Manual for army cooks

In the tropics, where fruit is cheap, the fruit is mixed with the molasses, but less fat is used. In Italy honey and verjuice, or vinegar, are used instead of treacle. RICE TOAD-IN-THE-HOLE. (Sufficient for 22 men.) 4 pounds rice. i ounce salt. 2 pounds sugar. i ounce cinnamon. 2 quarts milk. 22 apples. Treat the rice as in Baked Rice Pudding, and place it in the baking dish ; have some apples peeled and sliced, lay them in the rice, sift sugar over them, and bake. ARTILLERY PIE. (Sufficient for 22 men. ) 8 pounds bread. 4 dozen apples. 1 pound suet. 2 pounds sugar. Melt the suet in a frying pan, cut the bread into slices one-quarter of an inch in thickness, dip each piece into the melted fat, and place them in the oven to dry. In the meantime get the apples peeled, boiled, and mashed with the sugar. Cover the bottom of the baking dish with the bread, cover the bread with some of the apples, then some more bread over that, then the apples, and thus until all is used ; place it in an oven and bake for twenty minutes. This may be made with any kind of fruit. BOILED YEAST DUMPLING. Make a light dough, or procure from the bakery dough which is ready for the oven. Flour the hands well and mold the dough into balls about the size of an egg. Drop them successively into boiling water. Boil fifteen minutes. Remove them from the pot with perforated skimmer, to allow the water to drain. Serve at once. Eat with hot sauce or sugar and butter. The ingredients of this pudding, with the exception of the eggs and milk, should be prepared the day before the pudding is to be made. Two quarts sifted flour ; two quarts bread crumbs ; four pounds suet, freed from fiber and chopped moderately fine ; four pounds raisins, picked, seeded, chopped, and dredged with flour; sixteen eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately; two quarts sweet milk (or equivalent of condensed milk) ; a fourth of a pound of citron, cut fine and dredged with flour ; grated rind of one lemon ; two nutmegs, grated ; one tablespoonful ground ginger ; one tablespoonful ground cinnamon ; one teaspoonful ground cloves. Into a deep pan or dish put the ingredients in the following order, incorporating them thoroughly: First, the beaten yolks of the eggs; then one-half the milk ; then the flour, bread crumbs, suet, spices, and lemon rind ; then the remainder of the milk, or as much of it as will make a thick batter ; then the beaten whites of the eggs; and last the dredged fruit. Beat the mixture for thirty minutes, put it into the prepared bag or bags, and boil seven hours. Serve hot with sauce. The above recipe is enough for thirty men. Prepare the suet and raisins the day before this pudding is to be made. Six quarts sifted flour ; three pounds suet, freed from fiber and chopped moderately fine; three jDounds raisins, picked, seeded, chopped, and dredged with flour ; two pounds brown sugar, or, in lieu of sugar, three and one-half pints molasses ; one tablespoonful salt ; two quarts sour milk ; if sour milk is not obtainable, put enough vinegar into either sweet or prepared condensed milk to sour it ; two dessertspoonfuls of soda or saleratus, dissolved in a little hot water ; eight tablespoonf uls ground cinnamon ; three teaspoonfuls ground cloves.