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
Home economics; Household employees
Let the fowl, duck, rabbit, meat, fish, or vegetable, &c. be cut
up into small pieces, sprinkling a little flour thereon, fried in
butter, (with two middle-sized onions sliced fine,) or what is called
drawn in a pan, then stewed in the gravy from a pound of beef (though
water is as frequently used) over a brisk fire, for about twenty
minutes, with two or three table-spoonsful of the mixture, as below,
stirring the whole occasionally; or the powder may be rubbed well
over the fowl, &c. and fried with it, adding two ounces of butter,
the juice of a fine lemon, or half a wine glass of lemon juice,
or lemon pickle,—two cloves of garlic, chopped very fine, and one
tea-spoonful of salt. If any of the ingredients predominate too much,
or an insufficiency prevail, subtract or add according to taste. For
a larger quantify of meat than the weight of a large fowl, use more
of the mixture in proportion. The curry will be much improved by the
mixture being made into a thin paste with a few spoonsful of cream,
and then rubbed over the meat, previously to its being put into the
stew-pan.
CURRY POWDER.
Thirteen ounces coriander seed, three ounces cumin seed, two ounces
black pepper, four ounces China turmeric, or curcuma root, half an
ounce Cayenne pepper, one quarter of an ounce powdered cassia, one
quarter of an ounce powdered white ginger, also one half of an ounce
of cardamums, one quarter of an ounce of cloves, and one quarter of
an ounce of allspice.
The above quantities are enough for twenty curries, but it should be
kept dry in a tin canister.
The curried fowl, &c. as above, will require three quarters of a
pound of rice to be a sufficiency for curry eaters. The curry and the
rice should be served in separate dishes, with covers, the dishes
having heaters, or in hot water dishes, such as those used for
beef-steaks.
N. B.—Two or three sour apples cut into quarters, as well as a few
fresh mushrooms, are great improvements to all curries; as are
truffles. If the latter are used, the liquor in which they are boiled
should be added to the curry.
MODE OF PREPARING MULGA-TAWNEY, AS AT MADRAS.
Cut up a fowl, duck, rabbit, beef, or mutton, boil the same
in two quarts of water for a quarter of an hour; then mix the
under-mentioned therein, previously bruising the spices in a mortar,
rejecting the husk. For a larger quantity of meat than the weight of
a large fowl, use more of the mixture in proportion.
Two table spoons over-filled of the curry powder or ingredients,
answers the purpose, and better, adding the butter, onions, garlic,
pease-flour, acid, &c.
One quarter of an ounce China turmeric, one sixth of an ounce Cayenne
pepper, one ounce and a quarter coriander seed, one third of an ounce
of powdered cassia, two drams two scruples black pepper.
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