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Broiled Mackerel

(German), (Pennsylvania Germans)
When fish has been cleaned, cut off head and scrape dark skin from inside. Soak salt mackerel in cold water over night, skin side up, always. In the morning; drain, wipe dry and place on a greased broiler, turn until cooked on both sides. Take up carefully on a hot platter, pour over a large tablespoonful of melted butter and a little pepper, or lay the mack


Biscuits Of Kernel Or Graham Flour

(Bread, Biscuit, And Rolls.), (The Golden Age Cook Book)
Follow the recipe for baking powder biscuits, using kernel or Graham flour instead of white flour. If Graham is used sift twice before adding the baking powder. Roll thin, cut with a biscuit-cutter, prick with a fork and bake in a quick oven. CCAPTER Eggs.


Lemon Shrub

(Practical Cookery.), (The Most Valuable And Original Receipts)
Procure nice fresh lemons--pare the rind off thin, then squeeze out the juice of the lemons, and strain it. To a pint of the juice put a pound of white sugar, broken into small pieces. Measure out for each pint of the syrup three table-spoonsful of French brandy, and soak the rind of the lemons in it. Let the whole remain a day, stirring up the lemon


A Winter Jelly

(Jellies), (The International Jewish Cook Book)
One-half peck of tart apples, one quart of cranberries. Cover with cold water and cook an hour. Strain through a jelly-bag without squeezing. There should be about three pints of juice. Use a bowl of sugar for each bowl of juice. When the juice is boiling add sugar which has been heated in oven and boil twenty minutes. Skim and pour into glasses. Will fill a


Fish To Recover When Tainted

(Fish.), (The Lady's Own Cookery Book)
When fish of any kind is tainted plunge it in cold milk, which will render it sweet again.


To Pickle Cauliflowers.

(Pickling.), (The Jewish Manual)
Remove the stalks and leaves, break the flower into pieces, parboil them in brine, then drain them, and lay them in a jar, and pour over boiling spiced vinegar.


Oysters A La Marechale

(Fish), (Joe Tilden's Recipes For Epicures)
Stew very gently in four ounces of butter some thinly sliced truffles and mushrooms. After cooking ten minutes add salt, white pepper, cayenne and mace. Stir in four large tablespoonfuls of flour and mix well together while it thickens. Put in the liquor of the oysters which has been scalded and skimmed. Then add milk (boiling) enough to make it as thick as


To Make White Pear-plum Clear-cakes

(), (Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts)
Take a good Quantity of white Pear-Plums, as many as you think will make three Pints, with as much boiling Water as will cover them; boil them very fast, 'till they are all to Pieces; then have ready three Pints of Apple-Jelly, and put it to the Plums, boiling them very fast together; then run it thro' a Jelly-bag: To a Pint put a Pound and half of s


Mocha Icing And Filling

(Cake), (The New Dr. Price Cookbook)
1/2 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup strong coffee 2 cups flour 3 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder 1/8 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons mixed spices Cream shortening and sugar until light; add well beaten yolks of eggs; add coffee slowly; add half of flour sifted with baking powder, salt and spices; mix and add well beaten whites of eggs; add remainder


A Pudding Made Of Small Birds

(), (Plain Cookery Book For The Working Classes)
Industrious and intelligent boys who live in the country, are mostly well up in the cunning art of catching small birds at odd times during the winter months. So, my young friends, when you have been so fortunate as to succeed in making a good catch of a couple of dozen of birds, you must first pluck them free from feathers, cut off their heads and cl



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