Soyer's standard cookery

Jam buns are a tremendous saving of trouble when the housewife is very busy on a Saturday. Get half a dozen stale buns (penny buns are sold at three a penny, when stale, at any bakers). Split them open. Pour a little boiling milk or water over them. Spread thickly with golden syrup. Make very hot in a bag (greased). INVALID COOKERY. Sweetbread Mackenzie. Blanch and trim a good-sized sweetbread, make a little mirepoix of vegetables, paying attention to the color of the vegetables and seeing that they do not brown. Cut the sweetbread across the center, but do not halve it. Pound one ounce of pistachios and lay them in the slit of the sweetbread. Cover the sweetbread with the prepared vegetables and place in a well-buttered bag. Cook in a slow oven for thirty minutes. Dish the sweetbread, place the other ingredients in a fine sieve and lightly press the gravy through on to the sweetbread. Chicken and Rice Tea. Chop up half a raw chicken, wash a tablespoonful of rice in cold water and mix with the chicken. Wash a teaspoonful of pearl barley and add with a quarter of a pint of cold water. Put the whole in a small paper-bag and cook for forty to fiftyfive minutes in a slow oven (300° Fahr.). Chicken Quennelle. Take the breast of one Surrey fowl, add a pint of white sauce and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Pound well, mix in one egg, pass through a hair sieve. Place in a bowl, add a quarter of a pint of cream and stir well. Form small quennelles with a spoon, place in a well-buttered bag, lay carefully on a grid, and cook for six minutes in a hot oven (350° Fahr.). Filleted Poultry for Invalids. Mince up finely a carrot, turnip, and onion, add a little ham, a pinch of sugar and salt, and place at the bottom of small well-buttered bag. Slice the breast of a fowl, lay the slices on the prepared vegetables, sprinkle with oiled butter. Seal and cook six minutes in a slow oven. Dish the fillets, put the vegetables in a small sieve, press lightly and pour the gravy over the fillets. Minced Chicken for Invalid. Finely mince the breast of a chicken, add a tablespoonful of cream, the yolk of an egg, and a little salt. Lay in a small bag, together with a small piece of toast placed at the side. Cook for five minutes in a hot oven. Serve in the bag. Baked Custard for Invalid. Peel and remove the seeds from a slice of tomato, add a pinch of salt. Break three eggs and place the yolks in a bowl, add a tablespoonful of cream and half a pint of milk. Place the tomato at the bottom of a small pie-dish, stir in the custard over the tomato, place in a bag, seal, and bake for twenty minutes in a slow oven. Beef Tea. Put one pound of beef steak in a paper bag, seal it and put on grid in a moderate oven for twelve minutes. Take the parcel and place on a dish. Open the bag and you will find the natural gravy on the dish. Cut the steak and squeeze the juice from it, strain into a hot cup, and serve at once. Season to taste. Chicken Tea. Cut up half a fresh fowl. Break up the bones with a chopper. Place in paper bag. Add two tablespoonfuls of water, seal up, and place on the grid. Allow forty-five minutes in a slow oven. Strain as in the foregoing recipe and serve. THE END BEVERAGES, FRUIT AND OTHERWISE