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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.
Tartar Sauce. — Put the yolk of an egg quite free from white into a basin, and beat it for a minute or two -with a pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper, and a table-spoonful of dry mustard. Stir into this, first in drops and afterwards in tea-spoonfuls, four table-spoonfuls of pure salad oil, and be careful to beat the sauce for a minute or two between every addition, as its excellence depends in a great measure upon this being done. After each si.K tea-spoonfuls of oil put in a tea- spoonful of vinegar. Wash and mince finely three shallots, six small gherkins, and a table-spoonful of mixed chervil and tarragon. Put these into the sauce with a pinch of cayenneTartar Sauce. Mix thoroughly, and serve. If the sauce is not immediately wanted, it should be kept in a cool place. Time to mix the sauce, half an hour. Probable cost, 8d. Sufficient for five or six persons. Tartar Sauce (another way) . — Wash and mince finely four shallots. Put them into a mor- tar with a tea-spoonful of chopped tarragon or cher\-il (or both), a tea-spoonful of dry mustard, a tea-spoonful of salt, half a tea-spoonful of pepper, and the hard-boiled yolks of two eggs. Pound these ingredients until quite smooth. Put them into a bowl, and mix with them very gradually three table-spoonfuls of pure salad- oil. The oil should be put in first in drops, and afterwards in tea-spoonfuls, and the sauce should be well beaten between each addition. If this point is carefully attended to, there will be no danger of the sauce cui-dling. A\Tien the oil is thoroughly incorporated, add three dessert-spoonfuls of best \dnegar and one of chilli vinegar. Serve in a tureen. Tartlet-tins [see illustration accompany- ing the article on Almond Cheesecakes). Tartlets. — Tartlets may be made with puif paste, almond paste, or any sweet pastry. They are made as follows : — Butter some patty- l^ans, and line them with pastry rolled out to the thickness of a quarter of an inch. Trim them neatly, put a little crust of bread into each tartlet — or what will answer the same purpose, which is to keep the pastry from puff- ing up in the centre — prick two or three holes in the bottom of the tart : bake in a quick oven. When they are two-thirds baked, take the tartlets out of the oven, remove the bread, and in its place put a spoonful of jam or mar- maladTartletse. Return them to the oven, and bake until done enough. Let them get cold before serving, ornament prettily, and send them to table piled high on a dish covered with a white nai>kin. Some cooks put the jam into the_ tartlet before it is baked at all, but this spoils both the taste and the appearance. Time to bake the tartlets, about a quarter of an hour. Probable cost, about Id. each. Sufficient, half a pound of pastry will make a moderate-sized dish of tartlets. Tartlets (another way).— Roll out the pastry to the tliickness of a quarter of an inch. Stamp it out in an e\'en number of rounds of uniform size, and make half of these into by pressing a small cutter quite through the [ centre of them. Moisten the edges of the rounds, place the rings upon them, and press them tightly together. Put the tartlets on a ! baking-tin, and bake them in a well-heated oven. I As soon as they are done enough, take them I out of the oven, and before they are cool fill them with jam or mannalade. Lay a pastiy