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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.
Ramazan Cakes (a Turkish recipe).— Take half a pound of rice-flour, and dilute it with two glasses of milk ; pass the preparation through a sieve into a stewpan. Boil over a moderate fire, stirring all the time. Add sugar to taste, let it reduce for seven or eight minutes, then add a few drops of extract of roses or of jessamineRamazan Cakes, turn it out on a round baking-sheet, previously moistened with cold water. Let the preparation be nearly an inch in thickness, and smooth its surface. When it is cold, sprinkle it with fine sugar, and divide it into small cakes, lozenge-shaped, round or oblong, according to taste. Ramskin. — This is a sort of cake said to have been invented at Croxteth Hall, the seat of Lord Sefton, from which circumstance it is sometimes called " Sefton Fancy." Take grated cheese of some dry kind, such as Parmesan or the white hard Enghsh varieties, incorporated with dough as prepared for fine puif paste ; roll it out, cut it into shapes, glaze with white of eggRamskin, and bake for a quarter of an hour. It is usually eaten hot. Rampion. — The root of this plant, which is white and spindle-shaped, used to be much in request for the table under the name of rampion or ramps. The plant is now little cultivated in Britain, but it is still commonly grown in France for the sake of the roots, which are used either boiled or as a salad, and of its young leaves, which are also employed as a salad. The escu- lent roots are far more delicate than turnips or radishes; the seeds are ophthalmic. The root, either sliced together with its leaves in salads, or eaten as the radish, as well as boiled BAR ( 706 ) HAS like asparagus, is most palatable when drawn young, and eaten fresh from the ground. Rare-bit, Welsh.— Brillat Savarin, the famous French Gourmet, gives the follo^ving recipe taken from the papers of M. Trollet, bailiff in Meudon, in the Canton of Berne : — " Take as many eggs as you wish, according to the number of guests, and weigh them ; then take a piece of cheese weighing a third of the weight of the eggs, and a slice of butter weighing a sixth ; beat the eggs well up in a saucepan, after which put in the butter and cheese, the latter either grated or chopped up very small ; place the saucepan on a good fire, and stir it with a flat spoon until the mixture becomes sufiiciently thick and soft ; add a little salt and a large portion of pepperWelsh Rare-bit, and serve it up in a hot dish. Bring out the best wine, and let it go round freely, and wonders will be done." Rare-bit, Welsh (another way).— The following is a cheaper recipe than the above, and the result is in no way inferior : — Cut as much cheese as is necessary into small pieces ; add a lump of butter and a little ale ; mix in a saucepan on a good fire until it is well amal- gamated ; add pepper and salt and a little mustardWelsh Rare-bit (another way) ; pour out upon a square of toast on a hot dish. A fine glass of beer will go with this as pleasantly as Bi-illat Savarin's wine. Some people add a httle beef gravy to the rare-bit when it is simmering in the saucepan, and just a dash of chopped garlic. Rashers, Gardeners'.— Take a saddle of