Cookery for every household

Prepare the beef olives as directed in Recipe 841, tying them up with fine string. Arrange them neatly in a well-greased paper bag, and seal up. Place the bag on a grid, and cook in a hot oven from f to 1 hour. When ready, remove the bag and strings, and serve the olives on a hot dish with a little finely -shred horse-radish, or a pat of maitre d’hotel butter on the top of each. A little good gravy or brown sauce may be poured round. 3039. Irish Stew Prepare the meat, potato, and onions for this stew as directed in Recipe 902, leaving very little fat on the meat, and season them well with pepper and salt. Put them into a well-greased bag with enough water to moisten, and fasten the bag very securely. Place on a grid, and cook in a hot oven about 1 hour. 3040. Sheep’s Kidneys Split the kidneys in halves, and remove the skin and core. Wrap each piece in a thin rasher of bacon, and when all are ready place them in a well-greased bag. Seal up and cook in a hot oven from 10 to 15 minutes. Or, the bacon may be omitted and the kidney fixed on a skewer the same as for broiling. Seasoning and a little butter should be added. Or again, the kidneys may be made into a stew. Cut them in small pieces and roll in flour. Season well with pepper, salt, and a pinch of nutmeg. Add a little chopped shallot and parsley, and mix all together. Put into a greased bag, add a little good stock or wine, seal up, and cook in a good oven about 30 minutes. 3041. Liver and Bacon Wash and dry the liver, and cut it in thinnish slices. Coat these with flour, and season them with pepper and salt. Now lay a thin rasher of bacon on the top of each piece of fiver, or wrap the bacon round the liver. Or, to make a still more savoury dish, prepare a little veal stuffing, and place some between the fiver and bacon, making a sandwich as it were. Place the liver and bacon in a well-greased bag, add 2 or 3 table-spoonfuls stock or water, seal up, and cook from 15 to 20 minutes in a good oven. 3042. Beef-steak and Kidney Pudding Prepare some meat and suet crust as directed in Recipe 1467. Divide the crust in two pieces, and roll each piece into a round of medium thickness. Wet round the edge of one of these rounds, and place the prepared and seasoned beef and kidney in the centre. Moisten with a little water or stock, and lay the other round on the top. Press the two edges well together, and pinch them round. Make a small hole in the top of the pudding, and slip it into a well-greased paper bag. Seal up, leaving a little room inside the bag. Place on a grid, and cook in a hot oven about 1 hour. Note. — Meat pies may be made in the same manner, using ordinary pastry, rolled out to about J of an inch in thickness, and meat and seasoning to taste. 3043. New Potatoes Peel the required number of potatoes, and cut them in halves. Place them in a well-greased bag wet from the washing. Season them with salt, and add one leaf of mint. Seal up and place the bag on the grid. Cook from 30 to 35 minutes in a hot oven. 3044. Tomatoes