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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.
Cutcharee (another way). — Boil one pound of rice as if for curry. WTien it is done enough, mix with it three table-spoonfuls of split peas which have been soaked and lioiled till tendei- and pressed through a sieve. Put a piece of butter the size of a large egg into a saucepan, and, when hot, fry two large sliced onionsCutcharee (another way) in it. Mix these with the rice and peas, and add a good seasoning of salt, cayenne, pounded mace, and black pepper, with sufficient stock to moisten the whole, and stir the mixture over the fire till it is heate<l throughout. Serve it as hot as possible, with a little butter sauce. Time, throe-quarters of an hour. Probable cost, IGd. Sufficient for five or six persons. Cutlet Bat. — A cutlet bat is used to flatten cutlets so that they ean be evenly and smoothly CUT ( 179 ) CUT covered with egg and bread-crumbs or frying batter. ' The cutlets should be trimmed evenly, CUTLET BAT. and then struck sharply on both sides with the flat side of the bat, when they will be ready for the batter. Probable cost, 5s. 6d. each. Cutlets (a ritalienne). — Cut two pounds of the fillet of veal in slices about three-quarters of an inch thick. Shape them into round cutlets three inches in diameter, flour them well, and fry them in hot butter until done enough. When they are browned the pan should be held high above the fire, and covered so that the cutlets may become sufficiently cooked without being dry. Serve them on macaroni, which has been stewed until tender, and send brown gravy to table in a tureen. The gravy should be well flavoured with fresh tomatoes, when seasonable. At other times tomato sauce may be usedCutlets (a ritalienne). Time, a quarter of an hour to fry the cutlets. Probable cost, Is. 2d. per pound. Sufficient for four or five persons. Cutlets (a la Maintenon). — Cutlets were, it is said, first served in this way under the direction of Madame de Maintenon, to tempt the failing appetite of Louis XIV. Ac- cording to the original recipe they should be di-essed en papiUotc, but as this is a difficult operation, and the paper is almost sure to look untidy and greasy, it woidd be better for ordi- nary purposes to make a little writing-paper hot, and wrap the cutlet in it after it is broiled. Cut and trim some cutlets. Shape them neatly, and flatten them, then dip each one in beaten egg, and afterwards in bread-crumbs mixed with chopped parsley, savoury herbs, salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg. Melt some butter in a frying-pan, broil them quickly in it, turn them that they may be equally cooked through- out, and just before serving twist some hot writing paper round eachCutlets (a la Maintenon). Send stewed mush- rooms to tiible with them, or a puree of soiTel, spinach, or green peas, in the middle. Time, eight minutes to fry the cutlets. Allow one for each. Probable cost. Is.