Dr. Allinson's cookery book, comprising many valuable vegetarian recipesAllinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard)
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Dr. Allinson's cookery book, comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes
Allinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard)
Vegetarian cooking
1 oz. small tapioca, 1/2 pint of milk, sugar to taste. Put the tapioca
into a small pie-dish, let it soak in a very little water for half an
hour, pour off any which has not been absorbed. Pour the milk over the
soaked tapioca, and bake it in the oven until thoroughly cooked. Eat
with or without stewed fruit.
No. 4.
CLEAR SOUP (Julienne).
3/4 pint vegetable stock, 1 tablespoonful dried Julienne (vegetables),
a little butter, pepper and salt to taste. Cook the Julienne in the
stock until tender, add butter and seasoning and serve.
HAGGIS.
2 oz. of wheatmeal, 1 oz. of rolled oatmeal, 1 egg, 1/4 oz. of oiled
butter, 1/2 gill milk, a teaspoonful of grated onion, a pinch of
herbs, pepper and salt to taste. Beat up the egg, mix it with the
milk, and add the other ingredients. Turn the mixture into a small
greased basin, and steam the haggis 1-1/2 hours. Serve with
vegetables.
GROUND RICE PUDDING.
1 oz. of ground rice, a scanty 1/2 pint of milk, sugar and flavouring
to taste, 1/2 egg. Boil the milk, stir the ground rice into it; let it
simmer for 10 minutes, then add sugar and flavouring and the 1/2 egg
well beaten; turn the mixture into a small pie-dish, and bake in the
oven until a golden colour.
No. 5.
CLEAR TOMATO SOUP.
2 tablespoonfuls of tinned tomatoes, or 1 fair-sized fresh one, 1
small finely chopped and fried onion, a teaspoonful of vermicelli,
pepper and salt to taste, 1/2 pint of water. Boil the tomatoes with
the onion and water for 5 to 10 minutes, then drain all the liquid;
return to the saucepan, season and sprinkle in the vermicelli, let the
soup cook until the vermicelli is soft, and serve.
MACARONI WITH CHEESE.
2 oz. of macaroni or Spaghetti, a little grated cheese, pepper and
salt to taste. Boil the macaroni in as much water as it will absorb
(about 1/2 pint). Season to taste. When tender serve with grated
cheese and vegetables.
WHEATMEAL BATTER.
2 oz. of meal, 1 oz. of desiccated cocoanut, 1 gill of milk, 1 egg,
sugar to taste, 1/4 oz. of oiled butter. Make a batter of the egg,
milk, and meal, add the other ingredients, and bake the batter in a
small buttered pie-dish.
No. 6.
LENTIL SOUP.
2 oz. of Egyptian lentils, 2 oz. each of carrots and turnips cut up
small, 1/2 oz. of onion chopped fine, 1/2 oz. of butter, seasoning to
taste, 1 pint of water. Cook the vegetables and lentils in the water
until quite tender, then rub them through a sieve. Return to the
saucepan, add butter and seasoning, boil up, and serve with sippets of
toast.
RICE AND TOMATOES.
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