Hot Weather Dishes

Philadelphia, 1888: what to eat when it is too hot to cook, from the cooking-school teacher who taught the city.

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Stewed Kidney Beans

Cook one quart of kidney beans the same as lima beans. When done, drain. Put two ounces of butter in a saucepan, and place it on the fire to melt, when melted add a tablespoonful of chopped parsley and the beans, stir and cook five minutes, then add a gill of stock, a half teaspoonful of salt, and a dash of black pepper; simmer twenty minutes, take from the fire and stir in the well beaten yolks of two eggs and the juice of half a lemon, and serve,

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