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The "Queen" cookery books: Breakfast and Lunch Dishes

1904

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Presented as published in 1904. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
ChicJcen Fritters. — Cut tlie remains of any cold cooked chicken, &c., into neat pieces as large and as even as you can get them, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper; dip each piece into frying batter, and fry in plenty of hot fatChicken Fritters till of a golden brown. Drain well, sprinkle with coralline pepper, and serve piled up on a napkin, with Irliudaise, Bcarnaise, or Tartare sauce handed round. If preferred the meat may be egged and crumbed instead of using batter, but in this case serve with little rolls of fried bacon and a rich, ice- cold tomato mayonnaise. Chicken Viennoise. — Si^lit a spiung chicken as for broiling, remove the breastbone, quarter it, and marinade these quarters for an hour or two in oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper ; then roll each piece in fine flour and fry in plenty of boiling fatChicken Viennoise, cooking each piece separately. When nicely coloured drain the pieces on kitchen paper near the fire, and when all are ready serve on a napkin garnished with quartered lettuce, and hand round mayonnaise sauce. Needless, presumably, to say that all and any of these recipes are equally appropriate to turkey, pigeons, quail, game, rabbits, &c. Poulet a la Jeune Fille. — Rub a nice fowl with butter and season with pepper and salt, fill it with seasoned oysters, and put it into a casserole, closing it down hermetically ; stand it in the bain-marie and allow it to cook gently till perfectly tender. Now lift out the fowl and keep it hot ; pour the liquor into a pan, with 2oz. of butter, a gill of milk, a spoonful of arrowroot, and a little minced parsley ; HOT DISHES. 75 bring this all sliarplj to the boil ; continue boiling for ten minutes, add three liard-boiled minced eggs, pour it over the fowl, and serve hot. Guisado alia Contrabandista. — Cut a raw fowl into neat joints and toss these till coloured nicely in butter, oil, or dripping. (In Spain bacon fat rendered down with red peppers, chile Colorado^ is used for this.) Then stir in five or six minced tomatoes (tinned will do), thi’ee minced green peppers, a clove of garlic, a bayleaf, and two good tables]30onfuls of gravy or stockGuisado alla Contrabandista. Bring it all just to the boil, then draw it aside and let it simmer very gently for two hours. Serve very hot. An old fowl is excellent for this. For British tastes it would be amply sufiicient to rub the pan over once or twice with fresh cut garlic. Eice may be added to this if liked. Any meat can be used instead of fowl. Pepperpot (a genuine West Indian recipe). — lute a good-sized earthenware pan or casserole put three tablespoonfuls of pure casseripe for each quart of cold water, with salt to taste and a handful of bird peppers. (Where these cannot be got use cayenne.) Cut the meat up into small pieces after being well cooked and put into the pot, then cook for half an hour. This should be heated up every day, and something added to it daily. Any sort of meat, the more various the kinds the better, will do, and hard boiled eggs are a great addition. Usually |lb. of mixed vegetables (onions being chief) and fib. of all sorts of meatPepperpot (veal, fowl, beef, mutton, pickled pork, &c., according to what is at band) to 76 BREAKFAST AND LUNCH DISHES.