Potato Balls, page 66

Wash and peel potatoes, put them in water let them remain an hour before cooking; boil until thorouhgly {sic} cooked, take out and add salt, butter, pepper, mash fine, make in balls and fry in butter or lard. Arrange on a dish, garnish with a wreath of celery.

Snow Pyramid, page 208

Take hot rice that has been thoroughly cooked, add sugar and butter to taste; butter a pyramid mould, put in a layer of rice and jelly, alternately, until the mould is full let it remain until cold, turn out in small dishes, "frost" and serve.

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.