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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Almond Gauffres. — ^lix a table-spoonful of fine flour with a little sugar, the rind of a lemon chopped small, and two eggs. When thoroughly mixed, add to them foiu- ounces of blanched and finely - sliced sweet almonds. Make a baking-tin quite hot, and oil it well. Spread the mixture on it verj' thin, and bake it in a moderate oven until slightly coloured. Take it out and stamp it in rounds, and fold each over a reed in the shape of a small horn. [ This must be done while they are hot, and great care must be taken not to break them. FUl them with a little bright-coloured jam, and put them in a hot place to dry. Probable cost. Is. Almond Gingerbread.— Melt half a pound of treacle with two table-spoonfuls of butter, and add to them two table-spoonfuls of flour and two of ground rice, a small cupful of sugar, a little chopped lemon and candied j peel. WTien these ingredients are thoroughly mixed, put to them a quarter of a pound of [ almonds blanched and pounded. Beat well together for a few minutes, then bake in email cakes on a weU-oUed tin. The oven must not be hot. Time to bake, forty minutes. Probable cost, is. 6d. per pound Almond Icing for Cakes.— Blanch one i pound of sweet almonds and eight or nine j bitter almonds. Pound them iu a mortar, four i or five at a time, pouring in, eveiy two or three j minutes, a few dropij of water to prevent them oiUng. Add to them one pound of sifted sugar, ! and the whites of four eggs, and whisk to a I froth. WTien all are well mixed together, lay , the icing on the cake, ah-eady baked, a little more than half an iach thick, as smoothly and j evenly as possible. Put it in a cool oven to dry. The sugar icing goes over this. Time to dry, nearly an hour. Probable cost, Is. 6d. per pound. Almond Jelly. — Put one ounce and a half of best isinglass, a quart of water, a little sugar, and a quarter of a pound of blanched and poimded almonds into a saucepan. Let them boil half an hour. Strain the Liquid care- fully tkrough a jelly-bag, flavour it with a little brandy, and pour it into a wet mould. If calf's- foot stock is used, the ahnonds should be boiled with a little sugar and water separately for some time, to extract the flavour, then the Uquid mixed with the stock, and all boiled up together again, with a tea-spoonful of isinglass to a quart of stock. Time, an hour and a half. Probable cost, 2s., without the brandy. Sufficient for a moderate-sized mould. Almond Jumbles.— Work two ounces of butter into half a pound of flour, then add two table-spoonfuls of sifted sugar, a little lemon-juice, and two oixnces of sweet and four or five bitter ahnondsAlmond Jumbles, blanched and beaten to a paste with the white of an egg. IMix thoroughly, roll it out rather thin, cut into small round cakes, place them on well-oiled tins, and bake in a quick oven. Time to bake, ten minutes. Probable cost, Is. 4d. per pound.