A second Dudley book of cookery and other recipes

This sauce may be buttered to the extent of about three ounces per pint, which makes it smoother, but less clear. It is very good served with grilled meats. A FRUIT PIECE. After the picture by Angelo Campidoglio in the collection of Sir John Murray Scott. 50 SWEET DISHES AND PUDDINGS Things sweet to taste prove indigestion sour. % It is more pleasing to pluck an apple from the branch which you have seized than to take one up from a graven dish. ovid % September blow soft Till the fruit's in the loft. Cherry ripe , ripe, ripe, I cry. Full and fair ones, — come and buy ! HERRICK Now thrice welcome Christmas which brings us good cheer. Minc'd pies and plum porridge, good ale and strong beer. With pig, goose and capon, the best that may be, So well doth the weather and our stomachs agree. Observe how the chimneys do smoke all about ; The cooks are providing for dinner, no doubt : But those on whose tables no victuals appear Oh ! may they keep Lent all the rest of the year ! poor robin’s almanack Let us have a talk in my house and dinner in yours. Returning to town in the stage coach which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests , we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman , “ Are you full inside ? " Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said , “ I am quite full inside ; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me." There are men that would make you books, and turn them loose into the world , with as much despatch as they would do a dish of fritters. % MOTHER EVE’S PUDDING If you want a good pudding, , to teach you I'm willing , Take twopennyworth of eggs , when twelve for a shilling , And of the same fruit that Eve had once chosen , Well pared and well chopped at least half a dozen ; Six ounces of bread ( let your maid eat the crust) ; The crumbs must be grated as small as the dust ; Six ounces of currants from the stones you must sort, Lest they break out your teeth and spoil all your sport ; Six ounces of sugar won't make it too sweet, Some salt and some nutmeg will make it complete. Three hours let it boil, without hurry or flutter. And then serve it up — without sugar or butter. They surfeited with honey ; and began To loathe the taste of sweetness , whereoj a little More than a little , is by much, too much. SHAKESPEARE, “ HENRY IV,” 1, III, 50 SWEET DISHES AND PUDDINGS CREME BRULEE ONE pint of cream, four yolks of eggs. Beat the yolks in a basin, and having boiled the cream for a very short time, pour it on the eggs. Put it all into a saucepan and allow it to come to the boil, stirring all the time ; then pour it into a fireproof dish, and allow it to become cool ; then strew a thick crust of castor sugar over it, and brown with a red-hot salamander. Serve cold. EXCELLENT RECIPE FOR BAKED APPLES rpAKE nice large apples, and core them without splitting. Place in a china dish and fill each apple with castor sugar, then put a piece of fresh butter the size of a nutmeg on top of each apple. Cover bottom of dish with warm water, and bake in a medium oven for three-quarters of an hour. Serve with apricot sauce. R APRICOT SAUCE QUARTER of a pound of apricot pulp, a