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“How fair This earth were if all living things be linked Bloodless and pure.” It will be seen that fish has been excluded from this little volume, because it does not come within the range of legitimate vegetarian fare; although many who “bid adieu to carnal dishes, to solid meats, and highly-spiced ragouts,” give it a prominent place in the daily menu. I trust those who put the recipes given herein to the test will find they merit the somewhat ambitious title under which they appear. My aim is to suggest dainty and nourishing dishes to vegetarians, which are not extravagant, and which can be easily carried out by the average “good plain” cook. One thing I would ask in this connection is, that the recipe be read through and the intention grasped before operations are begun. It is an interesting fact that the same recipe may give an absolutely...
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One pound Stachys (or Japanese artichokes), white vegetable stock, curry sauce. Method. —Parboil the little tubers, peel them and finish cooking them until they are tender in the stock, then follow the directions given for Chestnut Curry on page 43 ....
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One pound artichokes, 4 hard-boiled eggs, ³⁄₄ pint white sauce, 2 oz. macaroni, grated cheese, 1 oz. butter, tomato sauce, 1 raw yolk, lemon-juice. Method. —Cook the artichokes until they are just tender and cut them into rather thick slices. Then cut as many hard-boiled eggs as are required for the dish (allow one for each person and one over) also into slices, and heat the artichokes and eggs in the white sauce, which should be nicely flavoured and mixed with the raw yolk, beaten up with a teaspoonful of lemon-juice or tarragon vinegar. Place the saucepan containing the fricassee on the stove in a larger pan of boiling water to prevent the sauce from curdling, and stir occasionally. Drain the macaroni, as soon as it has been boiled until it is quite tender, and put it back into the saucepan in which it was cooked, with an ounce of...
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Jerusalem artichokes, batter, fat, grated cheese. Method. —Peel the artichokes and put them into a saucepan containing plenty of boiling, salted water, and let them boil for twenty minutes. Then drain them on a soft cloth and cut them, on a floured board, into moderately thick slices; have ready prepared a light, thick batter, and also a pan of deep, boiling fat; dip the pieces of artichoke into the batter and drop them into the fat and let them cook until they are a golden brown. Serve the fritters piled upon a hot dish with a little grated Parmesan (or Cheddar) cheese scattered over them....
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Jerusalem artichokes, white sauce, grated cheese, butter, dried breadcrumbs. Method. —Peel some artichokes and with a vegetable cutter shape them into little balls (the size of a large marble) and cook them in salted water until they begin to get tender, then drain them at once and put them into a saucepan containing some warm butter (dairy or nut butter may be used), which has been seasoned with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and a few drops of lemon-juice; cover the pan and let them simmer for about ten minutes. Prepare a thick white sauce (see recipe on page 106 ) and add a tablespoonful of mild, grated cheese to each half pint; pour a small quantity of the sauce over a buttered gratin dish and arrange the artichokes in it, then cover them with the remainder of the sauce; pour the remains of the butter in which the artichokes were cooked...
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One pound of artichokes, ³⁄₄ pint white sauce, 1 tablespoonful cream, 1 oz. grated Gruyère, 1 oz. grated Parmesan cheese, ¹⁄₂ lb. short paste, vegetable stock. Method. —Parboil the little artichokes, remove the skins and finish cooking them in vegetable stock. Line a buttered pastry ring with the paste (about a quarter of an inch thick) and fill it with some uncooked rice, or split peas, wrapped in greased paper and bake in a quick oven until it is very lightly coloured. Then take it out and remove the filling and turn the case carefully from the ring on to a baking sheet; fill it with the artichokes (taking care they are thoroughly drained), pour the sauce over them and put the case back into a fairly quick oven until the surface of the sauce is lightly browned. The sauce should be quite thick and after taking it from the...
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Four globe artichokes, 1¹⁄₂ lbs. salad potatoes (which are close and firm), 2 hard-boiled eggs, seasoning, ¹⁄₂ pint nicely-flavoured brown sauce (thick), a dessertspoonful tomato catsup, 2 mushrooms, parsley, onion, ¹⁄₂ lb. short paste. Method. —Boil some globe artichokes in the usual way and remove all the leaves and the “choke” and cut the remaining portion into quarters; cook also the peeled salad potatoes, taking them from the fire directly they are tender, and cut them into moderately thick slices; mince two good sized mushrooms and mix them with a large dessertspoonful of chopped parsley and a teaspoonful of scalded onion, which has been minced. Line a buttered pie-dish with the short paste, which should be fairly thin, then fill it with layers of the artichokes and potatoes (mixed) with a few pieces of hard boiled egg, cut in quarters, and over each layer scatter some of the mushroom mixture...
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Jerusalem artichokes, palmine (vegetable butter), seasoning. Method. —Wash, peel, and trim the artichokes and throw them as they are done into a basin of cold acidulated water (produced by the addition of a small quantity of vinegar or lemon-juice), then dry them on a cloth and put them into a baking tin containing some warm palmine, sprinkle a little salt, pepper, and nutmeg over the artichokes and bake them in a well-heated oven until they are evenly browned, which should be in about three quarters of an hour. They should be basted frequently, and if the heat is fierce, a piece of greased paper should be placed over them until they are nearly done; drain the artichokes on soft paper on taking them from the fat, scatter a little chopped parsley over them, and serve with a dish of spaghetti à l’Italienne....
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Half a pound of artichokes, 1¹⁄₂ gills very thick white sauce, 2 ozs. dry, powdered breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoonful lemon-juice, 1 whole egg and 1 yolk, puffed potatoes. Method. —Prepare and cook the artichokes as in the recipe for Artichokes à la Mornay, and when they are quite tender, drain them thoroughly and cut them up into small pieces, have the sauce ready, add the yolk of a raw egg to it, which has been beaten up with the lemon-juice, and ascertain that it has sufficient seasoning, then mix the artichokes with it and spread them out on a flat dish to get cold. Take about a dessertspoonful of the mixture at a time, and form it on a floured board into little balls; dip them into beaten egg, then cover thickly with the breadcrumbs, and after allowing time for them to dry, fry the rissoles in deep, boiling fat. The...
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Two ounces butter, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. flour, ¹⁄₂ pint milk, 2 eggs, ¹⁄₂ pint sieved artichokes, 1 dessertspoonful grated cheese, lemon-juice, salt, pepper, nutmeg, curry powder. Method. —Melt the butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour gradually; when a smooth paste is formed, pour in the milk by degrees, stirring quickly all the time with a wooden spoon to prevent lumps forming, and continue the stirring until a perfectly smooth, thick sauce is made. Remove the saucepan from the fire and add the yolks of the eggs, beating one into the sauce before adding the other; then stir in the cheese (preferably Parmesan), a squeeze of lemon-juice, and season with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and a small saltspoonful of curry powder. Have ready some well-boiled Jerusalem artichokes which have been passed through a sieve, add a liberal half pint to the soufflé mixture, and then stir in lightly the whites...
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Some red haricot beans, a small onion, a few pieces of celery, tomato sauce (recipe, page 106 ), spinach, eggs (allowing one for each person), butter, seasoning. Method. —Soak the beans over night, wash them and put them into a saucepan of cold, salted water; as soon as it has boiled rapidly pour off the water and fill up the saucepan with boiling water, adding the onion, celery, and salt, pepper and nutmeg, and let the beans boil gently until the skins will break easily. Then turn them into a colander and remove the skins; melt an ounce or two of butter (a liberal quantity should be allowed) in an earthenware pipkin; put in the beans, pour the tomato sauce over them, cover closely (tying a piece of greased paper over the top if the lid does not fit well) and stand the pipkin in a pan of hot water...
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As many eggs as are required for a dish, chopped parsley, lemon-thyme, minced shallot, breadcrumbs, seasoning, 3 or 4 tomatoes, 3 ozs. spaghetti, butter, 2 ozs. mild, grated cheese, watercress. Method. —Butter as many china ramekin cases as there are eggs; mix some chopped parsley, a very little lemon-thyme and a small quantity of shallot with some fine white breadcrumbs; season with salt, pepper, and a little curry powder, and sprinkle the mixture thickly over the inside of the cases. Break one egg at a time into a coffee cup, and turn it carefully into one of the ramekins; pour a teaspoonful of warm butter over the top and cover with the remains of the herb mixture and bake at once in a hot oven until the whites of the eggs are set. Have ready the tomatoes cut in half and fried; turn the eggs from the cups and put...
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Two ounces of butter, 1¹⁄₂ gills water, ¹⁄₂ lb. dry, sifted flour, 2 eggs, 2 yolks, seasoning, grated Parmesan, sea-kale, celery, or cauliflower, white sauce. Method. —Put the water into a stewpan with the butter; as soon as it boils draw the pan to the side of the stove and add the flour, by degrees, stirring quickly all the time with a wooden spoon, and when it is all worked in, a perfectly smooth paste should result. Continue the stirring for a few minutes until the paste is sufficiently dry to leave the sides of the pan, then remove it from the stove and let it cool a little, but it must not get cold; add the eggs, beating one into the paste before putting in the second, then add two more yolks in the same way and season well with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. The paste should now be...
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One pint young, shelled peas, mint, ¹⁄₄ pint thick white sauce, ¹⁄₄ lb. flour, 1¹⁄₂ tablespoonfuls salad oil, 2 eggs. Method. —Put the flour into a basin, make a hollow in the middle and pour in the oil mixed with a quarter of a pint of tepid water, and work in the flour by degrees until it is perfectly smooth, then add one egg at a time, beating each separately into the batter; cover the basin with a cloth and leave for an hour or two. Cook the peas until tender in boiling water, to which salt, two lumps of sugar, and a few leaves of mint have been added. When done, drain them and cover with a thick white sauce, which should be delicately flavoured with chopped mint, and keep hot. Brush some plain dariole moulds over with hot fat, line them with the batter, and plunge them at...
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One pound French beans (preferably the stringless variety), 2 ozs. butter, 1 tablespoonful minced parsley, a few leaves of tarragon (minced), ¹⁄₂ teaspoonful finely-minced shallot, 1 tablespoonful lemon-juice, salt, pepper, nutmeg, castor sugar, eggs, frying batter. Method. —Boil the French beans, leaving them whole; if neither stringless nor sufficiently young for the strings not to be noticeable, remove the latter and cut the beans into large diamond-shaped pieces. Directly they are tender drain them thoroughly, finishing them on a soft cloth, and put them into a hot dish; have rather more than one and a half ounces of the butter hot in a saucepan, with a tablespoonful of parsley, the shallot, tarragon, lemon-juice, and seasoning; pour the mixture over the beans and serve them accompanied by egg fritters made thus: Butter as many china egg-poachers as are required and scatter over them a little chopped parsley, salt, and pepper, then...
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Beans, white sauce, eggs, butter, finely-chopped parsley, minced onion, chopped tarragon, seasoning, croutons. Method. —Boil the beans in salted water until they are tender, drain them, remove the skins and rub them through a wire sieve; put them into a saucepan containing a small quantity of butter; add sufficient thick white sauce to bring them to a fairly soft consistency, then season with celery salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and make the purée hot. Then mould it on a hot dish into the shape of a thick oval cake, smoothing the surface, and with a spoon make as many little hollows (they must not be deep), at even distances, as there are eggs, and into each hollow put one of the eggs, prepared as below, and garnish the edge of the moulded beans with little triangular-shaped croutons of fried bread. Butter as many china egg-cookers as are required, and sprinkle sufficient...
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One quart of beans, ¹⁄₄ pint sieved tomatoes, vegetable stock, 1 small onion, 2 ozs. butter, seasoning, potato border, 2 or 3 eggs, parsley. Method. —Mince the onion and fry it in a stewpan until it begins to change colour (it must on no account be allowed to get brown) in one ounce of butter; then add a quart of shelled beans, which are still quite small, and pour in sufficient nicely-flavoured vegetable stock to cover them; place a sheet of buttered paper over them before putting on the lid, and let them simmer gently until they are tender, adding a little more stock if necessary, but when done it should be nearly all absorbed. Have ready a neatly-made border of mashed potato, which has been baked until brown in the oven, and the tomato pulp hot in a small saucepan; add the remaining ounce of butter to it and...
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Eight ounces of butter (or haricot) beans, 1 small onion, 1 turnip, 1 carrot, chopped parsley, 2 ozs. butter, 1 egg. Method. —Soak the beans for at least twelve hours in cold water, then boil them until tender with the vegetables and, after draining them thoroughly, pass them together through a wire sieve into a basin. Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, add rather less than two ounces of butter and an egg, and beat the mixture for a few minutes, then press it into a buttered mould; tie a piece of greased paper over the top and stand it in the oven in a pan of boiling water and let it cook for three quarters of an hour. Leave the mould on the kitchen table for a few moments on taking it from the oven, then turn the contents on to a hot dish; scatter the chopped parsley over...
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Half a pound of short paste, ¹⁄₂ root of celeriac, ¹⁄₂ lb. butter beans, ¹⁄₂ pint white sauce (see recipe on page 106 ), ¹⁄₂ oz. butter, chopped parsley. Method. —Line a buttered pastry ring (about six inches in diameter) with the paste, which should be a quarter of an inch thick, and fill it with about a teacupful of rice wrapped up securely in greased paper and bake in a quick oven. When done remove the rice and turn the pastry case carefully from the ring and place it on a shelf in the oven where the heat is moderate, for about five minutes; the appearance will be improved if the sides and edge are brushed over with egg before the case is put back in the oven. Serve it filled with beans, prepared according to the directions given below, and scatter the chopped parsley over the surface. If...
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A medium-sized red cabbage, 2 small onions, 1 carrot, 1 small turnip, 3 ozs. Brazil nuts, 3 ozs. pine nut kernels (or Cob nuts), 4 ozs. bread, boiling milk, 2¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 1 egg, thick brown sauce, seasoning, fried breadcrumbs. Method. —Partly cook the cabbage, then drain it and make a hollow in the middle beginning at the stalk end, fill it with the nut forcemeat, and tie a wide piece of tape round it. Melt one ounce of butter (dairy or nut) in a stewpan and put in an onion, the carrot and turnip, each cut into slices; season with salt and pepper, and fry gently for ten minutes; then put in the cabbage and pour in sufficient brown sauce to about half cover it; place a piece of greased paper over the pan before putting on the lid, and put it in a moderately hot oven for about...
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One bunch young carrots, 2 or 3 tomatoes, 2 ozs. butter, ¹⁄₄ pint thick brown sauce, white stock, milk, 1 teacupful rice, seasoning, chopped parsley. Method. —Put the rice, after washing it well, into a saucepan containing plenty of cold water and bring it gradually to boiling point and let it boil for ten minutes; then pour off the water and add an equal quantity of milk and nicely-flavoured, colourless vegetable stock and let it cook until it is very tender and all the liquid is absorbed. Add one ounce of butter to the rice, a tablespoonful of tomato catsup and some salt, pepper, nutmeg, and a pinch of curry powder and put it into a well-buttered border mould, pressing it down firmly, and bake in a fairly quick oven for half an hour. Scrape and trim the carrots (preferably the French round variety), and cook them in salted water...
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Two pounds of cooked potatoes, 2 ozs. butter, 3 tablespoonfuls cream (or milk), 2 raw yolks, 1 whole raw egg, breadcrumbs, seasoning, 1 pint peas, 1 tablespoonful minced onion, ¹⁄₄ teaspoonful chopped mint. Method. —Put one ounce of butter into an earthenware casserole with the onion and cook gently for five minutes (without colouring), then add the peas and simmer them for ten minutes in the butter, turning them constantly with a wooden spoon; at the end of the time season with salt, pepper, and castor sugar, add the mint and a quarter of a pint of water; bring the latter gradually to boiling point, then cover the peas closely with a greased paper before putting on the lid of the casserole, and let them cook very gently until they are quite tender. They must be stirred from time to time, and if they get too dry a little more...
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Six ounces of rice, colourless vegetable stock, 2¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoonful finely-chopped parsley, 2¹⁄₂ ozs. onion (scalded and minced), ¹⁄₂ dessertspoonful chopped tarragon and chervil (mixed), 1 tablespoonful ground sweet almonds, 1 teaspoonful curry powder, Plasmon, breadcrumbs. Method. —Put the rice into a saucepan of cold salted water; bring it gradually to boiling point and let it boil for six minutes, then rinse it in cold water, and cook it until quite tender in the vegetable stock; drain it well, and put it back into the saucepan with one ounce of butter to dry; season it with salt, pepper, and curry powder, and fill some buttered dariole moulds with it, pressing it in firmly and put aside to get cold. Then turn out the moulded rice; dip it in beaten egg and cover it thickly with very fine, dried breadcrumbs mixed with an equal quantity of Plasmon...
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A medium-sized cauliflower, butter, 2 tablespoonfuls flour, ¹⁄₂ pint milk, 1 egg, ¹⁄₂ teaspoonful baking powder, brown sauce, seasoning. Method. —Put the flour into a basin, season with salt and pepper, make a hollow in the middle, and pour in gradually sufficient cold milk to form a perfectly smooth paste. Work this well with a wooden spoon, and then stir in the remainder of the milk; cover the basin with a cloth and leave it for two hours. Boil the cauliflower until it is just tender; drain all the moisture from it and divide it into small pieces and put into a buttered gratin (or pie) dish, and season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Whisk the egg to a thick froth and add it to the batter, then stir in the baking powder and pour over the cauliflower; place a few pieces of butter on the top, and bake at...
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A nice compact cauliflower, mashed potato, ¹⁄₂ pint curry sauce, 2 hard-boiled eggs, 2 tomatoes. Method. —Boil the cauliflower until it is tender and drain it carefully on a hot, soft cloth. Make some mashed potato into a moderately thick, round cake and fry it in a small quantity of hot fat until it is nicely browned, then turn it on to a hot dish; place the cauliflower on it and cover the latter with the curry sauce, to which the eggs have been added after being coarsely chopped; garnish the edge of the dish with slices of fried tomato and serve directly it is ready. A recipe for curry sauce will be found on page 104 ....
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One medium-sized cauliflower, 1 oz. butter, 1 oz. minced onion, 3 ozs. pine kernels, 1 gill white sauce, as many eggs as are required, some round croutons of fried bread, seasoning. Method. —Cook the cauliflower carefully, keeping it whole and compact; drain it well on a soft cloth and place it in a fireproof dish; mask it with the white sauce (which may with advantage be slightly flavoured with cheese), and sprinkle the nuts, prepared according to the directions below, over it evenly and put into the oven for two or three minutes to ensure it being very hot, and serve surrounded by egg-balls placed separately on little round croutons. Wash the pine kernels two or three times in boiling water and pass them through a nut-mill or fine mincer; melt the butter in a small omelet pan and put in the onion and kernels; season with salt and pepper...
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A cooked cauliflower, butter, lemon-juice, seasoning, frying batter, watercress. Method. —Melt a small quantity of butter, add a squeeze of lemon-juice and season it with celery salt, pepper, and a dust of curry powder; divide the cauliflower (which should be thoroughly drained) into little branches; dip these in the butter and put them aside until the butter has become hard. Then dip them separately into a thick frying batter, and drop them into a saucepan containing an abundance of boiling fat; directly the fritters are a golden brown remove them, and, after draining them on soft paper, dish them up and garnish with watercress, which has been lightly dressed with oil and vinegar....
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One small cauliflower, 2 tomatoes, 2 oz. butter, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. flour, 2 eggs, ¹⁄₂ pint milk, 1 dessertspoonful grated cheese, seasoning. Method. —Cook the cauliflower and divide it into little branches; remove the skin and seeds from the tomatoes and cut them up into small pieces. Melt the butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour; when a thick paste is formed add the milk, by degrees, stirring quickly all the time and continue the stirring until the mixture has boiled for a few minutes and is perfectly smooth and very thick. Remove the pan from the stove and add the cheese and salt, pepper, and a little nutmeg, then beat in separately the yolks of the eggs, and when they are well mixed, add the cauliflower and the tomatoes, turn the mixture into a buttered pie-dish and put it in a moderate oven for ten minutes. Add a...
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Half a root of celeriac, 1 oz. butter, ¹⁄₂ pint water, 4 ozs. flour, 3 ozs. grated cheese, 2 eggs, 1 yolk, seasoning. Method. —Wash and peel the celeriac and boil it in salted water until it is quite tender; drain it well and when it is cool cut it up into pieces (rather larger than a walnut) of a convenient size. Put the butter into a saucepan with the water, and when it boils stir in gradually the flour, and do not cease stirring until a smooth, thick paste is formed which leaves the sides of the saucepan. Remove the pan from the stove and add the eggs (one at a time) and the third yolk; then the cheese and salt, pepper and cayenne, and spread the paste on a flat dish. When it is cool, envelop the pieces of celeriac in about a teaspoonful of it, and as...
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Half a pint of very thick white sauce, yolks of 2 raw eggs, ¹⁄₂ pint of sieved celeriac, which has been thoroughly boiled and drained, 1 whole egg, breadcrumbs, macaroni. Method. —Make the sauce thicker than is usually required, using one and a half ounces of flour to half a pint of milk, and when it is hot, add the yolks, beating them into the sauce while the pan is still on the stove, but taking care it does not reboil after the eggs are incorporated. Ascertain that the sauce is sufficiently seasoned, and stir in the celeriac, then spread the mixture out on a dish and when it is cold divide it into equal portions and form each neatly on a floured board into the shape of a small cutlet; insert a little piece of macaroni at the pointed end, to represent the bone, then mask the cutlets with...
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A root of celeriac, ¹⁄₄ pint thick white sauce, 1³⁄₄ ozs. butter, seasoning, 6 eggs, breadcrumbs. Method. —Wash and peel the celeriac and let it cook in boiling salted water until it is tender, then drain it and pass it through a sieve into a basin, add the sauce, an ounce of butter and season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Butter six china egg-cases, or shells, and fill them with the prepared celery; make a hollow in the middle and fill it with a new-laid egg, taking care not to pierce the yolk when breaking the shell; put a small piece of butter on the top of each egg, scatter a little salt and pepper over it, cover with fine breadcrumbs, and bake for eight or ten minutes in a quick oven....
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A quarter of a pound of short paste, ¹⁄₂ pint celeriac (cooked and sieved), rather more than 1¹⁄₂ gills milk, 1 slice onion, parsley, seasoning, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. flour, grated cheese, 2 eggs. Method. —Line a buttered pie-dish with the paste rolled out fairly thin. Let the milk simmer for a quarter of an hour with the onion, two or three pieces of parsley, and a small blade of mace, then cook the butter and flour together for a few minutes and, when quite smooth, moisten gradually with the milk (strained), and stir quickly until the sauce has boiled and thickened. Remove the pan from the stove and add the yolks of the eggs, one tablespoonful of grated cheese, the parsley, and celeriac, then whisk the whites of the eggs to a very stiff froth, stir them into the mixture, and turn it into the lined pie-dish and...
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Half a pint of sieved (cooked) celery, ¹⁄₄ pint thick white sauce, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful grated cheese, 6 large champignons (if practicable), seasoning, 4 ozs. boiled macaroni, butter, tomato sauce. Method. —Stir the celery into a saucepan containing the sauce, which should be nicely flavoured with onion, etc., and as soon as it is thoroughly hot add the yolks of the eggs, and when they are well blended with the other ingredients, remove the pan from the stove and stir in the grated cheese (which should be mild and dry), the champignons, cut into moderately thin slices, half an ounce of butter, and some salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Butter a soufflé mould (or basin) of suitable size and line it neatly with the macaroni, which may be used in long pieces, or if the thick kind is used it may be cut into pieces of about half an inch...
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Three eggs, 2 ozs. grated Parmesan cheese, 1¹⁄₄ ozs. butter, celery salt, pepper, nutmeg. Method. —Break the eggs into a basin and beat them well with a patent beater, season with celery salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and add the cheese and a quarter of an ounce of butter in tiny pieces. Melt one ounce of butter in an omelet pan over a very clear fire, and directly it begins to bubble pour in the egg mixture; prick it all over with a fork to let the uncooked mixture come in contact with the hot pan; loosen it round the sides when it begins to set, and keep shaking the pan to prevent the omelet from sticking; directly it is sufficiently set (it should be still creamy on the top) fold it over in half and turn it on to a hot dish. Have ready some beans prepared according to the...
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One pound chestnuts, 2 ozs. butter, 4 ozs. onion, 2 tomatoes, 1 sweet apple, 1 dessertspoonful curry powder, 1 dessertspoonful flour, 1 dessertspoonful sweet chutney, 2 tablespoonfuls grated cocoanut, 1 teaspoonful tarragon vinegar, 2 teaspoonfuls lemon-juice, ³⁄₄ pint brown vegetable stock, ¹⁄₄ pint boiling water, salt, pepper. Method. —Cut a small piece from the pointed end of the chestnuts and boil them until they are sufficiently soft to be pierced with a very fine skewer. Then remove the outer and inner skins, and put the nuts into a sauce made according to the directions given below; cover the curry with a thick piece of greased paper before putting on the lid of the pan, and simmer very gently in a moderate oven for an hour. Serve the curry surrounded by carefully-boiled rice which should be garnished with little pieces of pickled red cabbage and gherkin. For the sauce fry the...
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One pound of chicory, butter, 1 pint white sauce (for recipe see page 106 ), 3 eggs, 3 ozs. Swiss egg macaroni, ¹⁄₂ pint brown sauce (for recipe see page 103 ), seasoning. Method. —Partly cook the chicory in boiling water, drain it well; cut it into small pieces and put it into a buttered stewpan. Season with salt, pepper, a dust of castor sugar, and a sprinkle of dry grated cheese and cover it with half the white sauce, then put on the lid of the pan and let it cook in a slow oven for about an hour, or rather longer. On taking it from the oven stir the chicory and the remaining sauce into a basin containing three stiffly whisked eggs; turn the mixture into a buttered soufflé mould; place the latter in a stewpan of boiling water, in the oven, for half an hour or until...
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Three ounces each of Brazil nuts and pine kernels, 3 ozs. sieved brown bread, ¹⁄₂ gill milk, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, ¹⁄₂ oz. chopped onion, salt, pepper, nutmeg, ¹⁄₂ pint curry sauce ( see page 104 ), 1 tablespoonful tomato catsup, 1 gill aspic jelly, 3 ozs. boiled rice, aspic jelly and parsley for garnishing. Method. —Wash the pine kernels two or three times in boiling water and remove any which are not good, and pass them with the Brazil nuts (from which every particle of brown skin must be removed) once through a mincer. Melt one ounce of butter in a small stewpan, add the onion and nuts, and let them cook gently for ten minutes, stirring them sufficiently often to prevent them from becoming more than a pale golden colour. Put the bread into a saucepan with the milk and remaining half ounce of butter, season well with salt,...
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Some light puff paste, 4 ozs. celery, cooked and sieved, ¹⁄₄ pint thick white sauce, made with half cream and half milk stock, 2 hard-boiled eggs (coarsely chopped), 1 raw egg, minced parsley, Parmesan, seasoning. Method. —Mix the celery, sauce, and eggs in a basin, ascertain if more seasoning is required, and place the basin on the stove in a stewpan of hot water. Roll out the paste thinly, cut it into rounds of a suitable size, and wrap it neatly round some buttered cornet-moulds; moisten the edges of the paste and join them, then brush the paste over with beaten egg and bake at once in a well-heated oven. When done, slip the cornets off the moulds and fill them with the prepared celery; scatter a little grated Parmesan and parsley, mixed together, over the filling, and serve with as little delay as possible, garnished with fried parsley. Salsify,...
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One and a half ounces of onion (peeled), 1¹⁄₂ oz. butter, 3 ozs. pine kernels, 2 mushrooms, 1 oz. crumb from a milk loaf, ¹⁄₂ gill milk, 1 egg, seasoning, 1 large cucumber, soup vegetables for braising, brown vegetable stock, brown sauce. Method. —Wash the pine kernels thoroughly in boiling water, changing it two or three times, then pass them through a nut-mill, or mincer; boil the onion for six minutes; drain it and chop it very finely; cleanse, peel, and mince the mushrooms. Melt one ounce of butter in an omelet (or sauté) pan, and fry the kernels, onion, and mushrooms together for ten minutes, stirring constantly. Melt half an ounce of butter in the milk; add the breadcrumb and cook gently until it is reduced to a paste, then mix it with the fried ingredients and pound all together in a mortar until thoroughly blended and very light;...
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Half a pint milk, 1 small onion, a few pieces of parsley, a thin strip of lemon-peel, 1 oz. flour, 1 oz. butter, 1 dessertspoonful grated cheese, 1 teaspoonful tomato catsup, 1 dessertspoonful ground sweet almonds, 2 ozs. large straight macaroni, some chopped parsley, 1 medium-sized cucumber, seasoning. Method. —Peel the cucumber, taking care to remove every particle of green skin, and cut it into pieces of about two inches thick and cook until tender in boiling, salted water to which a tiny piece of soda has been added; directly it is ready (it must not be left in the water after it is done), drain the pieces and carefully remove the seeds. Have ready some macaroni prepared according to the instructions given below, and quickly fill the cucumber cases with it; place in the oven to re-heat the cases and serve surrounded by thick tomato sauce (see page 106...
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One or two cucumbers (according to the size), 1 oz. butter, ¹⁄₂ pint white sauce, 1 raw yolk of egg, 1 tablespoonful cream, 2 or 3 hard-boiled eggs, chopped parsley, lemon, seasoning, pastry case. Method. —Peel the cucumber and parboil it in salted water, then drain it and cut it into moderately small pieces and put it into a saucepan containing an ounce of butter, which has been flavoured with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and a dust of castor sugar, and let it simmer for ten minutes, then add the sauce and continue the simmering for about a quarter of an hour, when the cucumber should be quite tender. Beat the yolk of egg with a tablespoonful of cream and stir it into the sauce, add a squeeze of lemon-juice, and when the egg has thickened (take care the sauce does not boil after it is added), pour the cucumber into...
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Some nut forcemeat as for nut cutlets ( see page 75 ), ¹⁄₂ gill thick brown sauce, 1 dessertspoonful chutney paste, 1 teaspoonful Worcester sauce, ¹⁄₂ teaspoonful French mustard, 1 teaspoonful curry paste, ¹⁄₂ teaspoonful Chili vinegar, butter, flour, seasoning. Method. —Make the forcemeat into little round fillets and dust them with flour seasoned with salt and pepper. Mix the brown sauce, which should be just warm, with the chutney, Worcester sauce, French mustard, curry paste, and Chili vinegar; then mask the fillets with it and place them on a buttered gratin dish; pour a few drops of warm butter over each, and cook them in a quick oven for fifteen minutes. Serve the fillets on the same dish in which they were cooked with a mound of potato chips in the middle....
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Some forcemeat prepared according to the directions given for Nut Rissolettes on page 77 , slices of bread fully an inch thick, milk, 1 egg, Plasmon, seasoning, chopped parsley. Method. —Stamp out some rounds from the slices of bread with a medium-sized cutter, and with a smaller cutter mark the bread in the middle but without cutting it through; dip the rounds quickly into milk, then brush them over with beaten egg and cover them thickly with dry Plasmon powder and fry at once in deep, boiling fat, but only sufficiently long for them to get lightly brown and not hard. After draining them on paper remove the marked portion and fill up the hollow with the forcemeat, which should be ready heated in a small saucepan with a little butter; scatter the parsley over the surface of the patties and serve them garnished with watercress. If a more substantial...
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Five hard-boiled eggs cut into quarters, small bottle French macedoine vegetables, 1 pint nicely flavoured aspic jelly, 1 tablespoonful sherry, 1¹⁄₂ gills stiffly whipped cream, 1¹⁄₂ tablespoonfuls grated Parmesan, or dry Cheddar, cheese, seasoning, salad. Method. —Pour a shallow layer of the aspic jelly (previously mixed with the wine) into a plain-border mould, and when it is set arrange some of the quarters of the hard-boiled eggs on it with a few of the macedoine vegetables between; then pour a little of the remaining aspic (which should be cold but liquid) over, and stand the mould in a basin of cold water until the jelly is firm; then continue to use the eggs, vegetables, and jelly in the same manner until the mould is full. When the jelly is sufficiently set, turn the border out of the mould and fill the middle with whipped cream seasoned with a little salt...
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As many hard-boiled eggs as are required, butter, seasoning, shallot vinegar, one or two tablespoonfuls of asparagus, 1 raw egg, breadcrumbs, some blanched almonds, mashed potato. Method. —Bake some potatoes in their skins, then open them, remove the inside and pass it through a potato-presser into a basin; season well with celery salt, pepper, and nutmeg, add a small quantity of milk and a liberal quantity of warm butter, and beat the potatoes with a wooden spoon until they are very light. Then press them firmly into a round cake-tin, which has been well buttered, and bake in a quick oven for half an hour; when done the potato cake should be nicely browned on both sides. Cut the eggs through the middle length-ways, and take out the yolks; pass the latter through a sieve (or pointed gravy-strainer) and beat them to a fairly soft paste with some warm butter;...
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Two pounds of cooked potatoes, cream (or milk), 3 ozs. butter, 2 raw eggs, ¹⁄₂ pint tomato pulp, 3 hard-boiled eggs, 1 oz. onion (scalded and chopped), 1 oz. white breadcrumbs, shallot vinegar, or lemon-juice, 3 ozs. finely-ground nuts, pine kernels, Brazil or Cashu (in either case blanched), seasoning. Method. —Fry the onion and nuts together for six minutes in one ounce of butter; moisten the breadcrumbs with boiling cream (or milk), beat them to a paste, and pass the eggs through a sieve. Pound the contents of the frying pan for a few minutes, then add the bread, eggs, and one ounce of butter, and continue the pounding until the mixture is quite smooth; then add the yolk of a raw egg, a few drops of shallot vinegar (or lemon-juice), and season with salt, pepper, and a dust of curry powder. Pass the mixture through the same sieve used...
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Four hard-boiled eggs, 2 ozs. coarsely-minced champignons, 1 oz. minced pickled gherkin (or olives), ¹⁄₂ teaspoonful onion (which has been scalded and minced), 1 teaspoonful ground sweet almonds, 1 dessertspoonful chopped parsley, seasoning, 1 oz. butter, ³⁄₄ oz. flour, ¹⁄₄ pint cream (or milk), some light, short paste, 1 raw egg, breadcrumbs, artichoke chips. Method. —Melt the butter in a small saucepan, add the onion and let it cook (without acquiring any colour) for two or three minutes, then stir in the flour and almonds, and when they are smoothly mixed, add the cream and stir until it has thickened; then season with celery salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and pour into a basin. Mix the eggs, which have been passed through a sieve, with the sauce, add the champignons and gherkin and a teaspoonful of the liquor in which the champignons were preserved, and leave until cool. Roll out the...
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One medium-sized cucumber, white vegetable stock, 3 eggs, 1 yolk, butter, 1 dessertspoonful tomato catsup, 2 teaspoonfuls chopped parsley, 1 gill cream, seasoning, some fried breadcrumbs. Method. —Peel the cucumber, taking care not to leave any of the skin, or it will taste bitter, cut it into pieces of about two inches thick, and with a sharp cutter of suitable size remove the seeds from the middle. Arrange the cucumber cases in a shallow stewpan, which has been lightly spread with butter, and pour in enough boiling stock to about half cover them; close the lid securely, and let them cook until tender, care being taken that they do not get too soft or they will not stand properly. Beat the three eggs thoroughly with a patent egg-beater, season them with salt, pepper, and a little curry powder, add the tomato catsup, and pour them into a saucepan containing one...
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Half a pint milk, ¹⁄₂ small onion, a strip of lemon-peel, parsley, 2 ozs. butter, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. flour, 4 hard-boiled eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls cooked asparagus (cut into small pieces), seasoning, 1 raw egg, breadcrumbs, a few pieces of raw macaroni. Method. —Put the milk into a saucepan with the onion, lemon-peel, two or three little pieces of parsley, and some salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and let it simmer very gently for twenty minutes, then strain into a basin. Cook the butter and flour together until a perfectly smooth paste is formed, and moisten it gradually, stirring rapidly all the time, with the flavoured milk, and continue stirring until the sauce is very thick, when the pan should be removed from the stove. Pass the hard-boiled eggs through a wire sieve while the milk is simmering, and add them to the prepared sauce, then the asparagus and a little more seasoning,...
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Four ounces of breadcrumbs (from a milk loaf), 2¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 4 raw eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls cream, 1 dessertspoonful chopped parsley, a pinch of mixed herbs, 1 teaspoonful grated onion, seasoning. Method. —Put the breadcrumbs into a basin, add the parsley, herbs, onion, and season with celery salt, freshly-ground black pepper, and a little powdered mace, then stir in the cream, which should be hot, and one and a half ounces of butter, which should be melted; mix thoroughly and add about half a beaten egg. Turn the mixture on to a floured board, divide it into equal portions, and form into little flat cakes, which should be moderately thick. Make a hollow in the middle of each, then dip them into beaten egg and cover thickly with fine breadcrumbs and fry in deep, boiling fat. Beat three eggs until they are quite frothy with a patent beater, season them...
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Three hard-boiled eggs, 1 oz. butter, 1 dessertspoonful ground pine kernels, ¹⁄₂ minced shallot (which has been scalded and fried until just coloured), 1 teaspoonful minced parsley, 1 teaspoonful tomato conserve, seasoning, frying batter. Method. —Pass the eggs through a sieve and pound them in a mortar with the other ingredients (excepting the batter) seasoning them with a teaspoonful of grated Parmesan cheese, celery salt, black and Nepaul pepper. Turn the mixture on to a floured board, take a small portion at a time and form it into a moderately thick little cake of about the size of half a crown; when a sufficient number have been made dip them separately into a thick batter and fry in deep, boiling fat until each fritter is a golden brown; drain them and serve them piled upon a hot dish garnished with little bunches of fried parsley and send to the table...
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One ounce butter, 1 shallot, 2 large mushrooms, 1 teaspoonful minced parsley, 2 hard-boiled eggs, 1 raw egg, a small quantity thick white sauce, seasoning, 8 ozs. short paste. Method. —Fry the shallot (minced) and the mushrooms (also minced) in the butter, seasoning them with salt, pepper, and nutmeg; then remove the pan from the stove and add the parsley and the hard-boiled eggs, coarsely chopped, and moisten the mixture with a small quantity of thick white sauce which has been nicely flavoured with vegetables. Roll out the short paste to rather less than a quarter of an inch in thickness, and with a round cutter of suitable size stamp out six pieces, then with a cutter a size larger stamp out an equal number of rounds; place a portion of the prepared mince in the middle of the smaller rounds; moisten the edges with beaten egg and cover in...
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As many eggs as are required for a dish, small quantity thick, white sauce, small quantity sieved onion sauce, half as many tomatoes as there are eggs, some savoury rice, 1 raw egg, breadcrumbs, seasoning. Method. —Mix some quite thick white sauce (which has been well-flavoured with vegetables) with some creamy onion sauce in the proportion of one-third of the latter to two-thirds of the former, and use when just warm. Poach the eggs very carefully in boiling water to which a small quantity of vinegar, or lemon-juice, has been added; trim them neatly with a round cutter, mask them with the prepared sauce, and let them get cold. Dust them lightly with flour, brush them over with beaten egg, and cover with plenty of fine, dried breadcrumbs seasoned with salt and pepper, and fry them quickly in a bath of boiling fat. Have ready some large tomatoes which have...
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Four or five eggs, 1 small vegetable marrow, ³⁄₄ pint thick tomato sauce, 1 tablespoonful Parmesan cheese, rounds of fried bread, 1 raw egg, breadcrumbs, seasoning. Method. —Cut four or five pieces of about two inches in thickness from a small, peeled marrow, and boil them in salted water until they are tender; when done lift them from the stewpan with an egg slice; drain them thoroughly on a soft cloth, dip them into warm butter, and place on rounds of fried bread, which should be of moderate thickness. Prepare some eggs as in the foregoing recipe, but instead of coating them with the white sauce, use thick tomato sauce, which has been seasoned with Parmesan cheese, and surround the marrow with the remainder of the sauce....
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Four ounces of rice, 1 oz. butter, white vegetable stock, ¹⁄₄ pint tomato sauce, seasoning, 4 or 5 poached eggs, breadcrumbs, 1 raw egg, watercress. Method. —Put the rice into a saucepan with some cold salted water; bring it to boiling point and keep it boiling for ten minutes, then wash it in cold water and put it into a saucepan containing plenty of boiling stock and let it boil steadily until it is done. Drain the rice thoroughly and put it back into the saucepan for a few minutes to dry by the side of the stove; then season it with salt, freshly-ground black pepper, a dust of curry powder, and a tablespoonful of grated Parmesan cheese, and spread it out on a flat dish. When cold, take about a heaped dessertspoonful of the rice at a time and form it into four or five little round cakes, capable...
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Four medium-sized potatoes, 4 hard-boiled eggs, ¹⁄₄ pint thick white sauce, 1 oz. grated cheese, 1 oz. butter, cream (or milk) lemon-juice, seasoning. Method. —Wash the potatoes thoroughly (they should be as nearly the same size as possible) and bake them in their skins, then cut a piece from the top of each and remove the inside, taking care not to break the skin. Pass the potato through a presser, or sieve, into a basin; add an ounce of butter, about a tablespoonful of cream (or milk), and season with celery salt, pepper, nutmeg, and a few drops of lemon-juice, and beat with a wooden spoon until it is very light and creamy. Carefully replace the potato in the skins, pressing it back against the sides with the handle of a small spoon, so as to leave the middle hollow; fill them according to the directions given below, then make...
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Six ounces of rice, 1 pint highly-seasoned vegetable stock, 3 ozs. butter, 3 or 4 hard-boiled eggs, fried onion, chopped parsley, minced olives or pickled gherkin, seasoning, 1 tablespoonful tomato conserve. Method. —Put the rice into cold salted water, bring it gradually to boiling point, and let it boil for ten minutes, then rinse it in cold water; drain it and put it into a saucepan containing a pint of colourless vegetable stock, and let it boil rapidly until the rice is cooked, stirring it occasionally. As soon as the grains are quite soft, turn the rice on to a sieve and let the stock drain from it. Melt two ounces of the butter in a stewpan, and add the rice, turning it gently with a fork over a moderate fire. When hot, season with salt, black pepper, and nutmeg, and pile upon a hot dish; arrange the halves of...
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Two hard-boiled eggs, 1 oz. of crumb from a Hovis loaf, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, ¹⁄₄ pint milk, a thick slice of onion, 2 teaspoonfuls ground nuts, 1 teaspoonful grated Gruyère, or some mild cheese, a few pieces of parsley, seasoning, 1 raw egg, breadcrumbs, spinach or mashed potato for border, tomato or celery, sauce. Method. —Put one ounce of butter into a saucepan with the onion and fry gently for a few minutes, but without letting it become brown, then add the milk, a clove, one or two pieces of parsley, and some salt and pepper, and let the milk simmer very slowly for a quarter of an hour. Crumble the bread and stir it into the milk, and let it cook until it is quite soft and the milk is all absorbed, and either pass it through a sieve or turn it into a basin and beat it well...
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Young French beans, as many hard-boiled eggs as required, tarragon and shallot vinegar, butter, seasoning, chopped parsley, 2 tablespoonfuls chopped pickled gherkin, salad oil, 1 raw yolk, 1 tablespoonful cream, watercress. Method. —Boil the beans whole, they should be so small that only the ends require to be pinched off; when done, drain them on a cloth and let them get cold. Cut the eggs in half, remove the yolks, and pound them with the butter, allowing a quarter of an ounce for each egg; season them with celery salt, pepper, curry powder, and a few drops of tarragon vinegar; add a small quantity of chopped parsley and fill the whites with the mixture. Put the yolk of the raw egg into a basin; add some salt, pepper, and a dust of curry powder, and stir well with a spoon, then add some salad oil, drop by drop, while using...
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Two pounds of spinach, 4 hard-boiled eggs, 1 raw yolk, ³⁄₄ pint thick white sauce, 1 tablespoonful tomato sauce, 1 tablespoonful cream, ¹⁄₂ oz. butter, seasoning, sippets. Method. —Cook the spinach, drain it and pass it through a sieve, and re-heat it with half a gill of white sauce; season it with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and a pinch of castor sugar, add half an ounce of butter and turn it on to a hot dish. Mould it into a mound and make a hollow in the centre, fill this with the fricassee, and garnish the spinach with little sippets of fried bread. Make the remainder of the white sauce hot in a stewpan, and as soon as it has boiled draw the pan to the side of the stove and stir in the yolk of egg, which has been previously beaten with the cream, then add the tomato sauce, and...
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One pint of young, shelled peas, some mint, 2 small onions, 2¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 1 oz. flour, ¹⁄₄ pint milk, 1 whole egg, 1 raw yolk, breadcrumbs, 4 ozs. rice, 1 small saltspoonful powdered saffron, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. grated cheese, 1 pint colourless vegetable stock, seasoning, thick brown sauce. Method. —Put the peas into a saucepan of boiling water, to which a piece of mint, some salt, sugar, and a pinch of soda have been added, and let them cook steadily until they are done. Boil one onion in salted water until it is tender, then drain it well and rub it through a sieve. Melt one ounce of the butter in a sauté pan and stir in the flour; moisten by degrees with the milk, stirring quickly until the sauce is perfectly smooth and very thick, then add the yolk of egg and sieved onion; season with salt, pepper, and...
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Three ounces of large, straight macaroni, 1 small onion stuck with 2 cloves, 1 stick celery, 4 artichokes, 1 thick slice of turnip, ¹⁄₂ pint thick tomato sauce, 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, 1 tablespoonful grated Parmesan cheese, seasoning, potato paste, beaten egg. Method. —Put the macaroni and vegetables in a saucepan containing some boiling water, season well and cook steadily for an hour, then drain the macaroni and cut it into small pieces; cut up the vegetables with which it was boiled, excepting the onion, and put all into a buttered pie-dish, season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, sprinkle in the cheese and parsley and pour in the sauce; cover with the potato paste, brush over the top with beaten egg and bake in a quick oven. Two or three hard-boiled eggs, cut into quarters, can be added to the other ingredients if liked; serve the pie with stewed lettuce...
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Two ounces of Swiss egg macaroni, milk, 1 oz. butter, 1 oz. flour, 1 small onion, some celery, 1 yolk, 1 tablespoonful tomato conserve, 1 tablespoonful Parmesan cheese, 1 tablespoonful minced Champignons, 1 whole egg, breadcrumbs, French beans stewed, seasoning. Method. —Break the macaroni into small pieces and cook until tender in boiling milk and water with the onion, stuck with two cloves, a few pieces of celery (or a pinch of celery seed) and sufficient salt and pepper to season it. Melt the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour, and gradually moisten with a quarter of a pint of milk; when the sauce has boiled and thickened, remove the pan from the stove and add the tomato conserve, the cheese, yolk of egg and salt, pepper and nutmeg, then stir in the champignons and macaroni (which should be thoroughly drained) and spread out on a flat dish....
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Some boiled salsify, mashed potato, seasoning, egg, Plasmon, breadcrumbs, white sauce. Method. —Divide the salsify into small pieces of about the size of half an oyster and mix with half as much carefully-mashed potato; season well with freshly-ground black pepper, cayenne, salt, and a squeeze of lemon-juice, and add sufficient stiff white sauce to slightly moisten the mixture and add a small quantity of beaten egg. Spread the mixture out on a flat dish for an hour or two; then take rather less than a dessertspoonful at a time and roll it into a little ball on a floured board. Flatten the balls so that they take the form of little round cakes, dip them into beaten egg, and cover thickly with dry Plasmon powder and breadcrumbs, which have been seasoned with salt, black pepper, and cayenne; press them lightly between the hands to make the powder and crumbs adhere,...
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Half a pound of mushrooms (cleansed, peeled, and minced), 2 ozs. butter, 4 ozs. bread, 1 oz. onion (scalded and minced) 2 eggs, 1 gill cream, ¹⁄₂ teaspoonful parsley, seasoning, macaroni. Method. —Fry the mushrooms in one ounce of butter with the onion for a quarter of an hour, stirring it frequently. Heat the cream to boiling point, and pour it over the bread (the crumb from a milk loaf or French roll is best), add the remaining ounce of butter and beat it to a paste, then add the mushrooms, parsley, and one egg; season with salt, pepper, and a little mace, and turn on to a flat dish to cool. When cold, take a small portion at a time and form on a floured board into cutlet shape; insert a piece of macaroni at the pointed end, brush the cutlets over with beaten egg, and cover them thickly...
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Six ounces of ground nuts (pine kernels and Brazil), 2 ozs. onion, 3¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 6 ozs. brown bread, 1¹⁄₂ gills milk stock, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful parsley, 1 tablespoonful tomato sauce, browning, seasoning, Maggi’s vegetable essence, dried breadcrumbs, Plasmon. Method. —Wash the pine kernels thoroughly in boiling water, and pass them with the Brazil nuts twice through a fine mincer (or nut-mill); boil the onion for a few minutes, then drain it and mince it. Melt two ounces of butter in an omelet pan and fry the onion and nuts gently for ten minutes, stirring frequently to prevent the onion from becoming too brown. Put the brown bread, sieved, into a saucepan with the milk stock, and stir over the fire until a thick paste is formed, then add one and a half ounces of butter, pound in a mortar for five minutes, and put aside on a plate....
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Nut forcemeat as for cutlets ( see page 75 ), ¹⁄₂ pint cooked butter beans, 3 or 4 large carrots (parboiled and sliced), ¹⁄₂ onion (minced), 1 pint thick brown sauce, butter, parsley. Method. —Make some little round fillets with the forcemeat, flour them and fry them in a sauté pan with butter until they are lightly browned on both sides, and put aside on a plate. Fry the onion and carrots until the former is a golden colour, add the beans and pour in the sauce, cover with a greased paper and let the vegetables stew gently until the carrots are quite tender. About a quarter of an hour before they are ready, add the fillets and cover the pan as before; serve them in the middle of a hot dish with parsley sprinkled over them and surround with the vegetables and sauce....
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Six ounces ground mixed nuts, 3 ozs. sieved brown bread, ¹⁄₂ gill milk, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 1 teaspoonful chopped onion, 1 dessertspoonful tomato catsup, salt, pepper, nutmeg, cayenne, lemon-juice, 1 egg, small quantity finely crushed vermicelli, 1¹⁄₂ tablespoonfuls Plasmon powder, ¹⁄₂ lb. short paste. Method. —Fry the nuts and onion in one ounce of butter for ten minutes, taking care they do not acquire more than a golden colour, then turn them into a mortar and pound until they are smooth. While the nuts are cooking, boil the bread and milk together for a few minutes, and beat it to a light paste; then add the remaining half ounce of butter and the tomato catsup, season well, and pound with the nuts until the whole is thoroughly mixed. Beat the egg until it forms a thick froth, add half of it to the nut mixture and also a few drops...
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Two ounces peeled onion, 2 ozs. butter, 6 ozs. pine kernels, 2 ozs. crumb from a milk loaf, ¹⁄₄ pint milk, 2 eggs, seasoning, 1 teaspoonful lemon-juice. Method. —Boil the onion in a small quantity of water for six minutes, drain it well and chop it very finely. Wash the kernels thoroughly in boiling water, changing it two or three times, and rinse them in a colander under the cold water tap, and pass them twice through a fine mincer. Melt one ounce of butter in a small omelet pan and fry the onion and kernels very gently until the former begins to turn a golden colour. At the same time boil the bread and the milk together until a smooth paste is formed; add one ounce of butter, season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, and mix with the ingredients in the omelet pan, then pound the mixture in a...
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Two ounces of crumb from a milk loaf, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 1 oz. peeled onion, 1 large teaspoonful chopped parsley, 4 ozs. pine kernels, 1¹⁄₂ gills milk, yolk of 1 raw egg, 1 pint thick white sauce, seasoning, sippets. Method. —Wash the pine kernels two or three times in boiling water and pass them twice through a nut-mill or fine mincer; boil the onion for six minutes, drain it and mince it; melt one ounce of butter in a small omelet pan, put in the onion and nuts and fry very gently until the onion is a golden colour. While this is being done, cook the breadcrumb in the milk with the remaining half ounce of butter; as soon as it is reduced to a paste, take it from the stove, beat it well, and add the chopped parsley, then pound the onion and nuts in a mortar for a...
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Four ounces rice, vegetable stock (white), seasoning, batter for frying, broad beans, maître d’hôtel sauce, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful grated cheese, 1 oz. onion, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter. Method. —Put the rice into cold salted water, and when it reaches boiling point keep it boiling steadily for six minutes, then drain it and put it into a saucepan containing sufficient boiling vegetable stock to cover it and cook until it is very tender. Fry the onion in one ounce of butter until it is just cooked, but do not let it become brown, add the rice to it, season with salt, pepper, a dust of curry powder, and the grated cheese, then add half an ounce of butter and a well-beaten egg, and spread out on a dish to get cold. Take a small quantity of the rice at a time and form it into little flat cakes rather larger than...
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Six medium-sized potatoes (of uniform shape), vegetable butter, 3 ozs. minced mushrooms, 1 slice onion (scalded and minced), 1 oz. dairy butter, 2 ozs. finely-sieved Hovis breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, 1 egg, seasoning, thick brown sauce, parsley for garnishing. Method. —Trim the potatoes, after peeling them, so that they are round and as nearly the same size as possible (the trimmings can be used for soup), and cut a piece from one end so that they will stand upright; put them into a baking tin containing some hot vegetable butter and bake in a well-heated oven until they are nicely browned, basting them frequently. When done remove the centre of the inside with an apple corer or small tubular-shaped cutter and fill the cavity with mushrooms, prepared as below. Replace the potatoes in the oven for about ten minutes, and serve them surrounded by some thick brown sauce flavoured...
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Half a pound puff paste, 2 ozs. cooked macaroni (the large, straight kind), ¹⁄₂ pint salsify (cooked, and cut into small pieces), six champignons, ¹⁄₄ pint cooked Japanese artichokes, 1 gill thick white sauce, parsley, lemon, 1 teaspoonful onion (scalded and minced), grated Parmesan, brown sauce. Method. —Line a buttered mould with the paste rolled out to a moderate thickness, and fill it with alternate layers of the macaroni, cut into small pieces, salsify, and artichokes, and over each layer scatter a few slices of champignons, a little grated cheese, a few drops of lemon-juice, and season with salt, freshly ground black pepper, and nutmeg. When the mould is full, pour in as much sauce, mixed with some of the liquor in which the champignons were preserved, as is required, then cover in with a round of paste and bake in a moderately quick oven for from three-quarters to one...
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Four ounces salsify, colourless vegetable stock, small quantity very thick white sauce, 3 eggs, 1³⁄₄ ozs. butter, seasoning, fried breadcrumbs. Method. —Prepare the salsify (freshly cut) in the usual way and cook it until tender in the stock, then drain thoroughly, cut it into pieces of about an inch in length, and put into a saucepan containing a quarter of an ounce of butter seasoned with salt, pepper, cayenne, and lemon-juice; cover it with the white sauce and keep it hot by the side of the stove until the omelet is made. To prepare the latter, break the eggs, which should be new laid, into a basin, season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and whisk them well, then add half an ounce of butter cut into tiny pieces. Melt one ounce of butter in an omelet pan of suitable size and, directly it is hot, pour in the eggs; draw...
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Salsify (also named vegetable oyster), white sauce, cream, lemon-juice, seasoning, puff-paste pattie-cases, white stock, butter. Method. —Scrape the salsify thoroughly, wash it, and cook it until tender in colourless vegetable stock; drain well and cut it into pieces of about two inches in length, pour over them a small quantity of warm butter which has been seasoned with lemon-juice, black pepper, and salt, and leave until the butter is cold. Make a small quantity of nicely-flavoured thick white sauce and mix it with an equal quantity of boiling cream (if practicable); season with salt, black pepper, nutmeg, and cayenne, and add a squeeze of lemon-juice, then put the pieces of salsify into the sauce and heat them gradually. Have ready the requisite number of pattie cases; fill them with the salsify, put them into the oven for a few moments, and serve as soon as they are thoroughly hot....
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Three ounces of Swiss egg macaroni, rather more than 1 pint brown vegetable stock, grated cheese, ¹⁄₂ oz. flour, 1 oz. butter, 1 tablespoonful tomato catsup, seasoning. Method. —Put the macaroni into boiling salted water for ten minutes, then drain it, put it into a stewpan, cover with the brown stock, which should be boiling, and cook steadily until it is done. Then drain it and pile it up on a hot dish; let the stock in which it was cooked boil up and thicken it by stirring in the butter, which should be worked up smoothly with the flour; add the tomato catsup and strain over the macaroni; scatter a little dry, grated cheese over the top and surround by some carefully cooked Brussels sprouts, which have been finished with some warm, seasoned butter and a squeeze of lemon-juice....
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Three ounces finely-ground Brazil nuts (taking care they are fresh), 4 ozs. cooked rice, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. onion (scalded and chopped), 1 teaspoonful minced parsley, a little lemon-thyme if the flavour is liked, 1 pint good brown sauce flavoured with a few drops of Maggi’s essence, 2 ozs. butter, seasoning, spinach, sippets. Method. —Fry the nuts with the onion and butter for eight minutes, taking care they do not become brown, then add the rice and herbs and moisten with three-quarters of a pint of the sauce; cover with a greased paper and put the mince into the oven for half an hour; if the rice absorbs too much sauce, so as to leave the mince dry, add some of the remaining sauce and a few drops of browning if it is not a nice rich colour, and serve in the middle of a surround of spinach garnished with fried sippets...
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Two ounces breadcrumbs, 1 gill cream, 2 or 3 tablespoonfuls thick brown sauce, 3 ozs. finely-ground pine kernels (previously blanched), ¹⁄₂ oz. chopped onion, 1 teaspoonful parsley, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, lemon-juice, seasoning, 6 ozs. short paste. Method. —Fry the onion and nuts together in one ounce of butter for six or eight minutes, then pour the cream, which should be boiling, over the bread and beat it to a paste, add the remainder of the butter and the fried nuts, parsley, a few drops of lemon-juice, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and moisten with a few tablespoonfuls of thick brown sauce. Roll out the paste to about the eighth of an inch in thickness and cut it into rounds of about the size of a claret glass; spread half the rounds with the mince and cover it with the remainder of the pieces of paste; wet the edges and pinch them...
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Six ounces of finely-ground pine kernels (blanched), 4 ozs. butter, 3 ozs. onion (scalded and chopped), 1 tablespoonful parsley, 6 ozs. breadcrumb, ¹⁄₂ gill thick white sauce, 2 eggs, 2 minced mushrooms, seasoning, some thick brown sauce flavoured with sherry. Method. —Fry the nuts and onion together in two ounces of butter until the onion begins to change colour, then turn the mixture into a mortar and pound to a smooth consistency. Make the white sauce hot and pour it on the breadcrumbs; add one and a half ounces of warm butter and beat it to a paste, then put in the fried nuts, parsley, and mushrooms and season with salt, pepper, a little powdered mace, and moisten it with the eggs, adding first one and then the other, and pound very thoroughly for five minutes. Turn the mixture on to a floured board and form it into a smooth,...
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Almost any kind of cooked vegetables cut into neat pieces (including potatoes), 2 or 3 tablespoonfuls cooked white haricot beans, curry sauce ( see page 104 ), boiled rice, butter, breadcrumbs. Method. —Let the vegetables simmer gently in a small quantity of butter (seasoning them with salt, pepper, and a dust of sugar) for fifteen minutes, then pour the curry sauce over them and let them cook in a moderate oven for half an hour. Fill some buttered china scallop shells with the curry; cover the top with rice, place some small pieces of butter on it, and scatter with finely-sieved dried breadcrumbs, and bake in a quick oven for about a quarter of an hour....
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Three hard-boiled eggs, nut mixture as for Rissolettes ( page 77 ), 1 raw egg, breadcrumbs, mashed potato, French beans, Dutch sauce ( see page 104 ). Method. —Take the shells from the eggs and dust them lightly with flour, then cover them evenly with the nut mixture, brush them over with beaten egg, and cover them thickly with finely sifted breadcrumbs. Have ready a pan of deep, boiling fat; fry the eggs in it until they are nicely browned and drain them on taking them from the fat; cut each through the middle with a sharp knife, arrange the pieces on a border of mashed potato, and fill the middle of the dish with some carefully boiled French beans (or any other suitable vegetable) masked with Dutch sauce....
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Three ounces of spaghetti, 2 ozs. butter, 3 ozs. grated Parmesan cheese, tomato conserve, croutons, seasoning. Method. —Cook the spaghetti in plenty of boiling salted water until it is tender, then drain it well and put it into a saucepan containing one ounce of warm butter; season it with salt, freshly-ground black pepper, and a little cayenne, and stir over the fire for a few minutes, then add sufficient tomato conserve to moisten the spaghetti, and the remaining ounce of butter divided into small pieces; when it is thoroughly hot scatter in the cheese, turning the spaghetti lightly and quickly with a fork while doing so, and directly the cheese “spins” into long threads, turn it on to a hot dish and serve at once garnished with little croutons of fried bread....
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Six medium-sized potatoes, some quenelle forcemeat ( see page 79 ), 1 truffle (coarsely minced), 3 olives (also minced), 1 oz. butter, small quantity cream (or milk), seasoning. Method. —Wash the potatoes thoroughly and bake them, without removing the skins, until they are well cooked. Cut a small piece from the top of each, remove the inside, taking care not to break the skin, and pass it through a potato presser into a basin; add the butter, a little cream or milk, and season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and beat the potato with a wooden spoon until it is very light and quite white. Then carefully replace some of it in the skins, pressing it back against the sides with the handle of a small spoon, thus leaving the middle hollow; prepare a forcemeat according to the recipe given for Quenelles à la Reine, and after passing it through...
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A small marrow, 3 ozs. freshly-sieved breadcrumbs, 3 tablespoonfuls cream, 1 tablespoonful minced parsley, ¹⁄₄ teaspoonful mixed herbs (if the flavour is not disliked), 1 saltspoonful grated lemon-peel, 1 oz. onion (scalded and minced), 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 3 ozs. finely ground pine kernels (Cashu, or Brazil nuts) (blanched), 1 tablespoonful grated Parmesan cheese, 1 egg, ¹⁄₂ pint thick tomato or white sauce, seasoning. Method. —Peel the marrow and cook it until tender in boiling salted water (it must not be over done), then cut a piece from one end, carefully remove all the seeds and stringy inside portion, and drain it well on a cloth. Fry the onion and nuts in the butter until the onion begins to change colour, but do not let it brown; mix the bread to a paste in a basin with the cream, which should be boiling, and season with salt, pepper, and a little...
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Four eggs, 2 ozs. butter, 2 tablespoonfuls tomato purée (or tomato conserve), seasoning. Method. —Break the eggs into a basin and beat them well, season them with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and add rather less than half an ounce of butter broken into small pieces. Melt the remainder of the butter in an omelet pan over a very clear, quick fire, and when it is quite hot (care must be taken that it does not burn) pour in the eggs. Raise the mixture all over the surface by thrusting a fork into it, which will allow the soft portion on the top to run through to the hot pan, then loosen the omelet round the edge as it sets, and keep shaking the pan to prevent it from “catching,” and just before it is sufficiently set, spread the tomato pulp (which should be heated with a little butter) over half,...
57 minute read
Four tomatoes, 2 ozs. minced mushrooms, ¹⁄₂ oz. onion (scalded and minced), 2 ozs. breadcrumbs, 1³⁄₄ ozs. butter, ¹⁄₂ gill cream (or milk), 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, seasoning, 8 pattie-cases. Method. —Scald the tomatoes and remove the skin, and with a sharp knife cut them in half, take out all the seeds, and put them on a cloth to drain. Fry the mushrooms and onion in one ounce of butter for eight minutes; moisten the bread with the cream, which should be hot, and half an ounce of warm butter, then add the parsley and fried mushrooms and season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Fill the halves of the tomatoes with the mixture, put a little piece of butter on each, and cook them on a buttered tin in a quick oven until they are just soft, but they must not lose their shape. The pattie cases must be made...
57 minute read
One pound ripe tomatoes, ¹⁄₂ teaspoonful minced onion, 1 oz. butter, ¹⁄₂ teaspoonful tarragon vinegar, ¹⁄₂ pint aspic jelly, 1 tablespoonful white wine, ¹⁄₄ pint stiffly whipped cream, carmine, seasoning, ¹⁄₂ pint cooked peas, ¹⁄₂ gill thick mayonnaise sauce. Method. —Put the tomatoes into a stewpan with the butter and tarragon vinegar; season with celery salt, cayenne, a dust of castor sugar, and a little curry powder, and let them cook gently until they are quite soft. Then pour off the liquid (which can be used with advantage to flavour soup or sauce) and pass the fruit through a sieve into a basin; add one gill of the aspic jelly (which should be liquid), the white wine, a few drops of carmine, and, when it is just cold, the cream; whisk the mixture for a few moments then put it into a border-mould, which has been previously lined with aspic...
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Six medium-sized tomatoes, 2 ozs. macaroni, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 1 oz. flour, quarter pint cream (or milk), 1 oz. grated cheese, seasoning, breadcrumbs, vegetable stock. Method. —Cut a small piece from the tomatoes, carefully remove all the seeds, and leave them on a sieve to drain for some time before they have to be filled. Break the macaroni into small pieces and cook it in boiling vegetable stock until it is quite tender, then drain it well. Melt one ounce of butter and mix the flour with it until a smooth paste is formed, then add the cream and stir quickly until the sauce is quite thick; remove the pan from the stove and add the cheese, seasoning, and macaroni, and fill the tomatoes with it; cover the top with breadcrumbs, put a little piece of butter on each, and bake in a fairly quick oven until the tomatoes are...
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One pound tomatoes, 3 ozs. butter, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. potato flour, 1 oz. onion (scalded and minced), 3 eggs, rather less than ¹⁄₂ pint milk, Parmesan or Gruyère cheese (grated), seasoning, ¹⁄₂ pint celery sauce. Method. —Slice the tomatoes and cook them with the onion in one ounce of butter until they are tender, then pass them through a sieve. Melt two ounces of butter and stir in the flour, and when smoothly mixed, moisten gradually with the milk, stirring quickly until a very thick sauce is made; turn the latter into a basin, and add the yolks of the eggs, season with salt, pepper, a very little mixed spice, and a large tablespoonful of grated cheese, then stir in half a pint of the tomato pulp (straining off any excess of juice), and lastly the whites of the eggs whisked to a very stiff froth. Put the mixture into a...
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Half a peck young peas (cooked and sieved), 1 teaspoonful very finely minced onion (previously scalded), 1 oz. butter, 1 oz. flour, ¹⁄₄ pint milk, 1 teaspoonful tomato catsup, 1 tablespoonful grated Parmesan cheese, seasoning, chopped mint, ³⁄₄ pint aspic jelly, 1 gill stiffly whipped cream. Method. —Cook the onion in the butter with a little finely chopped mint (the quantity should depend on whether the flavour is liked) for a few moments, then stir in the flour, and when it is smoothly mixed add the milk and continue to stir until a very thick sauce is formed; season it with a little salt and pepper, rub it through a gravy-strainer into the basin containing the sieved peas, and mix well. Then add the tomato catsup and Parmesan cheese and season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg; whisk one and a half gills of cool aspic jelly until it is quite...
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Four large, close potatoes (parboiled), ¹⁄₂ pint haricot beans (cooked until just tender and skinned), 6 large mushrooms (cleansed and peeled), 4 tomatoes, 1 stick celery (parboiled), butter, 2 hard-boiled eggs, forcemeat balls, 1 dessertspoonful onion (scalded and minced), seasoning, brown vegetable stock (slightly thickened), ¹⁄₂ lb. short paste. Method. —Butter a pie-dish and put in a layer of sliced potatoes, then a few slices of tomato, three mushrooms (cut in half), some of the beans, some pieces of celery (about an inch in length), one hard-boiled egg divided into quarters, and four or five little forcemeat balls; season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and scatter half the quantity of onion over the surface, then use the remaining ingredients in the same way. Moisten the pie with the stock and cover it with the paste, brush over with beaten egg (if practicable), and bake in a well-heated oven for an...
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Half a pound of red haricot beans, 2 ozs. butter, 3 ozs. minced onion, 2 large tomatoes (sliced), 1 small stick of celery, seasoning, ¹⁄₂ pint brown vegetable stock, 1¹⁄₂ eggs. Method. —Soak the beans over-night, boil them until tender, then remove their skins and put them into an earthenware casserole with the butter, onion, tomatoes, and celery, and fry for six minutes, stirring well; season with salt, pepper, and a dust of mixed spice, and pour in the stock. Cover the beans closely with greased paper before putting on the lid of the casserole, and let them cook in a moderate oven for about two hours, or until they are reduced to a soft mass and the stock is all absorbed. Pass the beans and vegetables through a wire sieve; add the yolk of egg to the purée, mixing it thoroughly; put it aside to get cold, and then...
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Four ounces of mushrooms, 1 oz. butter, 1 gill thick brown sauce, 1 tablespoonful thick cream, lemon-juice, parsley, seasoning, Yorkshire pudding mixture. Method. —Cleanse and peel the mushrooms and remove the stalks (which can be used to flavour stock) and fry them in the butter for five minutes, seasoning them with salt, pepper, and a little powdered mace; then cover them with the sauce; place a greased paper over the pan and let them stew by the side of the fire for half an hour. Pass the mushrooms through a fine mincer, add a squeeze of lemon-juice, and reheat them in the pan previously used, with a tablespoonful of cream, stirring them occasionally to prevent them from burning. Prepare a Yorkshire pudding in the usual way, and bake it carefully so that it is nicely browned; when ready, spread the minced mushrooms evenly on the top, scatter some parsley over...
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Three ounces dry, sifted flour, 3 eggs, rather more than ¹⁄₄ pint milk, baking powder, 2 ozs. butter, 4 mushrooms, 2 tomatoes, maître d’hôtel butter, seasoning. Method. —Put the flour into a basin, add a little salt and some freshly-ground black pepper, and make a hollow in the middle; whisk the eggs well and mix the milk with them, then pour by degrees into the flour, mixing it with a wooden spoon; when a perfectly smooth batter is formed cover the basin with a cloth and let it stand for an hour or two before cooking. Then melt the butter in a Yorkshire pudding tin (ten by six inches), and when it is hot stir a saltspoonful of baking powder into the batter, pour it into the hot tin, and bake in a well-heated oven for from twenty to thirty minutes. While the pudding is being cooked, fry two medium-sized...
44 minute read
Two and a half ounces of butter, 1 onion, 1 large or 2 small carrots, a few pieces of celery, 1 tomato, ¹⁄₂ turnip, 1 thick slice parsnip, 2 or 3 pieces parsley, 1 clove, seasoning, browning, Maggi’s essence. Method. —Slice the vegetables and let them simmer gently in one ounce of the butter for a quarter of an hour; then add a pint of boiling water, a teaspoonful of browning, a teaspoonful of Maggi’s essence, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and a dust of curry powder, and let it boil rapidly for ten minutes; at the end of the time draw the pan to the side of the stove and let the stock cook slowly for three quarters of an hour. When it is ready thicken it with two ounces of flour, and one and a half ounces of butter, cooked together, add a squeeze of lemon-juice, or a few drops...
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Two ounces of butter, 4 ozs. onion, 1 or 2 tomatoes, ¹⁄₂ a sweet apple, 2 teaspoonfuls sweet chutney, 1 dessertspoonful curry powder, 1 dessertspoonful flour, 1 teaspoonful tarragon vinegar (or lemon-juice), ³⁄₄ pint brown vegetable stock. Method. —Slice the onion, tomatoes, and apple and fry in the butter until the onion begins to show signs of becoming a golden colour; then add the curry powder, and draw the pan to a cooler part of the stove, and let the contents simmer for twelve minutes. At the end of the time stir in the flour, taking care no lumps form, and when it is smoothly mixed with the butter, pour in the stock gradually, and stir until the sauce has boiled and thickened, then add the chutney and tarragon vinegar, and let it simmer for half an hour, when it should be passed through a gravy strainer into a basin...
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Half a pint of thick white sauce, 1 raw yolk of egg, 1¹⁄₂ teaspoonfuls lemon-juice, ¹⁄₂ oz. butter. Method. —Make the white sauce hot, ascertain that it has sufficient seasoning, and when it reaches boiling point draw the pan to the side of the stove and stir in the yolk of egg beaten up with the lemon-juice and continue to stir for a few moments until the egg has thickened, but it must not boil or it will curdle and be spoilt. Then remove the pan from the stove and stir in the butter (which should be divided into little pieces) by degrees, and if the sauce is not to be used at once, keep it hot by placing the saucepan in a larger vessel of hot water. Dutch sauce is nice with almost any kind of vegetable (including potatoes), and also with macaroni....
37 minute read
Half a pound of tomatoes, 3 or 4 nice white sticks of celery, 1 oz. butter, seasoning, carmine, ¹⁄₂ pint white sauce. Method. —Slice the tomatoes and cut the celery into small pieces; melt the butter in a saucepan, put in the vegetables, season them with salt, pepper, a very little powdered mace, and let them simmer (not fry) for ten minutes. Then add the white sauce and leave the pan where the heat is moderate until the vegetables are quite tender, but the sauce must not be allowed to boil. When it is ready, add a few drops of carmine and a squeeze of lemon-juice, and pass it either through a perforated gravy strainer or a sieve, and re-heat it carefully, letting it only just reach boiling point....
39 minute read
Three or four large tomatoes, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. sliced onion, 1¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 1¹⁄₂ pints thick brown sauce, seasoning, Chili vinegar, carmine. Method. —Cut the tomatoes into slices and fry them gently with the onion in one ounce of the butter; season with salt, freshly-ground black pepper, nutmeg, and a dust of castor sugar, and as soon as the tomatoes are quite soft, add the brown sauce, a few drops of Chili vinegar, and sufficient carmine to make it a clear red; then pass it through a sieve and re-heat it when required, stirring in the remaining half ounce of butter after taking the saucepan from the stove; this will add richness to the sauce, but it should not be re-heated after the butter is put in, or it will become oily instead of blending with the sauce....
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One onion, a few pieces of celery, 2 or 3 thin strips lemon-peel, 2 or 3 pieces parsley, small blade of mace, salt, pepper, ³⁄₄ pint milk, ¹⁄₄ pint Plasmon stock, 2¹⁄₂ ozs. butter, 2 ozs. flour. Method. —Cut the onion in slices and put it into a saucepan with the celery and one ounce of butter, and let it simmer gently for ten minutes, taking great care that the butter does not become discoloured, then add the milk, Plasmon, lemon-peel, parsley, mace, salt, and pepper, and let the stock simmer gently (it must not boil) until the vegetables are soft, when it should be strained into a basin. Melt the remainder of the butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour. As soon as the latter is well mixed, pour in the flavoured milk, by degrees, stirring quickly all the time with a wooden spoon, so that no...
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One onion, 1 carrot, 1 small turnip, a few pieces of celery, a thick slice of parsnip, 2 artichokes, a little bunch of parsley, a little piece of lemon-thyme, 1 clove, a little piece of mace, salt, pepper, ¹⁄₂ pint milk, ³⁄₄ pint water or Plasmon stock, 1 oz. of crumbs from a milk loaf. Method. —Slice the vegetables and put them into a saucepan with the water, bread, herbs, and seasoning; let the water or stock reach boiling point, and then simmer for half an hour; at the end of the time add the milk and simmer again for twenty minutes, when the stock should be strained and put aside until it is required. LETCHWORTH THE TEMPLE PRESS PRINTERS...