Recipes of the week

Latest audiobook from Librivox:

365 Foreign dishes.

includes:

5.—Chinese Chicken.
Cut a fat chicken into pieces at the joints; season with all kinds of condiments; then put in a deep saucepan. Add some chopped ham, a few sliced bamboo sprouts, 1 chopped onion and a handful of walnuts. Cover with hot water and let stew slowly until tender. Add some Chinese sauce and parsley. Serve with shredded pineapple.
6.—Scotch Scones.
Sift 1-1/2 pints of flour; add a pinch of salt, 1 teaspoonful of soda mixed with 1 pint of sour milk. Mix to a soft dough. Lay on a well-floured baking-board and roll 1 inch thick. Cut with a round cake-cutter and bake on a hot greased griddle until brown on both sides. Serve hot with butter.
7.—Egyptian Meat Balls.
Chop 1 pound of raw beef; season with salt, pepper and 1 teaspoonful of curry-powder; add 2 stalks of chopped celery, 1 small onion and some chopped parsley. Mix with 2 beaten eggs and 1/2 cup of bread-crumbs, and make into small balls. Let cook in hot butter until tender. Serve on a border of boiled rice and pour over all a highly seasoned tomato-sauce.
8.—Austrian Potato Dumplings.
Peel 5 potatoes and boil whole in salted water until tender. Drain, let get cold, then grate them and mix with 4 eggs and 1 ounce of butter; add salt to taste. Mix well; add flour enough to form into dumplings and fry in deep hot lard until brown. Serve hot with cooked fruit.

other cook books from Librivox:

1. Lydia M Gurney. "Selected Recipes" (in "Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge") · (readers)
2. Miss Parloa. "Selections from "Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes"" (in "Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004") · (readers)
3. Tilden, Joe. "Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures" · (readers)
4. Buist, Robert. "Family Kitchen Gardener, The"
5. Gentile, Maria. "Italian Cook Book, The" · (readers)
6. Green, Olive. "How to Cook Fish" · (readers)
7. Johnson, Constance. "When Mother Lets Us Cook" · (readers)
8. Lea, Elizabeth E.. "Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers" · (readers)
9. Payne, A. G.. ""C" vegetable dishes from Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery" (in "Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013") · (readers)
10. Simmons, Amelia. "American Cookery" · (readers)

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and the Anchoress has a recipe for Meringue cake