The household gas cookery book

A Very Nice Breakfast Dish. — Take two sheep’s tongues, quarter pound of bullock’s tongue, half pound of bullock’s cheek, half pound of salted pork, half a cowheel. These may be all purchased cleaned and scalded. Put them in a saucepan with sufficient water to nearly cover the meat, and add a teaspoonful of pepper, enough salt to taste, a teaspoonful of allspice, eight cloves, one clove of garlic minced small, and four or five shallots also cut up small. Boil all together slowly until the flesh leaves the bones, then take out the meats and place them on a pasteboard and cut all up into small squares and pieces; remove all the bones; let the stock boil fast until reduced to one quart. Skim off the fat, mix in the chopped meat. Turn it all into a mould and let it remain till next day, when turn it out on a dish and garnish with parsley. Welsh Rarebit. Cut some rich cheese in thin slices and put them in a saucepan with a little milk, butter, mustard, salt, and pepper. Have ready some hot toast; let the ingredients stand over the griller at a moderate heat, stirring occasionally, and when they are well mixed, pour them boiling upon the toast. Cheese Macaroni. 1 oz. butter, J oz. flour, half-pint milk, 1 teaspoonful mustard, cayenne pepper, salt, J lb. macaroni, 2 ozs. Parmesan cheese. Well wash the macaroni and boil until tender, throwing it into boiling water. When well cooked, strain it and cut the macaroni into pieces an inch long. Make a sauce with the butter, flour, and milk, add the seasoning, and turn the cooked macaroni mixture into a buttered pie dish, shake the remaining cheese over the top, and brown it quickly in a hot oven. p 2 26 Note. — This may be browned underneath the grill burners on the top of the stove. Macaroni and Cold Beef. Boil half a tin of tomatoes for ten minutes, strain, and make into a sauce with one ounce of butter, one ounce of flour, and pepper and salt. Boil half a pound of macaroni till tender, cut into short pieces and add it to the sauce. Slice the beef into thin pieces and broil it for one minute, and pour the sauce round. Cheese Straws. 2 ozs. butter, 2 ozs. grated cheese, 3 ozs. flour, cayenne and salt, yolk of 1 egg, and a little water. Mix all these ingredients into a firm paste, roll out thinly, and cut into straws. Bake them in a moderate oven a pale straw colour. Place these on the top of the browning shelf to bake gradually. Gruel. J oz. of groats, half-pint of milk, 1 lemon (half the rind), pinch of salt or sugar. Mix the groats smoothly with a little cold milk to a paste, put the remainder on to boil with the lemon rind, pour in the groats, and simmer gently for ten minutes. Strain into a breakfast cup and let the invalid drink it, not spoon it. This should be of the consistency of cream. Cheese Fingers. Take one-quarter of a pound of flour and place it in a basin, and work into it a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, two ounces of breadcrumbs (finely grated), one-quarter of a pound of Parmesan cheese (finely grated), cayenne pepper and salt to taste, mix well together, and bind with the yolk of an egg. Roll out, and cut into 4-inch lengths by J-inch wide, and bake in a very hot gas oven for a few minutes. Serve cold. Russian Brawn.