This section is from the book "Capital City Recipes", by First Presbyterian Church (Raleigh, N.C.). Woman's Auxiliary. Also available from Amazon: Capital City Cook Book, A Collection Of Practical Tested Receipts By Many Of The Best Housekeepers.
Cocoanuts ......................................2
Granulated Sugar-Pounds ............................2 1/2
Vanilla-Teaspoonfuls ....................................1
Wet sugar with milk of cocoanut and let cook as for icing until it ropes; then add grated cocoanuts and cook a few minutes, stirring constantly; pour into a bowl, add vanilla and stir until it begins to harden; then spread on buttered dish and cut in squares.
Mrs. B. R. Lacy
Boil a chicken in as little water as possible until the meat can be easily picked from the bones; manage to have about 1 pint of the water when done; pick the meat very fine, removing all bones, skin and gristle; skim the fat from the water and add 1 ounce of butter, a little salt and pepper and half a package of gelatine well dissolved. Put chicken in a mold wet with cream and pour over the water boiling hot.
Mrs. Merrimon
Chocolate-Pound ..........................1/2
Butter-Pound ................................1/2
Milk-Pints ....................................................1
Nice Brown Sugar-Pounds............................3
Cook ingredients one-half hour, stirring all the time; try in water, and if it breaks instead of pulling it is done; add vanilla and pour on buttered dish. When cool cut in squares. MRS. BAUMANN.
One pint of chicken and sweet-bread mixed, finely chopped; boil a cup of cream thickened with a tablespoonful of flour; rubbed with two of butter, salt and pepper to taste, a teaspoonful of finely chopped onion; let boil a few minutes, then add two eggs (well beaten) and allow to cool; stir in chicken and sweet-bread; mould into shape, handling lightly; roll in cracker dust, then egg and again in cracker dust. Fry in boiling lard.
Mrs. George Watts
In one gallon of water dissolve a lump of alum as large as the end of your thumb; bring to a boil, pour over the figs and allow to stand one minute, then drain off water and weigh the figs; to 1 pound of figs allow 3/4 pound of sugar; put in kettle a layer of figs then one of sugar, adding a little water to keep figs covered; flavor with lemon or ginger root, or both, and boil until figs are clear. Always keep figs under syrup. They should be perfectly ripe. MRS. DUNCAN.
Roil six eggs hard; slice thin; place a layer of bread crumbs in a baking dish, then a layer of egg, pepper and salt, bits of butter, and so on until dish is filled; let last layer be crumbs and butter; pour 1/2 cupful milk over it and bake a few minutes.
Mrs. L. E. Heartt
One peck wine-sap apples; peel half the apples; divide all into quarters; put in a porcelain vessel, cover with cold water, put on the back of the stove and simmer slowly until soft; have two flannel bags (one yard flannel will make the two), strain and press first through one bag and then through the other; to every pint of juice add 1 pound sugar and let it boil until it blisters and pops on the surface, then boil 3 minutes longer.
Mrs. Charles Johnson
Apollinaris - Bottles ................... . 1
Lemons .............................. 4
Fruit Syrup - Cupfuls................... 1
Raspberry, Pine-apple or Orange as preferred. Cracked Ice.
Mix and shake well. Slightly frozen a pine-apple or orange sorbet will result. MRS. W. H. PACE.
Irish Potatoes (large)................... 6
Eggs ................................. 4
Butter size of an egg.
Milk.
Boil the potatoes; when done mash well; beat eggs separately; beat yolks into the potatoes; add butter and milk enough to make thin; salt to taste; beat in whites last; put in a baking-dish and brown.
Mrs. L. E. Heartt
 
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