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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.
more than half done : — Half a pound of minced beef, half a pound of minced ham, two hard- hoiled eggs cut up small, and half a pound of any kind of game meat or rabbit cut fine. Season highly ; stir over the fire with a gill of good cream and one ounce of butter till nearly cooked ; then add a little lemon -juice and nutmeg and a tea-spoonful of anchovj-. Bake covered with greased paper till half- done. 82. Rice (Turkish Fashion). Boil the rice as in recipe No. 36. Fry the rice with butter, cayenne, and saffron powder ; season with salt, and throw in a handful of cleansed Smyrna raisins. Put this rice as a border to the curry prepared as in No. 8. 83. EiCE (Polish Fashion). Cut an onion into very thin slices, and fry in a pan with butter, then add two ounces of cooked ham cut in shreds and six ounces of Australian meat cut in dice. Take the rice as prepared in No. 36, season with a pinch of cayenne pepper and a table-spoonful of grated cheese. Stir all together lightly over the fire, and serve quite hot. 84. Rice (Milanese Fasliion). Fr3^ the rice {see No. 36) in a pan with butter, season with grated cheese ; add six ounces of Australian meat cut in dice, half a pint of boiled and picked shrimps (lobster or crab will do), season, and serve hot with a tea-spoonful of anchovYol-au-A'enty stirred in. 85. Rice (Spanish Fashion). Fry the rice {sec No. 36) till of a golden colour in oil, using only just enough to fry it ; then add either a large table-spoonful of prepared tomato sauce or two large ripe red tomatoes squeezed free from seeds and watery juice through a wire sieve. Season with Spanish sauce, pepper, and grated cheese. Pile up lightly in a hot dish, and garnish round with curry No. 8. 86. Fraxgipane of Muttox. Steam some good mealy potatoes, skin them, mash them till smooth, put them into a sauce- pan with three eggs. Stir all together till cool enough to make them up with the hand. Take the marrow from a beef -bone, cut it up as suet, take a quarter of a pound of mutton cut into tiny dice, a quarter of a pound of bread-crumbs, season it well, and pour in two table-spoonfuls of cream, mix well together ; flour the hands, and roll a small bit of the frangipane into a ball, hollow it with the flat part of a spoon, fill it with the mince, close it wp, flour well, and when you have enough for a small dish fry them till light brown, or bake in quick oven. Serve hot, garnished with parsley. 87. Cakes of Meat. Prepare some mince ; to each table- spoonful of mince add one tea-spoonful of bread-crumbs, enough egg to bind them, a little finely-chopped parsley, and pepper and salt to taste!! Take a bit of the mince in floured hands, roll it in a ball, then flatten it into a cake, dip in egg and seasoned bread-crumbs, and bake in a quick oven. Serve with a little good gravy and fried bacon in strips. 88. Gateau de Bceuf. Take two pounds at least of beef, one of ham^ mince them up fine, and season well. Take an ox foot, and boil till the foot separates. Take it out, and cut off all the meat, and mince and season it. Lay it in a round tin that has been wetted with vinegar, boil up the liquor, and pour it over till quite full and well soaked into the meat. AVhen cold turn out, and it will eat like brawn. 89. Madras Curry. Madras Curry