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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.
Ravioli, Italian. — Make a paste with flour, fresh eggs, and a little salt. Roll it out as thin as thick paper, and sprinkle it with as little flour as possible. Make a forcemeat of fowl, veal, or fishRavioli, Italian, or take a godiveau ; lay it in little heaps at equal distances on half the paste, and cover -with the other half. With the fingers press the paste down between the little piles of forcemeat to make it adhere, then cut the whole into squares. Put these side by side in a dish, and boil them in bouillon for five minutes. Serve with grated cheese in a plate. Ravioli, Italian (another way).— Make some nicelj'-flavoured forcemeat as follows : — Take two oimccs of the flesh of roast chicken or game weighed after it has been freed from skin and sinew. Mince it finely, and mix with it a table-spoonful of borage which has been scalded, pounded, and passed tlirough a sieve ; failing this, use a table-spoonful of spinach greening. Add an ounce of pounded ham, four cleaned and pounded anchovies, a shallot, three hard and two raw yolks of eggs, a table-sjooonf ul of grated Parmesan, and a little pepper and grated nut- meg. Mix the ingredients thoroughly. Roll out half a pound of nouilles paste as thin as possible, cut it into rounds two inches in diameter with a fluted cutter, moisten the edges with water, and lay a small ball of the force- meat upon each round. Fold the pastry over the forcemeat, and pinch it tightly together. Let the ravioli dry for a short time. Butter a saucepan, lay them in it, pour a little boiling stock over them, and let them simmer until the pastry is done enough. Drain them, lay them on a dish, sprinkle a little grated Parmesan over, and lay little pieces of butter here and there upon them. Put them in a brisk oven for a quarter of an hour, pour a little good BAV ( 719 ) RED gravy round them, and serve very hot. To make the nouilles paste put half a pound of flour on a pastry-board, make a hole in the centre, break two eggs into it, add half an ounce of butter and a pinch of saltRavioli, and mix all together to a smooth, firm paste; it is then ready for use. Time to simmer the ravioli, iive minutes. Ravioli Soup. — Prepare and poach the ravioli as in the last recipe. Drain them, and put them into a soup tureen. Pour over them two quarts of good strong veal or game stock, add a glassfiil of madeira, and serve very hot. Send a plateful of grated ParmesanRavioli Soup to table with the soup. Time, five minutes to poach the ravioli. Sufficient for ten or twelve persons. Ray or Maids. — This fish is of the same genus as the skate or thornback. It may be boiled or fried. It should be hung for at least a day before it is dressed, and the wings should be cut into strips, and kept in salt and water for two or three days before they are used. The dressed fish is very good eaten cold with salad siiuce. It is at its best from September to February.