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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.
No. 1 . Wash thoroughly in two or three waters a head of endive and another of celery. Dry them perfectly, and put with them a small pro- portion of red cabbage finely shred, and some mustard and cress, if it is to be had. Rub the inside of a salad bowl with a slice of fresh onion, put in the mixed vegetables, toss them lightly in good salad sauce, garnish the salad with slices of boiled beetroot, and serve. No. 2. Wash a head of endive, dry it perfectly, and shred it finely. Place it in the centre of a dish, and arrange neatly round it, first, a little red cabbage, and then some white celerj- cut up small. Garnish the salad with sliced beet- root and hard-boiled eggs, cut into quarters lengthwise. Send the sauce to table in a boat, and mix it with the salad at tho moment of serving. No. 3. Take equal portions of pickled cabbage, fresh celerj', and cold boiled potato — one pound of each. Cut the celery into small pieces, throw it into boiling water for ten minutes, and drain it. Drain the cabbage from its vinegar, mix it with the celery, and add the cold boiled potatoes thinly sliced. Pepper the salad, toss it lightly in three table-spoonfuls of good Lucca oil, add a table-spoonful of chopped tarragon leaves, and serve. No. 4. Boil some small onions ; let them get cold, then place them at the bottom of a salad bowl, and put roimd them three or four gherkins chopped small. Cover with pieces of herring or an- chovy, and add a liberal allowance of pickled tunny or salmon. Sprinkle a little chopped parsley and a table-spoonful of bruised capers over the salad, and garnish with hard-boiled eggs cut into quarters lengthwise, and olives from which the kernels have been removed. Serve a good sauce with the salad. Cold boiled potatoes, brussels sprouts, endive, or celerj-, will be a valuable addition. Beetroot and raw apijles may also be added. No. 5. Procure two heads of celery ; wash and dry them, and cut the wliito stalks into pieces an inch long. Toss them lightly in a salad bowl with some mayonnaise sauce. Cover the surface with hard-boiled yolk of egg which has been rubbed through a wire sieve ; sprinkle a tea-spoonful of chopped green parsley over the egg, and garnish the celery with a border of boiled beet- root, cut into thin strips and aiTanged like trellis-work. Two or three black trufiles, chopped small and sprinkled over the egg yoUf, wiU have a very good appearance and improve the flavour of the salad. German sausage or pink ham, thinly sliced, may be served round the salad. Cold dressed vegetables, finely shred, and seasoned with pepper, salt, oil, and vinegar, may be served as a salad [see also Russian Salad). Winter Snow. — Take the white of six eggs, which will be enough lor an entremet ; whip them till they get thick ; have some milk boiling over the fire in a large stewpan ; poach several spoonfuls of the whites in it, and when done enough, drain and dish them. Next, make a sauce to pour over them in the follow- ing manner : take some of the milk in which you have poached your eggs, then put a little sugar, a little orange-flower, and a little salt ; mix the yolks of four- eggs with the same, stir WIN ( 1145 ) WOO the whole on the fire till the milk is made thick, put it through a tammy, and mask the neiges with that sauce.