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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.
and beat them weU with a fork. Take out any hard liunps that will not soften, and add a large lump of butter or di ipping, or some finely-shi-ed suet, some moist sugar, a handful of currants, and a little grated nutmeg. Put the mixture into a weU-buttered pie-dish, and bake in. a good oven. A little jam may be eaten -svith this pudding, which is generally a favourite with childi-en. Time to bake, one hour and a half or two hours. Probable cost, 2d. or 3d., exclusive of the stale bread. Cottage Soup. — Put three pounds of bones, broken into small pieces, into a stewpan, with a heaped table-spoonful of salt, a bunch of savoury herbs, a pennyworth of bruised celery- seed tied in a muslin bag, or two or three of the outer sticks of a head of celery, and four quarts of cold water. When the liquid boils, skim it, draw it to the side of the fire, and let it simmer very gently but continuously for three or four hoiu's. Strain it, and put the fat into a frj-ing-pan, with two onions sliced, and a carrot and turnip cut into dice. Fry these till lightly browned, put them with the soup, and boil it up again with a tea-spoonful of moist sugar, and half a tea-spoonful of pepper. Thicken it with four ounces of either oatmeal or prepared barley, taking care to mix them smoothly with a httle cold water before putting them with the rest of the soup. Wash half a poimd of rice, put it with the soup, boil it until tender, and serve. A little powdered mint should be sent to table with tho soup, to be used or not, according to taste. Probable cost, 3d. per quart. Sufficient for three quarts. Cottage Soup (another way). — Put a large lump of dripping the size of a turkey's egg into a stewpan, with half a pound of fresh beef cut into small pieces, two large turnips, two large carrots, and two leeks, all finely sliced. Place them over a clear fire, and move them about for eight or ten minutes, until half cooked. Add, a little at a time, two cupfuls of cold water and half a pound of rice. Boil for five or six minutes, then add four quarts of hot water, two table-spoonf ids of salt, and a dessert- spoonful of pepper. Boil once more, skim the soup well, then draw it to the side of the fire, and simmer it gently but continuously for thi-ee hours. Serve a little powdered mint with it, to be used or not, according to taste. Sufficient for three quarts. Probable cost, 4d. per quart. Cottage Soup, Baked.— Take one pint of dried pais, wash them well, and leave them all night in a quart of water. Cut half a pound of fresh meat into sHces, and lay them at the bottom of a deep stono jar. Put over them a slice of bacon, two large onions, two large carrots sliced, two or three sticks of celery, two ta'jle-spoonfuls of salCottage Soup (another way)t, one dessert- spoonful of pepper, the soaked peas, and last, four quarts of cold spring water. Cover the jar closely, and put it in a hot oven for four hours, and serve with toasted sippets. Sufficient for three quarts of soup. Probable cost, 3d. per quart. Counsellor's Pudding.— Butter the in- side of a moidd thicklv; stick the inside all over cou ( 15G) COW Counsellor's Pudding