Artizan recipes

Mode of Work. — Mix arrowroot with two teaspoonsful of cold milk. Put the remainder of the milk in a saucepan to boil. When boiling pour over the arrowroot, and stir quickly till it thickens. Put back into the saucepan and boil for three minutes. Add sugar. To make a pudding, draw off the fire, add one well beaten egg. Pour into a greased pie-dish, and bake for twenty minutes. Gruel. Ingredients. One tablespoonful of Oatmeal. Sugar. Salt. One pint of Water. Mode of Work. — Take the oatmeal with a pinch of salt, and add by degrees enough cold water to mix it. Add one teaspoonful of brown sugar and a little nutmeg. Boil one pint of water, when boiling stir it to the oatmeal ; boil for ten minutes. If the oatmeal is coarse it must boil longer, and would be better strained before serving. Porridge. Ingredients. Half a teacupful of Oatmeal (medium). One pint of boiling Water. A saltspoonful of Salt. Mode of Work. — Put the salt in the water, and when boiling sprinkle in the oatmeal and stir with a wooden spoon, stir constantly. Let it boil for three-quarters of an hour and serve with milk, hot or cold, and sugar or treacle. Cup Pudding. Ingredients. One gill or teacupful of Breadcrumbs. One Egg. Flavouring. Two teaspoonsful of Sugar. Milk. Mode of Work. — Beat the egg well, add milk ; to this lightly stir the crumbs and flavouring. Add sugar. Put the mixture into a buttered cup. Steam for twenty minutes. Serve hot. Invalid’s Pudding. Ingredients. Half ounce of Flour. Half ounce of Butter. Flavouring. One teaspoonful of Sugar. Half gill of Milk. Two Eggs. Mode of Work. — Melt the butter, add the flour, mix, add milk and cook till thick. Separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs. Add only one yolk to the mixture in the pan, beat mixture well. Add sugar and flavouring. Beat the whites well to a stiff froth. Stir lightly to the mixture, and pour all into a buttered tin, and steam gently for half an hour. Serve with custard made from yolk of egg. Custard. (TO SERVE WITH PUDDING.) Ingredients. One yolk of Egg. Quarter pint of Milk. One teaspoonful of Sugar. Quarter ounce of Cornflour. Mode of Work. — Mix the cornflour with a little cold milk. Boil the remainder, and when boiling pour to the cornflour. Pour back into the saucepan and boil for ten minutes. Remove from fire, add beaten yolk and sugar ; flavour and serve with pudding. Custard. (Steamed.) Ingredients. One Egg. One teaspoonful of Sugar. Quarter pint of Milk. Butter for greasing jar or cup. Mode of Work. — Beat up the egg and sugar, add the milk, and mix thoroughly. Strain into a buttered cup or jar ; put a paper over the top. Set the jar in a pan of boiling water and keep by the side of the fire. Do not let it boil. Cook for thirty minutes. When serving let it stand for two minutes after taking from the fire. Baked Custard. Ingredients same as above, baked in slow oven for one hour. Invalid Cake. Ingredients. One Egg. Its weight in Flour, Sugar and Butter. Grated rind of half a Lemon. Pinch of Salt. Mode of Work. — Cream butter, add sugar, beat well. Add beaten egg and flour, alternately, stir in flavouring. Put into greased lined tin and bake for twenty-five minutes A Irish Moss Jelly. Ingredients. Quarter ounce of Irish Moss. One ounce of Sugar. A strip of Lemon Rind. One pint of Milk.