Cooking Hints and Recipes
Cooking Hints and Recipes
This chapter is not intended as a complete treatise on cooking. It merely contains a few helpful hints for those who wish to prepare foods…
Soups
When soup is to be served hot, be sure that it is piping hot; for what is more unappetizing than lukewarm or greasy soup? Jellied or fruit…
Fruit Soup
Pick over and wash the berries, place in kettle and add cold water. Bring slowly to boil; let boil five minutes; strain, add the orange…
Iced Tomato Bouillon
2 cups beef or veal stock
Jellied Beef Bouillon
Dissolve the bouillon cubes in one quart of boiling water. Dissolve thoroughly the gelatin in ¼ cup of cold water, then stir into the beef…
Vegetables
In selecting food, vegetables and fruits should have first place as being most conducive to health.
Vegetable Omelet
Scatter one-half cup chopped, cooked asparagus, peas, cauliflower, mushrooms, green pepper or string beans, over the omelet just before…
Oyster Plant Pudding
4 cups oyster plant, grated or 1 tablespoon flour chopped very fine
Potato Hash
2 tablespoons melted butter cooked celery root
Potato Mold
Wash and peel potatoes, slice very thin. Butter a round mold, put a layer of potatoes in the bottom, a small amount of minced onion may be…
Potato Puff
4 cups hot mashed potatoes 2 eggs 4 tablespoons milk
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Wash potatoes; cook until soft but not mushy; drain and peel. Cut in slices, lengthwise, and put in a buttered baking pan. Spread with…
Caramel Potatoes
Wash and boil potatoes, drain and peel; add two tablespoons butter, seasoning and a little hot milk. Mash and beat until very light. Place…
Scalloped Kidney Beans
Canned beans may be used. Parboil the rice until done and flaky; drain. Arrange beans and rice in layers in baking dish; mix balance of…
Vegetable Hodge-Podge
This is something fine, if you are so fortunate as to have a waterless heavy aluminum oval roaster or large kettle.
Salads and Salad Dressings
Salads: When green leaf vegetables are used for a salad, buy only those that are fresh and crisp. Wilted greens will ruin any salad.
Meats and Poultry
A choice piece of meat is often ruined by careless cooking, and an inferior cut can be made delicious by adopting the proper method. Meat…
Roasting, Broiling
Roasting and broiling develop a delicious flavor in meats. The only meats suitable for this method are the short-fibred, fine grained meats…
Pot Roasting
In pot roasting the meat should be seared over quickly in a thick, very hot kettle, and then add a little water, cover tightly, and cook…
Braising or Smothering
Braising is similar to pot roasting, only the meat is cooked in the oven in a tightly covered pan with a small amount of water.
Stewing
The stewing meat is cut in rather small pieces; if a brown stew is desired, sear the cut pieces of meat the same as for a pot roast. Then…
Desserts
It is important for the menu maker to have a number of such desserts that will enable her to maintain a proper balance in meals. For…
Gelatins
Then there are the assorted gelatins to select from; combined with fruit they are an excellent dessert for summer or winter. For those who…
Frozen Desserts
For freezing smooth, fine-grained ice cream sherbet or water ice, three parts of ice to one part of salt should be used.
Custard
Baked custard should be set in a pan of water and placed in a slow oven. Soft or boiled custards should be cooked in a double boiler, and…
Soft Custard
A soft custard is made in a double boiler; it should be stirred constantly. Fewer eggs may be used in soft custard by substituting one…
Blanc-Mange
Blanc-manges are made of eggs, milk, cornstarch, sugar and flavoring. A blanc-mange should be cooked in a double boiler; cook at least ten…
Floating Island
Floating Island is a very soft custard served very cold in glasses, meringue, flavored, heaped on top, garnished with maraschino cherries…
Peach Sherbet
2 cups chopped peaches 2 cups cream 1 cup sugar
Strawberry Mousse
Wash, hull and chop the berries; blend with the sugar and let stand two hours; mash and rub through a coarse sieve. Soften the gelatin with…
Pineapple Fluff
Soak the tapioca in the pineapple juice ten minutes, place in a double boiler; add the sugar, salt and cook one-half hour; add the stiffly…
Fruit Cup
1 cup shredded pineapple 1 cup orange sections
Jellied Custards
Beat egg, add sugar, salt and mix; pour on milk and scald in double boiler until it thickens.
Pineapple Cream Dessert
Boil the rice slowly in slightly salted water, until tender; place in a colander and let cold water run over the rice until the kernels are…
Coffee and Tea
Coffee and tea act as stimulants. After the effect wears off one feels nervous and depressed.
Coffee with Caffeine Removed
If one must drink coffee then choose Kaffee Hag or Sanka. Both of these products are made from real coffee from which it is claimed that…
Cereal Coffee
There are many excellent cereal coffees on the market that one can learn to like equally as well as coffee. These cereal coffees are made…
Chocolate and Cocoa
Chocolate and cocoa have a high nutritive value and when prepared with milk they are still more important as foods.
Cold Drinks
For hot weather there are many refreshing cold drinks to choose from. Punch may be made in many different ways. Julep, fizzes, limeades…
Fruit Nectar
Boil the sugar and 2 cups of water five minutes; cool and add the fruit juice and ice water. Serve very cold with two or three maraschino…
Raspberry Cup
Heat the raspberries and currants until soft; strain; add to the juice sugar and lemon juice; put into pitcher with a large piece of ice…
Lime and Mint Julep
Mix sugar and water, boil five minutes; cool; add the lime juice and peppermint. Serve in glasses with cracked ice. Garnish with slice of…
Grape Punch
1 small piece of ginger root 1 quart bottle grape juice
Fruit Highball
1 small piece of ginger root raspberries
Pineapple Highball
Press the pineapple and grapefruit pulp through a sieve; add the orange juice, sugar and water. Serve in tall glasses, one-fourth filled…