Culinary Gems: A Collection of Choice Recipes Gathered with Care from the Treasures of Culinary Experts

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Mrs. E. T. Snow, Emily E. Squire, Mrs. H. P. Stevens
J.D. Cadle & Company, 1884 - Canning and preserving - 147 pages
 

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Page 103 - ACID as cheap substitutes for Cream of Tartar? Or is there any charge, or the slightest insinuation in those advertisements,, that Cleveland's Superior Baking Powder contains anything but the purest Grape Cream of Tartar and Bicarbonate of Soda, with a small portion of flour as a preservative ? Ammonia and Tartaric Acid produce a cheap leavening gas, which is not to be compared, in the practical test of baking, with the more desirable Carbonic Acid gas generated by the exclusive use of the expensive...
Page 105 - WORLD. Let it be forever remembered that the CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY is the best and shortest route to and from Chicago and Council Bluffs (Omaha), and that it is preferred by all well posted travelers when passing to or from CALIFORNIA AND COLORADO. It also operates the best route, and the short line between Chicago and St. Paul and Minneapolis, Milwaukee, .La Crosse, Sparta, Madison, Fort Howard (Green Bay) Wis.; Winona, Owatonna...
Page 48 - ... patty-pans with puff-paste, fill with oysters, cover with paste, and bake twenty minutes in a hot oven. The upper crust may be omitted, if desired. Oyster Macaroni — Boil macaroni in a cloth to keep it straight. Put a layer in a dish seasoned with pepper, salt, and butter, then a layer of oysters, until the dish is full. Mix some grated bread with a beaten egg, spread over the top, and bake. Oyster Sauce, see Sauces. Boiled Lobster. — If purchased alive, lobsters should be chosen by weight...
Page 18 - Put one quart, or twenty-five, oysters on the fire in their own liquor. The moment it begins to boil, turn it into a hot dish through a colander, leaving the oysters in the colander. Put into the saucepan two ounces of butter (size of an egg) and when it bubbles sprinkle in one ounce (a...
Page 88 - ... one cup sugar, yolks of six eggs, a heaping table-spoon corn starch ; beat the yolks, add the sugar and corn starch (dissolved in milk), stir all slowly in the boiling milk, in which the chocolate is dissolved, add a pinch of salt, and let cook a few minutes, stirring constantly ; eat cold with white cake. — Miss Burnie Johnson.
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Page 19 - ... of lemon juice, and one grating of nutmeg. Beat it well; then return it to the fire to set the eggs, without allowing it to boil. Put in the oysters. These oysters may be served on thin slices of toast for breakfast or tea, or in papers, or as a filling for patties for dinner.
Page 103 - Powder," and our opinion is that it is the better preparation.— Hall's Journal of Health, Facts are Stubborn Things. Is there anything in any of the numerous advertisements of the Royal Baking Powder to show that the Royal does not use AMMONIA AND TABTAEIC ACID as cheap substitutes for Cream of Tartar? Or is there any charge, or the slightest insinuation in those advertisements,, that Cleveland's Superior Baking Powder...

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