Instruction in cookery (London School Board receipts)

Ingredients : — 1 medium sized Beet-root or Carrot (cooked and sliced). 3 sticks Celery. 3 small Potatoes (cooked and sliced or passed through a sieve). 1 bunch Water Cress when obtainable. 1 table-spoonful Onion or Parsley chopped very fine. 1 hard-boiled Egg. 2 table-spoonfuls pure Olive Oil. 1 table-spoonful of Tarragon or plain Vinegar. 2 teaspoonful made Mustard. i teaspoonful Sugar. £ teaspoonful Salt. 1 pinch Pepper. Method : — Peel the beet-root after cooking. Care should be taken not to pierce the skin before cooking, or it will lose its colour. Wash, dry, and slice the celery. Wash and dry the cress lightly ; separate into sprigs, cutting off the thick stalks. Mix carefully all the vegetables except the onion or parsley, in the centre of a dish or bowl. Sauce : — Take the white from the yolk of the egg, and chop the yolk small. Rub the yolk, sugar, salt, pepper and mustard smoothly together with a wooden spoon ; stir in the oil gradually, then the vinegar gradually, and add the onion or parsley. Pour this over the salad, and sprinkle the chopped white on the top. Almost any vegetable may be used in a winter salad. n (110) SAVOURY PUDDING. Ingredients : — 4 table-spoonfuls Flour or fine Oatmeal. 4 table-spoonfuls Bread Crumbs. 1 large Onion (boiled and chopped). 1 dessert-spoonful Sage. 1 pint Milk. 2 Eggs, or 2 ozs. Suet (chopped very fine). \ teaspoonful Baking Powder. Salt and Pepper to taste. 1-^ oz. Dripping or Butter. Method : Mix the flour, bread crumbs, and suet (if used), in a basin. If the eggs are used, break them in another basin, and beat them with the milk. When well beaten, add it Gradually to the flour, beating well. If no eggs are used, pour in milk on to the flour, bread crumbs and suet, mixing well. Put in the onion, sage, salt, pepper, and baking powder, beating well again. Melt the dripping in a pie-dish, pour the pudding in, and bake in a hot oven about one hour. Serve with brown gravy. 1. This is good eaten with cold pork, goose, or duck. 2. Parsley and thyme may be used instead of sage and onion, and eaten with any other meat. 3. Or any scraps of cold meat may be chopped, and put in the pudding. (Ill) TO MAKE BAKING POWDER. Ingredients : — j lb. best White Flour or Cornflour. ' | lb. Cream of Tartar. ^ lb. Tartaric Acid. 6 ozs. Bi-carbonate of Soda. Method : — Mix all the ingredients together and pass them through a sieve. Then put the powder into a bottle or canister, and keep it w'ell corked. (112) SAVOURY MACCARONI. Ingredients : — J lb Naples Maccaroni. 1 pint Milk. 2 oz. Grated Cheese oz. Butter. Salt and Pepper to taste. Method : — Put the maccaroni into a pan, with sufficient boiling water to cover it, and a pinch of salt. Let it simmer about half an hour, or until the water is absorbed. Then add the milk, and simmer 1 hour or until quite cooked. Put this on to a greased dish, mix with it half of the cheese, and season to taste. Sprinkle the remainder of the cheese on the top, put the butter in small pieces here and there, and place it in the oven, or before the fire, for a few minutes, to brown.