Beverages
Bulgarian Tea
1/2 doz. lemons. 1 gal. tea. 2 cups sugar, or more if needed. 1 bottle Maraschino cherries with juice. 1 can pineapple chunks. If berries…
Grape Juice
Pull one gallon grapes from stems, pour over three pints water. When it boils strain through cloth, sweeten to taste, return to fire and…
Coffee
Always use a good brand of coffee. I recommend Maxwell House Blend. It should be finely ground to get the best strength. There are several…
Boiled Coffee
One tablespoon to each cup and one for pot, one tablespoon cold water, one spoon egg white. Put coffee and egg in pot, set on back of…
Percolated Coffee
Use same amount. Put coffee in perforated cup with water in bottom. Set on stove, and when it begins to percolate let it stay on fire…
Dripped Coffee
Use finely ground coffee. Put coffee in strainer, same proportion. Set pot on stove, pour over boiling water. It is ready as soon as water…
Cafe Au Lait
Use boiled coffee, mix half milk and half water.
Chocolate
1/2 gal. milk. 2 cups sugar. 1/2 lb. Baker's chocolate. Put milk on in double boiler, with chocolate and sugar. Let thoroughly blend. It…
Cocoa
2 cups boiling water. 2 cups milk. 2 tablespoons cocoa. 1-3 cup sugar. Put milk on fire, leaving enough to moisten cocoa. Add cocoa to milk…
Hot Chocolate for Two
1 oz. chocolate. 2 heaping teaspoons sugar. 1 cup boiling water. 1 cup hot milk. Cook until smooth the sugar, chocolate and water and add…
Lemonade Sirup
4 cups water. 2 cups sugar. Juice 6 lemons. If rinds are good, wash and drop into boiling water. Let stand fifteen minutes. Boil all of the…