Fragments
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…