Twentieth Century Cook Book

A Minneapolis compilation of old, new and well-tried recipes, 1901 - from amber bouillon to cooking for the sick.

Poultry

26 recipes in this part of Twentieth Century Cook Book.

To Roast a Turkey

After the turkey has been properly cleaned place in a bowl, tail downward, put the prepared bread crumbs in at the neck until the breast…

To Prepare Crumbs for Stuffing

Remove the crust from a loaf of stale bread, break the loaf in the middle and rub the jagged or rough edges against each other until the…

Roast Turkey

Dress and wash well, rub both the inside and outside with salt and pepper, and fill the body and breast with dressing, and with a cord tie…

Dressing for Turkey

Slice fine enough stale bread to stuff the turkey, butter each slice and chop fine, moisten with milk, salt and pepper to taste, sage…

Turkey

A turkey weighing from eight to ten pounds requires fully three hours' cooking in a hot oven, and another hour must be added if from twelve…

Stuffing for the Turkey

Use bread at least two days old, cut off the crust, dip in hot water, spread the bread with butter, rub fine, break the crumb as finely as…

Grilled Turkey Legs

Score the legs of a cold turkey in deep gashes and rub thoroughly with melted butter, salt, pepper, a little mustard and cayenne; broil…

Boiled Turkey

If a boiled turkey is not well managed it will be quite tasteless. Choose a hen turkey. If not well trussed and tied, the legs and wings of…

Veal and Lamb

Soak half a pound of bread in tepid water, then squeeze it dry; put two ounces of butter into a stew pan, and when hot, a half of a very…

Aunt Susan's Vegetable Turkey

One pound of bread crumbs, one half pound butter, one half pound of nut meats, one egg, three gills of hot water, sage, salt and pepper to…

To Roast a Chicken

The method of preparing and roasting a chicken is the same as for preparing and roasting a turkey. The time required for roasting a chicken…

To Cook a Fowl

Clean a fowl as for roasting, and instead of stuffing, place inside the giblets, a small onion and a quarter of a pound of breakfast bacon…

For the Bread Sauce

Peel and quarter one small onion and stew it in a pint of milk until perfectly tender; break and crumb three-quarters of a pound of stale…

Chicken Pot Pie

Before placing in the pot cut a chicken in pieces suitable for serving at table. Separate the joints neatly and divide the breast into…

To Stew a Chicken

Cut the prepared chicken in pieces suitable for serving. Separate the first and second joint and wing joints, divide the breast into four…

Stewed Chicken with Mushrooms

After the broth has been drained from the stewed chicken add a pint of mushrooms to the chicken in the kettle before pouring the gravy over…

To Fricassee a Chicken

Stews are often, but very incorrectly, termed fricassees. A fricassee is a combination of a saute and a stew, and the meat for a fricassee…

Chicken Stew

Stewing, when properly done, is the most perfect method of cooking chickens that have reached a greater age than one year, and although, as…

Smothered Chicken

Select a rather large broiling chicken; singe, split down the back; spread it open, turning the tips of the wings under and crossing the…

Poultry and Game

Chickens. All fowls less than a year old come under the head of spring chickens. These are used for broiling. The small plump ones…

Roast Goose

Select a goose for roasting with a clean white skin, plump breast and yellow feet; if these are a reddish yellow, the bird is old. It…

Braised Goose

Make a force meat with one pound of roasted chestnuts, peeled and mashed, one teaspoonful parsley, one tablespoonful of lemon juice and…

Celery Sauce for the Goose

To one cupful of drawn butter made from white stock add one cupful of white celery, cut in small dice, and cooked tender. Simmer five…

Goose Stuffing

To those who object to the high flavor of the onion stuffing the following is to be recommended. The following recipe gives a stuffing with…

Foie Gras

This foie gras is much in demand for sandwiches, and a bit of it brings out the flavor of a salad finely. Place the livers in a stew pan…

Marbled Goose

Take a well pickled beef tongue, wash it clean and boil it until tender. Skin it and allow to cool; cut a deep slit down the center and rub…

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