The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1023, August 5, 1899 — John Shaqi
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1023, August 5, 1899Various
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The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1023, August 5, 1899
Various
Children's literature -- Periodicals
But one word in conclusion: if everything is not done day after day
with method and regularity, if late hours be kept, or the evenings
spent too excitedly, then you need expect but little benefit from even
the summer sunshine. I hope to have a paper very soon on the “_Fresh
Air Treatment of Consumption_.”
GRILLING AND DEVILLING.
BY DORA DE BLAQUIÈRE.
I have taken the trouble to look in the dictionary for the word
“grill,” and I find it is derived from the French word “grille”—a
grate or gridiron—and it means to broil on a grate or gridiron. But
to-day, in point of fact, grilling is rarely performed in this manner,
few people having the gridiron; and if not done in the oven, it is
performed in an open frying-pan.
I have begun with this piece of information because some of my readers
may say on seeing the word, “Oh, we can’t grill! We have no means of
using a gridiron!” And as all devils must be grilled or fried quickly,
without burning them in a hot oven, it is well to understand exactly
what is meant. To my mind a frying-pan is better than an oven, because
you can watch the process and see that the gravy does not waste. And
the very first thing you have to guard against with an inexperienced
or poor cook is her either wasting all the mixture for the gravy, or
else her drying it up and burning the meat, or scorching the bones,
and making them uneatable. The operation of grilling must be performed
quickly, and needs the best attention of the operator.
Now I must tell you what I daresay you may already know, _i.e._, that
all the great cooks, like Francatelli, give you a recipe for what they
generally call “devil’s mixture”; and the following is the composition
of that renowned master in the art of cooking. Mix well upon a plate a
spoonful of either French or English mustard, a spoonful of Oude sauce
or chutney, the same of anchovy, two spoonfuls of olive oil, and a
little cayenne pepper. This should be used to cover whatever you are
about to grill.
In the _Pytchley Cookery Book_, which is so celebrated, you will find
two or three recipes for devil sauce. The first is the simplest. Warm
and blend together a teaspoonful of mixed mustard, a tablespoonful
of Worcestershire sauce, an ounce of glaze, an ounce of butter, a
saltspoonful of cayenne pepper, one of salt, and a tablespoonful of
chopped parsley. Mix, warm up, and rub the meat well with the mixture,
serving it as gravy, should any remain after the broiling.
The second Pytchley recipe is intended to be poured over the meat when
broiled. A tablespoonful of mustard, a teaspoonful of curry paste, a
tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce, two tablespoonfuls of mushroom
ketchup, a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, a teaspoonful of salt, the
yolk of an egg, and half a pint of thick soup from the night before, if
a thin soup. Then thicken it with some brown thickening, boil up, and
pour over the broiled bones.
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