The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private FamiliesEaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
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The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
Cooking, English; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics
FILLET OF VEAL. Stuff it well under the udder, at the bone, and quite
through to the shank. Put it into the oven, with a pint of water under
it, till it comes to a fine brown. Then put it in a stewpan with three
pints of gravy, and stew it quite tender. Add a tea-spoonful of lemon
pickle, a large spoonful of browning, one of ketchup, and a little
cayenne; thicken it with a bit of butter rolled in flour. Put the veal
in a dish, strain the gravy over it, and lay round it forcemeat balls.
Garnish with pickle and lemon.
FINE CAKE. To make an excellent cake, rub two pounds of fine dry flour
with one of butter, washed in plain and then in rose water. Mix with it
three spoonfuls of yeast, in a little warm milk and water. Set it to
rise an hour and a half before the fire, and then beat into it two
pounds of currants, carefully washed and picked, and one pound of sifted
sugar. Add four ounces of almonds, six ounces of stoned raisins chopped
fine, half a nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, and a few cloves, the peel of a
lemon shred very fine, a glass of wine, one of brandy, twelve yolks and
whites of eggs beat separately, with orange, citron, and lemon. Beat
them up well together, butter the pan, and bake in a quick oven.--To
make a still finer cake, wash two pounds and a half of fresh butter in
water first, and then in rose water, and beat the butter to a cream.
Beat up twenty eggs, yolks and whites, separately, half an hour each.
Have ready two pounds and a half of the finest flour well dried and kept
hot, likewise a pound and a half of loaf sugar pounded and sifted, an
ounce of spice in very fine powder, three pounds of currants nicely
cleaned and dry, half a pound of almonds blanched, and three quarters of
a pound of sweetmeats cut small. Let all be kept by the fire, and mix
the dry ingredients. Pour the eggs strained to the butter, mix half a
glass of sweet wine with a full glass of brandy, and pour it to the
butter and eggs, mixing them well together. Add the dry ingredients by
degrees, and beat them together thoroughly for a great length of time.
Having prepared and stoned half a pound of jar raisins, chopped as fine
as possible, mix them carefully, so that there shall be no lumps, and
add a tea-cupful of orange flower water. Beat the ingredients together a
full hour at least. Have a hoop well buttered, or a tin or copper
cake-pan; take a white paper, doubled and buttered, and put in the pan
round the edge, if the cake batter fill it more than three parts, for
space should be allowed for rising. Bake it in a quick oven: three hours
will be requisite.
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