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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 Sausages. — Take equal poi-tions of fat bacon and lean pork, one pound of each ; mince them. Blanch and parboil a sweetbread for half an hour, also three or four fowls' livers. Put all into a mortar, with salt, pejiper, half a tea-spoonful of sugar, the same of saltpetre, and a little mace. Wash, brush, andjpeel two truffles, and add them, with a clove of garlic. AVhen rubbed together, and reduced to a smooth mass, sprinkle a dozen peppercorns over the meat ; and as the skias are being filled, some verj' thin long strips of bacon may be added, if the meat is not considered sufficiently rich; these can be put in easily when the skins are large. Hang to dry. The sausages may be eaten cooked or otherwise, but they are best cold, Time, five minutes to boil livers. French SoufiB.e. — Put a piece of butter, the size of a small egg, and stir it over the fii-e, in a clean saucepan, with two table-spoonfuls of flour. "V^Hien thick (it must not brown), have ready half a pint of boiling milk and two table- spoonfuls of cream, and stu- the whole together. Pour it up into a bowl when smooth and thick, and flavour with maraschino, noyeau, or to taste. Beat up the yolks of five eggs, vnth two ounces of pounded sugar ; add them, wdth the whites of eight eggsFrench Soufflé whisked to a stifl' froth, and bake carefully in a souffle dish. Time, about one hour. Probable cost. Is. 3d. for this quantity. French Supper Dish.— Cut neat pieces of bread of uniform size, about three inches square, fry them delicately in butter, and set them before the fire on a hot dish. Stew a few muscatel raisins in a little sweet wineFrench Supper Dish and some iRE (231 ) PRO suirar. Cover the pieces of bread with them, or Wcirm some preserve, by placing it over boilin<>: water, and serve with the preserve on the top of each piece. I'ime, half an hoiir to prepare. French. Timbale. — Line a round weU- buttered mould with short paste, and put a thiu layer of forcemeat to correspond, com- posed of calf's livef and bacon pounded, and highly seasoned with mace, nutmeg, lemon- peel, 'marjoram, thyme, and a couple of cloves of garlic (the bacon and liver should be semi- fried sei»rately before being pounded), cayenne pepper, and salt. Lard a piece of the hllet of veal, about thi-ee pounds, and cut it in thick slices across the grain of the meat. Fill up the mould with alteinate layers of the veal, small thin slices of boiled ham, and the forcemeat, not forgetting to season with herbs and spices as above Roll out paste for a cover ; see that it is even roimd the edge, and securely closed ; pinch it roimd with pastry pincers. ]Make an ornament of leaves with some of the paste, brush with agg, and bake in a moderate oven. When done, and the heat has passed from it, pour in a tliin glaze through the top, made from the bones and trimmings of veal, and some jelly of calf's foot. Time, two hours and a half to bake. Probable cost of veal. Is. 4d. per pound. Sufficient for seven or eight persons.