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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.
Brown and White Bread Cauliflowers. and Butter. Hydropathic Pudding Milk Porridge. Custard. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— Two pounds of lean Beef, cut in a thick slice (February 14th); a good-sized fresh Haddock (September 4th) ; four ounces of Beef Suet ; two moderate-sized Ostend Rabbits (January 21th); Cauliflowers ; a pennyworth of German Yeast ; Apples and Damsons for pies. For To-morrow.— A tin of Sardines (January 12th) ; Sea Biscuits, if not in the house. Breakfast. — Kedgeree (January lOtli) ; Boiled Tongue (January 2nd) ; Milk Porridge (June 13th). Luncheon. — Beef a la Mode (February 14th). Jam Turnovers. — These can be made with the pastry to-day. Take the trimmings of the pastry, and roll it out to the thickness of a quarter of an inch. Stamp it into rounds with a small saucer ; spread a little jam upon one half, moisten the edges with water, and turn the other half over. Press the edges of pastry together, brush them over with water, sprinkle a little white sugar on the topJam Turnovers, and bake on tins in a brisk oven. If liked, fresh fruit can be used instead of jam, but if it is of a kind that will not fall easily it should be partially stewed before being put into the pastry. Dinner. — Haddock, Stuffed and Baked (September 4th) ; Curried Babbit (July 16th) ; Boiled Bice (July 21st) ; Cauliflowers (April 25th) ; Hydropathic Pudding (June 16th) ; Custard (August 10th) ; Cheese (June 8th). _ _ Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Pastry is to be made to-day (April 17th) : Apple and Damson or Blackberry Pies (August 7th), Jam Turnovers, above ; also Teacakes (August 26th) and Annie's Cake. — Put two pounds of flour into a bowl, and mix with it a salt-spoonful of salt and six heaped tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder (August 2nd). Bub in one pound of butter or clarified dripping, and add a pound of sugar, half a pound of raisins, a pound and a half of currants, four ounces of mixed peel chopped small, and half a tea-spoonful of grated nutmeg. Moisten with four eggs well beaten and a little milkTeacakes. Turn into tins lined with paper, and bake in a well-heated oven. This quantity will make two good- sized cakes. 2. Soak a cupful of green lentils all night in cold water. A YEAR'S COOKERY. 007 OO / September 26th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Sardines. ' Rabbit Gateau. C roflte au Pot. Rolled Tongue. Teacakes. Apple Pie. Ribs of Beef, Boned Rolled. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Lentils. Browned Potatoes. Newmarket Pudding. Marmalade. Biscuits and Milk. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— Two Ribs of Beef, boned and rolled (September 8th) ; Potatoes. Buy also a piece of the Silver side of fresh Beef, weighing eight or ten pounds. For To-morrow.— A pair of thick Soles (January 3rd) ; a dried Haddock ; a couple of Ducks (July 1th) ; Ingredients for a Salad; Apples for apple mould; Parsley. If permitted, order a little Cream for supper to-morrow. Ajaroi Anchovy Paste. Breakfast. — Sardines (January 12tk) ; Boiled Tongue (January 2nd) ; Biscuits and Milk (June 14tii). Luncheon. — Babbit Gateau, made of tlie flesh of the cold rabbit picked from the bones (July 9th) ; Apple Pie (August 7th). Dinner. — Croiite au Pot (May 25th) ; Bibs of Beef, Boned and Rolled (March 4th or 8th) ; Lentils (March 2nd) ; Browned Potatoes (October 18tli) ; Newmarket Pudding (June 2nd); Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten.