Cassell's dictionary of cookery

Leicestershire Medley Pie.— Take a pound each of cold fat bacon, cold roast beef or pork, and cored apples. Line the edges of a pie-dish with a good crust made of dripping or lard. Fill it with the meat and apples in alternate layers, and season each layer with a Uttle pepper, salt, and powdered ginger. Pour half a pint of ale over all, place the lid on the top, and bake in a good oven. Time to bake, about an hour and a half. Probable cost, 2s. 3d. Sufficient for six or seven persons. Leipzig Pancakes. — Mix half a pound of flour and half a tea-spoonful of salt very smoothly with the well-beaten yolks of four and the whites of two eggs; add gradually four ounces of pounded sugar, four ounces of clarified butter, a table-spoonful of fresh yeast dissolved in three-quarters of a pint of lukewarm milk, and a table -spoonful of spirits of wine. Mix all thoroughly. Cover the batter, and put it in a warm place to rise. Roll it out thin, and fry it in small rounds. Serve the rounds in pairs, with a little jam between each pair. Time, half an hour to rise ; a few minutes to fry. Probable cost, Is. Sufficient for three or four persons. Leman's Biscuits. — Rub two ounces of fresh butter into half a pound of fine dry flour, add a pinch of salt, a table-spoonful of powdered sugar, and a piece of volatile salt the size of a bean. Work the whole iuto a stiff paste with a little lukewarm milk, and leave it for two or three hours. At the end of that time roll it out, divide it into small biscuits of different shapes, prick them with a fork, and bake upon buttered tins in a quick oven. Be careful not to let them colour in baking. Time to bake, from ten minutes to a quarter of an hour. Probable cost, 4d. Sufficient for a dozen and a haK cakes. Lemon. — The acid juice of the common lemon is much employed in the manufacture of the favourite beverage lemonade. It is also an. important article of ship stores, as a preventive of scurvy. Lemon-peel — the rind of the fruit separated from the pulp — is in demand for flavouring. The exportation of lemons from, the southern districts of Europe, where they are grown, is very considerable. Sicily alone exports every year 30,000 chests, each chest containing 440 lemons. I.EM ( 369 ) LEM Lemon and Liver Sauce for Fowls. — Wash and score the liver of the fowl, and boil it for five minutes ; drain it, and pound it in a mortar with two or three spoonfuls of good gravy. Pare otf the thin outer rind of a lemon, and mince it finely ; remove the thick white skin, cut the pulp into small pieces, mix with it a tea-spoonful of the minced rind, add half a tea-spoonful of salt, and stir the whole into half a pint of good melted butter. Make the sauce hot over the fire, but it must not boil, for fear the butter should oil. Time, half an hour to prepare. Probable cost, 3d. Sufficient for three or four persons. Lemon and Orange Candied Rings for Garnislling {■see Orange and Lemon Candied Rings). Lemon and Orange Juice for Colds [see Orange and Lemon Juice).