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The "ideal" cookery book

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Toast some thin slices of stale bread quite brown, put in a dish with jam between. Make a cold custard, of an egg and sufficient milk to fill the dish, and 1 tablespoonful of sugarGerman Pudding. Mix and pour over the toast and stand 20 minutes. Put a little dripping on the top and bake brown. 36 2i. Rhubarb Mould. Rhubarb sufficient to fill a quart basin. Put in pan •with i-gill of water and boil gently. Add sugar to taste with a little lemon juice, stir well and pour out. Put with it $-oz. gelatine (previously soaked and dissolved). Add 5 or 6 drops of cochinealRhubarb Mould. Beat the rhubarb briskly and when well mixed and cool turn into mould and leave to set. Serve with whipped cream. Grate 6-oz. bread crumbs, pare, core and slice 6-oz. apples. Well grease pie dish, strew bread crumbs over the bottom and sides, cut a thin slice of bread and lay in the bottom of dish on the crumbs, put layer of apples and grate some nutmeg and strew i tablespoonful sugar over the apples ; next, layer of crumbs, then apples, &c., finishing with crumbs. Mix i egg with J-pint milk, pour over pudding, put a piece of dripping on the top, place in the oven, and bake J hour. Turn out on hot dish. 22. Imperial Pudding. 23. Fig Pudding, (No. 1.) J-lb. flour. J-lb. suet. J-lb bread crumbs. 6-oz. chopped figs. Mix with 2 eggsFig Pudding (No. 1), and boil 2 or 3 hours. 37 24. Sultana Pudding. 6-oz. flour. 3-oz. suet. 3-oz. sultanas. x-oz. sugar. 1 teaspoonful baking powder. 1 eggSultana Pudding. Make to stiff dough with a little milk, and boil 3 hours. 25. Trieste Pudding. Pare and core i-lb. apples and stew in a little water and sugar to taste with a few cloves. When cool mix a teacupful of bread crumbs and yolks of 2 eggs with the apple. The bread should absorb the apple juice, if not add more bread. Warm i-oz. butterTrieste Pudding and stir in. Place in greased dish, and bake 40 minutes. Whip whites of eggs to stiff froth, pile on the pudding and lightly brown. 26. Stewed Figs. Wash i-lb. figs, place in pan, add enough boiling water to cover them ; add 1 tablespoonful treacle and 1 teaspoonful finely chopped lemon peelStewed Figs. Cover the pan, and simmer till tender ; serve cold. 27. Baked Milk (For Fruit). Put J-pint milkBaked Milk (For Fruit) into a jar, and place in warm oven for 5 or 6 hours, when it should be as thick as rich cream. 38 28. Baked Rhubarb Pudding. Butter the bottom of a dish, and cover with bread crumbs, then a layer of rhubarb, cut in i-inch pieces. Sprinkle I tablespoonful of sugar over, and fill the dish with alternate layers ; the last layer must be crumbs. Put a few bits of butter on the topBaked Rhubarb Pudding and bake i hour. 29. Apple Snow. Place sponge cakes in a glass dish, cover with custard, and leave to soak a few hours. Cover with dry stewed apples to which has been added sugar and lemon juice. Pile whisked whites of two eggsApple Snow on the top and serve. 30. Prune Mould. x-lb. prunes. 3-oz. castor sugar. i-oz. gelatine. Few strips lemon rind. Little cinnamon. Few drops cochinealPrune Mould.