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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.
Custard Tartlets. — Line some patty pans -n-ith a good crust. ]Make a custard {sec Custard, Baked), flavoiu- it nicely, and three-parts fill the pans with the cu.stard. Bake the tartlets in a gentle oven. Take them out, let them cool, and spread a little sugar icing over them. This is made by mixing the whites of two eggs with two ounces of pounded loaf sugarCustard Tartlets. Strew a little more sugar on the top, and bake them in a gentle oven until the icing is crisp. If a richer tartlet is wanted, a little jam may be put under the custard. Time, about a quarter of an hour to bake the tartlets, five or six minutes to harden the icing. Probable cost, 2d. each. Allow one for each person. .- Custard and Syrup.— A pretty ^n<I.^ inexpensive dish for a Children's Party. — Make some good custard, and mix it with a little isinglass (see Custard Mould. The custard need not be so rich as the one there given.) Oil some small cups of various sizes, fill them with the custard, and when cold and firm turn them out on a glass dish, putting the large ones in the middle and the smaller ones round them. Dis- solve a Little red currant, raspberry, or goose- berry jelly with a little wine, or make a little syrup of sugar and waterCustard and Syrup, flavour it with lemon, and colour it with cochineal. AYhen nearly cold, pour this over and amongst the custards. Lay round the inside of the dish a necklace of ratafias reposing on the outer edge of the syrup. Serve each child with a whole custard, a spoon- ful of syrup, and a couple of ratafias. Time, twelve hours to stifl:en. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. Sufficient for a good-sized di.sli. Custard-without Eggs.— Mix one large table-spoonful of groimd rice or corn flour with a httle cold milk. Flavour a pint of milkCustard without Eggs with any flavouring that may be preferred, sweeten it, and pour it boiling over the rice, stirring it all the time to prevent its getting into lumps. Eetum it to the saucepan, and boil it two or three minutes. When cold, it may be used instead of custard for fruit tarts or stewed fruit. Time, three minutes to boil. Probable cost, 3d. Sufficient for one pint. Cutcharee Sauce, to serve with Kebobbed Meat. — Wash a quarter of a jiound of split peiis, and "boil them in a quart of water until quite soft. Pour off the water, and mash the peas, and mix with them one pound of boiled rice. Mince two onions very finely. Fry the onions in an ounce and a half of butter until lightly browned, stir them with the rice and peas, season them with a dozen pounded carda- mom seeds, six pounded cloves, half a tea-spoon- ful of powdered mace, half a tea-spoonful of pe^jper, and a tea-spoonful of salt. Put a quart of good veal stock into a saucepan, add the rice, peas, and onions, and stew the whole gently until the rice is quite soft. Stir in three ounces of oiled butterCutcharee Sauce, to serve with Kebobbed Meat before ser^'ing. Time, between two and three hours to boil the peas; forty minutes to stew the rice. Probable cost, Is. 4d. Sufficient for five or six persons.