The Cook County Cook Book (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cook County Cook Book Add a teaspoon of salt to a qt. Of water boiling directly over the fire; into this stir about a cup of the cereal and when the mix ture boils, after all the cereal has been added, set over hot water and cook, without stirring, the requisite time. Whole grains of oatmeal require about 6 'hrs. In cooking, hominy 4 'hrs., samp 8 or more, cracked wheat 2, Indian meal 3 to 6 and rice about 40 min utes. Ln cooking cereals from packages it is safe to double the time given in the directions on the packages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.