Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper Containing Five Hundred Recipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; Also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness

PART FIRST. CHAPTER I. HEALTH, ECONOMY, AND PLEASURE IN FOOD. Rules of Health in regard to Food and Drink--Measures used in Cooking..... Page 15 CHAPTER II. MARKETING ANDTHE CARE OF MEATS. Marketing--Beef--Different "Cuts," etc.--Veal--Mutton--Pork--Poultry--Fish--Shell-fish--Care of Meats--To salt down Beef--To cleanse Calf ''s Head and Feet--To prepare Rennet--To salt down Fish--To try out Lard--Molasses-cured Hams--Brine for corning Hams, Beef, Pork, etc.--Another--Brine by Measure--To salt down Pork--To prepare Cases for Sausages--Sausage Meat--Another Recipe Bologna Sausages--To smoke Hams.....18 CHAPTER III. STEWS AND SOUPS. New Soup and Stew Kettle--General Directions-- Stews: of Beef and Potato; Mutton and Turnip, (French;) Simple Mutton; Beef, with vegetable flavors; Fowl, with Celery or Tomatoes--Irish Stew--Veal Stew--Another--Pilaff (Turkish)--Rice or Hominy Stew--English Beef Stew--Pot au Feu (French)--Olla Podrida (Spanish)--French Mutton Stew--French Modes of Cooking--Flavors--Soup Powder.....28 CHAPTER IV. SOUPS. General Directions--Soup Stock--Soup of Potato--Plain Beef--Rich Beef--Green Pea--Dried Bean or Pea--Clam--Vegetable and Meat for Summer--Dried Pea, with salt Pork--Dried Bean or Pea, with Meat stock--Mutton--Vegetable (French)--Plain Calf''s Head--Simple Mutton.....35 CHAPTER V. HASHES. Four Ways of spoiling Hashes--Hashes: of Fresh Meats, seasoned; Cold fresh Meats and Potatoes; Meat, with Eggs; Meat, with Tomatoes; Beef; Veal; Rice and cold Meats; Bread-crumbs and cold Meats; Another; Cold Beefsteak; Same, with Potatoes and Turnips; Cold Mutton or Venison; Corned Beef; Cold Ham--Meats warmed over--To Cook cold Meats--Cold meat Hash--Souse--Tripe.....Page 39 CHAPTER VI. BOILED MEATS. To Cook tough Beef--Boiled Ham--Beef--Fowls--Fricasseed Fowls--To boil Leg or Shoulder of Veal, Mutton, or Lamb--Calf''s Feet--Calf''s Live and Sweet-breads--Kidneys--Pillau--Smoked Tongue--Corned Beef--Partridges or Pigeons--Ducks--Turkey 43 CHAPTER VII. ROAST AND BAKED MEATS. The best Beef--Brown Flour for Gravies--Roast Beef--To roast in a Cookstove--Roast Pork; Mutton; Veal; Poultry--Pot-pie of Beef, Veal, or Chicken--Mutton and Beef Pie--Chicken-pie--Rice Chicken-pie--Potato-pie-- Calf ''s Head.....46 CHAPTER VIII. BROILED AND FRIED BiEATS AND RELISHES. Boiled Mutton or Lamb Chops; Beefsteak; Fresh Pork; Ham; Sweet-breads; Veal--Pork Relish--Frying--Calf''s or Pig''s Liver--Beef Liver--Egg Omelet--Frizzled Beef--Veal Cheese--Codfish Relish--Another--Salt Herrings.....50 CHAPTER IX. PICKLES. General Directions--Sweet Pickles--To pickle Tomatoes; Peaches; Peppers; Nasturtions; Onions; Gherkins; Mushrooms; Cucumbers; Walnuts; Mangoes; Cabbage--To prepare Tomatoes for eating--Martinoes--Spiced Cucumber Pickles--Indiana Pickles--Cauliflower or Broccoli.....52 CHAPTER X. SAUCES AND SALADS. Milk and Egg Sauce--Drawn Butter--Mint Sauce--Cranberry Sauce--Apple Sauce--Walnut or Butternut Catsup--Mock Capers--Salad Dressing--Turkey or Chicken Salad--Lettuce Salad--Tomato Catsup.....56 CHAPTER XI. FISH. Oysters, Stewed; Fried; Scalloped; Broiled--Oyster Fritters--Oyster Omelet--Pickled Oysters--Roast Oysters--Scallops--Clams--Clam Chowder--Fish, Boiled; Broiled; Baked--Pickle for cold Fish.....Page 58 CHAPTER XII. VEGETABLES. General Remarks--Potatoes--Old Potatoes--Potato Puffs--Sweet Potatoes--Green Corn--Succotash--Oyster-plant or Salsify--Egg-plant--Carrots--Beets--Parsnips--Pumpkin and Squash--Celery--Radishes--Onions--Tomatoes--Cucumbers--Cabbage and Cauliflower--Asparagus--Macaroni--Eggs.....60 CHAPTER XIII. FAMILY BREAD. General Remarks--Fine and unbolted Flour--Middlings--Kneading--Yeast: Hop and Potato; Potato; Hard--Bread: of fine Flour; of middling or unbolted Flour; raised with Water; Rye and Indian; Third; Rye; Oat-meal; Pumpkin; Apple; Corn-meal--Sweet Rolls of Corn-meal--Soda Biscuit--Yeast Biscuit--Potato Biscuit--Buns.....64 CHAPTER XIV. BREAKFAST AND SUPPER. General Supplies--Receipts for Corn-meal--Hominy--Rice--EcBeecher, Catharine Esther is the author of 'Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper Containing Five Hundred Recipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; Also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness', published 2007 under ISBN 9781429090070 and ISBN 1429090073.