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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.
Potato Balls (another way). — Mash one pound of diy mealy potatoes until they are qtiite smooth. Before they have time to cool, luix with them a tablo-spoonful of hot milk, one ounce and a haK of clarified butter, a salt- spoonful of salt, a pinch of pepper, a little grated nutmeg, and the well-beaten yolks of three eggsPotato Balls (another way). Beat the mixture till these ingre- dients are thoroughly blended, then add the Avhites of the eggs whisked to a firm froth. Jlould the preparation into small balls the size of a large marble, and fry in hot fat until they are lightly browned. Drain, and serve the balls piled on a hot napkin. Time to fry, five or six minutes. Probable cost, 8d. Suf- ficient for three or foiir persons. Potato Balls (another way). — Cook some potatoes in steam or boiling water, mash them, mix with them some butter, salt, parsiey, chives chopped small, grated nutmeg, and a few raw eggs. Make the potatoes into balls, cover with raw eggs beaten up, and fry them. Potato balls may also be cooked in stock broth, or in boiling water, and sent to table with tomato or other sauce. Potato Beer. — In Silesia potato beer is made thus cheaply: — " Twenty-five gallons from half a bushel of potatoes, ten pounds of malt, half a pound of hops, and two quarts of yeast. The cost of one tun of such beer is said not to exceed two shillings and twopence ; conse- quently the cost of a quart does not amount to one farthing." Potato Biscuits. — Bake half a dozen large potatoes, and when they are done enough, burst them open, and scoop out the ins'ide with a tea-spoon until there is a quarter of a pound of the flour. Pass this thi-ough a fine sieve, and mix with it the well-beaten yolks of eight eggs, the grated peel of half a lemon, and haK a pound of pounded and sifted sugarPotato Biscuits. Beat the paste until it is quite light, then add the whites of the eggs beaten to a fii-m froth. Make some small paper cases, oil them, and half fill thexi with the batter. Strew a Uttle sugar over them, and bake in a moderate oven. If Uked, a little bright-coloured jelly may be put over the biscuits before serving. Time to bake, about twenty minutes. Probable cost. Is. 2d. Potato Biscuits (M. Udes' recipe).— Take fifteen fresh eggs, break the yolks into one pan and the whites into another. Beat the yolks with a pound of sugar pounded very fine, scrape the peel of a lemon with a lump of sugar, dry that, and pound it fine also ; then throw into it the yolks, and work the eggs and sugar till they are of a whitish colour. Next, whip the whites well, and mix them with the yolks. Now sift half a pound of flour of potatoes through a silk sieve over the eggs and sugar. Have some paper cases ready, which lay on a plafond, with some paper imdemeath. Fill the cases, but not too fuU ; glaze the contents with some rather coarse sugar, and bake the whole in an oven moderately heated. POT ( 620 ) POT