This site is the complete text of The Bride's Cook Book — a wedding present the advertisers paid for, printed in San Francisco for Portland, Oregon, and dated by the Food Administration letter inside it to 1918 or a little after. Everything is here as printed, advertising included. About this edition →
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The Book
2 recipes
Housekeeping Notes
3 recipes
In the Kitchen
11 recipes
Bread, Biscuits, Muffins and Waffles
45 recipes
Cakes
35 recipes
Pastry, Pies and Tarts
42 recipes
Puddings and Pudding Sauces
61 recipes
Honey, Ices and Gelatines
57 recipes
Fish
24 recipes
Shell Fish
9 recipes
Stuffings
10 recipes
Salads
21 recipes
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Highlights
Hamburg Steak
1 Pound Beef Round, Chopped Fine Teaspoon Onion Juice Teaspoon Salt Teaspoon Pepper 1 Egg Nutmeg (a little) Soup Stock Remove all…
Baked Chicken (Take a plump chicken dress)
Take a plump chicken, dress and lay in cold salt water for half hour, put in pan, stuff and sprinkle with salt and pepper; lay a…
Spice Cup Cakes
1 Cup Corn Meal 3/4 Cup Cornstarch 2 Cups Flour 1/2 Teaspoon Cloves 1/2 Teaspoons Cinnamon 1 Teaspoon Ginger 1/4 Teaspoon Nutmeg…
Skate Fish-Indian Style
Chop onion, garlic, little bacon, curry powder; add little water and fry in pan until onion is brown. Take pieces of skate and…
Chocolate Squares
Beat three eggs in one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful each of allspice, cloves, cinnamon; two tablespoonfuls chocolate…
Honey Tarts (Make pie crust cut out)
Make pie crust; cut out with an oldfashioned tart cutter. If one of these is not available, use rounds of crust with rings of the…