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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.
Vegetable Marrow Soup (another way). — Take two pounds of vegetable marrow peeled and cut into dice about an inch square ; put it into a pan with three ounces of salt butter or fat, two tea-spoonfuls of sugar, the same of salt, a little pepper, and half a pint of water. Stew gently until it is quite soft. When in a jiulp stir in well two table-spoonfuls of flour ; then add three pints of new milk, or two pints of milk and one of cream, or three pints of stockVegetable Marrow Soup (third method) — but do not mix the stock and milk. Boil for ten minvites, and serve Avith fried toast cut into small squares. Vegetable Marrow, Spring Soup of. — Pare the marrows, remove the seeds, and cut them into small pieces; weigh, and put them into a saucepan with a piece of butter about the size of an egg, and stew gently imtil the marrow is reduced to a pulp. Add boiling stock, a little at a time, in the proportion of a pint of stock to a pound of marrow, weighed before cooking. Add salt, a small lump of sugar, and cayenne, and serve with toasted sijipets. Time, about half an hour to simmer the marrows. Probable cost, 4d. per pint. Vegetable Marrow, Stuffed. — Peel thinly two moderate-sized marrowsVegetable Marrow, Spring Soup ; then cut a tliick piece off one end of each, and scoop out the seeds. Press closely into the hollows some good pork sausage meat, or if prefen-ed some nicely-seasoned minced beef or nmtton. Tie the piece wliich was cut off into its original position with twine. If there should be any difficulty about scooping out the seeds, the marrows may be divided into halves length- ways, and filled with sausage meat, the pieces may then be pressed closely together, and tied in three or four places with twine. Having thus prepared the marrows, lay them in a saucepan, put a slice of Initter upon each, and sprinkle over them a little pepper, salt, cayenne, and grated nutmeg. Pour upon them half a pint of stock, and add a table-spoonful of \-inegar. Cover the saucepan closely, and simmer the marrows as gently as possible for four hours. Baste frequently with the sauce. Lift them carefully upon a dish, skim the fat from the sauce, strain it over them, and serve. This dish may be rendered more piquant by rubbing a freshly-cut clove of garlic qmckly across the saucepan before the marrows are put into it, and adding the juice of three or four ripe tomatoes pressed through nmslin to the sauce. Time to stew the mar- rows, four hours. Probable cost, 2d. to 6d. each. VEG ( IWTO ) VEG Vegetable Marrows, Boiled.— Peel the marrows, free them from seed, cut them into six or eight pieces, and put them into boiling water ; let them boil gently till tender. Lift them up carefully with a slice, put them on toast, pour melted butter or white sauce over them, and serve. No. 2. Put the marrow whole and with- out skinning it into boiling water. Let it boil until tender. Take it up, halve, pare, and seed it, lay the halves on toast, with the hollow part uppermost, and fill them with rich melted butter. No. 3. Pare and seed the marrows, divide them into quarters, and the quarters into halves. Trim them neatly. Rub the inside of a saucepan with butter. Lay the pieces of marrow in it, and sprinkle over them a little pepper, salt, grated nutmeg, and pounded sugar. Pour upon them half a pint of veal stock, and boil gently till tender.Vegetable Marrows, Boiled