Three Hundred and Fifty Tried and Tested Formulas

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This community cookbook from Biddeford, Maine besides providing tried and true cookery recipes also contains a secton on home doctoring and recipes for the sick.
 

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Page 91 - When it is nearly at that point, beat the egg stiff, add the cream of tartar, and pour the boiling syrup over the egg in a fine stream, beating well. When it thickens and is perfectly smooth, pour it over the cake.
Page 63 - ... a piece of butter the size of an egg. Bake until done, but not watery. Whip the whites of the eggs stiff, beat in...
Page 110 - Or, take stale breadcrumbs, pour over them boiling water and boil till soft, stirring well; take from the fire and gradually stir in a little glycerine or sweet oil, so as to render the poultice pliable when applied. A Hop Poultice. — Boil one handful of dried hops in half a pint of water, until the half pint is reduced to a gil], then stir into it enough Indian meal to thicken it.
Page 110 - I have found the following well attested : Onions placed in the room where there is smallpox will blister and decompose with great rapidity, not only so, but will prevent the spread of the disease. I think as a disinfectant they have no equal, when properly used ; but keep them out of the stomach.
Page 44 - Potato Croquettes. — One pint of hot mashed potatoes, one tablespoonful of butter, half a saltspoonful of white pepper, a speck of cayenne, half a teaspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of celery salt, a few drops of onion juice, and the yolk of one egg. Mix all but the egg, and beat until very light. When slightly cool, add the yolk of the egg, and mix well. Rub through a sieve and add one teaspoonful of chopped parsley. Shape into smooth round balls, then into rolls. Roll in fine bread crumbs,...
Page 86 - ... sifted flour. Stir butter and sugar together, then add the beaten yolks of the eggs, then the beaten whites; dissolve the soda in the milk, rub the cream of tartar into the flour and add; flavor with extract of bitter almond.
Page 81 - ... of flour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-half 'teaspoonful of soda, one and one-quarter teaspoonfuls of vanilla.
Page 89 - Hanson 88 butter, one cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, three cupfuls of flour.
Page 40 - VEGETABLES. 1. Have them as fresh as possible. Stale and withered ones are unwholesome and unpalatable. Summer vegetables should be cooked on the same day they are gathered, if possible.
Page 110 - A few drops of oil of sandul wood dropped on a hot shovel, will diffuse a most agreeable balsamic perfume through tho room.

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