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The Dudley book of cookery and household recipes

1909

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Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
ONE pint of pigs’ blood, stirred with a little salt until it is quite smooth. Then add some boiled double cream, three-quarters of a pound of fat from the inside of the pig, cut into dice and quite freed from skin : also a quarter of a pound of onions cut into dice and fried in butter without being coloured. Season with pepper, salt, and thyme. Add a little well-boiled rice. Have your skins ready and fill them loosely. Put them into boiling water, prick them well to pre- vent bursting, and let them remain until quite firm. When cold, cut them into long pieces and grill — serve very hot. ^ SCOTCH HAGGIS Boil the heart of a deer and a piece of the liver. When cold, mince it very fine. Grate also a teacupful of the liver and add to this a teacupful of coarse oatmeal and half a pound of deer’s suet finely chopped, one tablespoonful of black pepper, one tablespoonful of saltBlack Pudding, and three finely chopped onions. Mix all well together and boil for four hours in a pudding basin, covering the top with paste, the same as for a beefsteak pudding, and serve in the basin very hot. 116 VEGETABLES O All things are soon prepared in a well-ordered home. Beauty from order springs — Cornwall squab pie^ and Devon white pot brings ; And Leicester beans and bacon Good for Kings. Crowd not your table Let your number be Not more than seven And never less than three. A dinner lubricates business. Boswell’s ** Life of Johnson” A good dinner and company that pleased me mightily^ being all eminent men in their way. Samuel Pepys Fve done said brave Mr. Bantings And so may each overfed Briton^ If h^d only adopt resolution severe And avoid — if he woidd not grow fatter and Jatter — All breads butter^ sugar y milky Haters and beer. Punch (1869) A hungry man is an angry man. Eat to live — but do not live to eat. ¥ CiCEKO He brings out dainties unbought — the produce of his own land. Horace Hunger makes raw beans taste of sugar. Erasmus After dinner sit awhile^ after supper walk a mile. Another version being: After dinner sleep awhile ; after shipper go to bed. Feom the Latin VEGETABLES AND SALADS SOUFFLE POTATOES IN THEIR SKINS Take eight medium-sized good potatoes. Wash well and score a round off the top to form a cover. Bake the potatoes. When cooked remove the interiors, pass through a sieve, mix with a gill of cream and work into a light creamy mash. Season and mix in one whole eggSouffle Potatoes in Their Skins. Stir over the fire for a few minutes. Put the mixture back into the potato-skin, place the cut out cover on each, and return them to the oven for a few minutes before serving. ¥ ICED POTATOES Boil new potatoes in the usual way. When cold slice them into the size and thickness of a shilling — a little thicker is better. Whip up some cream and add to it a very little aspic jellyIced Potatoes — see aspic (Souffle of Lobster) — enough only to stiffen the cream. Dip the potatoes in this mixture, and lift each piece out p 121 THE DUDLEY RECIPES separately so that each piece may be covered with cream. Then place the dish in a refrigerator on a block of ice or between two plates in ice for half an hour before serving. POTATOES A LA LYONNAISE Potatoes a la Lyonnaise