To poach eggs: Serve them on toast cut uniformly and moistened. Place symmetrically on dish and garnish with parsley; or, spread the toast with creamed mince, place a poached egg on each piece, and put a spot of pepper on the center of the yolk.
- To make coffee, page [551].
- To broil a steak, page [156].
- To boil a leg of mutton, caper sauce, pages [163] and [164].
- To roast beef and baste frequently, roast potatoes in the same pan, pages [146] and [204].
- To draw and truss a chicken, pages [180] and [183].
- To clear the beef stock for clear soup, page [86].
- To make common stock, page [87].
- To make potato soup, page [105].
- To clarify drippings, page [74].
- To try out all other fat, page [74].
- To dry bread and roll it into crumbs, page [51].
- To make bread and bread biscuits, page [340].
- To make rice pudding, page [433].
- To make bread pudding, page [434].
- To make plain cornstarch pudding, page [397].
- A compote to serve with cornstarch pudding, page [535].
- Cottage pudding, sabayon sauce, pages [435] and [446].
- Cup cake, page [470].
- Cookies, page [481].
- Plain pie-crust, page [451].
- Baked apple-dumplings, hard sauce, pp. [429] and [448].
- Some variations of cornstarch pudding, page [398].
- Plain wine-jelly, page [415].
When a woman has learned to do these few simple things perfectly, she will have no difficulty in following any ordinary receipt, and having a knowledge of the first principles of cooking, can then advance to more elaborate dishes.
Frying should not be attempted until she can roast, broil, and bake.
Croquettes of various kinds can then be made; to mold them uniformly requires a little practice—the care of the fat and the right degree of heat are the essential things to emphasize in frying.
In one month a woman of ordinary intelligence, with the desire to learn, should be able to make perfectly, and serve attractively, enough simple dishes to supply the family table with sufficient variety, without troubling the mistress to plan and think for her.
An insistence upon system and exactness will insure immunity from failures.