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Allied cookery

1916

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Presented as published in 1916. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
TKHash well and chop fine a small white cabbage or lettuce (cos preferred), i carrot, i turnip, 3 leeks, I head of celery. Let these vegetables take colour for about three minutes in 2 ozs. of good fat or butter. Add 3 quarts of water and a pinch of salt ; let it boil. Add five raw potatoes cut like the vegetables, a handful of green French beans cut up, the same quantity of green peas. Cook over a good fire for two hours. The soup should be quite smooth; if it is not so, beat it well with a whisk; if too much reduced add more water. Season to taste; at the last add a little chopped chervil. A bone of hamSoldiers' Soup (Soupe à la Bataille) or the remains of bacon improve this soup immensely. STScm (Russian) Cut Up a cabbage, heat in butter, and moisten with 3 tablespoons of stock. Add 2 lbs. of beef brisket, cut into large dice, 3 pints of water, and cook i}i hours. Chop up 2 onions, 2 leeks, and a parsnip in small dice, add 2 tablespoons of sour cream and i tablespoon of flour. Add this mix- ture to the soup about }4 hour before serving. Small buckwheat cakes are served with it. 22 Allied CooKery BURAKI (Russian) Cut in cubes 4 or 5 lbs. of fat beef in enough water to make a good bouillon and boil it well. Cut some raw beets into small thin slices about an inch long, chop some onion, and with a tablespoon of butter stew them until tender and somewhat brown ; add to the beef bouillon i spoonful of flour mixed with 2 spoonsful of vinegar, the beets, and onion and let all this cook in the oven imtil the beets and beef are quite tender. It should be closely covered. Sausages and some pieces of ham may be added if wished. Before you serve the bouillon, add some sour cream. LENTIL SOUP (French) Soak overnight I cup of lentils ; the next day boil them until tender enough to pass them through a sieve with 2 onions, 2 carrots, 2 leeks, i quart of water, i dessert-spoonful of salt. Cut some slices of bread and place them in the bottom of a tureen and pour over them a little olive oilLentil Soup. When ready to serve pour the strained soup over the slices of bread. Allied CooKery 23 BLACK BEAN SOUP (Russian) Soak I cup of black beans in cold water several hours. Pour off the water and boil in i quart of fresh water until soft enough to rub through a strainer; if it boils away, add more water to cover them. There should be about i pint when strained. Add the same quantity of stock or water and put on to boil again. When boiling, add i tablespoon of corn-starch in a little cold water and cook 5 to 8 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, a little mustard, juice of i lemon, or wine; serve with fried bread cut in little squares and slices of hard boiled eggBlack Bean Soup or lemon. FISH CHOWDER (New England) your lbs. of fresh cod or haddock, 2 onions, 6 potatoes, ]4 lb. of salt pork, salt, pepper. Put the onions and potatoes, sliced in layers, in a kettle, then a layer of fish until all is used. Fry the pork, cut in small pieces, brown, take the fat and pour over all. Cover with boiling water and cook 20 minutes. Then mix 2 spoonsful of flour with a cup of creamFish Chowder, stir into the boiling chowder, boil up, and serve. Clams may be substituted for fish. >> Fish ROAST OYSTERS Roast Oysters