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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.
Apples with Custard, Pancake of.— Pare, core, and slice four good-sized aj^ples. Fry them in butter, and when they are brown on one side, turn them over, and pom- over them a custa*i'd made of fom- eggs beatan, a cupful of cream or new milk, and a little cinnamonApples with Custard, Pancake of. Fry to a light bro-wn. Turn carefidly, and serve with sifted sugar. Time to fry, ten minutes. Sufficient for three persons. Probable cost, Is. , if made with milk. Apricot, The. — The apricot is a fruit of foreign origin, but many varieties are now APR (25) APR cultivated in this country, chiefly by grafting on plum-trees, ^^'hc'n perfectly ripe it is a delicious table fruit, although it possesses quali- ties of a laxative tendency, and should not be partaken of too freely by persons of dehcate constitution on that account. A large variety of excellent made-dishes can be fonned of apricots, and for preser\'ing purposes they are very valuable. The fruit should not be kept long after gathering, as it soon becomes insipid. The skin has a fine flavour, and if the apricots are prepared quickly after being plucked the perfume gives an agreeable piquancy to the dish. The finest apricot is the iloorpark, and the Breda is considered the best species culti- vated in the South of England. The fruit is in season in Jime and July. O Apricot Brandy. — To every pound of fruit, take one pound of loaf sugar and a Avine- glassful of water. Put the apiicots, -which must be sound, but not quite ripe, into a preserving- pan, with sufficient water to cover them ; allow them to boU; then simmer gently tUl tender. Eemovo the skins. Clarify and boil the sugar, and pour it over the fruit. Let it remain twenty-four hom-s. Then put the apricots into glasses, and fill them up with syrup and brandy, half and half, and keep them well corked, and the tops of the corks securely sealed. They must be kept twelve months before using. They should be prepared in July. Time to simmer the apricots, about one hour-. Apricot Charlotte. — Well butter a plain round mould. Cut pieces of stale bread — a roimd for the bottom and fingers for the sides. Fry them in butter, and arrange them in the dish, each piece overlapping another, so that the fruit may not escape. Pour in while hot a little apricot jam. In making the jam, allow half a. pound of sugar to every pound of fruit, blanching two or thi-ee of the kernels and boiling them with it. Put pieces of buttered bread over the top, and bake in a moderate oven. Turn out carefully, and serve hot, \sath a little sifted sugar, or with a sauce made of the juice of a lemon stirred into a cup- ful of milApricot Charlottek, and heated over the fire gently, whisking all the time to bring it to a froth. If a richer pudding is desired, slices of sponge- cake may be substituted for the bread, and a custard ser\-ed with it. Time to bake, half an hour. Sufiicient for six persons. Apricot Charlotte (another way).— Butter an ordinary pie-dish. Put at the bottom a layer of bread-crumbs about a quarter of an inch thick, and then a layer of hot apri- cot mai-malade, and repeat until the dish is full. Lay two or three pieces of butter on the top, and pour a cupful of cold water over the whole. Bake in a moderate oven. Time ■ to bake, half an hour. SuSicient for six i persons. I Apricot Charlotte (another way)