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Fifty dinners

1895

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Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Bring this to the boil, then put in the mould, covered with a sheet of paper : at once draw the vessel back to simmer very slowly, covering the stewpan closely, and letting the process continue for about one hour. The pudding may be turned out and served hot, or kept in the mould till cold, and then used. Those who desire a slightly richer entremets can, of course, improve the custard with a gill of cream. For the sauce, which will be found nice whether hot or cold, make a gill of plain white sugar and water syrup, stir into it one tablespoonful of apricot jamBanana Pudding, and a dessert-spoonful of rum, with the juice of half a lemon, strain after heating the whole, but without boiling, and serve. If kirsch or maraschino be used for the marinade.! that chosen should be employed in the sauce. 46 FIFTY DINNERS. For this simple savoury prepare four nice pieces of fried bread three inches long, two across, and a quarter ^ thick. Keep these hot just in the mouth oven while you rapidly prepare this mixture : — Put a quarter of an ounce of butter in a small stewpan, melt this over a low fire, then add a quarter of an ounce of flour, mix well for three minutes, then moisten with a gill of milk, stir- ring in a dessert-spoonful of made mustard, four good dessert-spodnfuls of grated Parmesan, and the same of beer. Boil up and thicken, seasoning with salt and Nepaul pepperFried Bread with Parmesan ; when stiff enough to coat the spoon pretty thickly turn it out over the hot toasts, smooth- ing the surfaces with a palette-knife, and dusting finely grated Parmesan over all. Serve very hot. MENU X. {October or November.) Potage d’abatis li6. Filets de hareng sauce piquante. Ragodt de mouton a la Bretonne. Coq de bruyfere. GS,teau aux Agues. Caviar frais. Procure a shilling’s-worth of giblets — these may be of duck or goose if liked, but poultry giblets make an excellent soup of this kind without the strong flavour that is produced by the former. Pick, scald, and drain the giblets, reserving the livers for a toast ; chop them up into half-inch pieces, add three ounces of lean uncooked bacon cut up small, and having melted an ounce of butter in a stewpan, turn them into it and fry them till slightly browned, moisten then with a gill of broth — common stock will do — and a glass of marsala, cooking the giblets in this till it falls to a glaze • next add three pints of stock rvith a muslin bag containing a dessert- spoonful of dried sweet herbs, bring slowly to the boil, skimming carefully, and then put in six ounces each of turnips, onions, carrots, and leeks ; simmer now for three and a half hours, then strain. Cool the broth and remove the fat. Take a pint and a half of the former for the soup, thicken this with three-quarters of an ounce of butter and the same of flour, bring to 47 48 FIFTY DINNERS. the boil, skim, and pass all through the hair sieve. Warm up, add a teaspoonful of lemon-juice, and serve. Prepare the fillets and cook them exactly as those of mackerel, described in Menu xix., serving them with this sauce : — In half an ounce of 2. Herring butter over a low fire fry an ounce of filets with . ,11,. • 1 , sharp sauce, niinced shallot or onion, and a two-ounce tomato, mix in after five minutes’ cooking half an ounce of flour, and when this has been well worked moisten with one gill of water and one of chablis or sauterne, bring to the boil, simmer for ten Thick Giblet Soup