Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Take fifteen anchovies, chop them fine, and steep them in vinegar for a
week, keeping the vessel closely covered. Then put them into a pint of
claret or port wine. Scrape fine a large stick of horseradish, and chop
two onions, a handful of parsley, a tea-spoonful of the leaves of
lemon-thyme, and two large peach leaves. Add a nutmeg, six or eight
blades of mace, nine cloves, and a tea-spoonful of black pepper, all
slightly pounded in a mortar. Put all these ingredients into a silver
or block tin sauce-pan, or into an earthen pipkin, and add a few grains
of cochineal to colour it. Pour in a large half pint of the best
vinegar, and simmer it slowly till the bones of the anchovies are
entirely dissolved.
Strain the liquor through a sieve, and when quite cold put it away for
use in small bottles; the corks dipped in melted rosin, and
well-secured by pieces of leather tied closely over them. Fill each
bottle quite full, as it will keep the better for leaving no vacancy.
This sauce will give a fine flavour to melted butter.
QUIN’S SAUCE.
Pound in a mortar six large anchovies, moistening them with their own
pickle. Then chop and pound six small onions. Mix them with a little
black pepper and a little cayenne, half a glass of soy, four glasses of
mushroom catchup, two glasses of claret, and two of black walnut
pickle. Put the mixture into a small sauce-pan or earthen pipkin, and
let it simmer slowly till all the bones of the anchovies are dissolved.
Strain it, and when cold, bottle it for use; dipping the cork in melted
rosin, and tying leather over it. Fill the bottles quite full.
KITCHINER’S FISH SAUCE.
Mix together a pint of claret, a pint of mushroom catchup, and half a
pint of walnut pickle, four ounces of pounded anchovy, an ounce of
fresh lemon-peel pared thin, and the same quantity of shalot or small
onion. Also an ounce of scraped horseradish, half an ounce of black
pepper, and half an ounce of allspice mixed, and the same quantity of
cayenne and celery-seed. Infuse these ingredients in a wide-mouthed
bottle (closely stopped) for a fortnight, shaking the mixture every
day. Then strain and bottle it for use. Put it up in small bottles,
filling them quite full.
HARVEY’S SAUCE.
Dissolve six anchovies in a pint of strong vinegar, and then add to
them three table-spoonfuls of India soy, and three table-spoonfuls of
mushroom catchup, two heads of garlic bruised small, and a quarter of
an ounce of cayenne. Add sufficient cochineal powder to colour the
mixture red. Let all these ingredients infuse in the vinegar for a
fortnight, shaking it every day, and then strain and bottle it for use.
Let the bottles be small, and cover the corks with leather.
GENERAL SAUCE.
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