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Soups, savouries, sweets, with a chapter on breads

1889

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Presented as published in 1889. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
* The landlord told him that his palate should be suited— for whatever the air, earth, and sea produced, of birds, becuts, or fish, that inn wcls abundantly supplied with.* *DoN Quixote.* xn ^ Nor do you Findjault with the sauce^ keen hunger being the bestJ* — MiissiNGER. f Slatft^ anir Saute^^ IKaK0nnat0je 9avat. ]n}U0]^tt00m Baxcce, C0maf0 Saittie* Crnfil $aur^. Bi^rftamel $aur^* Jatr^ini^rie Santt. Ratein Xt]erta]t iSauti^* * Ne cared he for wine or half-and-half; Ne cared he for fish ^ or fleshy or fowl; And sauces held he worthless as the chaff* Keats. B W STOCKS. * LemonSf and wine for sauce : to these a coney Is not to be despaired of for our money.'' Ben Jonson. Stochs* Jntto&uctfon* HE foundation of all soups, and also of many sauces, is called ' Stock/ Stock may be brown or white. If the former, it is made from dark meats, such as beef, and game of any kind ; if the latter, from veal, mutton, chicken, rabbit, and from fish-bones. For vegetarian cookery it can be made from * Woe was his cooky but if his sauce were Poynant and sharp, and ready all his gere, ' Chaucer. B 2 STOCKS. * They made a most superior mess of broth, A thing which poesy but seldom metiiions,* Byron. lentils, haricot beans, sago, and barley. It is customary in large households to have always standing on the kitchen stove a stock-pot, into which the bones and trimmings of meat and poultry are put ; water, vegetables and herbs being added. These, when they have boiled for a dozen hours or more, and been strained, form stock, which when put into a cool place sets into a jelly. In cold weather this * stock-jelly' will keep a week, especially if boiled up occasionally. In hot weather it becomes sour quickly, so that it is better to have the stock-pot constantly emptied and renewed. This stock, though useful for some soups, and quite sufficient for all sauces, will not do * What needes of dainty dishes to devise. Of comely services or courtly trayne ?' Faerie Queene. STOCKS. * Now I praise the genial hostess Who prepares the toothsome dinfter^ when strongly flavoured soups are required. For such soups fresh meat will be needed, and the following recipe will serve as a guide to young cooks how to make ' soup stock.' Wllbite Stocft^ Cut up four pounds of fillet of veal into pieces the size of dice, and break small any bone there may be in it. Put these into a large saucepan with a close-fitting lid, and with them the following :» one gill of cold water, a quarter of a pound of butter, two carrots, two onions, one turnip, three cloves, half a blade of mace, a bunch of thyme and parsley. Put the pan over a brisk fire for about fifteen minutes, stirring round the con- Fills with plenty all her tables^ Bakes the honeyed loaves of barley ^ Kneads the dough with niagic fingers, With her arms of strength ami beauty.^ Finnish Kalevala. 5 STOCKS. * This Bouillabaise a noble dish is — A sort of soupf or broth^ or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes That Greenwich never could outdo* tents occasionally. Add three quarts of water and a teaspoonful of salt, and simmer for two hours, keeping it well skimmed so that no fat is left floating on the top. Strain through a fine hair sieve, and put away for use. SStown Stocft^ This is made in the same way as the white stockWhite Stock, only beef takes the place of veal, and mace is not used as a flavouring. Iffeb Stocft* The bones of any delicately flavoured fish can be used for this. They should be covered with water with a little salt in it, and gently simmered until the water is reduced one half, * Green herbs^ red peppers^ mussels ^ saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach and dace : All these you eat at Terra's tavern. In that one dish of Bouillabaise,^ — Thackeray. STOCKS. Fish Stock