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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.
Send to table with the following sauce poured over it : — Thix-e ounces of loaf sugar, and the juice of two orangesDombey Pudding boiled until thick, with half a wine-glassful of rum added afterwards. Pro- bable cost, 2s. 6d. Sufficient for eight persons. Dory or Caper Sauce.— Blend two ounces of butter with one table-spoonful of flour, and stir it into a saucepan containing the third part of a pint of boiling water, add equal quantities of shrimps and capers pounded, about two dessert-spoonfuls of each, and boU for some minutes ; then remove the sauce- pan from the fire, and stir in till dissolved an ounce more of butter, and two tea-spoonfuls of whole caperDory or Caper Sauces. Serve in a tm-eon. Dory, Boiled. — t'ut off the fins, and lay the fish in a kettle of cold water, salted in the proportion of three ounces of salt to one gallon of waterDory, Boiled, Let the water cover the fish, bring it to a boil gradually, and simmer till done. Be care- ful not to break the skin. This unsightly, but very excellent fish, is a near approach to the turbot in the delicacy and firmness of the flesh. It is boiled and served in the same manner as XJOU (186) DUC turbot, with lobster, anchovy, or shrimp sauce, and plain melted butter. Serve on a napkin THE DOEY. neatly rolled round the edge. Time, twenty to twenty-five minutes, according to size, after the water boils. Dough Nuts, American.— Into a pound of ilour i-ub a piece of butter the size of an egg. Add a little pounded allspice, and two table-spoonfuls of sugar. Mix a table-spoonful of milk with four eggs, and a Little lukewarm mUkDough Nuts, American. \7ork all well together, and put the mix- ture in a warm place to rise. Then roll it out about half an inch tliick, cut into pretty shapes, and fry in boiling oil or lard until the nuts are a golden brown. Drain on a moistened sieve, strew sifted sugar over the nuts, and keep them in a dry place. Time to bake, half an hour. Pro- bable cost, 8d. per pound. Dough Nuts, American (and Norway). — Rub four ounces of butter into three pounds of fine floirr ; add one pound of sugar, a tea- speonful of powdered cinnamon, and the whole <rf a nutmeg, grated. WTiisk four- eggs, and mix them gradually with a gill of yeast and as much of a pint of new milk, flavoured with rose- water, as will make the flour into a soft dough. Cover it up warm to rise, and when sufiiciently iTSen make it into balls, or into any form liked, and drop them into a saucepan of boiling lard. When of a fine bro'WTi colour they are done, and should be laid before the fire on a sieve to dry. It sometimes happens that the nuts are insuffi- ciently cooked in the middle. To insure their being done thoroughly, drop them into the lard as soon as it boils. Time to boil, five or six minutes. Probable cost for the above ingre- dients, 2s. 6d. to 3s. Dover Biscuits.— Beat half a pound of fresh butter into a cream, and stir into it half a pound of fine sugar. Beat two eggs to a froth ; add a table-spoonful of nutmeg. Mix the eggs and butter together, and blend with them three- quarters of a pound of fine flouDover Biscuitsr. Poll out the paste thin, and cut into small cakes. Time to bake, twelve to eighteen minutes. Probable cost. Is. 6d. Sufficient for two dozen or more cakes. Dowlet Pie. — To three pounds of roast or boiled veal, minced, add half a pound of beef Dowlet Pie