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The Recipes
Bread-Making
37 recipes
Bread Making
1 recipes
Breakfast And Tea Cakes
68 recipes
Breakfast And Tea Cakes:
5 recipes
Griddle-Cakes
10 recipes
Yeast
12 recipes
Cake-Making
73 recipes
Layer-Cakes
31 recipes
Layer-Cakes. -
3 recipes
Directions For Frosting
11 recipes
Crullers And Doughnuts
22 recipes
Ginger-Bread
14 recipes
Creams And Custards
30 recipes
Confectionery
18 recipes
Canning Fruits
21 recipes
Catsups And Sauces
27 recipes
Drinks
19 recipes
Eggs
14 recipes
Fish
23 recipes
Fruits
28 recipes
Game
15 recipes
Ices And Ice-Cream
15 recipes
Jellies And Jams
21 recipes
Meats
45 recipes
Pastry
47 recipes
Puddings And Sauces
41 recipes
Puddings: And Sauces
4 recipes
Puddings And Sa Uces
5 recipes
Sauces
17 recipes
Preserves
28 recipes
Pickles
21 recipes
Sweet Pickles
22 recipes
Poultry
28 recipes
Salads
25 recipes
Shell-Fish
27 recipes
Soups
36 recipes
Vegetables
100 recipes
Bills Of Fare
27 recipes
Fragments
31 recipes
Housekeeping
5 recipes
House-Cleaning
4 recipes
General Suggestions
72 recipes
The Kitchen
80 recipes
How To Cut And Cure Meats
19 recipes
The Laundry
70 recipes
Something About Babies
1 recipes
Hints For The Well
1 recipes
Food For The Sick
61 recipes
The Arts Of The Toilet
46 recipes
Accidents And Sudden Sickness
24 recipes
Medical
48 recipes
Floral
7 recipes
The Chemistry Of Food
2 recipes
Miscellaneous
82 recipes
Index
110 recipes
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Highlights
TO WASH FLANNELS IN BOILING WATER
Make a strong suds of boiling water and soft soap-hard soap makes flannels stiff and wiry-put them in, pressing them down under…
SHELLAC VARNISH
Put shellac in a bottle, pour 90 per cent. alcohol to cover, cork tight and put in a warm room, shake occasionally, and if not…
Yankee Pork And Beans
Pick over carefully a quart of beans and let them soak over night; in the morning wash and drain in another water, put on to boil…
FURNITURE POLISH
One and a half ounces each alcohol and butter of antimony, one-half ounce muriatic acid, eight ounces of linseed-oil, onehalf…
Table Of Weights And Measures
1 quart sifted flour (well heaped) weighs 1 lb. 3 coffee-cups sifted flour (level) weigh 1 lb. 4 tea-cups sifted flour (level)…
Grape Preserves
Pick grapes from the stems, pop pulps from the skins, doing two at a time, one in each hand between the thumb and forefinger. Put…