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.

Sauces

"NEITHER FISH NOR FLESH NOR GOOD RED HERRING."-Haywood.

The Recipes

Cream or White Sauce

Cream or White Sauce is what the French know as roux, and is the sauce used with all…

Brown Sauce

One tablespoon of butter, one tablespoon of flour, blended together. To this add one cup…

Egg Sauce

Make the White Sauce and into the quantity made by the fore going recipe cut two…

Hollandaise Sauce

Heat a bay-leaf and one tablespoon of chopped onion in two tablespoons of vinegar to the…

Drawn Butter

Two tablespoons of butter; one tablespoon of flour; one-half cup of boiling water; the…

Tomato Sauce

One tablespoon of butter; one tablespoon of flour; one cup of strained tomato; one-fourth…

Boiled Eggs

Eggs may be cooked in the shell in either one of two ways: First, put into cold water and…

Poached Eggs

Only the freshest eggs can be well poached, as the whites mix with the water and do not…

Fried Eggs

Melt a tablespoon of butter in a frying-pan, but do not brown. Drop in the eggs and…

Plain Omelet

Four eggs Four tablespoons of water One-half teaspoon of Larkin Table Salt One teaspoon…

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