Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Cooking; Home economics
=Cranberry Sauce.=—Wash well and put a tea-cup of water to every quart
of cranberries. Let them stew about an hour and a half, then take up
and sweeten abundantly. Some strain them through a colander, then
sweeten largely and then put into moulds. To be eaten with fowls.
=Apple Sauce.=—Core and slice the best apples you can get, cook till
soft, then add sugar and a little butter. Serve it with fresh pork and
veal.
=Walnut or Butternut Catsup.=—Gather the nuts when they can be pierced
with a pin. Beat them to a soft pulp and let them lie for two weeks in
quite salt water, say a small handful of salt to every twenty, and
water enough to cover them. Drain off this liquor, and pour on a pint
of boiling vinegar and mix with the nuts, and then strain it out. To
each quart of this liquor put three table-spoonfuls of pepper, one
of ginger, two spoonfuls of powdered cloves, and three spoonfuls of
grated nutmeg. Boil an hour, and bottle when cold. See that the spice
is equally mixed. Do not use mushroom catsup, as the above is as good
and not so dangerous.
=Mock Capers.=—Dry the green but full-grown nasturtion seeds for a day
in the sun, then put them in jars and pour on spiced vinegar. These
are good for fish sauce, in drawn butter.
=Salad Dressing.=—Mash fine two boiled potatoes, and add a
tea-spoonful of mustard, two of salt, four of sweet-oil, three of
sharp vinegar, and the yelks of two well-boiled eggs rubbed fine. Mix
first the egg and potatoes, add the mustard and salt, and gradually
mix in the oil, stirring vigorously the while. Stir in the vinegar
last. Melted butter may be used in place of sweet-oil. The more a
salad dressing is stirred, the better it will be.
=Turkey or Chicken Salad, also a Lettuce Salad.=—Take one quarter
chopped meat (the white meat of the fowl is the best for this purpose)
and three quarters chopped celery, well mixed, and pour over it
a sauce containing the yelks of two hard-boiled eggs chopped, a
tea-spoonful of salt, half a salt-spoonful of black pepper, half
a tea-spoonful of mustard, three tea-spoonfuls of sugar, half a
tea-cupful of vinegar, and three tea-spoonfuls of sweet-oil or of
melted butter. Mix the salt, pepper, sugar, and mustard thoroughly,
whip a raw egg and add slowly, stir in the sweet-oil or melted butter,
mixing it well and very slowly, and lastly add the vinegar. Garnish
with rings of whites of eggs boiled hard. Chopped pickles may be
added, and white cabbage in place of the celery.
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