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Cooking in America

Twenty-Five Cent Dinners

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Marketing. Composition and nutritive value of Meat, Blood, and Bones--How to choose Meat--Beef--Mutton--Lamb--Veal--Pork--Poultry--Game Birds--Fish--Vegetables--Fruit.....10 CHAPTER II. How to Cook, Season, and Measure. Effect of different methods of cooking---Roasting or Baking--Broiling--Boiling and Stewing--Frying--Cooking Salt and Smoked Meats--Seasoning Food--Dried Celery and Parsley--Dried Herbs--Table Sauce--Celery Salt--Spice Salt-- Lemon, Orange, and Vanilla Tinctures--Table for Measuring Food.....16 CHAPTER III. Beverages. Tea--Coffee--Cocoa and Chocolate--Beer--Barley Water--Milk--Lime Water.....20 CHAPTER IV. Bread, Macaroni, and Rice. Comparative price and nutritive value of different kinds of bread--Homemade Bread--Rice Bread--Potato Bread-- Pulled Bread--Bread made with Baking Powder--Breakfast Rolls--Tea Biscuit--Nutritive value of Macaroni--Macaroni Farmers' Style--Macaroni with Broth--Macaroni with White Sauce--Macaroni with Cheese--Macaroni Milanaise Style--Macaroni with Tomato Sauce--Tomato Sauce--Rice--Rice Panada--Boiled Rice--Rice Milanaise Style--Rice Japanese Style.....24 CHAPTER V. Soup. Nutritive value of Soup--General directions for making Soup--Scotch Broth without Meat--Pea Soup--Thick Pea Soup-- Bean Soup--Lentil Soup--Onion Soup--Spinach Soup--Francatelli's Vegetable Soup--Vegetable Porridge--Rice Milk--Fish Soup--Fish Chowder--Mutton Broth--Veal Broth--White Broth--Cream Soup--Beef Broth--Norfolk Dumplings-- Meat Brewis.....31 CHAPTER VI. Peas, Beans, Lentils, and Maize. Value of Leguminous Vegetables for Hard Workers--Oatmeal and Peas--Peas-Pudding--Peas and Bacon--Baked Peas--Peas and Onions--Baked Beans--Stewed Beans--Fried Beans--Beans and Bacon--Boiled Lentils--Stewed Lentils--Fried Lentils--Indian Corn Meal--Polenta--Cheese Pudding--Hasty Pudding--Johnny Cake--Indian Cakes--Indian Bread--Boiled Indian Pudding--Baked Indian Pudding.....38 CHAPTER VII. Cheap Fish and Meat Dinners. Nutritive value of Fish--Pickled Fish--London Fried Fish--Fish and Potato Pie--Fish Pudding--Fish and Potato Pudding-- Codfish Steaks--Red Herrings with Potatoes--Cheap Meats--Sheeps' Head Stew--Oxtail Stew--Beef Pie--Baked Heart--Stewed Kidneys and Potatoes--Pig's Kidneys--Kidney Pudding--Gammon Dumpling--Bacon and Apple Roly-poly--Mutton and Onions--Pork and Onions--Veal and Rice--Irish Stew--Sheep's Haslet--Baked Pig's Head.....43 CHAPTER VIII. Sunday Dinners. Economy of Combination Dishes--Roast Fowl--Forcemeat or Stuffing--Chicken Gravy--Fried Chicken--Frying Batter--Chicken Broth--New York Cooking School Fricassee--Suet Dumplings--Rabbit Curry--Rabbit Pie--Pickled Shad--Pork Pie--Pork Chops--Roast Pork and Apples--Stewed Sausage--German Potatoes--Brain and Liver Pudding--Broiled Kidneys--Tripe, Curry, and Rice--Liver Polenta--A la Mode Beef--Meat Patties--Boiled Mutton--Mutton rechauffee--Mutton Kromeskys--Plain Frying Batter--Epigramme of Lamb--Roast Veal--Forcemeat for Veal--Blanquette of Veal--Veal and Ham Patties.....50 CHAPTER IX. Cheap Puddings, Pies, and Cakes. Comparative nutritive value of Puddings, Pies, and Cakes--Swiss Pudding--Cream Sauce--College Puddings--Cream Rice Pudding--Half-pay Pudding--Bread Pudding--Cup Custards--Fruit Dumpling--Apple Dumplings--Baked Apple Dumplings--Lemon Dumplings--Rice Croquettes--Fruit Tarts--Rice Cake--Rock Cakes--Caraway Cake--Soft Gingerbread--Sweet Biscuits.....62 CHAPTER X. Dessert Dishes. Directions for making cheap and enjoyable delicacies from Fruit--Apple Black Caps--Apple Snow--Apple Cakes--Cherry Cheese--Candied Cherries--Currant Salad--Iced Currants--Compote of Damsons--Stuffed Dates--Stewed Figs--Compote of Gooseberries--Gooseberry Cheese--Gooseberry Fool--Grape Jelly--Green Gage Compote--Pine Apple Julep--Lemon Snow--Melon Compote--Orange Salad--Orange and Apple Compote--Peach Salad--Cold Compote of Pears--Stewed Prunelles--Quince Cakes--Quince Snow--Iced Raspberries--Raspberry Salad--Compote of Strawberries--Strawberry Drops--Compote of Mixed Fruits--Fruit Juice.....67

Twenty-Five Cent DinnersPaperback, 15 December 2007

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