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The Century Cook Book

Chapter 1282: CHAPTER XXVI.
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A comprehensive domestic cookery manual presents precise recipes and practical rules for preparing dishes from simple everyday fare to elaborate and ornamental pieces, with time tables, weights and measures, and proportions for baking, boiling, broiling, and roasting. It includes regional contributions, guidance on menu planning, table decorations and etiquette for entertaining, and household economy, hygiene, and system. Instructional front matter explains techniques and principles to aid both inexperienced and trained cooks, while illustrations and clearly stated measurements aim to allow confident, reproducible results without constant supervision.

CHAPTER XXIII.

Boiling Sugar and Making Candies.

  • Boiling sugar, 510.
  • Granulation, 511.
  • Degrees of boiling sugar, 512.
  • Syrups, 513.
  • Fondant, 513.
  • To make fondant, 514.
  • Spun sugar, 515.
  • Directions for spinning sugar, 515.
  • Glacé oranges and grapes, 516.

Candies.

  • General remarks about candy making, 517.
  • Nougat No. 1 (for bonbons), 518.
  •    2 (for molding), 519.
  •    3 (soft white nougat), 519.
  •    4 (bonbons), 520.
  • Burnt almonds, 520.
  • Sugared almonds, 520.
  • Marrons glacé, 521.
  • Marshmallows, 521.
  • Chocolate caramels, 522.
  • Caramels, vanilla, coffee, maple, 522.

Bonbons of Fondant.

  • Harlequin balls, 522.
  • Neapolitan squares, 523.
  • Nut creams, 523.
  • Sugar-plums, 523.
  • Chocolate creams, 524.
  • Creamed nuts and creamed fruits, 524.
  • Cocoanut creams, 524.
  • Cakes, 525.
  • Peppermint creams, 525.
  • Chocolate peppermints, 525.
  • To make starch molds and cast candies, 525.

Candies made from Sugar Boiled to the Crack or the Caramel.

  • Peppermint drops, 526.
  • Carameled nuts, 526.
  • Almond hardbake, 526.
  • Peanut candy, 527.
  • Taffy, 527.
  • Molasses candy, 527.
  • Candied orange and lemon peel, 527.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Fruits.

  • General remarks, 529.
  • Apples, 530.
  • Oranges, 530.
  • Grape fruit, 530.
  • Peaches, 530.
  • Strawberries, 530.
  • Berries, 531.
  • Currants, 531.
  • Bananas, sliced, sautéd, fried, 531.
  • Stewed figs, 531.
  • Salpicon of fruits, 532.
  • Melons, 532.
  • Frozen fruits, 532.
  • Quinces, baked, 532.
  • Nuts, 532.
  • Salted almonds, 533.
  • No. 2, 533.
  • English walnuts and filberts, 533.
  • Salpicon of fruit punch, 533.
  • Punch of white California canned cherries, 534.
  • Jellied fruit, 534.
  • Fruit juices, 534.

CHAPTER XXV.

Compotes—Preserving and Canning—Pickles.

  • Compotes, 535.
  • Compote of apples, 535.
  • pears, 536.
  • oranges, 536.
  • peaches and apricots, 536.
  • Preserving and canning, 536.
  • Preserved peaches, 537.
  • pears, 538.
  • plums, 538.
  • grapes, 539.
  • strawberries No. 1, 539.
  • strawberries No. 2, 540.
  • raspberries, 540.
  • citron, 540.
  • Canning, 540.
  • Jams or marmalades, 541.
  • Quince marmalade, 542.
  • Orange      “    542.
  • Apple      “    543.
  • Brandy peaches, 543.
  • Jellies, 543.
  • Currant or berries, 543.
  • Apple jelly, 544.
  • Crab-apple jelly, 544.
  • Quince jelly, 544.
  • Spiced grapes, 544.
  • Plum sauce for meats, 544.

Pickles.

  • Sweet pickled peaches and plums, 545.
  • Pickled walnuts, 545.
  •   cucumbers or gherkins, 545.
  • Green tomato pickles, 546.
  • Chow-chow, 546.
  • Nasturtium pickle, 547.

CHAPTER XXVI.

Beverages.

  • Filtered water, 548.
  • To freeze carafes, 548.
  • Tea, 549.
  • The tea bag, 550.
  • ball, 550.
  • Russian tea, 550.
  • Tea punch, 550.
  • Iced tea, 550.
  • Coffee, 551.
  • Care of coffee beans, 551.
  • Coffee mixtures and brands, 551.
  • To make coffee, 551.
  • Drip coffee, 552.
  • Boiled 553.
  • Iced café au lait, 553.
  • Chocolate, 553.
  • Cocoa, 554.
  • Lemonade, 554.
  • Orangeade, 554.
  • Cobblers, 554.
  • Claret cup No. 1, 555.
  • 2, 555.
  • Champagne cup No. 1, 555.
  •  2, 555.
  • Moselle cup, 555.
  • Sauterne cup, 556.
  • Cider cup, 556.
  • The Thorp cocktail, 556.
  • Egg-nog, 557.
  • Milk shake, 557.
  •   punch, 557.
  • Fruit syrups, 557.
  • Grape juice, 557.
  • Raspberry vinegar, 558.
  • Koumiss, 558.
  • Wines, 560.

Transcriber’s Note

The following typographical errors were corrected.

Page Error Correction
iii household affairs household affairs.
6 Mr. and Mrs James’s Mr. and Mrs. James’s
19 decorated-dinner table decorated dinner-table
32 Foies-Gras Foie Gras
32 Chocolate Pralinée Chocolate Pralinée.
42 potato soup, page 103 potato soup, page 103
48 1 lb 1 lb.
79 tablepoonfuls of water tablespoonfuls of water
87 seive sieve
104 clam broth, page 100 clam broth, page 95
108 Footnote 108-1 108-* both in text and footnote
125 took-pick tooth-pick
130 illustration page 324 illustration page 322
130 macedoine macédoine
145 Seasoning Seasoning.
148 if requested, if requested.
208 size of the to-tomatoes size of the tomatoes
219 pan with, butter, pan with butter,
223 cupful of farina cupful of farina.
223 cupfuls of milk cupfuls of milk.
226 tablepoonfuls of butter tablespoonfuls of butter
273 BEURRE NOIR. BEURRE NOIR
308 PÂTE PÂTÉ
316 make an excellent, make an excellent
349 cold color gold color
359 lukewarm water, lukewarm water.
378 MACEDOINE MACÉDOINE
384 MACEDOINE MACÉDOINE
385 BIRDS-NEST BIRD’S-NEST
397 (NO. 1). (NO. 1.)
411 page 393). page 393),
436 teaspoonful of vanilla teaspoonful of vanilla.
445 2 egg yolks 2 egg yolks.
473 citron (sliced) citron (sliced).
506 fruit is mixed in, fruit is mixed in.
565 Hard-bake, 526. Hardbake 526.
565 Flaming, 433. Flaming, 432.
565 Calf’shead, 175. Calf’s head, 175.
565 Cucumbers, 208. Cucumbers, 218.
565 Boston brownbread Boston brown bread
565 Braising, 71. Braising, 71.
566 Little pound cakes Little pound-cakes
566 Caramel, 78, 391, 512. Caramel, 78, 391, 522.
566 Filling, No. 1, 404, Filling, No. 1, 404.
567 Leggs stuffed Legs stuffed
567 No. 3. 485. No. 3, 485.
567 Coffee, 551, Coffee, 551.
567 Slaw, 398. Slaw, 378.
567 Toast, 334. moved to proper alphabetical posistion under Crabs
567 No. 2 297. No. 2, 297.
568 Rolls, 323. Rolls, 328.
568 With baking powder, 179. With baking powder, 170.
568 Éclairs, 470. Éclairs, 473.
568 Nogg, 557. Nog, 557.
568 Omelet, 263. Omelet, 264.
568 Enterprize chopper Enterprise chopper
568 Farinacious Farinaceous
568 Figs, 591. Figs, 531.
569 No 2, 247. No. 2, 247.
569 Plum pudding glacé, 590. Plum pudding glacé, 500.
570 No. 3, 223. No. 3, 227.
570 Inexpensive dinners, 47, 352. Inexpensive dinners, 47, 249.
570 Milk, 54, 58, 63. Milk, 54, 58, 389.
570 Mustard sauce, 285. Mustard sauce, 284.
571 Rechauffé Réchauffé
571 Glacé, 56 Glacé, 516
571 Orange cake, 469. subentry Cake, 469.
571 Oxtail Ox-tail
572 Plum sauce for meats, 444. Plum sauce for meats, 544.
572 “ glacé, 590. “ glacé, 500.
572 Pound cakes, small, 478, Pound cakes, small, 478.
572 Puff paste Puff-paste
572 Quails broiled, 192. Quails broiled, 198.
572 Rechauffé Réchauffé
572 remarks about, 373 remarks about, 374
573 Sauces for meats, 375. Sauces for meats, 275.
573 Sauces, 375. Sauces, 275.
573 Pudding sauces, sweet, 444. moved to spot as subheading under Sauces
574 corn, 107 corn, 106
574 Spinach, 166. “ spinach, 106.
574 String beans, 106. “ string beans, 106.
574 Suprème of, 419. Suprême of, 419.
574 Tart bands, 400. Tart bands, 460.
574 Five o’clock, 31. Five o’clock, 33.
574 General rules about, 312. General rules about, 311.
576 Vegetables, 33 Vegetables, 53
577 pot au feu pot-au-feu
577 Fried smelts on skewers, 118. Fried smelts on skewers, 117.
578 fish-balls fish balls (2 times)
578 A plain potpie A plain pot-pie
578 Dumplings with suet, 171 Dumplings with suet, 170
578 Veal scallop, 171 Veal scallop, 172
580 Fish-balls Fish balls
580 rechauffé réchauffé
580 A boiled Indian pudding, 239. A boiled Indian pudding, 240.
580 A baked Indian pudding, 239. A baked Indian pudding, 240.
580 Instantaneous frosting, 244. Instantaneous frosting, 245.
581 making, 292, making, 292.
583 Raw-beef Raw beef
584 Orange salad, 381. Orange salad, 382.
584 making desserts, 387. making desserts, 386.
584 Utensils, 387. Utensils, 386.
584 store closet store-closet
584 Floating island, 396. Floating island, 395.
584 Chocolate custard, 396. Chocolate custard, 395.
585 rice pudding No 1 rice pudding No. 1
586 Meringue sauce, 449. Meringue sauce, 448.
587 Impératrice Imperatrice
588 Salpicon of fruit punch, 534. Salpicon of fruit punch, 533.
588 Green tomato pickles, 456. Green tomato pickles, 546.

Other inconsistencies

The price for milk is given as $0.02 per cup on p. 47 and $0.04 per cup on p. 48.

The price for sugar is given variously as $0.02 per cup (p. 47, 48) and $0.04 per cup (p. 48)

Irregularities in the alphabetization in the Alphabetical Index have been left as printed.

Other changes

Footnotes were moved to the end of the chapters.

The NOTE that appeared at the bottom of p. 364 was moved to p. 366 and placed at the end of the section on sandwiches.

The NOTE that appeared at the bottom of p. 495 was moved to follow the recipe for Vanilla Ice-Cream No. 1.

The following words were inconsistently spelled or hyphenated:

  • air-bubbles / air bubbles
  • air-cells / air cells
  • apple-dumplings / apple dumplings
  • apple-sauce / apple sauce
  • baking-dish / baking dish
  • baking-pan / baking pan
  • baking-powder / baking powder
  • baking-sheet / baking sheet
  • baking-soda / baking soda
  • baking-tin / baking tin
  • bean-pot / bean pot
  • biscuit-cutter / biscuit cutter
  • boiling-point / boiling point
  • boiling-hot / boiling hot
  • border-mold / border mold
  • bread-boxes / bread boxes
  • bread-crumbs / bread crumbs
  • bread-dough / bread dough
  • breast-bone / breastbone
  • broom-straw / broom straw
  • CALF’S-HEAD / CALF’S HEAD
  • celery-tops / celery tops
  • center-piece / centerpiece
  • cheese-cloth / cheesecloth / cheese cloth
  • close-fitting / close fitting
  • cold-slaw / cold slaw
  • corn-meal / cornmeal
  • Corn-meal / Cornmeal
  • corn-starch / cornstarch / corn starch
  • Corn-starch / Cornstarch
  • CORN-STARCH / CORNSTARCH
  • cracker-crumbs / cracker crumbs
  • cream-cake / cream cake
  • croûte-au-pot / croûte au pot
  • dessert-spoonful / dessertspoonful
  • diamond-shaped / diamond shaped
  • egg-dishes / egg dishes
  • egg-white / egg white
  • egg-yolks / egg yolks
  • filter-paper / filter paper
  • force-meat / forcemeat
  • Force-meat / Forcemeat
  • FORCE-MEAT / FORCEMEAT
  • fruit-juices / fruit juices
  • fruit-pulp / fruit pulp
  • frying-basket / frying basket
  • frying-pan / frying pan
  • granite-ware / graniteware
  • half-shell / half shell
  • Half-shell / Half shell
  • hard-ball / hard ball
  • horse-radish / horseradish
  • Ice-Cream / Ice Cream
  • ice-cream / ice cream
  • ice-water / ice water
  • layer-cake / layer cake
  • layer-cakes / layer cakes
  • lemon-juice / lemon juice
  • lemon-peel / lemon peel
  • lemon-rind / lemon rind
  • lemon-zest / lemon zest
  • lettuce-leaves / lettuce leaves
  • measuring-cup / measuring cup
  • medium-sized / medium sized
  • meringue / méringue
  • meringues / méringues
  • mock-turtle / mock turtle
  • muffin-ring / muffin ring
  • onion-juice / onion juice
  • orange-cake / orange cake
  • orange-juice / orange juice
  • orange-peel / orange peel
  • oyster-liquor / oyster liquor
  • pastry-bag / pastry bag
  • pie-dish / pie dish
  • pie-dishes / pie dishes
  • potato-balls / potato balls
  • potato-masher / potato masher
  • potato-press / potato press
  • potato-scoop / potato scoop
  • pudding-dish / pudding dish
  • pudding-mold / pudding mold
  • puff-paste / puff paste
  • ragoût / ragout
  • Ragoût / Ragout
  • RAGOÛT / RAGOUT
  • rice-pudding / rice pudding
  • ring-mold / ring mold
  • rolling-pin / rolling pin
  • rose-leaves / rose leaves
  • rose-petals / rose petals
  • rose-water / rosewater
  • sauce-boat / sauceboat
  • sauté-pan / sauté pan
  • scalding-point / scalding point
  • serving-dish / serving dish
  • serving-dishes / serving dishes
  • simmering-point / simmering point
  • smoking-hot / smoking hot
  • soft-ball / soft ball
  • soup-pot / soup pot
  • sponge-cake / sponge cake
  • sponge-cakes / sponge cakes
  • starch-grains / starch grains
  • stew-pan / stewpan / stew pan
  • sweet-breads / sweetbreads
  • stock-pot / stock pot
  • string-beans / string beans
  • sweet-oil / sweet oil
  • tail-shells / tail shells
  • Tart-rings / Tart rings
  • terrapin-eggs / terrapin eggs
  • timbale-mold / timbale mold
  • timbale-molds / timbale molds
  • tin-foil / tinfoil
  • tooth-pick / toothpick
  • water-cress / watercress
  • water-ices / water ices
  • wine-glass / wineglass
  • Woodenware / Wooden ware
  • yeast-cake / yeast cake
  • yeast-cakes / yeast cakes