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Fried Cracker or Hard

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dip the hard bread into cold water for a minute or two, not to get too soft. Then fry in a hot frying pan in butter or bacon.

  2. FRIED RICfi FOR THREE PERSONS

  3. Soak a cupful of rice over night. In the morning, put rice in the frying pan with some bacon and cook till soft.

  4. RICE GRIDDLE CAKES

  5. J4 cup boiled rice

  6. J4 cup of flour

  7. lyi teaspoonsful of baking powder

  8. Enough milk to make a thin batter When the griddle or pan is hot, fry the cakes in salt pork dripping or lard, drop a spoonful at the time. These are good rice cakes.

  9. FRIED CORN MEAL MUSH OR

  10. When com meal or hominy has been boiled and cooled, cut into slices and fry in bacon, salt pork or lard. Only one of a kind is needed to fry with.

  11. FLAP JACKS

  12. 6 tablespoonsful of flour

  13. j/s tablespoonful of baking powder

  14. Mix this thoroughly Add enough water to make a batter th^t will drop freely from the spoon. Add a pinch of salt and two pinches of sugar.

  15. Cook in hot frying pan, well greased, for five or seven minutes and then turn with a quick toss and cook the other side.

  16. HOE CAKE can be made exactly the same as flap jacks by substituting com. meal for flour.

  17. CREAMED COD FISH FOR THREE

  18. Soak the fish over night — about a pound. In the morning, boil for ten or fifteen minutes. Pour off the water and pick out the bones. Put on and stew in some milk, a little butter and a teaspoonful of flour, stirred in milk, and stir in the whole.

  19. BAKED CANNED SALMON

  20. Put a can of salmon in a dish to bake, a lump of butter the size of a walnut, pepper and salt, and fill up the dish with milk. Put some cracker crtimbs and a little butter on the top, and bake in the ( oven for 10 minutes.

  21. You can get cracker crumbs by rolling some hard tack with a rolling-pin. Or a bottle makes a pretty good roller on a clean board if you have no bread board.

  22. FRIED FISH

  23. Wash and clean the fish (split a whole fish), and cover with a little flour and a little salt and pepper. Put into a hot frying-pan, with some fat, salt pork or bacon, and cook one side till brown, and then the other side.

  24. 1 can tomatoes

  25. 1 dozen potatoes, washed and peeled and cut into pieces.

  26. Couple of pounds of any meat (either cooked or uncooked)

  27. Some salt and pepper, and then add 2 quarts of water. Let all this stew for an hour, slowly.

  28. CANNED CORNED BEEF HASH

  29. 1 cup of chopped or cut-fine corned beef,, to 2 cups of chopped or cut-fine potatoes (either raw or cooked) with a little milk or water to moisten it, and some butter to make it taste good. Cook in a hot frying pan, with either bacon, or salt pork to keep from sticking.

  30. You can make hash of any kind of cold meat and potatoes and a little butter. If you have any fresh meat, chop or cut it up, add potatoes and some onions, and a can of tomatoes, salt and pepper, and it will be lovely mess.

  31. (Onions or not, as you like.)

  32. HOW TO FRY MEATS

  33. Put a small amount of grease in the fry- ing pan, or salt pork, and when quite hot put in the steak. If the steak is about half inch thick, fry for about 1 minute before turning. Salt and pepper to taste.

  34. Beef, veal, pork and mutton can be done in the same way.

  35. BEEF STEAK AND ONIONS

  36. Follow the recipe for steak. Slice in some raw onions — ^about six to a pound of steak — ^and have enough grease to cook without burning.

  37. HOW TO BROIL MEAT

  38. Put the broiler on, and when hot put on the meat for about two or three minutes. Then turn and cook on the other side. Add a little salt, pepper and butter.

  39. APPLE SAUCE FOR THREE

  40. Pear and slice one quart of apples

  41. 2 tablespoonsful of sugar Cover all this with cold water, and boil for twenty minutes to a half hour.

  42. You can make nice apple sauce with evaporated apples, but they must be soaked over night.

  43. Soak prunes over night. 2 cups of prunes 1^2 tablespoonsful of sugar Boil till soft — ^about thirty minutes.

  44. TO BOIL FRESH POTATOES

  45. Either peeled or in their jackets Put into boiling water, with a little salt, and boil for 20 minutes to half an hour.

  46. TO BOIL FRESH STRING-BEANS

  47. Pull the strings off, and cut into pieces into a bowl of cold water. Drain water off, and cook in boiling water for 20 minutes. Pour off the water, and add pepper, salt and a little butter.

  48. TO BOIL FRESH SWEET CORN

  49. Husk and remove the com silk. Cook in boiling water for fifteen minutes. Use the corn silk for cigarettes ! !

  50. TO BOIL FRESH PEAS

  51. Shell the peas, and put them into boiling water — enough to cover them. Then cook for half an hour, or until soft. Drain off the water, and put on a little butter, pepper and salt.

  52. HOW TO COOK CANNED TOMATOES

  53. Stew for five to ten minutes. Put in some cracker crumbs (to thicken), a little butter, salt and pepper.

  54. HOW TO COOK CANNED CORN

  55. Stew for five or six minutes, and add a little salt, pepper and butter.

  56. RICE PUDDING FOR FOUR PEOPLE

  57. 2 heaping tablespoons ful of rice A little salt

  58. 1 tablespoonful of sugar

  59. A little nutmeg grated if you have it Mix this all together, and put in a slow oven. Give one stir after about ten minutes, and then cook in a slow oven ')4 of an hour.

  60. PEACH PIE FOR FOUR PEOPLE To make peach pie from evaporated peaches, soak one cup of evaporated peaches over night. In the morning, stew with ly2 tablespoonsful of sugar about twenty minutes.

  61. 2 heaping tablespoonsful of lard (or half butter and half lard)

  62. A little salt Mix flour, lard and salt well together, and then add enough cold water to make the dough soft enough to roll out. If it sticks to the rolling pin, use a little flour. Then grease the pie plate, and take half of the dough, rolled out flat, and cover the pie plate. Cut off the edge with a knife. Then put in your fruit. Take the other half of your dough, rolled out for a top, and cut around the edge with a knife, and then press all around the edge with a fork, to make the edges stick together. Then you will have one grand pie.

  63. This pie crust recipe will do for any kind of pie. Evaporated apples should be cooked the same as peaches.

  64. All dry fruit should be soaked over night.

  65. IF STARVING FOR A TASTE OF

  66. CANDY MAKE

  67. 1 cake unsweetened Baker's Chocolate 4 cups of sugar

  68. 2 cups of milk, piece of butter about

  69. the size of an egg (little generous) Boil for half to three-quarters of an hour, then take off the fire and beat till it gets a little thick, and pour into a buttered tin. You can tell if it is done by stirring a little in a saucer.

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

2364Calories
92 gProtein
82 gFat
318 gCarbs

Counts 21 of 27 ingredients. The other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 21 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Salmon100g cooked208
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Lard1 tbsp (12.8g)115
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Apple Sauce1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0
Stewnot in our table0
Prunenot in our table0
Pienot in our table0
Cakenot in our table0

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

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.

Explore the science

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. Apple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Rice + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Peach + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  5. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, peach, flour, milk, rice, egg, corn):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, peach, flour, milk, rice, egg, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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