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Savouries and sweets suitable for luncheons and dinners

1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
French Pancakes. For Two Persons. — 1 egg; 1 oz. of butter; l oz. of sifted sugar ; 1 oz. of flour ; \ pint of milkSwiss Pancake ; J lb. of apricot jam. Break an egg into a basin and beat it well with one ounce of butter ; stir in one ounce of sifted loaf sugar and one ounce of fl.our, and when well mixed a quarter of a pint of milk ; beat for ten minutes, put on small buttered plates, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. Heat some apricot or other jam, and spread on one half of each pancake, folding the other over. Serve in a silver dish on a napkin. : SAVOURIES AND SWEETS. 69 Boiled Cocoanut Pudding. Fok Six Persons. — 1 cocoanut ; ^ lb. of sugar ; 1 cupful I of milk ; 2 eggs ; ^ cupful of bread crumbs ; 2 ozs. of butter ; J a lemon ; 4 ozs. of candied cherries ; ^ oz. of sifted sugar. For serving with the above Pudding. — 1 small cocoanut ; 3 ozs. of castor sugar ; ^ pint of water ; pint of cream ; 1 egg- Grate finely tlie white nut, previously removing the brown outside ; mix with a quarter of a pound of sugar, a cupful of new milk, and the milk contained in the nut, the whites and yolks of two eggs, half a cupful of bread crumbs, two ounces of butter beaten to a cream, the grated rind of half a lemon, four ounces of candied cherries. Boil three hours in a basin or china mould, covered with a well floured cloth; when done, turn out on to a silver dish, served with sugar sifted over the pudding, and if liked surrounded with cocoanut sauce, made as follows : Cocoanut Cream — Boil the finely grated white kernel of a small cocoa- nut with the same weight of castor sugar in half a pint of water, strain through a wire sieve, put the mixture on the fire again and add half a pint of cream, or as a substitute, three-quarters of a pint of new milk thickened with a little arrowroot. Let it boil ; remove from the fire, and when a trifle cooler put in 1 the beaten yolk of an egg, after which allow it to simmer for a few minutes. Tomato Pie. For Six Persons. — 1 J lb. of tomatoes ; J saltspoonful of I Balt ; 3 ozs. of sugar ; ^ a lemon ; 1 egg ; 5 pint of cream ; • enough paste to coyer a pie dish. Skin and slice rij)e tomatoes, and lay in a pie dish ; ! sprinkle over them a very little salt. For a pound 70 SAVOURIES AND SWEETS. ! i of tomatoes, two ounces of sugar, tlie juice of half a ; lemon, one well-beaten egg mixed with half a cup of j cream is to be poured over the tomatoes when the pie ; disb is full. Cover with a rich paste, and bake in a | hot oven at first, gradually getting cooler, for some- : wbat over half an hour. Lemon Tart. Foe, Four Persons. — 4 lemons ; 1 tablespoonful of flour ; ■ 1 breakfast- cupful of sugar ; 1 pint of water ; enough paste to line and cover a pie dish. Slice four lemons very thin, lay in a rich paste, sprinkle over one tablespoonful of flour, one cupful ^ of sugar, fill the pie dish nearly full of water and j cover with paste. Bake an hour. | Vegetable Marrow Pudding. j For Six Persons. — 1 marrow ; 1 pint of milk ; J lb. of . sugar ; 1 teaspoonful of ground ginger ; 1 egg ; 1 cupful of flour ; enough puff paste to cover the pie dishVegetable Marrow Pudding. Stew the marrow, strain through a sieve ; add a ; pint of milk, a quarter of a pound of sugar^ a tea- spoonful of ground ginger, an egg, and a teacupful of flour. Bake in a pie dish. Quince Tart. For Six or Seven Persons. — 6 apples ; 2 quinces ; half Quince Tart