The Culinary Handbook: The Most Complete and Serviceable Reference Book to Things Culinary Ever Published"Recipes and explanations for upwards of 4000 different articles and dishes. ... The Culinary Handbook cosists of the articles under this head that have oppeared [sic] in the Hotel Monthly during the last four years."--Page 187. |
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Allemande sauce anchovy bacon beans beaten eggs Bechamel sauce beef birds blanched boiled bone braised bread crumbs breast broiled brown butter button mushrooms CALF'S carrot celery cheese chicken chopped parsley cloves cold color consommé cooked cream croquettes croûtons cutlets dice dipped dish drained Espagnole sauce fancy filled fillets fish flavored forcemeat French dressing fried garnished glaze grated gravy green peas jelly larded lemon juice liver lobster meat melted butter mixed moistened mustard mutton nutmeg omelet onions ounces oven oysters Parmesan cheese parsley peeled pieces placed pork potatoes pounds purée quenelles recipe red pepper rice roast rolled in flour rubbed salt and pepper sauce poured SAUCE-Into sausage sautéed sautoir seasoned with salt served garnished shallots shells shred simmered till tender skimmed skin slices soup sprinkled steaks stewed strained stuffed sugar Suprême sauce sweetbreads thick trimmed truffles veal vegetables Vélouté sauce vinegar washed white stock
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Page 36 - ... of the most flagrant and extensive kind. Catsups are made of skins and cores instead of the pure vegetables, then colored with a coaltar product and loaded with salicylic acid to prevent fermentation. Fruit butters are nothing but parings and scrapings of fruit, to which glucose, starch and coloring have been added, with salicylic acid as a preservative. Jellies are made from glucose, flavored with essential oils and colored, to which salicylic acid is added. Some fruit jellies marked as pure...
Page 44 - ... shipped from Hawaii to San Francisco, thence to Ogden, Utah, for reconditioning. Also, similar shells and bombs are being shipped from Panama to Charleston, SC, for like treatment. We found that the equipment for reconditioning these shells and bombs is very inexpensive, and the work is of such a nature that it can be performed at any point. The information given our committee was to the effect that it would not take as much as $50,000 to install a plant complete ready for reconditioning such...
Page 36 - ... maltose, dextrine, starch, gum, gelatine, grease, flour, copper, mineral colors, cochineal, eosin, corallin, Bengal red, fluorescin, ultramarine, turmeric, methyl orange, carmine, lampblack, Victoria yellow, magenta, orange red. aniline brown and Bismarck brown. CANNED VEGETABLES, CATSUP, JELLIES, ETC. Under one heading we may consider several groups of foodstuffs, which, while different in composition, are alike in the form of adulteration which is resorted to. These groups include the varieties...
Page 43 - Mother told father not to set so near the fire as it made matters worse. Father told mother to go and smother herself. Mother said she thought she was smothered already. Just then the servant came in and asked if she should open the windows, as the room felt very close. Father went upstairs and changed his clothes and had a hot bath. Mother took father's clothes and offered them to a tramp, who said: "Thanks, kind lady, they are a bit too high for me.
Page 36 - ... of adulteration which is resorted to. These groups include the varieties of canned vegetables, fruit butters, jellies, preserves and catsups. The forms of adulterations, common to all of these, consist in the use of coloring matter, of imperfect vegetables or fruits, of other fruits and vegetables than those called for, of preservatives. In the case of canned vegetables, there is an accidental adulteration from the ingredients of the can, such as lead and tin, and which may, as a rule, be attributed...
Page 36 - ... essential oils and colored, to which salicylic acid is added. Some fruit jellies marked as pure have never seen a trace of fruit. What is true of jellies is true of preserves. Put together refuse material, the cheapest sort of glucose, some coloring and salicylic acid, and you have the composition of some of the cheaper forms of preserves that are to be found on the shelves of some of our grocery stores. Of these coarser forms of adulterations it will be unnecessary to say even a word. They are...
Page 43 - ... Mother told father to go the nearest way home and disinfect himself before she came. When they got home they both went into the front room, but did not speak for some time. Mother spoke first and told father to put the cat out of the. room, as she thought it was going to be sick. It was sick before father could get it out. Mother then turned round and noticed that the canary was dead. Mother told father not to sit so near to the fire, as it made matters worse.
Page 43 - ... of something wrapped in a piece of silver paper which he told me was a piece of limburger cheese. When I got outside the shop I opened the paper, and when I smelt what was inside, I felt tired. I took it home and put it in the coal shed. In the morning I went to it again. It was still there. Nobody had taken it. I wondered what I could do with it. Father and mother were getting ready to go to church. I put a piece in the back pocket of father's pants, and another piece in the lining of ma's muff....
Page 43 - ... it again. It was still there. Nobody had taken it. I wondered what I could do with it. Father and mother were getting ready to go to church. I put a piece in the back pocket of father's pants, and another piece in the lining of ma's muff. I walked behind when we started for church. It was beginning to get warm. When we got in church father looked anxious and mother looked as if something had happened. After the first hymn mother told father not to sing again, but to keep his mouth shut and breathe...