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THE
COMPLETE COOK.


PLAIN AND PRACTICAL
DIRECTIONS
FOR
COOKING AND HOUSEKEEPING;
WITH UPWARDS OF
SEVEN HUNDRED RECEIPTS:
CONSISTING OF
DIRECTIONS FOR THE CHOICE OF MEAT AND POULTRY;
PREPARATIONS FOR COOKING, MAKING
OF BROTHS AND SOUPS;
BOILING, ROASTING, BAKING, AND FRYING
OF MEATS, FISH, &c.
SEASONINGS, COLOURINGS, COOKING VEGETABLES,
PREPARING SALADS, CLARIFYING;
MAKING OF PASTRY, PUDDINGS, GRUELS, GRAVIES, GARNISHES, &c.
AND, WITH
GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING WINES.

WITH ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS,
BY J. M. SANDERSON,
Of the Franklin House.

PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1864.


Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by
W. A. LEARY.
in the clerk's office of the district court of the United States in and for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

RELATIVE DUTIES OF MISTRESS AND MAID.

INTRODUCTORY GENERAL REMARKS ON COOKERY

PHILOSOPHICAL COOKERY.--COUNT ROMFORD.

RULES AND MAXIMS OF THE KITCHEN.

WHAT MUST ALWAYS BE DONE, AND WHAT MUST NEVER BE DONE.

CHOICE AND PURCHASING OF BUTCHER'S MEAT.

CHOICE OF POULTRY, EGGS, AND FISH, AND SEASONS OF FISH.

PREPARATIONS FOR COOKING.

SOUPS AND BROTHS, &c.

BROTHS OR STOCKS, GLAZE AND GRAVIES.

SAUCES.

BOILING.

BOILING.--BUTCHER'S MEAT AND POULTRY.

FISH.

ROASTING.

ROASTING, BROILING, AND FRYING.

SEASONINGS.

STUFFINGS AND FORCE MEATS.

BAKING MEAT, &c.

FRYING.

BROILING.

 

BRAISING, GLAZING, BLANCHING, LARDING, AND BONING.

COLOURINGS, THICKENINGS, FLAVOURINGS, SEASONINGS, STOCKS, GRAVIES

COLOURING, OR BROWNING.

THICKENINGS.

FLAVOURINGS.

FLAVOURINGS, ESSENCES, POWDERS, &c.

MADE DISHES.

ARTIFICIAL PREPARATIONS OF MEAT, FISH, &c., FOR DRESSING, SALTING, DRYING, &c.

SALTING.

DRYING, SMOKING, &c.

CURING, &c. WITH PYROLIGNEOUS ACID.

KEEPING FRESH MEAT.

ON THE USE OF ACIDS IN DRESSING FOOD.

COOKING VEGETABLES.

PARTICULAR DIRECTIONS FOR DRESSING VEGETABLES

POTATOES.

SALADS.

VINEGARS FLAVOURED.

CATSUPS.

CLARIFYING.

PICKLES.

PASTRY.--GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

PIES, TARTS, AND PUFFS.

PUDDINGS, CHEESECAKES, &c.

BAKING.

AMERICAN MODE OF COOKING INDIAN CORN, PUMPKINS, &c.

GRUELS, CREAMS, SYLLABUBS, JELLIES, &c., &c.

PRESERVES.

DIRECTIONS FOR CARVING.

GARNISHES.

SETTING OUT A TABLE

MADE WINES &c.--GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING