Good Things to Eat and How to Prepare Them

From the Larkin Kitchen-Laboratory in Buffalo, 1907 — the soap-and-premium empire's own book of over two hundred recipes.

Beverages

"DRINK, PRETTY CREATURE, DRINK."-Wordsworth.

TEA To brew tea. Use an earthen teapot, freshly boiled water, one teaspoon of the preferred brand of tea to each cup and one spoon for the pot. Rinse the pot with hot water, put in the required amount of tea. Pour the water over this and allow it to stand from three to five minutes, but not to boil. Use at once.

The Recipes

Coffee

There are two methods of making coffee successfully. In each case the proportions are the…

Coffee Made with Cold Water

Put the coffee into the coffee pot with the white or the clean shell of an egg. Cover…

Coffee Made with Boiling Water

Into the inner part of a French coffee pot put the required quantity of ground coffee…

Chocolate

A nutritious beverage can be made by scalding one pint of milk, adding to it two…

Cocoa

Allow one teaspoon of cocoa for each cup desired. Mix with the same quantity of sugar in…

Larkin Roasted Cereal

A Substitute for Coffee Pour one cup of fresh boiling water over one level tablespoon of…

Fruit Cup

Five tablespoons of Larkin Ceylon Tea infused in a quart of boiling water. Let stand for…

Iced Tea

Make a strong infusion of Larkin Ceylon Tea, allow it to stand not more than three…

Extract (Dissolve four pounds)

Dissolve four pounds of granulated sugar in five gallons of lukewarm water; add one…

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