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Pick the meat of boiled crabs and chop it fine. Season to taste with pepper, salt and melted butter. Moisten it well with rich milk or cream, then stiffen it slightly with bread or cracker crumbs. Add two or three well-beaten eggs to bind the mixture. Form the croquettes, egg and bread, crumb them and fry them delicately in boiling lard. It is better to use a wire frying basket for croquettes of all kinds.

From Hungarian Specialties Cookery Book (1900) by Nelly de Sacellary. To read from the original book click the page image on right.






The favorite recreation of the man living in the Balaton region is the cellar gathering. For the country man this is the substitute of the club or coffee-house where the townsman finds his amusement. The wine grower works from morning till noon and four or five hours after noon but at five o'clock he slings his knapsack over his back, wraps some ryebread, b...

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This kind of cracks me up.  Ancient Egyptians throwing up from drinking too much wine and beer.  This book seems to be a pretty fascinating look at beer and wine across the ancient world.  Lots of hieroglyphics and fascinating illustrations.  Check it out.....


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The Young Housekeeper's Friend was originally published before the Civil War, and was extensively revised by the 1870s, most notably to accomodate the increased popularity of stoves. It has a very interesting section regretting the loss of the kitchen hearth. The later editions are much easier to find, and there was a (not very common) facsimile reprint of one of them. Early editions are not easy to find and on my one cursory examination, the differences are significant.



None of the other cookboo...


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This 1900 recipe for tamale pie (the second one) is 14 years earlier than any I have seen up to now.


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From The Illustrated Strawberry Culturist (1862)

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How the name of Strawberry came to be applied to this fruit is unknown, as the old authors do not agree ; some asserting that it was given it because children used to string them upon straws to sell, while others say that it took its name from the fact of straw being placed around the plants in order to keep the fruit clean. Its name may not have been derived from either of these, but...

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ON THE BEST METHODS OF

MANUFACTURING CHEDDAR CHEESE



The making of a good Cheddar cheese

depends largely on conditions which are con-

veniently summarized by the word " medium."

A first-rate quality of Cheddar can be made in

any district, provided that you have soil of

medium quality, which will grow a short, sweet

herbage. Soils resting on and derived from

limestone rocks are ideal ; yet any soil of fair

body, growing ...

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From The Blue Grass Cook Book by Minnie C. Fox (1917)

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PENDENNIS CLUB MINT 

JULEP



By a well-known member of the club, Louisville,

Ky.



These are some essentials .



1st. Fine, straight, old Kentucky Bourbon

whisky blended whiskies do not give good results.



2d. An abundant supply of freshly cut sprigs

of mint preferably young shoots no portion of

which has been bruised.



3d. Dry, cracked flint ice. A glass will an-

swer the purpose, but a silv...

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From The Art of Living in Australia

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Worcestershire Sauce: Take 3 quarts of strong 

vinegar, 1 lb. of split raisins, 1 lb. garlic, 1/4 lb.

eschalot, 1/2 ounce cayenne, 1/2 ounce powdered

ginger, salt to taste, small bottle of anchovies,

and mushroom ketchup. Boil the anchovies,

garlic, eschalot, and raisins in a quart of the

vinegar in an iron saucepan until it can be pulped

through a hair sieve, then boil all together for

a few minutes. Bottle when cold. It is essential

that the ingredients should be thoroughly boiled

before being ...

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Pendennis Club Mint Julep
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From The Blue Grass Cook Book by Minnie C. Fox (1917)

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PENDENNIS CLUB MINT 

JULEP



By a well-known member of the club, Louisville,

Ky.



These ar...


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