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
One pound of Coombs' Eureka Flour, half a pound of sugar, half a pound
of butter; mix these well together, then add four eggs, yolks and
whites separately, the whites beaten to a stiff froth; mix with enough
milk to make the consistence of stiff whipped cream. Take out a third
of the mixture, and colour a nice pink with cochineal, and flavour with
a few drops of almond essence, also put in a few blanched almonds cut
in half; the rest of the mixture flavour with lemon, and put in some
_glacé_ cherries cut in half. Well butter a square and shallow cake
tin, pour in half the plain mixture with cherries, let it spread and
flatten, then pour the pink mixture on the top of that, let that also
spread and flatten, and then pour the rest of the cherry mixture on the
top; smooth with a wet knife and bake till set and a nice colour. Leave
it for about ten minutes, and turn out. Let it get quite cold, then cut
it into small squares; smooth the top of each by cutting it quite even.
Then pour over each an icing made thus--half a pound of confectioners'
sugar, with about two tablespoons of water, stir well; just let it boil
up, and cover the tops of the cakes smoothly; then sprinkle over the
top with pink chip cocoa-nut, hundreds of thousands, pistachio nuts, or
crushed crystallised violets, each cake with a different decoration.
This is a pretty dish, and very nice.
27. Sago Jelly.
Boil a quarter pound of small sago in one quart of water till quite
clear and thick--if too thick add a little more water--but it must be
very thick and stiff. Now add a half pound of sugar, the juice of three
oranges strained, a drop or two of oil of oranges, a pennyworth of
saffron that has been dissolved in a wine glass of boiling water and
strained, some almonds blanched and cut into thin strips. Mix all well
together, and pour into a plain mould that has been rinsed with cold
water. Let it get quite cold and set, and turn out on a glass dish.
Decorate with chow-chow according to fancy.
28. Sweet made of Bread.
Cut some slices of stale bread of a close texture, stamp it out in neat
rounds, soak it in one egg well beaten in a small cup of milk, fry in
lard a golden brown. Now cover over each any kind of jam that is liked
best. Cover with whipped cream and ornament with a sprinkling of pink
chip cocoa-nut, or to make it of two different colours the cream can be
coloured with a few drops of cochineal, and ornament with white chip
cocoa-nut. This is a very simple and pretty sweet.
29. Chestnut Souffle.
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