Chapter 4

Oranges and apples

Stewed raisins

Dried apples

Dried apples with other dried fruit

Dried apricots and peaches

Evaporated peach sauce

Dried pears

Small fruits

Prunes

Prune marmalade

Canning fruit

Selection of cans

How to test and sterilize cans

Selection of fruit

Directions for preparing fruit

Cooking fruit for canning

Storing of canned fruit

Mold on canned fruit

Opening of canned fruit

Rules for selecting canned fruit

Recipes:

To can strawberries

To can raspberries, blackberries and other small fruit

To can gooseberries

To can peaches

To can pears

To can plums

To can cherries

To can mixed fruit

Quinces and apples

Plums with sweet apples

To can grapes

To can crab apples

To can apples

To can pineapples

Fruit jellies

Recipes:

Apple jelly

Apple jelly without sugar

Berry and currant jellies

Cherry jelly

Crab apple jelly

Cranberry jelly

Grape jelly

Orange jelly

Peach Jelly

Quince jelly

Plum jelly

Fruit in jelly

Fruit juices, value of

How to prepare fruit juices

Recipes:

Grape juice or unfermented wine

Grape juice No. 2

Another method

Fruit syrup

Currant syrup

Orange syrup

Lemon syrup

Lemon syrup No 2

Blackberry syrup

Fruit ices

Nuts

Composition and nutritive value of

The almond

Almond bread

The Brazil nut

The cocoanut, its uses in tropical countries

The chestnut

Chestnut flour

The acorn

The hazel nut

The filbert

The cobnut

The walnut

The butternut

The hickory nut

The pecan

The peanut or ground nut

Recipes:

To blanch almonds

Boiled chestnuts

Mashed chestnuts

Baked chestnuts

To keep nuts fresh

Table topics.

The Legumes

Composition and nutritive value

Legumes as a substitute for animal food

Legumin, or vegetable casein

Chinese cheese

Legumes the "pulse" of Scripture

Diet of the pyramid builders

Digestibility of legumes

A fourteenth century recipe

The green legumes

Suggestions for cooking

Slow cooking preferable

Soaking the dry seeds

Effects of hard water upon the legumes

Temperature of water for cooking

Amount of water required

Addition of salt to legumes

Peas, description of

Buying votes with peas

A commemorative dinner

Peas bainocks

Peas sausages

Peas pudding

Time required for cooking

Recipes:

Stewed split peas

Peas puree

Mashed peas

Peas cakes

Dried green peas

Beans, description of

Mention of beans in Scripture

Beans in mythology

Time required for digestion

Method of cooking

Experiment of an English cook

Parboiling beans

Time required to cook

Recipes:

Baked beans

Boiled beans

Beans boiled in a bag

Scalloped beans

Stewed beans

Mashed beans

Stewed Lima beans

Succotash

Pulp succotash

Lentils, description of

Use of lentils by the ancients

Lentil meal

Preparation for cooking

Recipes:

Lentil puree

Lentils mashed with beans

Lentil gravy with rice

Table topics.

Vegetables

Composition and nutritive value of vegetables

Exclusive diet of vegetables not desirable

To select vegetables

Poison in potato sprouts

Stale vegetables a cause of illness

Keeping vegetables

To freshen withered vegetables

Storing winter vegetables

Preparation and cooking

To clean vegetables for cooking

Methods of cooking

Time required for cooking

Irish potato, description of


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