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Practical gastronomy and culinary dictionary

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.
Peel and core the apples, put them in a saute-pan with 2 oz. sugar and a gill of water, put the lid on, and place in a hot oven until tender. Wash the rice in lukewarm water, drain well, and put into a stewpan with the milk (which must be hot), cook slowly until the rice is almost done. Remove from the stove, and add the orange peel, finely chopped, the cherries, cut into small dice, the almonds, chopped and pounded, the butter, the remaining ounce of sugar, and the salt. Mix well together, adding the eggs at the same time. Have ready a round timbale mould, butter it well, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, and line bottom and sides thickly with the prepared rice. Place the apples in the centre, leaving out one for garnish, and cover with rice until full ; tie over with a buttered cloth, stand it 610 RECHEBCHE COOKERY. in a deep stewpan half filled with boiling water, cover over and cook for an hour. Remove the mould, let drain for a minute, then turn out on a hot dish, place the apple put aside on top, ornament with a few cherries, and serve with Sauce au Liqueur. 603. Pommes Etouffees a la Polonaise. — 4 to 6 sour cooking-apples, 2 tablespoonfuls apricot jam, 2 whites of eggs, 3 oz. castor sugar, 2 oz. crushed macaroons, ^ teaspoonful cinnamon. Peel the apples, take out the cores, and cut them into shces (crossways), about ^ inch thick. Spread the slices with apricot jam or marmalade, and pile up in a dome shape on a round silver or fire-proof china dish, previously buttered, and sprinkled with crushed macaroons. Mix about an ounce of sugar with the macaroons and ground cinnamon, and besprinkle the apple shape with this. Whisk the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, add about 2 oz. sugar and the remainder of macaroons, mask the surface of apples with this, dredge with sugar, and bake in a moderately heated oven from thirty to forty minutes. Serve as soon as done, placing the dish on a napkin on another dish of similar size. 604. Peches au Riz Meringuee. — 1 quart St. Jose peaches, 6 oz. rice, the rind of J lemon, 4 eggs, 10 oz. castor sugar, about 1 quart milk, 1 oz. butter, red-currant jelly, 1 glass Maraschino. Wash the rice in several waters, blanch it and drain well, put it in a stewpan with the milk, boil gently, add 3 oz. sugar, the butter, and lemon rind. Let it cook slowly for about thirty minutes ; remove the lemon rind, work in the yolks of 3 eggs, put into a buttered timbale mould, turn out immediately on a hot dish, strain the peaches on a hair sieve, and arrange them in a pyramidal form on top of the rice. Beat the whites of 4 eggs to a stiff froth, stir in gently 5 oz. castor sugar, and cover the whole completely with a thick layer of this ; put the remainder in a paper cornet or forcing- bag, and decorate the surface to taste. Dust well with sugar, and bake a golden colour, which will take about SWEET ENTREMETS (HOT). 611 twenty minutes. Cut some diamond shapes of red- currant jelly, and garnish the sides of the dish just before serving. Add the liqueur to the syrup, boil up, strain, and serve separately in a sauce-bowl.