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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.
Spanish Salad.— Put into the centre of a dish some cold dressed French beans, and at the moment of serving stir them up lightly with a little mayonnaise sauce or salad cream of any kind. Garnish the beans with three or four ripe tomatoesSpanish Salad cut in slices and ar- ranged in a circle, one slice overlapping another. If preferred, and more convenient, cold dressed Windsor beans, haricot beans, or green peas, or a mixture of all or any of these, may be used instead of French beans. Spanish Sauce (called also Espagnol Sauce and Brown Sauce). — If a large quantity of sauce is required, butter a copper siewpan SPA ( 911 ) SPA that is capable of holding three or four gallons of sauce, or, if preferred, lay flattened pieces of beef suet at the bottom of the stewpan. Place thick slices of onion upon the suet, or thin sHces of lean ham on the butter, and on these put thick slices of beef or veal and any bones and trimmings of meat or poultry that may be at hand. A little lean ham, a knuckle-bone of ham, some bacon-rind scalded and scraped, or the carcase of a cold roast rabbit or fowl, will very much improve the flavour of the sauce. Pour in as much stock made from bones, or waterSpanish Sauce (Espagnol Sauce), as will barely cover the surface of the meat. Cover the saucepan, set it on a brisk fire, and let it boil quickly till it turns to glaze or thin gum. As soon as this point is reached, slacken the heat of the fire, and let the sauce remain gently simmering until it becomes thick and sticky, and, without being at all burnt, has acquired a bright brown colour. Fill up the stewpan with cold stock or water (allowing a quart of water for a pound and a half of meat and bones). Let it boil, skim carefully, and add two or three carrots, a bundle of outer sticks of celery, a small piece of mace, a handful of parsley, a sprig of thyme, a bay-leaf, an onion stuck with three or four cloves, a dozen peppercorns, and a little salt. Simmer all gently together for three hours. Keep skimming the sauce as required, and strain it ofi: for use. Let it get cold, then remove every particle of fat from it. When wanted, boil the quantity needed, thicken with roux or brown thickening, and let it boil tm it is of the consistency of cream, carefully re- moving the fat as it is thrown up. Pass it through a fine sieve, and it will be ready for use. A glassful of sherry or madeira may be added if liked. When any quantity of brown sauce is wanted, it should be made the day before it is to be used. In cool weather it will keep for four or five days. It should be looked at every day, and boiled up if necessary. Time, foiir to five hours. Probable cost, 2s. per pint. Spanish Sauce, Highly Flavoured. Brown Sauce