Cassell's dictionary of cookery

London Syllabub. — Put two ounces of loaf sugar with three-quarters of a pint of sherry or madeira into a bowl, and grate half a small nutmeg into it. If practicable, milk into it from the cow a quart of milk ; if not, procure the milk as new as possible, make it lukewarm, and pour it from a good height through a strainer upon the wine. Serve the syllabub frothed. Time, two or three minutes to warm the milk. Probable cost, exclusive of the wine, 8d. Sufficient for six or seven persons. Lord Mayor's Trifle. — Slice four penny spongecakes and lay them at the bottom of a deep trifle-dish. Put with them a dozen ratafias, eight macaroons, and two wine-glassfuls of brandy. When the liquor is soaked up, spread a layer of strawberry or raspberry jam over the spongecakes, and cover them with a pint of rich cold custard. Pile whipped cream high over the top, and ornament with pink comfits. The cream should be whipped some hours before it is needed, and laid upon a reversed sieve to drain. Time, about an hour to whip the cream. Probable cost, exclusive of the brandy, 3s. 6d. Sufficient for eight or ten persons. Lorne Soup. — Put three pints of good stock into a stewpan with a carrot, a turnip, a smaU sprig of lemon-thyme, a bunch of parsley, and a httle pepper and salt. Simmer gently for half an hour. Pick all the white meat from the remains of a cold roast chicken, mince it finely, and pound it in a mortar with the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, the crumb of half a French roll which has been soaked in milk and then pressed dry, and two ounces of blanched and pounded almonds. Strain the soup, and return it again to the saucepan. Stir the pounded ingredients thoroughly into it, simmer gently for a few minutes, and serve. Probable cost, 1s. per quart, exclusive of the roast chicken. Sufficient for six or eight persons. Love Apple {sec Tomato). Love Cakes. — Beat up four eggs with a small tea-cupful of good yeast and half a pint of warm milk. Make a hollow in the centre of a pound and a half of flour, throw in the mixture, and stir aU together into a dough ; beat this dough, and put to it by degrees a K LOZ (092) MAC pound of 'butter, and when thoroughly kneaded let it stand an horn- to rise, then mix •with it half a pound of sifted sugar, and bake in small cakepans, previously buttered. Cut candied orange or lemon-peel, and ornament the top. Time, according to size. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. Lozenges, Black Currant {see Black Currant LozengLs). Lozenges, Lemon (we Lemon Lozenges). Lozenges, Plum, for Dessert (see Plum Lozenges).