Buckeye Cookery

Tried and approved: the great American housekeeping bible of 1880.

Bills Of Fare

27 recipes in this part of Buckeye Cookery.

For Spring

SUNDAY. Breakfast. -Fried brook-trout; broiled ham; eggs on toast; baked beans and Boston brown bread; rice waffles; tea, coffee…

FIRST (Breakfast Boiled ham raw)

Breakfast. - Boiled ham; raw potatoes fried; boiled eggs; buckwheat cakes with maple syrup; pickles; coffee. Dinner.- Beef-soup; boiled…

THIRD (Breakfast Fried ham potatoes)

Breakfast.-Fried ham; potatoes boiled in jackets; radishes; scrambled eggs; fried mush, Graham bread; coffee, tea, chocolate. Dinner. -Veal…

For Summer

SUNDAY. Breakfast.-Nutmeg melons; fried fish; boiled plover; Saratoga potatoes; sliced tomatoes; Minnesota rolls, bread; coffee and…

FIRST (Breakfast Fruit fried fish)

Breakfast. -Fruit; fried fish; frizzled beef; milk toast; Graham gems; boiled eggs; tea and coffee. Dinner. ---Mutton soup; roast mutton…

Supper (Cold mutton with gooseberry)

Cold mutton with gooseberry catsup; sweet pickles; biscuit; radishes; ginger-snaps, sponge-cake; ice-cream, oranged strawberries; tea…

THIRD (Breakfast Backberry mush)

Breakfast. - Backberry mush; beefsteak; snipe on toast; sliced tomatoes, stewed corn; apple sauce; warm rolls; coffee, tea, or chocolate…

For Fall

SUNDAY. Breakfast. - Quail on toast; fricatelli; fried oysters; Saratoga potatoes; Indian griddle cakes with syrup, Boston brown bread…

FIRST (Breakfast Oatmeal mush hash)

Breakfast. -Oatmeal mush; hash and broiled liver, fried salt-pork; corn oysters, baked potatoes; Graham bread; stewed peaches…

Supper (Sardines pickled salmon cold)

Sardines, pickled salmon; cold slaw; warm biscuit and honey; bread and cheese; potato salad; frozen peaches, melons, huckleberries; tea…

THIRD (Breakfast Graham mush fried)

Breakfast. -Graham mush; fried trout; pork steak; beef croquettes; boiled Irish potatoes, baked sweet potatoes; corn rolls, bread; coffee…

For Winter

SUNDAY. Breakfast. -Baked beans with pork, Boston brown bread; fried clams; ringed potatoes, apple fritters with syrup; bread; coffee and…

FIRST (Breakfast Oatmeal mush veal)

Breakfast. -Oatmeal mush; veal cutlets breaded, fricasseed tripe; fried raw potatoes, fried onions; buckwheat cakes with syrup, bread; tea…

THIRD (Breakfast Beefsteak turkey)

Breakfast. - Beefsteak, turkey hash, pig's feet souse; boiled potatoes in jackets; Graham gems, buckwheat cakes and syrup; coffee and…

ECONOMICAL BREAKFASTS

First. - Ham and eggs, hash, baked potatoes, hominy, Graham gems, coffee. Second. -Breakfast stew or fish, fried Graham mush, tomatoes…

ECONOMICAL DINNERS

First. -Spare ribs, roast potatoes, cabbage, rice, pudding, fruit. Second. - Codfish, egg sauce, meat-pie, parsnips, horse-radish, pickles…

THANKSGIVING DINNERS

Oyster soup; boiled fresh cod with egg sauce; roast turkey, cranberry sauce; roast goose, bread sauce or currant jelly; stuffed ham, apple…

CHRISTMAS DINNERS

Clam soup; baked fish, Hollandaise sauce; roast turkey with oyster dressing and celery or oyster sauce, roast duck with onion sauce…

NEW YEAR'S DINNERS

Raw oysters; mock turtle soup; boiled turkey with oyster sauce; roast haunch of venison, currant jelly; deviled crabs; potato soufflé…

NEW YEAR'S TABLE

When receiving calls on New Year's day, the table should be handsomely arranged and decorated, and provided with rather substantial dishes…

REFRESHMENTS FOR TWENTY

For a company of twenty allow one gallon oysters, four chickens and eight bunches of celery for chicken salad, fifty sandwiches, one gallon…

REFRESHMENTS FOR A HUNDRED

For a larger company of a hundred the refreshments may be more elaborate: Two gallons of pickled oysters; two large dishes of lobster…

REFRESHMENTS FOR ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE

Six gallons oysters; three small hams, five large turkeys, ten tongues; six chickens and twelve bunches of celery for salad; three gallons…

For The Picnic

In the "Sunny South," picnics are in order as early as April, but in the more northern latitudes should never be attempted before the…

SPRING PICNICS

Cold roast chicken; ham broiled on coals; fish fried or broiled; sardines; tongue; hard boiled eggs; eggs to be fried or scrambled; Boston…

SUMMER PICNICS

Cold baked or broiled chicken; cold boiled ham; pickled salmon; cold veal loaf; Parker House rolls; light bread; box of butter; green corn…

FALL PICNICS

Broiled prairie chicken; fish chowder; clam chowder; clams roasted or fried; beef omelet; cold veal roast; sardines; cold roast chicken…

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