7 sour apples 
 
 cold water to cover I cup sugar 
 
 3 cups boiling water i teaspoonful cinnamon, or J tea- 
 i teaspoonful salt spoonful nutmeg 
 
 Pick over and wash the tapioca or sago ; cover with cold water, 
 and soak over night ; drain and add boiling water and salt ; cook in 
 a double boiler until tapioca or sago is clear. Core and pare the 
 apples ; put them into a buttered baking dish ; mix sugar and spice, 
 and fill cavities of apples ; pour the tapioca over them and bake until 
 apples are soft. Serve with cream or milk and sugar. Rhubarb 
 may be used instead of apples. The fruit may be sHced and 
 cooked in double boiler, with the tapioca or sago, for 5 minutes 
 before putting into baking dish. Pearl, flake or minute tapioca 
 may be used; minute tapioca needs no soaking. 
 
106 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Cocoanut Pudding 
 
 4 tablespoonfuls of pearl tapioca 1 quart milk 
 
 1 cup of grated cocoanut 4 eggs 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 
 
 Wash the tapioca, cover it with cold water, and let it stand 
 over night. Next morning add to it the milk, and cook in a 
 double boiler at least 10 minutes. Beat the yolks of- the eggs and 
 the sugar together, add them to the milk, and half of the cocoa- 
 nut; cook for 5 minutes longer; take from the fire, and when cold 
 turn into a shallow glass dish. Beat the whites of the eggs until 
 light; add 4 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, and beat again; 
 spread this over the top, and sprinkle over the remaining por- 
 tion of the cocoanut. Put a piece of thick paper around the 
 dish, and run it into a quick oven until slightly brown. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Bread Pudding 
 
 1 loaf bread, pour over enough 1 pound raisins (stoned) 
 
 boiling water to moisten the 1 cup sugar 
 bread 2 eggs 
 
 i pound suet, chopped fine pinch salt 
 
 Put in a bag and boil for 2 hours. Eat with sauce. 
 
 Crust Pudding 
 
 2 cups bread crusts J teaspoonful cinnamon 
 § cup sugar J cup raisins (seeded) 
 
 pinch of salt 2 cups milk 
 
 Scald the milk; break crust in small pieces, and brown in oven; 
 add sugar, salt, cinnamon and raisins ; mix well ; pour on milk, and 
 let it stand 10 minutes; bake until milk is absorbed. A beaten 
 egg may be mixed with the sugar, salt and cinnamon, and the milk 
 added slowly before pouring over the crumbs. Use 3 cups of milk 
 
DESSERTS 107 
 
 if egg is used. Half cup of molasses may be used instead of 
 sugar. Serve with hard sauce. 
 
 Cottage Pudding 
 
 3 cups of flour 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 1 cup of sugar 1 egg 
 
 1 cup of milk 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 Flavor with lemon, and bake J hour and serve with a sauce 
 made with: 
 
 1 cup butter 2 tablespoonfuls of wine, if you 
 
 2 cups powder sugar beaten to a use it 
 
 cream J pint of boiling water 
 
 i teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Roly-Poly Pudding 
 
 One pint of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 1 tablespoon- 
 ful of butter, and milk to make a soft dough. Mix and roll out 
 i inch thick, nearly square. Spread with sliced apples, peaches, 
 apricots, berries of any kind, cranberries ; roll it up, put into a 
 biscuit tin and bake. Or roll up in a floured cloth, tie up and 
 steam. Serve with liquid sauce. 
 
 Nun's Puffs 
 
 4 eggs i pint of flour 
 i pint of milk 
 
 Beat the eggs without separating, until light, add the milk; 
 pour this gradually into the flour, mix and beat until smooth. 
 Strain through an ordinary strainer, and pour at once into 
 twelve greased muffin cups or gem pans. Bake in a moderate 
 oven (300° F.) for 30 minutes. If the oven is too hot the 
 puffs will not be light. They must bake until they are like little 
 balloons. If they fall when taken from the oven, they are not 
 done. Serve warm with Hquid pudding sauce. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
108 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Hard Sauce 
 
 J cup butter ^ cup powdered sugar 
 
 Rub the butter in a bowl until creamy; add the sugar gradually, 
 
 then the flavoring (a tablespoonful of brandy, if you use it) or a 
 
 teaspoonful vanilla. A little nutmeg may be grated over the 
 
 top. Put in a cold place to harden. Serve with hot pudding. 
 
 Plain Sauce 
 
 J pound butter 1 cup sugar 
 
 4 tablespoonfuls flour § teaspoonful cinnamon 
 
 1 pint boiling water 
 
 Melt the butter, remove from fire, and stir in the flour. Pour 
 in the water gradually, and boil, stirring constantly. Add the 
 sugar and cinnamon, stir until it dissolves. 
 
 Nutmeg Sauce 
 
 li tablespoonful flour 1 cup boiling water 
 
 ^ cup sugar 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 I teaspoonful grated nutmeg 
 
 Mix flour and sugar; add water gradually, stirring constantly; 
 
 boil 5 minutes; remove from the fire; add butter and nutmeg. 
 
 Nogg Sauce 
 
 I cup of cream ^ cup milk 
 
 1 egg 4 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls of sherry if you 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 use wine 
 
 Separate the egg ; beat the white until stiff, then add the yolk, 
 and beat again. Add the sugar to the cream and milk mixed ; 
 stir until the sugar is dissolved, and then add it gradually to the 
 egg. Mix thoroughly ; pour backwards and forward from one vessel 
 to another ; add the sherry and vanilla, and it is ready to serve. 
 This may be served with baked or boiled puddings. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
DESSERTS 109 
 
 Maple Syrup Pudding Sauce 
 
 1 cup maple sugar ^ cup sweet cream 
 i cup water flavor to taste 
 
 2 eggs (whites only) 
 
 Boil the sugar and water until it threads, add slowly the well 
 beaten whites, and the cream and flavor. 
 
 Egg Sauce 
 
 { cup hot milk 1 cup powdered sugar 
 
 2 eggs, whites and yolks separated 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Heat the milk; beat egg yolks until creamy; add half the 
 
 sugar; beat well, and add the hot milk gradually. Beat the 
 
 whites very stiff, add remaining sugar gradually; combine with 
 
 yolk mixture. Add vanilla last. 
 
 Lemon Sauce 
 
 1 teacupful of sugar, J teacup of butter, 1 tablespoonful of 
 flour, all well mixed together. Add also the grated rind of a lem- 
 on and a pint of boiling water. Boil 5 minutes. When ready to 
 serve squeeze into the sauce the juice of 1 lemon. 
 
 Apple Dumpling 
 
 1 quart of flour 1 teaspoonful soda 
 
 1 tablespoonful butter or lard pinch salt 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar 
 
 Milk to make a dough that can be rolled out. Fold in sour 
 halved apples, and steam or bake. Baking will require 20 minutes. 
 Steaming 1 hour. 
 
 Strawberry Short Cake 
 
 1 quart of strawberries 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 1 pint of flour 1^ cup of milk 
 
 1 teaspoonful of baking powder 
 
 Sift the baking powder and flour several times ; rub in thor- 
 oughly the butter ; add the milk gradually until you have a dough 
 
110 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 sufficiently soft to handle easily. Turn it out on the board, knead, 
 roll into a sheet ^ inch in thickness, and cut into a large, 
 round, or oblong cake. Put it at once into a greased baking 
 pan. Brush the top with milk and bake in a quick oven for 
 20 minutes. Stem and mash the berries and add a cup of sugar. 
 As soon as the short cake is thoroughly baked, take it from the 
 oven, separate by pulling it apart, do not cut it, lay the top crust 
 aside and put half the strawberries over the under crust. Put on 
 the top crust, and cover it with the remaining berries. Send at 
 once to the table. Serve with it if possible a pitcher of cream. 
 Milk cannot be substituted, better eat it plain, than to mix milk 
 with the berries. For Blackberry, Raspberry, and Peach Short 
 Cake substitute these fruits for the strawberries. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 Peach Cobbler 
 
 Make a rich biscuit crust, rolled thick and line a dish, put in a 
 layer of peeled and halved peaches, sprinkle with sugar and flour 
 and bits of butter and fill the dish; pour over it some boiling 
 water. Cover with a top crust, stick with a fork, and bake in a 
 moderate oven until peaches are done. 
 
 Cream Puffs 
 
 One cup of hot water, J cup of butter, boil together; while boil- 
 ing stir in 1 cup of sifted flour; move from the fire and stir into a 
 smooth paste; when cool add three ''unbeaten" eggs, stirring 5 
 minutes ; drop in spoonful on buttered tins and bake in a quick 
 oven for 25 minutes. 
 
 Cream : 1 cup of milk, J cup sugar, 1 egg, 3 tablespoonfuls of 
 flour, cook thoroughly and flavor. When cream and puffs 
 are cold cut puffs open with sharp knife and fill with cream. 
 
DESSERTS 111 
 
 Charlotte Russe 
 
 1 pint cream 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 i box gelatin 4 tablespoonfuls sherry, if you use 
 
 f cup of powdered sugar it 
 
 Cover the gelatin with J cup of cold water ; let it soak while 
 you whip the cream. Turn the cream into a bowl ; sprinkle over 
 the sugar. Dissolve the gelatin over hot water ; add 4 tablespoon- 
 fuls of cream or milk, and strain into the whipped cream ; add 
 the flavoring. Stand the bowl in a pan of cracked ice or ice 
 water ; stir carefully and constantly from sides and bottom of 
 the pan until the mixture begins to thicken. Turn at once into 
 a mold, and stand in a cold place. The mold may be lined with 
 lady fingers, or it may be turned out on a sheet of sponge cake 
 or it may be served on a layer of lady fingers in the bottom of 
 a glass dish. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Mock Charlotte 
 
 1 pint of water ^ cup sugar 
 
 4 level tablespoonfuls cornstarch 4 eggs 
 
 Moisten the cornstarch with J cup of water, add the pint of boil- 
 ing water, and stir until it reaches the boiling point. Add the 
 sugar; and pour slowly, while hot, into the well beaten whites of 
 the eggs. Add a teaspoonful vanilla and turn at once into a mold. 
 Serve with soft custard sauce made from a pint of milk and the 
 yolks of the eggs. If the yolks are needed for other dishes, this 
 pudding may be garnished with fruit and served with fruit 
 sauce. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
112 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Washington Sponge 
 
 i box (one ounce) gelatin 1 teaspoonful of vanilla 
 
 1 cup sugar 4 tablespoonfuls sherry, if you 
 
 1 pint boiling water use it 
 
 i cup of cold water whites of three eggs 
 
 Cover the gelatin with cold water and let it soak ^ hour ; then 
 add the sugar, the boiling water, and the juice of two lemons; 
 stir until the sugar is dissolved; add the vanilla; strain, and 
 when cold and slightly thickened, drop in the unbeaten whites 
 of the eggs, and add the wine. Stand the bowl in a pan of ice 
 water and with an ordinary egg whip, beat the mixture until it is 
 white as snow. If the mixture is too thin, the gelatin will settle 
 to the bottom. It is a waste of time to begin to beat until the 
 mixture is sufficiently congealed to hold the air. Turn into a 
 mold, and stand aside until perfectly cold. Serve with soft 
 custard sauce made from the yolks of the eggs. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 Fruit Sago 
 
 1 cup pearled sago 1 pint fruit syrup 
 
 2 cups cold water ^ cup sugar 
 
 Soak the sago over night in the water; in the morning cook 
 until transparent, add the sugar and fruit syrup ; when cool, turn 
 in a glass dish and serve, when ice cold, with sugar and cream. 
 This is nice made with 1 pint of grape or blackberry juice when 
 use 1 cup of sugar. 
 
 Prune Pudding 
 
 Take 1 pound of prunes, and soak in 1 quart and i pint of 
 water until soft. Put them on in that water and cook until ten- 
 der, then add 2 cups of sugar, and cook 15 minutes longer. Then 
 take the prunes out of the water, take out the seed and cut the 
 prunes in 4 pieces. Soak J box of gelatine in a gill of wine, a 
 
DESSERTS 113 
 
 tablespoonful of brandy, and the juice of one lemon; set this in 
 a warm place, then mix the prunes and water the prunes were 
 boiled in, and put in a dish to cool. Serve with cream. 
 
 Chocolate Cream Pudding 
 
 2 ounces of chocolate 1 pint boiling water 
 
 3 level tablespoonfuls of corn- whites of 3 eggs 
 
 starch | cup of sugar 
 
 Moisten the cornstarch with 6 tablespoonfuls of cold water, add 
 hastily the boiling water, cook for a moment, add the sugar and 
 the chocolate grated. Stir until the mixture is smooth and the 
 chocolate thoroughly dissolved. Pour while hot into the well 
 beaten whites; turn at once into a mold and stand in a cool 
 place for 3 or 4 hours. Serve with hot chocolate sauce. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Cornstarch Pudding 
 
 1 quart milk pinch salt 
 
 4 level tablespoonfuls cornstarch 2 tablespoonfuls cocoa 
 
 1 cup sugar 1 scant teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Scald the milk, with a pinch salt, in a double boiler, reservi]^ 
 a little cold milk to moisten the cornstarch, add the cornstarch, 
 cocoa and sugar, stir constantly and let it boil until it thickens ; 
 add the vanilla, pour in molds that have been wet with cold water. 
 
 Cream Rice Pudding 
 
 i cup rice i cup sugar 
 
 2 quarts milk 1 stick cinnamon 3 inches long 
 \ teaspoonful salt 
 
 Soak the washed rice in the cold milk several hours, put it into a 
 pudding dish and bake, covered in a moderate oven 2 hours. 
 Stir it occasionally and add salt and sugar when rice is nearly 
 soft. Remove the cover, the last J hour, and brown slightly. 
 
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114 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Serve hot or cold. The pudding may be cooked on top of the 
 stove, then put in oven and brown. You may add a cup of seeded 
 raisins if you prefer. 
 
 Rice Meringue 
 
 Cook gently J cup of rice in a pint of milk, let it cool a little, 
 and stir in 1 tablespoonful butter, J cup of white sugar, rind of a 
 lemon, yolks of 5 eggs, pour the mixture into a well buttered pan, 
 and lay lightly and evenly over the top the whites of 4 eggs beaten 
 to a stiff froth, sift over it powdered sugar. Bake the pudding 
 for 10 minutes in a gentle oven. 
 
 Molasses Pudding 
 
 IJ cup N. O. molasses i cup brown sugar 
 
 i cup butter and lard mixed ^ teaspoon soda dissolved in mo- 
 
 2 cups flour lasses 
 
 ^ cup sour milk 1 large well beaten egg 
 
 Steam or bake in loaf, and serve with the following sauce : 
 
 i cup brown sugar, heaping 1 egg 
 
 I cup granulated sugar 2 tablespoonfuls wine 
 
 J cup butter 
 
 Cream, butter and sugar together, add egg, and beat light; 
 then wine; cook over hot water until a thick cream. 
 
 Almond Pudding 
 
 4 tablespoonfuls white bread crumbs steeped in a pint of cream. 
 1 cup of blanched almonds rubbed to a paste with some water 
 beat the yolks of 6 eggs and the whites of three 
 
 Mix all together, add ^ cup of sugar and 1 tablespoonful of but- 
 ter creamed. Put over the fire, stir until it thickens and bake in 
 puff paste. 
 
DESSERTS 115 
 
 Rice Chocolate Pudding 
 
 Scald 1 quart of milk with 2 squares of melted chocolate. Add 
 to it a cup of cooked rice, and a cup sugar, and yolks of 4 eggs 
 well beaten, put in a well greased baking dish and bake. Whip 
 the remaining whites to a stiff froth, pile on top of the pudding. 
 Sprinkle with sugar and set in the oven to brown. Serve cold 
 with cream. 
 
 The Gordon Pie Crust 
 
 The Gordon pie crust is the kind that husbands refer to when 
 they tell their wives my mother's pie crust would melt in the 
 mouth. Sift a level teaspoonful of salt with a pound of flour; 
 rub J pound of butter into the flour with the hands, until so 
 thoroughly mixed as to present the appearance of meal ; stir with 
 them just enough cold water to make a pastry that can be rolled 
 out, and then use it. This is one of the simplest pastries, easily 
 made and delicious. Permission of the Baltimore Sun. 
 
 Mince Meat 
 
 2 pounds lean meat 1 teaspoonful each ground cloves, 
 
 2 pounds raisins (seeded) nutmeg, cinnamon 
 
 2 pounds currants (washed and i dozen oranges 
 
 dried) i dozen lemons 
 
 i pound citron, (chopped) f peck Pippins 
 
 I pound suet (chopped) syrup, small quantity 
 4 pounds sugar 
 
 Thin with strong lemonade when desired to use. 
 
 Mince Pies without Meat 
 
 6 pounds apples, pared, cored and 1 teaspoonful salt 
 
 sliced 4 lemons 
 
 3 pounds raisins, seeded i pound citron, chopped 
 3 pounds suet, chopped fine 2 oranges 
 
 1 teaspoonful each mace, cinna- i pound conserve lemon rind, also 
 
 mon and cloves same of orange 
 
 3 pounds sugar ^ pint each of wine and brandy 
 
116 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Florida Orange Pie 
 
 Grate the yellow rind and squeeze the juice of 4 oranges; beat 
 the yolks of 8 eggs to a cream ; beat to a cream I pound of but- 
 ter and i pound of sugar ; mix all these ingredients to a smooth 
 cream; then quickly beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth and 
 stir them lightly into the other ingredients ; put the mixture at 
 once into the plates lined with pastry and bake them J hour in 
 a rather hot stove oven, taking care that they do not burn. The 
 pies may be used hot or be allowed to cool, and then made quite 
 cold on ice. If the bottom of your oven should be too hot cover 
 it with sand an inch thick and let it stay there. 
 
 Permission of Baltimore Sun. 
 
 Chocolate Pie 
 
 For chocolate pie grate 3 tablespoonfuls of chocolate, melt over 
 hot water, blend with it 4 tablespoonfuls of sugar and add grad- 
 ually 1 cupful of hot milk. Put into a double boiler, and when 
 scalding hot add 1 teaspoonful of cornstarch blended with 3 egg 
 yolks and a little cold milk, and cook for 5 minutes. Add 1 tea- 
 spoonful of vanilla and a pinch of salt and pour into the baked 
 crust. Cover with a meringue made with the whites of the eggs ; 
 add 3 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar ; dust well with sugar and 
 brown in a moderate oven. 
 
 Lemon Pie, No. 1 
 
 2 lemons, mixing the juice with 3 eggs 
 
 the grated rind of one ^ cup butter 
 
 2 cups of water 1^ cup bread crumbs 
 2 cups of sugar 
 
 Put the bread crumbs in the water. Cream the butter and su- 
 gar, add yolk of 3 eggs, and whites of one, beat hard, add lemons 
 
DESSEKTS 117 
 
 and soaked bread crumbs. Bake in open shells, and when done, 
 cover with a meringue made of the remaining whites of eggs, and 
 J cup of powdered sugar ; brown in slow oven. 
 
 Lemon Pie, No. 2 
 
 2 level tablespoonfuls corn starch 2 eggs 
 
 2 cups sugar 2 lemons 
 
 I cup butter grated rind of one 
 
 1 pint boiling water 
 
 Moisten the cornstarch in water, pour over it the boiling water, 
 being careful not to let it lump; cook for 2 minutes. Cream, 
 butter and sugar, whip in the cooked cornstarch and when cool 
 beat in the yolks of eggs and lemon. Bake in open pie crust. 
 When done, spread with meringue as for Lemon Pie, No. 1. 
 
 Sweet Potato Custard Pie 
 
 4 sweet potatoes 1 cup milk 
 
 1 tablespoonful butter 3 tablespoonfuls sugar 
 
 3 eggs 
 
 Bake the potatoes, mash, beat into them butter, sugar, beaten 
 eggs, not separated, and gradually the milk; flavor to taste, and 
 fill a good puff paste, and bake in a moderate oven until the 
 custard sets. 
 
 Rhubarb Pie 
 1 egg 1 tablespoonful flour 
 
 1 cupful sugar ^ cupful raisins 
 
 li cupful chopped rhubarb 
 
 To be cooked slowly. 
 
 Cocoanut Pie 
 
 ^ pound butter 1 cocoanut (grated) 
 
 I pound sugar 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 6 eggs 
 
 Line your plates with paste. 
 
118 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Pumpkin Pie 
 
 Cook a pumpkin with as little water as possible until soft; put 
 in a colander, cover with a plate, and on that put a weight to ex- 
 tract the water. Press through the colander, and to each pint of 
 pumpkin,' add the yolks of 2 eggs beaten light with J pound of 
 sugar and J teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice, 
 lastly fold in the well beaten whites of 2 eggs. Line the pie plate 
 with a good crust, and bake. This quantity will make 1 pie. 
 
 Bird's Nest 
 
 Dissolve 5 level tablespoonfuls of cornstarch in a pint of cold 
 milk, add to it a pint of boiling milk and cook until thick, flavor 
 with a teaspoonful vanilla and pour while hot into egg shells that 
 have been emptied through a hole in one end. When cold remove 
 the shells, put in a dish and pour around them a rich custard 
 made from a pint of milk, yolks of 3 eggs, i cup of sugar and a 
 teaspoonful of vanilla. 
 
 Flummery 
 
 With a silver knife cut 1 quart of berries into halves. Turn 
 into an agate double boiler, 1 cupful sugar, 1 pint boiling water, 
 juice of 1 lemon. Cook slowly for 10 minutes, stirring often until 
 the sugar dissolves. This may be strained or not as you prefer, as 
 the seeds are sometimes considered unwholesome. Moisten 3 
 level tablespoonfuls cornstarch in a little cold water, add to the 
 hot mixture, and stir until it thickens. Cover and cook for 5 
 minutes longer, turn out to cool, serve cold with cream and 
 sugar. 
 
 Boiled Custard 
 
 Bring 1 quart of milk to a boil, sweeten to taste, when it boils 
 pour gradually over the well beaten yolks of 5 eggs, stirring con- 
 
DESSERTS 119 
 
 stantly, return to the fire and stir until it thickens, when cool add 
 a teaspoonful vanilla. You may use a level tablespoonful of 
 flour or cornstarch, moistened in a little cold milk, in place of an 
 egg for economy. 
 
 Baked or Steamed Custard 
 
 2 cups milk I teaspoonful salt 
 
 3 egg yolks speck nutmeg 
 i cup sugar 
 
 Scald milk. Beat egg until slightly frothy; add sugar, salt 
 and nutmeg, and mix well. Add the scalded milk slowly, stirring 
 all the time. Strain the mixture into a buttered pudding dish, or 
 into cups. Place dish or cups in a pan of hot water. Bake in a 
 moderate oven until a knife put into the center will not look milky 
 when taken out. If cooked too long, the custard will "whey.'' 
 The custard may be steamed by placing dish or cups containing 
 it in a steamer placed over a saucepan containing boiling water. 
 The steamer should be covered. 
 
 Rennet Custard or Junket 
 
 2 cups milk 2 teaspoonfuls liquid rennet 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Heat milk until lukewarm; add sugar and flavoring, stirring 
 
 until sugar is dissolved ; add the rennet and pour into dish in 
 
 which it is to be served. Serve plain or with cream and sugar. 
 
 Junket tablets may be used instead of liquid rennet. 
 
 Chocolate Custard 
 
 One-fourth of a cake of chocolate, 1 pint of boiling water, 6 
 eggs, 1 quart of milk, J cup of sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla. 
 Dissolve the chocolate in a very little milk, stir into the boiling 
 water and boil 3 minutes. When nearly cold add the beaten 
 
120 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 eggs, stir into the milk, flavor and pour in cups; set in boiling 
 water and bake. 
 
 Peach Mousse 
 
 Mash through a colander fresh or canned peaches. Add to a 
 cupful of peach pulp J teaspoonful of lemon juice, a few drops 
 almond extract and enough sugar to taste. Dissolve in J cup 
 of peach juice, IJ tablespoonful of granulated gelatine which 
 had been soaked for 1 hour in J cup cold water. Add gela- 
 tine to peach mixture and when it begins to set, mix it until 
 smooth, then fold in J pint whipped cream and turn into a mold. 
 
 Spanish Cream 
 
 Soak J box of gelatine in J pint of milk for 1 hour. Boil 
 1 quart of milk in a double boiler seasoned with 1 teaspoon- 
 ful vanilla, and sweetened to taste. Beat 6 eggs, yolks and 
 whites separately. Strain the gelatine into the yolks, stir in 
 the whites, pour in the boiling milk, put all back on the fire and 
 let it thicken. Pour into molds, and set on ice. 
 
 Bavarian Cream 
 
 One pint of cream, whip light, and drain. Take another pint 
 of cream and make a custard with yolks of 4 eggs, sweeten, 
 flavor. Strain into the custard J ounce of gelatine. Place 
 on ice and when it begins to thicken, beat in the whipped cream, 
 pour into molds, put on ice until ready to serve. 
 
 Netherwood Trifle 
 
 Bake a loaf sponge cake. Cut out the middle, leaving a thin 
 outside of the cake about 1 inch thick. If you use wine moisten 
 ■*"he walls a little, and fill with a rich custard, made of 1 pint of 
 
DESSERTS 121 
 
 milk, and the yolks of 4 eggs and on top you may pile the 
 whites beaten to a stiff froth with a little sugar, or you may re- 
 turn the top of the cake, being very careful not to break it when 
 cutting, and dust with powdered sugar. 
 
 Trifle 
 
 Lay macaroons and lady-fingers in the bottom of the bowl in 
 which it is to be served. Moisten with wine if you use it. Then 
 pour over them a rich cold custard, pile high with whipped 
 cream. 
 
 Strawberry Cream 
 
 Mash i pint of strawberry until smooth, and sweeten. Beat 
 the whites of 2 eggs to a froth, and add by degrees the fruit, 
 beat until stiff. Serve in glasses. Any fruit or jam may be used, 
 and it can be floated on cream or custard or plain. 
 
 Omelet Souffle 
 
 6 eggs, whites 3 tablespoonf ul of powdered sugar 
 
 3 eggs, yolks the grated yellow rind of ^ lemon 
 
 I teaspoonful of lemon juice 
 
 Beat the whites of the eggs until stiff and frothy; sift over the 
 sugar and beat again until fine and dry; add the yolks sHghtly 
 beaten, the lemon rind and juice. Mix quickly, carefully and 
 thoroughly, put at once into a baking dish, dust the top quickly 
 with powdered sugar, and bake in an oven at 400° F. 5 minutes. 
 
 Caution: The oven must be ready before you begin the souffle. 
 It must be taken at once from the oven to the table. If it is 
 stringy inside, it has been baked too long. To be right, it must 
 be hot. It must be served in the dish in which it is baked. 
 
 If you are an expert, put the souffle into pastry, use a star 
 tube, and press it out on a platter, making either a large rope- 
 
122 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 like mold or rosette. A pyramid of roses is always attractive. 
 Dust it with sugar and bake as directed. An omelette souffle 
 is one of the most elegant of desserts. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Prune Souffle 
 
 I pint stewed prunes yolks of 3 eggs 
 
 whites of 6 eggs 
 
 Remove the stones and press the prunes through a sieve to 
 remove the skins. Add to them the yolks slightly beaten. Fold 
 in the well-beaten whites, turn at once into a baking dish, dust 
 the top with powdered sugar, and bake in a quick oven 5 to 6 
 minutes. Other fruit in the same proportion may be substi- 
 tuted for prunes. 
 
 A souffle is to be recommended on account of its simplicity 
 and wholesomeness. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Almond Souffle 
 
 Blanch, roll and brown in butter to a pale yellow IJ pound 
 almonds. Beat the whites of 6 eggs very stiff, add 4 table- 
 spoonfuls of powdered sugar, then the almonds ; stir lightly and 
 pour into a buttered baking dish. Bake in a quick oven till 
 a golden brown. 
 
CAKES 
 
 Simple Rules for Cake Baking 
 
 Always cream your butter and sugar to a very light cream, 
 being careful to use a wooden spoon. Some cooks contend you 
 can do it much better with your hands, but best results will 
 be secured by the above method. 
 
 Always separate and beat eggs very light, unless otherwise 
 stated. 
 
 Flour should be sifted several times, adding the baking powder 
 in the last sifting. It is generally beaten in alternately with 
 the well-beaten whites, except in sponge cake, when it is added 
 last. 
 
 Layer cake will not stick if the pan is well greased and dusted 
 with flour. 
 
 Do not have too hot an oven when baking cakes that require 
 long baking, like fruit cake, ginger pound cake, pound cake, etc. 
 Layer pound cake and small cakes require more heat. 
 
 It is always safe to try them with a clean straw. If it 
 comes out clean, without a particle of batter sticking to it, it is 
 done. 
 
 Another simple way is to run the fingers lightly over the top, 
 and if there is no indentation, it is done. 
 
 Never close oven door so as to jar the cakes, as it will cause 
 them to fall. 
 
 Turn out on a cakeboard to cool, so as to prevent the steam, 
 from making them soggy. Never ice until cold. 
 
 If you have to cut cake while hot, use a heated knife. 
 
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 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Fruit Cake 
 
 1 pound sugar 
 I pound butter 
 10 eggs 
 I pound conserved lemon peel 
 i pound conserved orange peel 
 
 1 pound citron 
 
 2 cups English walnuts and al- 
 
 monds, chopped fine 
 1 nutmeg grated 
 1 teaspoonful each mace, cloves 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon 
 
 1 saltspoonful salt 
 li pound flour 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 2 pounds raisins 
 
 2 pounds currants 
 
 1 wineglassful each of brandy and 
 wine, if you use it, or the 
 grated rind and juice of an 
 orange 
 
 Cream the butter and sugar. Beat the eggs separately. Flour 
 the fruit, add the wine or orange juice and mix well, butter sheets 
 of paper and line the inside of a stem cake pan, bake in a mod- 
 erate oven for three hours. 
 
 Black Fruit Cake 
 
 1 pound browned flour 
 1 pound best butter 
 
 1 pound C sugar 
 12 eggs 
 
 2 pounds raisins (after seeding) 
 
 2 pounds large currants (stemmed) 
 
 J pound candied orange peel 
 
 I pound citron 
 
 1 pound almonds (shelled) 
 
 1 gill French brandy 
 wineglass of Curacoa cordial 
 wineglass of Maraschino 
 1 tablespoonful of allspice 
 I teaspoonful of cloves 
 I teaspoonful of mace 
 1 cup New Orleans molasses 
 (add a little soda just as 
 this is put in) 
 
 First get your fruit ready. Raisins seeded and chopped fine, 
 currants washed, steamed and dried, almonds blanched and cut 
 in thin slices, citron and orange peel also cut in long, thin slices ; 
 mix all together and flour very lightly; this prevents it from 
 settling to the bottom of the cake. Cream the butter and flour, 
 stir till very light ; yellow of eggs and sugar ; put these together, 
 then add the whites well whipped ; then the seasoning, and after 
 that put in the fruit — small quantities at a time — and add the 
 
CAKES 125 
 
 cup of New Orleans molasses. Put in deep pan and bake four 
 hours. Be sure it does not bake too long or it will be very dry. 
 " This cake will keep a year, and is at its best when four weeks 
 old.'' 
 
 Permission of Baltimore Sun. 
 
 Election Cake 
 
 6 pounds flour 3 pints new milk 
 
 3 pounds brown sugar 3 pounds raisins 
 
 3 pounds butter 3 pounds currants 
 
 10 eggs 1 pound citron 
 
 I ounce allspice 2 nutmegs (grated) 
 
 ^ ounce cloves 2 wineglasses each of sherry, wine 
 I ounce mace and brandy, if you use it, or ^ 
 
 ^ ounce cinnamon cup syrup 
 
 1 pint yeast 
 
 The night previous to baking take all the flour, yeast, and 
 milk, part of the sugar and butter, work together, cover, and let 
 it rise. In the morning take the remainder of the sugar, butter, 
 spices, liquor or syrup and the beaten eggs, and work well to- 
 gether, as in making other cake and put with the sponge, cover 
 and let it rise again. After it is light, work in the fruit, lightly 
 and put it in the tins, let it stand a short time, put in the oven 
 and bake. 
 
 Raisin Bread 
 
 Take 1 pound lightened bread dough work into it 1 pound 
 sugar and 1 cup of butter that has been creamed, add 3 well- 
 beaten eggs, i pint milk, slightly warmed, 1 wineglass of brandy 
 or wine, J nutmeg grated, 1 pound seeded raisins rubbed in 
 flour. The dough should have enough flour added to make it 
 the consistency of pound cake. After putting in all the ingre- 
 dients add 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in 1 tablespoonful vinegar. 
 When light bake. 
 
126 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Layer Cake 
 
 1 cupful of butter 4 eggs 
 
 2 cupfuls sugar . 1 teaspoonful baking powder 
 
 3 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 1 cup rich milk 
 
 Cream the butter and sugar to a light cream, add the well- 
 beaten yolks, then the milk, beat the whites to a stiff froth, beat 
 into the batter with the vanilla, and lastly the sifted flour to 
 which has been added the baking powder. Bake in jelly cake 
 pans. After it has cooled spread with any desired filling. 
 
 French Cake 
 
 1 cup of milk 3 eggs 
 
 2 cups of sugar ^ cup of butter 
 
 • 3 cups of flour 2 teaspoonful s of baking powder 
 
 Cream butter and sugar, add the milk, sift in the flour into 
 which you have put the baking powder, alternating with the 
 well-beaten whites. 
 
 Cocoanut Cake 
 
 1 cup of butter 1 cocoanut grated 
 
 3 cups sugar whites beaten to a stiff froth 
 
 1 cup milk 1 te^poonful of soda and 2 of 
 
 4i cups flour "cream of tartar or 2 tea- 
 
 4 eggs spoonfuls of baking powder 
 
 Pound Cake 
 
 1 pound of sugar 10 eggs 
 
 1 pound of l?utter flavor with lemon 
 
 1 pound of flour 
 
 Cream butter and sugar, stir in the yolk of the eggs and beat 
 until very light; stir in the sifted flour and flavoring; lastly the 
 stiffly beaten whites. Bake in moderate oven. 
 
$ CAKES 127 
 
 Black Chocolate Cake 
 
 2 cups granulated sugar 2 teaspoonful baking powder 
 
 \ cup butter 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 4 eggs 1 cup grated chocolate, rub smooth 
 
 \ cup fresh milk in \ cup boiling water 
 
 2 cups flour 
 
 Cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten yolks, the milk, 
 whites beaten to a stiff froth, the flour into which the baking 
 powder has been sifted, and the vanilla, and melted chocolate. 
 Bake in jelly cake pans, and spread a white icing between layers 
 and on top. 
 
 Chocolate Cake 
 
 The beaten yolk of 1 egg, \ cup of milk, 2 squares of grated 
 chocolate; put on in a double boiler, let it come to a boil, stirring 
 constantly, until it thickens. Set aside to cool. For the rest of 
 the cake, take \\ cup of sugar, \ cup of milk, 1 teaspoonful 
 soda dissolved in the milk, 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter, 2 
 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, 2 cups of sifted 
 flour, 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Cream the butter and sugar, add 
 the yolks, milk and vanilla, then the chocolate mixture, grad- 
 ually the flour, then the well beaten whites. Bake in layers, 
 being very careful not to jar this cake, as it is very light and 
 dehcate and falls easily. Spread with a cream filling. 
 
 Ginger Pound Cake 
 
 1 cup granulated sugar 1 even teaspoonful soda 
 
 1 cup melted butter 1 tablespoonful each of ground 
 
 1 cup sour cream ginger and cinnamon 
 
 3 cups flour 3 eggs 
 
 1 cup molasses 1 cup seeded raisins, rubbed in flour 
 
 Stir molasses, sugar, melted butter, cream, spices, milk with 
 the soda dissolved into it and raisins together, add well beaten 
 eggs and flour. Bake in loaf in moderate oven an hour and a half. 
 
128 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Ginger Bread 
 
 1 cup butter 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in 
 
 1 cup molasses hot water 
 
 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoonful cinnamon 
 
 1 cup sour milk or buttermilk 4 eggs 
 
 1 tablespoonful ginger 4 cups flour 
 
 Stir butter, sugar, molasses and spice to a light cream, add the 
 milk, then the beaten eggs, the soda and lastly the flour. Beat 
 hard 10 minutes, bake at once in a loaf or small tins. 
 
 Chocolate Cream Cake 
 
 little over § print butter (not 1 cup of milk 
 
 quite ^ pound) 1^ teaspoonful yeast powder 
 
 2 cups sugar whites of 7 eggs, beaten stiff 
 2^ cups flour flavor with vanilla 
 
 Boil 2 cups of sugar with | cup of milk until it strings ; beat until 
 thick and spread on cake. Melt i cake of chocolate and spread. 
 
 Snow Cake 
 
 1 cup butter 8 eggs (whites only) 
 
 1 cup cornstarch 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 1 cup milk 1^ cup flour 
 
 2 cups sugar 
 
 Cream the butter, add the flour, well-sifted, and stir thoroughly, 
 then the cornstarch, milk in which the baking powder has been 
 dissolved, lastly add whites of eggs and sugar beaten well to- 
 gether, flavor to taste. Bake in loaf or layer as preferred. A 
 loaf requires 45 to 50 minutes. 
 
 Angel's Food Cake 
 11 eggs (whites only) 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar 
 
 li cup sugar 1 teaspoonful almond extract 
 
 1 cup flour 
 
 Beat the eggs stiff, add the sugar which has been sifted several 
 times. Sift the flour, add cream of tartar, then sift again, and 
 
CAKES 129 
 
 add to the eggs and sugar. Do not grease the pans, and bake 
 nearly | hour. 
 
 Sponge Cake 
 
 8 eggs flavor with teaspoonful lemon or 
 
 weight of eggs in sugar vanilla 
 
 i weight of eggs in flour 
 
 Beat yolks very light, add sugar. Beat whites very light. 
 Sift flour three times, then sift into the mixtures alternately 
 with the whites, stirring very gently, bake in stem cake pans or 
 in gem pans. 
 
 Boiled Sugar Sponge Cake 
 1 pound sugar ^ pound flour 
 
 6 tablespoonfuls of water juice and grated rind of 1 lemon 
 
 7 
 
 Cover the sugar with water and let it boil 5 minutes, and 
 pour over eggs, which have been beaten separately and then 
 together; after it is cool add flour and lemon. 
 
 Sponge Batter for Layer Cake 
 
 2 cups flour 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking 
 2 cups sugar powder 
 
 4 eggs 1 teaspoonful lemon extract 
 4 tablespoonfuls water 
 
 Beat the yolks light and add the sugar, then the water, then 
 alternate the flour, which has been sifted several times, the last 
 time add the baking powder, with the well-beaten whites; flavor 
 and bake in jelly cake tins in a hot oven. 
 
 Jelly Cake Rolls 
 Four eggs, beat whites and yolks separately; 1 teacupful 
 sugar, 1 teacupful sifted flour, 1 teaspoonful cream tartar, J 
 teaspoonful soda dissolved in a very little hot water; flavor 
 
130 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 with the juice of 1 lemon; beat all well together; spread J inch 
 thick in a square tin; bake quickly, then turn bottom side up, 
 spread with jelly, and roll up while hot. 
 
 Sponge Drops 
 
 3 eggs large cup of flour (sifted) 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar 
 
 flavor to taste lemon or vanilla ^ teaspoonful soda 
 
 Cream the yolks (well-beaten) with the sugar, add the flour 
 sifted with the cream of tartar, dissolve the soda in a little water, 
 flavor, beat the whites to a stiff froth. Drop in butter pans in 
 a quick oven. 
 
 Chocolate Cookies 
 
 One pound of sugar, a pound of butter, a cake of chocolate dis- 
 solved in a pint of warm water, a quart of molasses, 3 eggs, 2 
 ounces of soda and just enough flour to roll out. Coat with 
 chocolate frothing. 
 
 Charlotte Cake 
 
 WHITE PART 
 
 1 cup sugar i cup sweet milk 
 
 ^ cup butter 2 cups flour, sifted 
 
 4 eggs, whites only 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 GOLD PART 
 
 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 
 
 ^ cup butter 1 cup seeded raisms 
 
 4 eggs (yolks only) 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder 
 
 i cup sweet milk 
 
 Bake in jelly cake tins, ice with boiled icing. 
 
 2 cups of sugar 4 eggs, whites 
 
 I cup water juice and grated rind of 1 orange 
 
CAKES 131 
 
 Spice Charlotte Cake 
 
 BROWN PART 
 
 2 cups brown sugar 2 teaspoonfuls allspice 
 
 ^ cup butter 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 4 eggs, yolks only 1 teaspoonful baking powder 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon 4 small cups flour, sifted 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls grated nutmeg ^ cup milk 
 
 WHITE PART 
 
 2 cups granulated sugar 4 cups flour sifted 
 
 ^ cup butter 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 4 eggs, whites only 1 teaspoonful baking powder 
 I cup sweet milk 
 
 Bake in jelly cake tins, and fill wih vanilla icing. 
 
 Spice Cake 
 
 5 eggs 2^ cups flour, sifted 
 
 I cup butter 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon 
 
 1 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoonful ground cloves 
 
 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg 
 
 i cup sweet milk 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 Cream butter and sugar, add beaten yolks, milk, and the flour 
 to which has been added spices and yeast powder, bake in layer 
 and fill with white icing. 
 
 Cream Filling 
 
 I cup rich milk (not cream) 3 cups sugar 
 
 Put in the stove and boil 20 minutes, pour in a cold dish and 
 beat until stiff. Flavor to taste. 
 
 Caramel Icing 
 
 1 pound brown sugar i cup milk 
 
 I pound butter 
 
 Boil 10 minutes, remove from the fire and beat until it begins 
 
 to cream and is thick enough to spread on cake. To make white 
 
 icing use granulated sugar instead of brown. 
 
132 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Cinnamon Icing 
 
 1 cup butter 2 heaping tablespoonfuls cinnamon 
 
 2 cups brown sugar 
 
 Put on stove until soft, and spread on top of the cake. 
 
 Vanilla Filling 
 
 2 cups xxxx sugar 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 J cup cream 
 
 Orange Filling 
 
 2 cups xxxx sugar 2 tablespoonfuls juice 
 
 grated rind of 1 orange 2 tablespoonfuls boiling water 
 
 Boiled Icing 
 
 2 cups sugar I teaspoonful cream of tartar 
 ^ cup water (scant) flavor to taste 
 
 3 eggs, whites 
 
 Boil the sugar with the water until it spins a thread without 
 stirring, and pour it in the thinnest possible stream on the well- 
 beaten whites, into which has been beaten the cream of tartar, 
 and beat constantly. Stand away in a cold place until ready to 
 use. 
 
 Boiled Icing 
 
 1 pound sugar 3 tablespoonfuls water 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls vinegar 2 eggs, whites 
 
 Boil without stirring until it begins to candy, and pour into 2 
 well-beaten whites, beating hard. 
 
 Cream Filling 
 
 2 cups granulated sugar 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 1 cup milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Boil the sugar and milk until it spins a thread, add the butter, 
 
 stir until cool, flavor. If it seems too stiff thin with a little water, 
 
 not milk. 
 
CAKES 133 
 
 Almond Cream Filling 
 Whip J cup of rich cream, stirring gradually into it 2 
 cups of pulverized sugar, a few drops of vanilla, and 1 pound 
 of almonds blanched and chopped fine. 
 
 Nut Filling 
 
 2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup chopped English walnuts 
 
 i cup of water 1 cup chopped candied fruit 
 
 2 eggs, whites 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Boil sugar and water until it hairs. Pour slowly into the well- 
 beaten whites, beating constantly. Divide the icing, stir in the 
 chopped nuts and fruit between the layers, and on top spread 
 the white icing and place halves of walnuts. 
 
 Chocolate Icing 
 
 i cake of chocolate 1 cup sugar 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls milk 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water 
 
 Mix all well together, and boil 5 minutes. Beat until stiff, 
 and spread. 
 
 Chocolate Filling 
 
 Whites of 3 eggs beaten stiff with xxxx sugar, J cake 
 chocolate, melted over hot water, flavor with vanilla, 1 table- 
 spoonful cream. 
 
 Caramel Filling 
 
 2 cups brown sugar 1 tablespoonful cornstarch 
 
 i cup cream 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 Boil until it thickens, then add the vanilla. 
 
 Orange or Lemon Filling 
 Two cups granulated sugar and J cup of water, boil until 
 it spins a thread. Beat whites of 2 eggs, stiff, and pour the hot 
 
134 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 syrup in a thin stream over them, beating rapidly all the time. 
 Flavor with juice and grated rind of 1 orange and 1 teaspoonful 
 vanilla. Spread while warm. 
 
 Maple Sugar Filling 
 
 1 cup of sweet cream ^ cup chopped English walnuts 
 
 2 cups maple sugar 
 
 Boil the cream and maple sugar, broken and well rolled, until 
 it will spin a thread, about 40 minutes, let it cool some and add 
 the nuts, beat until it becomes creamy and spread on the cake. 
 
 Chocolate Kisses 
 
 Sift together 2 ounces of grated chocolate and 1 pound 
 of powdered sugar, then mix into it the well-beaten whites of 2 
 eggs. Drop the mixture in little heaps on buttered paper, and 
 bake in a slow oven. 
 
 Kisses 
 
 Whites of 2 eggs beaten to a stiff froth, 1 cup granulated 
 sugar beaten in gradually; flavor with vanilla. Bake in slow 
 oven on ungr eased plain white paper until it puffs up and dries. 
 
 Buttercup Cakes 
 
 Cream well J cup of butter and gradually work in 1 cup of 
 powdered sugar. Add to this the beaten yolks of 9 eggs and 
 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat in alternately | cup of milk 
 and 3 cups of flour. Beat well for 5 minutes, stir in 2 teaspoon- 
 fuls of baking powder and fill gem pans three-fourths full. Bake 
 in a moderate oven, ice with yellow icing. 
 
CAKES 135 
 
 Cry Babies 
 
 1 egg 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 1 cup 
 
 1 cup sugar boiling water 
 
 1 cup lard h nutmeg 
 
 1 cup molasses 5 cups flour 
 
 Drop on greased tins and bake in quick oven. 
 
 Rocks 
 
 1^ cups brown sugar 2^ cups flour 
 
 1 scant cup butter 1 teaspoonful cinnamon 
 
 3 eggs h pound raisins 
 
 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in i i pound walnuts 
 cup warm water h pound currants 
 
 Drop on greased tins. 
 
 Jumbles 
 
 li cup of sugar 3 tablespoonfuls of sour cream 
 
 1 cup of butter 1 teaspoonful soda 
 
 2 eggs nutmeg to taste 
 
 Add flour to make a soft dough. Roll them thin in fine pow- 
 dered sugar. Bake a light brown in a moderate oven. 
 
 Doughnuts 
 
 One cup of sweet milk, i cup of butter, 2 eggs beaten very 
 light, 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, flavor with nutmeg or 
 vanilla, and add flour enough to roll out; 1 cup of sugar, sift 
 over powdered sugar as soon as taken out of the boiling lard. 
 
 Crullers 
 
 2 cups sugar 6 eggs 
 
 i pound butter 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 1 cup milk 1 tablespoonful cinnamon 
 
 Cream butter and sugar, then add milk, and the well-beaten 
 eggs, flour. Add sufficient flour to make a soft dough. Roll 
 
136 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 out. Cut with a cake cutter, fry in hot lard and when brown 
 drain on brown paper and dredge with powdered sugar. 
 
 Chocolate Wafers 
 
 1 cup brown sugar 1 egg 
 
 1 cup white sugar 1 cup butter 
 
 1 cup grated chocolate 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Flour enough to thicken. Roll thin and bake. 
 
 Crisps 
 
 1 cup flour 1 egg 
 
 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoonful vinegar 
 
 1 cup molasses ' 1 teaspoonful soda 
 
 1 cup butter 1 teaspoonful ginger 
 
 Roll in a very thin sheet and bake on bottom of a pan. Cut in 
 squares while hot. 
 
 Ginger Cakes 
 
 3 pounds flour 5 ounces ginger 
 
 1 pound butter 1 tablespoonful cinnamon 
 
 1 pound sugar 1 quart molasses 
 
 Roll out thin. 
 
 Soft Ginger Cakes 
 
 i gallon N. O. molasses ^ teaspoonful powdered alum 
 
 10 ounces butter 2 tablespoonfuls ginger 
 
 2 ounces baking soda flour to make soft dough 
 
 Cream the butter, add the molasses, the soda dissolved in J 
 cup sweet milk, alum dissolved in just enough cold water to cover 
 it, ginger and flour. Make up at night, cover with a cloth and 
 leave in a warm place. In the morning roll, cut, and take as 
 many as you need, the balance of the dough will keep for weeks 
 in a covered dish in a cool place. Before rolling out the dough 
 should be kneaded like bread dough. 
 
CAKES 137 
 
 Sand Tarts 
 
 1 pound butter 2 pounds sugar 
 
 3 eggs 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 2 pounds flour 
 
 Cream the butter with the sugar, the eggs well-beaten, then 
 the flour into which the baking powder has been sifted. Roll 
 out thin, brush with egg, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar 
 mixed, and decorate with halves of almonds. Bake in a slow 
 oven. 
 
 Cookies, Chocolate and Nut 
 
 1 cup sugar i cup flour 
 
 i cup walnuts, chopped 2 squares chocolate melted 
 
 2 eggs, beaten separately vanilla to flavor 
 i cup butter 
 
 Cream butter and sugar, add chopped nuts, flour, eggs, choco- 
 late and vanilla. Spread very thinly on inverted tins. 
 
 Peanut Cookies 
 
 4 tablespoonfuls butter 1 cup peanuts, chopped 
 
 i cup sugar 1 cup flour 
 
 2 eggs 4 tablespoonfuls milk 
 
 1 teaspoonful lemon juice 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 Cream the butter and sugar, then the eggs, milk, peanuts, 
 flour into which the baking powder has been sifted; flavor. Drop 
 from a teaspoon onto paper, and place two half-peanuts on top 
 of each. Bake from 12 to 15 minutes in a slow oven. The 
 cookies should be about an inch and a quarter apart, or they will 
 run together. This recipe should make 4 dozen. 
 
 Permission of Baltimore Sun. 
 
138 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Oatmeal Macaroons 
 
 2i cups of rolled oats 1 cup sugar 
 
 2i teaspoonfuls baking powder 3 eggs, beaten separately 
 
 J teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 3 level tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 Cream the butter, add the sugar and beaten egg yolks, then 
 
 oatmeal, salt and baking powder, then the vanilla, and last egg 
 
 whites; drop in very small bits on a shallow butter pan, 3 
 
 inches between each two, and bake in a very slow oven until 
 
 brown; remove while still warm. 
 
 Copyright, Harper's Bazar. 
 
 Nut Sticks 
 1 egg 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 butter size of a large egg 4 tablespoonfuls brown sugar 
 
 1 cup chopped nut meats 4 tablespoonfuls flour 
 
 pinch of salt and dash of black 1 tablespoonful molasses 
 pepper 
 Spread thinly with knife dipped in hot water on inverted cake 
 tins. Bake in moderate oven and cut in strips at once. 
 
 Sugar Cakes 
 
 1 cup sugar i cup butter 
 
 X egg 1 heaping teaspoonful baking pow- 
 
 2 large tablespoonfuls milk or der 
 
 water 
 Put in flour enough for a soft dough, roll out thin, cut in round 
 cakes and bake in quick oven. 
 
 Maple Sugar Cookies 
 
 i pound granulated sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 
 
 i pound maple sugar 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 
 
 1 cup butter 
 Add flour enough to make a soft dough, roll thin, and bake in 
 a quick oven. 
 
CANDY 
 
 Eaten at proper times, candy is a useful article of food. It at 
 present forms part of the rations of the soldiers in this country. 
 It should not be eaten to excess, nor between meals. In cooking 
 sugar for candy, use an agate or iron pan, as it is less Hable to 
 burn than in tin. Butter pans for candy before it is cooked. 
 
 Have ready some cold water in which to try the candy. 
 
 WTien the candy is poured into the pan, do not scrape the 
 sauce pan over it, or allow any of the scrapings to fall into it. 
 Scraping or stirring the candy while cooling will cause it to become 
 sugary. Acid substances, as cream of tartar, vinegar or lemon 
 juice, added to the candy while cooking, will help to keep it clear. 
 
 Barley Candy 
 
 1 cup granulated sugar i cup water 
 
 I teaspoonful cream of tartar, or 1 teaspoonful lemon juice or vinegar 
 
 Mix ingredients together before heating. Cook, without stir- 
 ring, until a few drops put into cold water will harden. Boil 
 until the syrup begins to turn light yellow ; remove at once from 
 fire, and turn into a buttered pan. When nearly cool, mark in 
 squares with a slightly warmed and buttered chopping knife. 
 The candy may be cooled in round muffin pans. 
 
 This candy is used to cover nuts, etc., which are then called 
 glace nuts. As soon as candy begins to change color, remove 
 sauce pan from the fire: dip 1 or 2 nuts at a time into the 
 syrup, disturbing the candy as little as possible. As the syrup 
 cools, it may be reheated once or twice, but is liable to burn after 
 the second time 
 
140 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Syrup for Snowballs 
 
 2 cups molasses 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 i cup sugar 
 
 Cook together until it is brittle when tested in cold water. 
 
 Pour over popcorn shaped into balls. To use for candy add | 
 
 teaspoonful of cooking soda before pouring into the pans. 
 
 When slightly cool, pull until light colored, and cut into pieces. 
 
 Cocoanut Drops 
 
 ^ cup sugar 1 cup grated cocoanut 
 
 i cup molasses 
 
 Cook sugar, molasses and cocoanut together, stirring constantly 
 
 until a little of the mixture will harden in cold water. Remove 
 
 from fire, and stir until it thickens; drop by the spoonful on 
 
 buttered pan and cool. 
 
 Peanut Candy 
 
 J cup chopped peanuts, or left 2 cups granulated sugar 
 
 whole, as preferred 
 
 Remove the skin from the shelled peanuts; chop or roll the 
 
 nuts fine, and warm them in a dish placed on the back of the stove. 
 
 Have ready a tin sheet or an inverted baking pan, slightly warmed 
 
 to keep candy from cooling too quickly. Melt the sugar in an 
 
 agate or iron sauce pan, stirring constantly, to prevent burning. 
 
 When melted to a clear, Hght syrup, stir in the chopped peanuts, 
 
 and turn at once on to the pan, which need not be buttered. 
 
 Shape as nearly square as possible, and mark into squares before 
 
 the candy cools. 
 
 Horehound Candy 
 
 ^ square inch pressed horehound li cup sugar 
 
 J cup boiling water i teaspoonful cream of tartar 
 
 Pour the boiling water on the horehound; let it stand 1 minute 
 
 and strain through a cloth. Put the strained liquid into a sauce 
 
CANDY 
 
 141 
 
 pan with the sugar and cream of tartar, and boil until it hardens 
 when tried in cold water, and begin to change color. Do not stir 
 when boihng. Pour into buttered pans, and cut into squares 
 
 while warm. 
 
 Butter Taffy 
 
 2 cups brown sugar i cup butter 
 
 juice of i lemon, or 1 tablespoon- 2 tablespoonfuls water 
 ful vinegar 
 Cook all the ingredients together until mixture will harden 
 when tested in cold water. Pour into a buttered pan, and mark 
 into squares while warm. Half cup of chopped nuts may be 
 added. 
 
 Chocolate Mints 
 
 whites of 2 eggs 6 drops oil of peppermint or 15 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls rich cream drops of essence of pepper- 
 
 2 pounds (about) xxxx con- mint 
 fectioners sugar 
 
 Beat the whites of the eggs, not too stiff, add peppermint, 
 beat in gradually about a cup of sugar, then alternate the cream 
 and sugar, not letting it get either thin or very stiff until all the 
 cream is used, and then stiffen with sugar until hard enough to 
 mold into discs. Lay these on oiled paper for about an hour. 
 Melt unsweetened chocolate and with two forks dip the discs 
 quickly into the chocolate and lay on the oiled paper until dry. 
 These cannot be kept long as the cream sours. 
 
 Cream Candies 
 Make same as chocolate mints substituting any desired flavor- 
 ing, vanilla or fresh fruit juices, instead of the peppermint; form 
 into balls, and when sufficiently hardened dip into unsweetened 
 chocolate. Chopped nuts or fruit added to the cream before 
 molding make a pleasing variety. 
 
142 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Walnut Creams 
 
 A ball of the cream with vanilla flavoring between the halves 
 of an English walnut. 
 
 Cream Dates 
 
 Press a ball of the cream with vanilla flavoring into the date 
 from which the seed has been removed. Roll in granulated 
 sugar. 
 
 Nut Dates 
 
 Remove the seed from dates and in its place insert a whole 
 peanut or blanched almond. Roll in granulated sugar. 
 
 Pinoche 
 
 To 3 cups of light brown sugar, take 1 cup of cream. When 
 it comes to a boil, add a tablespoonful of butter and a pinch of 
 salt. Boil until it hardens in cold water, then add as many 
 English walnuts or blanched almonds as desired, and enough 
 vanilla to flavor. Stir rapidly until it spins a thread and pour 
 out to cool. 
 
 Molasses Candy 
 
 Take a cup of granulated sugar and 2 tablespoonfuls of butter 
 to 2 cups of molasses. Boil hard, stirring often, until it is hard 
 when dropped into cold water. Add and stir in thoroughly about 
 as much soda as you can put on the end of a table knife, and turn 
 into shallow buttered pans. When cool pull until light. 
 
 Maple Sugar Candy, with Nuts 
 
 Put IJ cup of maple sugar into a sauce pan, and when melted 
 stir in a tablespoonful of butter, J cup of milk, and 2 table- 
 spoonfuls of cream. Let it all cook together until it "ropes," 
 stirring occasionally. Pour out and let cool a little, then stir 
 
CANDY 143 
 
 until creamy. When it begins to get stiff add a cupful of chopped 
 walnuts and almonds, and pour into shallow buttered pans. 
 
 Peppermint Drops 
 
 2 cups sugar 1 tablespoonful pulverized sugar 
 i cup boiling water 5 drops oil of peppermint 
 
 ^ teaspoonful cream tartar 
 
 Boil sugar and water together 4 minutes, remove from fire, 
 add cream tartar, powdered sugar and peppermint. Stir 2 min- 
 utes, and drop on manilla paper. 
 
 Butter Scotch 
 
 3 pounds of brown sugar J teaspoonful lemon extract 
 
 i pound butter sufficient water to dissolve sugar 
 
 ^ teaspoonful cream tartar 
 
 Boil sugar, water, butter and cream tartar without stirring 
 
 until it will easily break when put in cold water. When cooked 
 
 add lemon extract, pour in well buttered pan J inch thick. When 
 
 partly cold mark off in small squares and break apart when cold. 
 
 Chocolate Candy 
 
 1 pound granulated sugar 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 I pound chocolate 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla 
 
 ^ pint cream 
 
 Boil all but vanilla till stiff, add flavoring, and drop on greased 
 paper in cakes with a spoon. 
 
 Swisses 
 
 1 pound xxxx sugar vanilla 
 
 2 eggs, whites only- 
 Beat eggs and sugar thoroughly, flavor to taste. Cook in 
 
 covered blazer. 
 
144 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Caramels 
 
 1 pound chocolate 1 large piece of butter 
 
 2 pounds light brown sugar 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla 
 
 Put all on stove and allow to dissolve, then put on the front, 
 
 and boil hard 5 minutes, stirring continually. Add vanilla and 
 
 beat 5 minutes, and pour into greased pan. Mark in squares 
 
 when partly cold. 
 
 Caramels 
 
 i cake chocolate 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 li pounds granulated sugar 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla 
 
 1 cup sweet milk 
 
 Grate the chocolate, add sugar, milk and butter. Put in a 
 sauce pan over a quick fire, and cook 10 minutes or until the 
 mixture hardens well, when put in cold water, then add vanilla. 
 Stir constantly, put in greased pans, and mark off before entirely 
 cold. 
 
 Caramels 
 
 1 cake of chocolate I pound butter or less 
 f cup of milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 2 pounds brown sugar 
 
 Boil about 20 minutes after it comes to a boil on a slow fire. 
 Take from the fire, and beat until they get a little sugary, pour in 
 greased pans, and when cool cut in squares. 
 
 Pulled Caramel 
 
 ^ cake Baker's chocolate 2 ounces butter 
 
 3 cups granulated sugar 1 cup milk 
 
 3 cups brown sugar vanilla to taste 
 
 Melt butter and chocolate, then add sugar and milk, boil from 
 20 to 30 minutes. Do not stir after sugar is put in; when it 
 forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water, take from fire, add 
 vanilla and pour in buttered dishes. When cold enough to handle 
 pull until creamy and form in sticks. 
 
CANDY 
 
 145 
 
 Fudge 
 
 1 quart granulated sugar 1 tablespoonful butter 
 
 1 cup milk 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla 
 
 ^ cake chocolate 
 Boil 9 minutes, stirring constantly, remove from the fire, and 
 stir 5 minutes. Pour in greased pans and when partly cool 
 mark in squares. 
 
 Maple Fudge 
 3 cups of maple sugar, well rolled butter, size of a walnut 
 
 1 cup milk 
 Mix all together, and cook until it boils away from the sides 
 of the kettle, beating all the time, until cold. Pour on buttered 
 plates and mark in squares. 
 
 Nut Caramels 
 
 i cake chocolate 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 I pound granulated sugar I cup milk 
 
 1 pound English walnuts 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 Boil all but vanilla and nuts 15 minutes, and just before re- 
 moving from the stove add nuts. Beat 5 minutes and add 
 vanilla. 
 
 Cream Candy Loaf 
 
 2 cups granulated sugar 1 tablespoonful cornstarch 
 
 1 cup water 1 small teaspoonful gelatine 
 
 Boil together sugar, water, and cornstarch. While boihng, 
 add the gelatine, which has been soaked. Drop a little in cold 
 water. As soon as you can feel a substance in the bottom of 
 cup it has boiled enough. If boiled until it hardens in water you 
 can do nothing with it. Take from fire and beat until it stiffens, 
 then add sHced peaches, pears and conserved cherries. Mix care- 
 fully and pack in a deep dish. Let this get perfectly cold, 
 then shce. 
 
146 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Candy 
 
 2 pounds sugar ^ pint water 
 
 1 pound raisins, seeded ^ teacup vinegar 
 
 I pound figs 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 ^ pound citron 1 orange, sliced 
 
 Boil water, sugar, butter and vinegar, without stirring, until 
 it spins a thread from a spoon. Just before removing from fire 
 add other ingredients. 
 
 White Cream Candy 
 
 IJ pound granulated sugar 2 tablespoonfuls butter 
 
 3 tablespoonfuls vinegar 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 1 cup water 
 
 Boil without stirring until it spins a thread from a spoon. Pull 
 until light and porous. 
 
 Chocolate Creams 
 
 1 cup sugar ^ cup water 
 
 Boil until it spins a thread from a spoon, take off the stove, 
 and flavor with vanilla. Beat until cold enough to mold in the 
 hands. Drop small balls in unsweetened chocolate, melted, and 
 drop on buttered plates. 
 
 French Nougat 
 
 ^ pound gum arable 1 cup xxxx sugar 
 
 1 cup water ^ pound blanched and chopped 
 
 2 eggs, whites nuts 
 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Dissolve the gum arable in the water, add the sugar, and stir 
 over the fire until it thickens and add gradually the well beaten 
 whites, flavor, add the nuts, pour on a dish to cool, cut in long 
 bars and wrap in paraffine. 
 
CANDY 147 
 
 Nougat 
 
 1 pound maple sugar butter size of a walnut 
 
 ^ cup water 
 
 Boil until it stiffens in water, then add 1 teacup finely chopped 
 nuts. Put in buttered tins and cut in squares when cool. 
 
 Everton Taffy 
 1 pound sugar 1 quart molasses 
 
 ^ pound butter rind of 1 lemon, grated 
 
 Mix well and boil on slow fire 1 hour. 
 
FREEZING 
 
 Salt and ice make a freezing mixture several degrees colder 
 than ice alone. Solids changing to liquids absorb heat from 
 surrounding bodies. As the ice changes to liquid (water) it ab- 
 sorbs heat. Salt has a strong attraction for water, and makes 
 the ice melt more quickly ; the salt also changes to a liquid, ab- 
 sorbing still more heat. This heat is taken by the ice and salt 
 from the mixture which is to be frozen, around which they are 
 closely packed. The smaller the pieces of ice the more quickly 
 they change to liquid, and the more salt used the more quickly 
 is the mixture frozen, but if too much salt is used the frozen mix- 
 ture will be coarse-grained. Experience has shown that the best 
 proportion to use is two parts chopped ice and one part rock salt. 
 
 As liquids expand in freezing, the can of the freezer should 
 never be more than three-quarters full. If too full the cover 
 may be pushed up, allowing the salt water to get in. 
 
 Directions for Freezing 
 
 Place the can of the freezer in the proper position in the pail ; 
 put in the dasher, and pour in the mixture to be frozen. Cover 
 and adjust the handle so that it turns freely. Surround the can 
 with alternate layers of ice and salt in the proportion given, be- 
 ginning with the ice. As the ice and salt melt, more should be 
 added to keep the freezer full. Turn steadily until the mixture 
 becomes so stiff that turning is difficult. Wipe the cover so that 
 when it is removed no salt water can drop into the can. Take 
 out the dasher, and with a long-handled spoon pack the frozen 
 
FKEEZING 149 
 
 mixture solidly. Replace the cover, putting a cork in the open- 
 ing. Cover the freezer with a thick cloth, and set aside in a cool 
 place. 
 
 If not wanted for some time after making, the ^^ cream" or 
 ^'ice" may be packed or molded. In this case the water should 
 be drained off, and the mold or can should be repacked solidly 
 in ice and salt, and be well covered in a cool place until wanted. 
 
 Milk Sherbet 
 
 2 cups sugar 1 quart milk ^ 
 
 I cup lemon juice, strained 
 
 Mix the sugar and the strained lemon juice; put the milk into 
 
 the freezer can, and pour the lemon juice and sugar into it. Stir 
 
 thoroughly, cover and freeze. One-fourth teaspoonful of lemon 
 
 extract may be added if desired. 
 
 Philadelphia Ice Cream 
 
 1 quart thin cream 1 tablespoonful vanilla 
 
 1 cup sugar 
 Mix ingredients and freeze ; 1 pint of heavy cream, mixed with 
 3 cups of milk may be used instead of thin cream. 
 
 Ice Cream for One 
 
 Put into a wide-mouthed glass jar or a water tight cocoa or 
 baking powder can J cup cream, 4 teaspoonfuls sugar and 15 drops 
 vanilla or lemon extract. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Cover, 
 and place can or jar in a bowl or pail, and surround it with broken 
 ice and salt in usual proportions — 1 part salt to 2 parts ice. Turn 
 the can or jar back and forth constantly. Take off the cover 
 occasionally, and scrape the frozen cream from the sides and stir 
 thoroughly. Replace cover, and repeat until cream is evenly 
 frozen. 
 
150 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Frozen Custard 
 
 Make a custard of 1 quart milk, yolks of 4 eggs and IJ cup of 
 sugar, and a pinch of salt. When cool add i pint of cream, the 
 beaten whites, and 2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla and freeze. 
 
 Plain Vanilla Ice Cream 
 
 1 quart milk 1 pint of rich cream (more if you 
 
 1 tablespoonful cornstarch have it) 
 
 2 cups of sugar 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla 
 
 Scald the milk, dissolve the cornstarch in a little cold water, 
 and add to the milk, then the sugar, cook until creamy, cool, add 
 cream and vanilla and freeze. 
 
 Vanilla or Lemon Ice Cream 
 
 1 quart cream 3 cups granulated sugar 
 
 1 pint rich milk flavor, vanilla or lemon 
 
 Strawberry Ice Cream 
 
 1 pint cream 1 quart strawberries, crushed 
 
 1 pint milk 4 cupfuls granulated sugar 
 
 Peach Ice Cream 
 
 1 pint cream J peck ripe peaches, crushed with 
 
 1 pint milk a silver fork 
 
 4 cupfuls granulated sugar 
 
 Bisque Ice Cream 
 
 1 quart cream 4 cupfuls sugar 
 
 1 pint milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Roll 1 dozen macaroons, and add to the cream. 
 
FREEZING 151 
 
 Chocolate Ice Cream 
 
 2 squares chocolate, grated 1 pint milk 
 
 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 1 pint cream 
 
 Put the milk, chocolate and sugar into a double-boiler and stir 
 until smooth. When cool add the vanilla and cream, and freeze. 
 
 Coffee Ice Cream 
 
 1 pint cream 1 pint strong cofifee 
 
 1 pint milk 2 eupfuls sugar 
 
 Pineapple Ice Cream 
 
 1 pint cream li pound sugar 
 
 1 pint milk 1 grated pineapple 
 
 Vanilla Cream and Coffee 
 
 Take a pint of thick cream, whip until stiff, flavor with black 
 coffee, sweeten, and put a spoonful on plain vanilla cream, served 
 in glasses. 
 
 Tutti Frutti 
 
 To every J gallon of rich vanilla ice cream add 1 quart of can- 
 died fmit, mixed nuts, and candied peel. When partly frozen, 
 add juice of an orange, freeze, and stand aside to ripen. 
 
 Cafe Frape 
 Take a quart of strong coffee, sweetened while hot, and add a 
 pint of rich cream and when cold freeze to the consistency of wet 
 snow, serve in glasses. 
 
 Frozen Cherries 
 
 1 quart water 1 pint cream 
 
 1 quart stoned cherries, the large 2 eupfuls sugar 
 rich, red ones are best 
 
152 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Orange Ice 
 
 3 pints water 8 oranges 
 
 li pound sugar 3 lemons 
 
 Grate the rind of 4 oranges, add to the sugar and water, stir 
 
 until the sugar melts, boil, cool, strain, and add the juice of the 
 
 oranges and lemons. 
 
 Lemon Sherbet 
 
 2 quarts water 1^ pound sugar 
 
 6 lemons 6 eggs, whites 
 
 Grate the rind of 2 lemons, and the juice of all, add the sugar 
 and the whites of the eggs, mix well together and strain. 
 
 Currant Water Ice 
 
 1 pint water 1 pint currant juice 
 
 1 pound sugar 
 
 Boil the water and sugar together for 5 minutes, and cool. 
 When cold add currant juice, stir well and freeze. 
 
 Pineapple Ice 
 
 2 pounds sugar 1 large grated pineapple 
 
 2 quarts water 
 
 Boil the sugar and water for 5 minutes, and cool. When cold 
 add the grated pineapple, stir well and freeze. The pineapple 
 may be strained if you prefer. 
 
 Frozen Pudding 
 
 3 cups French chestnuts 2 cups sugar 
 1 pound candied fruit 1 cup water 
 
 4 eggs (yolks) 1 pint cream 
 wineglass sherry 1 teaspoonful vanilla 
 
 Boil the chestnuts, remove shell and skins, and rub them 
 through a sieve. Cut the fruit in small pieces, and pour the wine 
 
FREEZING 153 
 
 over them. Make a syrup of the sugar and water, and when it 
 thickens pour into the well-beaten yolks, return to the fire and 
 when it reaches the boiling point, beat until cool, and pour over 
 the nuts, fruit and wine; add the cream whipped to a stiff froth, 
 flavor, and freeze. 
 
 Frozen Pudding with a Compote of Orange 
 
 3 eggs, yolks ^ pound sugar 
 
 1 pint cream | pound of chopped candied fruit 
 
 1 pint water 
 
 Beat the yolks to a cream. Boil the sugar and water, and 5 
 minutes after they begin to boil add a little of the syrup to the 
 yolks, mix, then return it to the sauce pan, and beat over the 
 fire for about 1 minute. Take from the fire, stand the sauce pan 
 in a pan of cold water, and beat the mixture until cold, changing 
 the water or adding ice. Add to the cold egg mixture the chopped 
 fruit. Freeze it slowly until quite hard, then remove the dasher 
 and stir in the cream that has been whipped to a stiff froth and 
 drained. Cover the can, repack, and stand aside for at least 2 
 hours. When ready to serve dip the can quickly in a pan of 
 warm water, and turn the pudding in a deep dish. Arrange 
 quickly the compote, and send to the table. This is one of the 
 most sightly and palatable of the simple frozen puddings. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Compote of Oranges 
 
 6 nice oranges 1 lemon 
 
 1 pound sugar J cup of sherry, if you use wine 
 
 Separate the oranges into carpels without tearing the thin 
 membrane covering each carpel. Boil the sugar with the lemon 
 juice and J pint of water for 5 minutes, or until the syrup will 
 spin a thread. Take it from the fire, and add the oranges ; mix 
 
154 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 them well with the hot syrup, cover and set aside to cool. Add 
 the sherry to them at serving time. They must be very cold or 
 
 they will melt the pudding. 
 
 Copyright, Mrs. S. T. Rorer. 
 
 Maple Mousse 
 
 Whip 1 quart of cream until thick. Beat the yolks of 3 eggs 
 in another bowl until light and add gradually 1 cup of maple 
 syrup. When the two are well mixed whip them gradually into 
 the cream. Pour into freezer or can without the dasher, or into 
 a mold. Pack in salt and ice. Let stand 3 hours. 
 
 Plain Vanilla Parfait 
 
 Parfaits are more easily made than ice creams or ices, since 
 they do not require to be put into the freezer. This rule is for 
 the simplest of all. Beat the whites of 3 eggs to a stiff froth. 
 Put i cup of sugar and J cup of water on the fire, and stir until 
 the sugar dissolves ; then let it cook until it threads. Pour very 
 slowly over the egg whites, beating all the time. Flavor with 
 vanilla, and when cold fold in a pint of cream whipped stiff. Put 
 into a mold, and bury for 4 or 5 hours. 
 
 Copyright, Harper's Bazar. 
 
 Chocolate Sauce 
 
 1 cup milk I cake chocolate 
 
 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoonful cornstarch 
 
 Scald the milk, stir in the cornstarch which has been wet in a 
 little cold milk. Break up the chocolate, and melt by adding 
 a little at a time, the thickened milk until all is used ; stir in the 
 sugar and boil for 1 minute, keep hot over water until ready to 
 serve; just before serving add 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. 
 
BEVERAGES 
 
 To Make Coffee 
 
 Take 1 tablespoonful of fresh ground coffee for each person; 
 make it moist with the white of an egg and a Httle cold water, 
 stir well ; and pour over it a cupful of boiling water for each spoon- 
 ful of coffee, and then add one extra for " the pot. " Set it where it 
 will simmer, not boil, for 15 minutes. 
 
 To Make Drip Coffee 
 
 Scald the pot and let it be thoroughly heated. Put the pul- 
 verized coffee in the percolator, using the same proportions as in 
 the former recipe, and pour the freshly boiling water on the 
 upper sieve. It must be kept very hot, and served at once. 
 
 To Make Tea 
 
 Scald the teapot well with hot water. The general rule is a 
 teaspoonful of tea for every two cups of boiling water, but as teas 
 vary so you cannot go by any set rule. The water must be 
 taken at its first boil; it must steep from eight to ten minutes. 
 Serve very hot. 
 
 Russian Tea 
 
 Make as directed for tea. Add a thin slice of lemon, without 
 seeds, or a few drops of lemon juice for each cup. It may be 
 served hot or cold, sugar may be added if desired, never use 
 milk. 
 
156 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Cocoa 
 
 8 teaspoonfuls cocoa 1 cup boiling water 
 
 4 teaspoonfuls sugar 2^ cups milk 
 
 Heat the milk in a double boiler until small bubbles appear 
 
 around the edge ; mix cocoa and sugar thoroughly in a sauce pan ; 
 
 add boiling water, and boil 3 minutes; add the scalded milk and 
 
 bring to the boihng point. If not served at once, cover, to keep 
 
 the scum from forming. Beating with an egg beater until frothy 
 
 will prevent scum from forming. Equal parts of milk and 
 
 water may be used. If a richer cocoa is wanted, use less water. 
 
 The quantity of cocoa needed varies slightly, according to kind 
 
 used. 
 
 Chocolate 
 
 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 3 cups boiling water 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 3 cups of milk 
 
 Scald the milk; cut or scrape the chocolate, and mix with 
 sugar and a little of the water ; heat together in a sauce pan, stir 
 until mixture is smooth. Add remainder of the water, and the 
 scalded milk. Boil 2 minutes. Beat wth an egg beater until 
 foamy. Serve at once. 
 
 Orangeade 
 
 Steep the peel of 3 oranges in 1 pint of boiling water for 10 
 minutes. Add one pint of sugar and boil 20 minutes. Add 
 juice of 6 oranges and 2 lemons and strain; then add IJ quart of 
 ice water. Serve with cracked ice. 
 
 Cherryade 
 Wash 1 pound of Morello cherries and pour over them 3 pints 
 of boiling water. Let them steep 3 hours. Make the syrup 
 by boiling a cup of sugar and one of water for 20 minutes. Mix 
 with the cherries and let stand, occasionally pressing out the 
 juice. Strain and chill and serve with cracked ice. 
 
BEVERAGES 157 
 
 Lemonade 
 
 Squeeze the juice from 4 lemons ; make a syrup with 2 cups of 
 granulated sugar; then add the lemon cut in small pieces. Let 
 stand until ready to use; then add 3 pints of ice water. Stir 
 until the water is well mixed with the juice ; strain and serve. Or 
 you may use the juice of an orange in place of a lemon. 
 
 Apple Water, Rhubarb Water, Lemonade 
 
 Wash and wipe a sour apple. Cut into pieces, put into a 
 sauce pan with one cup of cold water. Cook until the apple is 
 soft. Strain through cheese-cloth or clean linen, sweeten to 
 taste, and serve cold. A stalk of rhubarb may be used instead 
 of the apple, for rhubarb water. Rhubarb or an apple with 
 red skin will give a pleasing color to the water. Other acid fruits 
 may be used in the same way. In making lemonade for an 
 invalid, use boihng water instead of cold water. It may then 
 be served hot or cold. 
 
 Egg Lemonade 
 
 1 egg 2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 cup water 
 
 Beat the egg thoroughly, and add the sugar and lemon juice; 
 add the water slowly, stirring until smooth, and well mixed. 
 Strain and serve. A little grated nutmeg may be added if liked. 
 
 Egg Nogg 
 
 1 egg pinch salt 
 
 1 tablespoonful sugar grating of nutmeg 
 
 1 cup rich milk 
 
 Beat the eggs thoroughly, add sugar and salt, then the milk, 
 and beat again. Strain, and grate nutmeg. The egg may be 
 separated, and the beaten white added after the straining, or the 
 
158 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 egg white only may be used with the milk, making album enized 
 milk. 
 
 Raspberry Vinegar 
 
 Put the raspberries into a stone vessel and mash them to a 
 pulp ; add good cider vinegar, enough to cover it well ; stand in 
 the sun 12 hours and then all night in the cellar; stir up well 
 occasionally, during this time; strain and put in as many fresh 
 berries in the jar as you took out; pour the strained vinegar over 
 them, mash and set in the sun all day ; strain a second time next 
 day. To each quart of this juice allow 1 pint of water, 5 pounds 
 of white sugar for every 3 pints of this liquid, juice and water 
 mixed. Place over a gentle fire and stir until the sugar is dis- 
 solved. Heat slowly to boiling, skimming off the scum, and as 
 soon as it fairly boils, take off and strain. Bottle while warm, 
 and seal the corks with sealing wax. This is a most refreshing 
 drink, mixed one-fourth vinegar to three-fourths ice water. No 
 glazed or metallic vessel should be used in making it. 
 
 Raspberry Shrub 
 
 For every cupful of fruit juice, take J cup of cider vinegar 
 and 2 cups of sugar. Put the fruit juice, sugar and vinegar 
 over the fire, stir until the sugar dissolves, and then boil to a 
 thick syrup. Skim, if necessary, strain and bottle. Serve 
 mixed with ice water. Juices of other fruits may be prepared 
 in the same way. 
 
 Ginger Beer 
 
 4 pounds good brown sugar or 2 1^ ounce cream tartar 
 quarts molasses 1| ounce race ginger 
 
 Mix these thoroughly and pour over them 4 gallons boiling 
 water, and bottle, cork tightly. 
 
BEVERAGES 159 
 
 Patent Gas Sherbet 
 
 Put J ounce of baking soda in a quart jar, pour on 1 pint of 
 boiling water, add IJ pound of white sugar, mix it well together. 
 Beat the whites of 2 eggs to a stiff froth, mix J tablespoonful of 
 flour into the eggs, then beat all together. Flavor with a tea- 
 spoonful of the oil of lemon. Mix. Mix separately in a large 
 jar 1 ounce of tartaric acid with J pint of cold water. 
 
 Directions: One spoonful of the acid put into a goblet and 1 
 spoonful of the syrup put into another glass. Put a little more 
 than J glass of water to the syrup, pour together and drink. 
 
 Flaxseed Tea 
 
 Pick over 1 tablespoonful of flaxseed. Put into a strainer 
 and pour cold water over it. Put the flaxseed with 2 cups cold 
 water into a sauce pan and boil 1 hour. Add more water as it 
 boils away. There should be two cups when the tea is cooked. 
 Strain, add lemon juice and sugar to taste, and serve hot or cold. 
 
 Punch 
 
 Put 24 teaspoonfuls green tea and the thin rind of 1 dozen lemons 
 in 3 quarts cold water and bring to a boil. When boiling point 
 is reached strain and pour it over 5i pounds cut loaf sugar, add to 
 its quarts Jamaica rimi and 1 J pint whiskey, squeeze in this the 
 juice of the dozen lemons from which the rind had been taken, 
 strain and drink sparingly. 
 
 Blackberry Cordial 
 
 Stew the berries until quite soft, and strain through wire sieve. 
 Add i pound of granulated sugar to one quart of the strained 
 juice, and also J tablespoonful of grated nutmeg and 1 tablespoon- 
 ful ground cinnamon. Allow it to simmer until thick, and, when 
 cold, add a pint of brandy to a quart of the syrup, and bottle it. 
 
160 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Fniit Punch 
 
 1 pint fresh strawberry juice ^ cup grated pineapple 
 
 6 lemons, juice 2 cups sugar 
 
 3 oranges, juice 
 
 Make a s}Tup of 1 pint of water, and the sugar, add the fruit 
 juices, remove from fire and add 1 pint of ice water. When 
 cold serve in glasses, with crushed ice, and a whole strawberry. 
 
 A Simple Claret Cup 
 
 Put the juice of 2 lemons and 4 oranges with a teacupful of 
 sugar into a tall glass pitcher, add 3 or 4 slices of the orange, 3 or 4 
 slices of pineapple, a pint of cold tea, and set away in a cold place 
 for several hours. TMien ready to serve fill the pitcher half full 
 of broken ice and add a pint of claret. 
 
 Mint Julep 
 
 Place in a tall glass several long sprigs of fresh mint, strip 2 
 other sprigs of mint and place them in a mixing glass, add a tea- 
 spoonful of powdered sugar. Crush the mint leaves, add a wine 
 glass of whisky, stir and strain into the original glass. Sprinkle 
 a little sugar over the leaves, add some powdered ice, and serve 
 with a straw. 
 
 Grape Juice 
 
 Pick over, stem and wash as many quarts of concord grapes as 
 needed. Place in a double boiler in just enough water to cover, 
 cold water in the bottom, heat slowly until the fruit is soft, sev- 
 eral hours. Drain without pressing in a jelly bag, add } pound 
 sugar to every 2 cups of juice and heat to 200° F. Have j^our 
 bottles well sterilized, fill and cork the bottles tight; keep 
 in a cool place. It can be served with apollinaris, plain ice 
 water, or as a lemonade. 
 
BEVERAGES 161 
 
 Toast Water 
 
 Toast water can often be taken when the stomach will retain 
 nothing else. Use equal measures of bread, cut in J inch cubes, 
 and boiling water. Dry bread in oven until crisp and brown. 
 Pour boiling water over toast and let stand 1 hour. Strain 
 through cheese-cloth, salt to taste, and serve very hot or very 
 cold. 
 
 Rice Water 
 
 2 tablespoonfiils rice 4 cups boiling water 
 
 Pick over and wash rice, boil in a sauce pan 2 hours or more; 
 strain, add salt or sugar, ser^-e hot or cold. Lemonade made of 
 rice water when cold is very refreshing. 
 
PRESERVES AND JELLIES 
 
 Directions for Jelly Making 
 
 If large fruit, cut in small pieces, and nearly cover with water; 
 it depends on fruit as to exact amount of water. Cover the 
 kettle, and boil slowly until soft. Put fruit and juice in bag, 
 and hang in warm place to drip. To each pint of juice allow 1 
 pound of sugar. Boil the juice from 15 to 20 minutes. Do not 
 cover the juice; add to it the sugar heated in the oven. Boil up. 
 Strain into glasses. The jelly may be covered with waxed paper, 
 brandied paper, or enough paraffine melted to exclude the air. 
 
 Currant Jelly 
 
 Wash and stem the fruit, put in kettle, cook until soft, strain 
 through a cloth; to each pint of juice add 1 pound of sugar; boil 
 15 minutes, skim frequently, do not stir, put in glasses. 
 
 Plum or Damson Jelly 
 
 Six pounds of fruit, stick with a fork. Put in the kettle 2 cups 
 of water, pour in the fruit, and simmer until soft, drain through 
 a colander, then strain the juice through a cloth; to each pint 
 of juice allow 1 pound of sugar; boil about 15 or 20 minutes, 
 and put in glasses. 
 
 Light Apple Jelly 
 
 Pare and quarter the apples, and nearly cover with water; 
 cover, boil until perfectly soft. Drain through a coarse bag, and 
 hang in a warm place to drip, and to each pint of juice allow 
 1 pound of sugar. Boil for 20 minutes. When red jelly is 
 wanted do not pare the apples. 
 
PRESERVES AND JELLIES 163 
 
 Crab Apple Jelly 
 
 Wash and stem the apples, cut out any imperfections, halve 
 and put in preserving kettle, and nearly cover with water, and 
 let them boil until soft. Strain through a colander, then through 
 a cloth, and allow 1 pound of sugar to every pint of juice, and 
 flavor with lemon; boil 20 minutes, skim frequently, do not stir, 
 and put in glasses. 
 
 Grape Jelly 
 
 Heat the fruit slowly, mashing it the while, then allow it to 
 boil 20 minutes, strain without squeezing through linen cloth. 
 Allow } pound of loaf sugar to each pint of juice, heat thoroughly 
 and pour into glasses. 
 
 Fox Grape Jelly 
 
 Stem the grapes, put in the kettle with a little water, and when 
 the skins burst, strain, and allow 1 pound of sugar to a pint of 
 juice; boil 20 to 30 minutes, and put in glasses. 
 
 Preserved Peaches 
 
 Peal the fruit, and for each pound of fruit allow 1 pound of 
 sugar, put in preserving kettle in alternate layers. Set on the 
 side of the stove to heat slowly; when sugar is melted, put over 
 the heat and cook until done, and the syrup is rich; watch con- 
 stantly. 
 
 Half Preserved Peaches 
 
 1 pound sugar 1 cup water 
 
 1 pound fruit 
 
 Make a syrup; when boiling add the peaches, peeled, cook 
 until they change color, pour into jars immediately and seal air- 
 tight. 
 
164 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Brandied Peaches 
 
 Prepare peaches as for preserved peaches, and to every 4 
 pounds of fruit allow 1 pint of best brandy. It must be added 
 to the syrup just before filling the jars. 
 
 Canned Peaches 
 
 Peel, halve and remove the stones. Make a syrup of J pint 
 of sugar to 1 pint of water. Heat until the sugar is melted. 
 Put the peaches in, and let them scald well. Set the jars that 
 have been thoroughly heated on a wet towel, put fruit in, fill to 
 the very top with syrup, seal, when cold, wrap jars in paper, keep 
 in a cool place. 
 
 Pineapples 
 
 One-half pound sugar to 1 pound fruit sHced, let it come to a 
 thorough scald, and skim it and put in jars, which have been 
 well heated; fasten up immediately. 
 
 Air-tight Pineapples 
 
 Pare fruit carefully, removing the eyes. Scrape the pineapple 
 from the core with a silver fork. Place in preserving kettle 
 with sugar. Stir frequently, and when it has boiled, put in jars, 
 previously heated with hot water, and seal immediately. 
 
 Preserved Blackberries 
 
 4 pounds sugar 4 pounds fruit 
 
 Pick over the fruit, put the fruit in layers with the sugar, over 
 night; in the morning drain off the juice, let it boil 15 minutes, 
 add the fruit, and when it boils, fill into the jars. Raspberries, 
 strawberries and currants may be preserved in the same way. 
 
PRESERVES AND JELLIES 165 
 
 Preserved Damsons 
 
 6 pounds fruit ^ cup water 
 
 6 pounds sugar 
 
 Wash the fruit and prick the skins with a coarse needle, put on 
 the fire with the water, and when the skins burst, drain the juice, 
 and allow IJ pint of juice and IJ pint of water to 6 pounds of 
 fruit and 6 pounds of sugar. Boil until tender and fill into jars. 
 Plums may be preserved in the same way. 
 
 Preserved Huckleberries 
 
 1 pound sugar J cup water 
 
 1 quart berries 
 
 Make a syrup of water and sugar, when boifing add berries; 
 cook^5 minutes ; seal in glasses. 
 
 Preserved Crab Apple 
 
 6 pounds sugar 1 pint water 
 
 6 pounds fruit 
 
 Make a syrup of the sugar and water, and when it is boiling, 
 add the apples, and cook until tender. Fill into jars. 
 
 Preserved Grapes 
 
 3 pounds sugar 4 pounds fruit 
 
 Pulp the grapes, simmer until soft; strain out the seeds; 
 weigh the fruit skins and pulp, and boil 15 minutes. Seal up in 
 glass jars. 
 
 Preserved Peach Tomatoes 
 
 4 pounds sugar 2 lemons 
 
 1 pint water 4 pounds fruit 
 
 Make a syrup of sugar and water, and when it has boiled, cook 
 2 pounds of fruit, at a time (from which the skin has been 
 peeled) until transparent. When the fruit has all been cooked, 
 
166 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 boil the syrup until thick, add the juice and grated rind of 2 
 lemons, reheat the fruit, and fill into jars. 
 
 Quince Preserves 
 
 Pare, quarter and core the quinces, saving the parings and 
 cores. Put the quinces over the fire with just enough water to 
 cover them, and simmer until they are soft not broken. Take 
 them out and spread on dishes. Add the parings, removing 
 seeds and cores, to the water in which the quinces were boiled, 
 stew, closely covered for an hour, strain through a jelly bag, and 
 to a pint of this liquor, allow 1 pound of sugar; boil up and 
 skim it, put in the fruit and boil J hour, and pour into jars. 
 
 Watermelon Rind Preserves 
 
 Peel the green rind from a melon and most of the pink, wash, 
 weigh, put in a kettle and cover with cold water, set on the stove 
 and bring slowly to a boil; simmer gently, until clear, lift from 
 the water with a skimmer, add to the water as many pounds of 
 sugar as you had fruit, and when the sugar has dissolved return 
 the rind to the syrup, and cook until the rind is clear and red 
 and the syrup rich, if the syrup boils away too much, before the 
 rind is done, a little water may be added. If the flavor is hked, 
 a lemon may be sliced and cooked with the preserves. 
 
 Blackberry Jam 
 
 1 pound sugar 1 pound fruit 
 
 Mash the fruit, add the sugar, and stand in porcelain-lined kettle 
 over night. In the morning, boil 20 minutes, no more. Seal in 
 glasses. Strawberry, currant, raspberry jams may be made in 
 the same way. 
 
PRESERVES AND JELLIES 167 
 
 Gingered Pears 
 
 7 pounds fruit 1 pint water 
 
 7 pounds sugar 3 lemons, juice and rind 
 
 1 ounce green ginger root 
 
 Soak the ginger in the water over night. Cut up the ginger, 
 add it to the sugar and water in which the ginger was soaked, 
 and let the sugar melt and add the pears, peeled and cut in small 
 pieces, let it come to a boil, then simmer gently several hours, 
 until the syrup is thick; it should be red when cooked. Seal up 
 in jars. 
 
 Orange Marmalade 
 
 1 orange 1 grapefruit 
 
 1 lemon 
 
 Grind all in meat grinder, measure and put three times as 
 much water and let stand until next day. The following day 
 boil 10 minutes, add as much sugar as juice, cup for cup, and 
 boil until it jellies about IJ hour. This will make about 16 
 glasses. 
 
 Orange Marmalade 
 
 SHce the oranges very thin, and cut in small pieces, taking out 
 all seeds. Measure, and allow 3 times as much cold water; let 
 it stand 24 hours, then boil until tender. Let this stand until 
 next day, to each cup of fruit allow 1 cup of sugar and boil gently, 
 until the syrup thickens, which will be about an hour. 
 
PICKLES 
 
 Sweet Pickled Cantaloupe 
 
 Prepare the fruit, pare, remove seeds, and slice and parboil 
 with a pinch of alum, and to every seven pounds of fruit allow : 
 
 4 pounds sugar 1 ounce stick cinnamon 
 
 1 pint vinegar 3 lemons sliced 
 
 1 ounce cloves 
 
 Make a sjo^up of vinegar, sugar and spices, tied in cheese-cloth, 
 put in the fruit, as soon as it looks clear and can stick a straw 
 through it, take it out ; let syrup boil well, then return the fruit 
 and heat thoroughly before putting in jars. Apples, peaches, 
 sickle pears, plums, quinces and watermelon may be pickled in 
 the same way. 
 
 Spiced Cantaloupe 
 
 Prepare the fruit, pare, remove seeds, cut in sections, and to 
 every 7 pounds of fruit allow: 
 
 4 pounds of sugar 1 teaspoonful ground cloves 
 
 ^ ounce ginger root 2 teaspoonfuls ground cinnamon 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls ground allspice | teaspoonful ground mace 
 1 pint vinegar 
 
 Mix the spices, tie them tightly in a bag, with enough room 
 to swell ; put sugar, vinegar, spices and ginger in porcelain-lined 
 kettle over the fire; when boihng, add the cantaloupe; take 
 from the fire, stand in a cool place over night. Next day drain 
 off liquor, and bring again to the boiling point, pour over the 
 cantaloupe, and again stand aside until the next day. Continue 
 to do this for nine consecutive days, and on the last day boil the 
 cantaloupe until tender. The liquor must be boiled down until 
 a thick syrup, and just enough to cover the fruit. Apples, 
 
PICKLES 169 
 
 peaches, cherries, plums, quinces, watermelon may be spiced in 
 the same way. 
 
 Sweet Pickled Peaches 
 
 1 pint cider vinegar i ounce cinnamon 
 
 10 pounds of peaches I teaspoonful of mace 
 
 4 pounds of sugar 
 
 Wash and rub the peaches, and stick them with cloves, about 
 8 to each peach. Make a syrup of vinegar, sugar and spices. 
 Let boil for 3 minutes. Put in as much fruit as this will cover, 
 and boil gently until tender, but not soft. Remove from kettle, 
 and continue until all the fruit is used. Pour back from the jar 
 all the syrup which has drained from the fruit and boil until it 
 thickens. Pour over the fruit, and seal the jars. Fruit may be 
 pared or not. 
 
 Cherries, Bottled, for Winter Use 
 
 Fill the bottles with good Morello cherries, without stems. 
 Stand the bottles in water, and let it boil until the juice is up to 
 the neck of the bottles ; then take them out, cork them tight, 
 and cover the corks with sealing wax. 
 
 Sweet Pickled Cherries 
 
 To pickle cherries with stalk and stone, cut the stalk to any 
 length you like, prick with a needle 2 or 3 times. Boil 1 quart of 
 sharp vinegar, with 3 pounds of sugar, skim it and pour while hot 
 over 7 pounds of fruit, ounce each of cinnamon, cloves and 
 allspice; tied in cheese-cloth bag. Let it remain 24 hours. The 
 next day pour off the syrup, boil it again, and put back on the 
 fruit, and stand another 24 hours, after which boil the whole, first 
 scalding the syrup. When cold, put in jars, cover with the syrup, 
 and seal. Damsons, plums and peaches may be pickled in the 
 same way. 
 
170 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Pickled Damsons 
 
 7 pounds damsons, pricked thoroughly ^ ounce mace 
 
 5 pounds granulated sugar ^ ounce cinnamon 
 
 1 pint strong vinegar ^ ounce cloves 
 
 Put in the kettle alternate layers of fruit and sugar, heat 
 slowly to a boil, add vinegar and spices, put in a bag. Boil 5 
 minutes, take out fruit with perforated skimmer, spread on 
 dishes to cool. Boil syrup thick. Pack fruit in jars and pour 
 syrup on, boiling hot, and seal. Put spices in a bag and leave in 
 syrup until spiced enough to taste. 
 
 Sweet Cucumber Pickle. 
 
 Wipe the cucumbers well after taking out of brine; letting 
 them soak a few days in fresh water, wipe dry, and cut in lengths 
 or rings. Green them over the fire in weak vinegar, with grape 
 leaves, as with other pickle; put a small piece of alum in while 
 greening. Then take 7 pounds of cucumbers, 1 quart vinegar, 
 2i pounds sugar, a little cinnamon, mace, pepper and plenty of 
 celery seed. Boil the syrup, and pour over the cucumbers, 
 three mornings in succession; the third and last time put the 
 pickle in and let it boil a few minutes. With this receipt cucum- 
 bers can be used any time during the year. When fresh cucum- 
 bers are used, it is necessary to put them in weak salt water 24 
 hours before following the above. Black or red pepper can be 
 used. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS 
 
 Table of Weights and Measures. 
 
 A cupful is an even cup. 
 
 A spoonful is as rounding on top as the bowl underneath, liquids 
 full to the brim. 
 
 A tablespoonful = i ounce of water. 
 25 drops = 1 teaspoonful. 
 
 3 teaspoonfuls = 1 tablespoonful. 
 
 2 teaspoonfuls = 1 dessertspoonful. 
 
 4 tablespoonfuls = 1 wineglass. 
 
 1 wineglass = i gill. 
 
 2 gills = 1 tumbler or cup. 
 1 tumbler or cup = i pint. 
 
 1 quart sifted flour = 1 pound. 
 
 5 cupfuls sifted flour = 1 pound. 
 
 3 cupfuls sugar = 1 pound. 
 
 4 cupfuls Uquid = 1 quart. , 
 
 1 pint closely packed butter = 1 pound. 
 
 1 tablespoonful butter = 1 ounce. 
 
 2 tablespoonfuls coffee = 1 ounce. 
 10 eggs average = 1 pound. 
 
 Butter size of an egg = 2 tablespoonfuls or 2 ounces. 
 
 1 tablespoonful of melted butter is measured after melting. 
 
 1 tablespoonful of butter melted is measured before melting. 
 
 Rules for Cooking Vegetables. 
 
 Young peas, green corn, spinach, tomatoes, asparagus, brussels 
 sprouts, 20 minutes. 
 Rice, potatoes, macaroni, cauliflower, 20 to 30 minutes. 
 
172 THE CHURCH COOK BOOK 
 
 Young turnips, young beets, young carrots, squash, 45 minutes 
 to 1 hour. 
 
 String beans, lima beans, oyster plant, 1 hour. 
 
 Winter Vegetables. 
 
 Potatoes, white, 30 minutes. 
 Sweet potatoes, 45 minutes. 
 Potatoes, baked, 1 hour. 
 Turnips, 2 hours. 
 Beets, 3i hours. 
 Parsnips, 1 hour. 
 Carrots, IJ hour. 
 
 Time Required for Cooking Meats. 
 
 Beef, rare, per pound, 10 to 12 minutes. 
 Beef, well done, per pound, 12 to 15 minutes. 
 Mutton, per pound, 15 minutes. 
 Veal, 25 minutes. 
 
 Poultry Roasted. 
 
 Large fowl will take f hour. 
 
 Small fowl will take 20 minutes, basting frequently with butter. 
 A small turkey will take li hour. 
 A goose will take 1 hour. 
 
 Large turkeys or geese, IJ to 2 hours. Each of the last should 
 have the breast papered. 
 
 Partridges require 15 minutes; if large, 18 minutes. 
 
 Pigeons, 20 minutes. 
 
 Ducks, 1 hour. 
 
 Wild ducks, hot oven, i hour. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS 173 
 
 Boiling. 
 
 Mutton, turkey and chicken, per pound, 15 to 20 minutes. 
 
 Potted beef, per pound, 30 minutes. 
 
 Ham, per pound, 20 minutes. 
 
 Old fowl, per pound, 30 minutes. 
 
 Large fish, per pound, 12 to 15 minutes. 
 
 Tripe, per pound, 3 to 5 hours. 
 
 Broiling. 
 
 Steak, 1 inch thick, 8 to 10 minutes. 
 Steak, 1^ inch thick, 10 to 15 minutes. 
 Mutton chops, 8 to 12 minutes. 
 Spring chicken, 20 to 25 minutes. 
 Squabs, 10 to 15 minutes. 
 Shad, 15 to 25 minutes. 
 Small fish, 5 to 10 minutes. 
 
CLASSIFIED ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
 
 Beverages 
 
 Blackberry cordial 159 
 
 Cherryade 156 
 
 Chocolate 156 
 
 Claret cup 160 
 
 Cocoa 156 
 
 Cofifee 155 
 
 drip 155 
 
 Egg nogg 157 
 
 Fruit punch 160 
 
 Ginger beer 158 
 
 Grape juice 160 
 
 Lemonade 157 
 
 egg 157 
 
 Mint julep 160 
 
 Orangeade 156 
 
 Punch 159 
 
 Raspberry shrub 158 
 
 vinegar 158 
 
 Sherbet, patent gas 159 
 
 Tea 155 
 
 flaxseed 159 
 
 Prussian 155 
 
 Water, apple, rhubarb, lemonade 157 
 
 rice 161 
 
 toast 161 
 
 Bread 
 
 Boston brown 76 
 
 corn 86 
 
 graham 75 
 
 oatmeal 76 
 
 rice corn 87 
 
 rye 76 
 
 spoon batter 87 
 
 twentieth century 74 
 
 white 73 
 
 Biscuit, baking powder 80 
 
 Maryland 79 
 
 soda 80 
 
 Breakfast gems 81 
 
 Buns, cinnamon 78 
 
 currant 79 
 
 Cakes, buckwheat 84 
 
 caramel syrup for griddle 85 
 
 cornmeal griddle 84 
 
 (sour milk) 85 
 
 griddle 84 
 
 hoe 86 
 
 pan 85 
 
 Corn pone 86 
 
 Croutons 88 
 
 Dried bread crumbs 88 
 
 Fritters, banana 86 
 
 batter 85 
 
 rice 85 
 
 Muffins 81 
 
 English 82 
 
 cornmeal 83 
 
 corn 83 
 
 hominy 82 
 
 Pie crust 87 
 
 Popovers 81 
 
 Rolls, French 78 
 
 Parker house 77 
 
 potato 77 
 
 potato egg 76 
 
 white 78 
 
 Sally Lunn 80 
 
 Sweet rusk 79 
 
 Toast, cream 89 
 
 ^ dry 88 
 
 t milk 89 
 
 ^ water 88 
 
 s? white or cream sauce for 88 
 
 Waffles 83 
 
 rice 83 
 
 Yeast, home made 74 
 
 Butter and milk 
 
 Baked crackers with cheese 95 
 
 Butter 93 
 
 balls 93 
 
 Cheese croquettes 95 
 
 straws 95 
 
 Creamed cheese on toast 95 
 
INDEX 
 
 175 
 
 Butter and milk — continued 
 
 Devonshire cream 93 
 
 Milk 94 
 
 pasteurized 94 
 
 Sour milk cheese 94 
 
 Welsh rarebit 96 
 
 Cakes 
 
 angle's food 128 
 
 black chocolate 127 
 
 fruit 124 
 
 boiled sugar sponge 129 
 
 buttercup 134 
 
 chocolate 127 
 
 cream 128 
 
 charlotte 130 
 
 cocoanut 126 
 
 election 125 
 
 French 126 
 
 fruit 124 
 
 ginger 136 
 
 pound 127 
 
 layer 126 
 
 pound 126 
 
 simple rules for baking 123 
 
 snow 128 
 
 soft ginger 136 
 
 spice 131 
 
 charlotte 131 
 
 sponge 129 
 
 batter for layer 129 
 
 sugar 138 
 
 Bread, ginger 128 
 
 raisin 125 
 
 cookies, chocolate 130 
 
 chocolate and nut 137 
 
 maple sugar 138 
 
 peanut 137 
 
 Crisps 136 
 
 Crullers 135 
 
 Cry babies 135 
 
 Doughnuts 135 
 
 Filling, almond cream 133 
 
 caramel 133 
 
 chocolate 133 
 
 cream 131,132 
 
 maple sugar 134 
 
 nut... 133 
 
 Filling, orange 132 
 
 or lemon 133 
 
 vanilla 132 
 
 Icing, caramel 131 
 
 boiled 132 
 
 chocolate 133 
 
 cinnamon 132 
 
 Jelly cake roll 129 
 
 Jumbles 135 
 
 Kisses 134 
 
 chocolate 134 
 
 Nut sticks 138 
 
 Oatmeal macaroons 138 
 
 Rocks 135 
 
 Sponge drops 130 
 
 Tarts, sand 137 
 
 Wafers, chocolate 136 
 
 Candy 
 
 candy 146 
 
 barley 139 
 
 chocolate 143 
 
 cream 141 
 
 horehound 140 
 
 maple sugar with nuts 142 
 
 molasses 142 
 
 peanut 140 
 
 butter scotch 143 
 
 white cream 146 
 
 caramels 144 
 
 nut 145 
 
 pulled 144 
 
 chocolate mints 141 
 
 creams 146 
 
 walnut 142 
 
 Cocoanut drops 140 
 
 Cream candy loaf 145 
 
 dates 142 
 
 Fudge 145 
 
 maple 145 
 
 Kisses 143 
 
 Nougat 147 
 
 French 146 
 
 Nut dates 142 
 
 Peppermint drops 143 
 
 Pinoche 142 
 
 Syrup for snowballs 140 
 
 Taffy, butter 141 
 
 everton 147 
 
176 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Cereals] 
 
 Cornmeal, molded 72 
 
 Directions for making mush and 
 
 gruels 70 
 
 Oatmeal coarse 71 
 
 gruel No. 1 71 
 
 No.2 71 
 
 Rolled oats or rolled wheat 71 
 
 Cooking fruits 
 
 Apples, baked 102 
 
 coddled 101 
 
 steamed 101 
 
 Bananas, baked 102 
 
 Cranberry sauce 103 
 
 Stewed evaporated apricots, 
 
 peaches and apples 102 
 
 Prunes, spiced 103 
 
 stewed 101 
 
 Rhubarb, stewed 103 
 
 Desserts 
 
 Apple dumpling 109 
 
 Bird's nest 118 
 
 Charlotte russe Ill 
 
 Cream, Bavarian 120 
 
 Spanish 120 
 
 strawberry 121 
 
 Custard, baked or steamed 119 
 
 boiled 118 
 
 chocolate 119 
 
 rennet or junket 119 
 
 Flummery 118 
 
 Fruit sago 112 
 
 Gordon pie crust 115 
 
 Meringue, rice 114 
 
 Mince meat 115 
 
 Mock charlotte Ill 
 
 Peach cobbler 110 
 
 mousse 120 
 
 Pie, chocolate 116 
 
 cocoanut 117 
 
 Florida orange 116 
 
 lemon No. 1 116 
 
 No.2 117 
 
 mince, without meat 115 
 
 pumpkin 118 
 
 rhubarb 117 
 
 Pie, sweet potato custard 117 
 
 Puffs, cream 110 
 
 nun's 107 
 
 Pudding, almond 114 
 
 apple, tapioca or sago 105 
 
 bread 106 
 
 carrot 104 
 
 chocolate cream 113 
 
 Christmas plum 104 
 
 cocoanut 106 
 
 cornstarch 113 
 
 cottage 107 
 
 cream rice 113 
 
 crust 106 
 
 fig 105 
 
 huckleberry 105 
 
 molasses 114 
 
 prune 112 
 
 queen 104 
 
 rice chocolate 115 
 
 roly-poly 107 
 
 Sauce, egg 109 
 
 hard 108 
 
 lemon 109 
 
 maple syrup pudding 109 
 
 nogg 108 
 
 nutmeg 108 
 
 plain 108 
 
 Short cake, strawberry 109 
 
 Souffle, almond .122 
 
 omelet 121 
 
 prune 122 
 
 Sponge, Washington 112 
 
 Trifle 121 
 
 netherwood 120 
 
 Eggs 
 
 and peppers 100 
 
 creamy 98 
 
 golden rod 98 
 
 hard cooked 97 
 
 poached 97 
 
 scrambled 99 
 
 soft cooked 97 
 
 steamed • • • • 98 
 
 omelet, cheese 99 
 
 corn 99 
 
 ham 99 
 
 Timbale of ham 100 
 
INDEX 
 
 177 
 
 Fish 
 
 broiled 17 
 
 butter dressing for 17 
 
 creamed 15 
 
 cod 18 
 
 hash 16 
 
 in aspic 16 
 
 sauce for 18 
 
 for boiled 15 
 
 scalloped 16 
 
 Codfish balls 18 
 
 Crabs, deviled 19 
 
 soft shell 19 
 
 Lobster k la Newberg 18 
 
 cutlets 18 
 
 Oyster cocktail 22 
 
 pat^s 20 
 
 Oysters broiled 20 
 
 brown sauce 21 
 
 deviled 22 
 
 fried 21 
 
 pie 22 
 
 scalloped 20 
 
 spiced 21 
 
 stewed 20 
 
 Rock, to boil 15 
 
 Salmon croquettes 19 
 
 loaf 17 
 
 Sauce k la tartars 19 
 
 horseradish 23 
 
 white 15 
 
 Shad, baked 16 
 
 Terrapin 22 
 
 Freezing 
 
 Cafe frape 151 
 
 Chocolate sauce 154 
 
 Compote of oranges 153 
 
 frozen pudding with a .153 
 
 Directions for freezing 148 
 
 Frozen cherries 151 
 
 custard 150 
 
 pudding 152 
 
 Ice, orange 152 
 
 pineapple 152 
 
 Ice cream, bisque 150 
 
 chocolate 151 
 
 coffee 151 
 
 for one 149 
 
 peach 150 
 
 Ice cream, Philadelphia 149 
 
 pineapple 151 
 
 plain vanilla 150 
 
 strawberry 150 
 
 tuttifrutti ..151 
 
 vanilla or lemon 150 
 
 maple mousse 154 
 
 Plain vanilla parfait 154 
 
 Sherbet, lemon 152 
 
 milk 149 
 
 Vanilla cream and coffee 151 
 
 Water ice, currant 152 
 
 Meats 
 
 Beefsteak, broiled 29 
 
 mushroom sauce 30 
 
 smothered in onions . . . 30 
 
 stuffed 29 
 
 Beef juice 26 
 
 frizzled 31 
 
 with scrambled eggs 31 
 
 stew 28 
 
 Boihng 24 
 
 Broiling 25 
 
 Brains, scrambled 41 
 
 Brown gravy 27 
 
 Calf's foot jelly 40 
 
 Calves liver and bacon 34 
 
 Chops, pan broiled 36 
 
 Crust for meat pies 37 
 
 Curry of lamb 36 
 
 Dumplings for stews 29 
 
 French hash (cottage pie) 33 
 
 Fricassee cold meat 32 
 
 Gravy 27 
 
 for mutton 39 
 
 Hamburg steak 29 
 
 Hash 33 
 
 Kidney 31 
 
 Liver saut6 34 
 
 Maitre d'hotel butter 29 
 
 Minced meat on toast 32 
 
 Mint jelly 38 
 
 sauce 39 
 
 Mock duck 30 
 
 Mutton reheated 36 
 
 Pan broiling 26 
 
 Pig's feet, soused 40 
 
 Pot roast 27 
 
 Roasting 24 
 
178 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Meats — continued 
 
 Roast beef 27 
 
 mutton 35 
 
 Sauce for veal or lamb stew 35 
 
 white 37 
 
 Sausage, fresh 40 
 
 smoked 40 
 
 Scrapple 40 
 
 Shoulder of lamb, to bake 36 
 
 Stewed kidney 31 
 
 Stewing 25 
 
 Sweetbreads 32 
 
 broiled 32 
 
 Tomato jelly 39 
 
 sauce 39 
 
 Veal cutlet 34 
 
 loaf 34 
 
 or lamb stew 35 
 
 Warm-over mutton 37 
 
 Yorkshire pudding 37 
 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 Boiling 173 
 
 Broihng 173 
 
 Poultry roasted 172 
 
 Rules for cooking vegetables 171 
 
 Table of weights and measures . . .171 
 Time required for cooking meats . 172 
 Winter vegetables 171 
 
 Pickles 
 
 Cantaloupe, spiced 168 
 
 sweet pickled 168 
 
 Cherries, bottled, for winter use . . 169 
 
 sweet pickled 169 
 
 Damsons, pickled 170 
 
 Peaches, sweet pickled 169 
 
 Sweet cucumber pickle 170 
 
 Poultry and Game 
 
 Brown gravy 44 
 
 Chicken croquettes 45 
 
 cream gravy for fried 42 
 
 fricasseed 43 
 
 fried 42 
 
 panned 43 
 
 p&t6s 45 
 
 pilaff of 45 
 
 molded 46 
 
 Chicken, smothered spring 42 
 
 stewed 42 
 
 Oyster stuffing for turkey 44 
 
 Partridges, broiled 46 
 
 Pigeons, stewed 46 
 
 Raisin and nut stuffing for poul- 
 try 44 
 
 Reed birds 47 
 
 Roast turkey or chicken 43 
 
 Rabbits, fried 47 
 
 stewed 46 
 
 Scalloped chicken or turkey 45 
 
 Preserves and jellies 
 
 Blackberry jam 166 
 
 Jelly, crab apple 163 
 
 currant 162 
 
 directions for making 162 
 
 fox grape 163 
 
 grape 163 
 
 light apple 162 
 
 plum or damson 162 
 
 Peaches, brandied 164 
 
 canned 164 
 
 half preserved 163 
 
 Pears, gingered 167 
 
 Orange marmalade 167 
 
 Pineapples 164 
 
 air-tight 164 
 
 Preserved blackberries 164 
 
 crab apples 165 
 
 damsons 165 
 
 grapes 165 
 
 huckleberries 165 
 
 peaches 163 
 
 peach tomatoes 165 
 
 quince 166 
 
 water melon rind 166 
 
 Salads 
 
 a la Heney 69 
 
 apple and nut 69 
 
 asparagus 69 
 
 chicken 67 
 
 cucumber 69 
 
 egg and beet 69 
 
 fish 68 
 
 fruit 66 
 
 grape fruit. 67 
 
 lobster 66 
 
INDEX 
 
 179 
 
 Salads — continued 
 
 pineapple 67 
 
 potato 68 
 
 salmon 66 
 
 shrimp 66 
 
 string bean 69 
 
 tomato 68 
 
 water lily 64 
 
 ■walnut 66 
 
 Dressing, cooked salad 63 
 
 chicken salad 65 
 
 cream 64 
 
 French 64 
 
 mayonnaise 65 
 
 French mustard 65 
 
 Sauce, egg 67 
 
 tartare 67 
 
 Shredded cabbage or cold slaw ... 64 
 
 Tomato aspic 68 
 
 Sandwiches 
 
 apple 92 
 
 cheese 90 
 
 chicken or ham 91 
 
 club 91 
 
 cucumber 91 
 
 egg 90 
 
 fig 92 
 
 fillingfor 90 
 
 lettuce or cress 91 
 
 nut 90 
 
 nut and cheese 90 
 
 nut and fruit 91 
 
 ohve 92 
 
 salted almonds 92 
 
 peanuts 92 
 
 sardine 91 
 
 Soups 
 
 baked bean 8 
 
 bean 8 
 
 beef stock for 13 
 
 bouillon 11 
 
 caramel 11 
 
 celery, cream of 12 
 
 chicken 9 
 
 clam 9 
 
 corn 12 
 
 crab 10 
 
 Soup, duchess 13 
 
 dumplings 14 
 
 eggs for terrapin or turtle .... 10 
 
 egg noodles for 9 
 
 gumbo 9 
 
 lobster, bisque of 10 
 
 okra 13 
 
 oyster 11 
 
 pepper pot 13 
 
 potato 8, 11 
 
 split pea 7 
 
 terrapin 10 
 
 tomato bisque 12 
 
 Vegetables 
 
 Asparagus 60 
 
 Baked macaroni 56 
 
 Beans, Boston baked 62 
 
 lima 59 
 
 Boiled carrots 60 
 
 onions 61 
 
 turnips 61 
 
 Brussels sprouts 58 
 
 Cabbage, boiled 58 
 
 lady's 58 
 
 creamed 58 
 
 Cauliflower 59 
 
 Celery, stewed 59 
 
 Corn on the cob 56 
 
 pudding 57 
 
 stewed 56 
 
 Cucumbers, fried 69 
 
 Egg plant 60 
 
 stuffed 60 
 
 General rules for cooking vege- 
 tables 48 
 
 Hominy 61 
 
 pudding 62 
 
 Lazania 56 
 
 Macaroni with cheese and toma- 
 toes 55 
 
 Oyster plant 60 
 
 Parsnips 61 
 
 Peas, green 59 
 
 Peppers, stuffed 57 
 
 baked and corn 57 
 
 com with 57 
 
 Potatoes 49 
 
 baked 50 
 
 boiled 49 
 
180 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Vegetables — Continued 
 
 Potato cakes 51 
 
 Potatoes, creamed No. 1 50 
 
 No.2 51 
 
 with cheese 51 
 
 croquettes 52 
 
 mashed 50 
 
 riced 50 
 
 stuffed 51 
 
 Rice and beans 53 
 
 croquettes 54 
 
 fried 54 
 
 how to boil 53 
 
 Spanish 53 
 
 Rice, to wash 53 
 
 with milk 54 
 
 Sauce, white 49 
 
 Scalloped dishes 49 
 
 onions 61 
 
 Seasoning 48 
 
 Spinach 59 
 
 Succotash 57 
 
 Sweet potato croquettes 52 
 
 baked puree 52 
 
 Tomatoes, fried 55 
 
 scalloped 55 
 
 stewed 54 
 
 stuffed 55 
 
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