Buckeye Cookery

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

Fragments

31 recipes in this part of Buckeye Cookery.

After Thanksgiving Dinner,

a most excellent hash may be made thus: Pick meat off turkey bones, shred it in small bits, add dressing and pieces of light biscuit cut up…

Always Save

all the currants, skimmings, pieces, etc., left after making jelly, place in a stone jar, cover with soft water previously boiled to purify…

Sweet Pickles (Their season but they can be)

in their season, but they can be prepared very nicely at any time, by taking pear, peach, plum, or apple preserves, and pouring hot spiced…

A Crumb Of Bread,

but save it and put with other pieces; if you have a loaf about to mold, cut in thin slices, place all together in a dripping-pan and set…

HAM BALLS

Chop fine, cold, cooked ham; add an egg for each person, and a little flour; beat together, make into balls, and fry brown in hot butter.

CORN-MEAL CAKE

Two-thirds cup butter, one cup sugar, three eggs beaten separately, two and a half cups corn meal, one and a half of flour, two of sweet…

PHILADELPHIA SCRAPPLE

Mix potatoes (or any cold vegetables) and meat, turn into a skillet with meat gravy from previous day. Stir up until dry and crisp…

TO CLARIFY MOLASSES

Heat over the fire and pour in one pint of sweet milk to each gallon of molasses. The impurities rise in scum to the top, which must be…

BEEFSTEAK TOAST

Chop cold steak or tongue very fine, cook in a little water, put in cream or milk, thicken, season with butter, salt, and pepper, and pour…

MIXED SANDWICHES

Chop fine, cold ham, tongue and chicken; mix with one pint of the meat half a cup melted butter, one table-spoon salad-oil, one of mustard…

STEAK PUDDING

Mix one quart flour, one pound suet (shredded fine), a little salt, and cold water to make stiff as for pie-crust, roll out half an inch…

MUTTON PIE AND TOMATOES

Spread the bottom of a baking-dish with bread-crumbs, and fill with alternate layers of cold roast mutton, cut in thin slices, and…

LANCASHIRE PIE

Take cold beef or veal, chop, and season as for hash; have ready hot mashed potatoes seasoned as if for the table, and put in a shallow…

BREAD-CRUMBS FOR PASTRY

Many puddings that are commonly baked in a crust, such as cocoa-nut, potato, apple, and lemon, are equally as good and more wholesome, made…

SQUAB PIE

Trim a deep dish with paste as for chicken pie, put in a layer of sliced sour apples, season with sugar and spice; add a layer of fresh…

BEEF OMELET

Three pounds beef chopped fine, three eggs beaten together, six crackers rolled fine, one table-spoon salt, one tea-spoon pepper, one…

CHICKEN OR BEEF CROQUETTES

Take cold chicken, or roast or boiled beef or veal, mince very fine, moisten with the cold gravy if at hand, or moisten well, and add one…

APPLE-BUTTER CUSTARD PIE

Beat together four eggs, one tea-cup applebutter, one of sugar, one level table-spoon allspice, add one quart sweet milk and pinch of salt…

SWEETIE'S FAVORITES

Three eggs, one tea-spoon sugar, one coffee-cup sweet milk, one of warm water, four table-spoons potato yeast, flour enough to make stiff…

POTATO CAKES

Mix thoroughly with cold, mashed potatoes left from dinner, the well-beaten yolk of an egg; make into cakes as you would sausages, place in…

ESCALOPED TURKEY

Moisten bread-crumbs with a little milk, butter a pan and put in it a layer of crumbs, then a layer of chopped (not very fine) cold turkey…

BREAKFAST STEW

Cut three-fourths of a pound of cold roast beef into small pieces, heat slowly with half a pint cold water, one table-spoon Chilisauce, a…

BONNY CLABBER

This dish is in perfection in the summer, when milk sours and thickens very quickly. It should be very cold when served. A nice way is to…

CORN MEAL WAFFLES

To the beaten yolks of three eggs, add one quart of sour milk or butter-milk, corn meal to make a batter a little thicker than for…

EGGLESS SQUASH OR PUMPKIN PIE

Stew the squash or pumpkin till very dry, and press through a colander; to each pint of this is allow one tablespoon butter, beat in while…

SCRAPPLE

Scrape and clean well a pig's-head as directed in "Pig's-head Cheese," put on to boil in plenty of water, and cook four or five hoursuntil…

FRICASSEED AND FRIED POTATOES

Slice cold boiled potatoes, put into a dripping-pan, add milk, salt, pepper, and small lump of butter, allowing half a pint of milk to a…

WELSH RARE-BIT

Cut thin slices of bread, remove the crust, and toast quickly; butter it, and cover with thin slices of rather new rich cheese, spread over…

YANKEE DRIED BEEF

Slice very thin, put in frying-pan with water to cover, let come to boiling point, pour off, and add pint of milk, lump of butter, and a…

CURD OR COTTAGE CHEESE

Set a gallon or more of clabbered milk on the stove hearth or in the oven after cooking a meal, leaving the door open; turn it around…

MEAT PIE

Put a layer of cold roast beef or other bits of meat, chopped very fine, in bottom of dish, and season with pepper and salt, then a layer…

Rights & ReuseThe complete text of Buckeye Cookery (1877) is in the public domain in the United States — like all works published before 1928 — and is free to read, download, quote, teach from, and reuse. This digital edition (its transcription, restored images, and site design) is © 2026 PhotoOpAI, and any editorial commentary we add is clearly marked as ours; the underlying public-domain text carries no such restriction.