Poultry
To Cut Up A Chicken
Pick, singe, and draw; lay the chicken on a board kept for the purpose, cut off the feet at first joint; cut a slit in the neck, take out…
Baked Chickens
Dress the chickens and cut them in two, soak for half an hour in cold water, wipe perfectly dry and put in a dripping-pan, bone side down…
Baked Spring Chickens
Cut each of four chickens into seven or nine pieces, wash thoroughly and quickly, and put in a colander to drain; put a half table-spoon…
Baked Chicken With Parsnips
Wash, scrape, and quarter parsnips, and parboil for twenty minutes; prepare a young chicken by splitting open at back, place in a…
Chicken Croquettes
Boil two fowls weighing five pounds each till very tender, mince fine, add one pint cream, half pound butter, salt and pepper to taste…
Breaded Chicken
Cut a tender chicken into seven pieces as if for frying, roll in beaten yolks of two eggs, then in finely grated bread crumbs seasoned with…
Broiled Chickens Or Quails
Cut chicken open on the back, lay on the meat-board and pound until it will lie flat, lay on gridiron, place over a bed of coals, broil…
Chili Colorad
Take two chickens; cut up as if to stew; when pretty well done, add a little green parsley and a few onions. Take half pound large pepper…
Chickens For Lunch
Split a young chicken down the back, wash and wipe dry, sason with salt and pepper. Put in a dripping-pan, and place in a moderate oven…
Chicken Pot-Pie
Cut up a chicken and put on in hot water enough to cover, and take care that it does not cook dry; while boiling cut off a slice from bread…
Chicken Pie
Cut up two young chickens, place in hot water enough to cover, (as it boils away add more so as to have enough for the pie and for gravy to…
Chicken Pie With Oysters
Boil the chicken-a year old is best-until tender, drain off liquor from a quart of oysters, boil, skim, line the sides of a dish with a…
Chicken Pudding
Dress and cut one chicken into small pieces, put it into a saucepan or kettle with a little water, season with salt and pepper, let boil…
Dressing For Chicken Or Beef
Boil potatoes, mash as if for the table, except that they should be less moist, stuff the chicken or roast with this, and bake as…
Fricasseed Chicken
Cut up and put on to boil, skin side down, in a small quantity of water, season with salt, pepper, and slices of an onion if liked; stew…
Fried Spring Chicken
Put skillet on the stove with about half table-spoon each of lard and butter; when hot lay in chicken, sprinkle over with flour, salt and…
Fried Gumbo
Cut up two young chickens, and fry in skillet; when brown but not scorched, put in a pot with one quart finely chopped okra, four large…
Jellied Chicken
Cook six chickens in a small quantity of water, until the meat will part from the bone easily; season to taste with salt and pepper; just…
Pickled Chicken
Boil four chickens till tender enough for meat to fall from bones; put meat in a stone jar, and pour over it three pints of cold vinegar…
Pressed Chicken
Take one or two chickens, boil in a small quantity of water with a little salt, and when thoroughly done, take all the meat from the bones…
Steamed Chicken
Rub the chicken on the inside with pepper and half tea-spoon of salt, place in steamer in a kettle that will keep it as near the water as…
Boned Turkey (With a sharp knife slit)
With a sharp knife slit the skin down the back, and raising one side at a time with the fingers, separate the flesh from the bones with…
Boned Turkey (Bone and stuff as in preceding)
Bone and stuff as in preceding recipe, roll tight in a strong, clean cloth, tie with tape in center and near the ends, and fasten ends…
Boiled Turkey
Wash the turkey thoroughly and rub salt through it; fill it with a dressing of bread and butter, moistened with milk and seasoned with…
Roast Turkey (After picking and singeing)
After picking and singeing the turkey, plump it by plunging quickly three times into boiling water and then three times into cold, holding…
Roast Turkey (Prepare and stuff)
Prepare and stuff as in preceding recipe, and lard as described in general directions; place in oven not quite as hot as for roasting meats…
Roast Turkey With Oyster Dressing
Dress and rub turkey thoroughly inside and out with salt and pepper, steam two hours or until it begins to grow tender, lifting the cover…
English Roast Turkey
Kill several days before cooking, prepare in the usual manner, stuff with bread-crumbs (not using the crusts) rubbed fine, moistened with…