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A year's cookery

1880

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Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
When they are in season, a table-spoonful of green peasSoup for the Shah may be boiled separately, and thrown into the soup at the last moment. These will represent the jewels Orientals delight in. Roast Sirloin of Beef (March 4th) ; Haricot Beans 330 A YEAR'S COOKERY. (.Tune 20th) ; Potatoes (May 6th). Devonshire Junket. — Pleat a quart of milk till it is lukewarm. Meanwhile, put half a tea-spoonful of powdered cinnamon and a table-spoonful of sugar into a cup, pour on a wine-glassful of brandy, and stir till the sugar is dissolved. Add this to the milk, put it into the dish in which it is to be served, and stir in a table-spoonful of the prepared rennet. ' In three or four hours it will be firm and ready to be served. If it can be procured, a little clotted cream should be spread on the top of the junket, and white sugar sifted over that. Sometimes fresh fruit is eaten with this dish. Cheese (June 8th). _ Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Cut the flap off the sirloin of beef, and sprinkle salt over it if the weather be warm. 2. Turn the herrings in the vinegar, and put them in a cool place. 3. Cut a good-sized piece from the Canadian ham, and boil it for breakfast to-morrow (Note 4, May 27th). 4. Pluck the chicken and hang it in a cool larder ; dry the feathers (February 28th). _ _ September 18th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Pickled Herrings. Boiled Ham. Bolls. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Marmalade. Milk Toast. Flap of Beef, Boiled with Carrots and Turnips. Bice Bdchauft'e. Filleted Hake. Fricassee of Chicken. Potatoes. Baked Tomatoes. Chocolate Pudding. Custard. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— A piece of Hake, weighing about two pounds, from the middle of the fish (August 7th) ; Potatoes ; Tomatoes ; Turnips ; Carrots ; an ounce of German Yeast ; Plums. For To-morrow.— Watercress ; six or eight small Soles: “Slips” (January 3rd). Bbeakfast. — Pickled Herrings (August 20th); Boiled Ham (May 27th) ; Bolls (September 4th) ; Milk Toast (June 17th). Luncheon.— Flap of Beef, Boiled (February 23rd) ; Turnips (Sep¬ tember 30th) ; Carrots (July 6th) ; Bice Bechauftb (April 27th). Dinneb. — Filleted Hake (July 19tli). Follow this recipe, sub¬ stituting only hake for the salmon. Chicken, Fricasseed (July 28th) ; Potatoes (April 7th); Baked Tomatoes (July 7th); Chocolate Pudding (July 24th) ; Custard (August 10th); Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Preserve the chicken bones and the liquor the beef was boiled in. 2. Pastry is to be made to-day (April 17th): Plum Pies (August A YEAR'S COOKERY. 33] 7th) and Treacle Tart (August 7th.) ; also Milk Rolls (August 26th) and Rice Cake (August 2nd). 3. Partially prepare the rice milk for breakfast (see Note 3, June 1 7th). 4. Soak a cupful of white haricot beans in cold water all night. September 19th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Baked Slips. Liver and Bacon. Boiled Brill and Anchovy Boiled Ham. Treacle Tart. Sance Milk Rolls. Sea Pie, Dry Toast. Potatoes. Brown and White Bread and Mashed Turnips. Butter. Guest’s Pudding. Watercress. Rice Milk. Cheese. Marketing. For tlie Day.— A pound and a half of Calf’s Liver ; half a pound of Streaky Bacon (January 3rd) ; a thick Brill (January 9th) ; two pounds and a half of Buttock Steak (see Marketing, January 1st) ; Turnips; Potatoes; Parsley; ten ounces of firm Suet.