Baked Chicken Pie, page 45 Joint the chickens, place the pieces in a pot with some small pieces of salt pork, cover them with water and boil until tender. Make a crust as for buscuit, {sic} with a half more shortening. With half of the crust line a deep dish a little higher than the edge, put in the chicken, pepper and salt to taste, cover the top with the other half of the crust, cut one or two holes in the upper crust for escape of steam, and bake about three-quarters of an hour. Orange and Lemon Jelly Cake, page 182 Mix two cups of sugar with the yolks of 2 eggs, then the whites beaten to a froth, a large table-spoonful of butter, 1 cup of milk, and enough flour to make a batter that may be lifted upon a spoon. Bake in jelly cake tins. Jelly for same: Grate the yellow from 1 lemon and 2 oranges, add the juice of the same, 1 cup of water, 1 of sugar, 1 table-spoonful corn starch; boil till smooth. When cool put between the cakes. Blue for Carpet Rags, page 253 Take 4 ounces prussiate of potash, 2 ounces copperas, and 2 ounces nitric acid; dissolve in warm soft water enough to cover the rags; this will color to (sic) from 3 to 5 pounds, according to the shade you want; if you color part of them at a time you will have different shades.Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo. |