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1884

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Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Of a fresh-boiled ox-tongue, or inside of roasted sirloin, 1 lb. ; stoned raisins and minced apples, each 2 lbs. ; currants and fine Lisbon sugar, each 2± lbs. ; candied orange, lemon or citron rind, 8 to 16 oz. ; boiled lemons, 2 large ; rinds of two others, grated ; salt, \ oz. ; nutmegs, 2 small ; pounded mace, 1 large teaspoonful, and rather more of ginger ; good sherry or Madeira, | pint ; brandy, \ pint. Obs. — The lemons will be sufficiently boiled in from one hour to one and a quarter. SUPERLATIVE MINCEMEAT. Take four large lemons, with their weight of golden pippins pared and cored, of jar-raisins, currants, candied citron and orange-rind, and the finest suet, and a fourth part more of pounded sugar. Boil the lemons tender, chop them small, but be careful first to extract all the pips ; add them to the other ingredients, after all have been prepared with great nicety, and mix the whole well with from three to four glasses of good brandySuperlative Mincemeat. Apportion salt and spice by the preceding receipt. We think that the weight of one lemon, in meat, improves this mixture ; or, in lieu of it, a small quantity of crushed macaroons added just before it is baked. MINCE PIES. (ENTREMETS,) Butter some tin pattypans well, and line them evenly with fine puff paste rolled thin ; fill them with mincemeat, moisten the edges of the covers, which should be nearly a quarter of an inch thick, close the pies carefully, trim off the superfluous paste, make a small aperture in the centre of the crust with a fork or the point of a knife, ice the pies or not, at pleasure, and bake them half an hour in a well- heated but not fierce oven : lay a paper over them when they are partially done, should they appear likely to take too much colour. \ hour. b b 870 MODERN COOKERY, [chap, xviil MINCE PIES ROYAL, (ENTREMETS.) Add to half a pound of good mincemeat an ounce ana a half of pounded sugar, the grated rind and the strained juice of a large lemon, one ounce of clarified butter, and the yolks of four eggs ; beat these well together, and half fill, or rather more, with the mixture, some pattypans lined with fine paste ; put them into a moderate oven, and when the insides are just set, ice them thickly with the whites of the eggs beaten to snow, and mixed quickly at the moment with four heaped tablespoonsful of pounded sugarMince Pies ; set them im- mediately into the oven again, and bake them slowly of a fine light brown. Mincemeat, \ lb. ; sugar, oz. ; rind and juice, 1 large lemon ; butter, 1 oz. ; yolks, 4 eggs. Icing : whites, 4 eggs ; sugar, 4 table - spoonsful. THE monitor’s TART, OR TOURTE A LA JUDD. The Monitor's Tart, or Tourte a la Judd