The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook


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The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook  
1
quart oysters  
1/2 teaspoon salt  
Water  
Paprika  
3
3
tablespoons butter  
Celery salt  
1/2 tablespoons flour  
1
cup cream  
Clean, pick over, chop, and parboil oysters; drain, strain through cheesecloth, and add to  
liquor  
celery  
enough water to make one quart liquid. Brown butter, add flour, and pour on gradually, while  
stirring constantly, oyster liquor. Let simmer one−half hour. Season with salt, paprika, and  
salt, and just before serving add cream.  
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5
Oyster Gumbo  
1
4
1
1
pint oysters  
1
/2 can okra  
cups Fish Stock  
1
/3 can tomatoes  
/4 cup butter  
Salt  
tablespoon chopped  
onion  
Pepper  
Clean, pick over, and parboil oysters; drain, and add oyster liquor to Fish Stock. Cook onion  
five minutes in one−half the butter; add to stock. Then add okra, tomatoes heated and drained  
from some of their liquor, oysters, and remaining butter. Season with salt and pepper.  
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Fish Stock is the liquor obtained by covering the head, tail, skin, bones, and small quantity  
flesh adhering to bones of fish, with cold water, bringing slowly to boiling−point, simmering  
minutes, and straining.  
of  
thirty  
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7
Clam Soup with Poached Eggs  
1
4
1
quart clams  
2
tablespoons flour  
cups milk  
1
1/2 teaspoons salt  
slice onion  
1
/8 teaspoon pepper  
Chapter VIII − SOUPS  
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