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Author: Simmons, Amelia.
Title: American cookery, or The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake. Adapted to this country, and all grades of life. / By Amelia Simmons, an American orphan. ; Published according to act of Congress.
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Print source: American cookery, or The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake. Adapted to this country, and all grades of life. / By Amelia Simmons, an American orphan. ; Published according to act of Congress.
Simmons, Amelia.
Hartford:: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin. For the author., 1796.
Subject terms:
Cookery, American.
Cookbooks.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N23574.0001.001
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PREFACE.
DIRECTIONS for CATERING, or the procuring the best VIANDS, FISH, &c.
How to choose Flesh.
To make the best Bacon.
Fish, how to choose the best in market.
Poultry—how to choose.
BEANS.
Peas—Green Peas.
Herbs, useful in Cookery.
FRUITS.
RECEIPTS.
To Roast Beef.
Roast Mutton.
Roast Veal.
Roast Lamb.
To stuff a Turkey.
To stuff and roast a Turkey, or Fowl.
To stuff and roast a Gostin.
To smother a Fowl in Oysters.
To stuff a Leg of Veal.
To stuff a leg of Pork to bake or roast.
To alamode a round of Beef.
To alamode a round.
To Dress a Turtle.
To dress a Calve's Head. Turtle fashion.
A Stew Pie.
A Sea Pie.
A Chicken Pie.
Minced Pies. A Foot Pie.
Tongue Pie.
Minced Pie of Beef.
Observations.
Apple Pie.
Currant Pies.
A buttered apple Pie.
PUDDINGS.
A Rice Pudding.
A Nice Indian Pudding.
A Sunderland Pudding.
A Whitpot.
A Bread Pudding.
A Flour Pudding.
A boiled Flour Pudding.
A Cream Almond Pudding.
An apple Pudding Dumplin.
Pears, Plumbs, &c,
Potatoe Pudding. Baked.
Apple Pudding.
Carrot Pudding.
A Crookneck, or Winter Squash Pudding.
Pompkin.
Orange Pudding.
A Lemon Pudding.
Puff Pastes for Tarts.
A Paste for Sweet Meats.
Royal Paste,
CUSTARDS.
Rice Custard.
A Rich Custard.
A sick bed Custard.
TARTS.
Apple Tarts.
Cramberries.
Orange or Lemon Tart.
Gooseberry Tart.
SYLLABUBS.
To make a fine Syllabub from the Cow.
A Whipt Syllabub.
To make a fine Cream.
Lemon Cream.
Raspberry Cream.
Whipt Cream.
A Trifle.
CAKE.
Plumb Cake.
Plain Cake.
Another.
A rich Cake.
Potatoe Cake.
Johny Cake, or Hoe Cake.
Indian Slapjack.
Loaf Cakes.
Another.
Another.
Another.
Another Plain cake.
Cookies.
Another Christmas Cookey.
Molasses Gingerbread.
Gingerbread Cakes, or butter and sugar Gingerbread.
Soft Gingerbread to be baked in pans.
Butter drop do.
Gingerbread.
A cheap seed Cake.
Queens Cake.
Pound Cake.
Another (called) Pound Cake.
Soft Cakes in little pans.
A light Cake to bake in small cups.
Sbrewshury Cake.
Diet Bread.
RUSK.—To make.
Biscuit.
Butter Biscuit.
A Butter Drop.
PRESERVES.
For preserving Quinces.
For preserving Quinces in Loaf Sugar.
For preserving Strawberries.
The American Citron.
To keep White Bullace, Pears, Plumbs, or Damsons, &c. for tarts or pies.
To make Marmalade.
To preserve Mulberries whole.
To preserve Goosberries, Damsons, or Plumbs.
To preserve Peaches.
To preserve Apricots.
To preserve Cherries.
To preserve Raspberries.
To preserve Currants.
To preserve Plumbs.
To keep Damsons.
Currant Jelly.
To dry Peaches.
To pickle or make Mangoes of Melons.
To pickle Barberries.
To pickle Cucumbers.
Alamode Beef.
For dressing Codfish.
To boil all kinds of Garden Stuff.
To keep Green Peas till Christmas.
To boil French Beans.
To boil broad Beans.
To boil green Peas.
To boil Asparagus.
To boil Cabbage.
For brewing Spruce Beer.
Emptins.
ADVERTISEMENT.
ERRATA.