Take the kidney of a loin of veal, fat and all, and mince it very fine; then chop a few herbs, and put to it, and add a few currants; season it with cloves, mace, nutmeg, and a little salt; and put in some yolks of eggs, and a handful of grated bread, a pippin or two chopt, some candied lemon-peel minced small, some sack, sugar, and orange-flower-water. Put a sheet of puff-paste at the bottom of your dish; put this in, and cover it with another; close it up, and when 'tis baked, scrape sugar on it; and serve it hot.

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The goose should not be more than eight months old, and the fatter the more tender and juicy the meat. Stuff with the following mixture: Three pints of bread crumbs, six ounces of butter, or part butter and part salt pork, one teaspoonful each of sage, black pepper and salt, one chopped onion. Do not stuff very full, and stitch openings firmly together to keep flavor in and fat out. Place in a baking pan with a little water, and baste frequently with salt and water (some add vinegar); turn often so that the sides and back may be nicely browned. Bake two hours or more; when done take from the pan, pour off the fat, and to the brown gravy left add the chopped giblets which have previously been stewed until tender, together with the water they were boiled in; thicken with a little flour and butter rubbed together, bring to a boil and serve, English style.

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At noon the day before baking, take half a cup of corn meal and pour over it enough sweet milk boiling hot to make it the thickness of batter-cakes. In the winter place it where it will keep warm. The next morning before breakfast pour into a pitcher a pint of boiling water; add one teaspoonful of soda and one of salt. When cool enough so that it will not scald the flour, add enough to make a stiff batter; then add the cup of meal set the day before. This will be full of little bubbles. Then place the pitcher in a kettle of warm water, cover the top with a folded towel and put it where it will keep warm, and you will be surprised to find how soon the yeast will be at the top of the pitcher. Then pour the yeast into a bread-pan; add a pint and a half of warm water, or half water and half milk, and flour enough to knead into loaves. Knead but little harder than for biscuit and bake as soon as it rises to the top of the tin. This recipe makes five large loaves. Do not allow it to get too light before baking, for it will make the bread dry and crumbling. A cup of this milk yeast is excellent to raise buckwheat cakes.

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2 cups of stale breadcrumbs
1 cup of American cheese, grated
2 teaspoons of salt
1/8 teaspoon of pepper
2 cups of milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons of fat

Mix well. Bake in a greased dish in moderate oven for 25 minutes.

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Cover the bottom of a graniteware or silver platter with fresh bread
crumbs, break in as many eggs as are needed for the number of
persons
to be served. Put bits of butter here and there, stand the platter
over a baking pan of hot water in the oven until the eggs are "set,"
dust them with salt and pepper and send them to the table.

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(Zuppa di Zucca)

1 slice of pumpkin
2 tablespoons of butter
1/2 cup of water
1-1/2 cups of milk
1 tablespoon of sugar

Peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds, cut into small pieces, and put
into a saucepan with the butter, the sugar, a pinch of salt, and the
water. Boil for two hours, then drain and put back into the saucepan
with the milk, which has been boiled. Allow it to come to a boil, and
then serve it with squares of fried bread.

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Any single food containing all the elements necessary to supply the
requirements of the body is called a complete or typical food. Milk
and eggs are frequently so called, because they sustain the young
animals of their kind during a period of rapid growth. Nevertheless,
neither of these foods forms a perfect diet for the human adult. Both
are highly nutritious, but incomplete.

Served with bread or rice, they form an admirable meal and one that is
nutritious and easily digested. The white of eggs, almost pure
albumin, is nutritious, and, when cooked in water at 170 degrees
Fahrenheit, requires less time for perfect digestion than a raw egg.
The white of a hard-boiled egg is tough and quite insoluble. The yolk,
however, if the boiling has been done carefully for twenty minutes, is
mealy and easily digested. Fried eggs, no matter what fat is used, are
hard, tough and insoluble. The yolk of an egg cooks at a lower
temperature than the white, and for this reason an egg should not be
boiled unless the yolk alone is to be used.

Ten eggs are supposed to weigh a pound, and, unless they are
unusually
large or small, this is quite correct.

Eggs contain from 72 to 84 per cent. of water, about 12 to 14 per
cent. of albuminoids. The yolk is quite rich in fat; the white
deficient. They also contain mineral matter and extractives.

To ascertain the freshness of an egg without breaking it, hold your
hand around the egg toward a bright light or the sun and look through
it. If the yolk appears quite round and the white clear, it is fresh.
Or, if you put it in a bucket of water and it falls on its side, it is
fresh. If it sort of topples in the water, standing on its end, it is
fairly fresh, but, if it floats, beware of it. The shell of a fresh
egg looks dull and porous. As it begins to age, the shell takes on a
shiny appearance. If an egg is kept any length of time, a portion of
its water evaporates, which leaves a space in the shell, and the egg
will "rattle." An egg that rattles may be perfectly good, and still
not absolutely fresh.

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6 Small Fish--1s.6d.

Vegetables

Salt and Pepper

Lemon Juice--1d.

Total Cost--1s. 7d.

Time--One Hour and a Half.

Choose small fish of different kinds and fillet them. As only half the
fillets are wanted for the souchet, the rest may be dressed in another
way. Wash the bones in cold water and remove the black substance
from
them, put them into two quarts of cold water with a teaspoonful of
salt, and when it boils remove the scum and add 1 dozen peppercorns,
one carrot, one small turnip, one onion, a small piece of celery, and a
fagot of herbs. Put the vegetables in whole. Boil this together for one
hour, then strain off through a hair sieve and return to the saucepan;
wash the vegetables that have been boiled in it, slice them up and put
them into the liquor. Cut the fillets of fish into small pieces
and put them in; simmer for half an hour, then put in a little lemon
juice, pour into a tureen, and sprinkle a little chopped parsley on the
top. Send brown bread and butter to table with it and a lemon.

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Take a quart of pease, put them into a pot with a gallon of water, two or three large onions, half a dozen anchovies, a little whole pepper and salt; boil all together whilst your soop is thick; strain it into a stew-pan through a cullender, and put six ounces of butter (work'd in flour) into the soop to thicken it; also put in a little boil'd sellery, stew'd spinage, crisp bread, and a little dry'd mint powdered; so serve it up.

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1/2 cup milk and water or water
2 tablespoons corn syrup
4 tablespoons fat
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
4 cups boiled potatoes
8 cups flour
1/2 cake compressed yeast
1/4 cup warm water

Dissolve yeast in the warm water. Add other ingredients and make same
as any bread.

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