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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.
Fry these in a httle butter over a gentle fire. Add haK a pint of stock or water, a small piece of brown thickening, a little pepper and salt, and a spoonful of ketchup. Stir the sauce till it boils, add a few drops of lemon- juice, strain it, and it will be ready for use. Time to bake the pie, an hour and a haK or more according to size. Sufiicient for five or six persons. Probable cost, 3s. 6d., plainly made. Veal and Ham, To Press {see Ham and Veal, To Press). Veal and Macaroni Pudding.— Take as much veal (free from bone) as will about three-parts fill the pudding-basin it is intended to use. When fortune is favourable, half a pound of bacon, the veal kidney or part of it, the sweetbread, or a few oysters or mushrooms, may be added to the veal. Cut the meat into smaU neat pieces, and season Avith pepper and salt. Break into one-inch lengths as much macaroni as will fill the vacant space in the pudding-basin, and soak these in lukewarm water for half an hour. Line the pudding- basin with good suet pastry. Fill it with layers of meat and macaroni, and sprinkle grated lemon and powdered mace between the layers. Add half a tea-cupful of stock or water for gravy and a dessert-spoonful of lemon-juice. Lay a pastry cover on the top of the pud- ding, tie the pudding in a floured cloth, plunge it into boiling water, and keep it boiling quickly until done enough. Take it up, untie the cloth, and run a sharp skewer into the pudding, in order to ascertain whether or not the meat is tender. If not, it will re- quire_ longer boiling. If it is done enough, turn it out carefully upon a hot dish, and serve immediately. Time to boil a pudding made with a pound and a half of veal, about two hours. Probable cost, varj-ing with the nature of the contents. Sufiicient for seven or eight persons. Veal and Rice Soup.— Take about four pounds of the knuckle of veal. Break up the bones, and put them with the meat into a small stock-pot with a gallon of stock made from bones, or water and any trimmings of meat or poultry that may be at hand. The knuckle- bone of a ham or a little scalVeal and Ham Pattiesded and scraped bacon-rind will be a great improvement. Let the liquor boil, skim well, and thi-ow into it two carrots, a tui-nip, two onions, each stuck with one clove, a few sticks of celery or a little celery-seed, and pcpjjer and salt. Simmer the stock very gently indeed for three hours. Take out the meat, and put it aside till wanted. Strain the liquor, and pour it into a smaller saucepan with half a pound of half -boiled rice. Let it simmer until the rice is quite tender. Cut the veal into pieces convenient for serving, let them become hot in the liquor. Pour the soup, with the rice and veal, into a tureen, and serve very hot. Time, foxu- hours. Probable cost, knuckle of veal, 5d. to 7d. per pound. Sufiicient for eight or ten persons.