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Harper's cook book encyclopædia

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Take a few squash and middle-sized cucumbers, pare, cut them lengthwise into slips, empty their seeds, and di- vide them again into dice. Pare and core four sour apples, or tomatoes, and slice a couple of Spanish onions. These last fry, slightly browning them, in a large stewpan, with % lb. of good, fresh butter. Throw in the other vegetables before the butter has acquired much color, and stir them gently round. Shake the pan fre- quently, and stew gently over a slow fire until half done, when add from two to three large table-spoonfuls of good curry powderMulligatawny Soup, Vegetable, and stew the vegetables until they will pulp, pour- ing in boiling veal stock enough to cover. Strain through a coarse hair sieve, pressing the pulp with a wood- en spoon. Add more stock, or even water, if stock be not at hand, accord- ing to the quantity of soup required, and any additional seasoning — salt, cayenne, or lemon-juice. Thicken if necessary with a very little ground rice or arrow-root, and serve with rice, if liked ; but it should be, if properly made, quite thick enough without any addition. Time, two hours to pre- pare. Mulligatawny with Veal SOUPS Onion Soup, Brown Mulligatawny with Veal. — Prepare on the previous day some good veal stock ; cut two common-sized onions into fine rings and fry them in 2 ozs. of good, fresh butter ; just as they are turning to a golden color, stir in three table -spoonfuls of the best mulliga- tawny paste you can procure. Bar- rie’s Madras mulligatawny paste is the best for this purpose. If, how- ever, you cannot get it, then take two heaped -up table -spoonfuls of good curry powder, and mix it to a paste very gradually with a little veal stock and a few drops of lemon- juice. If you do not wish the soup to be very highly seasoned, use less powder. When you have stirred the paste or powder, as the case may be, into the frying-pan with the onions, add gradually enough of the stock to make the mixture about the con- sistency of a mayonnaise sauce. If 37ou like your soup rather sweet, add some currant jelly, about a dessert- spoonful ; the same quantity of good chutney should also be added, and three pints of the veal stock. Let it all simmer together for twenty minutes. Pound during this time 4 ozs. of co- coa nut or 4 ozs. of sweet almonds in a mortar, moistening with milk ; strain the mixture into the soup, and then take it off the fire ; pass it through a tin strainer into a clean bowl ; skim carefully, and when heating for use thicken with butter and flour. Al- low to reach boiling-point, then take off the fire, and having put a small cupful of fresh creamMulligatawny with Veal into the soup- tureen, pour the soup on to it. Well- boiled rice is generally sent to table with this mulligatawny. Mutton Broth. — Lean meat is best for broth ; from 2 to 3 lbs. of the scrag end of the neck is suited to the pur- pose, and if for a plain broth, not requiring much strength, allow a quart of water to each pound of meat. Put quite cold water on the meat, and set it over a slow fire to heat grad- ually. Simmer gently, and remove the scum. When no more scum is to be seen, and the meat is sufficiently