Buckeye Cookery

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

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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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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…

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