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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.
Season it with half a tea-spoonful of salt, half a tea-spoonful of pepper, the finely-grated rind of a quarter of a lemon, and two or three gi-ates of nutmeg. Mix it with the white of an egg, well whisked. Lay it upon pieces of toast cut into squares. Cover with the yolk of the egg, weU beaten, and strew bread-crumbs over. Melt one ounce of butteKidney Soupr in a dish, put in the toasts, and place them in a hot oven to bake. Serve as hot as possible. Time, a quarter of an hour to bake the toasts. Probable cost, 8d. Sufficient for three or four persons. Kidneys (a la Tartare).— Broil five or six kidneys. Put them on a hot dish, and serve the following sauce with them, which should be prepared before the kidneys are put on to broil: — Beat the yolk of an egg for two or three minutes. Add verj' gradually, in drops at first, six tea-spoonfuls of oil, and then one of tarragon \'inegar. Beat the mixture well between every addition, or the oil will float at the top. Repeat until the sauce is of the con- sistence of thick cream. Four table-spoonfuls of oil, and one of vinegar, will be about the quantity required. Add a pinch of salt, a small pinch of cayenne pepper, a table-spoonful of unmixed French mustard, five or six gherkins, three shallots, finely minced, a tea-spoonful each of chopped chervil, tarragon, and bumet, and half a tea-spoonful of Chili vinegar. Put a tea-spoonful of this sauce in the hollow of each kidney, and send the rest to table in a tureen. Time, six minutes to bi'oil the kidney; about three-quarters of an hour to prepare the sauce. Sufficient for foui" or five persons. Probable cost, 3d. each. Kidneys, Minced. — Chop an ox kidney into pieces the size of a pea, season them rather highly with salt and cayenne, and fry them in two ounces of hot butter for a quarter of an hour, mo^angthem about frequently in the pan, that they may be equally cooked. Moisten the mince with one table-spoonful of good brown gi-a\-y, and three table-spoonfuls of champagne, and serve in a hot dish. If preferred, a larger proportion of gi'a'symaybe used, and mushroom ketchup may be substituted for the wine. Pro- bable cost, exclusive of the wine. Is. 4d. Suffi- cient for three or four persons. Kitchen Mixed Spice, for Wliite Sauce. — -Take the grated rind of haK a lemon, half a nutmeg, grated, an ounce of white pepper, and a tea-spoonful of powdered mace. Mix thoroughly. If not quite fine, pound all together in a mortar, and keep in a closely- stoppered bottle until wanted for use. Probable cost, 4d. for this quantity. When using kit- chen mixed spice, put half a tea-spoonfiil into a pint of sauce, and taste if more is requii-ed. Kitchen Utensils (we Utensils, &c.). Kitchener's Salad Mixture. — Boil a couple of eggs for twelve minutes, and put them in a basin of cold water for a few minutes ; the yolks must be quite cold and hard, or they will not incorporate with the in- gredients. Pub them through a sieve with a wooden spoon, and mix them with a table- spoonfiil of water, or fine double cream, then add two table-spoonfuis of oil, or melted butter ; KIT ( 350 ) KRI Klosse, Seasoned