Chapter 2

Graham grits

Graham mush

Graham mush No. 2

Graham mush No. 3

Graham mush with dates

Plum porridge

Graham apple mush

Granola mush

Granola fruit mush

Granola peach mush

Bran jelly

The oat, description of

Oatmeal

Brose

Budrum

Flummery

Preparation and cooking of oats

Recipes:

Oatmeal mush

Oatmeal fruit mush

Oatmeal blancmange

Oatmeal Blancmange No. 2

Jellied oatmeal

Mixed mush

Rolled oats

Oatmeal with apple

Oatmeal porridge

Barley, description of

Gofio

Scotch milled or pot barley

Pearl barley

Suggestions for cooking barley

Recipes:

Baked barley

Pearl barley with raisins

Pearl barley with lemon sauce

Rice, description of

Rice paddy

Preparation and cooking of rice

Recipes:

Steamed rice

Boiled rice

Rice with fig sauce

Orange rice

Rice with raisins

Rice with peaches

Browned rice

Rye, description of

Rye meal

Rye flour

Recipes:

Rolled rye

Rye mush

Maize, or Indian corn, description of

Suggestions for cooking corn

Recipes:

Corn meal mush

Corn meal mush with fruit

Corn meal cubes

Browned mush

Samp

Cerealine flakes

Hulled corn

Coarse hominy

Fine hominy or grits

Popped corn

Macaroni, description of

Semolina

Spaghetti

Vermicelli

To select macaroni

To prepare and cook macaroni

Recipes:

Homemade macaroni

Boiled macaroni

Macaroni with cream sauce

Macaroni with tomato sauce

Macaroni baked with granola

Eggs and macaroni

Table topics.

Breadstuffs and Bread-making

The origin of bread

Chestnut bread

Peanut bread

Breadstuffs

Qualities necessary for good bread

Superiority of bread over meat

Graham flour

Wheat meal

Whole_wheat or entire wheat flour

How to select flour

To keep flour

Deleterious adulterations of flour

Tests for adulterated flour

Chemistry of bread-making

Bread made light by fermentation

The process of fermentation

Fermentative agents

Yeast

Homemade yeasts

How to keep yeast

Bitter yeast

Tests for yeast

Starting the bread

Proportion of materials needed

Utensils

When to set the sponge

Temperature for bread-making

How to set the sponge

Lightness of the bread

Kneading the dough

How to manipulate the dough in kneading

How many times shall bread be kneaded

Dryness of the surface

Size of loaves

Proper temperature of the oven

How to test the heat of an oven

Care of bread after baking

Best method of keeping bread

Test of good fermented bread

Whole-wheat and Graham breads

Toast

Steamed bread

Liquid yeast

Recipes:

Raw potato yeast

Raw potato yeast No. 2

Hop yeast

Boiled potato yeast

Boiled potato yeast No. 2

Fermented breads

Recipes:

Milk bread with white flour

Vienna bread

Water bread

Fruit roll

Fruit loaf

Potato bread

Pulled bread

Whole-wheat bread

Whole-wheat bread No. 2

Miss B's one-rising bread

Potato bread with whole-wheat flour

Rye bread

Graham bread

Graham bread No. 2

Graham bread No. 3

Raised biscuit

Rolls

Imperial rolls

French rolls

Crescents

Parker House rolls

Braids

Brown bread

Date bread


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