Manuscript Cookbook 210

Welsh Rarebit

Toast white bread (thin slices) Cut cheese in small lumps cook with a good sized lump of butter add red pepper - When melted spread on toast and place in the oven a few momentsBeer is also used

Chow-chow

(Best receipt)

4 good sized heads cauliflower 6 lbs pickling onions, 1 gal. wax beans, 2 hundred small pickles and a few long red peppers. Lay in a strong salt brine for 3 days. Then drain. 1/4 lb mustard 1 gal vinegar, 2 cups sugar the greatest part of 5 cts tumeric powder, ground red pepper to taste. Tie in a

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bag black pepper, cloves and cinamon. Let this boil down for a while, then put in the vegetables and boil 10 minutes untill they taste tender "not soft"

Picalilli

25 lbs green tomatoes, 3 doz. green peppers, 12 large cucumbers, 9 large onions 1 bunch celery, chop and salt. and let drain in bag over night. Vinegar, sugar, mustard seed 1 teas. tumeric & red pepper

Salad Dressing

2 cups milk, 2 yolk of eggs, piece butter 2 tables. mustard, cayenne pepper, salt, 1/2 cup vinegar, pinch sugar. stir egg & sugar to gether mustard, pepper etc. to-gether with vinegar. Heat milk pour on egg. heat vin. pour on egg & milk stir constantly.

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French Salad Dressing In a small bowl put a teas salt, half a spoon pepper and 3 tables oil. Stir until salt dissolves, then add one tables vinegar. blend together and pour over salad. Waldorf Salad Slice appels half pound English walnuts cut celery & onion- season. Add apples last. Stir thoroughly with the cream mayonnnaise Heap on platter and cover with mayonnaise Corn Bread 1 1/2 pts cornmeal. 1 pt. buttermilk, 2 eggs, 1/2 teas. soda, 1 tables. melted lard 1 teas. salt. Bake in quick oven

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Corn Dodgers 1 Pt. Cornmeal, 1 pt sweet milk 1/2 teas. salt. Melted lard. ____________ Brown Bread. 1 cup rye flour, 1/2 cup flour 1 cup indian meal, 2/3 cup mollasses, enough sour milk to make stiff batter (2/3 teassoda to molasses) Steam 4 hours. ____________ White Cake Two cups sugar (scant) 1/2 cup butter whites of 8 eggs 1 Cup milk - 2 1/2 cups flour 1 cup cornstarch, 2 teas. Bkg Powder ____________

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Mrs. Walton's receipe. 1 cup sour cream 1 " butter 2 " sugar 3 eggs 1 cup raisens 1 " currants 4 " flour 1 tables. allspice 1 " cinamon 1 " grated nutmeg 1/2 tea. soda in cream ____________ Mrs. Stills Layer Cake 1 cup Butter 2 " sugar 4 " flour 1 " milk 4 eggs 1 teas. BKg powder 1 lb. figs 1 lb raisens or almonds Chopped fine pour boiling [water?} over