from Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Together with Refreshments for all Social Affairs by Mrs. S. T. Rorer
HOT CHOCOLATE SAUCE
1/2 cupful of cream or condensed milk
2 ounces of chocolate
1 cupful of sugar
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Put all the ingredients into a saucepan and stir over the fire until they reach boiling point, boil until the [...]

Not sure what to do with the bounty of vegetables that summer brings? Borrow an idea from The Art of Creole Cookery and smother ‘em  !            
SMOTHERED SQUASH
2 pounds summer squash
1 small onion
2 tablespoons bacon fat
salt and pepper to taste
Peel, cut out seeds of squash, and cut in small pieces. Mince onion and put fat, [...]

Stuffed Cucumbers from The Art of Creole Cookery
12 slices bacon
4 pared medium cucumbers
1 medium onion, chopped
2 medium tomatoes, diced
3/4 cup fresh bread crumbs
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Cucumber pulp (from 2 cucumbers)
1/2 cup butter
Fry bacon until crisp. Cut each cucumber lengthwise into two sections. Scoop out insides; reserve pulp from 2 cucumbers and dice. In [...]

Advice on choosing fruit for breakfast from BREAKFAST DAINTIES BY THOMAS J. MURREY, published in 1885
“Dinner may be pleasant,
So may social tea;
But yet methinks the breakfast
Is best of all the three.”

FRUITS.
Apples, Baked.—Peel and core six large sour apples; mix together a cup of sugar, half a teaspoonful of mixed ground spice, a saltspoonful of salt, [...]

It seems as though summer came in all at once – it’s far too hot to cook. It’s Salad Time!
From EASY GOURMET COOKING by Elsie Lee, published in 1962 – a couple of cooling avocado salads.

Avocado Dressing
Peel and halve 2 ripe avocados, place in a lettuce nest, and fill each avocado half with the following:
1 [...]