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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.
way). — Pour a pint of boiling milk over a tea-cupful and a half of Indian meal, and beat it well for a quarter of an hour. Unless tliis is done the cakes will not be light. Add a pinch of salt, a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda, a table-spoonful of flour, two table-spoon- fuls of sour milk, a beaten ogg, and a table- spoonful of oiled butter. This will make a batter of the consistence of that used for pan- cakes. Johnny cakes are best baked in a spidei- (a deep iron pan) on the stove. When this Ls not convenient, they may be spread in buttered pans, the eighth of an inch in thickness, and baked in a quick oven. When well browned, split the cakes, put butter between them, and serve as hot as possible. Time, bake till well- browned — about twentj^ minutes. Sufficient for four or five persons. Josephine Cake. — Beat four ounces of fresh butter to a cream, mix with it three ounces of pounded and sifted sugar, which, before being powdered, has been well rubbed upon the rind of half a fresh lemonJohn Dory, Baked. Add three well-beaten eggs, half a pound of biscuit flour, a quarter of a pound of picked currants, and two table-spoonfuls of sherry or madeira- Beat all well together for some minutes, put the mixtujo into a well-buttered mould, and bake in a good oven. Time, forty minutes to bake. Probable cost, exclusive of the wine, lOd. Sufficient for three or four pei'sons, or a small jnould. Jubilee Pudding. — ^Take half a poimd of spongecake, rather stale than otherwise, and cut it into thin slices. Butter one side, and spread the other either with orange marmalade or apricot jam, then place the slices in layers in a j)lain round mould, buttered side down- wards. Pour three-quarters of a pint of good custardJubilee Pudding over each layer, and repeat until the mould is full. Let the pudding soak for an hour, then bake in a quick oven, and turn out before serving. Wine or brandy sauce may be sent to table with it. Time, an hour and a quarter to bake. Probable cost. Is. 6d. Suffi- cient for four or five persons. Judy's Pudding. — Shred a quarter of a pound of beef suet very finely. Mix with it a quarter of a pound of finely-grated bread-criuubs, a table-spoonful of flom-, two table-spoonfuls of moist sugar, two well-beaten eggs, and a table- spoonful of brandy or whiskJudy's Puddingy. When these ingredients are thoroughly blended, pour the mixture into a well buttered mould, lay a buttered paper over it, tie it in a floured cloth, and boil for half an hour. Turn the pudding out of the mould before serving, and pour brandied sauce round it. Probable cost, exclu- sive of the brandy, 6d. Sufficient for three or four persons. Jugged Gravy. — Gut a poimd and a half of the shin of beef and three ounces of lean ham into small pieces. Roll them lightly in JUL (345) KAL Jugged Gravy