French Recipes

18 recipes in this part of The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps.

Cook the watercress until almost done, then add potatoes and purée cook until they are soft. Press through a sieve and add the slightly in…

4 medium-sized sweet potatoes Juice of 1 lemon Salt Boil the codfish, drain it and keep it warm.

Soak the codfish overnight, then put it in a saucepan of cold water, add the potato and cook on a quick fire. When it is on the point of…

Clean the crabs. Cut off and crush the legs, and cook in boiling salted water for about an hour. Strain the juice and pour it over the…

2 cups cooked fish or I can fish 2 eggs Drain the fish and tear into small bits. Add the salt, the beaten egg-yolks, the white sauce, and…

2 cups boiled salmon or I can Mash the potatoes and line a greased baking-dish with them. Add the cheese and egg-yolk to the white sauce…

Chop the fish with the mussels or clams. Add the crums which have been soaked in two tablespoons of milk, and the garlic, parsley, onions…

Cut the sausages in pieces about an inch long, and brown them in the frying-pan. When well browned, remove from the pan, pour off all the…

Cook the ham and chop it fine. Mix the flour with the milk and cook for a few minutes; then add the ham, cheese, the egg-yolks slightly…

Select a nice red cabbage, remove the outer leaves and soak for a short time in cold water. Drain, and slice in thin shreds. Melt the fat…

Place a thin piece of cheese-cloth in the bottom of a bowl and lay the large cabbage leaves in it. Chop the middle of the cabbage fine and…

Remove the seeds from the peppers, and cut the peppers into small pieces. Pare the eggplants and cut into small pieces. Cook the eggplant…

2 cups green Lima beans or I I/4 cup butter ¼ cup butter cup dried Lima beans, soaked

1 cup mushroom stock (made ½ teaspoon salt from stems) Peel the mushrooms and sprinkle salt over them to extract the water. Fry the onion…

Wash, pare and cut potatoes in dice. Fry in fat until brown. Remove potatoes and fry the chopped garlic and parsley in the fat remaining in…

Cook the onion in the butter or butter substitute, add the spinach, which has been washed and chopped, and fry quickly. Add flour and milk…

Remove the cores from good-sized apples; fill with jam and butter or butter substitute. Place round slices of stale bread in a baking-dish…

Cook rice in milk and put in a buttered ring mold. When cool, turn into a fruit-dish. Cook dried apricots and place halves around the top…