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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.
piece of butter the size of a small egg into a siucepan, and fry in it, until lightly browned, two onions, sliced, and half a tea-spoonful of powdered sage. Add a cupful of good bro\s-n g:i-avy, a grain of cayenne, half a teti-spoonful of popper, and a pinch of salt, if the gravy has not been already sciisoned. Simmer gently for a quarter of an hour, then strain, return the gravy to the saucepan, and add a tea-spoonful of mixed mustard, and a wine-glassful of port or claret. Make the gravj' as hot as possible, with- out boiling, after the wino is added. Time, altogether, about half an hour. Probable cost, exclusive of the wine, 3d. Sufficient for half a pint of gravy. Gravy for Grills and Broils.— Rub a table-spoonful of dour into an ounce of good butter. ]\Iix with it half a pint of good strong stocJc, a table-spoonful of ketchuij, the juice and rind of a quarter of a lemon, a tea-spoon- ful of made mustard, a tea-spoonful of the essence of anchovies, half a tea-spoonful of pepper, three grains of cayenne, a tea-sj^oonful of chopped capers, and a shallot, finely minced. Put the.sc ingredients into a saucepan. Let them boil, then simmer gently for five or six minutes, sti-ain, and serve. Probable cost, 4d. Sufficient for five or six persons. Gravy for Haddock, Baked.— Brown a sliced onion in a little butter, and add gradually a pint of good stock, or a tea-spoon- ful of Liebig's extract of meat dissolved in warm water. Thicken with a table-spoonful of tiour, and let the mixtiu-e simmer with a bunch of parsley for twenty minutes. Skim off the fat, strain the gravy, and add pepper and salt to taste, a little browning, if neces- sary, and a tablo-gpoonf ul of mushroom ketchup. Serve in a tureen. Probable cost, 2d. Sufficient for a pint of gi-avy. Gravy for Hare. — Thicken half a pint of stock with a dessert-spoonful of flour, mixed smoothly with a small quantity of the liquid at first, and afterwards added to the rest. Let it boil for twenty minutes, then add a table- spoonful of soy, pepper and salt, if necessary, and half a tumbler of port or claretGravy for Hare. Send a little of the gravy in the dish with the hare, and the rest in a tureen. Probable cx)st, exclusive of the wine, 2d. Sufficient for nearly a pint of gravy. Gravy for Hare (another way). — When no stock is in the house, procure half a ^xiund of gravy beef, cut it into small pieces, and put it into a saucepixn with three-quarters of a pint of water, two spngs of parsley, one small sprig of marjoi-am, and the same of thjTne, a large onron, with one clove .stuck into it, half a dozen peppercorns, and a piece of bread toasted on both sides. Simmer gently for one hour, then strain, thicken the giuvy with a dessert-spoon- ful of flour, let it boil once more for half an hour, add a table -spoonful of soy, and half a tumblerful of ])ort or claret, and serve as before. Probable cost, 8d., exclusive of the wine. Sufficient for a pint of gravy. Gravy for Hashes.— Take the bones Gravy for Hashes