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And Merchant Tailoring

Ingredients

Directions

  1. -Liobster Salad.

  2. To the yolks of four hard-boiled ^gg'i add a little pepper and salt and a gill of vinegar. Stir this all together. Cut up some celery or cabbage fine, mix carefully with the lobster in the dish in which it is to be .served. Then pour the mixture over it.

  3. Mrs. George.

  4. Tomato Salad.

  5. Take off the skins, cut in thin slices, and lay in a salad bowl. Make a dressing by working a tea-spoon full of salt and made mustard, a little pepper, the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, with two table-spoons full of melted butter. Then whip in five table- spoons full of good vinegar. Pour over the tomatoes, and let it cool for an hour before serving. Mrs. George.

  6. Wild Plum Catsup.

  7. To ten pounds of plums take five pounds of sugar. Boil, mash and strain the fruit. For every quart of juice add rather more than one and one-half pints of vinegar. Add cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Boil fifteen minutes. Mrs. Howard.

  8. Tomato Catsup.

  9. Boil tomatoes and strain in a sieve. To one gallon of juice put four spoons full of salt, four of black pepper, four of ground mustard, three of allspice, two of cinnamon, one cup of sugar, one quart of vinegar. Boil until thick. Mrs. L. B. France.

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

293Calories
7 gProtein
18 gFat
27 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Denver. Central Presbyterian church. Young ladies' mission band. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Plum + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together513 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Plum + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together446 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Plum + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, vinegar, pepper, egg, butter, cinnamon, clove):

  1. Lemonfits about as well
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Vanillafits about as well
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, vinegar, pepper, egg, butter, cinnamon, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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