The Belgian Cook Book

Recipes carried out of occupied Belgium by refugees and set down in England in 1915 — waterzooi, hochepot, chicory, the endive and the beer soups — sold to feed the country they came from.

This site is the complete 1915 book The Belgian Cook Book, page by page as originally printed — period spelling, remedies and opinions included. About this edition →

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Soups & Broths

24 recipes

Fish & Shellfish

20 recipes

Poultry & Game

15 recipes

Meat & Roasts

73 recipes

Vegetables & Salads

48 recipes

Puddings & Desserts

25 recipes

Cakes, Bread & Biscuits

10 recipes

Preserves & Pickles

2 recipes

Sauces & Seasonings

6 recipes

Drinks & Cordials

5 recipes

Eggs, Cheese & Dairy

7 recipes

Fruit & Nuts

1 recipe

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Stuffed Eggs

Hard-boil your eggs, allowing half an egg for each person. Take out the yolk. While they are boiling and afterwards cooling in…

Part II

The second half of this little book is composed chiefly of recipes for dishes that can be made in haste, and by the inexperienced…

Croquettes of Boiled Meat

I think that boiled meat when cold is often neglected as being tasteless, but, prepared as I will show you, it will deserve your…

Beef and Apricots

Stew your beef, say three pounds of steak, in some gravy, adding to a pint of liquor a level teaspoonful of white sugar. Throw in…

Anchovy Biscuits

Made as you would make cheese biscuits, but using anchovy sauce instead to flavor them. If you make the pastry thin you can put…

Ox-Tongue a la Bourgeoise

Braise a tongue with two glasses of Madeira, one carrot, one onion, thyme, bay-leaf, for two hours. Take seven tomatoes cut in…

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