PREFACE AND APOLOGY.

The publication of a book on my knowledge and experience of Southern Cooking, Pickle and Jelly Making, has been frequently asked of me by my lady friends and patrons in San Francisco and Oakland, and also by ladies of Sacramento during the State Fair in 1879. Not being able to read or write myself, and my husband also having been without the advantages of an education--upon whom would devolve the writing of the book at my dictation--caused me to doubt whether I would be able to present a work that would give perfect satisfaction. But, after due consideration, I concluded to bring forward a book of my knowledge--based on an experience of upwards of thirty-five years--in the art of cooking Soups, Gumbos, Terrapin Stews, Meat Stews, Baked and Roast Meats, Pastries, Pies and Biscuits, making Jellies, Pickles, Sauces, Ice-Creams and Jams, preserving Fruits, etc. The book will be found a complete instructor, so that a child can understand it and learn the art of cooking.

Respectfully,

MRS. ABBY FISHER,
Late of Mobile, Ala.

I take pleasure in referring, by permission, to the following of my friends, namely:

 

WM. F. BLOOD..............415 California Street, San Francisco

E.M. MILES................413 Montgomery Street, San Francisco

WM. O. GOULD..............512 California Street, San Francisco

MRS CHARLES S. NEALE.........1814 Sutter Street, San Francisco

MRS. JOHN HARROLD...........416 Chestnut Street, San Francisco

Mrs. W.H. GLASCOCK.....................................Oakland

Mrs. G.H. COY..................431 Geary Street, San Francisco

Mrs. JOHN C. FALLS...............................San Francisco

Mrs. LOUIS H. VANSCHAICK........129 page Street, San Francisco

By The Historic American Cookbook Project

CONTENTS.

BREAKFAST BREADS

1 Maryland Beat Biscuit

2 Egg Rolls

3 Cream Cake

4 Waffles

5 Flannel Cakes

6 Sallie Lund

7 Corn Bread

8 Egg Corn Bread

9 Plantation Corn Bread

10 Light Bread

 

BROILED MEATS

11 Beefsteak

12 Lamb or Mutton Chops

13 Pork Steak or Chops

14 Venison

 

CROQUETTES

28 Lamb

29 Chicken

30 Crab

31 Meat

32 Veal or Lamb Vigareets

33 Liver

34 Oyster

35 Fish

 

CAKES, ETC.

60 Gold

61 Silver

62 Almond

63 Feather

64 Sponge

65 Fruit

66 Jelly

67 Carolas

68 Raised

69 Old Time Ginger

70 Ginger Cookies

71 Jumble

72 Sweet Wafers

PICKLES, SAUCES, ETC.

73 Sweet Cucumber Pickles

74 Sweet Cucumber Mangoes

75 Chow Chow

76 Creole Chow Chow

77 Cherry Chutney

78 Game Sauce

79 Compound Tomato

80 Napoleon

81 Pepper Mangoes

82 Meat Dressing

83 Sweet Pickle Peaches

84 Sweet Pickle Pears

85 Sweet Pickle Prunes

86 Sweet Watermelon Rind Pickle

87 Onion Pickles

88 Plain Pickles

139 Apple Roll Sauce

118 Sauce for Boiled Fish or Mutton

120 Milanese Sauce

150 Sauce for Suet Pudding

 

PIES, ETC.

48 Pastry for making Pies of all kinds

49 Preparing the Fruit for Pies

49 Rhubarb

49 Apple

49 Peach

50 Lemon Pies

51 Cocoanut

52 Cream Apple

53 Sweet Potato

54 Custard

55 Gooseberry and Cherry

56 Orange

57 Light Bread

58 Cracker

59 Mince

138 Apple Roll

141 Blackberry Roll

157 Oyster

PUDDINGS

110 Snow

111 Plum

135 Corn

134 Corn Fritters

145 Batter

146 Baked Batter Pudding

154 Rice

158 Yorkshire

159 Cheese

149 Suet

 

PRESERVES, SPICES, ETC.

89 Brandy Peaches

90 Brandy Peaches, No.2.

91 Quince Preserves

92 Syrups for Preserves

93 Preserved Peaches

94 Preserved Pears

95 Currant Jelly

96 Cranberry Jelly

97 Strawberry Jelly

98 Raspberry and Currant Jam Combined

99 Marmalade Peach

100 Crab Apple Jelly

101 Blackberry Brandy

102 Blackberry Syrup--for Dysentery in Children

103 Preserved Apricots

104 Apple Sauce for Roast Pork

105 Charlotte Russe

130 Spiced Currants

131 Spiced Cherries

132 Preserved Peaches

133 Preserved Cherries

 

ROAST MEATS

15 Venison

16 Beef

17 Lamb

18 Pork

19 Pig

20 Veal

21 Turkey

22 Chicken

23 Birds

24 Quail

25 Domestic Duck

26 Wild Duck

 

SALADS

120 Chicken

121 Veal

122 Lamb

123 Shrimp

124 Crab

125 Meat

 

SHERBETS

107 Orange

108 Lemon

109 Pineapple

SOUPS, CHOWDERS, ETC.

38 Beef

39 Ox-Tail

40 Calf's Head

41 Mock Turtle

42 Green Turtle

43 Oyster Gumbo

44 Ochra Gumbo

45 Old Fashioned Turnip

46 Chicken

47 Corn and Tomato

129 Creole

127 Fish Chowder

128 Clam Chowder

151 Chicken Gumbo

 

MISCELLANEOUS

36 Fricassed Chicken

37 Fried Chicken

27 Meat Stews or Entrees

106 Ice Cream

112 Boiled Turkey

113 ~ Beef a la Mode

114 Spiced Round

115 Stuffed Ham

116 Baked Fish

117 Broiled Fish

119 Jumberlie--A Creole Dish

140 Stuffed Tomatoes

136 Carving Poultry

137 Boiled Corn

142 Egg Plant Stuffed

143 Peach Cobbler

144 Ladies' Custard

147 Corned Beef Hash

148 Tonic Bitters

126 Terrapin Stew

160 Pap for infant diet

156 Leaven Biscuit

155 Meringue for Pudding

153 Stewed Tomatoes

152 Circuit Hash