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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.
wash them in salt and water, and dry them in a cloth. Put them into a stcwpau with an. ounce and a half of butter, two table-spoonfuls of chopped mushrooms, one table-spoonful of chopped parsley, one onion, or a small clove of shallot finely shred, a little pepper and salt, a bay-leaf, an inch of lemon-rind, a glass of sherry, and as much stock made from bones as will barely cover the eels. Bring the sauce slowly to the boQ, skim it, and as it rises in the pan lift out the pieces of eel, and lay them in a pie-dish. Strain the sauce, thicken it with two ounces of flour kneaded with two ounces of butter, add the juice of a lemon, and pour it over the eels in the dish. Place on the top the hard-boiled yolks of three or four eggsEel Pie. Line the edges of the dish with pastry, cover with the same, brush over with egg, ornament the pie, and bake in a well-heated oven. It may be served either hot or cold. Time to bake, about one hour. Probable cost, 4s. to 6s. Sufficient for five or six persons. V Richmond Puddings. — Bake three large apples. Scrape out every particle of pulp free from skin and core, and mix with it two ounces of fresh butter, four ounces of finely- grated bread-crumbs, three table-spoonfuls of sugar, a little grated nutmeg or rasped lemon- rind, add half a pint of cream or milk, the yolks of four and the whites of two eggs. Mix tho- roughly. Butter some cups, half fill them with the mixture, sprinkle a few bread-crumbs over the top, and bake in a well-heated oven. When done enough, turn the puddings out carefully upon a hot dish, sift powdered sugar over them, and send a light custard to table with them. Time to bake, twenty minutes. Probable cost, if made with milk, Is. 3d. Sufficient for five or six persons. Ring Dish for Australian Meat {see illustration accompanying the article on Austra- Uan Meat). Rings, Candied, for Garnishing {see Orange and Lemon Candied Rings for Garnish- ing)- Rings of Pastry, Ornamental.— Roll out some puff paste to the thickness of a quar- ter of an inch. Stamp it out in rounds an inch and a half in diameter, and cut out the centre of these with a smaller cutter, half an inch in diameter. Brush the rings over with beaten egs^, shake finelj'-powdered sugar over them, and bake them on a slightly-buttered baking- sheet in a gentle oven till they are lightly browned. Cover with sugar icing, put them in a cool oven or in a screen to dry, and or- nament with dots or folds of bright-coloured jelly. Or blanch some almonds, and chop them small. Put them in a bowl, and beat them up with a little white of egg and powdered sugar; brush the rings -wath egg, and strew the chopped almonds over them. Bake in a gentle oven, and a minute or two before they are taken out put a preserved cheiTy, well drained from the syrup, in the centre of the ring. When lightly coloured take out the rings, and put them on a wire sieve to cool. Time to bake, about a quarter of an hour. niN (757) BIS Richmond Puddings