Fast-Day Cookery; or, Meals without MeatJohnson, Grace
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Fast-Day Cookery; or, Meals without Meat
Johnson, Grace
Cooking (Fish); Lenten menus; Vegetarian cooking
Cut up an onion into thin rings, chop two beads of garlic, and fry
these a golden brown in two ounces of butter, with twenty-four cloves,
twelve peppercorns, and three bay-leaves. Add one and a half pints of
water, let it simmer gently for half an hour, then add two packets of
Edwards' Desiccated White Soup; let it simmer half an hour longer, and
strain. Then add either one pint of milk, or sixpence worth of cream,
the rind of a lemon grated, quarter of a nutmeg grated, salt and pepper
to taste; put it on the fire to warm through. Well pound the flesh of a
fresh lobster, or the _very best_ brand of tinned lobster, and pass it
through a wire sieve into the soup, stir well, and thoroughly heat it.
Serve with fried bread cut into small dice shape.
3. Scallop Soup.
Cut up an onion into rings, two beads of garlic, and fry in two ounces
of butter a golden colour. Add one and a half pints of water, the same
of milk, twenty-four cloves, twelve peppercorns, a sprig of tarragon,
three bay-leaves, a stick of celery, two-penny packet of Edwards' White
Soup; let them simmer for one hour.
Chop up about half a dozen scallops, strain the soup through a wire
sieve, add the scallops, pepper and salt to taste, and a grate of lemon
peel. Serve very hot with fried bread cut into little dice.
4. Cockle Soup.
Cut up an onion into thin rings, and chop two beads of garlic, fry in
two ounces of butter with twenty-four cloves a delicate brown, then add
two tablespoons of tarragon vinegar, two tablespoons mushroom ketchup,
two teaspoons of Chili vinegar, and three pints of water; thicken
with two ounces of flour that has been rubbed smooth in a bowl to the
consistence of cream; then add a stick of celery, a pinch of thyme,
parsley, basil and sage. Let these simmer for one hour; add pepper and
salt to taste, and strain through a sieve. Lastly, add one pint of
_picked_ cockles, with their liquor. Serve hot.
5. Eel Soup.
Boil two pounds of eels, that have been skinned and cleaned, in two
quarts of water. Add a bunch of sweet herbs, two-penny packet of
Edwards' White Soup, one onion stuck with cloves, two beads of garlic,
two ounces of butter, pepper and salt to taste, one small tea-cup of
tomato conserve. Let it simmer gently for one hour, strain through a
sieve, take the flesh of the fish off the bones, pass it through a
sieve into the soup. Serve hot, with nicely toasted bread cut into neat
pieces.
6. Haddock Soup.
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