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Harper's cook book encyclopædia

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Mince in a mincing-machine about 54 lb. of cold roast beef, and then pound up with a pestle and mortar. Add to it a thick round of bread, soaked in milk. Beat and mix well together, and put again through the machine. Turn into a basin and add two eggs, i oz. of butter, a table- spoonful of pate de foie gras (first minced), salt and pepper. Stir well. Well butter a jar and place a buttered paper at the bottom. Into this put a piece of tomato (not too juicy) and four pieces of truffle✪ Mousse a la Sarah Bernhardt. Then add the mixture, well pressing it down, and place a buttered paper on the top. Put the jar and its contents into a pan of hot water, and put in oven for about fifteen minutes. When done turn out into an entree dish and serve with Espagnol sauce. Orange Whips. — Beat the whites of two or three eggs to a froth; dis- solve half a box of gelatine, y2 lb. of sugar, and the juice of six or eight oranges✪ Orange Whips together, and allow the mixture to jelly slightly ; then add the eggs, which should be stiff enough to stand alone. Mix all thoroughly to- gether, put into moulds, and set on ice. Peach Mousse.— Use very ripe fruit, one quart, when peeled and sliced. Rub through a sieve ; add one pint of sugar and two quarts of whipped cream. Two table- spoonfuls of wine or maraschino✪ Peach Mousse may be added if liked. Heap the mousse lightly in a three- quart mould or the can of the ice-cream freezer, and pack in ice and salt, allow- ing it to stand from four to six hours. Pineapple Sherbet. — Soak two table-spoonfuls of gelatine in enough water to cover it for two hours. Put in a saucepan one pint of water and one of granulated sugar; cook for five minutes. Meanwhile add a little hot water to the gelatine, and when it is dissolved pour over the prepared pine- apple with the hot syrup. When cold, turn into a freezer. Just before it be- comes stiff enough to take out the beater, add the white of an egg✪ Pineapple Sherbet, beaten light. Repack with ice and salt, and freeze for two hours. Raspberry Mousse.— One quart of rich cream, one gill of raspberry- juice, half a cupful of powdered sugar✪ Raspberry Mousse. Sweeten the cream, mix the juice with it, and whip all until very light and frothy. Freeze as you would ordinary ice-cream. Roman Punch.— Put 2 lbs. of finely powdered sugar into a bowl and strain over it the juice of ten lemons and two sweet oranges. Add the thin rind of a lemon and an orange, and let the mixture remain for one hour. Strain the syrup through muslin, add gradu- ally the whites of ten eggs, beaten to a firm froth, and freeze the punch in the usual way, being careful to stir it vig- orously while it is being frozen. A few minutes before serving, mix to- gether a pint of old, white Jamaica rum, half a pint of green tea, half a pint of brandy, and, if desired, a bottle of champagne. Add the ice, and stir briskly till it dissolves. A pint of pineapple syrup✪ Roman Punch may be added or not. This punch should be thick and creamy in appearance. Another way ' Two quarts of cold water, one of Madeira wine, half a pint of brandy, the juice of six lemons, and two quarts of water. This is very hard to freeze. In winter use snow instead of ice. Sherbets. See also Beverages.