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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.
Cranberry Jelly. — Make half a pint of xevy strong isinglass jellj', using nearly an ounce of isinglass to the half pint of jelly. ^NTien it is clear, add a pint of cranberry- juice which has been drawn out over the tire and pressed from the fruit. Sweeten the liquid %\ith half a pound of best loaf sugar. Add a tea-spoonful of lemon-j.uice and the whites and shells of three eggsCranberry Jelly. Simmer the preparation gently without stirring it for a few minutes, let it stand to settle, strain it until clear, and pour it into a mould. Probable cost, 3s. 6d. .Sufficient for a quart mould. Cranberry Tart. — Wash the cranberries in several waters. Allow a quarter of a pound of .sugar and two cloves to every pint of cran- 1 terries, and partially cook them before putting them into the tart. Three-parts fill a pie-dish with the fruit, cover it with a good crust, and bake in a moderate oven. A little icing [see Icing) will improve the appearance of the tart. Time, three-quarters of an hour. Sufficient, a ]>int of cranberriesCranberry Tart v,i[l make a tart for three jicrsons. . Cranberry and Grouna Rice Jelly. — Draw out a pint of cranberry- juice by put- ting the fruit and two or three cloves into a elosely-covered jar, placing the jar in a sauce- ])an of cold water on a moderate fire, and -^immering gently for about half an hour. Mix 1 lie juice with three table-spoonfuls of groimd I ice and two of sugar, boil it gently until it tliicki'Tis, ami pom- it into a mould which has i Mil iiiLiiirr-iil in cold water. When cold, turn i* Dut, and lut it -with a little cream. A quarter . t an hour to boil with the rice. Sufficient for l':>ur persons. Crappet Heads.— Thoroughly wash the beads of haddocks. Skin them and take out the <'ves. Fill the heads with a forcemeat made by mincing the boiled and skinned roe with double its weight in bread-crumbs, a little finely- chopped parsley, salt, pepper, and nutmeg to taste. Bind this forcemeat together with yolk of egg. Fasten the heads securely with strong thread, place them standing at the bottom of a buttered stewpan, pour fish-soupCrappet Heads over them, and boil them gently. Before serving them remove the thread. Time to boil, twenty minutes. Sufficient, one for each person. Crayfish in Jelly.— Crayfish are some- thing like lobsters, but smaller, and the flesh more delicate ; indeed, they are more useful and delicious than any other shell-fish, and if every j housekeeper wove to inquire for them two or ' three tunes at the fishmonger's they would soon become plentiful. There are several kinds ; those are considered the best which are reddish under the claws. To serve them in jelly, take a pint of fish for rather less than a pint of savourj' jellCrayfish in Jellyy {see Aspic Jelly). Put a little jelly at the bottom of a mould ; when it is cold, lay the crayfish upon it, and repeat this luitil the materials are finished, but care must be taken to let the jelly stiffen each time or all will sink to the bottom, and also to put the fish in with the back downwards, or they will be wrong side up when turned out. Garnish with parsley. This is a pretty di,sh. Time, thirty-six houi-s or more. Probable cost, crayfish, 2s. -per quart. Sufficient for a quart mould.