Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes

Christine Terhune Herrick's 1905 subscription set, Books Three and Four complete - soup stock to cheese straws, with the famous chefs of the United States listed on the title page.

Bisques

11 recipes in this part of Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes.

Clam Bisque

1 quart clams, with their juice; 1 pint water; 1 quart milk; 1/2 small onion; 1 tablespoon butter; 1 tablespoon flour; 1/2 saltspoon white…

Bisque of Halibut

Boil a pound of fresh halibut in 2 waters. Free from all pieces of skin and bones. Then mince it fine. Stir the fish into a quart of white…

Chicken Bisque

Cover the joints of a fowl with cold water, using a quart for each pound. Add a large minced onion and 3 stalks of finely minced celery…

Salmon Bisque

Open and turn out the contents of a can of salmon several hours before you are ready to make the soup. Pick the salmon to pieces with a…

Oyster Bisque

Add enough cold water to the liquor drained from a quart of oysters to make a quart. Chop the oysters fine, and stir into this. Place in a…

Bisque of Lobster

Remove meat from shell, cut into dice; tough, hard pieces may be put into 1 pint cold water, with the bones, and boiled twenty minutes…

Bisque of Crabs

Boil 6 hard-shell crabs, in enough water to cover them well, for ten minutes, with 1 tablespoonful salt. Take out with skimmer; when cold…

Corn Bisque

Drain the liquor from a can of corn. Chop the corn very fine, turn into a saucepan containing a quart of salted water, and simmer gently…

Cheese Bisque

Bring a pint of milk containing a pinch of soda to the scalding point. Add to this a cupful of chicken or lamb stock, in which an onion has…

Tomato Bisque

Chop 2 cupfuls of fresh tomatoes; 1 pint of skimmed gravy or of strong stock; 1 cupful of fine bread crumbs soaked half an hour in hot…

Mock Bisque

Bring to a boil 1 pint of tomatoes, 1 bay leaf, and a sprig of parsley. Boil slowly for ten or fifteen minutes. Add 1 teaspoonful of sugar…

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