Fragments

15 receipts in this part of The Dixie Cook-Book.

a most excellent hash may be made thus: Pick meat off turkey bones, shred it in small bits, add dressing and pieces of light biscuit cut up…

all the currants, skimmings, pieces, etc., left after making jelly, place in astone jar, cover with soft water previously boiled to purify…

in their season, but they can be prepared very nicely at any time, by taking pear, peach, plum, or apple preserves, and pouring hot spiced…

but save it and put with other pieces; if you have a loaf about to mold, cut in thin slices, place all together in a dripping-pan and set…

Mode of Time of Time of Preparation. Cooking Digest'n. Apples, sour, hard Apples, sweet and mellow Asparagus Beans, (pod).

Broiled 20 3 00 Beets, young.. Boiled 4 30 4 00 Bread, corn Baked 45 3 15 Bread, wheat.

1 quart sifted flour (well heaped) weighs 1 lb. 3 coffee-cups sifted flour (level) weigh 1 lb. 4 tea-cups sifted flour (level) weigh 1 lb…

1 pint contains 16 fluid ounces (4 gills). 1 ounce contains 8 fluid drachms 4 gill). 1 table-spoon contains about ½ fluid ounce. 1…

16 drams (dr.) make 1 ounce (oz.) 25 pounds make 1 quarter (qr.) 16 ounces make 1 pound (lb.) 4 quarters make 1 hundred weight (cwt). 2000…

4 gills (gi.) make 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints make 1 quart (qt.) 4 quarts make 1 gallon (gal.)

Beef, firkin, 100 66 Honey, gallon, 12 66 Pork, barrel, 200 " Beans, bushel, 60 66 Salt, barrel, 3½ bushels. Butter, firkin, 56 " " bushel…

APPLES are in season all the year; cheapest from August until spring. ARTICHOKES (JERUSALEM) are ready for use in September. ASPARAGUS from…

ORANGES from Florida and West Indies are in market from October until April; those from the Mediterranean from January until May. The…

A cord of wood is 128 cubic feet; the sticks are cut four feet long and piled four feet high, and in a pile eight feet long. Wood cut to…

White Beech Yellow Oak Sugar Maple. The various qualities of bituminous, or soft, and anthracite coals, as sold in different markets, makes…