"Domestic cookery, useful receipts, and hints to young housekeepers" by Elizabeth E. Lea, 1845

180 INDEX. Page Sausage Meat, 104 Scalds and Burns, 140 Scurvy of the Gums, 146 Screw Dumplings, 62 Silver, to Clean, 123 Shad, Mackeral & Herring, to Boil, 17 Skim Milk, Curds, 59 Soap, 113 Soap, Hard, 114 Sore Throat, 137 Souse, 106 Spicewood Berries, 145 Spiced Rhubarb, 146 Spider, for the Bite of, 139 Sponge Cake, 72 Sprained Limbs, 139 Sting of a Bee, 140 Stoves or Grates, to clean, 123 Straw, under Carpets, 121 Strawberries, to Preserve, 77 String Beans, 34 Stuffing or Dressing, 6 Suet Pudding, 60 Suet, to keep for several Months, 166 Summer Disease, 131 Sugar, to clarify, 76 Sweet Potato Pudding, 55 Sweet Potato Pie,, 55 Switzerland Pudding, 61 T. Table Cloths, 115 Tapioca, 153 Tar Ointment, for Sores, 148 Tea, 111 Terrapins, 12 Tetter, 138 Toast Water, 157 Tomatoes, 30 Tomatoes, green for Pies, 88 Tomatoes, to Fry, 30 Tomatoes, to Stew, 30 Tomatoes, to Bake, 30 Tomatoes, for winter use, 31 Tomato Omelet, 30 Tomato Jelly, 31 Tomato Catsup, 31 Tomatoes, for Pickle, 101 Tongues, to Cure, 104 Tooth-ache, 137 Trifle, 64 Turnips, 38 Turkey, to Roast, 19 Twist Rolls, 45 V. Vanilla, 169 Veal, to Roast, 22 Veal, to Bake, 23 Veal Cutlets, 26 Veal Hash, 10 Veal, Lamb or Pork, to Stew and to Fry, 26 Vermicelli, 12 Virginia Pone, 50 Virginia Yellow Pickles, 100 Vinegar, 96 W. Waffles, 47 Walnot Catsup, 99 Washington Cake, 71 Washing Clothes, 165 Warner's Coridal, 134 Washes, to make White or Colored, 167 Whey Skim Curds, 109 White Sauce, 61 White Beans, dried, 35 Whips, 64 White Cake, 71 Whortleberry Pudding, 61 Wine Sauce, 61 Wine Whey, 156 Wine Bitters, 145 Worms, 135 Y. Yeast, 42 Yeast, dry, 43 Yeast, Milk, 43

[handwritten] For Collars + Cuffs. Eliza

2 teaspoonsful of clean starch, + one small teaspoonful of powdered borax. 1 1/2 teacup of cold water, Put the collars + cuffs in perfecrly dry + wring them out + roll up tightin a dry towel - leave for an hour or so + iron. Elza [Brook?]

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Home-made Cream candy. to a coffee cup of white sugar add two tablespoonfuls of water to dissolve it, and boil, without stirring, in a bright thin pan, until it will crisp in water like molasses candy. Just before it is done , put in a teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon, or peppermint essence, and a quarter of a teaspoon ful of cream tartar. When done, pour out into a buttered pan , and when cold enough yo handle, work as you would molasses candy, until it is perfectly white. Then stretch and lay on a board, and with a chopping knife cut into mouthfuls, or you can cut with the chears, and lay on buttered paper on a plate. Grease your hands with butter before working it, and it will not stick to your fingers. Granulated sugar is not as good as other white suger.

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GINGER SNAPS. - One cup of molasses, two tablespoons of lard, one teaspoonful of soda, one-quarter of a cup of sweet milk, a little salt and ginger. Foam your soda in your molasses.

IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER. - Meat for soups should never be put over to cook in hot water, but always into cold, to extract the juices. Vegeatbles should always be put in hot water to retain their flavor and juices. Black tea is a more healthful drink than green, and if made at the table with boiling hot water, it will be founf much better than tea injured by steeping. Coffee served as soon as made and from the pot in which it is made. and poured on to the cream and sugar into the cups will lose none of its aroma necessary to a good cup of coffee.

BROILED BEEFSTEAK WITH ONIONS. - Peel and wash four medium sized onions, slice into a spider with cold water and boil until tender, pour off the water and add a little butter and fry to a nice brown, then draw spider to side of stove to keep hot, then broil a large and tender steak, remove bone and scatter over it bits of butter, salt and pepper and cover with the onions. Curled cress or water cress for a relish and to garnish the platter is a nice addirion if convenient.

POTATO CROQUETTES - 2 cups of cold masjed potato (hot would have been better), 1/2 a cupful of hot milk, stirred in till all was light; 1 tablespoonful og melted butter, a pinch of mace, and the beaten whites of 2 eggs. These were rolled in cone-shape and egged and crumbed. For frying, a small, deep frying-pan was used, two-thirds filled with lard, and the croquettes were not put in till a bit of bread brown thrown in browned in one minute. They were then laid in a wire basket and immersed in the boiling fat, frying in two minutesl then drained on brown paper and served on a folded napkin laid on the hot platter.

SARATOGA POTATOES. - Pare and slive very thin into cold water. Drain well and quickly, then fry in boiling lard to a nice crisp brown.

SCALLOPED OYSTERS. - Butter an earthen pudding dish and fill with alternate layers of crushed crackers and oysters, the first layer should be the crches crackers, wet them with a mixture of oysters which sprinkle with salt and pepper and small bits of butter the size of walnuts, Let the top layer be of crumbs. Add a beaten egg to milk and pour over it, and put bits of butter quite thickly over it. Bake about 1 1/4 hours. The layer of crackers should be thick enough to conceal the oysters. THe crackers should be made very fine.

STALE BREAD GRIDDLE CAKES. - Take stale bread soak it in water till soft, strain off the water through a culiender, heat the bread crumbs lightly with a fork, to one quart of these soaked crumbs and one quart of milk, one quart of flour and four eggs. Bake on a griddle.

RICE CAKES. - Boil rice until it is soft, and while warm make into cakes or flat balls. Dip the balls into a beaten egg, and then roll them in Indian meal till thoroughly coated. This done, fry them in lard, which is better than butter for this purpose. Serve them with sauce, or with butter, or with cream and sugar.

Lemon Pie. - The outside and juice of one lemon, two eggs, one cup sugar, half cup milk, spoonful flour, upper and lower crust.

Spoced Peaches. - Peel your peached (cling stones), make a syrup of two pounds of brown sugar, [illegible] vingar put inn your peaches, and [illegible] till tender, [illegible] with allspice, mace, [cinnamon?] and cloves - [illegible] in a muslin bag.

GRAHAM MUFFINS. - Two cups new milk, three cups graham flour, two eggs, one teaspoon saleratus. Bake in railroad pans or muffin rings.

COCOANUT DROPS. - One-half pound grated nut, one-half pound loaf sugar, whites of three eggs; drop on buttered paper and bake.

Firmity. - Put one pint of boiling water in a double boiler; add two or three tablespoonfuls of wheat granules; stir and cook until it thickens; then add by degrees one quart of new milk; then add a quarter pound of chopped raisins and cook for a half-hour. Beat the yolks of four eggs until light; add them and one cup of sugar to the other ingredients; flavor to taste and turn out to cool. Serve icy cold with cream.

FRENCH CHICKEN CUTLETS. - Trim the remins of cold roast or boiled fowl into nice sutlets. Cut pieces of bread the same size and shape. Fry the bread to a pale brown and put in a warming closet; dip the cutlets into melted butter, mixed with the beaten tolk og eggs, roll in cracker dust and season with salt and pepperl fry for 5 mintes, put each cutlet on a piece of bread, pile high in the dish, and serve with the following sauce: 2 tablespoons of butter in saucepan, 2 minced onions, 1 tablespoonful minced carrot, a few sprigs of parsley, and 6 pepper corns. Fry for 5 minutes; pour in 1/2 pint of broth make from the chicken bones; add wetted flour to thicken. Stew gently for 20 mintues, strain and serve.

ROAST [illegible] - Pick, draw and wash thouroughly, and lay in salt water for helf an hour, then rinse in cold water and wipe dry, then fill with a fredding of moistened breadcrumbs seasoned with butter, pepper, salt and sage, for any other dressing preferred). Sew op the opening and place the duck on its back in the roasting pan, in which should be water with bits of