Gas cookery

Ingredients. — 2 oz. slice of Crumb of Bread warmed in 1 gill of Milk, 2 ozs. of grated Cheese, the yolks of 2 Eggs and the whites whipped stiffly, Cayenne and Salt. METHOD. — Make the gill of milk warm, and pour it on to the slice of bread and let it soak well. Then beat it up with a fork and add the yolks of eggs, seasoning and cheese, and when well mixed add the whites of eggs lightly to the mixture. Oil the ramequin cases, fill them three parts full, and bake about ten minutes. Cheese Souffles, Iced. Ingredients. — 3 ozs. Parmesan Cheese, '/z pint good White Sauce, ]/z pint Aspic Jelly, Cayenne, Mustard, Ramequin Cases. METHOD. — Grate the cheese, add the sauce cold, and jelly just liquid, also the seasoning, and whip all well together. When beginning to set, fill the ramequin cases, put them in an air-tight can, pack some ice round and freeze. Garnish with raspings. Cheese Straws. Ingredients. — 2 ozs. Butter, 2 ozs. grated Cheese, 3 ozs. Flour, Cayenne and Salt, yolk of 1 Egg, and a little Water. METHOD. — Mix all these ingredients into a firm paste, roll out thinly, and cut into straws. Bake them in a moderate oven a pale straw colour. Place these on the top of the browning shelf to bake gradually. Cheese Tartlets. Ingredients, — 2 ozs. grated Cheese, 1 oz. Bread Crumbs, 1 Egg, 1 tablespoonful Milk, Y lb- Rough Puff Pastry, Pepper, Salt. METHOD. — Put pastry in open tartlets : mix the other ingredients together, and put in before the pastry is baked. Then put in oven for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, and serve very hot. io8 Dahl Tart. Ingredients. — i oz. of Dripping, i Onion finely chopped, i teaspoonful Curry Powder, a little Salt, y2 pint red Lentils, i pint of Water or Stock. Method. — Make the dripping quite hot and fry onions dark brown. Add the curry and salt, cook for five minutes, then add the lentils and stock, and boil for half-an-hour. Serve rice as for curry in a separate dish. Eggs, Anchovies. Ingredients. — 3 Eggs, Anchovy Essence, y2 oz. Butter, Cayenne, and Salt. Method. — Boil the eggs hard, then shell and cut them in half, removing the yolks into a basin. Pound the yolks with the other ingredients, and fill the half whites with this mixture, piled rather high and rough. Put a sprig of tarragon in each. Or put the mixture through a forcer on to salt biscuits, and decorate with white and yolk of egg in centre. Eggs with Cream and Cheese. Ingredients.— Buttered Panakins, Cream, grated Cheese, Eggs, Pepper and Salt. Method. — Put an egg in each panakin, and a tablespoonful of cream on the top with a pinch of grated cheese, salt and cayenne pepper. Have some boiling water in a saute pan ; place the panakins in this and poach lightly, then brown them in the oven or under the grill. Kidneys Devilled. Skin and cut the kidneys in halves, and gently cook them in a little bacon fat, about 2 ozs., sprinkle them with cayenne and salt, add a dessert spoonful of sherry and a few drops of Worcester sauce or any relish. Make quite hot and serve. Lobster Cremes. Ingredients. — 1 Hen Lobster, 1 hard-boiled Egg, y2 pint Cream, y2 oz. Gelatine, 1 gill Fish Sauce (white), Cayenne, Salt, Aspic Jelly.