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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.
Strawberry Vinegar.— This vinegar is excellent for flavouring sweet sauces, also a spoonful or two put into a tumblerful of cold ■\vater forms a refreshing summer di-ink. Gather the fruit in dry weather, when it is fully ripe and finely flavoured. Let it be quite fresh. Pick and w-eigh it, and put it into stone jars or wide-mouthed glass bottles, and over each pound pour a quart of best white-wine vinegar. Cover the jars closely, and let the strawberries infuse in the vinegar for three daj's. Drain it off, and put it upon fresh fruit. Let this stand three ■days, and repeat the operation a third time. Drain off the liquor closely, and let it run through a canvas bag dipped in vinegar. Measure it, and stir into it until almost dis- solved a pound of sugarStrawberry Vinegar broken up small for each pint of vinegar. Put it over a clear fire in an enamelled (not a metal) saucepan, and let it boil gently for five minutes. Pour it out, let it stand twelve minutes, skim it thoroughly, and bottle for use. Tims, ten days. Probable «ost, Is. 6d. per pint. Strawberry Water (a refreshing summer <L.-ink). — Take half a pound of finely -flavoured strawbeiTies. Bruise them well in a basin with a wooden simoon, and mix with them four table- spoonfuls of finely-powdered sugar and a quarter of a pint of cold waterStrawberry Water. Rub them through a fine sieve, and filter what passes through the sieve till it is clear and bright. Wash the dregs in the sieve with a little cold water to prevent waste. Add the strained juice of half a lemon and a pint of cold water to the liquor, and put it in ice or in a cool place till wanted. Time, about an hour to prepare. Probable cost, 3d. per pint. Sufficient for about a quart of water. Strawberry Water Ice.— Pick a pound of ripe strawberries, and bruise them well with half a pound of red currants. Pour upon them a pint of clarified sugarStrawberry Water Ice, and add two or three drops of cochineal if liked. Rub the whole tin-ough a hair-sieve into a basin, and freeze in the usual way. Strawberry Wine. — A simple method of making strawberry wine is to add a little straw- berry-juice to good flavourless currant wine. To make it from fresh fruit, bruise three gallons of strawberries, and pour upon them three gallons of water. Let them infuse twenty-four hours. Strain the liquor through a canvas bag, and add eight pounds of lump sugar, two gallons of cider, one ounce of powdered red tartar, and the thin rind of a fresh lemonStrawberry Wine. "When putting the wine into the cask a little brandy may be added if liked. StufQ.ng. — Stuffing is but a homely name for forcemeat, for the preparation of which various recipes are given under their appro- priate headings. In making forcemeat great care should be taken that the ingredients are equally and smoothly mixed, that no one par- ticular herb or sj^ice overpowers the fla- vour of the rest; and that the seasoning is suited to the dish it is intended to accompany. Forcemeats should be of such a consistency that they can be cut through with a knife, yet they should neither be heavy nor dl■J^ When the r are made up into balls these should never be larger than a small nutmeg. AVlien intended for soups or ragouts, they should be cooked before being added to the dish. They will need to be fried till brown for brown sauce, and boiled for three minutes for white sauce. Stuffing, Alexandre Dumas'.— Stuffing