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The complete Indian housekeeper & cook

1898

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Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
2. Anchovy Biscuits. — Biscuits of short cheese, or anchovy paste (see Pastry) covered over with whipped cream seasoned with anchovy sauce, and coloured with cochineal. It should be thin enough to look like sugar icing. Sprinkle with chopped olives. These can be made with sardines, coloured green. 3. Anchovy Puffs. — The trimmings of puff-paste. Roll very thin, lay filletted anchovies in straight lines on the paste, season with red pepper, cover with anotlier piece of paste, and cut into strips a little bigger than the line of anchovy and about 5 inches long. Bake in a quick oven. ' 4. Anchovy Toast. — For every person take 1 unit yolk of egg and ^ unit of anchovy sauce ; mi.x on a j)late over hot water until it is like a custard, stir in ^ unit butter, and soak the buttered toasts in this pi-eparation on both sides. Push into the oven for a minute, and serve very hot. You can decorate with grated egg and filletted anchovies. 277 The Complete Indian 278 Angels on Horseback. — Take very thin .slices of streaky acou; roll up each bit with an oyster and a piece of cheese, bkewer to keep in place, and fry. Dish up each on a round of plain dried toast. 1 hey may also be dipped in batter and fried, as they are savoury is very excellent made lutli diied smoked haddock instead of the oysters. _ 6. Canap^es are simply croutons dried in the oven, or dipped in milk, and then dried. They are filled with various kinds of mixtures chopped eggs, anchovies, cress, cucumbers, &c., mixed with vinegar, salad oil, or tartar sauce. Or game in dice, celery aspic jelly, mayonnaise sauce, decorated with anchovies, &c. Almost anything and everything may be utilised to make a pretty appetising 1 ^ I or Croustades. — Tliese are made of short paste of various shapes. Line the moulds thinlv, and fill up with -uncooked rice in order to keep the shape. These cases when cold can be filled to taste with various hors d’oeuvres, Cl earns, purees, &c., and served cold or hot. 7'he paste can be varied by adding cheese, or pounded anchovies, or mushroom powder. Ihe cassolettes can be decorated any way. A pretty foim is to brush when cold with white of eg’g’, and sprinkle with chopped parsley or lobster spawn. 8. Caviare Toast.— Mix 1 unit of caviare with 1 of fresh butter, add red pepper and lemon juice. Cut some oblong croutons of bread, and brown in the oven. Pile the caviare butter in the centre of each, and serve before it can melt. 9. Cheese Straws. — Three units flour, 1 unit grated bread- crumbs, 2 units butterAnchovy Toast, and 2 units cheese. Mix ; add a little more butter if too stiff. Season with red pepper, roll out to quarter of an inch, cut into strips quarter-inch wide and about five inches long. Bake in a slow oven. 10. Cheese Biscuits. — Take some paste as for Seftons (No. 29). Roll them, and cut with a fluted cutter into biscuits. Bake. MHien cold, decorate with cheese, butter, or puree made by beating up 2 units of fresh butter with 2 units hard-boiled yoke of egg grated, and 2 of grated cheese. Seasoning of pepper, and if liked, mustard. Serve cold 011 a bed of mustard and cress. 11. Cheese, Stewed. — Take some very thin slices of tojist, spread with thick cream, dust over with a thick layer of grated cheese. Make these into sandwiches and cut in strips, which place in a silver dish, in the bottom of which equal parts of grated cheese, thin Housekeeper and Cook 279