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A second Dudley book of cookery and other recipes

1914

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Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
/^lUT very thin into rounds about the size of a ^ sixpence one red carrot, one turnip, two leeks, and one stick of celery ; fry these in fresh butter, stirring all the time. Give them a little pale tint, but do not allow them to colour brown. Add one pint of light chicken or veal consomme (or both mixed), and let it cook gently until the vegetables are quite tender. Remove any scum or fat from the surface, and add a little pluck of chervilPaysan Soup. LA PETITE MARMITE PREPARE a consomme in a special earthen- ware stockpot used for making soup, the ingredients and quantities being as follows : — Two pounds of lean beef, two pounds of breast of beef, one marrow bone tied in a muslin bag, and the necks, pinions and gizzards of six large fowls (these giblets being inserted in the stewpan an hour before dishing up). Moisten with three and a half quarts of water, and add three-quarters of an ounce of salt. Set to boil, and skim off grease and scum as it rises to the surface ; cook gently, stirring from time to time, adding occasionally a little cold water before the boil is reached, in order that, this being retarded, a complete expulsion of 23 THE DUDLEY RECIPES the scum may be effected and a very clear broth may be obtained. One hour before serving add six ounces of carrots and the same quantity of turnip, cut into pieces about the size and shape of a large olive, five ounces of the white of leeks and a heart of celeryLa Petite Marmite. Cook a quarter of a very white, properly blanched cabbage separately in a sauce- pan with a little consomme and stock grease. When about to serve, season the consomme, which should be very clear and thoroughly clean the stewpan. Withdraw the marrow bone ; take it out of its muslin bag, and send it and the cabbage to table in a separate dish with some croutes of toasted bread and some grated Parmesan cheese served separately. The above quantity is sufficient for eight or ten persons. POULE AU POT rTlHIS is a variation of Petite Marmite, in which a tender and very fleshy hen is substituted for the giblets of fowl. Both Petite Marmite and Poule au Pot should be sent to table in the earthen- ware stockpot — or marmite, as it is called. A new earthemvare stockpot should have had boiling water put into it for at least twelve hours before it is used. Also these stockpots should be washed in hot water only without any soap or soda. 24 SOUPS HOW TO MAKE A GOOD CONSOMME TY IDE the “ Dudley Recipe Book,” published by Mr. Arnold in 1910. THE STOCKPOT IA VERY kitchen ought to have its stockpot alwa ys going, into which is placed all meat, bones and trimmings, also the carcases of white poultry and white game, also carrots, leeks, onions and a little parsley. Where a stockpot is kept, a few egg-shells should be saved, washed, and crushed, and allowed to simmer in the stock, as this will help to clarify the broth or liquor in the stockpot. 25 42 FISH DISHES Our plenteous streams a various race supply , The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye ; The silver eel , in shining volumes roll'd ; The yellow carp, in scales bedropt with gold ; Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains. And pikes , the tyrants of the watery plains. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. 1 SWIFT Cookery has become an Art, a noble science ; cooks are gentlemen. burton %