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Chafing dish and casserole cookery

1908

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Presented as published in 1908. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Wash and trim a cauliflower and boil it in fast- boiling slightly salted water till tender. When done, drain well and shape it neatly. Have ready some white sauce (bechamel), well seasoned and mixed with some grated cheese. Butter a gratin dish and put on it a table-spoonful of this sauce. Upon this place the cooked cauliflower (head up- wards). Sauce over completely with white sauce, besprinkle the surface with bread-crumbs and grated cheese. Place a few tiny bits of butterCauliflower au Gratin here and there on top and bake in a very hot oven for about fifteen minutes, so as to brown it nicely. IRouilles au ©ru»fcre. Prep are N 0 u i 1 1 e paste, made with 4 oz. flour, \ oz. butter, and. 1 egg. Roll out the paste as thinly as possible. Cut the nouille paste rather finely, and sprinkle into fast-boiling salted water, and cook for about ten minutes ; drain, and reheat with an ounce of butter. Add 1 gill of hot bechamel sauce with 1 oz. of grated Gruyere cheese. Season with pepper and nutmeg, and put in a gratin dish. Sprinkle over with more grated cheese and a few brown bread-crumbs ; pour over a little oiled butter on top. Bake a pale brown in a hot oven or under a hot salamander and serve hot. 8o Casserole Cookery /Ifcacaroni au 0ratm. Blanch and cook in salted water hall a pound macaroni or spaghetti ; when done, drain them in a colander or sieve, and let cool. The macaroni may, if liked, be cut into short pieces. Heat up an ounce of butter in a stew-pan, put in the cooked macaroni, season with salt and pepper to taste, also a good pinch of Krona or paprika pepper, and moisten with a gill of good white sauce. Mix carefully, so as not to mash the macaroni, with an ounce of grated cheese. Pile this neatly in a buttered gratin dish, pour over a little more white sauce if needed, then sprinkle over with grated cheese and bread-crumbs, also a little oiled butter, and bake in a sharp oven for ten minutes. Italian flDacaront ||Me. Cut half to three-quarters of a pound of cold beef or mutton into thin slices, peel and slice thinly half an onion, slice likewise three or four firm but ripe tomatoes, and boil till tender quarter-pound of macaroni cooked in slightly salted water. Cool and drain the macaroni and cut it up rather small. Line a buttered baking dish with macaroni and range the meat, onion and tomato slices in layers on the baking dish. Season withfsalt, pepper and nutmeg, pour over a little sauce or^stock and cover the top with macaroni. Sprinkle over some bread- crumbs and grated cheese, then bake for about thirty minutes in a hot oven. Italian IRtsotto. Wash in cold water half-pound of Patna or Caro- lina rice, dry it well and put it in a casserole stew- pan containing two ounces melted butter. Stir this over the fire tor a few minutes with a half Casserole Cookery 8i small flnely minced onion ; the latter must not be allowed to brown. Now add about half a pint of stock and let reduce, then add half a pint of tomato pulp, and more stock. Continue to cook whilst stirring. Season with salt, pepper and a handful of chopped pimientos. Lastly add about an ounce of grated Parmesan cheese. Nearly all the moisture must become absorbed by the time the rice is cooked. JEijgs en Cocotte.