Cassell's dictionary of cookery

Oxford Grace Cup.— Take the peel of a lemon, extract the juice, and cut the peel into thin slices. Put it in a bowl or jug, pour over it a pint and a half of strong home-brewed beer and a bottle of sherry ; grate a nutmeg into the cup ; sweeten to taste ; stir till the sugar is dissolved, and then add three or four slices of bread, toasted brown. Set it on one side for two houi's before straining off. Oxford John, Mutton.— Cut one pound and a half of very thin collops from a well-kept leg of mutton. Free them entirely from skin and sinew, season them with pepper, salt, and grated nutmeg, and dip them into a mixture composed of two table-spoonfuls of chopped parsley, a tea-spoonful of powdered thyme, and a tea-spoonful of finely-minced shallots. Fry the seasoned collops in three ounces of butter, and when they are lightly browned on both sides, cover them with good brown gravy, and add a piece of butter, rolled thickly in flour, and a tea-spoonful of strained lemon-juice. Let them remain on the fire a few minutes until the sauce is on the point of boiling, then turn them on a hot dish, and serve with sippets. If the collops are allowed to boil. they will prove hard. Time, half an hour. Probable cost, Is. 8d. Sufficient for three or four persons. Oxford John, Mutton (another way).— Melt some butter in a stewpan (say two or three ounces), cut very thin slices from a leg of mutton into round collops, season these with a mixture of pepper, salt, minced shallot, savoury herbs, and parsley, and a blade of pounded mace. Put the collops into the stewpan, and keep them stirred or moved round in the pan until done, when, add a breakfast-cupful of good meat gravy, the juice of half a small lemon, and an ounce of butter, kneaded into a dessert-spoonful of flour ; stir, and simmer five or six minutes, but not longer, or they will become tough. Time, twenty minutes to stew. Oxford Pancakes. — Mix three tablespoonfuls of flour very smoothly with three well-beaten eggs, and half a pint of new milk. Add a pinch of salt, an ounce and a half of butter, a table-spoonful of sugar, and the eighth of a nutmeg, grated. Fry the pancakes as thin as possible in hot fat. Sift powdered sugar over them when they are on the dish, and send a cut lemon to table with them. These pancakes should be made an hour or two before they are wanted. Time to fry, four or five minutes. Probable cost, 6d. Sufficient for three or four persons. Oxford Pudding. — Wash six ounces of best Carolina rice in two or three waters. Drain it well, and put it into a pudding-cloth, with three ounces of picked currants, or, if preferred, two large apples, pared, cored, and sliced, and a little grated nutmeg. Tie the cloth loosely to give the rice room to swell, and let the pudding boil quickly until done enough. Serve with sweet sauce. Time to boil, two hours. Probable cost, 4d. Sufficient for five or six persons. ox (491 ) OYS