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The household gas cookery book

1900

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Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Stewed Celery. — Wash four heads of celery very clean, and trim them neatly, cutting off the leaves and tops. Cut them up into three-inch lengths, and tie them in small bundles and par-boil them in suffi¬ cient water to cover them, with one teaspoonful of salt. Drain them and stew them gently in some good stock. Brown two ounces of butter with a table¬ spoonful of flour in a saucepan, dilute it with the stock in which the celery was boiled, lay the celery in it, and let it stew for half an hour, and serve. Boiled Leeks. — Take three bundles of young leeks, remove the outer leaves, and well wash them in several waters, otherwise they will be gritty. Tie them in small bundles, and put them into boiling water, about 2 quarts, with a tablespoonful of salt and a dessert¬ spoonful of vinegar, and let them boil until quite tender. Drain them and serve in the same way as asparagus, on hot toast, pouring a stiff white sauce or melted butter over them. Turnip Top Greens— This is a most wholesome green vegetable. Pick over about 3 lbs. of freshly cut young turnip tops, remove any decayed leaves, and well wash them in two or three waters. Have ready a large saucepan, holding a gallon of water, into which throw two tablespoonfuls of salt and about as much carbonate of soda as can be put on a threepenny piece. When the water is boiling fast, put in the turnip tops. The water must be kept boiling ail the time, with the lid off the saucepan. If the water does not boil GAS COOKERY BOOK. Jig the vegetables will not be worth eating. . As soon as the greens are done they should be soft. Drain in a colander, and squeeze out the surplus water by press¬ ing a plate or saucer on the top, making them as dry as possible T urn them into a vegetable dish, dis- directh' kn°lf °n bu“er °n the toP’ and send t0 table aTspoi'led^ a owed t0 stand half an hour or so they Carrots. — Carrots contain a great deal of nourish¬ ment, and there are many ways of cooking and serving •Ath,1SA°Un/r>’’ ll6wever. we usually serve manv Tnn boded !?.e?f- They may be made to form many appetising dishes. Vegetable Marrow. - There are many ways of cook¬ ing this vegetable. The most popular is boiling. To 01 same, place the marrow whole without paring or cutting it, into boiling salted water; when sufficiently -cooked, which may be easily ascertained by putting a steel skewer through it, take it out of the water, cut 1 in a ves, pare and seed it, lay the halves on some pat °f butter on each Piece and pepper and salt to tastePotato Balls, and serve. Vegetable Marrow Mashed. — Boil two marrows as per previous recipe, drain and place them in a basin, and with a wooden spoon mash them to a pulp adding two ounces of butter or a little cream, and salt Thls is an excelIen* accompani¬ ment to a dish of mutton cutlets. o/prpnlh ?eans a*a. F,ran? »>se. — Take two pounds of krench beans, boil them in water, and salt to taste, them" '16!1 dr 6t them thoroughly drain; replace K ,!° the saucepan, adding two ounces of LX.' PePPer and salt to taste, and the juice of shake emon- Keep tne lid firmly on the stewpan, mir,,telh 5an contlnulously over the gas for a few mmutes, and serve in a hot vegetable dish. Broad Beans.— Shell a sufficient quantity of broad beans to make about one quart, and boil them in one THE HOUSEHOLD 130