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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.
Coratcll. — Put into a pint of vinegar two shallots, and a clove of garlic sliced, two ounces of chillies, cut, a wine-glassful of soy, and the same of walnut ketchup ; infuse three weeks in a bottle closely corked, and filter for use. The liquid will be improved by keeping. Time, three weeks to infuse. Sufficient, a tea- spoonful or more will flavour half a pint of sauce. Probable cost, 8d. per pint. Corncrakes, To Roast.— Truss these l)irds in the same way as grouse. Dz-edge a little flour over, and fasten a slice of fat bacon on the breasts. Put them down to a clear fire, baste them well, and roast them twenty-five or thirty minutes. Five minutes before they are taken down, remove the bacon, so that tho breast may brown. Send them to table with a little brown gi-avy in the dish, and bread sauce in a tureen. Probable cost, uncertain. Four for a dish. COR ( 154) COR Corn-flour (for Childi-en).^To two tea- spoonfuls of corn-tiour, mixed with two taLle- sjDoonfuls of cold water, add half a lAnt of boiling; boil for eight minutes, and sweeten very slightly. It should he, when wai-m, about the thickness of cream. For children of a year old and upwards, it may be prepared wholly with milk, and thicker. For childi-en's diet it is important that good sweet milk should be used. Corn-flour Blancmange.— Mix very smoothly four ounces of coru-tlour with a little cold niilk, pour over it a quax-t of boiling milk, return it to the saucepan, and stir it constantly. Let it remain on the tire four minutes after it comes to a boil. Sweeten and flavour itCorn-flour Blancmange. Pour it into a mould, and when cold tm-n it out. Serve with it a compute of any kind of fruit. Time, twenty minutes. Probable cost, 6d., exclusive of the fruit. Corn-flour Cream. — To two ounces of corn-flour add one pint of milk, two ounces of pounded sugar, and a few di'ops of vanilla. Stir the whole over the fire for ten minutes, and pour it into custard-cups; strew ratafias over the surface, and serve hot. Corn-flour Custard Pudding.— Mix three ounces of corn-flour with one quart of sweet milk, one or two eggs well beaten, a little butter, and four table-spoonfuls of sugarCorn-flour Custard Pudding. Flavour to taste, and boil for eight minutes. Pour it into a pie-dish, and brown it before the fire. This is an exquisite dish. Corn-flour Fruit Pie. — Bake or stew any kind vi fruit with sugar. Put it into a pie-dish, and pour over it corn-flour boiled with milk, in the proportion of four ounces of flour to one quart of milk. Brown before the fire. This makes a covering lighter and more delicious than the ordinary pie-crust. Corn-flour Fruit Pudding.— Prepare a batter as for corn-flour blancmange. Pour half of it into a well-buttered pie-dish ; strew about two pounds of any kind of fruit upon it — such as gooseberries, currants, plums, cherries, &c. — and then pour the remainder of the batter over the fruit. Bake the pudding an hour and a quarter. Peeled and cored apples or pears may be used for the same purpose. Corn-flour Jelly. — Mix in a tumbler a tea-spoonful of corn-flour with a little cold water. Pour upon it sufficient boiling water to fonn a clear jelly, stirring it well during the time it is being poured on ; then add a glass of sherry. Corn-flour Omelet. — Beat up two eggs,