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
1/4 lb. turnip, a small onion, and 2 oz. of potato, a little butter
and seasoning, 1/2 pint water. Wash, peel, and cut up the vegetables,
and cook them in the water until tender. Rub them through a sieve,
return the mixture to the saucepan, add butter and seasoning, boil up,
and serve.
POTATO BATTER.
1 gill of milk, 1 egg, 2 oz. wheatmeal, 1 oz. of vege-butter, 6 oz.
cold boiled potatoes. Fry the potatoes in the butter, make a batter of
the milk, meal, and egg, mix it with the potatoes, add seasoning, pour
the mixture in a little pie-dish, and bake the savoury for half an
hour.
LEMON MOULD.
1 oz. of tapioca, 1/2 pint of water, juice and rind of 1/4 lemon, 1
large tablespoonful of golden syrup. Boil the tapioca until quite
tender, with the Lemon rind, in the water. Take out the rind, add the
syrup and lemon juice, mix well, pour the mixture into a wetted mould,
turn out when cold, and serve.
No. 18.
APPLE SOUP.
1 large cooking apple, 1 small finely chopped onion, seasoning and
sugar to taste, a little butter, 1 teaspoonful of cornflour, 1/2 pint
of water. Peel and cut up the apple, and cook with the onion in the
water till quite tender. Rub the mixture through a sieve, return to
the saucepan, add the butter, seasoning and sugar, thicken the soup
with the cornflour, and serve.
RICE CHEESECAKES.
2 oz. rice, 1 gill water, 1 oz. of grated cheese, seasoning, a pinch
of nutmeg, 1 egg, a little wheatmeal, and some vege-butter, or butter.
Cook the rice in the water until quite dry and soft, mix the egg--well
beaten--seasoning, and cheese with the rice, and form the mixture into
small cakes. Roll in wheatmeal, and fry them a golden brown. Serve
with vegetables and brown sauce.
PLUM PIE.
1/2 lb. ripe plums, sugar to taste, some paste. Wash the plums and put
them in a small pie-dish, pour 1/2 teacupful of water over them, add
sugar, cover the plums with a short crust, and bake the pie a golden
brown.
No. 19.
CELERY SOUP.
1/2 stick celery, 1/2 small onion, 1/4 oz. butter, 1 potato, pepper
and salt. Wash, peel, and cut up the vegetables, and cook them in 1/2
pint of water till tender. Rub through a sieve, return to the
saucepan, season with pepper and salt, add the butter, boil up, and
serve.
APPLE AND ONION PIE.
6 oz. apples, 1/4 lb. Spanish onions, 1 hard-boiled egg, a little
butter, pepper and salt to taste, some paste for a short crust. Peel
and cut up the apples and onion, stew gently with a little water. When
nearly tender, season and add the butter, turn the mixture into a
small pie-dish, quarter the egg, and place the pieces on the mixture,
cover with a crust, and bake the pie 1/2 hour.
MACARONI PUDDING.
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