Madras Curry

Ingredients

• half a cocoanut
• one gill of cow's milk
• two good-sized onions
• three table-spoonfuls of butter
• one heaping teaspoonful of curry-powder
• two table-spoonfuls of flour
• one pint of the liquor in which the meat or fish was cooked
• one scant quart of cooked meat or fish
• about one level table-spoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Prepare cocoanut milk by grating half of the cocoanut and mixing it with cow's milk.

2. 2

   Cook onions in butter, add flour and curry powder, then gradually add the liquor.

3. 3

   Boil for two minutes, strain in cocoanut milk, and simmer for ten minutes.

4. 4

   Add meat or fish, sprinkle with salt, and simmer for twenty to thirty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 288. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one heaping teaspoonful of curry-powder (Cross & BlackwelPs u Genuine Indian Curry " is the best). Stir for one minute ; then draw the pan back, and gradually add one pint of cold stock or cold water. Boil for two minutes, stirring all the time ; then add half a teaspoonful of salt, and boil for three minutes longer. Sprinkle a generous teaspoonful of salt on the cold meat, and put the meat in a stew-pan. Strain the curry- sauce over it, and cook the dish for five minutes. Serve with boiled rice. One cupful of the uncooked rice will 552 MISS PARLOA'S KITCHEN COMPANION. be enough for the quantity of curry mentioned, and the dish will be sufficient for serving to six persons. It should not be accompanied by potatoes. Madras Curry. This is more delicate than the ordinary curry. It may be made with any kind of cold meat and with most kinds of fish. The ingredients are : half a cocoanut, the milk of a cocoanut, one gill of cow's milk, two good- sized onions, three table-spoonfuls of butter, one heap- ing teaspoonful of curry-powder, two table-spoonfuls of flour, one pint of the liquor in which the meat or fish was cooked, one scant quart of cooked meat or fish, and about one level table-spoonful of salt

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