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Bouillons
9 recipes
Soups
60 recipes
Fish
58 recipes
Meats
59 recipes
Poultry
26 recipes
Game
197 recipes
Salads
93 recipes
Cheese Dishes
16 recipes
Bread
54 recipes
Hot Griddle Cakes
6 recipes
Sandwiches
165 recipes
Sweetbreads
7 recipes
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Sausage (Seven pounds of lean pork one)
Seven pounds of lean pork, one pound and three quarters of fat, twenty-one teaspoonfuls of sage, seven of pepper, seven of salt…
Hard Shell Crabs
These are in the market all the year. They are sold alive and, also, like the lobsters, boiled.
Cabbage
Boil a firm white cabbage for fifteen minutes in salted water; pour off the water and add fresh water; boil until tender; set…
Midwinter Salad
One head of lettuce, two lemons, three apples, one cupful of finely sliced celery; pare the apples and cut them in half inch…
Plum Pudding
Put in a saucepan a cup of thin cream, add three heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar, and the grated yellow peel of a lemon. Stir the…
Shoulder of Veal Stuffed and Braised
Take a large stale loaf of baker's bread, trim off all the crust and rub the crumbs as fine as possible with the hands. Soak the…