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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.
Beat lightly three yolks of eggs and the white of one, add a dessertspoonful of rice flour, and the same quantity of orange flour water, and mix all well together. Now add half a pint of warm milk and a teacupful of good cream, mix well and pour into the mould. Steam in a bain marie till it sets, which will be in a little over an hour. Turn out and pour some caramel sauce over. Caramel Sauce. Put eight ounces of sugar to two tablespoonfuls of waterCaramel Cream in a pan and fry till a light golden yellow, not brown. Salada Sala. (Salad.) Clean thoroughly a cos lettuce, tear the leaves rather larger than in a French salad, and put in a salad bowl. Mix some finely chopped chervil, tarragon, and about half the quantity of burnet, and some chives. Make a dressing of one tablespoonful each of water and white wine vinegar, some pepper and salt. Mix the dressing with the lettuce, then strew on the top the finely minced herbs and chives. Must serve at once with cheese. 508 LXVIII.— ROUMANIA Menu Supa de Zarzavat (Soup Carmine) Calcan Prajit (Baked Turbot) Gisca Fripta (Baked Goose) Laptuci fierte la tingire Castraveti (Stewed Lettuces and Pickled Cucumbers) Momile cu Orez (Stewed Sweetbreads with Rice) Muschi de rgpure (Fillets of Hare) Mamaliga cu Crauza (Cheese Polenta) Pateu de paun Buohirca cu cap negru (Peacock cakes) (Steamed Pudding) Prajituri (Furmenty) Fructe-diverse (Fruit) S09 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS Supa de Zarzavat. (Soup Carmine.) Put eight ounces of polenta (which has been soaked till soft) into two quarts of water, then add two ounces of butter and a pinch of carbonate of soda, and let the whole boil up. Slice thinly and cut in small pieces a beetroot, two or three tomatoes, two medium-sized onions, a small quantity of parsnip or celery, and boil slowly for two and a half hours. Strain, and rub as much through a sieve as possible ; add this to the polenta and the water it was boiled in. Season with paprica pepper and salt, heat up, and serve. If the colour is not very rich add some cochineal. Calcan Prajit. (Baked Turbot.) Clean and wash a small turbot ; thickly butter a shallow baking dish ; place some slices of onion at the bottom, and lay the fish on them. Put in a few sliced mushrooms, a couple of bay leaves, two or three cloves, salt and pepper to taste. Moisten to height with an equal quantity of white wine and water. Bake in a moderate oven for half an hour, basting occasionally. When the fish is cooked, place it on a dish, strain the liquor, which thicken with a brown Financiare sauce seasoned with a little nutmeg. Stir the sauce over the fire until boiling, then move to the side of the fire, and stir in the beaten yolks of two eggs and the strained juice of half a lemonCalcan Prajit (Baked Turbot). Pour over the fish and serve. ROUMANIA Brown Financiare Sauce. Cook for five minutes in a pan two glasses of orange juice, the yellow rind of half an orange, half an ounce of butter, same quantity of glaze, half a tablespoonful of chopped mushrooms (fresh), and half a teaspoonful of sugar, after which add half a tumblerful (quarter of a pint) of brown stock ; boil till it adheres to the spoon, and'strain through a fine sieve. Gasca Fripta. (Baked Goose.) Glaze