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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.
and set the sponge by pouring this into the hollow, and beating into it with the fingers about a quarter of the flour. Sprinkle flour over the batter thus made, put the basin in a warm place, and let the sponge rise slowly to twice its size. Woi-k into it with a spoon or with the right hand a quarter of a pint of warm milk and two eggs, and add gradually three- quarters of a pound of butter beaten to a cream, half an ounce of salt dissolved in a little warm water, two ounces of powdered sugar, the eighth of a pint additional milk, and three more eggs. Lastly, add two ounces of candied peel cut small. The additions should be made very gradually, the eggs being put in one at a time, and the preparation being beaten well until it leaves the sides of the bowl easily. Butter the inside of a fluted mould rather thickly, and sprinkle a table-spoonful of blanched and chopped almondsSavarin Cake on the butter. Beat the paste up again, and half fiU the mould with it ; let it stand in a warm place till it has risen level with the top of the mould. Tie a broad band of buttered paper round the top of the mould, to keep the paste from running over the sides, and bake the cake in a moderate oven. AVhen done enough, turn it out carefully, run a skewer into several parts of it, and pour over and into it a thick syrup flavoured with cura(,'oa or any other suitable liqueur. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the surface, and send the cake to table wai-m. Time to bake, one hour or more. Probable cost, 3s., exclusive of the liqueur. Sufiicient or five or six persons. Save-all Pudding.— Put any scraps of bread there may bo into a bowl, and over a quarter of a pound of these i^our a pint of boil- ing milk. Let the bread soak till soft, then beat it well with a fork till no lumps remain. Add, whilst beating, two eggs, two table- spoonfuls of finely-shred suet, or a slice of sweet butter or di-ii^ping, two table-spoonfuls of picked currants, two table-spoonfuls of pow- dered sugar, and a quarter of a nutmeg grated, or any other suitable flavouring. Two applesSave-all Pudding, pared, cored, and quartered, may be added to the pudding or not. Pour the mixture into a buttered dish, and bake in a well-heated oven. "When the pudding is set and nicely browned on the surface it is done enough. Time to bake, about an hour. Probable cost, 8d. Sufiicient for five or six persons. Saveloy. — Under this name we have a kind of sausage common fii the shops of the metro- polis. The saveloy difters from the ordinary pork sausage only in its being made of young salted pork ; it is highly seasoned, and a little saltpetre is added to give the meat a red coloiu". Saveloys.— Take a piece of tender pork, I free from skin and gristle, and weighing about two pounds. Salt it with common salt and a little I saltpetre, ^\^len it has lain in the salt two or I three days, mince it finely, and season with a tea-spoonful of pepper and four sage-leaves I chopped small. Mix it well with the third of a pound of bread-crumbs. Put the mixture into the skins, tie the ends securely, and bake or I boil the saveloys gently until done enough. SAV ( 838 ) SAV Serve hot or cold. Time to dress, half an hour. Probable cost, Id. or '2d. each.