Ida Lee Cary

“ Take three to five eggs and put them in a frying pan with a piece of butter when the butter has melted put in your eggs with a little pepper and salt, when they begin to set take a cooking fork, a tin one is better and stir them, do not let them get too dry. Serve them quite soft.
EGGS COOKED IN DIFFERENT WAYS
Try the freshness of eggs by putting them into a pan of cold water. Those that sink the soonest are the freshest. Never attempt to boil any egg without watching a clock or egg timer. ”

“ Mix about 7 or 8 o’clock in the morning 1 cup of milk scalded and 1 large tablespoon of butter. Let it cool and add 2 scant tablespoons of sugar, 1⁄2 teaspoon of salt, 1 yeast cake dissolved in a little warm water, stir all together with flour enough to make stiff dough. When it is light, knead out and cut out with biscuit cutter, brush over with melted butter, fold over and put them in a baking pan, let them rise more, then put them in a hot oven to bake about 1⁄2 hr. ”

“ Take 1 or 2 kidneys, cut them in half, remove the skin and center fat or core, give each a dust of pepper and salt. Chop finely 1 teaspoonful of onion and parsley, melt a piece of butter the size of a large walnut in a small saucepan, when hot put in the kidneys, the outside down, also the onion. Fry quickly a nice brown, now shake in 2 teaspoons of flour stir it in and let it brown, next pour in not quite a teacup of hot water, stock, stir till it boils. ”

“ Fruit should be thoroughly dry if added to the other ingredients damp, cakes will be liable to be heavy. Dust your fruit with a little of the flour to be used for the cake and stir into the other ingredients just before putting in the rest of the flour. ”

“ When boiling fish add a dash of vinegar to the water and the fish will be much whiter and firmer.
Add a teaspoon of baking powder to old potatoes when mashing them and beat briskly. This will make them light and creamy.
To prevent the saucepan containing cabbage or cauliflower from boiling over, add to the water a piece of butter the size of a walnut. This will make the vegetables cook steadily and they will not require watching.
If cake pans are greased when cold, cake will not stick to them. ”

“ Mayonnaise Dressing.
1 teaspoon each mustard, salt and sugar, few grains cayenne pepper. Yolks 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons each vinegar, lemon juice, 11⁄2 cups of salad oil. Mix dry ingredients and eggs yolks and when well mixed add oil gradually drop by drop at first, stir constantly as the mixture thickens, thin with vinegar or lemon juice, alternately until all is used beating constantly. All the ingredients should be kept cold while making this dressing. ”

“ Apples are good in place of peaches.
Prune Short Cake.
Sift together twice, 2 cups of flour, 4 teaspoons of baking powder, 11⁄2 teaspoons of salt, 2 large tablespoons of sugar. Blend with this mixture 1⁄2 cup of butter and 3⁄4 cup of milk mixed with beaten yolks of 2 eggs. Bake in layers. Use best prunes, soak several hours, then let them cook very slowly without boiling until tender but not broken, adding the sugar when half done. To 1 pint of prunes allow 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 teaspoon lemon juice, when the prunes are done, remove them carefully and cook the juice until like syrup. ”

“ Have ready a fry pan or deep stew pan with slice or two of bacon fried crisp. Take out the bacon and lay in the steak, turn it on all sides until it is done. Then put in 2 cups of water or meat stock with 1 teaspoonful salt and pepper, cover close and let it cook slowly for 11⁄2 hrs. A small onion may be added to the gravy, when done thicken the gravy and pour around the steak, remove the string carefully before serving.
Scalloped Salmon.
Take 1 can of salmon after it has been shredded, place in a baking dish in layers. First a layer of bread crumbs or rolled cracker crumb, then one of salmon. ”

“ Cool and cut in slices, mix with 1 cup of celery cut in small pieces, cover with french dressing and chill for at least 1⁄2 hr. Serve in nests made of the crisp inner leaves of a head of lettuce and garnish with 1 cup of mayonnaise dressing.
Potato Salad.
Cut 6 cold boiled potatoes into even dice, mix with these chopped whites of 3 hard boiled eggs. Mix the yolk with a scant teaspoon of dry mustard and stir into it a large cup of thick sour cream, add a little paprika, pour the dressing over the potatoes and mix gently. ”

“ This will keep the juice from escaping at the sides of the pie. Never grease pie tins. Properly made pastry will grease its own tins. For baking pastry requires from 30 to 45 minutes.
Crust for Pies.
Use 3⁄4 of a cup of shortening to each cup of flour. You may use all lard or part butter if preferred. Take the shortening with level teaspoon of salt and mix in the flour then stir in as little water as possible and form with a spoon into a very stiff paste. Put it on a mixing board and roll out lightly for your pies. Always make a few slits in the upper crust to allow the steam to escape. ”

“ Heat milk, chocolate and sugar together, then add cornstarch dissolved in a little cold milk and the beaten yolks of the eggs. Let all cook until thickened. Flavor with vanilla and bake with only the under crust. When baked cover with 2 beaten whites of eggs mixed with a little sugar. Put in oven again and brown slowly.
Sweet Potato Pie.
Take 1 cup of sweet potatoes and rub through a colander, then add 1⁄2 cup of butter, beat it to a cream, then add 1⁄2 cup of sugar, 1 pint of milk, 2 eggs well beaten, 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, 1⁄2 of ginger. Bake with one crust, to be eaten cold. ”

“ Dust the turkey with salt and pepper and drawn butter, then lay on a grate in the roast pan with down. This permits the juice to run down into the breast and makes it tender and juicy. The oven should be very hot when the turkey is first put in and the heat slightly reduced after the first 1⁄2 hour. Cook in the original position for the first hour then turn it over on its back and cook until a light brown, allowing for cooking 15 minutes to a lb. ”

“ The ingredients should be well beaten before mixing in the flour except in a few plain cakes that are beaten all together. All cakes bake nicer if the pan used is lined with buttered paper.
Good Sponge Cake.
Beat the whites of 3 eggs, dry and the yolks until thick into the yolks gradually beat 1 cup of sugar then 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of cold water, fold in part of the whites then add 1 cup of sifted flour and the rest of the whites. Bake in a tube pan from 30 to 40 minutes. ”

“ Prepare gelatine as for fruit jelly, then put in a dish or mould a layer of chopped fruit of 1⁄2 inch thick while you require 1 inch of the gelatine jelly. When cold slice and serve with whipped cream with little bits of citron through the cream. ”

“ Have ready 4 qts of chopped green tomatoes, 3 lbs of brown sugar, 1⁄2 a nutmeg, 1 tablespoon of allspice, 1 teaspoon of cloves, 2 lemons, 1 lb of currants, 1 lb of raisins. The tomatoes and lemons should be chopped fine, boil them together with the sugar, salt and spices until reduced to half of the original quantity. No water is needed. Then add the currants and raisins and continue to cook for 2 or 3 hours, fill 2 rich crusts with the filling having any left may be put in glass jar to use when needed. ”

“ When the fire is not good or there is a draft across the range, irons to be heated quickly should be covered with an inverted dishpan or a pot to concentrate the heat and prevent them being cooled by cold air playing over them. ”

“ Take a thick and tender slice of rump of about 2 lbs, make a dressing of cup of bread crumbs, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1 tablespoon poultry seasoning, mix all together with hot milk with pepper and salt to taste. Roll the dressing up in the steak, wind a piece of twine around it, taking care to secure the ends. ”

“ Then set it on fire to boil, the rule for boiling ham is 15 minutes to each lb. When it is half boiled change water and add a cup of molasses, when done set it to cool when cold enough skin and stick in a few whole cloves and put in the oven to brown. ”

“ Boil sugar and milk until a firm ball is formed, remove from the fire and butter, set pan in cold water, leave until syrup thickens, remove, beat till creamy, add vanilla and chopped walnuts when nearly done. ”

“ Boil 4 lbs of lean meat, chop very fine, add twice the quantity of apples, also chopped and 1⁄2 lb of raw suet chopped very fine, then add 3 lbs of seeded raisins, 2 lbs of currants, 2 lbs of citron chopped, grated rind and juice of 4 lemons, sweeten to taste with brown sugar and add 3 qts of cider and 1 pint Madeira Wine, 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, cloves, mace. ”

“ Pour oysters into porcelain kettle put in not too much cold water. Stir well, heat gradually until the scum rises, skim very clean. Then add cup of hot milk thicken with 1 tablespoon flour and 1 tablespoonful of butter, a little pepper and salt, serve hot. ”

“ The transcriber advises caution in actually replicating the recipes, which often seem to be missing ingredients or instructions or have seemingly very odd proportions. These oddities have been replicated as per the original. ”