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Buckmaster's cookery

1887

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Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
basin, and keep it in a cool place free from dust ; a piece of muslin gauze may be placed over it. Any remaining fat can be removed in a solid state when the liquor is cold. Stock soup, broth, or stew should always be kept in earthenware vessels. The vege- tables should not remain longer in the stock than is necessary to properly cook them, as they afterwards absorb the flavour. In spring and summer, when vegetables are young, they cook in less time, but a stock may be and often is prepared without vege- tables, when the flavour is more delicate. Be careful not to disturb the sediment in pouring from one vessel to another. Always prepare your stock a day or two before it is required. TO MAKE TWO QUARTS OF STOCK. Ingredients. ■ 4 lbs. of Shin of Beef, i Turnip, i Leek. 4 young Carrots. I Onion. J of a head of CeleryBeef Stock (Alternate Method). 1. Take four pounds of shin of beef, put it on a board, and cut off all the meat from the bone. 2. Remove the fat from the meat 3. Break the bone in half and remove all the marrow. If the marrow and fat were put into the stock, it would make it greasy. 4. Put the meat and bone into a large stewpan. 5. Pour into the stewpan as many pints of water as there are pounds of meat and one pint over, so in this case you must pour in five pints. 6. Put in half a tea- spoonful of salt ; this will assist the scum to rise. 7. Put the cover on the stewpan, set it over the fire, and let it come to the boil quickly. 8. Take four young carrots, scrape them and cut them into small pieces or fancy shapes. 9. Peel a turnip and an onion and White Stock. 79 cut them in quarters. 10. Wash a leek and a quarter of a head of celery in cold water. 11. Return to your soup and remove the scum and fat as it rises. 12. Put in all the vegetables and let the whole simmer gently for five hours. 13. Look at it occasionally and remove all the scum ; also add from time to time a gill of cold water to make the scum rise. 14. Put a clean cloth over a large basin. 15. Put a hair sieve on the top of the cloth over the basin. 16. After the stock has been simmering for five hours, pour the contents of the stewpan through the sieve and cloth into the basin. 17. Put the stock into a cool place till the next day, when it will be a jelly. 18. Before this jelly is used remove all the fat. 19. Take a clean cloth, dip it in hot water and wipe over the top of the jelly, so as to remove every particle of fat. 20. Wipe the top of the jelly with a clean dry cloth. Precautions. — A clean stewpan or saucepan, careful removal of scum and fat are essential to suc- cess. Use, if possible, young vegetables, and let the contents gently simmer. White stock can be prepared from the above recipe, using knuckle of veal instead of beef ; it may also be prepared with beef and veal together, or fowls, and sometimes rabbit and beef, but veal is best. WHITE STOCK — TO MAKE TWO QUARTS. This stock is used for white soups. 1. Take two pounds of knuckle or leg of veal. 2. Cut it up and break the bones. 3. Add a slice of lean ham, and one pound of gravy beef. The white flesh of poultry or the fillets of a fowl will be a valuable addition, although not necessary. 4. Butter the inside of a So JBuckmaster 's Cookery. White Stock