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Banquets of the nations

1911

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Presented as published in 1911. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Make a dough with flour, salt, lemon juice, and water. Roll under the hand until soft and smooth, then roll out lengthwise with a rolling pin. Wash and dry the butter and lay it in the centre ; fold over the dough and roll out once ; lay aside for fifteen minutes, then roll twice, folding in three each time, and half turning before rolling out again. Lay aside again, and then give it a fourth and fifth roll ; lay it aside, and then sixth and seventh. Put in a wet cloth, and use next day for patties or vol-au-vents. If for sweet pastry add a dessertspoonful of sugar when mixing the dough. Barnbreak. Get two pounds of dough from a baker (or you can make the dough for yourself, being sure to have it well risen). Beat six ounces of butter with six ounces of sugar into a cream, and work it well into the dough ; add six eggs separately, seeing that the one is well mixed 395 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS before adding the other. Add two ounces of caraway seedsBarnbreak, and as much dried flour as will make the whole into a nice consistency. Line a tin with greased paper, put in the mixture, and bake in a steady oven for about half an hour, more or less, as required. When cold cut in neat pieces, and serve with rice cream, compote of fruit, etc. You can substitute double the weight of sultanas and cut peel for the caraway and put into a long narrow form, and then your cake will be a Selkirk bannock. Devilled Bones. Divide the bones and rub well in the following in- gredients, and broil over a clear fire. Serve very hot with biscuits or chip potatoes. Mix equal parts of common salt and curry-powder with double the quantity of mushroom or truffle powder, a good dash of cayenne pepper, the grate of half a lemon, half a spoonful of Worcester sauce, a tablespoonful of catsup, a glass of Madeira, and the juice of two sweet Seville orangesDevilled Bones. 396 LII.— ITALY Menu Zuppa Solferino (Solferino Soup) Minestrone (Vegetable Soup) Trig-lie Rosse (Red Mullets) Pioppette al Palato di Bue (Farced Ox-Palates) Carcioffi Gerusalamme (Jerusalem Artichokes) Fritturs, Mista (Fried Fish, Veal, and Vegetables) Dindo arrosto e Mostarda di Cremona (Roast Turkey and Cremona Compote) Filetto di Anitraccio (Fillets of Wild Duck) Puree di Castagne a la Giardiniera (Puree of Chestnuts a la Jardiniere) Gnocchi (Sweet Quenelles) Insalata (Salad) Zabajone (Wine Custard) Gelatto Napoletano (Neapolitan Ice) Frutta (Fruit) Timbale di Mele (Apple Timbale) 397 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS Zuppa Solferino. (Solferino Soup). Prepare four quarts of clear broth, such as described for a " croute-au-pot," and keep it in ebullition at the side of the fire ; ten minutes afterwards add four or five dozen small balls of potato cut with the aid of a round vegetable-spoon, and the same of carrot cut with a channelled vegetable-spoon of an oval shape. These vegetables must be previously blanched. Add as well two handfuls of "flageolets haricots" (likewise blanched), two handfuls of French beans cut in lozenges, and the same of fresh green peas. As soon as these vegetables are done, mix into the soup a pinch of sugar, seven or eight tablespoonfuls of tomato-puree, of a nice red colour and slightly thickened.