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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.
Twelfth. Cake, Lady Caroline Lamb's. — Quarter of a peck of pure flour care- fully dried, three pounds of cui-rants, a quarter of a pound of raisins, half a poimd of refined sugar, quarter of a pound of sweet and half an ounce of bitter almonds blanched and sliced, two ounces of orange and two ounces of candied lemon-peel, and spices according to taste, ilix aU thoroughly; then take one pint of cream, and put to it three-quarters of a povmd of fresh butter washed first in pure and afterwards in rose-water ; place in a gentle heat. Beat up the white and yolks, separately, of six eggs, and the yolks only of six more. Add to them a little rose-water, two table- spoonfuls of carda- mom brandy, half a glassful of old Ehenish, hock, or champagne, quarter of a pint of fresh yeast, and a little fine saltTwelfth Cake, Lady Caroline Lamb's. Mix the liquids together, strain them, add the dry materials warm, and mix the whole into a light smooth batter. Place it before a fire for twenty minutes to rise, butter your hoop, and use what flour is necessary to make the cake sufliciently stiff. Set it in the oven with some sheets of brown paper well floured to prevent its burn- ing. In about a couple of hours it wiU be done. Ice it in the usual manner, and stick any ornaments you choose upon the icing before it is drJ^ u Udder, Beef.— Beef udder may be gently simmered in broth or water, then sliced, and served with onion or tomato sauce. If liked, it may be put in salt for a couple of days before being boiled. Salted udder should be eaten cold, and ^■inegar and oil should be sent to table ■ndth it. UDD ( 1024 ) USQ TTdder, Calf's, for Forcemeat.— Put the udder into a saucepan vnth as much broth or water as will cover it. Let it boil gently till it is thoroughly done. When cold trim away the upper parts, and pound it in a mortar till it can be passed through a sieve. The pulp will then be ready for putting into French forcemeat. Butter may always be substituted for udder in making forcemeat. Udder, Fresh Neat's Tongue and.— These may be roasted together. WTien ready for serving, put half a pint of gravy into a saucepan, with the juice of a Se\ille orange, a glassful of claret, two lumps of sugar, and a piece of butter ; toss these ingredients over the fire, and serve with the tongue and udder. Garnish with slices of lemon. The udder should be stuck with cloves, and both it and the tongue should be continually basted. Unfermented Bread. — Fermented bread is sometimes considered unwholesome. Those who are of this opinion may make their bread as follows: — Mix one ounce of bicarbonate of soda with eight pounds of flour. Stir one ounce of hydrochloric acid with four pints of warm waterUnfermented Bread. Stir the liquor into the floui- briskly, and with a wooden spoon, till the in- gredients are thoroughly blended ; divide the dough into loaves, and bake these immediately in a brisk oven. It will need to bake as long as bread usually does. TJnground Corn Soup (a German re- cipe).— Take a breakfast-cupful of wheat, and put it into a stewpan with two ounces of butter. Stir tiU the butter is melted. Add water, and let aU simmer till the com is quite soft. Season with salt and pepper, adding parsley, cher\'il, or any other herb, finely minced. Place yolks of eggs in the tureen, grate in a little nutmeg, and pour in the boiling soup.