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
6 large boiled potatoes, 1 large English onion, 1/2 oz. of butter, 1
egg well beaten, pepper and salt to taste. Halve the potatoes as
before, scoop out most of the soft part and mash it up. Mince the
onion very finely and fry it a nice brown with the best part of the
butter, mix all up together, adding the egg and seasoning, fill the
potato skins, tie the halves together, brush them over with the rest
of the butter (oiled), and put them in the oven until well heated
through. Serve with vegetables and brown sauce.
POTATOES (TOASTED).
Cut cold boiled potatoes into slices, brush them over with oiled
butter, place them on a gridiron (if not handy, in a wire salad
basket), and put it over a clear fire. Brown the slices on both sides.
SAUCES
Flesh-eaters have the gravy of meat to eat with their vegetables, and
when they give up the use of flesh they are often at a loss for a good
substitute. Sauces may be useful in more ways than one. When not too
highly spiced or seasoned they help to prevent thirst, as they supply
the system with fluid, and when made with the liquor in which
vegetables have been boiled they retain many valuable salts which
would otherwise have been lost. When foods are eaten in a natural
condition no sauces are required, but when food is changed by cooking
many persons require it to be made more appetising, as it is called.
The use of sauces is thus seen to be an aid to help down plain and
wholesome food, and being fluid they cause the food to be more
thoroughly broken up and made into a porridgy mass before it is
swallowed. From a health point of view artificial sauces are not good,
but if made as I direct very little harm will result.
Brown Gravy, Fried Onion Sauce, or Herb Gravy must be used with great
caution, or not at all by those who are troubled with heartburn,
acidity, biliousness, or skin eruptions of any kind.
The water in which vegetables (except cabbage or potatoes) have been
boiled is better for making sauces than ordinary water.
APPLE SAUCE.
1 lb. of apples, 1 gill of water, 1-1/2 oz. of sugar (or more,
according to taste), 1/2 a teaspoonful of mixed spice. Pare and core
the apples, cut them up, and cook them with the water until quite
mashed up, add sugar and spice. Rub the apples through a sieve,
re-heat, and serve. Can also be served cold.
APRICOT SAUCE.
1/2 lb. of apricot jam, 1/2 a teaspoonful of Allinson cornflour.
Dilute the jam with 1/2 pint of water, boil it up and pass it through
a sieve; boil the sauce up, and thicken it with the cornflour. Serve
hot or cold.
BOILED ONION SAUCE.
This is made as "Wheatmeal Sauce," but plenty of boiled and chopped
onions are mixed in it. This goes well with any plain vegetables.
BROWN GRAVY.
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