Good Cooks' Recipes » Sauces

Allemade Sauce

wanda — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:49:56 +0000

Heat a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup and 1/2 can thin cream. Stir in egg yolk, add 3/4 teaspoon lemon juice, a few grains of nutmeg and 3 tablespoons of Parmesan cheese.

Good on fish, ham, chicken or vegetables.

Cranberry Sauce Recipe from 1924

wanda — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:38:19 +0000

Another project of mine is copying articles about the people in my home town from the oldest newspapers. (sylacaugahistory.com) Not only do I find interesting tidbits about the people and locale, I find recipes. Here is the traditional recipe for cranberry sauce proving that the more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s hard to beat the basic recipe for cranberry sauce.

From the Sylacauga (Alabama) News in 1924:

Quoted – “Perhaps some inexperienced housewife may be helped by the recipe for”:

Cranberry Sauce

Take six cupfuls of cranberries, three cupfuls of granulated sugar, one-half cupful of water. Wash and pick over the berries and add the sugar and water, but do not stir. After they begin to boil, cook ten minutes closely covered. Remove the scum and when cool they will be jellied, the skins soft and tender.

Barbecue Sauce Recipe

wanda — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:27:09 +0000

Juice of 3 lemons
1 bottle ketchup
1 bottle Worcestershire
1 cup white vinegar
3/4 cup sugar
3 teaspoons salt
3 teaspoons pepper (1 red and 2 black)
1 garlic clove, chopped
1 cup water

Mix. all ingredients. Bring to boil and let cook, slowly at least 30 minutes.