Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Cut about six ounces of butter into small hits, and put them into a
small sauce-pan. Mix with a wine-glass of water sufficient flour to
make a thick batter, pour it on the butter, and hold the sauce-pan over
hot coals, shaking it quickly round, till the butter is melted. Let it
just boil up, and then take it from the fire. Thicken it with the
pickled nasturtians and send it to table in a boat.
Never pour melted butter over any thing, but always send it to table in
a sauce-tureen or boat.
WHITE ONION SAUCE.
Peel a dozen onions, and throw them into salt and water to keep them
white. Then boil them tender. When done, squeeze the water from them,
and chop them. Have ready some butter that has been melted rich and
smooth with milk or cream instead of water. Put the onions into the
melted butter, and boil them up at once. If you wish to have them very
mild, put in a turnip with them at the first boiling.
Young white onions, if very small, need not be chopped, but may be put
whole into the butter.
Use this sauce for rabbits, tripe, boiled poultry, or any boiled fresh
meat.
BROWN ONION SAUCE.
Slice some large mild Spanish onions. Cover them with butter, and set
them over a slow fire to brown. Then add salt and cayenne pepper to
your taste, and some good brown gravy of roast meat, poultry or game,
thickened with a bit of butter rolled in flour that has first been
browned by holding it in a hot pan or shovel over the fire. Give it a
boil, skim it well, and just before you take it off, stir in a half
glass of port or claret, and the same quantity of mushroom catchup.
Use this sauce for roasted poultry, game, or meat.
MUSHROOM SAUCE.
Wash a pint of small button mushrooms,—remove the stems and the outside
skin. Stew them slowly in veal gravy or in milk or cream, seasoning
them with pepper and salt, and adding a piece of butter rolled in a
large proportion of flour. Stew them till quite tender, now and then
taking off the cover of the pan to stir them.
The flavour will be heightened by having salted a few the night before
in a covered dish, to extract the juice, and then stirring it into the
sauce while stewing.
This sauce may be served up with poultry, game, or beef-steaks.
In gathering mushrooms take only those that are of a dull pearl colour
on the outside, and that have the under part tinged with pale pink.
Boil an onion with them. If there is a poisonous one among them, the
onion will turn black. Then throw away the whole.
EGG SAUCE.
Boil four eggs a quarter of an hour. Dip them into cold water to
prevent their looking blue. Peel off the shell. Chop the yolks of all,
and the whites of two, and stir them into melted butter. Serve this
sauce with boiled poultry or fish.
BREAD SAUCE.
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