Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Elizabeth E. Lea

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Published by Good Press, 2022

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DOMESTIC COOKERY,

USEFUL RECEIPTS, AND HINTS TO YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS.

BY ELIZABETH E. LEA

ADVERTISEMENT TO THIRD EDITION.

INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS.

MEATS AND POULTRY.

To Boil Fresh Meat.

To Boil a Turkey.

To Boil Beef Tongue, Corned Beef &c.

To Boil a Ham.

To Boil Calf's Head.

To Boil Veal.

Roasting Meat.

To Roast a Turkey--to make Gravy, &c.

To Roast a Goose.

Ducks.

Chickens.

To Roast Beef.

To Roast Veal and Lamb.

To Roast a Pig--Hash Gravy, &c.

To Roast Pork.

To Bake a Stuffed Leg of Veal.

To Bake a Pig's Head.

To Cook Pigeons.

To Bake a Ham.

To Bake Beef's Heart.

Beef A la mode.

Beef Steak.

Mutton Chops.

Rabbits and Squirrels.

To Fry Ham.

To Fry Beef with Kidney.

To Fry Liver.

Veal Cutlets.

To Fry Veal, Lamb or Pork.

To Stew Veal, Lamb or Pork.

Brains and Tongue.

Veal Hash.

Brain Cakes.

Force Meat Balls.

To Fry Veal's Liver.

To Fry Veal Sweet Breads.

To Stew Sweet Breads.

To Brown A Calf's Head With The Skin On.

Bacon Fraise.

Irish Stew.

To Brown Flour for Gravy, &c.

Drawn Butter.

Stuffing or Dressing.

Egg Sauce.

Celery Sauce.

Bacon Dumplings.

Drop Dumplings.

Vermicelli.

Hash made of Fowls.

Beef Steak Pudding.

Beef Steak Pie.

Baked Beef Pudding.

Pork Stew Pie.

Spiced Beef in the Irish Style.

To Bake Fowls.

To Fry Chickens.

Chickens Fried in Batter.

Chickens in Paste.

To Fricassee Chickens.

Chicken Pie.

Pot Pie.

Giblet Pie and Soup.

Chicken Stewed with New Corn.

To Broil Chickens.

Chicken Pudding.

Cold Chicken With Vinegar.

Chicken Salad.

Stewed Chickens With Rice.

SOUPS.

Chicken Soup.

Brown Calf's Head Soup.

Beef Shin Soup, Mutton Soup, &c.

Gumbo Soup.

Pea Soup.

Soup of Dried White Beans, &c.

A Vegetable Soup.

FISH, OYSTERS, &c.

To Bake a Rock Fish.

To Stew a Rock Fish.

To Broil Shad.

To Bake a Fresh Shad.

To Fry Fresh Fish.

To Fry Clams.

To Stew Clams.

To Pot Fresh Herring.

To Boil Salt Cod.

To Boil Salt Shad, Mackerel Or Herring.

To Boil Salt Salmon.

To Boil Fresh Fish.

To Stew Terrapins.

Oyster Soup.

Scolloped Oysters.

To Fry Oysters.

Oyster Fritters.

To Stew Oysters.

A Rich Oyster Pie.

A Baltimore Oyster Pie.

Plain Oyster Pie.

Oyster Sauce.

To Pickle 100 Oysters.

Oysters Pickled another way.

To Brown Oysters in their own Juice.

A Dish of Poached Eggs.

Fried Eggs.

Fried Eggs another way.

Omelet.

To Boil Eggs.

VEGETABLES.

To Boil Green Corn.

To Fricassee Corn.

To Keep Corn for Winter.

Corn Fritters.

Hominy.

To Fry Hominy.

To Boil Potatoes.

To Stew Potatoes.

Sweet Potatoes.

To Fry Potatoes.

Tomatoes.

To Fry Tomatoes.

Tomato Omelet.

To Stew Tomatoes.

To Bake Tomatoes.

Tomato Jelly, to eat with Roast Meat.

To Fricassee Tomatoes.

To Broil Tomatoes for Breakfast.

To Bake Tomatoes for Breakfast.

Tomatoes sliced with Onions.

To put up Tomatoes for Winter.

Baked Egg Plant.

To Fry Egg Plant.

Salsify, or Oyster Plant.

To Stew or Fry Mushrooms.

Cucumbers, to Fry or Slice.

Lettuce.

Cold Slaw.

Cauliflowers, &c.

To Boil Cabbage.

To Boil Greens and Poke.

String Beans.

Lima Beans.

Peas.

To Keep Green Beans for Winter.

Asparagus.

Cymlings, or Squashes.

Pumpkins.

To Bake Pumpkins.

To Dry Pumpkins.

Parsnips.

Turnips.

Onions.

Beets.

To Boil Rice.

To Keep Vegetables in Winter.

BREAD, &c.

Light Bread, Baking in a Stove, &c.

To Bake a Dutch-oven Loaf.

To Bake in a Brick Oven.

Directions for Heating a Brick Oven, &c.

Graham Bread.

Dyspepsy Bread.

Yeast.

Corn Flour Dry yeast.

Potato Yeast.

Potato Yeast with Sugar.

Dry Yeast.

Milk Yeast.

Superior Boiled Milk Rolls.

Egg Rolls.

Soft Rolls.

Water Rolls.

Potato Rolls.

Mush Rolls, without Milk or Eggs.

Twist Rolls.

French Rolls.

Bread Rolls.

Maryland Biscuit.

Light Biscuit.

Salaeratus Biscuit.

Quick Biscuit.

Tea Biscuit.

Dyspepsy Biscuit.

Salaeratus Cake.

Wafer Cakes.

Short Cake.

Cold Water Muffins.

Smith Muffins.

Mansfield Muffins.

Rice Muffins.

Muffins.

Mush Muffins.

Boiled Milk Muffins.

Cream Muffins.

Waffles.

Quick Waffles.

Rice Waffles.

Flannel Cakes.

Mush Flannel Cakes.

Bread Batter Cakes.

Buckwheat Cakes.

Sally Lunn.

Butter-milk Batter Cakes.

Toast.

A Dish of Milk Toast for Breakfast.

General Remarks on making Bread of Indian Corn Meal.

Corn Meal Porridge.

Mush, Mush Cakes, and Fried Mush.

Journey Cake.

Corn Batter Cakes.

Rice Cakes.

Corn Bannock.

Virginia Pone.

Lightened Pone.

Cold Water Pone.

Indian Bread with Butter-milk.

Little Indian Cakes.

Maryland Corn Cakes.

A Virginia Hoe Cake.

Batter Bread with Yeast.

Carolina Corn Rolls.

Mixed Bread.

New England Hasty Pudding, or Stir-about.

Corn Muffins.

Soaked Crackers for Tea.

PIES, PUDDINGS, CAKES, &c.

To Make Common Pies.

To Stew Fruit for Pies.

Pie Crust.

Paste for Puddings.

Puff Paste.

Rich Mince Pies.

Mince Pies not so Rich.

Farmers' Mince Pies.

Rhubarb Pie.

Peach Pie.

Pork Mince Pies.

Currant Pie.

Pumpkin Pudding.

Apple Pudding.

Quince Pudding

Potato Pudding.

Cocoanut Pudding.

Sweet Potato Pudding.

Lemon Pudding.

A Preserve Pudding.

Arrow Root Pudding.

Rice Pudding.

Pudding Of Whole Rice.

A Pudding Of Corn Meal.

Corn Pudding in Paste.

Richmond Pudding.

Suet Pudding.

Cheese Cakes.

Baked Apples.

Batter Pudding with Green Fruit.

Custard Bread and Butter Pudding.

Balloon Puddings.

Plain Rice Pudding.

A Rice Dish with Fruit.

Bread Pudding.

Bread and Apple Pudding.

Custard Hasty Pudding.

Elkridge Huckleberry Pudding.

Huckleberry Pudding.

Green Corn Pudding.

Baked Pudding.

A Boiled Indian Pudding.

Boiled Bread Pudding.

A Bird's Nest Pudding.

Little Puddings in Pans.

Switzerland Pudding.

Boiling Puddings.

Screw Dumplings.

Large Dumplings.

Peach and Apple Dumplings.

Light Bread Dumplings

Rice Dumplings

Indian Suet Dumplings

Corn Dumplings.

Pan Cakes.

Water Pan Cakes--a cheap Dessert.

Apple Fritters.

Rice Fritters.

Indian Meal Fritters.

Snow Fritters.

Rice Flummery.

Rice Milk.

Wine Sauce for Puddings.

White Sauce.

Cream Sauce.

Molasses Sauce.

Egg Sauce.

Cherry Toast.

Apple Custard.

Custard baked in Cups.

Boiled Custard.

Cold Custard.

Cream Custard.

Ice Custard with Vanilla.

Custard with Raisins.

To Boil Custard in Water.

Whips.

Trifle.

Floating Island.

Apple Float.

Carrageen or Irish Moss Blancmange.

To Keep Suet for several Months.

Skim Curds.

Whey Skim Curds.

Cheese Curds.

Rennet Wine for cold Custards or Curds.

To Preserve Milk to use at Sea.

SYRUPS, ICES, &c.

Lemon Syrup.

Lemon Syrup for Seasoning.

Syrup of Lemon Juice.

Pine Apple Syrup.

Almond Cream.

Tincture of Vanilla.

Superior Receipt for Ice Cream.

Freezing Ice Cream.

Ice Cream with Lemon.

Ice Cream with Fruit.

Pokeberry Juice to Stain Ices.

Isinglass Jelly.

Blancmange.

Blancmange of Jelly.

Calf's Foot Jelly.

Raisins in Syrup.

To Blanch Almonds and Peach Kernels.

Snow Cream.

Kisses.

CAKES.

Remarks on Making and Baking Cake.

Icing for Cake.

A Rich Fruit Cake.

A cheaper Fruit Cake.

Fruit or Plum Cake.

Pound Cake.

White Cake.

Washington Cake.

Madison Cake.

Rice Flour Pound Cake.

Sponge Cake.

Rice Sponge Cake.

Sponge Cake in Small Pans.

Lemon Sponge Cake.

Cup Cake.

Loaf Cake.

Queen Cake.

Rich Jumbles.

Common Jumbles.

Molasses Jumbles.

Jumbles for Delicate Persons.

Cup Jumbles.

Jackson Jumbles.

Macaroons.

Naples Biscuit.

New Year Cake.

Cider Cake.

Dover Cake.

Jelly Cake.

Almond Cake.

Raised Plum Cake.

Black Cake.

Bunns.

Butter-milk Cakes.

A Composition Cake.

Ginger Cup-cake.

Light Ginger bread.

Crisp Ginger-cake.

Ginger-bread Nuts.

Crullers.

Rusk.

Rusk for Drying.

Bread Rusk.

Dough-nuts.

Common Dough-nuts.

PRESERVES, JELLIES, &c.

To Clarify Sugar.

Apples.

Apples with Brown Sugar.

Crab Apples.

Currants.

Pine Apples.

Blackberries.

Blackberry Flummery.

Cherries.

Common Cherries.

Cherries for Common Use.

Apricots.

Ginger.

Green Gage Plums.

Green Lemons.

Raspberries.

Citron Melon.

Watermelon Rinds.

Cantelopes, Cucumbers, or Melons.

Cranberries.

Gooseberries.

Peaches.

A New Mode of Preserving Peaches.

Damsons.

To Preserve Strawberries.

Tomatoes.

Quinces.

Green Peppers.

Pumpkin.

Green Fox-Grape Jelly.

Pears.

Ripe Fox-Grape Jam.

Currant Jelly.

Lemon Butter or French Honey.

Currant Syrup.

Quince Jelly.

Apple Jelly.

Apple Marmalade.

Peach Marmalade.

Quince Marmalade.

Marmalade of Mixed Fruits.

Lemon Marmalade.

To Conserve Pears.

Peaches in Cider.

Peaches, &c. in Brandy.

Grapes in Brandy.

To Conserve Peaches.

Sauce of Cherries, or Damsons.

Frosted Fruit.

Grapes for Pies.

Green Tomatoes for Pies.

Conserve of Roses.

To keep Damsons for Pies.

Dried Cherries, &c.

Apple Butter.

Candied Preserves, &c.

Cider Marmalade.

Tomato Figs.

Molasses Candy or Taffy.

Walnut Cheese.

CORDIALS, WINES, VINEGAR, PICKLES, &c.

Peach Cordial.

Quince Cordial.

Cherry Cordial.

Lemon Brandy.

Rose Brandy.

Blackberry Cordial.

Rose Water.

Cologne.

Blackberry Wine.

Gooseberry Wine.

Currant Wine.

Elderberry Wine, &c.

Ginger Wine.

Raspberry Wine.

Raspberry Vinegar, and its uses.

Spruce Beer.

To Make Two Gallons of Beer.

Harvest Beer.

Porter Beer.

Molasses Beer.

To Make Cider.

To Make Vinegar.

To Pickle Mangoes.

For Pickling Mangoes with Oil and Vinegar.

Cucumbers.

Small Cucumbers.

To Pickle Cherries or Peaches.

Peaches.

White Walnuts.

English Walnuts.

Black Walnuts.

Virginia Yellow Pickles.

Tomatoes.

Pepper Mangoes.

Onions.

Mushrooms.

Nasturtions.

Cherries.

Cabbage.

Cut Cucumbers.

Cucumber Catsup.

Tomato Catsup.

Walnut Catsup.

Green Tomato Catsup.

Mushroom Catsup.

TO CURE BACON, BEEF, PORK, SAUSAGE, &c.

To Cure Bacon.

To Pickle Pork.

To Cure Hams and Shoulders.

To Make a Pickle for Chines.

Pigs' Feet.

To make Souse.

Scrapple.

Dried Beef.

To Cure Beef.

A New Method of Curing Beef.

To Cure a Dozen Tongues.

Pickle for Two Rounds of Beef.

To Corn Beef, Pork or Mutton.

To Restore Meat that has been kept too long.

To Keep Meat Fresh.

To Put up Herring and Shad.

To Put up Herring, According to the Harford Mode .

BUTTER, CHEESE, COFFEE, TEA, &c.

Butter.

To put up Butter for Winter.

To Cure Butter that will keep for a Length of Time.

A Pickle for Butter.

Cheese.

Pennsylvania Cream Cheese.

To Prepare Rennet for making Whey or Cheese.

Cottage Cheese or Smearcase.

Roasting Coffee.

Boiling Coffee.

Tea, &c.

A New Mode of Preparing Chocolate.

LARD, TALLOW, SOAP AND CANDLES.

Rendering Lard.

Rendering Tallow.

Soap.

Hard Soap.

Potash Soap.

Labor-saving Soap.

Ley and Soda Preparation for Washing Clothes.

Volatile Soap, And Directions for Washing Clothes.

Candles.

MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS.

Clear Starching.

To make Corn Starch.

Potato Starch.

To make Common Starch.

Washing Calicoes, &c.

Table Cloths, &c.

Flannels.

Mending Clothes.

Washing Windows.

To Make White or Colored Washes, Dyeing, &c.

To Mix White-wash.

White-wash for Buildings or Fences.

Chrome Yellow-wash.

Yellow Ochre wash.

To Dye Orange Color.

Green-wash.

Chrome Yellow for Dyeing Carpet Rags.

To Dye a Dark Drab.

To Dye Cotton or Woollen Black.

Cedar Dye.

To Dye Olive.

To Dye Yellow.

To Dye Brown.

To Dye Red.

Brazil Wood Dye.

Lead Color.

To Dye Scarlet.

To Dye Yarn Green.

To Dye Cotton Blue.

To Keep Apples in Winter.

Directions for Making Matresses.

To Make a Rag Carpet.

To Keep Furs and Woollens.

To Keep Curtains.

To Keep Blankets in Summer.

Carpets, &c.

House Linen.

To Clean Paint.

To Clean Bedsteads.

To Clean Floors.

Cleaning Cellars--Rats, Roaches.

Putting Straw under Carpets.

Picking Geese, &c.

Marble, &c.

To Restore Colors taken out by Acid, &c.

To make New Feather Beds.

To Clean Silver.

Britannia Ware.

Brass.

To Clean Stoves or Grates.

Cement to Mend Cracks in Stoves.

Fire-proof Cement.

To Take Spots out of Mahogany.

To Take Grease out of Floors.

Wash for Hearths.

Blacking for Boots and Shoes.

To Make Boots and Shoes Water-proof.

To Make Blacking for Morocco Shoes.

To Grease Eggs for Winter.

To Keep Eggs in Lime Water.

To Clean Soiled Eggs.

Chloride of Lime.

To Take Lime out of Cloth.

To Take Wax or Spermaceti out of Cloth.

To Remove a Stopper from a Decanter.

Precautions against Fire.

To Take Ink and Stains out of Linen.

Herbs, Gardens and Yards.

Greasers for Bake-irons.

Cement for the Tops of Bottles or Jars.

Cement for Mending Cast-iron.

Weather Proof Cement.

To Cleanse Vials, &c.

Mending China with Milk.

Mending China with White Lead.

Linseed Oil for Furniture.

For Filtering Water.

On A Larger Scale.

To Keep Water Cool in Summer, when you have not Ice.

To Purify Water.

Gum Arabic Paste.

Preserving Kettles.

To Clean Knives and Forks.

To Clean Teeth. With Remarks on Fixing the Habit, &c.

To Clean Kid Gloves.

To Clean Papered Walls.

To Take Old Putty from Window Glass.

Cutting Glass for Mending Windows.

SIMPLE REMEDIES.

Remarks upon a Deeply Seated Cough.

For a Cough.

Elecampane and Hoarhound Syrup.

Brown Mixture for a Cough.

Ginger Tea. With Remarks on its Use, &c.

Lemon Mixture for a Cough.

Mixture of Lemon Juice and Honey.

Hoarhound Candy.

Mustard Bath for the Feet--Soap Stones, &c.

Liverwort Syrup.

For Sore Throat.

Molasses Posset for a Cold.

For Whooping Cough.

For the Croup.

Infants' Colic, &c.

Summer Diseases.

Mustard Whey.

Red Mixture.

Erysipelas.

Magnesia, Charcoal and Salts.

For Dropsy.

For Rheumatism

Deafness, Remarks, &c.

Remedy for Sick Head-ache.

The Oil of Butter. A Remedy for Dysentery, &c.

For Dysentery and Diarrhoea.

Remedies for the Dysentery and Cholera Morbus.

Remedy for the Ear-ache.

A Wash for Sore Ears.

Weak Eyes.

For Worms.

For Tooth-ache.

Cure for Cholera Morbus.

For Colic.

For Bilious Colic and Indigestion.

Warner's Cordial for Gout in the Stomach.

Cure for Tetter.

For Cramp in the Stomach.

For Cramp.

For Scalds and Burns.

For Ague.

Chilblains.

Lockjaw.

Falls.

For the Bite of a Spider.

For the Sting of a Bee.

For Bruises.

For Felons.

For a Sprained Limb.

For a Sprained Ancle.

Cuts or Wounds, &c.

For Tetter, Warts, &c.

Poisons, Accidents, &c.

Tar Ointment for the Milk Crust.

Hop Ointment.

Precipitate Ointment, &c.

Blister Ointment.

Lily Ointment.

Elder Ointment for Burns, &c.

St. Johnswort Ointment, and its Uses.

Ointment for Mortification.

Bread and Milk, and Flaxseed Poultices.

Hop Poultice, and its Uses.

Onion Poultice.

Lily Root Poultice.

Cream Poultice.

Ley Poultice.

Adhesive Plaster.

A Valuable Salve for Burns and other Sores.

Deshler's Salve for Gatherings or Sores.

Salve for Corns, or Bunions.

Sassafras Poultice.

Balsam Apple in Spirits.

Cure for Bites.

For Scurvy of the Gums.

For an Infant's Sore Mouth.

For Affection of the Kidneys.

For a Gathering on a Finger.

Huxham's Bark Tincture.

Wine Bitters for Debility, &c.

Spice Wood Berries.

Spiced Rhubarb.

For Chapped Lips.

Bathing.

Elderberry Jam for Colds, &c.

Black Currant Jelly, a Remedy for Sore Throat.

Lavender Compound.

FOOD FOR THE SICK.

Remarks on Preparing Food for the Sick.

Boiled Custard.

Panada.

Egg Panada.

Oat-meal Gruel.

Corn Gruel.

Arrow-root.

Sago.

Tapioca Jelly.

Milk Porridge.

Barley Water.

To Poach Eggs.

Barley Panada.

Calf's Foot Blancmange.

Cream Toast.

Milk Toast &c.

To Stew Dried Beef.

To Stew Ham, &c.

To Stew Chickens or Birds.

Chicken Water.

Beef Feet.

Beef Tea, &c.

Mutton and Veal Broth.

Wine Whey.

Rennet Whey.

Mulled Jelly.

Mulled Wine.

Toast Water.

Apple Water, &c.

Coffee.

Chocolate.

Black Tea.

Rye Mush.

DOMESTICS.

Hints on the Management of Domestics, &c.

REMARKS.

Remarks on Carving, &c.

Economy the Source of Charity.

To Encourage Children in Acts of Kindness to the Aged and Afflicted.

Early Rising Promotes Punctuality.

Hints to Young Wives.

A few Remarks to Encourage Young Housekeepers in their First Attempts.

CULTIVATION OF FLOWERS.

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