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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.
Russian Salad. — Cut some carrots, tur- nips, parsnips, and beetroot into strips with a scoop. Add, if liked, other vegetables, such as asparagus, peas, French beans, gherkins, capers, scraped horseradish, &c. &c. Put the vegetables in a salad-dish in layers, season each layer with mayonnaise or Tartar sauce, and gradually di- minish the size of the layers, till the salad comes to a point. Ornament with a border of aspic jelly, picked prawns, olives, or gherkins, and garnish the surface with small balls of ca^aareRussian Salad. Russian Sauce. — Dissolve a slice of butter in a small saucepan, and add two ounces of lean undressed ham cut iuto dice, four minced shal- lots, a bay-leaf, a sprig of thyme, a spoonful of chopped parsley, two table-spoonfuls of scraped horseradish, a dessert- spoonful of sugar, a little pepper, salt, and grated nutmeg, a wine-glassful of \'inegar, and the same of light wine. Cover the saucepan closely, and let its contents steam gently for a-quarter of an hour-. Add half a pint of good white sauce and the yolks of four eggsRussian Sauce. Stir the sauce over the fire till it begius to thicken, and strain through a sieve for use. The sauce must not boil after the eggs are added, and care must be taken not to put them into it until partially cooled. Time, about forty minutes to prepare the sauce. Russian Sauce (another way). — Take four spoonfuls of grated horseradish ; two tea- spoonfuls of made mustard, a salt-si)oonful of salt, a tea-spoonful of sugar, and as much vine- gar as will just cover the ingredients. This is a good sauce for all kinds of cold meat, and when added to melted butter makes a good fish sauce. Russian Soup. — Take about two quarts of good bi-own soup nicely flavoured, and pour this, when ready for serving, into the tureen over three ounces of dressed ham finely shred and some small sausages already fried and drained thoroughly from fat. The soup may be made as follows : — Chop two Spanish onions, and mix ^vith them the whole heart of a cabbage finely shred. Fry the mixture in a little butter till the vegetables are lightly browned, dredge two ounces of flour over them, and moisten the paste with about three pints of good stock. Add a little pepper, salt, and grated nutmeg ; let the soup boil once, then draw the saucepan to the side, and let its contents simmer for half an hour or more, carefully removing the scum as it rises. Add a glassful of light wine and a spoonful of coarsely-shred tarragon or chervilRussian Soup, and the soup will be ready for serving. Time, about an hour. Sufficient for six or eight persons. RUS ( 783 ) RYE Russian Tea. — Take a quart of milk, and set it on the fire. Whenever it boils throw in a large tea-spoonful of the best tea ; let it boil some minutes, strain, add sugar to taste, set it again on the fire, and when it boils add a liaison of eggsRussian Tea. This is a highly-approved remedy for a cold.