The American Hostess Cookbook by Ida Lee Dunne published by Halcyon House, Garden City, New York, 1949. Hardcover.

This vintage cookbook offers a wonderful collection of exquisite & memorable recipes perfect for any gathering.


CONDITION:  This book is in good condition. Tight binding, clean text. Book shows normal fairly minor signs of storage & age. The cover is scuffed, stained, and has edge wear. Pages have turned yellow from age. Foxing to paper commensurate with age. There is also foxing on the book edges.  There is some writing on the endpaper at the front of the book.  There are a few dog-eared corners. Please see pictures. THE PICTURES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE REVIEW THEM FOR A BETTER IDEA OF CONDITION.


CONTENTS:

APPETIZERS

Avocado Cocktail

Cauliflower Hors D'Oeuvres

Hors D'Oeuvres-Olives en Brochette

Cottage Cheese

Grapefruit Cocktail

Jellied Consomme

Liver Pate

Pickled Shrimp

Pineapple Surprise

Shrimp Cocktail

Tomato Juice

Tropical Fruit Cocktail

BEVERAGES

Bacardi Cocktail

Christmas Egg Nog

Egg Nog

Party Punch

Manhattan Cocktail

Orange Delicious

Shillalagh

Strong Tea

BISCUITS, MUFFINS & PANCAKES

Beaten Biscuits

Biscuit Dough

Biscuits

Blueberry Muffins

Buckwheat Cakes

Cheese Biscuits

Cheese Rolls

Crumb Cakes

Feather Muffins

Oatmeal Muffins

Peanut Butter Muffins

Pimento Cheese Biscuits

Popovers

Potato Pancakes (German Style)

Raised Biscuits

Swedish Pancakes

Waffles (Buttermilk)

BREADS AND CORN BREADS

Alma’s Spoon Bread

Cheese Rolls

Cheese Buns

Christmas Bread

Corn Dodgers 

Cornmeal Sticks

Custard Cornbread

Date Bread

Date Nut Bread

Easy-to-Make Bread

Hoe Cakes

Home-made Bread

Hot Rolls (Ice Box)

Hush Puppies

Ice Box Rolls

Magic Rolls

Nut Bread

Nut Loaf

Orange Bread

Orange Rolls

Parker House Rolls

Salt Rising Bread

Rolls (Delicious)

Spoon Corn Bread

Surprise Rolls

Tomato Rolls

Virginia Batter Bread

Virginia Grits Bread

CANDIES

Apricot Rolls

Chocolate Fudge

Christmas Candy

Divinity Fudge

Fool Proof Fudge Squares

Pralines (Mexican)

Pralines (New Orleans)

Pralines

CHEESE DISHES

Baked Rarebit

Cheese Loaf

Cheese Noodles

Cheese Puffs

Cheese Sandwich Souffle

Cheese Souffle

Cheese Spread

Cheese Sticks

Cheese Straws

Cottage Cheese Cakes

Quick Tomato Rarebit

DRESSINGS

Good Stuffing for Turkey or Chicken

Oyster Dressing

Sausage Stuffing

Spanish Dressing

Stuffing (plain)

DESSERTS

Cakes

Almond Ice-Box Cake

Apple Sauce Fruit Cake

Applesauce Cake

Banana Cup Cakes

Berlina Krans

Birthday Delight Cake

Blitz Torte Cake

Blueberry Cake

Brown Cake

Caramel Cake

Cheese Cake

Cherry Ice Box Cakes

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate "Goo" Cake

Chocolate Ice Box Cake or Pie

Chocolate Devils Food Cake

Chocolate Pseuflay Cake

Chocolate Whipped Cream

Angel Food

Christmas Package Cake

Christmas Cake

Cocoanut Cake 

Coffee Ice Box Cake

Cream Cake

Date Cake

Devil's Food Cake

French Pastry Cake

Fruit Cake

Fudge Cake 

Ginger Bread

Grandmother's Black Walnut Cake

Hawaiian Banana Cake

Lane Cake

Lemon Jelly Cake

Lemon Pie Cake

Mahogany Cake

Maple Spice Cake

Maryland Marble Cake

Mother's Cake 

Nougat Caramel Ice Box Cake

Orange Raisin Cake

Orange Juice Sponge Cake

Orange Nectar Cake

Orange Drop Cakes

One, Two, Three, Four Cake

Old Fashioned Spice Cake

Old Fashioned Nut Cake

Old Fashioned Jam Cake

Old Fashioned "Scotch Cakes"

Poppy Seed Cake

Pecan Cake

Peach Upside-Down Cake

Royal Cake or Fruit Cake

Screw-Ball Cake

Special Form Cake

Spice Cake

Sweet Cream Coffee Cake

Three Egg Angel Food

Tomato Cake

Upside Down Fruit Salad Cake

Waldorf-Astoria Chocolate Cake

White Cake

White Cake with Fresh

Cocoanut Frosting

Wine Cake

CAKE ICINGS & FILLINGS

Boiled Icing

Caramel Syrup

Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate Icing

Cream Filling

Filling

Fudge Icing

Icing

Lemon Cream

Filling

Minute Cocoanut Frosting

Meringue

Orange Cocoanut Filling

Rum

Frosting

Seven-Minute Frosting

Top for Cake.

Uncooked Icing

COOKIES

Aunt Mary's Springerlies

Brownies

Butter Cookies

Butterscotch Brownies

Caramel Cookies

Cocoanut-Walnut Macaroons

Cookies

Chocolate Cookie Roll

Cookie Dough for Cheese Filling

Chewy Cookies

Date and Almond Cookies

Date Bar

Dainty Tea Cookies (A Favorite)

Fruit Christmas Cookies

Gum Drop Cookies

Hard Tack 

Ice Box Delight Cookies

Lady Louise Yam Crunches

Lep Kuchen (Cookies)

Macaroons

Molasses Cookies

Molasses Crunch Cookies

Moravian Butter Cookies

Nut Squares

Oatmeal Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies

Pecan Slices

Pecan Jumbles

Pecan Ice Box Cookies.

Rocks

Sugar Cubes

Vickie's Cookies

FRUITS

Apple Crisp Apple Snow

Baked Oranges

Brandy Peaches

Fruit Compote

Fruit Cream

Grapefruit

Heavenly Hash

Lemon Sponge Cup

Meringue Pears with Raspberries

Peaches

Pears in Cointreau

FROZEN DESSERTS

Apricot Bavarian Cream

Apricot Ice Cream Pie.

Cocoanut Ice Cream Balls

Cranberry Sherbet

Flower Pot Dessert

Fresh Orange Ice Cream

Frozen Salad 

Frozen Fruit Charlotte

Frozen Lemon Pie

Frozen Lemon Pudding

Fruit Ice with Brandied

Cherries

Glace Nesselrode Chantilly

Ice Cream

Lemon Velvet

Lime Ice Cream

Maple Parfait

Mint Pineapple Ice Cream

Miss Hockaday's Ginger

Ice Cream

Orange Ice 

Orange Sherbet

Orange Ice Cream

Peach & Marron Ice Cream

Peppermint Refrigeration Ice Cream

Peppermint Stick Ice Cream

Pineapple Fluff

Pineapple Ice

Pineapple Ice Cream

Pineapple (or Orange) Ice

Pineapple Buttermilk Sherbet

Red Hot Ice Cream with Meringue & Whipped Cream

Red Raspberry Sherbet

Strawberry Bombe Macaroons

Strawberry Ice

Angel Food Cake (Chocolate Whipped Cream)

Ambassador Black Bottom Ice

Box Dessert

Bombe (Strawberry-Macaroon)

Brule

Cream (Bavarian)

Charlotte Russe

Charlotte (Sherry)

Cinnamon Flop

Cream (Fruit)

Compote (Fruit)

Cobbler (Fruit)

Cocoanut Ring

Cream Puffs

Crepes Suzette (Henri Carpentier)

Custard

Custard (Cooked in Pan)

Custard (Maple)

Delight (Graham Cracker)

Delight (Lieutenant's)

Dessert (Graham Cracker Deluxe)

Dumplings (Apple)

Dumplings (Rhubarb)

Fluff (Lemon)

Frango (Maple)

Heavenly Hash

Kan Ikke Le Verre

Mallow (Cream Mocca)

Mary Anns

Meringue (Pears with Raspberries)

Mold (Peppermint Ring)

Mousse (Fresh Fig)

Neopolitan Loaf

Nuts (Spiced)

Parfait (Maple)

Parfait Holt (West Virginia Mastes)

Peaches (Bourdaloue)

Pineapple Dessert

Quile

Rolls (Apple)

Salad (Silver)

Souffle (Chocolate)

Souffle (Orange-Vanilla)

Souffle (Vanilla)

Souffle (Marshmallow)

Strudel (Apple)

Sponge Cup (Lemon)

Supreme (Rum)

Torte (Blueberry Crumb)

Torte (Judy's Crumb)

Torte (Meringue)

Torte (Pineapple or Cherry)

Torte (Pineapple Meringue)

Torte (Schaum)

Torte (Spanish Cream)

Trifle (English)

Turnovers (Mince)

Zabaglione

PIES

Amber Pie

Apple Pie

Banana Meringue Pie

Banana Pie

Banana Pie Vanilla (Wafer Crust)

Blueberry Pie

Butterscotch Pie

Cherry Queen-Cherry Pie

Chess Pie

Chocolate-Chip Pie

Chocolate Marshmallow Pie

Concord Pie

Cream Pie

Deepdish Apple Pie

Eggnog Pie

Florida Key Lime Pie

Frozen Lemon Pie

Lemon Cake Pie

Lemon Chiffon Pie

Lemon Cream Pie

Lemon Fluff Pie

Lemon Pie

Macaroon Black Bottom Pie

Maple Lemon Pie 

Maple Walnut Pie

Mince Turnovers

Mince Meat

Orange Pie

Pecan Pie

Pecan Pie-Southern Style

Pineapple Pie

Praline Pies

Pumpkin Chiffon Pie

Pumpkin Cream Pie

Pumpkin Pie

Raspberry Fluff Pie 

Rum Pie

Shoo-Fly Pie

Special Strawberry Pie

Sugar Pies

PIES-(Fillings)

Mince Meat

PASTRY

Cheese Pie Crust

Cookie Dough for Cheese Filling

Pastry

Pastry of Guayaba

Pie Crust

PUDDINGS

Banana Ice-Box Pudding.

Banana Pudding

Bread Pudding

Bryle Pudding

California Date Pudding

Caramel Pudding

Cransmas Plum Pudding

Cranberry Pudding

Date Pudding

Fudge Pudding

Holiday Fruit Pudding

Ice-Box Pudding

Lemon Fluff

Lemon Pudding

Lemon Sponge Cake Pudding

Marshmallow Souffle

"Marts Sne" (March Snow)

Mocha Souffle

Nesselrode Pudding

Plum Pudding

Portland Pudding

Rice Pudding (Very Good)

Rolled Apple Pudding

Southern Molasses Custard

Steamed Chocolate

Pudding

Steamed Dark Pudding

Steamed Pudding

Suet Plum Pudding

Surprise Sour Cream Pudding.

Thanksgiving Pudding

Tomato Pudding

Yorkshire Pudding

SAUCES (Desserts)

Brandy Sauce

Butterscotch Sauce

Caramel Sauce

Caramel Syrup

Chocolate Syrup

Flaming Sauce

Foamy Sauce 

Frontier Sauce

Fruit Sauce

Grandpa's Sauce

Green Sauce

Hard Sauce

Mocha Sauce

Nectar Sauce

Raisin Sauce

Sauce

Sauce for Pudding

Sauce for Chocolate Pudding

Sauce for Crepes Suzettes

DOUGHNUTS, KUCHEN & SWEET ROLLS

Australian Cake

Dutch Apple Cake

Apple Strudel

Berlina Krans

Blitz Kuchen

Bund Kuchen

Cinnamon Buns

Capuchine's

Cinnamon Cake (Quick)

Coffee Cake

Croissants

Crullers

Doughnuts (Egg)

Doughnuts (Sour Milk)

Doughnuts (Salvation Army)

Kolacky 

Kuchen (Prune)

Rolls (Fruit and Semi-Sweet)

Rolls (Nut & Raisin)

Rolls (Orange)

Rolls (Orange Marmalade)

Scotch Scones

EGGS AND OMLETS

Eggs ala Benedict

Eggs (Devilled in Tomato Aspic)

Eggs (Hard Boiled)

Eggs (Luncheon)

Potato Omelet

JELLIES AND CONSERVES

Bar le Duc 

Black Currant Jelly

Cranberry Jelly 

Grape Jelly

Orange Butter

Guava Jelly

Japonica 

Never Fail Cranberry Jelly

Peach-Orange Conserve

Plum Conserve

MEATS

Baked Canadian Bacon

Baked Country Ham Baked Ham Rounds

Barbecued Frankfurters or Weiners

Barbecued Ribs

Beef Rolls

Casserole Meat Loaf

Corned Beef Casserole

Creamed Ham and Eggs

Curry of Ham & Rice

English Beefsteak and Kidney Pie 

Farm Sausage 

Ham and Cheese Souffle

Ham Hawaiian

Ham Loaf

Hamburgers with Raisins

Hamburgs

Lamb and Rice

Leg of Lamb

Marinade for Venison, Elk, Antelope or Moose

Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf-Stuffed

Mexican Ham

Mixed Grill

Old Maryland Cure for Hams, Shoulders & Sides

Picadillo of Pork with Sausage

Pork Chop Special

Roast Crown of Pork

Roast Pork Tenderloin

Roast Veal Breast, Stuffed

Saddle of Lamb

Sauerbraten

Sausage-Stuffed Peaches

Smothered Pork Chops

Steak-Crescent City

Stew (Favorite)

Stuffed Pork Tenderloin

Sweetbreads

To Boil Ham

Veal Bird

Veal Roast

Veal Scaloppini

Venison Roast

Venison Steak

Weiner Schnitzel

PICKLES

Best Pickles in the World

Easy to Make Sweet Pickles

Green Tomato Pickle

Oil Pickles

Pepper Relish

Watermelon Pickles

Watermelon Rind Pickle

POULTRY - FOWL

Baked Chicken and Noodle Casserole

Barbecued Chicken

Bean Pot Chicken 

Breast of Guinea Hen Virginia

Broiled Chicken Dinner

Casserole Pheasant

Chicken

Chicken Goulash

Chicken Hash

Chicken a la King

Chicken Loaf

Chicken and Rice

Chicken Casserole

Chicken-Rice Casserole

Chicken Spaghetti

Chicken Supreme

Chicken Ring

Curried Chicken

Hot chicken ring - mushroom sauce

Molded Chicken Glace Rings

Roast Duck

Roast Squab

Turkey Mousse

Wild Duck en Casserole

South Dakota Pheasant

SALAD

Aguacate Salad

Ala Baba

Alma

American Beauty

Avocado Mousse

Artichoke, Jerusalem

As You Like It 

Avocado Riviera

Avocado Salad

Beach Walk

Beet Aspic Salad

Black Cherry Mold

Cabbage Slaw

Cheese Salad

Cinnamon Apple Salad

Cold Soup Salad

Cole Slaw

Combination Salad

Cottage Cheese

Cranberry Christmas Tree Salad 204

Cranberry Salad

Cream Cheese and Roquefort

Creamed Fruit Salad

Cucumber Salad

Deviled Eggs in Tomato Aspic

Dutch Lettuce Salad

Frozen Crab and Tomato Salad

Frozen Fruit Salad

Frozen Salad

Frozen Tomato Salad

Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad (Unusual)

Ginger Ale Salad

Grapefruit with Avocado

Gulfport 

Green Salad

Herring Salad

Hot Slaw

Jellied Beet Salad

Jello and Cheese Salad

Kentucky Salad

Lemon Slaw

My Lady

Mexican Salad Bowl

Mixed Green Salad 

Mixed Spring Salad

Molded Salad-Family Favorite

Molded Salmon Salad

Mrs. Vermillion's Salad

Old Fashioned Cabbage Slaw 

Pear Delight

Pear and Cucumber Salad

Pineapple Salad

Pioneer Lettuce

Potato Salad

Raw Mushroom Salad

Reception Salad

Salad Marguery-My Version

Sugar Plum

Stuffed Tomato Slices

Sweet-Sour Lettuce Salad

Tomato Aspic

Tomatoes Stuffed With Cheese

Wild Rose Salad

SALAD DRESSING

Boiled Salad Dressing

Cucumber Dressing

Dressing for Cole Slaw

French Dressing

Golden Salad Dressing

Poppy Seed Salad Dressing

Potato Mayonnaise Dressing

Roquefort Cheese Dressing

Russian Dressing

Salad Dressing

Sour Cream Dressing - Garlic

Sour-Sweet Dressing

Thousand Island Dressing

SANDWICHES

Crab Meat Sandwich

Cucumber Sandwich

Folded Herb Sandwiches

Kentucky Sandwich 

Open Sandwich Luncheon Dish

Plain Ground Chicken Sandwich

Steak Sandwich Supreme 

Toast with Cheese and Ham

Toasted Corn and Cheese

Toasted Supper Sandwich

SANDWICH FILLINGS

Olive Sandwich Filling

SAUCES (Meat, Fish and Vegetable)

Barbecue Sauce 

Barbecue Sauce for Wieners or Meat Balls

Best Barbecued Sauce

Chili Sauce

Cream Sauce

Ham Sauce

Hollandaise Sauce

Mint Sauce for Lamb

Mornay Sauce

Mustard Sauce

Never Fail Hollandaise Sauce

Sauce

Sauce Piquante

Tarragon Sauce

Tomato Sauce 

Uncooked Mint Sauce for Lamb 

SEA FOOD

Baked Red Snapper

Brazilian Okra with Shrimps and Mandioca

Brazilian Vatapa

Clam Snacks

Codfish Balls

Crab in Shells

Crabmeat

Crabmeat Casserole

Creamed Oyster and Mushrooms

Curried Shrimp

Deviled Crabs

Deviled Crab

Deviled Crab or Tuna

Deviled Oysters 

Fillet of Pompano

Fillet of Salt Mackerel

Finnan Haddie

Fish Chowder

Fish (Left Over)

Fish in Brown Butter

Fish Mousse

French Fried Shrimp

Fried Codfish a Bahiana

Fried Snapper Throats (Excellent)

Kedgeree

Kibode or Moravian Oysters

Lobster Chowder

Lobster Newburg

Lobster Ragout

Lobster Thermidor

Oyster Bisque

Pickled Shrimp

Salmon Hot Dish

Salmon and Asparagus Loaf

Scalloped Crabmeat

Shrimp Creloe

Shrimp and Crab Creole

Shrimp Croquettes 

Shrimp Du Jong

Shrimps Bahia Style

Shrimps and Okra

Brazilian Vatapa 

Supreme of Lemon Sole Doria

Tuna Fish Casserole

Tuna Fish In Ramekins

Tuna Wiggle

SNACKS

Cocktail Popcorn

Evening

Summer Bridge

SOUPS

Avocado With Soup

Black Bean Soup

Borsch

Borsch (Beetroot Soup)

Boula Boula

Chicken Soup

Cold Curried Soup 

Connecticut Clam Chowder 

Consomme with Sherry 

Cream of Mushroom

Danish Meatball Soup

Dutch Apple Soup

Erwtsoep

Fish Chowder

Favorite Green Turtle Soup

French Pot Au Feu 

Home-Canned Tomato Soup

Jellied Consomme

Lentil Soup

Onion Soup

Quick Bouillon

Root Soup

Turtle Soup

Vichysoisse Soup 

Tomato Soup Glace

Tomato Soup

SPECIAL DISHES

Anchovy Rolls

Boiled Rice

Green Curried Rice

Wild Rice Sultana

Boneless Jumbo Squab en Cocotte Marrotte

Brazilian Rice

Buttercups

Cheese Souffle with Vegetables

Chili Cocktail Nuts

Chicken Hawaiian

Chicken Liver Paste

Chicken Pilaf

Celeryroot Ring

Chili Spaghetti

Chili Con Carne

Chow Mein

Creole Potatoes

Crabmeat Casserole

Creme De Volaille 

Danish Meatball Soup

Danish Soup Dumplings

Empanaditas De Carne (Mince Enchiladas)

Entrecotes Minute

Escalopes Stroganoff

Fried Custard

Filled Noodles

French Rolls with Sour Cream and Bacon 

Frijole Casserole

Frijoles and Chili 

Grandma's Toast

Grated Sweet Potato Pone

Green Peppers and Italian Tomatoes

Grumbera Dumplings

Hot Dish

Hot Tamales

Italian Spaghetti

Luncheon Dish

Jambalaya

Liver Dumplings

Mixed Grill

Mexican Macaroni

Pileau

Pilaf

Moros Y Cristianos

Mushroom Ring 

Mushroom Rice Consomme

New Orleans Chicken Gumbo

Noodles Amelia

One Dish Meal

Pollo Alla Cacciatora

Pommes Vienoises

Pork Chop Suey

Potato Omelet

Salmon-Asparagus Loaf

Shrimp and Crab Creole

Shrimp Gumbo 

Southern Shrimp a la Creole

Souffle (Never Fail)

Spaghetti

Spaghetti (Italian)

Spaghetti with Italian Sauce

Spaghetti Supper

Spanish Almondigas

Spanish Noodles

Stuffed Peppers

Suki Yaki

Szegediner Goulash

Tamale Pie 

Toast with Cheese and Ham

Texas Chili Con Carne

Tomato Pudding

Wild Rice

Turkey Mousse

Wild Rice Ring

Winter Gumbo

Zuccini Squash Italian

VEGETABLES

Almond String Beans

Asparagus Short Cake

Asparagus Supreme

Baked Beans

Baked Beans (Northhampton)

Baked Egg Plant

Baked Green Beans

Baked Hubbard Squash

Baked Onions

Baked Pinto Beans

Baked Savory Tomato with Broccoli

Baked Tomato Suprise

Baked Yams with Oranges

Beans Au Gratin

Beets in Orange Cups

Brazilian Beans Cabbage Creole

Cabbage Kuchen

Camp Joys (Parsnips)

Candied Sweet Potatoes

Carrot Ring

Carrot Fritters

Cauliflower

Cauliflower Parmentier

Corn Pudding

Creole Potatoes

Egg Plant 

French String Beans De Luxe

German Schnitzel Beans

Glazed Sweet Potatoes

Green Beans Au Gratin

Green Peppers and Italian Tomatoes

Harvard Beets

Hashed Brown Potatoes

In & Out Potatoes

Irish Colcannon

Lady Louise Yam Crunches

Wild Rice Sultana 

Green Curried Rice 

Potatoes Anna 

Potato Balls, Moravian

Potato Dumplings

Potato Pancake

Red Beans and Rice

Red Cabbage with Wine Grape

Roast Corn-On-Cob 

Sauer Kraut 

Schnitzel Beans

Spanish Beans

Spinach Ring

String Beans in Lemon Rings

Stuffed Artichokes

Stuffed Squash

Tomatoes a la Parkinson 

Tomato Pudding

Zucchini Squash Italian