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Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with ..

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.
Skin, trim, and split lengthwise one dozen kidneys. Put them in a dish and season with salt, pepper, and sweet oil. Tben put them on skewers — if not Silver, bave them brighi and fresh-looking. Run the skewer through the centre of the two kidneys; do not separate them. Roll in fine bread crumbsBroiled Lamb's Kidneys and broil over a moderate fire for five minutes. Serve on a folded napkin with a thick brown sauce seasoned with Madeira in a separate dish. Devilled Lamb's Kidneys Prepare the kidneys the same as for broiling, and broil them for a minute or two on each side. Remove f rom the fire. Roll them weU in English niustard paste which is seasoned with salt, a little white pepper, and a dash of cayenne. Then roll again in fine bread crumbsDevilled Lamb's Kidneys. Return them to the fire and broil four of five minutes longer. Serve with maitre d'hotel sauce poured over them. Baked Pork and Beans Soak one quart of white beans in cold water for twelve hours. Then put them in a pan with four quarts of cold water. Let them come to a boil and add salt, white pepper to taste, a white onion with two whole cloves stuck in it, one carrot, a bunch of parsley, and a f our-pound piece of salt pork — a streak of fat and a streak of lean. Before adding the pork, soak it for two hours in tepid water. Boil ali slowly for two hours. Take the pork out and let it drain. Also remove the onion, carrots, and parsley. Strain off the liquid from the beans. Pour them into a hollow baking dish — an earthen one is the better — with two tablespoonfuls of molassesBaked Pork and Beans over them. Score the fatty 174 MRS. aEELY'a COOK BOOK side of the pork. Press it down in the centre of the beana. Bake one hour in a moderate oven. Occasiònally baste the pork with the gravy from the beans. Serve in the baking dish. Have it either hot or cold. Boiled Ham Soak the ham twenty-four hours, or more if largeBoiled Ham, or dry and har4. Put it in cold water and set on the back of the stove with a few soup vegetables or herbs. Cook very gently from eight to ten hours. The ham should stay on the stove f our or five hours before it really starts to cook. It should then simmer very gently. Take up the ham ; and if you bave time, let it get cold. Remove the skin, trim neatly, and put it on to braise for one hour in Sherry or Champagne. Take up, bake about thirty minutes, and serve with red currant jelly on the top. Baked Ha^n with Hot Sauce Remove the thigh-bone of the ham and let it soak in cold water for twenty-four hours before cooking. Then put it in a boiler and boil gradually for three hours. Take it out and remove the rind. Place it in a tightly covered pan with a few carrots, onions, biade of mace, whole cloves, allspice, bay leaf, and one bunch of cooking celery, and add about four quarta of stock or waterBaked Ham with Hot Sauce. Place the pan in the oven and be careful that your lid fìts closely. Let the ham steam slowly for three hours. Remove it from the oven and let it cool in the liquor. If the ham is served hot, send it to the table as soon as taken from the oven. The above is for a ham weighing from eighteen to twenty pounds. Hot Sauce for Baked Ham Brown a little flour and butter in the oven until it becomes rather a dark brown. Then remove ali the fat from the stock in which the ham was cooked. Strain it and add the browned ^ BOKED HAM. Hot Sauce for Baked Ham