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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.
breakfast-cupful of stale bread finely grated, and poiu' over it a pint of milk. Let it soak for haK an hour, then beat it well with a fork. Next add a piece of butter the size of a walmit, a heaped table-spoonful of sifted sugar, J;he grated rind of a lemon, and the yolks of two well-beaten eggs. Bake in a good oven, and when sufficiently cooked, spread a little apple- jam over it, and pile over that some acid iceAunt Elizabeth's Pudding. lieturn it to the oven for a few minutes. Time to bake, half an hour. Probable cost, 8d. Sufficient for fom- or five persons. Aunt Mary's Pudding.— Well butter a plain mould, and stick alternate layers of raisins and sliced almonds round it. Pour a breakfast-cupful of warm fresh milk over a tea-cupful of finely-grated bread-crumbs. Let them soak for a little while, then add a small piece of butter, a dessert-spoonful of sugar, a little thinly-grated lemon-rind, and two eggsAunt Mary's Pudding. Beat all well together, pour the mixture into the mould, cover it closely, and allow it to steam for three hours. Probable cost, 6d. Sufficient for four or five persons. Aunt Susie's Pudding.— Boat a quarter of a poimd of butter to a cream. Stir gradually into it two talilc-spoonfids of ground rice, and the same of fine flour, sugar to taste, the thin rind of half a lemon chopped small, 'two ounces of candied orange or citron-peel, a breakfast- cupfiu of new milk, and two well-beaten eggsAunt Susie's Pudding. Flavoxu- with a few drops of essence of almonds, pour the mixture into a well-oUed mould, tie in a cloth, and boU it. Tima out, and serve with sweet sauce. A little brandy wiU be an improvement. Time to boil, two hours. Probable cost, Is. Sufficient for four or five persons. Aurelian Cake.— Mix half a pound of ground rice and half a pound of loaf sugar well together. Add to them the well- whisked yolks of twelve and the whites of seven eggs, with a little brandyAurelian Cake and a few di-ops of essence of almonds. Stii- the whole well together for quite twenty minutes. Pour the mixture into a well-oUed mcJiild, and bake in a quick oven. Time to bake, half an hour. Probable cost, Is. 8d. Sufficient for a medium-sized mould. Aurora Sauce.— Pound the spawn of a freshly-boiled lobster in a mortar, -vrith a piece of butter the size of an egg, until it is quite smooth, and season liberally with cayenne and salt. Put into a saucepan a breakfast-cu^jf ul of good white sauce, and add a table-spoonful of lemon- j idee. Press the spawn through a fine sieve into the sauce; place it on the fire, and let it sinuner gently, taking care to lift it off tlie fire before it boils. Sufficient for a pair of soles. Probable cost, lOd. Time to simmer, two minutes. If the spawn is not at hand, the yolks of tliree eggAurora Sauces may be boiled quite hard, pressed through a colander, and substituted for it. RING DISH FOR AUSTRALIAN MEAT. Australian Meat.— The persistently high price of butchei-'smeat having greatly increased the demand for, and turned the attention of the public to the beef, mutton, and other meats imported from Australia and South America, wo propose to give a few recipes for Preserved Meat Cookeiy. As the appearance of this meat is one of the chief objections to it, it should, when used cold, be served in the New Patent King Dish, the use of which is suffi- ciently explained in the above illustration, and in which the meat can be handled most con- venicntl}-.