Virginia Housewife or Methodical Cook

CONTENTS. SOUPS. Page Asparagus soup.....13 Beef soup.....13 Gravy soup.....14 Soup with Bouilli.....15 Veal soup.....15 Oyster soup.....16 Barley soup.....16 Dried pea soup.....17 Green pea soup.....17 Ochra soup.....17 Hare or Rabbit soup.....18 Soup of any kind of old fowl.....18 Catfish soup.....19 Onion soup.....19 To dress turtle.....20 For the soup.....21 Mock turtle soup of calf''s head.....22 BEEF Directions for curing beef.....22 To dry beef for summer use.....24 To corn beef in hot weather.....25 Important observations on roasting, boiling, frying, &c......26 Beef a-la-mode.....29 Brisket of beef baked.....29 Beef olives.....29 To stew a rump of beef.....30 A fricando of beef.....30 An excellent method of dressing beef.....31 To collar a flank of beef.....31 To make hunter''s beef.....31 A nice little dish of beef.....32 Beef steaks.....32 To hash beef.....33 Beef steak pie.....33 Beef a-la-daube.....33 VEAL. Directions for the pieces in the different quarters of veal.....34 Veal cutlets from the fillet or leg.....34 Veal chops.....35 Veal cutlets.....35 Knuckle of veal.....36 Baked fillet of veal.....36 Scotch collops of veal.....36 Veal olives.....37 Ragout of a breast of veal.....37 Fricando of veal.....37 To make a pie of sweet-breads and oysters.....38 Mock turtle of calf''s head.....38 To grill a calf''s head.....39 To collar a calf''s head.....40 Calf''s heart, a nice dish.....40 Calf''s feet fricassee.....41 To fry calf''s feet.....41 To prepare rennet.....41 To hash a calf''s head.....42 To bake a calf''s head.....42 To stuff and roast calf''s liver.....43 To broil calf''s liver.....43 Directions for cleaning calf''s head and feet.....43 LAMB. To roast the fore-quarter, &c......44 Baked lamb.....44 Fried lamb.....44 To dress lamb''s head and feet.....44 MUTTON. Boiled leg of mutton.....45 Roasted leg of mutton.....46 Baked leg of mutton.....46 Steaks of a leg of mutton.....46 To harrico mutton.....46 Mutton chops.....47 Boiled breast of mutton.....47 Breast of mutton in ragout.....47 To grill a breast of mutton.....47 Boiled shoulder of mutton.....48 Shoulder of mutton with celery sauce.....48 Roasted loin of mutton.....48 PORK. To cure bacon.....48 To make souse.....50 To roast a pig.....51 To barbecue shote.....51 To roast a fore-quarter of shote.....52 To make shote cutlets.....52 To corn shote.....52 Shote''s head.....53 Leg of pork with pease pudding.....53 Stewed chine.....53 To toast a ham.....54 To stuff a ham.....54 Soused feet in ragout.....54 To make sausages.....54 To make black puddings.....54 A sea pie.....55 To make paste for the pie.....55 Bologna sausages.....55 FISH. To cure herrings.....56 To bake sturgeon.....57 To make sturgeon cutlets.....57 Sturgeon steaks.....57 To boil sturgeon.....58 To bake a shad.....58 To boil a shad.....58 To roast a shad.....59 To broil a shad.....59 To boil rock fish....59 To fry perch.....60 To pickle oysters.....60 To make a curry of catfish.....60 To dress a cod''s head and and shoulders.....61 To make sauce for the cod''s head.....61 To dress a salt cod.....62 Matelote of any kind of firm fish.....62 Chowder, a sea dish.....63 To pickle sturgeon.....63 To caveach fish.....64 To dress cod fish.....64 Cod fish pie.....64 To dress any kind of salted fish.....65 To fricassee cod sounds and and tongues.....65 An excellent way to dress fish.....66 Fish a-la-daub.....66 Fish in jelly.....66 To make egg sauce for a salt cod.....67 To dress cod sounds.....67 To stew carp.....67 To boil eels.....68 To pitchcock eels.....68 To broil eels.....68 To scollop oysters.....68 To fry oysters.....69 To make oyster loaves.....69 POULTRY, &C. To roast a goose.....69 To make sauce for a goose.....70 To boil ducks with onion sauce.....70 To make onion sauce.....70 To roast ducks.....70 To boil a turkey with oyster sauce.....71 To make sauce for a turkey.....72 To roast a turkey.....72 To make sauce for a turkey.....72 To boil fowls.....73 To make white sauce for fowls.....73 Fricassee of smallRandolph, Mary is the author of 'Virginia Housewife or Methodical Cook ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781429090063 and ISBN 1429090065.