FoodNet

The school cookery book

1881

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Presented as published in 1881. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Pickle for Meat — Required: 3 lbs. common salt; 4 oz. brown sugar; 2 oz. saltpetre; 2 gallons waterPickle for Meat. CHEAP DISHES WITHOUT MEAT. 89 Boil all together till everything is melted ; strain. When the pickle is cold, put the fresh meat into it for a week, ten days, or more, according to the degree o SalBr?wningd— Required: >4 lb. brown sugar; about ^Heat^ifold' iron pan on the fire; rub it with a little dripping. Put the sugar into it, let it melt, stir with an iron spoon till it is a dark brown. Draw the pan to the side of the fire, add the water gradually, stirring all the time. Place the pan on the fire again, and stir till all is smooth. Let it cool, and pour it into a bottle ; cork it well, and it will keep for some months. A Cheap Filter.— Get a tinsmith to put a rim at the lower end of the tube of a common tin funnel ; tie a piece of muslin over this rim, so as to close the end of the tube. Fill this tube one-third with fine river gravel, one-third with sharp river sand, and one-third with powdered vegetable charcoal. Charcoal may be o-ot by burning a stick, or purchased for one penny at a druggist’s. Do not fill the tube too tightly ; at the top of the tube put in a small clean sponge. Put the lube of the funnel into a bottle or jug. All water poured into the upper part of the funnel will gradually come through the muslin perfectly filtered. XVI.— CHEAP DISHES WITHOUT MEAT. Goose Pudding. — Required : % lb. scraps of bread; 1 large or 2 small onions (previously boiled) ; 14 oz. flour ; teaspoonful powdered sage ; i{4 oz. dripping ; 2 tablespoonfuls milk ; teaspoonful salt ; x pinch of pepper. 90 CHEAP DISHES WITHOUT MEAT. Soak the bread for an hour in cold water ; pour off the water ; bruise the bread with a fork till it is smooth. Chop the onion; mix all the ingredients well together except i oz. of dripping. Grease a baking tin ; place the mixture in it, and put the rest of the dripping in small pieces on the top. Bake in the oven for half an hour. If there is no oven, put the tin on a hot hob or girdle for twenty minutes, then brown before the fire. Turn out of the tin and cut into four or six pieces. Serve hot or cold. Savoury Rice.— Required: 2 oz. rice; 1 large or 2 small onions (previously boiled); Y oz. dripping; Yz pint pot liquor; % teaspoonful salt; ]/ teaspoon- ful pepper. Wash the rice; burst it; pour away the water. Chop the onion ; add it, the pepper, salt, and liquor to the rice; simmer for a quarter of an hour till the rice is quite tender. Place on a dish ; put the drip- ping in small pieces on the top ; brown in the oven or before the fire. Serve hot. Rice and Cheese. — Required: 2 oz. whole rice; 1 oz. grated cheese; 1 oz. dripping; about 1^ gill skim milk ; 1 pinch of salt ; 1 pinch of pepper. Wash the rice; burst it; strain off the water. Place the milk, pepper, and salt in the pan with the rice ; simmer for a quarter of an hour till the rice is quite tender ; the mixture should not be so moist as for a pudding. Spread a thin layer of the rice on a flat dish ; sprinkle half of the cheese over it; add the remainder of the rice, then the rest of the cheese over that Place the dripping on the top in small pieces, and brown before the fire or in the oven ; if browned in the oven, a little dripping should be placed at the bottom of the dish to prevent the rice and milk burning. Serve hot. Goose Pudding