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 AND THE 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 coming 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]