The "ideal" cookery book: A reliable guide for home cooking / containing 249 useful and dainty recipes (third edition)
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Chapters (348)
- The “Ideal” Cookery Book
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- I. SAVOURIES.
- 1. Forcemeat.
- 2. Mince Meat.
- 3. Potato Balls.
- 4. Tasty dish of Cold Cooked Beef.
- 5. Savoury Puffs.
- 6. Breakfast Dish.
- 7. Potato Cakes.
- 8. Veal Mould.
- 9. Timbales of Mutton.
- 10. Rolled Steak with Potatoes.
- 11. Salad Dressing.
- 12. Cabbage Balls.
- 13. Cheese Croquettes.
- 14. Potato Ribbons.
- 15. Rissoles à Lilian.
- 16. Fish Cakes.
- 17. Savoury Omelette.
- 18. Dough Nuts.
- 19. Cheese Straws.
- 20. Egg & Bacon Pie.
- 21. Another Cold Meat Dish.
- 22. Scrambled Eggs.
- 23. Meat Roll.
- 24. Pommes de Terre à la Reine.
- 25. Dormers.
- 26. Beef or Veal Mould.
- 27. Gravy for Mutton.
- 28. Gravy for Beef.
- 29. Beefsteak Pie.
- 30. Tasty Dish of Beefsteak.
- 31. Cold Meat Pâtés.
- 32. Potted Beef.
- 33. Pommes de terre au Lait.
- 34. Pommes de terre à L’Écosse.
- 35. Potato Croquettes.
- 36. A dainty way of Cooking an Egg.
- 37. Beef Tea Custard.
- 38. Beef Tea.
- 39. Dainty way of Serving Mashed Potatoes.
- 40. Fried Potatoes.
- 41. Ragôut of Mutton and Eggs.
- II. PASTRY.
- 1. Short Pastry (Rich).
- 2. Ground Rice Cheesecakes.
- 3. Cocoanut Cheesecakes.
- 4. Macaroons.
- 5. Maids of Honour.
- 6. Lemon Curd.
- 7. Welsh Cheesecakes.
- 8. Milk Rolls.
- 9. Almond Cheesecakes.
- 10. Bakewell Cheesecakes.
- 11. Pastry Sandwiches.
- 12. French Tartlets.
- 13. Apple Cheesecakes.
- 14. Good Family Pastry.
- 15. Pie Pastry.
- III. CUSTARDS, PUDDINGS, & BLANC MANGES.
- 1. Lemon Rice Pudding.
- 2. Sponge Cake Pudding.
- 3. Strawberry Blanc Mange.
- 4. Honeycomb.
- 5. Lemon Mould.
- 6. Baroness Pudding.
- 7. Holderness Pudding.
- 8. Lemon Pudding.
- 9. Parson’s Pudding.
- 10. Queen’s Pudding.
- 11. Ideal Pudding.
- 12. Curd Pudding.
- 13. Chocolate Blanc Mange.
- 14. Suet Dumplings.
- 15. Snow Pudding.
- 16. French Pancakes.
- 17. German Pancakes.
- 18. Junket.
- 19. Three Minutes Pudding.
- 20. German Pudding.
- 21. Rhubarb Mould.
- 22. Imperial Pudding.
- 23. Fig Pudding, (No. 1.)
- 24. Sultana Pudding.
- 25. Trieste Pudding.
- 26. Stewed Figs.
- 27. Baked Milk (For Fruit).
- 28. Baked Rhubarb Pudding.
- 29. Apple Snow.
- 30. Prune Mould.
- 31. Bachelor’s Pudding.
- 32. Raspberry Sponge.
- 33. Lemon Cream.
- 34. Gâteau de Riz.
- 35. Kingston Puddings.
- 36. Fig Pudding (No. 2.)
- 37. Cheese Pudding (No. 1).
- 38. Paragon Pudding.
- 39. Cambridge Pudding.
- 40. Sago Jelly.
- 41. Orange Meringue.
- 42. Spanish Custard.
- 43. Cheese Pudding (No. 2).
- 44. Apple Trifle.
- 45. Economic Custard.
- 46. Tasmanian Pudding.
- 47. Yorkshire Pudding.
- 48. Steamed Batter Pudding.
- 49. Chocolate Pudding.
- 50. Gêlée à la Normandie.
- 51. Chocolate Blanc Mange.
- 52. Eastbourne Pudding.
- 53. Summerville Plum Pudding.
- 54. Victoria Pudding.
- 55. Prune Gâteau.
- 56. Raspberry Pudding.
- 57. Rice Pudding.
- 58. Small Sago Pudding.
- 59. Ground Rice Pudding.
- 60. Custard Pudding.
- 61. Stewed Pears.
- 62. Harrogate Pudding.
- IV. SAUCES.
- 1. Apple Sauce.
- 2. Bread Sauce.
- 3. Melted Butter.
- 4. Egg Sauce.
- 5. White Sauce.
- 6. Mint Sauce.
- 7. Onion Sauce.
- V. CAKES.
- A few hints about Cakes.
- 1. Madeira Cake.
- 2. Beverleigh Buns.
- 3. Queen Cakes.
- 4. Raspberry Sandwich.
- 5. Rock Buns.
- 6. Cornflour Cake.
- 7. Oatmeal Buns.
- 8. Lemon Sandwich Cakes.
- 9. Yorkshire Parkin.
- 10. Drummond Cake.
- 11. Gingerbread.
- 12. Ginger Nuts.
- 13. Victoria Roll.
- 14. Yorkshire Cake.
- 15. Sally Lunn Teacakes (No. 1).
- 16. Summerville Cakes.
- 17. Soda Cake.
- 18. Brunswick Cakes.
- 19. Jordan Cakes.
- 20. Lunch Cake.
- 21. Plain Plum Cake.
- 22. Rice Buns.
- 23. Raspberry Buns.
- 24. Walnut Cake.
- 25. Icing for Walnut Cake.
- 26. Cocoanut Pyramids.
- 27. London Buns.
- 28. Victoria Buns.
- 29. Norwegian Cake.
- 30. Sultana Cake.
- 31. Cocoanut Cake.
- 32. Lancashire Parkin.
- 33. Delicious Cake.
- 34. Chocolate Cake.
- 35. Rich Plum Cake.
- 36. Plain Seed or Currant Loaf.
- 37. Malta Cake.
- 38. Small Rice Cake.
- 39. Parisian Sandwich.
- 40. Sultana Scones.
- 41. York Tea Cakes.
- 42. Fairy Cakes.
- 43. Orange Rock Cakes.
- 44. Jersey Cake.
- 45. Seed Bread (To Butter).
- 46. Queen Anne’s Cake.
- 47. Spice Bread.
- 48. Bachelor’s Buttons.
- 49. Cocoanut Fingers.
- 50. Victorine Buns.
- 51. Orange Cakes.
- 52. Ginger Cakes.
- 53. Cherry Cakes.
- 54. Small Seed Cakes.
- 55. Lemon Jumbles.
- 56. Cocoanut Gingerbread.
- 57. Lemon Buns.
- 58. Ashton Sandwiches.
- 59. Christmas or Wedding Cake.
- Almond Paste.
- Icing.
- 60. Split Cakes.
- 61. Baking Powder Rolls.
- 62. American Cake.
- Orange Filling.
- 63. Shrewsbury Cakes.
- 64. Swiss Roll.
- 65. Westwood Buns.
- 66. Sally Lunn Tea Cakes. (No. 2).
- 67. Queen Cakes (No. 2).
- 68. Neapolitan Ribbon Cake.
- 69. Clancarthy Buns.
- 70. Spice Bread.
- 71. Swiss Cakes (Another Method).
- 72. Genoa Cake.
- 73. Fairy Baskets.
- 74. Fancy Bread (Without Yeast).
- VI. BISCUITS.
- 1. Picnic Biscuits.
- 2. Rice Biscuits.
- 3. Shrewsbury Biscuits.
- 4. Ginger Drops.
- 5. Seventy Little Biscuits for 2d.
- 6. Ginger Biscuits.
- 7. Rice Biscuits.
- 8. Seed Biscuits.
- 9. Soda Biscuits.
- 10. Sweet Biscuits.
- 11. Chestnut Biscuits.
- 12. Cocoanut Biscuits.
- 13. 4-lbs. Biscuits for 8d.
- 14. Chocolate Biscuits.
- 15. Cinnamon Stars.
- 16. Ratafias.
- 17. Almond Rings.
- 18. Cheese Straws.
- 19. Patent Barley Biscuits.
- VII. BONBONS.
- 1. French Almond Rock.
- 2. Candy Dough.
- 3. Candy Cherries.
- 4. Almond Creams.
- 5. Walnut Creams.
- 6. Cream Dates.
- 7. Brandy Snap.
- 8. Raspberry Rock.
- 9. Cocoanut Fondant.
- 10. Chocolate or Coffee Fondant.
- 11. Nougat.
- 12. Gelées Françaises.
- 13. Chestnut Bonbons.
- 14. Chocolate Baisers.
- 15. Yorkshire Toffee.
- 16. Brandy Snap.
- 17. Marmalade.
- Patent Groats.
- VIII. BEVERAGES.
- 1. Apple Wine.
- 2. Barley Water for Invalids.
- 3. Ginger Beer.
- 4. Ginger Wine.
- 5. Lemon Squash.
- 6. Lemon water.
- IX. ADDITIONAL USEFUL RECIPES.
- 1. To bottle Green Gooseberries.
- 2. Gooseberry Jelly.
- 3. Apple Jelly.
- 4. Cough Mixture.
- 5. Pork Pie Pastry.
- 6. Recipe for Keeping Eggs.
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