FoodNet

The spirit of cookery

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.
Gardes : French, the petioles of Beta vulgaris, van cicla, man- gold, a vegetable much esteemed as an entremets in France ; used as puree, with cream, a la inoelle, a V cspagnolc. In the last centur}- cooks who excelled in their preparation became noted (‘M. d. Amph.,’ p. 205). .Such an artist in entremets was Moril- lion, a cook of the time of Louis XVI. {ibid., p. 159). Cardons : French, synonym cardoons, and chardoons, Fngli.sh cor- ruption, the etiolated large and thick leaf-stalks or petioles of the cardon, Cyuara cardunculus, L., a relation of the artichoke. They are prepared much like the foregoing carde.s, and must not be confounded with them ; but the3- are also prepared like the true artichoke. Spanish cardoons were formerh- much valued. Carrole, {e.g. of rice) : probabl3'^ an abbreviating corruption of casserole. Cartridge : a circular piece of oiled jjaper used to cover meat during braising in a pan. Carviol : name of cauliflower at Vienna. Cascalope : French, same as escalope, or scollop (La Chapelle, iii. 73). Casing: skinning and trailing {e.g. the hare). Casserole: French, stewpan. Casserole of rice : an ornamental pie- case made of paste or prepared rice. Caudle is practically warm ale with groats. It is defined 113- et3'- mologists as ‘ a warm drink given to the .sick,’ and as being derived from the old French chandel. Cold cliandel is used now and then b3' unwar3’ writers. Varieties : white caudle ; flour caudle (‘Raton’s Dictionary’). Caul: English (sometimes spelled cawl), the omentum of large quadrupeds used for food ; Iwench, cripine. Celeriac : French a;id Rnglisli, the colossal root of celery ; the ac of this terminal recalls the English name of celer3’, nameh', ache. Charcutier : French, a vendor of cooked meat, chair-cuite. Charlotte : French, a raised pudding made in a mould with a crust or case of thin .slices of bread steeped in clarified butter and filled with fruit, typically apples. Chartreuse: French, origiiiall3' ^ preparation consisting of vege- tables onl3% arranged in a plain mould. In its degenerate form the interior is garni.shed with game, small birds, kebobs, tendrons, etc. Chartreuse a la Parisienne : French, a show3' entree, composed chiefl3- of quenelles of forcemeat ; the interior contains ragouts, kebobs; termed entric de farce and a surprise, satirically, by 668 THE SPIRIT OF COOKERY Cargme, hecatise it is a pate of meat onh-, Avhile a chartreuse should contain no meat at all. Chatteries: dainties or delicacies for company (Ralzac) ; term u.sed by French ladies in last century, when chatteries were much in favour. Chingaras, au : French, after the manner of the gipsie.s. Italian, zingams. Misinterpreted by an author as au chien gras. Chitterling: English, the bosom stripe of a shirt, the frill. Chitterlings: plural of the foregoing: .signifies the boiled intestine or gut of the ox niainl}% but also of calf and pig, the small tripe, which has .some resemblance in shape to a shirt-frill. German Kutteln, Kaldauven, meaning also tripe in general. Chitterlings also means sausages in some parts. Cider (apple wine). vSee C3'der. Civet, Engli.sh {civettc, French, means a strong peculiar .scent from an animal, and is not related) : civet, French ( = chives ?) : a highly- flavoured dish, e.g. of hare. Cock-ale : obsolete : ale mixed with the jellv or minced meat of a boiled cock, l)esides other ingredients (New English Dictionar3' on Historical Principles).