cooking. Do not wait until the vegetables are done. Salt the water they
are boiled in after they begin to boil.
=What to Serve With Meats=
_Roast Beef and Turkey_
Squash, turnips, onions and cranberry sauce.
_Roast Pork_
Spinach, onions and apple sauce.
_Roast Lamb_
Mint sauce.
_Roast Mutton_
Currant jelly and vegetables.
With all kinds of meat and fowl pickles are always good. Make your own
pickles, after recipes found in this book.
=The Length of Time to Cook Meats=
_Lamb_
Roast a leg of lamb three hours. Wash clean, sprinkle over it a little
flour and salt and put into a pan, with cold water. While it is
cooking, take a spoon and pour over it the water from the pan, three or
four times.
_Veal_
Roast veal three hours, treating it the same way as lamb. When you have
removed it from the pan, make a smooth paste, by wetting two or three
tablespoonfuls of flour with cold water, and stir into the water left
in the pan. Pour in more water, if the size of your family requires it.
_Beef_
Roast beef requires fifteen minutes for each pound. Do not salt beef,
until you take it from the oven.
_Ham_
Boil a ham of ordinary size three hours. Let cool in the water in which
it is boiled. It is very nice to remove the skin, while warm, stick
cloves in the outside, sprinkle over it a little vinegar and sugar and
bake for one hour.
_Sausages_
Sausages are very nice, baked in a hot oven twenty minutes. Prick with
a fork to prevent bursting. Do this too, if fried.
_Corned Beef_
Should boil four hours.
_Chicken_
A chicken will cook in one hour and a half. A fowl requires an hour
longer. Don't forget to put in one tablespoonful of vinegar to make
tender.
_Turkey_
A ten pound turkey needs to cook three hours, in a slow oven.
=The Length of Time to Cook Vegetables=
_Onions_
Boil one hour. Longer if they are large.
_Cabbage_
Requires one hour and a half.
_Parsnips_
Boil two or three hours according to size.
_Carrots_
Wash, scrape, and boil one hour.
=When Paring Tomatoes=
Put them into very hot water and the skin will come off easily.
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