Nutmeg Recipes Page 96

Recipes Featuring Nutmeg

• Feather Cake | 1 egg
  1 egg 1 cup sugar 1 Tbsp cold butter 1/2 cup milk 1 1/2 cup flour 1 tsp cream of tartar 1/2 tsp baking soda
• Rhubarb Pie (Cooked)
  Rhubarb Butter Crust
• Fried Cakes
  1 quart flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons butter, little salt 1 cup sweet milk
• Force Meat Balls for Soup
  1 cup cooked veal or fowl, minced Handful of bread crumbs Yolks of 4 hard-boiled eggs 1 Tbsp milk Pepper Salt 1/2 tsp flour 2 eggs, beaten
• Bengal Custard
  1 quart of milk 3 tablespoons of rice flour 3 well-beaten eggs 3 tablespoons of sugar
• Steamed Chicken
  1 whole dressed chicken Pepper 1/2 tsp salt For the dressing: 1 pint gravy Cayenne pepper 1/2 tsp salt 1 Tbsp flour 1/4 pint cream
• Apple Dumplings | 1 cup flour
  1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 tablespoon lard Sufficient milk to make stiff dough
• Pickled Cucumbers | Cucumbers
  Cucumbers Salt Green cabbage leaves Green ginger root, sliced Cloves of garlic Blades of mace Cider vinegar Whole cloves Allspice Alum
• Pear Pie
  2 cups pears 1 1/2 cups sugar juice and grated rind of 1 lemon
• Shakers' Pickles
  Half-grown cucumbers Salt Alum Vinegar Spices