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The French Cookbook ~ A Handbook of Useful Recipes ~ Compiled by Jas. Hewson & Co of Kansas City.

A HANDBOOK
OF USEFUL RECIPES

COMPILED & PUBLISHED BY

 

Page Three.

Doughnuts.

Six cups of flour, one and a half cups of sugar, three teaspoonfuls of French Baking Powder, one teaspoonful of salt, butter the size of half an egg.  Mix thoroughly; then add four eggs well beaten, and moisten with sweet milk until a soft dough.  Flavor to taste, with Hewson's Triple Extracts, cooking in boiling lard.

 

Florentine Pudding.

Put one quart of milk into your pan, let it come to a boil, mix smoothly three tablespoonsful of corn starch and a little cold milk, add the yolks of three eggs beaten, half a teacup of sugar; flavor with Hewson's Triple Extract Vanilla or Lemon, stir into the scalding milk, continue stirring till the consistency of starch (ready for use), then put into the pan or dish you wish to serve in, beat the whites of the eggs with a teacup of pulverized sugar, spread over the top, place in the oven a few minutes, till the frosting is pretty brown.  Can be eaten with cream, or, is good enough without.  For a change, you can bake in cups.

 

Fruit Cake That Will Keep One Year.

One cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar, six eggs, one cup flour, two and one-half cups raisins, stoned, two and one-half cups currants, well washed, and one-half cup citron, one and one-half teaspoons French Baking Powder, two tablespoonfuls cloves, tow tablespoons cinnamon, two nutmegs and one-half pint brandy.

East End Silver Cake.

One and a half cups sugar, one and a half cups flour, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, half cup corn starch, one and a half teaspoonfuls French Baking Powder, and whites of six eggs.  Flavor with Hewson's Triple Extracts to suit taste.

 

Egg Pudding.

Four eggs well beaten, four tablespoons of flour, add to the eggs until a smooth mass, then add a pint of milk slowly; a pinch of salt.  Beat all smooth together.  Put in a well buttered dish, and bake about twenty minutes.  Eat with sauce made of butter and sugar well beaten together to a cream, flavored with Hewson's Triple Extract Vanilla.

 

Graham Puffs.

One and a half pints Graham flour, two large teaspoonfuls French Baking Powder, one teaspoonful salt, two eggs and one pint milk.  Sift the Graham flour, salt and Powder together and add the beaten eggs and milk.  Mix into a smooth batter, fill into gem pans, well greased, and bake in a hot oven.

 

Ice Cream.

One quart rich milk, three eggs -- whites and yolks beaten separately and very light, four cups sugar, three pints rich sweet cream, four teaspoonfuls Hewson's Triple Extract Vanilla or Lemon.  Heat the milk to the boiling point, add the yolks and sugar, stirring well.  Now add the hot milk, a little at a time, beating the whole time.  Now set the dish inside another containing boiling water, and boil until thick as boiled custard, then pour into another dish to cool, after which beat the cream, and flavor.  It is now ready for freezing.  Always use rock salt for freezing, as common will not do.

 

Icing for Cake.

One cup sugar, put water enough to make it moist, let it boil to the consistency of syrup, then beat the whites of two eggs and pour it on the boiling sugar, stirring briskly all the time.

 

Jumbles.

Two cups of sugar, one of butter, one of milk, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls of French Baking Powder.  Flour to make it stiff enough to roll out.  Cut into shape and bake in quick oven.


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