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The housewife's referee

1898

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Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
No. 2. Take the yolks of two eggs and stir them slightly. Add a saltspoonful of salt, half a saltspoonful of pepper, and a tablespoonful of French vinegar. Pour in, drop by drop, a gill of salad oil. When all is well mixed stir in a teaspoonful of ready-made mustard or tarragon vinegar. Take a small bunch of parsley and put into a small sauce- pan of boiling water for two seconds. Dry it thoroughly, and then chop it finely. Also chop up finely a few capers or gherkins, put into the sauce, and mix well. SAUCES 193 Tomato Sauce. — IsTo. 1. Take tomatoes when perfectly ripe, bake them quite tender, skin and rub them through a coarse sieve ; to every pound of pulp add one quart of chili vinegar, one ounce of garlic, and one ounce of sliced shallots, a quarter of an ounce of white pepper finely sifted, and half an ounce of salt ; if the chili vinegar is not strong, add an additional half an ounce of pepper ; boil the whole together till every ingredient is tender ; rub it through a sieve, and to every pound of fruit add the juice of three lemonsTomato Sauce No. 1 ; boil the whole again till it becomes of the thickness of good cream ; when quite cold bottle it, cork it well, and tie a bladder over it, and keep it in a cool and dry place. No. 2. Take a dozen tomatoes and put them into a saucepan with four onions sliced, a little parsley, thyme, one clove, a little cayenne, three shallots, and a quarter of a pound of butter. Set the saucepan on the fire, stirring occasionally for three-quarters of an hour. Strain and bottle, or use. Sauce for Wild Fowl. — One tablespoonful of Worcester sauce, one of mushroom ketchup, one of water, one of lemon juice, one slice of lemon peel, one shallot, and a trifle of cayenneSauce for Wild Fowl. Simmer this mixture over the fire for five minutes, strain, and serve. Sauce Verte. — Boil some slices of ham or veal in equal quantities of chablis. When cooked let all simmer over a slow fire till the sauce is reduced, and then pass it through a tammy sieve. Pound some fresh herbs, and parsley, and an anchovy in the mortar ; then pass through a sieve, and season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice ; thicken with the yolks of eggs, and colour with a little of Breton's green colouring. White Lemon Sauce. — Make a good white or cream sauce, flavoured with about two inches of lemon rind when cooking. When the sauce is done, take out the lemon rind, take the flesh of the lemonWhite Lemon Sauce, after the white pith has been peeled off", cut into small pieces the size of a green pea. Mix this with the white sauce. Heat it up, and pour into the tureen. Note. — Driessen's foundation sauces are great aids in cookery, and every housewife should keep a stock of them ; any flavouring can be added to them. 194 THE housewife's EEFEKEE SWEETS " Here we wander in illusions." — Comedy of Errors. Apple and Kice. — Boil a quarter of a pound of rice in one quart of milk till done ; add two or three eggs, sugar to taste, and three or four pounded macaroons. Peel and core five apples ; boil in a very little water and sugar some lemon peel and one glass of wineApple and Rice till tender, but they must not break. Lay the rice one inch thick at the bottom of a dish, the apples on the top ; fill the holes left by the core with preserved cherries, and send to table warm.