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1901

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Presented as published in 1901. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
horseradish to 4oz. of butter or a gill of cream), and flavouring it with lemon juice or chilli vinegar and a dash of coralline pepper. Maitre cVhotel butter : For this blanch some good parsley, press it well in a clean cloth till dry (but do not squeeze or wring it), then mince it very finely, and pound it with fresh butter, a seasoning of salt and white pepper, and lemon juice, using a tablespoonful of the minced parsley and the same of strained lemon juice to each |lb. of butter. If 3oz. or 4oz. of washed, boned, and pounded anchovies, or an equivalent amount of essence of anchovy or paste, be added to this it becomes the well-known green butter. Another form, sometimes called ravigotte butter, is made by poimd- ing together a good spray each of parsley, tarragon, and cheivil, a tiny shallot, and some chives, with a full ounce of butter, a drop or two of green vegetable colouring, and either a teaspoonful of essence of anchovy or some chopped and pounded gherkin, lastly working in 3oz. or 4oz. of fresh butter and a dash of grated nutmeg. (This last is also knoAvn as beurre printanier by M. Urbain Dubois and other chefs.) Sardine butter is made in the same way by skinning, boning, and pounding eight sardines, then mixing them with two or three tablespoonfuls of blanched and minced parsley, and pounding them again together, working in gradually 4oz. of fresh butter and a dash of cayenne. Devil butter. — Put into a pan a shallot, a spray or two each of parsley, tarragon, and cheiwil, all minced fine, and a bay leaf, with enough chilli vinegar to cover them. Let it boil up, then leave till cold. SANDWICHES. 23 when jou remove the bay leaf and strain the vinegar. Pound three or four anchovies with one hard-boiled egg yolk, 4oz. butter, the herbs and shallot, and a spoonful of curry pasteDevil Butter till quite smooth ; then sieve it, moistening it with a little of the vinegar, and adding either cayenne or a drop or two of tabasco to taste. Watercress butter. — Choose the finest and greenest leaves, well wash, drain and dry them, then mince as finely as possible and work them up with as much fresh butter as they will take, seasoning as you do so with a little salt, white pepper, and a few drops of plain or chilli vinegar, or lemon juiceWatercress Butter. Some cooks wash and mince the watercress twice before adding the butter, but if properly done once is sufficient, and gives a stronger watercress flavour to the butter. Land cress is very good in this way also. All these butters are excellent for spreading the slices of bread and butter used for containing the sliced meat, game, <fcc., varying them according to what you use, e.g., using anchovy or mustard butter for beef, anchovy or sardine butter for mutton, maitre d’ hotel for fish, or ham butter for chicken, game, &c. This last is made by mincing or grating any remains of cold cooked ham, carefully removing all skin, gristle, or outside pieces ; to each pint of this mince add a teaspoonful of made mustard, a dust of cayenne, and, if the ham be very lean, a tablespoonful of butterHam Butter. When thoroughly pounded together press this into jars, paste paper over, cover dow^ closely, and set these jars in the bain-marie ora 24 SALADS, SANDWICHES, &c.