Cassell's dictionary of cookery

about three inches across. Beat them well, and smear them with the yolk of egg. Cover the collops with the bread-crumbs and curry-powder. They should be thickly incrusted with crumbs, and will require to be again saturated with the egg-yolk. Dip them into it this time, and powder well with the Ijread-crumbs. Fry in plenty of butter, and make a sauce with more butter, a little curry-powder, and some good gravy. Thicken with Hour, and add the juice (strained) of a lemon. Boil, and serve round the collops. Time, twenty minutes to fry. Probable cost, 3s. Sufficient for an entree. Ingoldsby Christmas Pudding.— Take of stoned raisins, well-washed currants, and finely-shred suet, each one pound; of flour and stale grated bread-crumbs, mixed, one ])Ound ; and one pound of sifted sugar. Put these ingredients into a large bowl with a quarter of an ounce each of candied peel, cut into bits, and mixed spice, the grated rind of a lemon, and a small nutmeg. Moisten with eight eggs, strained and well beaten, and two glasses of brandy or rum. This quantity will make two good-sized puddings, enough for six persons. Time, six hours and a half for the whole quantity, four hours for half. Probable cost, 3s. 4d., exclusive of the brandy. Inky-pinky. — Cut slices of under-done roast beef about half an inch thick, and remove the skin and gristle. Boil these trimmings for two hours with the bones, chopped small, until a strong gravy is obtained. Add it to whatever may have been left from the roasting of the previous day, and strain into a clean stewpan, in which simmer the slices of meat, cold boiled carrot, and an onion cut into quarters. Do not allow it to boil, or the meat will be tough. Add pepper and salt, and a little vinegar or ketchup, thicken the gravy with flour, and serve very hot with sippets of toasted bread. Time to simmer, twenty minutes. Institution Cup (an American drink). — Cut an orange into slices, pour over these a glass of brandy, and add a pint of champagne, I a gill each of strawberry and pine-apple syrup, i and a tumbler of ice in shaves. These ingredients should be well mixed and strained into i tumblers. Invalid's Cutlet.— Get a cutlet from the loin or neck of well-fed, fat mutton, but cut away all the fat, and leave nothing but the lean, which put into a stewpan, with just enough water to cover it and a very little salt. Stew gently, and add a small quantity of celery cut into thin shavings. Carefully skim off any fat that may appear on the top, and when it has stewed about two hours without boiling, the meat will be easy of digestion. Add pepper and salt to taste. Time to stew celery, thirty to thirty-five minutes. Invalid's Lemonade. — Put about half of a sliced lemon, pared and divested of the inner sldn or pith, with the parings, and an ounce or two of lump sugar, into a jug, pour boiling water over these ingredients, and cover closely. In two hours strain for use. To the above quantity of lemon add a pint of water, which will make a refreshing lemonade. Probable cost, 2d. Sufficient for a pint.