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The household gas cookery book

1900

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Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Make about half a pound of puff paste and roll out thinly. Have ready some Parmesan and Gruy£re cheese mixedPuff Cheese Cakes. Throw half a handful over the paste, which fold in three, roll it out to the same thickness again, cover again with cheese, proceeding thus until the whole of the cheese is used (half a pound), then cut them into any fancy shapes desired with the pastry cutters. Set on a cold slab, egg them over, and bake a nice straw colour in a moderate oven ; dress in a pyramidical form on a table napkin, and serve very hot. Bubble and Squeak. Most people know this dish. There is not very much to say in regard to it. It is made with cold vegetables, and should never be made with vegetables that are more than one day old. It is GAS COOKERY BOOK. 233 usually made with cold cabbage and potatoes, which should be thoroughly well mashed, rather lightly seasoned with pepper, and fried in a frying pan with a little beef drippingBubble and Squeak, and served hot. It makes a good addition to the breakfast table. The Remains of Cold Salt Beef. This may be served in the following ways, ir¬ respective of what joint or of what part of the joint they come from. Cut the slices as large and as thinly as possible, dip each slice into some vinegar from the mixed pickles bottle, previously poured upon a plate in small quantities, lay about a pound of meat thus prepared upon a flat dish, pour two tablespoonsful of waterThe Remains of Cold Salt Beef over, and warm the meat through in the oven, and serve. Another way is to dip the slices of meat into” pickles of any sort, roll in flour and proceed as above ; or, saut6 the slices with a little butter in the frying pan, and have ready some hot mashed potatoes, and lay the beef over and serve. To Pickle Fork. Take one pound and a half of Demerara sugar, & lb. of saltpetre, and 4 ozs. of ordinary saltTo Pickle Fork. Mix these ingredients all together; well sprinkle the pork immediately it is purchased with salt, and let it remain on a dish for 24 hours, then let it drain off and well rub in the mixture. Put the meat in an earthenware pan packed tightly together, and fill the spaces in with salt ; place a board over the meat, and on the top place some heavy stones to keep the meat from rising up, as it would do after the salt has dis¬ solved. Let it remain in pickle for 7 to 10 days, ac¬ cording to the size of the pieces of pork. A leg of pork weighing 7 to 8 lbs. would be well salted in 7 days. 234 THE HOUSEHOLD Hams, Tongues and Beef to Pickte. Make a mixture of 3 lbs. of ordinary salt, £ lb. of saltpetre, 2 lbs. of bay salt, i£ lbs. of Demerara sugar, and two gallons of waterHams, Tongues and Beef to Pickle, which place in a pickling tub, with a lid over. Rub the meat well with coarse sugar, and let it hang long enough to drain, and when it has been allowed to well drain put it in the pickle. A large ham should remain about 3 w^eeks in pickle, a small one from 10 to 14 days, an ox tongue about 14 or 15 days, and beef in proportion to its weight and the degree of saltness desired. When taken out of the pickle let them thoroughly drain, and dry them and send them to be smoked. Worcester Sauce. Worcester Sauce