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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.
Delaville Pudding. — Take of candied peel, oiange, citron, and lemon each one ounce, slice them very finely, and cover the bottom of a dish which should be lined with a rich puff paste. Put six ounces of good butter into a clean saucepan, and beat into it the same quan- tity of finely-sifted sugar, stir it over a slow fire, adding gradually the yolks of four well- beaten eggs. "VNQien ready to boil, pour the mixture into the pie-dish over the candied peel, and bake slowly. Time, three-quarters of an hour to bake. Probable cost, 2s. Sufficient for three or four persons. Delaware Pudding.— Make a good suet crust in the iiroportion of one pound of flour to half a pound of suet. Prepare four large apples, take out the cores, and divide them into slices; put these into a lined saucepan with two large table-spoonfuls of sugar, a tea-spoon- ful of minced lemon-peel, and a little grated nutmegDelaware Pudding. "When slightly pulped, roll out the paste thin, cover it to within an inch of the margin with the apples, and strew the currants on it, then roll up the pudding in a floured cloth, securing the ends properly, and boil for about two hours. Probable cost. Is. Suflicient for four or five persons. Deptford Pudding.— Beat the yolks of five eggs and tlio whites of three in separate Ijasins. " Put a quart of new milk into a well- lined .saucepan, and stii" into it, as soon as it boils, six ounces of bread-crumbs, and the rind of a Ic'.non grated'. Sweeten to -taste, and add to it six ounces of melted butter and the cg^ DES ( 184) DEV mixture, yolks and whites. Have ready a pic- dish, lino it with piiff j)aste, and put some marmahideDeptford Pudding at the bottom. Bake in a moderate oven. Time, one hour to bake. Probable cost. Is. 6d., without marmalade. Sufficient for eight persons. Derwentwater Cakes. — Divide four eggs, beat up tlio yolks and whisk the whites to a froth. Eub half a pound of good fresh butter into one pound of flour, add half a pound of well- washed currants, and the same quantity of powdered sugarDerwentwater Cakes. Mix the flour with the eggs to a stift' paste. Roll and cut into small round cakes. 13ake in a slow oven for fifteen minutes. Probable cost. Is. 8d. Suiiicient for one dozen or more cakes. Dessert Biscuits. — ^\'hip half a poimd of good fresh butter to a cream. If the weather be cold, place it beside the fire before com- mencing operations, but it should not oil. "N^Tien beaten to a cream add the flour and sugar slowly and gradually, then the flavouring of lemon, ratafia, cinnamon, &c., and lastly, mix all together with the beaten yolks of half a dozen eggs. Butter a paper and lay it over a cake tin, drop some of the mixture on it at equal distances, so separating the biscuits that they may have space to S2)rcad, which they will do as soon as they get warm. See that the oven is not too hot, and that they do not get highly coloured. Time, twelve to eighteen minutes. Probable cost, Is. 6d. Dessert Cakes. — Beat a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream, and add to it gra- dually an equal weight of finely-sifted sugar, and the same of groiind rice, and as much baking j^owder as would cover a sixpence. Mix thoroughly, tlien stir in three well-beaten eggsDessert Cakes. Pour into well-oiled tins, and bake in a good oven. Time to bake, ten minutes. Sufficient for one dozen cakes. Probable cost, 8d. Dessert Ice Currants. — To the beaten Dessert Ice Currants