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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.
Apricots (au Eiz). — Put a cupful of rice in a saucepan -^vith a quart of milk, a piece of butter the ^ize of a nut, two table-spoonfuls of sugar, and the rind of a lemon. Let all simmer gently, and when the milk is absorbed and the rice tender, add to it four well-beaten eggs. Boil up again, stii-ring all the time, to cook the eggs. Remove the lemon-rind. Put a gallipot in the middle of a large glass dish, and heap the rice round it ; smooth it -svith the back of a spoon, and let' it slope down to the edges of the dish. When it is cold, remove the gallipot, and place the apricots in the hollow, piling them pyramidically. They must be prepared thiis : Take two dozen ot^ the fresh fruit, sound and ripe : pare, stone, and slice them. IMalce a syrup of a breakfast-cupful of sugar and the juice of two lemons. AVhen it is boiling, throw in the slices, and fry them quickly. A few of the kernels may be blanched and chopped and strewed over the fruit. Place a layer of apricot mai-malade mixed with the syrup at the bottom of the hollow, and pile the fried fruit on that. Time to fry the slices, five minutes. Pro- bable cost, 3s. 6d. Sufficient for six or eight persons. Apricots, Compote of. — Take one dozen large sound apricots ; halve them, remove the stones, and blanch the kernels. Put three- quarters of a pound of loaf sugar into an enamelled ste\vpan with a pint and a half of waterCompote of Apricots. Let it boil ; then put in the apricots, and let them simmer very gently for a few minutes. Take them out, di'ain them, and ar- range them in a dish. When the syrup is cold, pour it over the fruit. Put' half a kernel upon each piece of apricot. Probable cost. Is. 3d. Sufficient for four or five persons. Apricots, Compote of (another way). — Pai'c and scald eight or nine apiicots ; hfdve and stone them. Put into a saucepan half a pound of pounded loaf sugar and half a pint of water. When the scmn rises, put in the apricots, sliced, with three of the kernels. When done, j^ut them in a dish, and pour the syruj) round them. Time to simmer, twenty minutes. Probable cost, Is. Sufficient, one apricot for each person. Apricots, Compote of Green.— Remove, by rubbing with a dry cloth, the down fiom a pound of young green apricots. Put into a saucepan three-quarters of a j^int of water and half a pound of sugar ; let it boil for ten minutes or more, being careful to remove the scum as it rises. Put in the apricots; simmer thorn very gently. Lift them out one by one ^yiih a spoon to prevent them breaking, and place in a glass dish. When the sjTup is cool, pour it round them. Probable cost, Is. Sufficient for half a dozen persons. To Candy Apricots