
Batter I
The original 1910 method for Batter I, presented as a faithful archival transcription.
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The original 1910 method for Batter I, presented as a faithful archival transcription.
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A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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A portable historic recipe using “hard-boiled” eggs, drawn directly from Farmer’s public-domain cookbook.
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Creamed peach pie (No. 2), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including bake as above, stoning the peaches and cutting each in half.
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Breakfast rolls (No. 2), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including sift a quart of flour and stir into it a saltspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of suga.
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Marion Harland’s original method for Broiled soft-shell crabs, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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The original 1910 method for Brown Sauce II (Espagnole), presented as a faithful archival transcription.
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A page-cited historical lunch recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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A measured 1910 bake built around squash (steamed and sifted), preserved with its original method and page citation.
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Green corn pudding (No. 3), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including grate the kernels from twelve ears of corn and stir into them the beaten yolks of si.
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Marion Harland’s original method for Broiled green tomatoes, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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The original 1910 method for Creole Sauce, presented as a faithful archival transcription.
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A page-cited historical dinner recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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Whole sour apples filled with cinnamon sugar, baked in a shallow water bath, and basted with their own amber syrup.
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Marion Harland’s original method for Anchovy croutons, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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A page-cited historical lunch recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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Currant pie (No. 1), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including ripe and stemmed currants with one cupful of sugar to two of currants, and bake betw.
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A turn-of-the-century lunch recipe featuring white stock ii or iii, with the original instructions and source page intact.
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Marion Harland’s original method for Cream puff filling, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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Farmer’s period recipe for Meringue I, faithfully transcribed from the public-domain edition.
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A page-cited historical dinner recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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A page-cited historical lunch recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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Peach ice cream (No. 1), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including scald a pint of cream and pour it very gradually upon three eggs that have been beat.
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Farmer’s concise method for Celery Soup II, transcribed from the public-domain 1910 cookbook.
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