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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.
Australian Mutton and Stewed •Carrots. — Scrape half a dozen carrots, boU them imtil tender, draiu and choj) them into small pieces. Melt a piece of butter the size of an egg iu a saucepan, stir smoothly into it a table-spoonful of fioiu- ; add a cupful of milk, a table-spoonful of boiled and chopped parsley, the carrots, a little grated nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Let all simmer together for a few minutes. Put ra one pound of mutton, let it get hot, then servo in a hot dish. Time, half an houi". Probable cost, lOd. Sufficient for thi-ee persons. Australian Potted Meat. — Mince very finely the lean part of the meat, remove the skinny parts, and flavour rather highly with pepper, salt, and a little powdered allspice. Pound it in a mortar, adding- from time to time a little oiled butter, until It is quite smooth. Press it iuto pots, and pom- a little clarified butter over the top of each pot. Time to pre- pare, twenty minutes. Allow one pound for five persons. Probable cost, 9d. Austrian Pudding.— Mix one poimd of flour with, a quarter of a pound of finely-shred suet. Add a pinch of salt, a heaped tea- spoonful of baking-powder, a table -spoonful of chopped lemon-rind, and a table-spoonful of moist sugar. Mix a large breakfast-cupfid of lukcwai-m milk with a cupful of good treacle ; stir it into the floui-, poui- all iato a well-oiled mould, and tie it in a floured cloth. Serve with sweet sauce. Time to boil, three hours. Sufficient for six persons. Probable cost, 8d. Austrian Puffs.- Pound tliree ounces of almonds in a mortar, with a little rose-water. When reduced to a paste, add thi-ee table- spoonfuls of finely-sifted sugar, thi-ee ounces of butter melted, .but not hot, thi-ee table- spoonfuls of floui-, and a cupful of new milk or creamAustrian Puffs. Beat all thoroughly together, well oil the patty- pans, and half fill them. Bake in a moderate oven. Time to bake, twenty minutes. Pro- bable cost, lOd. Sufficient for a dozen puffs. B Baba with Raisins. — Mix half an ounce of German yeast and four ounces of sifted flour with warm water to a soft dough, and piit it near the fire to rise. Rub twelve ounces of butter into twelve ounces of flour, work it fnto a smooth paste with eight well-beaten eggs, one ounce of pounded sugar, and a little salt. When the i^aste is ready and the sponge s\iffi- ciently risen, blend them well together aiMi mix in two ounces of finely -minced candied citron- peel, two ounces of well-dried cuiTants, and three ounces of stoned raisinsBaba with Raisins. Butter a mould — fill it about half full, and allow it to rise until it is nearly at the top, when it may be baked at once in a moderate oven. Time to bake, one hour and a half. Probable cost, 2s. 4d. Sufficient for a three-pint mould. Bachelor's Beef {see Beef, Bachelor's). Bachelor's Broiler. — This pan, which was intended by the inventor, Captain Warren, for the use of bachelors v^-ho are occasionally compelled to cook their o-wn meat, BAG (40) BAG