Good Food

Good food and how to prepare it — a full course of home cookery, soups through beverages, preserved from the keyed text.

This site is the complete 1920 book Good Food: How to Prepare It, page by page as originally printed — period spelling, remedies and opinions included. About this edition →

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Soups

161 recipes

Beef

8 recipes

Veal

2 recipes

Lamb and Mutton

3 recipes

Poultry and Game

16 recipes

Fish

28 recipes

Fish and Meat Sauces

37 recipes

Eggs

26 recipes

Cereals

14 recipes

Recipes

110 recipes

Fruits

5 recipes

Pies

76 recipes

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Highlights

Claret Cup

1 quart claret wine 2 tablespoons brandy 1/2 cup Curacoa Sugar 1 quart Apollinaris Mint leaves 1/3 cup orange juice Cucumber rind…

Maple Icing

1 3/4 cups maple sirup 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 egg white Boil the sugar and sirup together till a heavy thread is formed when…

Cream Sponge Cake

Yolks 4 eggs Flour 1 cup sugar 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder 3 tablespoons cold water 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 tablespoons…

Rye Biscuit

1 cup boiling water 1 cup rye flakes 2 tablespoons butter 1/3 cup molasses 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 yeast cake dissolved in 1 cup…

Fig Pudding II

1/4 lb. suet 1/2 lb. figs (finely chopped) 1 large sour apple (cored, pared, and chopped) 1/4 lb. brown sugar 1/4 lb. bread…

Angel Parfait

1 cup sugar 3/4 cup water Whites 3 eggs 1 pint heavy cream 1 tablespoon vanilla Boil sugar and water until syrup will thread when…

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