The Enterprising Housekeeper
200 Tested Recipes
By Helen Louise Johnson
Illustrated With Kitchen Helps
Price 25¢
Copyright 1906
Here’s a lovely book I’ve owned for quite awhile now and I actually have two copies of it. One is a 1906 issue and the other is from 1898.
You can click either of the book covers to view a larger image, they’re quite [...]

Here is the introduction to the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906). If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, I’m filing them in the Enterprising Housekeeper Category.
This is just the beginning of my efforts, so not much in there just yet!
Here is a [...]

Here are pages 4, 5 and part of 6 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper, sixth edition (1906). If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, I’m filing them in the Enterprising Housekeeper Category.
Breakfast, Luncheon And Supper
It is easy to say “bestow thought upon your daily menus and [...]

Here are pages 6 and 7 of the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906). There is also a scan of pages 8 and 9 of antique coffee grinding and pulverizing mills at the bottom of this page. If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, [...]

Here is page 10 and part of page 11 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper, sixth edition (1906). If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, I’m filing them in the Enterprising Housekeeper Category.
Coffee
There seem to be as many variations in the making of coffee as there [...]

Here are pages 11 and 12 of the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906). If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, I’m filing them in the Enterprising Housekeeper Category.
Eggs
For Boiling
Put the eggs in a saucepan of boiling water and let them stand where [...]

This is page 13 from the antique booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper, sixth edition (1906). If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, I’m filing them in the Enterprising Housekeeper Category.
The most common mistake made in preparing left-over meats is in cooking them again, instead of merely re-warming. In [...]

Here are pages 14 and 15 of the antique booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper, sixth edition (1906). If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, I’m filing them in the Enterprising Housekeeper Category.
Enterprise Food Choppers
Anything that is chopped into pieces for food is legitimate material to pass through a Food [...]

Here are pages 16 and 17 of the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906). If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, I’m filing them in the Enterprising Housekeeper Category.
Enterprise Meat Chopper
When purchasing a chopper, have the merchant from whom you buy explain the method [...]

Here are pages 18, 19 and 20 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906). These are mainly scans of the pages that have a few different illustrations of antique choppers, but some notes are typed out as well.
Enterprise Meat and Food Choppers
The progressive housewife will at once appreciate its worth [...]

Here are pages 21 and 22 of the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906). If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, I’m filing them in the Enterprising Housekeeper Category.
Soups
In no way can the smallest odds and ends of various things be used more [...]

Here are pages 23, 24 and part of 25 of the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906). If you’d like to follow along and browse through more pages of the book, I’m filing them in the Enterprising Housekeeper Category.
Fish
The “left-overs” of boiled, baked or fried fish have many possibilities. Here, as [...]

Here are pages 25, 26, 27 and part of 28 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Beef
Hamburg Steaks
1 pound of steak from the round
2 or 3 drops of onion extract.
1 teaspoonful of salt
1/2 tablespoonful of pepper
1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley
A very little thyme or sweet marjoram may be added [...]

Here are pages 28, 29 and part of 30 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Lamb Croquettes
2 cupfuls of finely-chopped cooked lamb
1 cupful of boiled rice
1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley
1 tablespoonful of lemon juice
2 tablespoonfuls of flour
1 cupful of cream
1 tablespoonful of butter
Salt and pepper to taste.
Scald the milk. [...]

Here are pages 30, 31 and part of 32 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Veal
Soufflé
2 cupfuls of chopped cooked veal
2 tablespoonfuls of butter
1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley
1 cupful of milk
3 eggs
2 tablespoonfuls of flour
1 cupful of cream
Seasoning to taste.
Melt the butter without browning, add the flour, stir until smooth. [...]

Here are pages 32, 33 and part of 34 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Chicken And Turkey
Croquettes
2 cupfuls of finely-chopped cooked meat
2 tablespoonfuls of chopped parsley
1 cupful of milk
1 tablespoonful of butter
2 tablespoonfuls of flour
Seasonings to taste.
Scald the milk. Rub the butter and flour together until smooth, add to [...]

Here are pages 34, 35, 36 and part of 37 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Game
Salmi of Game
1 tablespoonful of butter
1 cupful of stock
1/4 teaspoonful of lemon juice
1 tablespoonful of flour
1 teaspoonful of catsup
6 button mushrooms
2 or 3 drops of onion extract
1 cupful of cooked duck, cut in even, [...]

Here are pages 37, 38, 39 and part of 40 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Meat And Fish Sauces
The superiority of French sauces is due to the strong, finely-flavored, white stock used in their preparation. Many things take the place of this in the ordinary English sauces, but [...]

Here are pages 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Measuring
There may be–in fact, evidence proves that there are–good cooks who seemingly never measure anything, but by “about so much of this,” and “a pinch of that,” bring about results so delicious that the [...]

Here are pages 45 and 46 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Potatoes
Hashed Browned Potatoes
Cut three good sized potatoes into very small dice; season with salt and pepper. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter into a frying pan; when melted and hot add the chopped potatoes. Stir until the potatoes are [...]

Here are pages 47, 48 and 49 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Salads
There is, perhaps, no dish which adds more to the luncheon or tea than a nicely prepared salad. In many households a salad is considered an expensive dish–something too good for family use, to be reserved [...]

Here are pages 50 and 51 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Sandwiches
Sandwiches may be made of white, whole wheat, Graham or brown bread with any kind of meat, fish, salad, eggs, some vegetables, jams or chopped nuts, and spread with butter or mayonnaise dressing. The meat used in [...]

Here are pages 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 59 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Desserts
The most nourishing and easily digested desserts are those made of eggs, milk or cream, cereals and fruits. Pie is a national dish, and a Thanksgiving dinner a mockery without the creamy [...]

Here are pages 60 and 61 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Enterprise
Raisin and Grape Seeder
Directions For Operating
After fastening the Seeder to the table, set the rubber roller moderately tight against the toothed cylinder by means of the thumb screw (marked A). Be careful to see that the roller turns [...]

Here are pages 62 and 63 from the vintage booklet The Enterprising Housekeeper from the sixth edition (1906).
Pastry
Raisin Pie
1 lemon
1 cupful of sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoonful of flour
1/2 cupful of raisins
Select large, soft raisins, and seed. Cover with one cupful of cold water and soak two hours. Beat the eggs until light with the sugar, add [...]