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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.
Imperials.— Beat six ounces of butterImperial Gingerbread to a crcjim, and mi.x it well into a pound of dried flour, and eight ounces of sifted sugar. Cut two ounces of candied orange-peel into bits, and grate the rind of a small lemon. Add these with a half a pound of cuiTants by degrees, sprinkling them amongst the flour. -Moisten with four well-beaten egi^s, and bake to a pale brown in a gentle oven on a floured tin plate, in the form of little heaps, which is best done by placing the paste with two forks as roughly as possible, and at uniform distances upon the plate. Time about twenty minutes. Probable cost. Is. 6d. Indian Bread and Meat, or Koobbe. ■ — This is a dish frequently met ^vith in India and Australia, and particularly suitable foi camping or picnics, as it does not require manj pots and pans. An ordinary bread dough is rollod out to any thickness (the thicker the better), a juece of meai, a fine goose, duck, or fowl is enveloped in it, and boiled or lj;iked as may be most convenient. Poultry with appropriate sauces may be cooked thus with little trouble, except the caution which must necessarily be observed, to keei) the stuffing well secured before the bii-ds are put into the dough. Indian Burdwan.— A very savoury and highly-approved Indian dish. The joints of a parboiled fowl are generally used for this dish, but if necessary the remains of chicken or fowls that have been served before, and even rabbit, veal, or lamb may be warmed up in the sauce, for which the following is the recipe : — Peel and chop very finely four- shallots and an onion. Put them into a ste-w-pan ^^■itll a small cup of good stock, a table-sjioonf ul of the essence of anchovies, a little cayenne, and an ounce of butter rolled in flour. Stir over the tire until the sauce is ready to boil, then put it aside to sim- mer, and dress the onions, adding a small cupful of mixed Indian pickles, cut into less than half- inch pieces, a table-spoonful of chili vinegar, and one or two glasses of wine, iMadeira or sherry. Simmer the sauce to make the pickles tender, and pour in the wine when the fowl is ready to be stewed. Skin and lay the fowl in neat pieces into the stewpan ■sWth the sauce, and if the fowl has been only parboiled, stew it gently for fifteen or twenty minutes, but for a thoroughly cooked fowl serve as soon as it is ready to boil, with the juice of a fresh lime. Rice'is sometimes seiwed ^Wth Burdwan as with curry. Indian Burdwan (another v.-;iy). See Burdwan, Indian. Indian Chutney. — Boil together a pint of good vinegar with half a pound of sour, unripe apples, peeled, cored; and qviartered. "When pulped and cool, add, first pounding them separately in a mortar and afterwards together, the following ingredients : — Four ounces of stoned raisins, eight ounces of brown sugar, two ounces of garlic, and two oimces of mus- tard-seed ; mix these well with two ounces of powdered ginger, the same of salt, and one ounce of cayenneIndian Chutney. Put the mixture into an earthenware jar, and set the jar in a warm corner by the fire until next morning, when the chutney may be put into small jars and tied down. It will keep good a year or two. Time to stew apples, until soft. Probable cost. Is. 6d.