1887 Thanksgiving Dinner: Squab Pie, Boiled Cider Apple Sauce, Maryland Rolls

1887 Thanksgiving Dinner
Practical Housekeeping

Ambrosia or Fruit Salad
Maryland Rolls
Fried Whole Potatoes
Cucumber Catsup
Boiled Cider Apple Sauce
Squab Pie
Apple Stuffing
Vegetable pudding
Spice Cake
Orange Pudding

AMBROSIA, OR FRUIT SALAD.
Six sweet oranges peeled and sliced (seeds and as much of the core as possible taken out), one pine-apple peeled and sliced (the canned is equally good), and one large cocoa-nut grated; alternate the layers of orange and pineapple with grated cocoanut, and sprinkle pulverized sugar over each layer. Or, use six oranges, six lemons, and two cocoa-nuts, or only oranges and cocoa-nuts, prepared as above. Other fruit salads can be similarly made.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I make it again? Yes

BOILED CIDER APPLE SAUCE.
1 gallon cored, pared apples (16 cups)
1/2 gallon boiled cider
Pare, quarter and core apples sufficient to fill a gallon porcelain kettle, put in it a half gallon boiled cider, let it boil. Wash the apples and put in kettle, place a plate over them, and boil steadily but not rapidly until they are thoroughly cooked, testing by taking one from under the edge of the plate with a fork. Do not remove the plate until done, or the apples will sink to the bottom and burn. Apples may be cooked in sweet cider in the same way. Mrs. W. W. W.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I make it again? Yes

FRIED WHOLE POTATOES.
Potatoes, peeled and boiled
1 beaten egg
Rolled crackers or bread-crumbs
Butter
Peel and boil in salted water, remove from the fire as soon as done so that they may remain whole; have ready one beaten egg, and some rolled crackers or bread-crumbs; first roll the potatoes in the egg, and then in the crackers, and fry in butter till a light brown, or drop in boiling lard. This is a
nice way to cook old potatoes.
Did we eat them? Yes
Would I make them again? No

CUCUMBER CATSUP.
3 dozen cucumbers
18 onions, peeled and chopped
3/4 pint salt
1 tea-cup mustard seed
1/2 teacup ground pepper
Cider vinegar
Three dozen cucumbers and eighteen onions peeled and chopped very fine; sprinkle over them three-fourths pint table-salt, put the whole in a sieve, and let drain well over night; add a tea-cup mustard seed, half tea-cup ground black pepper; mix well, and cover with good cider vinegar. Mrs. Hattie Clemmons, Asheville, N. C.
Did we eat it? Some of it.
Would I make it again? No.

TIP-TOP
PUDDING, OR VEGETABLE PUDDING.
1 small white cabbage
2 eggs, beaten
1 tbs butter
3 tbs milk or cream
Salt and pepper
Boil a firm, white cabbage fifteen minutes, changing water then for more from the boiling tea-kettle; when tender, drain and set aside till perfectly cold; chop fine, add two beaten eggs, a
table- spoon of butter, three of very rich milk or cream, pepper and salt. Stir all well together, and bake in a buttered pudding-dish until brown; serve hot. This dish is digestible and palatable, much resembling cauliflowers.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I Make it again? No

APPLE STUFFING.
(1894 cc recipes tried and true)
MRS. W. H. ECKHART.
1/2 pint apple sauce
1/2 cup bread crumbs
Onion
Cayenne pepper
sage
Take one-half pint of apple sauce (unsweetened); add one half cup or more of bread crumbs, some powdered sage, a little chopped onion, and season with cayenne pepper, Delicious for roast geese, ducks, etc.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I make it again? Yes

SQUAB PIE.
Pie paste
sour apples
sugar spice
Pork
Salt and pepper
Trim a deep dish with paste as for chicken pie. put in a layer of sliced sour apples, season with sugar and spice; add a layer of fresh, rather lean pork, sliced thin, seasoned with salt and pepper; and thus place alternate layers of apple and pork until the dish is nearly full ; put in a little water and cover with paste bake slowly until thoroughly done.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I make it again? Yes

SPICE CAKE.
Three pounds seedless raisins, one and a half pounds citron, one; pound butter, two and a half coffee-cups sugar, two of sweet milk, four of flour, six eggs, two large tea-spoon's baking-powder, three tea-spoons cinnamon, two of mace. Mrs. Gov. Potts, Montana.

How I made it:
1 cup raisins
1 lemon juice and rind
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup cider
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp mace
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I make it again? Yes
Notes: I gave up trying to figure out how to adjust the above recipe and made the recipe based on the original and another similar recipe.

ORANGE PUDDING.
2 large oranges
1 cup sugar
Pudding
2 cups milk
3 egg yolks
½ cup sugar
1 tbs corn starch
Meringue
3 egg whites
Sugar
Two large oranges pared and cut in pieces one inch square, put in bottom of pudding dish, pour over them one cup white sugar, then make a plain corn starch pudding without sugar, and pour it over the orange and sugar. Make meringue by beating egg whites with sugar, top pudding and put in oven to brown.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I make it again? Maybe.

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