The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
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N. B. Sauces of fennel, chervil, basil, tarragon, burnet, cress, &c.
may be made in the same way.
ANCHOVY SAUCE.
Pound three anchovies in a mortar with a bit of butter, rub it
through a hair-sieve, with the back of a wooden spoon, and stir it
into half a pint of melted butter.
CAPER SAUCE FOR MUTTON.
To a quarter of a pint of melted butter put a table-spoonful of
capers, and nearly as much vinegar.
GARLIC SAUCE.
Pound two cloves of garlic and proceed as with the anchovy sauce.
SHALOT SAUCE,
Is made with three or four shalots pounded, and done in the same way.
_Browning_,
Is nothing more than pounded white sugar, melted over a slow fire,
with a little butter and water, till it begins to smoke and turn
brown, then diluted with more water, till about the consistence of
soy, and afterwards boiled, skimmed, strained, and preserved in well
corked bottles.
ALL PLAIN SAUCES, should taste only of the articles from which they
take their names.
In COMPOUND SAUCES the several ingredients should be so nicely
proportioned that no particular flavour should predominate.
Soy, walnut-peels, burnt treacle, or sugar, cayenne pepper, or
capsicums, chilies, vinegar, pickled herrings, anchovies, sardinias, or
sprats, are the bases of almost all the sauces to be found in the shops.
Never season too highly your sauces, gravies, or soups.
Cloves and allspice,—mace and nutmeg,—marjorum, thyme, and
savory,—leeks, onions, shalots, and garlic,—need not be mixed together
in the same preparation, when either of them will supply the place of
the others.
In short, Cooks now know, by experience, that a much less number of
ingredients are sufficient to give a finer flavour to sauces, &c. than
was formerly used; because, in this age of refined taste, we have
learnt to combine the _simply elegant_ with the _purely nutritious_.
_Salads._
These may be eaten at all seasons of the year; but they are most
wholesome in the spring, when green herbs, of all kinds, are in the
greatest perfection. They are, then, most efficacious, in cleansing,
sweetening, and purifying the blood. But, though Salads in the winter
act not so powerful as in the spring, yet, such as are to be had,
retain all the properties or qualities of their nature, and the warmer
kinds, in particular, being gentle, salutary, and most excellent
stimulants, are well calculated to warm the stomach, and exhilarate the
spirits.
The following are the principal herbs, or vegetables, used in English
salads; viz.
Beet Root, Mint, Small Salading
Celery, Onions, which are
Chervil, Parsley, Turnip,
Chives, Radish, Common, Rape,
Corn Salad, ————–—, Turnip, Salad Radish,
Cucumber, Shalots, Mustard,
Garlic, Sorrel, Garden Cress.
Lettuce, Water Cresses, and
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