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Browse the Kitchen
Soups & Broths
21 recipes
Fish & Shellfish
79 recipes
Poultry & Game
56 recipes
Meat & Roasts
185 recipes
Vegetables & Salads
134 recipes
Puddings & Desserts
236 recipes
Cakes, Bread & Biscuits
150 recipes
Preserves & Pickles
78 recipes
Sauces & Seasonings
67 recipes
Drinks & Cordials
50 recipes
Eggs, Cheese & Dairy
72 recipes
Sweets & Confectionery
12 recipes
Fruit & Nuts
4 recipes
More from the Kitchen
14 recipes
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Highlights
Leesburg Chow-Chow
1/2 peck green tomatoes. 2 large heads cabbage. 15 large white onions. 25 cucumbers. Cut these up, and pack in salt for a night…
Pineapple
Peel and slice thin, just before eating. Sprinkle pulverized sugar over it, but nothing else, as the flavor of this delicious…
Pudding Without Milk or Eggs
Put into a buttered baking-dish, alternate layers of grated bread, and finely chopped apples seasoned with brown sugar, bits of…
Brandy Sauce
Cream together one-quarter pound fresh butter, and one quarter pound pulverized white sugar. Mix with it one gill of lemon…
Hot Icing
Dissolve one pint powdered sugar in two or three tablespoonfuls water, and boil. Beat the whites of four eggs to a strong froth…
Ruggles' Cake
6 eggs. 1½ cupful butter. 3 cupfuls sugar. 4 cupfuls flour. 1 cupful milk. 1 teaspoonful soda. Season to taste.--Mrs. R.