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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.
Endcliffe Buns.— Take eighteen ounces of floui-, six ounces of sugar, four ounces of butter, half an ounce of baking-powder, one egg, six ounces of currants or sultana raisins, and half a pint of new milkEndcliffe Buns. Kub the powder into the flom-, then rub in the butter, adding the sugar, currants, ,or raisins, the egg — well beaten— and the milk. Mix all together, and bake in tins in a rather hot oven, first sifting over the buns a little powdered sugar. Endive.— This plant has long been cul- tivated as a garden vegetable. The cut-leaved or "curled" endive is preferred for the table in this country, but the dwarf white Bata^ian endive is much more delicate and agreeable to the palate. The seed is usually sown in Britain from the middle of May to the end of June, and by a little^care plants 'may bo kept fit for use almost all the winter. FRENCH ENDIVE. ENGLISH ENDIVE. Endive (French method). — Take three heads of fine white endive, and after soaking in salt and water three hours, drain, and throw the leaves one by one into a stewpan, reserving one head, which boil whole ; add a pint of white wine, and stew, covered up closely, until tender. Put in a quarter of a pound of butter rolled in flour ; shake the pan till the butter has melted, ^ut do not let it boil. Stew a head of celery, cut into pieces thi-ee inches long, in a pint of water, with three or four- blades of mace, and some whole pepper tied in a bag, and, when tender, remove the green tops from a hundred of young asparagus ; chop up the rest (as much of it as will boil) , and add it to the celery in the sauce- pan, and let all simmer till the asparagus is done. Then lay the head of endive in the middle of a dish, take out the celery and grass with a slice, and place it round, strewing the leaves of endive over. Thiow the liquor of celery, with the sauce, into the stewpan, season with salt and nutmeg ; add the yolks of two eggs well beaten and some cream, keeping it stiiTed one way till it thickens, when pom* it over the endive, and send it hot to table. Time to boil endive, twelve to fifteen minutes ; celery, twenty minutes; and asparagus, fifteen minutes. Suffi- cient for six or seven persons. Endive, Dressed. — There are many varieties of endive : the green curled sort is principally used for salads. Those who like the bitterness of this -s'egetable will find it, when cooked according to the recipes here given, a wholesome and agreeable change during the summer. The green leaves may be boiled like those of any other vegetable, only changing the water twice to take off the bitterness. After boiling till tender, throw the endive into cold water for ten minutes; then squeeze out the water, and when di-y chop and stew with butter, gravy, or, like spinach, beat it smooth, and servo round cutlets, or alone, with bread sippets as a garnish. Time to boil, half an hour. Probable cost. Id. to 2d. per head. Endive, Dressed,for Second Coiirse. Endive, Dressed