Cakes & Ale: A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veraciousSpencer, Edward
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Cakes & Ale: A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious
Spencer, Edward
Cooking, English; Dinners and dining; Entertaining; Gastronomy
Having grated your horse, add a quarter of a pint of
cream--English or Devonshire--a dessert-spoonful of sifted
sugar, half that quantity of salt, and a tablespoonful of
vinegar. Mix all together, and, if for hot meat, heat in the
oven, taking care that the mixture does not curdle. Many people
use oil instead of cream, and mix grated orange rind with the
sauce. The Germans do not use oil, but either make the relish
with cream, or hard-boiled yolk of egg. Horse-radish sauce
for hot meat may also be heated by pouring it into a jar, and
standing the jar in boiling water--"jugging it" in fact.
_Celery Sauce_,
for boiled pheasant, or turkey, is made thus:
Two or three heads of celery, sliced thin, put into a
saucepan with equal quantities of sugar and salt, a dust of
white pepper, and two or three ounces of butter. Stew your
celery slowly till it becomes pulpy, but _not brown_, add two
or three ounces of flour, and a good half-pint of milk, or
cream. Let it simmer twenty minutes, and then rub the mixture
through a sieve.
The carp as an item of food is, according to my ideas, a fraud. He
tastes principally of the mud in which he has been wallowing until
dragged out by the angler. The ancients loved a dish of carp, and yet
they knew not the only sauce to make him at all palatable.
_Sauce for Carp._
One ounce of butter, a quarter pint of good beef gravy,
one dessert-spoonful of flour, a quarter pint of cream and two
anchovies chopped very small. Mix over the fire, stir well till
boiling, then take off, add a little Worcester sauce, and a
squeeze of lemon, just before serving.
_Christopher North's Sauce._
This is a very old recipe. Put a dessert-spoonful of
sifted sugar, a salt-spoonful of salt, and rather more than
that quantity of cayenne, into a jar. Mix thoroughly, and
add, gradually, two tablespoonfuls of Harvey's sauce, a
dessert-spoonful of mushroom ketchup, a tablespoonful of lemon
juice, and a large glass of port. Place the jar in a saucepan
of boiling water, and let it remain till the mixture is very
hot, but not boiling. If bottled directly after made, the sauce
will keep for a week, and may be used for duck, goose, pork, or
(Christopher adds) "any broil." But there is but _one_ broil
sauce, the GUBBINS SAUCE, already mentioned in this work.
_Sauce for Hare._
What a piece of work is a hare! And what a piece of work it is to cook
him in a laudable fashion!
Crumble some bread--a handful or so--soak it in port
wine, heat over the fire with a small lump of butter, a
tablespoonful of red-currant jelly, a little salt, and a
tablespoonful of Chili vinegar. Serve as hot as possible.
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