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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.
Strawberry Jelly. — Mash a pound of strawberries strain the juice through a fine sieve, add half a pint of syrup, and boil them. When nearly cold, add an ounce of clarified isinglass and a little cochineal, strain the whole through a fine sieve, pour it into a mould, and set it on ice. Devonshire Junket. — This is a delightful dish, and may be used to advantage with stewed autumn fruits. Take one quart of new milk and the necessary quantity of rennet . This you may buy at ttie grocer s for 3d. or 6d. a bottle, and use as directed ; a bottle will make many junkets. Now sweeten the milk with loaf sugar, and warm the milk to a tempera¬ ture of about 100 degrees; when dissolved pour it into a wide basin and stir in the rennet as directed; stand it in a cool place. It will be firmly set in one hour, but it must not be disturbed until sent to table; then sprinkle some powdered cinnamon and nutmeg on the top and serve with stewed fruit or clotted cream. Clotted Cream.— Let a quart of milkClotted Cream stand for 24 hours in a shallow fireproof pan. Then set the pan over a gas burner turned as low as possible, and let the cream very slowly heat. Just when coming to the boil, skim off the clotted cream, but on no account let it boil. Strawberry Moulds. — Ingredients : £ pint of water, 2 eggs whisked, 1 lb. of strawberries, 1 table- THE HOUSEHOLD 160 spoonful Maraschino (optional), i oz. castor sugar, 2 ozs. loaf sugar, 1 pint of jelly (lemon or wine jelly), £ oz. gelatine, and a few drops of cochinealStrawberry Moulds. Mask some fancy dariole moulds with jelly ; when partly set, garnish with strawberries, coat with half-set jelly, and place it on ice till set. Pick the remaining straw¬ berries, crush, and then rub through a fine wire sieve. Make a syrup of the loaf sugar and a gill of cold water. Then place the fruit pulp, syrup, whisked eggs, and Maraschino in a bowl, and whisk over a saucepan of boiling water. Soak the gelatine, and dissolve gently over the gas ; then strain into the pulp and keep stirring over the hot water until the mixture thickens ; add the cochineal, then take off and beat for a short time over the crushed ice. When beginning to set, fill up the moulds and set by until firm. Turn out on to a cold dish and garnish with chopped or whipped jelly. Apple Snow. — Take six large apples, stew with a little water, and reduce them to a pulp by passing them through a sieve, flavour and sweeten them according to taste. Whisk the whites of three eggs, and strew upon them three table¬ spoonfuls of sifted sugarApple Snow. Beat the apples until they are a froth. Then mix them with the beaten whites of eggs until they look like stiff snow. Now pile them on a glass dish in rough pieces and garnish with pieces of red-coloured jelly; stick a sprig of myrtle in the middle, and serve. Rice Snowballs. — Six ounces of rice, 1 quart of milk, flavouring of essence of almonds, sugar to taste, and 1 pint of custardRice Snowballs. Boil the rice in the milk with sugar and a flavouring of essence of almonds, until the former is tender, adding if necessary a little more milk. When the rice is quite soft, put it into tea cups, or small round jars, let it remain until cold; then turn the rice out on a deep glass dish, pour over the custard, and on the gas cookery book. 161 p°rLe[veeaCl!rbt!llPlaC? 3 9maI1 piece of bright-coloured