Cook Book

A cookbook you were meant to finish yourself — every recipe page faces a blank leaf for your own, and the woman who owned this copy filled eleven of them.

Meat and Fish Sauces

9 recipes in this part of Cook Book.

Cucumber Cream Sauce

Chop one cucumber fine, season with one-half teaspoon of salt, one-half teaspoon each of chopped parsley and onion, one tablespoon of plain…

Bechamel Sauce

Cook one and a half cups of white stock twenty minutes with one slice of onion, one slice of carrot, a bit of bay leaf, a sprig of parsley…

Sauce Tartare

a Stir into a cup of mayonnaise, two small sweet-pickled cucumbers, three olives and handful of watercress chopped fine; a few capers and a…

Shrimp Sauce

Pound one cup of shrimps, skins and all, in a mortar. Boil afterward for ten minutes in a cup of water. Press the liquor through a puree…

Brown Sauce

Heat one cup of stock; blend together one tablespoon each of butter and flour, add to the hot stock with two cloves, one bay leaf, one…

Drawn Butter Egg Sauce

Cook together, until well mixed, a tablespoon each of butter and flour. Add 'a cup of the water in which the fish boiled. Simmer five…

White Mushroom Sauce

Melt four tablespoons of butter, add one slice each of carrot and onion, a bit of bay leaf, sprig of parsley, six peppercorns, four…

Hollandaise Sauce

Cream half a cup of butter and add the yolks of two eggs one at a time, beating it thoroughly, then one-third of a cup of boiling water…

Sauce for Veal Cutlets

Two tablespoons of dripping, one-quarter cup of flour, one pint of stock or water and stock, one teaspoon or more of Worcestershire, two…

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