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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
left press the outside closely to keep it firm and smooth. Be careful that the walls are equally thick in every part. Fill the pie, put on the cover, pinch the edges, fasten securely with wliite of egg, ornament the outside in any way that may siut the fancy, brush over with yolk of egg, and bake in a slow oven if the pie be large, in a qmckcr one if it be small. Pork, Precautions in Cooking.— Take particular care it be done enough : other meats underdone; are unpleasant, but pork is Absolutely imeatable ; the sight of it is enough to appal the sharpest appetite if its gravy has the least tint of redness. Bo careful of the crackling : if this be not crisp, or if it be burned, you will be scolded. — Dr. Kitchhier. Pork Pudding. — Line a well-buttered basin with good suet crust. Fill it with alter- nate layers of pork cut into neat slices and pork sausage meat, and allow double the weight of pork to that of sausage meat. Put a little pepper and salt, a chopped onion, and half a dozen sage-leaves finely shred with the moat, and add two or three spoonfuls of gravy^ made from the trimmingsPork Pudding. Put on the cover, fasten the edges securely, tie the pudding in a floured cloth, plunge it into boiUng water, and keep it boiling until it is done enough ; then turn it out carefully, and serve on a hot dish. Time to boil a moderate-sized pudding, two hours and a half. Probable cost, pork and pork sausage, lOd. per pound. Pork Pudding (another way) . A Dutch recipe. — Put half a pound of iinely-grated bread-crumbs into a bowl. Pour over these three-quarters of a pint of milk which has been milled with two well-beaten eggs, and let them soak for an hour. Stir in with them two pounds of lean pork finely minced and sea- soned with pepper, salt, and grated nutmeg. Pour the mixture into a buttered dish, and bake in a moderate oven. Add a little more butterPork Pudding (another way) to the sides of the dish, if requured. Time to bake, two hours. Probable cost, 2s. 3d. tSirf- iicient for six or seven persons. Pork, Rearing Hogs for.— As regards the wholesomeness of its flesh, the hog is more affected by the mode of keeping than any other known animal. It is naturally indolent and filthy in its habits, but cleanliness and atten- tion have a great influence in making it thi'ive. The kind of food given to swine produces a marked, effect on the quality of the flesh. Sldmmed milk and peas, oats, and barley -meal rank first in excellence as food for making •delicate pork. Milk alone will fatten pigs, and milk-fed pork is the most delicate of any. Pork fed on beans is hard and ill-flavoured ; that which is fed entirely on grain has the fat aspongy ; fermented grain and the must of cider render the hog bloated, and " liable to fits of the gout, from being kejit in a state of constant intoxication." Potatoes make a light, insipid flesh. Reared on oilcake the flesh is little better than carrion, and butchers' offal makes the pork full of gravy, but gives it a disgusting strong taste and smell. For bacon and flitches hogs are fattened on pirrpose, and their food will depend on the circumstances of theii-