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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.
French Raised Pie. — It will require some ])n((tirf t(i mould the paste for this i^ie to the desired shape, but ha\'ing succeeded in making the paste, which is sometimes simply made of floui', mixed with boihng water, in which a little lard is dissolved, and is not intended to be, eaten, the rest of the work is easy enough. Mould according to the hints given by the celebrated Monsieur Ude, of which the fol- lowing is a copy : — " Take a lump of paste, according to the size of the pie you are to make, mould it in the shape of a sugar-loaf, put it up- light on the table, and with the palms of your hands flatten the sides of it; when you have equahsed it all round, and it is quite smooth, squeeze the point of the cone down to half the height of the paste ; then hollow the inside by pressing it with the fingers, and in doing this be careful to keep it in every part of equal thickness. FiU it. roll out the cover, egg the edges, press them securely together, make a hole in the centre, lay a roll of paste round it, and encircle this with a wreath of leaves, or ornament the pie in any other way, according to taste; glaze it with the beaten yolk of egg, and bake it from two to three hours in a well-heated oven, if it be small, and from foui- to five hours if it be large ; the time must be regulated by the nature of the contents and size of the dish. When baked, fill with game, poultry, or a fricassee of chicken, rabbit, &c. Serve on a napkin. French Rolls. — Rub together a pound of flour and an ounce of butter ; when well blended mix -with, the flour and butter a small quantity of yeast vrith enough milk to form a stiff dough, an egg, and a little saltFrench Rolls. Do not knead the dough, but use a wooden spoon, let it rise, and bake on tins. WTien brown and ready to be taken out of the oven, brush over with beaten egg, and keep the rolls a minute or two longer to dry. Time, from fifteen to twenty minoites to bake. Probable cost. Id. Sufficient for six rolls. French Salad.— It would be difficult to particularize a French salad. It is composed of everything or anything. Many improvised dishes of salad, such as beans, potatoes, cauliflower, and celery (cooked), are served at a French table, seasoned with salt, pepper, oil, vinegar, chopped tan-agon, or a little tarragon A-inegar. Fish salads, too, are highly relished, namely, the remains of any solid fish, such as cod, sole, or turbot, for which the following sauce will be found excellent, as it •will be also for a lettuce or other vegetable salad : — Bruise the yolks of two hard-boUed eggs with a wooden spoon, and moisten with a raw egg ; put this egg-mixtui-e into a bowl, -ndth two salt-spoonfuls of salt, a little pepper, and a pinch of cayenne ; add by degrees oil and vinegar, alternately, until the required quantity, three table-spoonfuls of oil and one of vinegar, which may be tarragon, has been mixed. Keep the sauce stuTcd and well smoothed with the spoon. Add half a tea- spoonf ul of shred onion, and the same of chervil and tarragon, if plain vinegar has been used with the oil. Two table-spoonfuls of thick creamFrench Salad or melted butter will make the sauce richer and better, and the whites of eggs may be chopped and added to the salad.