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Title: Domestic French Cookery, 4th ed.

Author: Sulpice Barue

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  DOMESTIC
  FRENCH COOKERY,

  CHIEFLY
  TRANSLATED FROM SULPICE BARUE.


  BY MISS LESLIE,
  AUTHOR OF "SEVENTY-FIVE RECEIPTS," &C.


  FOURTH EDITION.


  Philadelphia:
  CAREY & HART--CHESTNUT STREET.
  1836.




Entered according to the Act of Congress, the 25th day of October, 1832,
by

E. L. CAREY & A. HART,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.


STEREOTYPED BY J. HOWE.




PREFACE.


The design of the following little book is to furnish receipts for a
select variety of French dishes, explained and described in such a
manner as to make them intelligible to American cooks, and practicable
with American utensils and American fuel. Those that (according to the
original work) cannot be prepared without an unusual and foreign
apparatus have been omitted; and also such as can only be accomplished
by the consummate skill and long practice of native French cooks.

Many dishes have been left out, as useless in a country where provisions
are abundant. On this side of the Atlantic all persons in respectable
life can obtain better articles of food than sheeps' tails, calves'
ears, &c. and the preparation of these articles (according to the
European receipts) is too tedious and complicated to be of any use to
the indigent, or to those who can spare but little time for their
cookery.

Also, the translator has inserted no receipts which contain nothing
different from the usual American mode of preparing the same dishes.

Most of the French Cookery Books introduced into this country have
failed in their object, from the evident deficiency of the translators
in a competent knowledge of the technical terms of cookery and from the
multitude of French words interspersed through the directions, and which
cannot, in general, be comprehended without an incessant and troublesome
reference to the glossary.

The translator of the following pages has endeavored, according to the
best of her ability, to avoid these defects, and has aimed at making a
book of practical utility to all those who may have a desire to
introduce occasionally at their tables good specimens of the French
culinary art.

From these receipts she believes that many advantageous hints may be
taken for improvements in American cookery; and she hopes that, upon
trial, this little work may be found equally useful in private families,
hotels, and boarding-houses.

  _Philadelphia, September, 1832._




CONTENTS.


  SOUPS.

  Beef Soup                                  Page 13
  Consomme, or Jelly Soup                         14
  Pease Soup                                     ib.
  Maccaroni Soup                                 ib.
  Chestnut Soup                                   15
  Almond Soup                                    ib.
  Lobster Soup                                   ib.
  Oyster Soup                                     16
  Green Peas Soup                                ib.


  GRAVIES, OR ESSENCES.

  Brown Gravy                                     17
  White Gravy                                    ib.
  Essence of Game                                ib.
  To Clarify Gravies or Essences                  18
  Veloute, or Velvet Essence                     ib.


  SAUCES, &c.

  Bechamel                                        19
  Another Bechamel                               ib.
  Drawn Butter                                   ib.
  Melted Butter, another way                      20
  Cold Sauce for Fish                            ib.
  Sauce for Vegetables                           ib.
  Pungent Sauce, or Sauce Piquante                21
  Anchovy Sauce                                  ib.
  Curry Sauce                                    ib.
  Tomata Sauce                                   ib.
  Cucumber Sauce                                  22
  Bread Sauce                                    ib.
  Sauce Robert                                   ib.
  Shalot or Onion Sauce                           23
  Universal Sauce                                ib.
  Lobster Sauce                                  ib.
  Spinach for coloring Green                      24
  Garlic Butter                                  ib.
  Hazelnut Butter                                 24
  Larding                                        ib.


  MEATS.

  Veal a la Mode                                  29
  Veal Cutlets                                   ib.
  Blanquette, or Fricassee of Veal                30
  Godiveau                                       ib.
  Calves' Liver baked                            ib.
  Calves' Liver fried                             31
  Veal Kidneys                                   ib.
  Grillades                                      ib.
  Liver Cake                                      32
  Sirloin of Beef                                ib.
  Stewed Beef                                    ib.
  Beef Steaks                                     33
  Beef a la Mode                                 ib.
  Roasted Ham                                     34
  Fried Ham with Tomatas                          35
  Roasted Tongue                                 ib.
  Baked Tongue                                    36
  Potted Tongue                                  ib.
  Leg of Mutton with Oysters                      37
  Cutlets a la Maintenon                         ib.
  Pork Cutlets                                   ib.
  Larded Rabbit                                   38
  Rabbits in Papers                              ib.
  Pilau                                          ib.
  Veal Sweetbreads                                39


  GAME AND POULTRY.

  A Salmi                                         43
  Cold Salmi                                     ib.
  Ragooed Livers                                  44
  A fine Hash                                    ib.
  Marinade of Fowls                              ib.
  Fricassee of Fowls                              45
  Fowls with Tarragon                            ib.
  A stewed Fowl                                   46
  Chickens in Jelly                              ib.
  Pulled Chickens                                 47
  Stewed Turkey, or Turkey en Daube               48
  Roasted Turkey                                 ib.
  Potted Goose                                    49
  Ducks with Turnips                              50
  A Duck with Olives                             ib.
  A Duck with Peas                               ib.
  Turkey Puddings                                 51
  Baked Pigeons, or Pigeons a la Crapaudine      ib.
  Broiled Pigeons                                 52
  Pigeons Pear-fashion (Pigeons au poire)        ib.
  Pigeons with Peas                              ib.
  Roasted Partridges                              53
  Partridges with Cabbage                        ib.
  A Partridge Pie                                ib.
  Roasted Pheasants                               54
  Broiled Quails                                  55
  Roasted Plovers                                ib.


  FISH.

  Stewed Salmon                                   59
  Roasted Salmon                                 ib.
  Broiled Salmon                                  60
  Salt Cod Fish                                  ib.
  Broiled Fresh Mackerel                          61
  Broiled Fresh Shad                             ib.
  Hashed Fish                                    ib.
  Lobster Pie                                     62
  Oyster Loaves                                  ib.


  VEGETABLES.

  Stewed Lettuce                                  65
  Stewed Spinach                                 ib.
  Stewed Cucumbers                                66
  Stewed Beets                                   ib.
  Stewed Carrots                                 ib.
  Stewed Cabbage                                 ib.
  Stewed Peas                                     67
  Stewed Beans                                   ib.
  Stewed Onions                                   68
  Onions stewed in Wine                          ib.
  Stewed Mushrooms                               ib.
  Stewed Potatoes                                 69
  Stewed Potatoes with Turnips                   ib.
  Asparagus with Cream                           ib.
  Potatoes stewed whole                           70
  Fried Potatoes                                  70
  Fried Cauliflower                              ib.
  Fried Celery                                    71
  Broiled Mushrooms                              ib.
  Stuffed Cabbage (Choux farcis)                  72
  Stuffed Potatoes                               ib.
  Stuffed Cucumbers                               73
  Stuffed Tomatas                                ib.
  Cauliflowers with Cheese                        74
  Ragooed Cabbage                                ib.
  Ragooed Mushrooms                               75


  PUREES.

  Puree of Turnips                                76
  Puree of Celery                                ib.
  Puree of Onions                                ib.
  Puree of Mushrooms                              77
  Puree of Beans                                 ib.
  Puree of Green Peas                             78


  EGGS, &c.

  Boiled eggs                                     79
  Fried Eggs                                     ib.
  Stewed Eggs                                     80
  Stuffed Eggs                                   ib.
  Egg Snow                                       ib.
  Pancakes                                        81
  Omelets                                        ib.
  Maccaroni                                       82
  Maccaroni Pie                                  ib.
  Blancmange in Eggs                              83


  PASTRY, CAKES, &c.

  French Paste                                    87
  Puff-Paste                                     ib.
  Cream Tarts                                     88
  Almond Tarts                                   ib.
  Rissoles                                        89
  Almond Custards                                ib.
  Vanilla Custards                               ib.
  Chocolate Custards                              90
  Coffee Custards                                ib.
  Tea Custards                                    91
  Rice Pottage                                   ib.
  Apple Fritters                                 ib.
  Bread Fritters                                  92
  Rice Cake                                      ib.
  Potato Cake                                     93
  Sponge Cake, or Biscuit                        ib.
  Croquettes                                      94
  Marguerites                                    ib.
  Wafers                                          95
  Gingerbread                                     96


  PREPARATIONS OF FRUIT, SUGAR, &c.

  An Apple Charlotte                              99
  Apple Compote                                  ib.
  Compote of Pears                               100
  Compote of Chestnuts                           ib.
  Fried Apples                                   101
  Peach Marmalade                                ib.
  Brandy Peaches                                 ib.
  Gooseberry Pottage                             102
  Fruit Jellies                                  103
  Preserved Pumpkin                              104
  Preserved Raspberries                          ib.
  Orange Jelly                                   105
  Clarified Sugar                                ib.
  Fruit in Sugar Coats                           106
  Burnt Almonds                                  ib.
  Peppermint Drops                               107
  Chocolate Drops                                ib.
  Nougat                                         108
  Orgeat Paste                                   109


  LIQUEURS.

  Noyau                                          110
  Raspberry Cordial                              ib.
  Rose Cordial                                   111
  Quince Cordial                                 ib.
  Lemon Cordial                                  ib.


  MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS.

  French Coffee                                  115
  Coffee without boiling                         ib.
  Chocolate                                      116
  Fine Lemonade                                  117
  Punch                                          ib.
  Convenient Lemonade                            ib.
  French Mustard                                 113
  Potato Flour                                   ib.
  Cold Pickles                                   ib.
  Cornichons or Cucumber Pickles                 119
  Fine Cologne Water                             120




PART THE FIRST.




SOUPS.


BEEF SOUP.

The best soup is made of the lean of fine fresh beef. The proportion is
four pounds of meat to a gallon of water. It should boil at least six
hours. Mutton soup may be made in the same manner.

Put the meat into cold water, with a little salt; set it over a good
fire; let it boil slowly but constantly, and skim it well. When no more
fat rises to the top, put in what quantity you please of carrots,
turnips, leeks, celery, and parsley, all cut into small pieces; add, if
you choose, a laurel-leaf, or two or three peach-leaves, a few cloves,
and a large burnt onion, to heighten the color of the soup. Grate a
large red carrot, and strew it over the top. Then continue to let it
boil, gently but steadily, till dinner time. Next to the quantity and
quality of the meat, nothing is more necessary to the excellence of soup
than to keep the fire moderate, and to see that it is boiling all the
time, but not too fast.

Have ready in the tureen some toasted bread, cut into small squares;
pour the soup over the bread, passing it through a sieve, so as to
strain it thoroughly. Some, however, prefer serving it up with all the
vegetables in it.

The soup will be improved by boiling in it the remains of a piece of
cold roast beef. Soups made of veal, chickens, &c. are only fit for
invalids.

After you have strained out the vegetables, you may put into the soup
some vermicelli (allowing two ounces to each quart), and then boil it
ten minutes longer.


CONSOMME, OR JELLY SOUP.

Into two quarts of cold water, put four pounds of the lean of the best
beef-steaks, and a large fowl cut into pieces, four large carrots, four
onions, four leeks, a bunch of sweet herbs (parsley, thyme, sweet
marjoram, sweet basil, and chives), tied up with a laurel-leaf, or two
peach-leaves, and four cloves; add a little salt and pepper. Boil it
gently for eight hours, skimming it well; then strain it.


PEASE SOUP.

Take two quarts of dried split peas, the evening before you intend
making the soup, and putting them into lukewarm water, let them soak all
night. In the morning, put the peas into a pan or pot with three quarts
of cold water, a pound of bacon, and a pound of the lean of fresh beef.
Cut up two carrots, two onions, and two heads of celery, and put them
into the soup, with a bunch of sweet herbs, and three or four cloves.
Boil it slowly five or six hours, till the peas can no longer be
distinguished, having lost all shape and form; then strain it, and serve
it up.


MACCARONI SOUP.

First make some good beef soup (without any vegetables), and when it is
sufficiently boiled, strain it through a sieve. Take some maccaroni, in
the proportion of half a pound to two quarts of soup. Boil it in water
until it is tender, adding to it a little butter. Then lay it on a sieve
to drain, and cut it into small pieces. Throw it into the soup, and boil
all together ten minutes or more. Grate some rich cheese over it before
you send it to table.


CHESTNUT SOUP.

Having made some beef soup without vegetables, strain it, and put in a
pint of peeled chestnuts for each quart of soup. Boil it again till the
chestnuts have gone all to pieces, and have become a part of the liquid.

A still better way is, to roast or bake the chestnuts first, (having cut
a slit in the shell of each,) then peel them, and throw them into the
soup ten minutes before you take it from the fire.


ALMOND SOUP.

Take half a pound of shelled sweet almonds, and two ounces of shelled
bitter almonds, or peach-kernels. Scald them, to make the skins peel off
easily, and when they are blanched, throw them into cold water. Then
drain and wipe them dry. Beat them (a few at a time) in a marble mortar,
adding as you beat them, a little milk and a little grated lemon-peel.

Have ready two quarts of rich milk, boiled with two sticks of cinnamon
and a quarter of a pound of sugar. Stir the almonds gradually into the
milk, and let them have one boil up. Prepare some slices of toasted
bread, take out a little of the soup and soak them in it. Then lay them
in the bottom of a tureen, and pour the soup over them. Grate on some
nutmeg.


LOBSTER SOUP.

Having boiled a large lobster, extract all the meat from the shell. Fry
in butter some thin slices of bread, put them into a marble mortar, one
at a time, alternately with some of the meat of the lobster, and pound
the whole to a paste till it is all done. Then melt some butter in a
stew-pan, and put in the mixed bread and lobster. Add a quart of boiling
milk, with salt, mace, and nutmeg to your taste. Let the whole stew
gently for half an hour.


OYSTER SOUP.

Take two quarts of oysters; drain them, and cut out the hard part. Have
ready a dozen eggs, boiled hard; cut them in pieces, and pound them in a
mortar alternately with the oysters. Boil the liquor of the oysters with
a head of celery cut small, two grated nutmegs, a tea-spoonful of mace,
and a tea-spoonful of cloves, with two tea-spoonfuls of salt, and a
tea-spoonful of whole pepper. When the liquor has boiled, stir in the
pounded eggs and oysters, a little at a time. Give it one more boil, and
then serve it up.

Salt oysters will not do for soup.


GREEN PEAS SOUP.

Make a good beef soup, with the proportion of four pounds of lean beef
to a gallon of water. Boil it slowly, and skim it well. In another pot
boil two quarts of green peas, with a large bunch of mint, a little
salt, and three or four lumps of loaf sugar. When they are quite soft,
take them out, strain them from the water, and mash them in a cullender
till all the pulp drips through. Then stir it into the soup after you
have taken it up and strained it. Prepare some toasted bread cut into
small squares, lay it in a tureen, and pour the soup over it.

When you toast bread for soups, stews, &c. always cut off the crust.




GRAVIES, OR ESSENCES.


BROWN GRAVY. (JUS.)

Put into a sauce-pan, or skillet, five or six onions, and as many
carrots cut into small pieces, with about two pounds of scraps of beef,
in which there must be none of the fat. Pour over them a pint of water.
Cover the pan, and begin with a brisk fire. When the gravy has become
brown, add a little boiling water (or broth if you have it), with a
tea-spoonful of salt, three or four cloves, and a bunch of sweet herbs.
Diminish the fire, and let the gravy stew gently for an hour and a half.
Occasionally prick the meat with a fork, and press it with the back of a
spoon to extract its juices. Then strain it through a sieve, and let it
stand a while before you use it.

In addition to the beef, you may put in pieces of cold goose, or cold
duck.


WHITE GRAVY. (COULIS.)

Butter the bottom of a sauce-pan, and put in two pounds of scraps of
veal, and, if you have it at hand, some cold fowl, or cold turkey; add
two white onions, and four or five blades of mace; pour over it a pint
of boiling water, or broth; cover the pan, and set it over a slow fire
for five or six hours, pricking and pressing the meat with a fork and
spoon. Strain it through a sieve, and if it is too thin, set it again
over the fire, to stew a while longer.


ESSENCE OF GAME.

Take scraps of any kind of game (partridges, pheasants, hares, &c.), and
also four calves feet, and a few small pieces of ham. Put them all into
a stew-pan, with half a bottle of white wine, two carrots, two onions,
and a bunch of sweet herbs. Stew them over a slow fire for four hours,
and when they are reduced to a jelly, moisten it with four
table-spoonfuls of hot water, or broth, stirred in gently. Strain it
through a sieve, and then clear it by stirring in the whites of three
eggs slightly beaten.


TO CLARIFY GRAVIES, OR ESSENCES

Having strained your gravy through a sieve, beat slightly the whites of
three eggs, and stir them into it. Place it again on the fire, and stir
it till it comes to a boil; then take it from the fire, and put it away
to settle. Strain it then through a napkin, and you will have a
transparent jelly excellent for making fine sauces.


VELOUTE, OR VELVET ESSENCE.

Take half a pound of scraps of veal, the same quantity of pieces of
fowls, and twelve or fifteen mushrooms; stew them slowly in butter, and
then add two onions, half a carrot, and a bunch of sweet herbs cut
small, three table-spoonfuls of flour, three of boiling water or broth,
and salt, pepper, and nutmeg to your taste. Let it stew an hour and a
half, and then strain it.




SAUCES, &c.


When sauces are finished with eggs, use only the yolks, and mix them
first with but a spoonful or two of the sauce; mix them off the fire.
Set on the pan again for two or three moments, but do not let it boil
after the eggs are in.


BECHAMEL.

Put into a sauce-pan a quarter of a pound of butter sprinkled with
flour, three or four onions, and a carrot cut small, a little parsley,
and a dozen mushrooms. Set it over the fire until the butter is melted,
and then add three table-spoonfuls of flour stirred into a pint of cream
or rich milk, with salt, pepper, and nutmeg to your taste. Stir it till
it boils; then reduce the fire, and let the bechamel stew gently for
three quarters of an hour. When it is done, strain it, and then stir in
the yolks of three eggs.


ANOTHER BECHAMEL.

Cut into dice, or small square pieces, half a pound of bacon or ham, a
carrot, a turnip, and two onions. Put them into a sauce-pan, with two
large spoonfuls of veal-dripping; add a little butter (about two
ounces), and two large spoonfuls of flour. Moisten it with boiling
water, or broth. Add nutmeg, cloves, thyme, parsley, salt, and pepper to
your taste; also a laurel-leaf. Let it stew for an hour. Strain it, and
before you serve it up, squeeze in a little lemon-juice.


DRAWN BUTTER.

Put into a small pan a table-spoonful of flour and a tumbler of water,
with salt to your taste, and a little pepper. Stir it till it boils.
Then withdraw it from the fire, and add two ounces of butter and a few
drops of cold water, with a little lemon-juice, or vinegar. Set it on
the stove, or near the fire, and keep it warm till it is wanted.

You may thicken it while boiling with mushrooms, cut small; or after it
is done with hard eggs chopped fine, pickled cucumbers chopped, or
capers.


MELTED BUTTER--_another way_.

Put into a sauce-pan a quarter of a pound of butter. When quite melted
over the fire, throw in a large spoonful of flour, and add a half pint
of boiling water, and salt to your taste. Boil it a few minutes, and
then put in a tea-spoonful of cold water. If intended as sauce for a
pudding, stir in at the last a glass of white wine, and half a grated
nutmeg.


COLD SAUCE FOR FISH.

Cut small, and pound in a mortar, equal proportions of parsley, chervil,
tarragon, chives and burnet, with two yolks of hard-boiled eggs. Pass
these ingredients through a cullender, and then mix them on a plate with
four table-spoonfuls of sweet oil, two of vinegar, and two of mustard.
Use a wooden spoon.


SAUCE FOR VEGETABLES--SUCH AS ASPARAGUS, &c.

Take the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs; mash them on a plate with the
back of a wooden spoon, and mix them with three table-spoonfuls of
vinegar, a shalot or small onion minced fine, and a little salt and
Cayenne pepper. Add three table-spoonfuls of olive oil, and mix the
whole very well.


PUNGENT SAUCE. (SAUCE PIQUANTE.)

Put into a saucepan a half-pint of vinegar, a branch of thyme, two or
three sprigs of sweet marjoram, a leaf of laurel, a clove of garlic, a
shalot or a little onion, and Cayenne pepper and salt to your taste. Add
a glass of broth or gravy. Stew the whole slowly till it is reduced to
two thirds of the original quantity: then strain it.


ANCHOVY SAUCE--FOR FISH.

Cut the flesh of three anchovies into small shreds, and steep them in
vinegar for half an hour or more. Then mince them fine, and throw them
into a saucepan with a little butter rolled in flour. Add pepper and
mustard to your taste. Pour in sufficient vinegar to cover it, and let
it boil gently for a quarter of an hour. Strain it, and squeeze in a
little lemon-juice before you serve it up.


CURRY SAUCE.

Put into a sauce-pan two ounces of butter and a table-spoonful of
curry-powder (or of powdered turmeric if more convenient), half a grated
nutmeg, half a spoonful of saffron, and two spoonfuls of flour. Add
sufficient boiling water or broth to cover it, and let it stew a quarter
of an hour. Strain it, stir in a little more butter, and serve it up.


TOMATA SAUCE.

Bake ten tomatas, with pepper and salt, till they become like a
marmalade. Then add a little flour or grated bread crumbs, and a little
broth or hot water. Stew it gently ten minutes, and before you send it
to table add two ounces of butter and let it melt in the sauce.


CUCUMBER SAUCE.

Put into a sauce-pan a piece of butter rolled in flour, some salt,
pepper, and one or two pickled cucumbers minced fine. Moisten it with
boiling water. Let it stew gently a few minutes, and serve it up.


BREAD SAUCE.

Take four ounces of grated stale bread; pour over it sufficient milk to
cover it, and let it soak about three quarters of an hour, or till it
becomes incorporated with the milk. Then add a dozen corns of black
pepper, a little salt, and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Pour
on a little more milk, and give it a boil. Serve it up in a sauce-boat,
and eat it with roast wild fowl, or roast pig.

Instead of the pepper, you may boil in it a hand full of dried currants,
well picked, washed, and floured.


SAUCE ROBERT.

Put into a sauce-pan a quarter of a pound of butter, with a spoonful of
flour. Simmer them till of a fine brown color. Mince half a dozen large
onions, and a large slice of cold ham. Put them into the pan, with
another piece of butter, and a very little broth or warm water. Skim the
sauce well, and let it stew gently for twenty minutes. Before you serve
it up, stir in a table-spoonful of lemon-juice or vinegar, and a
tea-spoonful of mustard. This sauce is used chiefly for fresh pork, or
white poultry.


SHALOT OR ONION SAUCE. (SAUCE RAVIGOTE.)

Take a handful of sweet herbs and the same quantity of shalots or little
onions, and cut them up small. Put them into a sauce-pan, with some
vinegar, salt, pepper, and sufficient broth or warm water to cover them.
Let them boil gently for a quarter of an hour. Take the sauce from the
fire and set it on the stove, or on the hearth, and stir in (till it
melts) a piece of butter rolled in flour, or a spoonful of olive oil.


UNIVERSAL SAUCE.

Take a pint of good broth, or a pint of drawn butter. Stir into it a
glass of white wine, and half the peel of a lemon grated. Add a laurel
leaf, or two or three peach-leaves, and a spoonful of vinegar. Let the
mixture simmer on a few coals or on hot ashes, for five or six hours or
more, and it will be good to pour over either meat, poultry, or fish,
and will keep several days in a cool place.


LOBSTER SAUCE.

The lobster being boiled, extract the meat from the shell, and beat it
in a mortar. Rub it through a cullender or sieve, and put it into a
sauce-pan with a spoonful of veloute (or velvet essence) if you have it,
and one of broth. Mix it well, and add a piece of butter, some salt, and
some Cayenne pepper. Stew it ten minutes, and serve it up, to eat with
boiled fresh fish.


SPINACH FOR COLORING GREEN.

Take three handfuls of spinach, and pound it in a mortar to extract the
juice. Then put it into a sauce-pan and set it over a slow fire. When it
is just ready to boil, take it off and strain it. By stirring in a small
quantity of spinach-juice, you may give any sauce a green color.


GARLIC BUTTER.

Take two large cloves of garlic and pound them to a paste in a mortar,
adding, by degrees, a piece of butter the size of an egg. You may with a
little of this butter give the taste of garlic to sauces. Some persons
like a piece of garlic butter on the table, to eat with roast meat.


HAZELNUT BUTTER.

Having scalded and blanched some hazelnuts, pound them to a paste in a
mortar, adding gradually a small quantity of butter.

This is good to eat with wild fowl, or to flavor the most delicate
sauces.


LARDING.

Larding with slips of fat bacon greatly improves the taste and
appearance of meat, poultry, game, &c. and is much used in French
cookery.

For this purpose, you must have a larding-pin (which may be purchased at
the hardware stores); it is a steel instrument about a foot in length,
sharp at one end, and cleft at the other into four divisions which are
near two inches long, and resembling tweezers.

Bacon is the proper meat to lard with; the fat only is used. Cut it into
slips not exceeding two inches in length, half an inch in breadth, and
half an inch in thickness, and smaller if intended for poultry; they
will diminish in cooking. Put these slips of bacon (one at a time) into
the cleft or split end of the larding-pin. Give each slip a slight twist
and press it down hard into the pin, with your fingers. Then run the pin
through the meat or fowl (avoiding the bones), and when you draw it out
on the under side it will have left the slip of bacon sticking in the
upper side. Take care to arrange the slips in regular rows and at equal
distances; have them all of the same size, and let every one stick up
about an inch from the surface of the meat. If any are wrong, take them
out and do them over again.

Fowls and birds are generally larded on the breast only. To lard
handsomely and neatly, practice and dexterity are requisite.

Cold poultry may be larded with slips of the fat of cold boiled ham, and
when not to be cooked again, it may be made to look very tastefully.

The slips for cold poultry should be very small, scarcely thicker than a
straw.




PART THE SECOND.




MEATS.


VEAL A LA MODE.

Rub a fillet of veal all over with salt, and then lard it. Make a
seasoning of chopped sweet-herbs, shalots, mushrooms, pepper, salt, and
powdered nutmeg, and mace. Moisten it with sweet oil, and cover the veal
all over with it. Put the veal into a tureen, and let it set for several
hours or all night. Then take it out, covered as it is with the
seasoning, and wrap it in two sheets of white paper, well buttered, and
roast or bake it. When it is quite done, take off the paper, and scrape
off all the seasoning from the veal. Put the seasoning into a sauce-pan
with the gravy, the juice of half a lemon, a piece of butter rolled in
flour, and a little salt. Give it a boil, skim it well, and pour it over
the veal.


VEAL CUTLETS.

Make a seasoning of grated bread, minced ham, chopped parsley, salt,
pepper, and chopped mushrooms if you have them. Mix with it some yolk of
egg. Cut the veal into small thin slices, rub them all over with lard,
and then spread the seasoning over both sides. Wrap up each cutlet
carefully in white paper, oiled or buttered. Bake them slowly for three
quarters of an hour, and serve them up in the papers.


BLANQUETTE OR FRICASSEE OF VEAL.

Take the remains of a cold roast fillet, or loin of veal. Cut it into
small thin pieces. Put them into a stew-pan with a piece of butter
rolled in flour, salt, pepper, a few small onions minced, a bunch of
sweet-herbs chopped, and one or two laurel or peach-leaves. Mix all
together. Pour in a little warm water, and let it boil gently five
minutes or more. When you take it off, stir in some lemon-juice and some
yolk of egg slightly beaten.


GODIVEAU.

Take a large piece of fillet of veal, free from fat or skin. Mince it
small, and then pound it in a mortar till it is a smooth paste.
Afterwards rub it through a cullender or sieve.

Soak some slices of bread in warm milk, and rub the bread also through a
sieve. There must be an equal quantity of bread and veal. Take the same
proportion of butter, and beat it in a mortar with pepper, salt, nutmeg,
and chopped parsley to your taste. Then put all together. Beat two or
three eggs till very light, and add them gradually to the mixture. Make
it into round balls or into long rolls, and fry them in butter. Or you
may put it into a pie (without a lid) and bake it.

Godiveau is a very fine stuffing for poultry or wild fowl.


CALVES' LIVER BAKED.

Lard the liver with bacon, and let it lie three or four hours in a
covered tureen with a seasoning of parsley, shalots, laurel and thyme
chopped small, a little pepper and salt, and two table-spoonfuls of
sweet oil. Turn it several times. Then wrap it up in thin slices of
bacon or cold ham, and bake or roast it about an hour and a quarter. Add
to the gravy the yolk of an egg, and some minced onions and chopped
sweet-herbs.


CALVES' LIVER FRIED.

Cut the liver into thin slices, and put them into a frying-pan with a
piece of butter rolled in flour, some minced onions and a glass of white
wine, salt, pepper, and a little mace. Let it fry about ten minutes.


VEAL KIDNEYS.

Cut the kidneys into thin slices; having first soaked them in cold
water, rub them with a little salt and pepper. Then sprinkle them with
flour, and a little parsley and onions minced fine. Fry them in butter,
adding a glass of champagne or other white wine.

Mutton kidneys may be done in the same manner.

Another way of dressing kidneys is to split them in half, season them
with salt and pepper, lard them, and broil them.


GRILLADES.

Cut slices from either a fillet of veal, a round of fresh beef, a leg of
mutton, or a leg of pork. Do not let them exceed the thickness of half
an inch. Put them into a stew-pan with a sufficient proportion of oil,
pepper, salt, and a little parsley and onion chopped fine. Stew them in
a very little water till half done. Then prepare some sheets of white
paper rubbed with oil or butter. Take out the slices of meat (covered
with this seasoning) and grate some bread crumbs over them. Fasten up
each slice in a piece of paper, and broil them on a gridiron over a slow
fire. Serve them up in the paper.


LIVER CAKE.

Take a pound and a half of grated bread, and two pounds of liver (either
calves' or pigs') a few onions, a little sage, some mushrooms, and a
laurel leaf, all chopped fine. Mince the liver also, and mix it with the
other ingredients, adding salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Butter a mould or a
very deep dish. Put the mixture into it, and let it bake an hour and a
half in a moderate oven. When done, turn it out.

It is eaten cold, cut in slices.


SIRLOIN OF BEEF.

Rub your beef all over with salt, and lard the lean part of it with
slips of fat bacon. Cover the meat with sheets of oiled or buttered
paper. Roast it in proportion to its size, between three and four hours.

Serve it up with its gravy, and have some onion sauce in a boat.


STEWED BEEF.

Take some slices of cold roast beef that has been under-done. Put them
into a stew-pan with a little gravy or broth, or if you have neither,
some warm water. Add a piece of butter rolled in flour, some capers, or
some pickled cucumbers chopped small, a little lemon-juice or vinegar,
and some salt and pepper. Let the beef simmer slowly, but do not allow
it to boil. Have ready some slices of bread (of the same size as the
slices of beef) and fry them in butter. Put some tomata sauce in the
bottom of a dish. Lay on it in a pile a few slices of beef and slices of
fried bread alternately. Pour the gravy over it, and send it to table.

Any other sort of meat may be done in the same manner.


BEEF STEAKS.

Cut slices of beef from the sirloin. Trim them neatly, and take off the
bone and the skin. To make them tender beat them on both sides with a
wooden beetle or with the end of a rolling-pin. Rub them with salt and
pepper. Warm a sufficient quantity of butter, and when it is soft spread
it over the steaks. Then sprinkle them with onions minced very fine.
Cover them up in a dish, and let them lie an hour or more in the
seasoning. Then broil them over a clear fire. Slice some cold boiled
potatoes, fry them in butter, and lay them round the steaks.


BEEF A LA MODE.

Take a round of fresh beef, and beat it well to make it tender. Rub it
all over with salt and pepper. Lard it on both sides with slips of
bacon. Lay it in a deep pan with some slices of bacon, a calves-foot, a
few onions, a carrot cut in pieces, a bunch of sweet herbs cut small,
one or two laurel leaves, some cloves, and a beaten nutmeg. Pour in a
half-pint of red wine, a half-pint of white wine, and a spoonful of
brandy. Let it stew slowly for at least six hours. Then take it out;
strain the gravy, pour it over the meat, and serve it up.

A fillet of veal may be done in the same manner.


ROASTED HAM.

Let your ham soak all night in cold water, and then trim it handsomely,
having first taken out the bone by loosening the meat all round it, with
the point of a knife. Tie a broad tape round the ham to keep it in
shape. Then put it into a large pan with some sliced onions, some sprigs
of parsley, two or three laurel leaves, and a bottle of white wine.
Cover it, and let it lie in the seasoning twenty-four hours. Then roast
it, and baste it with the seasoning. A large ham will require four or
five hours to roast. A little before it is done, take off the skin and
sprinkle the ham with grated bread crumbs.

While the ham is roasting, stew together the bone and the trimmings and
scraps till they come to a jelly, which you must strain through a sieve.
When you take the ham from the spit (having removed the tape that has
been fastened round it) glaze it all over with the jelly, laid on with a
brush or a quill feather. Serve it up with the seasoning or marinade
under it.

If the ham is to be eaten cold, you may cover it all over the glazing
with cold boiled potatoes grated finely, so that it will look like a
large cake covered with icing. Ornament it with slices of boiled carrot,
beets, &c. scolloped and laid on the potatoes, in handsome forms, so as
to look like red and yellow flowering. Stick a large bunch of double
parsley in the centre.

A ham boiled in the usual manner may be ornamented in the same way;
first extracting the bone, and making the meat into a circular shape.

Instead of a mere bunch of double parsley, you may stick in the centre
of the ham a nosegay of flowers, formed of different culinary
vegetables, and cut into proper shape with a sharp pen-knife. All these
vegetables must be raw. The flowers intended to represent red roses must
be made of beets, the white roses of turnips, and the marigolds or other
deep yellow flowers must be cut out of carrots. The pieces of turnips
and beets must first be made with the pen-knife into the form of a ball,
on the surface of which the rose-leaves must be cut. The carrots may be
cut into flat slices, and then notched to look like marigolds or
chrysanthemums. Stick each flower on the end of a small wooden skewer,
which will answer for the stalk, but which must be concealed by thick
bunches of double parsley tied on so as to represent the green leaves.
Tie all the skewers together at the bottom with a pack-thread, and the
whole will have the effect of a handsome nosegay when placed in the
middle of the ham.

A round of cold a-la-mode beef may be ornamented with a bunch of these
flowers. Let the beef itself be covered all over with parsley, so as to
resemble a green bank.


FRIED HAM, WITH TOMATAS.

Fry some slices of cold boiled ham. Then fry some tomatas, allowing one
tomata to each slice of meat. Lay the tomatas on the ham, shake some
pepper over them, and send them to table.


ROASTED TONGUE.

Having soaked a large smoked tongue all night in cold water, parboil it
in a very little warm water with a slice of bacon, a bunch of sweet
herbs, and an onion or two stuck with cloves. When it is nearly done,
take it out, drain it, and lard it with large slips of bacon on the
upper side, and small pieces on the under side. Then put it on the spit
and roast it half an hour, and serve it up with pungent sauce (Sauce
Piquante.)


BAKED TONGUE.

Take a cold boiled tongue and cut it into slices. Put in the bottom of a
deep dish a little vinegar, with some capers, parsley and shalots minced
fine, and some grated bread, all mixed together. Lay the slices of
tongue upon this, and cover them with some more of the same seasoning.
Then grate some bread all over the top. Moisten the whole by pouring in
a little warm water. Put the dish into a stove moderately heated, or set
it on a slow furnace. Bake it till brown.


POTTED TONGUE.

Boil two smoked tongues. Skin them and cut them into thin slices. Put
the slices (a few at a time) into a mortar and beat them to a paste,
adding gradually a pound of butter. Then prepare an equal quantity of
the lean of stewed veal, and pound that also in the mortar (a little at
a time) with the same proportion of butter. Then make the veal and the
tongue into lumps, and put them alternately into your stone pots,
pressing them together so as to look like red and white marble. Have a
layer of veal at the top. Press the whole down very hard. Fill up the
pots with butter, boiled and skimmed and poured on warm. Tie them up
closely with parchment, and keep them in a cold but dry place.

When you use it, cut it in slices.


LEG OF MUTTON WITH OYSTERS.

Rub a leg of mutton all over with salt, and put it on the spit to roast
with a clear fire, basting it with its own gravy. When it is nearly
done, take it up and with a sharp knife make incisions all over it, and
stuff an oyster into every hole. Then put it again before the fire, to
finish roasting.

Before you serve it up, skim the gravy well, and give it a boil with a
glass of red wine.


CUTLETS A LA MAINTENON.

Cut a neck of mutton into chops, leaving a bone to each, but scraping
the end of the bone quite clean. Mix together some grated bread, and
some marjoram and onion chopped fine. Season it with pepper, salt, and
nutmeg. Having melted some butter, dip each chop into it, and then cover
them on both sides with the seasoning. Butter some half-sheets of white
paper, and put the cutlets into them, leaving the end of each bone to
stick out of the paper like a handle. Lay them on a gridiron, and broil
them for about twenty minutes on clear lively coals. Serve them up in
the papers.

Make a sauce of four shalots or little onions chopped fine, some gravy,
a little pepper and salt, and a spoonful of red wine. Boil this sauce
for a minute, and send it up in a boat.


PORK CUTLETS.

Mince together some onions, parsley, and a laurel leaf. Season it with
pepper, salt, and cloves. Cut your pork into thin steaks, and lay them
in this seasoning for five or six hours. Then broil or fry them with
the seasoning on them, and serve them up with sauce Robert, or with
tomata sauce.


LARDED RABBIT.

Lard a fine large rabbit, and put it into a stew-pan with a slice or two
of cold ham, a bunch of sweet-herbs, a table-spoonful of sweet oil, and
a gill of white wine. Stew it slowly, and, when it is quite done, strain
the gravy and pour it over the rabbit.


RABBITS IN PAPERS.

Take two young rabbits; cut off the limbs and put them aside. Cut the
flesh from the body, and chop it very fine, mixing it with shalots,
parsley, and mushrooms chopped also, and, if you choose, a clove of
garlic. Season it with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and moisten it with
sweet oil. Lay the legs of the rabbit in this mixture, for three or four
hours. Then take out separately each leg covered with the seasoning, lay
on it a thin slice of bacon or cold ham, and wrap it in a sheet of white
paper well buttered. Broil the limbs slowly on the gridiron, and serve
them up hot in the papers.

Fowls may be done in the same manner. Ducks also.


PILAU.

Take half a dozen slices of the lean of a leg of mutton, or of fillet of
veal. Put them into a stew-pan with six large onions, a carrot cut in
pieces, and some parsley, with pepper, salt, and nutmeg to your taste.
Add a tea-spoonful of saffron, a piece of butter rolled in flour, and a
little boiling water. Let it stew for an hour, and skim it well.

Have ready a pound of rice boiled soft and drained. Mix with it a large
piece of butter. Put some rice in the bottom of a deep dish, and lay on
it first the seasoning, and then the slices of meat in a pile. Keep the
remainder of the rice over it, and set it on the stove or in the oven
for ten minutes.


VEAL SWEETBREADS.

Take three sweet-breads, and soak them three or four hours in milk. Then
wipe them dry, and lard them. Make a seasoning of sweet-herbs and
mushrooms chopped fine, a quarter of a pound of cold ham or bacon
scraped or minced, salt, pepper, and nutmeg to your taste, and a
table-spoonful of sweet-oil. Mix the seasoning very well together, and
put it into a stew-pan with the sweet-breads, a piece of butter rolled
in flour, a little water or broth, and the same quantity of wine. Stew
it about ten minutes. Then take out the sweet-breads, lay them in a deep
dish, pour the seasoning over them, and let them get cold. Next prepare
some cases of white paper, oil them, and cover the inside with grated
bread. Put a sweet-bread into each paper-case, with some of the
seasoning at bottom and top. Close the cases, put them in an oven, and
bake them long enough to color the sweet-breads. Serve them up in the
papers.

Set the gravy over the fire, and when it simmers take it off, and stir
in the yolk of an egg slightly beaten. Keep it covered for a few
minutes, and then serve it up in a boat.




PART THE THIRD.




GAME AND POULTRY.


A SALMI.

Cut off the flesh from the bodies of a pair of cold pheasants,
partridges or wild-ducks, or an equal quantity of small birds. Beat it
in a mortar, moistening it frequently with a little broth or gravy. Then
pass the whole through a cullender or sieve. Put it into a stew-pan with
a piece of butter about the size of a walnut, rolled in flour; half a
pint of port wine or claret; two whole onions, and a bunch of
sweet-herbs. Let it boil half an hour, and then stir in two
table-spoonfuls of sweet oil, and the juice of a lemon.

In another pan stew the legs and wings of the birds, but do not let them
boil. Stew them in butter rolled in flour, seasoned with pepper and
salt. Cut some slices of bread into triangular pieces, and fry them in
butter. Lay them in the bottom of a dish, put the legs and wings upon
them, and then the other part of the stew. Garnish the edge with slices
of lemon, handsomely notched with a knife.

If the Salmi is made of partridges, use oranges instead of lemons for
the juice and garnishing.


COLD SALMI.

This is prepared on the table. Take the liver of a roast goose, turkey,
or ducks. Put some of the gravy on a plate, cut up the liver in it, and
bruise it with the back of a spoon or a silver fork. Add three
tea-spoonfuls of olive oil, the juice of a lemon, and cayenne pepper and
salt to your taste. Mix it well. When the bird is cut up, eat with it
some of this sauce.


RAGOOED LIVERS.

Take the livers of half a dozen fowls or other poultry, a dozen
mushrooms, a bunch of sweet herbs, a clove of garlic or a small onion, a
table-spoonful of butter rolled in flour. Add a glass of white wine, and
sufficient warm water to keep the ingredients moist. Season it with salt
and pepper. Stew all together, and skim it well. Before you send it to
table, stir in the yolks of two or three beaten eggs, and two spoonfuls
of cream.


A FINE HASH.

Take any cold game or poultry that you have. You may mix several kinds
together. Some sausages, of the best sort, will be an improvement. Chop
all together, and mix with it bread crumbs, chopped onions and parsley,
and the yolks of two or three hard-boiled eggs. Put it into a sauce-pan
with a proportionate piece of butter rolled in flour. Moisten it with
broth, gravy, or warm water, and let it stew gently for half an hour.

Cold veal or fresh pork may be hashed in the same manner.


MARINADE OF FOWLS.

Take a pair of fowls, skin and cut them up. Wash them in lukewarm water.
Drain them, and put them into a stew-pan with some butter. Season them
to your taste with salt, pepper, and lemon-juice. Add parsley, onions,
and a laurel leaf. Moisten them with warm water, and let them stew
slowly on hot coals for two or three hours. Clear them from the
seasoning and drain them. Then lay them in a dish, and grate bread
crumbs over them. Whip some white of egg to a stiff froth, and cover
with it all the pieces of fowl.


FRICASSEE OF FOWLS.

Skin and cut up your fowls, and soak them two hours in cold water, to
make them white. Drain them. Put into a stew-pan a large piece of
butter, and a table-spoonful of flour. Stir them together till the
butter has melted. Add salt, pepper, a grated nutmeg, and a bunch of
sweet-herbs. Pour in half a pint of cream. Put in the fowls, and let
them stew three quarters of an hour. Before you send them to table, stir
in the yolks of three beaten eggs, and the juice of half a lemon.

The Fricassee will be greatly improved by some mushrooms stewed with the
fowl.

To keep the fricassee white, cover it (while stewing) with a sheet of
buttered paper laid over the fowls. The lid of the stew-pan must be kept
on tightly.


FOWLS WITH TARRAGON.

Pick two handfuls of tarragon (the leaves from the stalks) and chop half
of it fine with the livers of the fowls. Mix it with butter, salt, and
whole pepper. Stuff your fowls with it. Lard them and wrap them in
papers buttered or oiled.

Melt some butter rolled in flour, and stir into it the rest of the
tarragon. Moisten it with a little water or milk. Stir in the yolks of
two beaten eggs, and the juice of half a lemon. Serve it up as gravy.
Strew over the fowls some sprigs of fresh tarragon.


A STEWED FOWL.

Take a large fowl, and put it into a stew-pan with two ounces or more of
butter, some thin slices of cold ham, a little parsley and onion chopped
fine, and some nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Then pour in half a tumbler of
white wine. You may add, if you choose, six table-spoonfuls of boiled
rice, which you must afterwards serve up under the fowl and ham. Let it
stew slowly for two hours, with just sufficient water to keep it from
burning.

Before you send it to table, go all over the fowl with a feather or
brush dipped in yolk of egg. You may add to the stew a dozen small
onions, to be laid round the fowl with the slices of ham.


CHICKENS IN JELLY.

Cold chickens, pigeons, and game, look very handsome in jelly. To make
this jelly, take four calves-feet (with the skin on) and boil them to a
strong jelly with an ounce of isinglass and three quarts of water,
carefully skimming off the fat. The calves-feet must be boiled the day
before the jelly is wanted, and when it is cold scrape off all the
sediment that adheres to it. Then boil the jelly with the addition of
the whites and shells of six eggs, the juice of three lemons, three or
four sticks of cinnamon, half a pound of loaf-sugar, and a pint of
Malaga or other sweet wine. Let it boil hard for five or six minutes,
but do not stir it. Strain it several times through a flannel bag into a
deep white pan, but do not on any consideration squeeze or press the
bag, as that will entirely spoil the transparency of the jelly. After
it has done dripping through the bag, take out all the ingredients (as
they are now of no farther use) and wash the bag clean. Then pour the
jelly into it again, and let it strain. Repeat this till it is perfectly
clear and bright; washing the bag every time. Sometimes (but not often)
it will be clear at the first straining.

Put a little of the jelly into the bottom of a deep dish or bowl, and
set it in a cold place. When it has congealed and is firm, lay your
chickens on it with the breasts downwards. Having kept the remainder of
the jelly warm, to prevent its congealing too soon, pour it over the
fowls. Let it stand all night or till it is perfectly firm. Then set
your dish or bowl in warm water for a moment, to loosen the jelly. Lay
over it the dish in which you intend to serve it up, and turn it out
carefully. If you fear that you will not be able to turn it out without
breaking the jelly, you may prepare it at the beginning in a deep china
dish fit to send to table.

If you put too much water to the calves-feet, the jelly will never be
firm, till it is boiled over again with more isinglass. The generality
of cooks are in the habit of putting too much water to every thing, and
should be cautioned accordingly.


PULLED CHICKENS.

Boil a pair of fowls till they are about half done. Then skin them, and
pull the flesh from the bones in pieces about a finger in breadth and
half a finger in length. Take a few table-spoonfuls of the liquor they
were boiled in, and mix it with half a pint of boiling cream. Put it
into a stew-pan with a piece of butter rolled in flour; pepper, salt,
and nutmeg; a little chopped parsley; and a table-spoonful of white
wine. Put in the pieces of chicken, and stew them slowly till quite
done.


STEWED TURKEY, OR TURKEY EN DAUBE.

Take a large turkey; lard it and stuff it as for roasting. Then cover it
all over with a seasoning made of salt, pepper, nutmeg, and sweet-herbs,
parsley and onions, minced fine. Put it into a stew-pan, with some
slices of bacon, one or two calves-feet, some onions and carrots, one or
two laurel leaves, a few cloves, a beaten nutmeg, salt, pepper, and, if
you choose, a clove of garlic. Pour in a pint of water, and a pint of
white wine or brandy.

Put on the cover of the stew-pan, and lay round its edge on the outside
a wet cloth, which must be kept wet. Stew it slowly for five or six
hours or more, and turn the turkey when about half done. When it is
finished, withdraw the fire, and skim and strain the gravy. Serve up the
turkey with the gravy under it.

A goose done this way is very fine.

A round of beef may be stewed in the same manner. It will be the better
for lying all night in the seasoning, and it should be put in to stew
early in the morning.


ROASTED TURKEY.

Rub the turkey all over with salt. Then lard it. You may stuff it with
sausage-meat; or with chestnuts previously boiled, peeled, and mashed.
Or, you may make a force-meat stuffing of the liver, heart, and gizzard,
chopped fine, and mixed with chopped parsley, onions, sweet-herbs,
grated bread, butter, lemon-juice, grated lemon-peel, and the yolk of
one or two eggs.

A turkey of moderate size will require at least two hours to roast.
Thicken the gravy with yolk of egg stirred in just before you send it to
table.

A cold roast turkey should be larded and served up with large spoonfuls
of stiff currant jelly dropped all over it.

You may roast a goose in the same manner.


POTTED GOOSE.

Take several fine geese; rub them with salt, and put into each a handful
of sage leaves. Roast them about an hour. Do not baste them, but save
all the fat in the dripping-pan, emptying it as it is filled. When you
have taken the geese from the spit, cut off the legs and wings, and cut
the flesh from the breast in slices. Set them away to get cold.

Put the fat that has dripped from the geese into a kettle, with about
half as much lard as there is of the dripping. Boil it ten minutes. Have
ready a tall stone jar, or more than one if necessary. Lay two legs of
the geese side by side in the bottom, and sprinkle them with salt and
pepper; placing, if you choose, a laurel leaf on each. Then put in two
wings, and season them also. Next a layer of the slices cut from the
breast, seasoned in the same manner. When the pots are almost full of
the goose, fill them up to the top with the boiling fat, and set them
away till the next day to get cold. The upper layer must be covered at
least an inch thick with the fat.

Tie up the pots with covers of parchment wet with brandy, and keep them
in a cold but not in a damp place.

In France great numbers of geese are fattened for this purpose.


DUCKS WITH TURNIPS.

Stew some turnips with butter, salt, and a little sugar. When soft, take
them out and drain them. Cut up your ducks, season them, and put them
into the same pan that has held the turnips. Stew the ducks with a piece
of butter rolled in flour, a little water, and a bunch of sweet-herbs
tied up. When the ducks are nearly done, put the turnips in again, and
let all stew slowly together for ten minutes, skimming it well. Withdraw
the sweet-herbs before you send the dish to table.


A DUCK WITH OLIVES.

Having larded your duck, stew it whole, with butter, pepper, salt, and a
little water. Take half a pint of olives, cut them in half and take out
the seeds or stones. When the duck is nearly done, throw in the olives,
and let all stew together about five minutes or more. Serve up the duck
with the olives round it.


A DUCK WITH PEAS.

Stew the duck whole, with some lard and a little salt, till about half
done. Then take it out and drain it. Put into the stew-pan a large piece
of butter rolled in flour. When it has melted, pour in a quart of
shelled green peas, and add a bunch of mint, or other sweet herbs, and
some pepper and salt. Then put in the duck, adding a little warm water.
Let it stew slowly till quite done, skimming it well.


TURKEY PUDDINGS.

Mince thirty small onions and mix them with an equal quantity of bread
crumbs that have been soaked in milk. Chop an equal quantity of the
flesh of cold turkey. Mix all together, and pound it very well in a
mortar. Pass it through a cullender, and then return it to the mortar
and beat it again, adding gradually the yolks of six hard eggs, and a
pint of cream or half a pound of butter. Season it to your taste with
salt, mace and nutmeg.

Have ready some skins, nicely cleaned as for sausages. Fill the skins
with the mixture, and tie up the ends. Then simmer your puddings, but do
not let them boil. Take them out, drain them, and put them away to get
cold.

When you wish to cook them for immediate use prick them with a fork,
wrap them in buttered paper, and broil them on a gridiron.

Similar puddings may be made of cold fowls.


BAKED PIGEONS, OR PIGEONS A LA CRAPAUDINE.

Split the pigeons down the back. Take out the livers, which you must
mince with bacon and sweet-herbs, adding to them the livers of fowls or
other birds, if you have them, and bacon in proportion. Or you may
substitute sausage-meat. Add bread-crumbs soaked in milk, and the yolks
of two eggs or more, with salt, pepper, mace and nutmeg to your taste.
Mix all together, and stuff your pigeons with it, and then glaze them
all over with beaten white of egg. Place them in a buttered pan, and set
them in the oven. Bake them half an hour. Before you serve them up,
squeeze some lemon-juice into the gravy.


BROILED PIGEONS.

Split your pigeons and flatten them. Make a seasoning of sweet oil,
salt, pepper, chopped shalots, and chopped parsley. Rub this seasoning
all over the pigeons. Then cover them with grated bread crumbs. Wrap
each in a sheet of white paper, and broil them on a slow fire. Serve
them up with a sauce made of minced onions, butter rolled in flour,
lemon-juice or vinegar, and salt and pepper.


PIGEONS PEAR-FASHION. (PIGEONS AU POIRE.)

First, bone your pigeons. To do this, take a sharp knife, and slipping
it under the flesh carefully loosen it from the bone, and do not tear
the skin. Begin at the upper part of the bird, just above the wings,
scrape gradually down, and finish at the legs. Then take hold of the
neck, and draw out the whole skeleton at once. Make a good force-meat or
stuffing (as directed for baked pigeons), and fill them with it, making
them each into the shape of a large pear. Fasten them with skewers.
Glaze them all over with yolk of egg, and then roll them in grated
bread-crumbs. Stick in the top of each, the lower end of the leg, to
look like the stem of a pear. Lay them in a buttered dish (but not so
close as to touch each other) and bake them. Make a good gravy,
thickened with the yolk of an egg, and some butter rolled in flour.


PIGEONS WITH PEAS.

Take two or four pigeons (according to their size), and truss them with
the feet inwards. Put them into a stew-pan with a piece of butter
rolled in flour, and two or three slices of cold ham, or bacon, and a
little water. Let them stew gently till brown. Then add a quart of green
peas, and a bunch of mint, with another piece of butter, and a little
warm water or milk. Let them stew slowly, and when they are quite done,
stir in some more butter. Serve up the pigeons with the peas under them.


ROASTED PARTRIDGES.

Lard the partridges, and put in the inside of each a laurel leaf, and an
orange cut in pieces. If you omit the laurel leaf, do not peel the
orange, but put in the pieces with the rind on them. These must be taken
out before the partridges are sent to table. Be careful not to roast
them too much.


PARTRIDGES WITH CABBAGE.

Having trussed the partridges, put them into a stew-pan with a large
piece of butter rolled in flour; a quarter of a pound of bacon or ham
cut into dice; a bunch of sweet-herbs, and a little warm water. Put into
another stew-pan a fine Savoy cabbage, with a pint of the dripping of
beef or pork. Let it stew slowly till nearly done. Then take out the
cabbage and drain it, and put it into the stew-pan to cook with the
partridges for half an hour. Lay the cabbage under the partridges when
you send them to table.


A PARTRIDGE PIE.

Take three pair of large partridges and truss them as you do fowls. Rub
them all over with a mixture of pepper, salt, powdered mace and
powdered nutmeg. Take a pound of fat bacon and two pounds of lean veal,
and cut them into small pieces. Put them into a stew-pan with a quarter
of a pound of butter. Add a bunch of sweet-herbs, and a few shalots or
small onions, all minced fine. Stew them till the meat seems to be quite
done, and then put it into a cullender to drain. Afterwards put the meat
into a mortar, season it with pepper, salt, nutmeg and mace, and pound
it to a smooth paste; moistening it at times with some of the liquor in
which it was stewed.

Prepare a rich paste, and spread a sheet of it over the bottom of a
large and deep buttered dish. Put in the partridges, side by side, pour
in a little water, add a piece of butter, and cover them with the
pounded meat. Lay on the top a few slices of cold ham. Roll out a thick
piece of paste for the lid, and cover the pie with it; cutting the edges
into square notches, and folding over the half of each notch. Ornament
the lid with leaves and flowers made of paste. Bake it three hours, and
see that the oven is not so hot as to scorch it. When done, glaze it all
over with white of egg.

This pie will be greatly improved by the addition of some truffles. If
you cannot procure truffles, mushrooms cut in pieces may be substituted.


ROASTED PHEASANTS.

Make a stuffing of fresh raw oysters, chopped, and seasoned with pepper,
salt, nutmeg, and mace. Mix with it some sweet oil, some yolk of egg,
and fill the pheasants with this stuffing. Cover the pheasants with thin
slices of bacon or cold ham; wrap them in buttered sheets of white
paper, and roast them. Serve them up with oyster sauce.


BROILED QUAILS.

Split the quails down the back, and flatten them. Put them into a
stew-pan with sweet-oil, salt, pepper, and a leaf or two of laurel.
Cover them with thin slices of bacon or ham, and let them stew slowly on
hot coals. When nearly done, take them out, strew over them grated
breadcrumbs, and broil them on a gridiron.

Put into the stew-pan a little warm water, and scrape down whatever
adheres to the sides; skim it, and let it come to a boil. Pour this
gravy into the dish in which you serve up the quails, and lay the bacon
round it.


ROASTED PLOVERS.

Scald and pick your plovers, but do not draw them. Lard them, and lay
slices of toasted bread in the dripping-pan to receive what falls from
the birds while roasting. Serve them up with the toast under them.

Woodcocks and snipes are roasted in the same manner.




PART THE FOURTH




FISH.


STEWED SALMON.

Pour a half-pint of white wine into a stew-pan, with some sliced
carrots, onions, and mushrooms; pepper, salt, and mace; and a bunch of
chopped sweet-herbs. Lay in your piece of fresh salmon, and pour over it
some more wine. Stew it slowly for an hour or more. When done, serve it
up with the sauce that is under it, and also with some sauce Mayonnaise
in a boat.

The sauce Mayonnaise is made as follows:-- Put into a small tureen the
yolks of two beaten eggs, a little salt and Cayenne pepper, and a very
little vinegar. Stir and mix it well; then add (a drop at a time) two
table-spoonfuls of sweet-oil, stirring all the while. When it is well
mixed, stir in gradually some more vinegar. To stir and mix it
thoroughly will require a quarter of an hour. It will then be very
delicate.

You may color it green by adding a little juice of spinach, or some
chopped parsley or tarragon at the first, when you put in the eggs.


ROASTED SALMON.

A large piece of fresh salmon is very fine roasted on a spit, first
rubbing it with salt, and then basting it all the time with sweet-oil or
butter.

For roasted salmon, make a sauce as follows:--Put into a sauce-pan a
little parsley, a shalot or small onion, a few mushrooms, and a piece of
butter rolled in flour, pepper, salt, and a gill or more of white wine.
Let these ingredients boil for half an hour; then strain them through a
sieve, and mix with the sauce a table-spoonful of olive-oil.


BROILED SALMON.

Cut several slices of fresh salmon; soak them an hour in a mixture of
sweet-oil, chopped parsley, and shalots minced fine, with salt and
pepper. Then take each slice with the seasoning on it, and wrap it in
buttered paper. Broil the slices on a gridiron. When thoroughly done,
take off the paper, and serve up the salmon with melted butter and
capers.

Any other large fish may be dressed like salmon.


SALT COD-FISH.

Let it soak twenty-four hours in cold water, which must be changed
several times, and every time you change it pour in a wine-glass of
vinegar, which will greatly improve the fish. Boil the cod till
thoroughly done; then cut the flesh into very small slips; mix it with
parsley, butter, vinegar, Cayenne pepper, nutmeg, and mace; add to the
mixture some boiled onions, mashed potatoes, and the yolks of two or
three beaten eggs. Put the whole mixture into a deep dish, and make it
up into the form of a thick round cake. Go all over it with a bunch of
feathers, or a small brush, dipped in sweet-oil; and then grate bread
crumbs all over it. Set it in the oven till brown. Serve it up,
surrounded with triangular or three-cornered slices of toast, dipped in
melted butter.

Halibut may be dressed in the same manner, putting salt in the water
when you boil it, and also in the seasoning.

Fresh cod may be cooked in the same way.


BROILED FRESH MACKEREL.

Split your mackerel down the back; season it with pepper and salt; cover
it all over with oil or butter, and let it lay for half an hour or more;
then broil it, pouring on it whatever of the seasoning may be left in
the dish.

Serve it up, with sauce in a boat. Let the sauce be of melted butter,
with parsley, and a little lemon-juice, or vinegar.

Or you may broil the mackerel whole, having first seasoned it as above,
and wrapped it in oiled paper.


BROILED FRESH SHAD.

Having split the shad in half, cover it all over with a seasoning of
oil, pepper, salt, chopped onions, parsley, and laurel-leaf. Let it lie
an hour or two in the seasoning. Then broil it, covered with the
seasoning, and adding a piece of butter.

Or you may cook the shad whole. Make a stuffing of the above
ingredients, with the addition of some grated bread; put the stuffing
into the shad, and bake it, first pouring over it a glass of white wine.

Any large fresh fish may be baked in the same manner.


HASHED FISH.

Take any sort of cold fish, bone it, and then chop it with the remains
of a cold omelet, and some mushrooms if you have them. Mix with it some
chopped parsley, a little butter, a slice of bread soaked in milk, and
the yolks of two or three hard-boiled eggs chopped fine. Mix all
together, and season with pepper and salt. Stew it gently with a little
water for half an hour.


LOBSTER PIE.

Having boiled your lobster, take out the meat from the shell, season it
with salt, mustard, Cayenne pepper, and vinegar, and beat it well in a
mortar. Then stir in a quarter of a pound of butter, the yolks of two
beaten eggs, and two ounces or more of grated bread crumbs. Make some
puff-paste, put in the mixture, and cover it with a lid of paste
ornamented with leaves or flowers of the same. Bake it slowly.


OYSTER LOAVES.

Have ready some small loaves or rolls of bread. Cut a round piece out of
the top of each, and scoop out the crumb or soft part. Take the liquor
of your oysters, put into it the crumbs, with a little chopped celery,
and a large piece of butter. As soon as it boils, pour the liquor over
the oysters, and this will cook them sufficiently. Fill your loaves with
the oysters, putting into each a tea-spoonful of cream. Lay on again the
piece of crust that was cut out of the top of each loaf or roll, and set
them in the oven for a few minutes.




PART THE FIFTH.




VEGETABLES.


STEWED LETTUCE.

Wash a fine lettuce, and tie it up with a string passed several times
round it, to keep the leaves together. Put it in boiling water, with a
little salt. When the lettuce has boiled, take it out and press it to
squeeze out the water, but be careful not to break it.

Having mixed, in a stew-pan, a large spoonful of butter with a spoonful
of flour, add half a pint of cream or rich milk; put in the lettuce,
with a very little salt, half a nutmeg grated, and two lumps of sugar.
Let it boil ten minutes. Take out the lettuce, stir the yolks of two
beaten eggs into the sauce, and serve all up together.


STEWED SPINACH.

Take young spinach, and throw it into boiling water with some salt. When
it has boiled, take it out, drain it, and lay it in cold water for a
quarter of an hour. Then drain it and squeeze it. Cut it small, and put
it into a stew-pan, with a large piece of butter. After it has stewed
slowly for a quarter of an hour, add a spoonful of flour, with a little
salt, sugar, and nutmeg. Moisten it with cream or milk, and let it
simmer again over a slow fire for another quarter of an hour. Then serve
it up, and lay on it slices of toasted bread dipped in melted butter.


STEWED CUCUMBERS.

Lay your cucumbers in cold water for half an hour; then pare them, and
cut them into slips about as long as your little finger; take out the
seeds; then boil the cucumbers a few minutes, with a little salt. Take
them out, and drain them well.

Put into a stew-pan some butter rolled in flour, and a little cream.
Stew your cucumbers in it for ten minutes. When you take them off, stir
in the yolks of two beaten eggs; and if you choose, a tea-spoonful of
vinegar.


STEWED BEETS.

Boil some beets. Then peel and cut them into slices. Stew them for a
quarter of an hour with a piece of butter rolled in flour, some onion
and parsley chopped fine, a little vinegar, salt and pepper, and a clove
of garlic.


STEWED CARROTS.

Scrape and wash your carrots. Scald them in boiling water; then drain
them, and cut them into long slips. Stew them in milk or cream, with a
little salt, pepper, and chopped parsley. When done, take them out, stir
into the sauce the yolks of one or two eggs, and a lump or two of
loaf-sugar, and pour it over the carrots.


STEWED CABBAGE.

Having washed your cabbage, cut it in four, and throw it into boiling
water with some salt. When it has boiled till quite tender, take it up,
squeeze out the water, and put the cabbage to drain. Then lay it in a
stew-pan with butter, salt, pepper, nutmeg, a spoonful of flour, and
half a pint of cream. Stew it a quarter of an hour, and pour the sauce
over it when you send it to table.

Cauliflowers may be stewed in the same manner.


STEWED PEAS.

Take two quarts of green peas; put them into a stew-pan with a quarter
of a pound of butter, a bunch of parsley, and the heart of a fine
lettuce cut in pieces, a bunch of mint, three or four lumps of sugar,
some salt and pepper, and a very little water. Stir all together, set it
on coals and let it stew gently for an hour or an hour and a half.
Having taken out the parsley, add a piece of butter rolled in flour; and
stir in the yolks of two eggs just before you send it to table.

You may, if you choose, put in the lettuce without cutting it in pieces;
tie it up with the bunch of parsley and two onions, and withdraw the
whole before you dish the peas. Serve up the lettuce in another dish.


STEWED BEANS.

Put into a stew-pan some parsley and some chives or little onions
chopped fine, some mushrooms (if you have them) chopped also, and a
large piece of butter rolled in flour. Add a glass of white wine and a
little water. Stir all together, and then put in as many beans as will
fill a quart measure when strung and cut small; having first soaked them
a quarter of an hour in cold water. Let them stew gently on hot coals
till quite tender. Just before you serve them up, stir in the yolks of
two eggs. You may substitute for the wine a tumbler of cream, but it
must be stirred in at the last.


STEWED ONIONS.

Boil some small onions with salt, and then drain them. Lay them in a
stew-pan with a piece of butter, and sprinkle them with flour, pepper
and salt. Pour on them some cream, and then turn every onion with a
spoon. Stew them ten minutes, and serve them up.


ONIONS STEWED IN WINE.

Boil twenty or thirty onions a quarter of an hour with a bunch of sweet
herbs, some salt, a few cloves, and a laurel leaf. Then take out the
onions, and put them into a stew-pan with some salt, a piece of butter
rolled in flour, and a pint of red wine. Stew them another quarter of an
hour, and serve them up garnished with pieces of toast dipped in the
sauce.


STEWED MUSHROOMS.

Having peeled and washed your mushrooms, drain them, and stew them with
butter, pepper, salt, and a little chopped parsley, adding a little
flour and warm water. When they are done, stir into the sauce the yolks
of two or three eggs, and some cream. Toast and butter a slice of bread.
Lay it on the dish under the mushrooms, and pour the sauce over them.

Put in a small onion with the mushrooms, that you may know by its
turning almost black, whether there is a poisonous one among them. If
the onion turns black, throw away all the mushrooms.


STEWED POTATOES.

Boil eight or nine large potatoes with a little salt, and then peel and
cut them in slices. Put into a stew-pan a large piece of butter, a
spoonful of flour, some salt, and half a grated nutmeg. Add a half-pint
of cream, and mix all together. When this sauce boils, put in your
sliced potatoes, and let them stew a quarter of an hour.


STEWED POTATOES WITH TURNIPS.

Pare and boil an equal quantity of turnips and potatoes. When done,
drain and mash them. Melt some butter in a stew-pan, and add to it a
little mustard. Stew the mixed potatoes and turnips in it, with a small
quantity of hot milk, for about ten minutes.


ASPARAGUS WITH CREAM.

Wash and boil four or five bundles of asparagus. Have ready a pint of
cream, or a pint of milk, with the yolks of six eggs stirred into it.
Take four large rolls of bread, and cut a round piece out of the top of
each. Scoop out the crumb from the inside of the rolls, and put it into
the cream with the heads of the asparagus, of which you must save out a
sufficient number (with a small piece of the stalk left on each) to
stick the rolls with. Make holes in the top-pieces of the rolls.

Fry the rolls in butter. Put the most of the asparagus heads into the
cream mixed with the crumb of the rolls, and simmer it awhile over a
slow fire. When the rolls are fried, fill their cavities with the
mixture. Stick the tops with the remainder of the asparagus, and lay
them on the rolls.

Asparagus may be simply boiled with salt, and served up on toasted bread
dipped in oil, and eaten with oil sauce.


POTATOES STEWED WHOLE.

Boil two dozen small new potatoes, with some salt. Put into a stew-pan a
piece of butter rolled in flour, half the peel of a lemon grated, half a
nutmeg grated, some salt, two or three lumps of sugar, and three
tea-spoonfuls of sweet oil. Lay the potatoes in this mixture, squeeze
over them the juice of a lemon, and let them stew gently about ten
minutes.


FRIED POTATOES.

Make a batter with the yolks of three eggs, a little salt, a
table-spoonful of oil, a table-spoonful of brandy, and sufficient flour
or grated bread to thicken it. Have ready some large cold potatoes cut
in slices. Dip each slice in the batter, and fry them in butter.


FRIED CAULIFLOWER.

Wash a fine large cauliflower, and cut it into quarters. Having boiled
some water with salt, throw the cauliflower into it, and boil it till
you can nip it easily with your fingers. Take it out and drain it. Then
put it into a pan with salt, pepper and vinegar, and let it lie half an
hour, turning it frequently.

Make the following batter, which must be prepared half an hour or more
before it is wanted, that it may have time to rise. Take three
table-spoonfuls of flour, three beaten eggs, a table-spoonful of butter
melted in a little warm water, a spoonful of sweet oil, and a spoonful
of brandy. Stir all together; and if you find it too thin, add a little
more flour; cover it, and let it set half an hour. Then beat to a stiff
froth the whites of the eggs, and stir them hard into the batter. Dip
your quarters of cauliflower into this mixture, and fry them of a fine
light brown.

When the cauliflower is done, let it remain in the pan a quarter of an
hour before you send it to table. Lay fried parsley round it.

Broccoli may be fried in the same manner.


FRIED CELERY.

Take ten or twelve fine stalks of celery. Cut them into pieces about six
inches long, and lay them an hour in salt and water. Drain them, spread
them on a dish, and sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Make a batter of
eggs, milk, and grated bread; allowing four eggs to a pint of milk. Dip
each piece of celery into the batter, and fry them in butter.


BROILED MUSHROOMS.[71-*]

Peel, wash, and drain your mushrooms, and then cut them in pieces. Make
a square case of white paper, and butter it well. Fill it with the
mushrooms mixed with butter, salt, and pepper. Broil them on the
gridiron over a clear fire, and serve them up in the paper.

If you choose, you may mix with the mushrooms some chopped onion and
sweet-herbs.

    [71-*] In gathering mushrooms, take only those that are of a pale
    pink color underneath, and a dull white or pearl color on the top.
    Those that are perfectly white above, or whose under side is white,
    yellow, or any color but pale pink, are unfit to eat, and poisonous.

    After being gathered awhile, the pink tinge changes to brown, but it
    always appears on the good ones while in the ground.


STUFFED CABBAGE. (CHOUX FARCIS.)

Take a large cabbage, with a hard full head; put it into boiling water
with some salt, and let it boil from five to ten minutes. Then take it
out and drain it. Cut off the stalk close to the bottom, so that the
cabbage may stand upright on the dish, and then carefully take out the
inside leaves or heart; leaving the outside leaves whole.

Chop fine what you have taken out of the inside, and chop also some cold
ham and veal, or cold chicken. Likewise four eggs boiled hard. Mix
together the chopped eggs, the ham and veal, the cabbage heart, and some
grated bread, adding salt and pepper. Fill the cabbage with this
stuffing, and tie tape round it to keep the outside leaves together.
Then put it into a deep stew-pan, with a quarter of a pound of butter
rolled in flour, and an onion stuck full of cloves. Let it simmer over a
slow fire for two hours or more.

When it is done, take off the tape, set the cabbage upright in a dish,
and pour melted butter over it.

Lettuce may be done in the same manner.


STUFFED POTATOES.

Take eight very large potatoes, wash and pare them. Make a small slit or
incision in each of them, and scoop out carefully with a knife as much
of the inside as will leave all round a shell about the thickness of two
cents. Then make a force-meat of the substance you have taken out of the
inside, mixing it with two minced onions, a small piece of minced cold
ham or pork, about two ounces of butter, and a little parsley; adding
the yolks of two or three beaten eggs. Mix the stuffing thoroughly, by
pounding it in a mortar.

Butter the inside of the potatoes, and fill them with this mixture. Then
having buttered a large dish, lay your potatoes in it separately. Bake
them half an hour, or till they are of a fine brown.

When you mash potatoes, moisten them with milk or cream, adding a little
salt. Heap them up on the dish in the form of a pyramid. Smooth the
sides of the pyramid with the back of a spoon, and brown it by holding
over it a red-hot shovel.


STUFFED CUCUMBERS.

Cut off one end of each of the cucumbers, and scoop out all the seeds
with a fork. Then pare them. Prepare a stuffing made of bread crumbs,
cold meat minced, salt, pepper, and sweet-herbs. Fill your cucumbers
with it, and fasten on with a skewer the pieces you have cut off from
their ends. Sow up every one separately in a thin cloth. Put them into a
pan with butter, flour, a bunch of sweet-herbs, and a little warm water.
Let them stew very slowly for about two hours, and then take them out.
Remove the cloths, and serve up the cucumbers with the sauce under them.


STUFFED TOMATAS.

Scoop out the inside of a dozen large tomatas, without spoiling their
shape. Pass the inside through a sieve, and then mix it with grated
bread, chopped sweet-herbs, nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Stew it ten
minutes, with a laurel leaf, or two peach leaves. Remove the leaves, and
stuff the tomatas with the mixture, tying a string round each to keep
them in shape. Sprinkle them all over with rasped bread-crust. Set them
in a buttered dish, and bake them in an oven. Take off the strings, and
serve up the tomatas.

Egg-plants may be cooked in the same manner.


CAULIFLOWERS WITH CHEESE.

Having washed and boiled your cauliflowers in salt and water, drain them
well. Make a white sauce in a small pan, with butter rolled in flour,
and a little milk. Pour some of this sauce into the bottom of a dish
that will bear the fire. Chop your cauliflower, and spread a layer of it
on the sauce. Then cover it with a layer of rich cheese, grated and
slightly sprinkled with pepper. Then spread on the remainder of the
cauliflower, and then another layer of peppered cheese, and so on till
your dish is nearly full. Pour over it the rest of the sauce. Prepare
two or three handfuls of grated bread, mixed with a little of the grated
cheese. Spread it all over the surface of the last layer of cauliflower,
and smooth it with the back of a spoon. Allow a quarter of a pound of
cheese to each cauliflower.

Put the dish in a slow oven about a quarter of an hour before you serve
it up, and bake it till a brown crust forms on the outside. Clear off
the butter from the edges of the dish, and send it to table hot.

Broccoli may be done in the same manner.


RAGOOED CABBAGE.

Wash a fine savoy cabbage, and boil it for half an hour in salt and
water. Then take it out, drain it, and lay it for ten minutes in cold
water. Afterwards squeeze and drain it well, and take out the stalk.
Chop the cabbage slightly, and put it into a stew-pan with a quarter of
a pound of butter, and add two table-spoonfuls of flour. Season it with
salt and pepper, and moisten it with a little water. Let it stew slowly
for an hour, and then serve it up.

Cauliflowers or broccoli may be done in the same manner.


RAGOOED MUSHROOMS.

Take a pint of fresh mushrooms. When they are peeled and the stalks cut
off, put the mushrooms into a stew-pan with two table-spoonfuls of
vinegar, a sprig or two of parsley, a small onion, a few chives chopped
fine, some salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg. Let it boil gently for a
quarter of an hour. Before it goes to table, stir in the yolks of two
eggs.

If the onion has turned blue or black, throw the whole away, as it is
evident that some poisonous ones are among the mushrooms.




PUREES.


The word Puree cannot be exactly translated, as there is nothing in the
English language that gives precisely the same idea. In French it is
generally applied to a certain manner of cooking vegetables that
converts them into a substance resembling marmalade, which, when the
coarser parts are strained out, leaves a fine smooth jelly.

It is served up with meat.


PUREE OF TURNIPS.

Wash and pare some of the finest turnips. Cut them into small pieces,
and let them lie for half an hour in cold water. Then take them out and
drain them. Put them into a stew-pan, with a large piece of butter and
some salt and pepper. Moisten them with a little broth or boiling water.
Let them stew over a very slow fire, for five or six hours, stirring
them frequently. Then rub them through a sieve, and serve up the jelly
with roast meat.


PUREE OF CELERY.

Wash your celery, peel it, and stew it slowly for three or four hours,
with salt, and a very little water. Then pass it through a sieve, and
season it with pepper, salt, and nutmeg to your taste.


PUREE OF ONIONS.

Take thirty onions; cut them in slices and put them into a stew-pan,
with a little salt, pepper, and a grated nutmeg. Let them stew slowly
till they are of a fine brown color, and then add a table-spoonful of
broth or warm water.

When it has attained the proper consistence, strain it and serve it up.


PUREE OF MUSHROOMS.

Peel a pint of mushrooms, cut them in pieces, and put them in a pan with
as much cold water as will keep them from burning. Throw in with them a
small onion to test their goodness; as, if there is a bad or poisonous
one among them, the onion will turn of a bluish black while cooking. In
that case, throw them all away.

Stew them slowly till they have lost all shape and have become an
undistinguishable mass. Then strain them.

Put into a stew-pan a large piece of butter, or a spoonful of flour, and
two lumps of sugar. Add your puree, and let it stew again for about five
minutes. When you take it off the fire, stir in the yolks of two eggs
slightly beaten, and a spoonful of cream or rich milk. Put it in the
middle of a dish, and lay round it thin slices of fried bread or toast.


PUREE OF BEANS.

Having strung and cut your beans till you have a quart, throw them into
boiling water, with a little salt. Let them remain a quarter of an hour.
Then drain them, and throw into cold water to green them. After they
have lain half an hour in the cold water, take them out and drain them
again.

Put a large piece of butter into a stew-pan with some pepper, a little
salt, and a spoonful of flour. Add your beans, and cover them with broth
or warm water. Put in a bunch of sweet-herbs cut small, and stew the
whole very slowly till it has dissolved into a mass. Then strain it. Put
a piece of butter into the puree, and serve it up.


PUREE OF GREEN PEAS.

Take a quart of shelled green peas. Wash them, and put them into a
stew-pan with water enough to cover them, a little salt and pepper, a
piece of butter the size of a walnut, a laurel leaf or a couple of
peach-leaves, and a bunch of mint.

Let them stew very slowly; and if necessary moisten them occasionally
with a little warm water or broth. Stir them frequently, that they may
not stick to the pan. When they become of the consistence of marmalade,
strain it. Chop an onion fine, fry it in butter, and have it ready to
mix with the puree.

Dried split peas may be made into a puree in the same manner.

Purees may be made in a similar manner of different sorts of meat,
poultry &c. seasoned, stewed slowly to a jelly, then strained through a
cullender or sieve, and taken as soups.




EGGS, &c.


In choosing eggs, hold them up against the light, and if you see that
the yolk is round, and the white thin and clear, you may suppose them to
be good. But if the yolk appears to be broken and mixed with the white,
giving it a thick cloudy look, you may be sure that the egg is bad. Eggs
may be preserved by keeping them in a keg of lime-water, or by greasing
each egg all over with dripping, and putting them into a tight vessel
filled with wood-ashes, placing them all with their small ends
downwards. You may also keep them by burying them in salt. Still they
are never so good as when quite fresh.

When you break eggs for use, do every one separately, in a saucer. If
you find the egg good, throw it into the pan in which they are to be
beaten. If you meet with a bad one, throw it away and wash the saucer or
get a clean one. A single bad egg will make the whole mixture heavy,
spungy, and of an unpleasant taste.


BOILED EGGS.

When the water boils hard, put in the eggs, and let them boil exactly
three minutes. Then take them out, and cover them up for about a minute,
which will greatly improve them. Send them to table wrapped in a napkin,
and laid in a deep dish.


FRIED EGGS.

Melt a piece of butter in a frying-pan. When it ceases to hiss, put in
the yolks only of your eggs. Season them with pepper and salt. When
fried, color them by holding over them a red-hot shovel.


STEWED EGGS.

Melt some butter in a dish that will bear the fire. Add to it salt, and
nutmeg, and a little milk in the proportion of a table-spoonful to each
egg. Mix them well together. Then lay over it the yolks of your eggs,
first ascertaining that they are all good. Let it stew over a slow fire
for a few minutes; and color it by holding over it a red-hot shovel. The
eggs must not be allowed to get hard, but the surface should be soft and
perfectly smooth and even.

Before you put in the eggs, you may stir into the mixture some heads of
boiled asparagus.


STUFFED EGGS.

Boil twelve eggs hard. Take off the shell, and cut each egg in half.
Take out the yolks, and pound them in a mortar with a quarter of a pound
of butter; a nutmeg; some grated bread that has been soaked in milk; a
little salt; and if you choose, some minced sweet-herbs. Fill the whites
of the eggs with this stuffing, heaping it up, and smoothing it into a
round even shape. Butter a dish, and spread over the inside a thin layer
of the stuffing. Arrange in it all your halves of eggs, the bottoms
downwards. Put them into an oven, the lid of which must be hot. Let them
set about five minutes, and then send them to table.


EGG SNOW.

Take a quart of milk, and stir into it two spoonfuls of rose-water, and
a quarter of a pound of white sugar, with a powdered nutmeg. Add by
degrees the yolks of twelve eggs well beaten. Boil the whole together,
stirring it all the time, so as to make a thick smooth custard. If you
keep it too long on the fire, it will be lumpy. Set it away to get cold
in a deep dish. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth that will
stand alone, adding to it twelve drops of essence of lemon. Heap it on
the dish of custard so as to look like a pile of snow; or you may drop
it with a large spoon, so as to form separate balls. On the top of each
ball you may lay a tea-spoonful of stiff currant-jelly.


PANCAKES.

Beat together a quart of sifted flour, six eggs, a table-spoonful of
brandy, a grated nutmeg, a little salt, and sufficient water to make a
thin batter. Melt a piece of butter in a frying-pan, or substitute a
little sweet-oil. Pour in a ladleful of the batter, and let it spread
into a circular form. When it is slightly brown on one side, turn it
carefully on the other. Serve them up with white sugar grated over each.

You may color them pink, by stirring into the mixture some of the juice
of a beet-root, which has been boiled and then beaten in a mortar.


OMELETS.

_Cheese Omelet._--Grate some rich cheese, and mix it gradually with your
eggs while beating them. Season with salt and pepper. Melt some butter
in a frying-pan. Put in your omelet, and fry it first on one side, and
then on the other. When you dish it up, fold it over in half.

_Bread Omelet._--Put two handfuls or more of bread crumbs into half a
pint of cream, with a grated nutmeg and a little salt. When the bread
has absorbed all the cream, stir it into the eggs as you beat them for
the omelet. Fry it in butter, and when dished, fold one half over the
other.

_Lobster Omelet._--Beat in a mortar the flesh of a boiled lobster,
adding, at times, a little butter; and season it with pepper and salt.
Stir it gradually into the eggs while beating them. Fry it in butter.

_Onion Omelet._--Boil some onions; mince them fine, and moisten them
with milk. Stir them into the eggs as you beat them.

_Ham Omelet._--Is made with grated cold ham, stirred into the eggs while
beating.

Omelets may be seasoned in the same manner with parsley, chopped
sweet-herbs, or mushrooms. Also with minced oysters.


MACCARONI.

Boil half a pound of maccaroni with two ounces of butter, some whole
pepper, and a little salt. Do not let it boil long enough for the
maccaroni to lose its shape. When done, mix with it a quarter of a pound
of rich cheese, scraped or grated. Butter a deep dish, and put the
mixture into it. Then set it for a quarter of an hour in the oven. Brown
the top with a red-hot shovel.


MACCARONI PIE.

Take half a pound of maccaroni, and put it into a stew-pan with an ounce
of butter, a little salt and pepper, and water enough to cover it. Stew
it till dry. Then grate a quarter of a pound of fine cheese, and mix it
with the maccaroni, adding another ounce of butter. Set it away to get
cold.

Take another pan, which must be very deep, with a flat bottom, and
nearly the shape of a drum. Butter the inside. Make a good paste, and
cover with it the whole interior of the pan, sides and bottom. Put in
the maccaroni. Cover the pie with a lid of paste. Bake it at least half
an hour. When done, loosen it from the pan and turn it out on a dish. It
will be in the form of a drum, if the pan was of that shape.


BLANCMANGE IN EGGS.

Take two ounces of shelled sweet almonds, and one ounce of shelled
bitter almonds. Blanch them by throwing them into scalding water to make
the skins peel off easily; then put them in cold water; wipe them dry
afterwards, and pound them in a mortar, adding at times a little
rose-water.

Dissolve an ounce of isinglass in warm water, and then stir it into a
quart of cream. Add a quarter of a pound of broken loaf-sugar, and a
wine-glass of rose-water. Boil it hard for a quarter of an hour, and
stir it all the time. Then strain it through a linen bag, and put it
into egg-cups, or into the halves of egg-shells nicely and evenly
trimmed, and set it away in a cold place to congeal.

Have ready some calves-feet jelly (made according to the directions
given in the article "Chickens in Jelly"); and when the blancmange is
firm, take out a small piece from the middle of each cupful, and replace
it with a lump of the jelly, put in so as to look like the yolk of the
egg. Or if more convenient, you need not put in the jelly till you have
taken the blancmange out of the cups or egg-shells, which must be done
by wetting the moulds with warm water on the outside.

The jelly for this purpose must be very high-colored, by means of
brandy, or dark sweet wine.

If nicely managed, the blancmange and jelly will look like eggs cut in
half. Lay them in a circle round a dish that contains something high and
ornamental,--for instance, a pyramid of ice-cream.




PART THE SIXTH.




PASTRY, CAKES, &c.


FRENCH PASTE.

Sift a quart of flour, and lay it in a pan. Make a hole in the middle,
and put into it the white of an egg slightly beaten, a piece of butter
the size of an egg, and a very little salt. Pour in gradually as much
cold water as will moisten it. Mix it well with your hands, as rapidly
as possible, and see that no lumps are left in it. Set it away to cool,
and in a quarter of an hour roll it out, and spread over it half a pound
of butter which has been kept in ice. Then fold up the paste with the
four sides laid one over another, so as entirely to inclose the butter,
and set it for half an hour in a cool place. Then roll it again; fold
it, and give it another roll. Set it away again; and in half an hour
roll it out twice more, and it will be fit for use.


PUFF PASTE.

May be made with a pound of butter, and a pound and a quarter of sifted
flour. The butter must be washed in cold water, and then squeezed very
hard, and made up into a lump. Divide it into eight parts. Mix one part
of the butter with the flour, adding just enough of water to moisten it.
Roll it out; spread over it a second portion of the butter; flour it;
fold it up, and roll it out again, adding another division of the
butter. Repeat this till you get in all the butter, a piece at a time,
folding and rolling the paste with each separate portion of the butter.
Then set it away to cool. If it sets several hours, it will be the
better for it; and better still if the paste is made the night before it
is wanted; always keeping it in a cold place.

While buttering and rolling, do every thing as quickly as possible.

Before you put it into the dishes, roll it out once more. It is
difficult in warm weather to make good puff paste without a marble
table, or slab, to roll it on.


CREAM TARTS.

Mix together a quart of flour, half a pound of butter, a little salt,
and two beaten eggs. Add a little cold water; make it into a paste, and
set it away to cool. Then roll it out again. Cut it into round shapes
with the edge of a tumbler. Lay round each a rim made of an even strip
of the paste, and notch it handsomely. Bake them for a quarter of an
hour, and then take them from the oven. Beat together a pint of cream,
four eggs, and four table-spoonfuls of powdered sugar. Fill the tarts
with this mixture, grate nutmeg over each, and bake them again for a
quarter of an hour.


ALMOND TARTS.

Blanch half a pound of shelled sweet almonds and three ounces of shelled
bitter almonds. Beat them, a few at a time, in a mortar, mixing them
well, and adding at times a little rose-water. When done, mix with them
a quarter of a pound of loaf-sugar powdered, and the juice and grated
peel of half a lemon.

Have ready some fine paste. Cut it into circular pieces about the size
and thickness of a dollar. Put into each piece of paste some of the
almond mixture, heaping it up in the centre. Cover them with lids of
the same, and crimp the edges very neatly. Bake them about half an hour,
and grate sugar over them when done.


RISSOLES.

Make some fine paste, and cut it out with the edge of a tumbler. Have
ready some minced veal, seasoned in the best manner, or some chopped
oysters, or any sort of force-meat, and lay some of it on one half of
each piece of paste. Then turn over it the other half, so as to inclose
the meat. Crimp the edges. Put some butter into a frying-pan. Lay the
rissoles into it, and fry them of a light brown.

They should be in the shape of a half-moon.


ALMOND CUSTARDS.

Blanch and pound in a mortar half a pound of shelled sweet almonds, and
three ounces of peach-kernels, or shelled bitter almonds, adding
sufficient rose-water to moisten them. When they are all pounded to a
paste, mix with them a quarter of a pound of powdered loaf-sugar, and
boil them in a quart of milk or cream. Then set it away to cool. When
cold, stir eight beaten eggs into it. Put the mixture into cups. Set
them in an iron oven half filled with water, and bake them.


VANILLA CUSTARDS.

Cut a vanilla bean into slips, and boil them in a quart of milk, with a
quarter of a pound of white sugar. Let it boil slowly for a quarter of
an hour, and then set it away to cool. When cold, stir into it eight
beaten eggs, having left out the whites of four. Put the mixture into
cups, set them in water and bake them. Color them when done, by holding
over them a red-hot shovel. When cold, grate on sugar.

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_Lemon Custards_ are made in the same manner; substituting for the
vanilla bean the grated rind of a large fresh lemon.


CHOCOLATE CUSTARDS.

Cut into pieces half a pound of the best chocolate. Pour on it
sufficient milk to prevent its burning, and let it boil ten minutes.
After you remove it from the fire, have ready a pint of boiling milk or
cream, and pour it on the chocolate. Beat together the yolks of eight
eggs and the whites of two only, and stir them into the chocolate with
two ounces, or more, of loaf-sugar. Put the mixture into cups, set them
in an oven with water in it, and bake them. Beat the six remaining
whites of eggs to a froth, adding a very little sugar, and heap some of
the froth on each custard. You may lay on the top of each heap of froth
one of the bonbons or confections called chocolate-nuts.


COFFEE CUSTARDS.

Take two ounces of roasted coffee and two ounces of raw coffee. Pound
them together in a mortar, but do not grind them. Boil this coffee in a
quart of rich milk. Let it get cold, and then strain it. Stir into it
two ounces of powdered loaf-sugar, and two large spoonfuls of cream.
Beat eight eggs, omitting the whites of four. Stir them gradually into
the coffee. Put it into cups, and bake the custards in an oven with
water. Grate white sugar over the tops when cold.


TEA CUSTARDS.

Boil a quart of cream or rich milk, and pour it (while boiling) on three
ounces of the best green tea. Add two ounces of loaf sugar. Cover it and
set it away. Take eight eggs, and beat them well, leaving out the whites
of four; and when the tea is cold, stir in the eggs. Then strain the
whole mixture; put it into cups, and bake them in an oven with water.
Grate sugar over the top of each.


RICE POTTAGE.

Put six table-spoonfuls of rice into a pint of water, and boil it till
quite soft. Drain it through a sieve, and put the rice into a quart of
milk with a quarter of a pound of sugar, and three or four peach-leaves,
or a few peach-kernels. Boil it, and before you serve it up, take out
the peach-leaves or kernels, and stir in the yolks of two eggs.


APPLE FRITTERS.

Pare and core some fine large pippins, and cut them into round slices.
Soak them in brandy for two or three hours. Make a batter, in the
proportion of four eggs to a table-spoonful of olive-oil, a table
spoonful of rose-water, the same quantity of brandy, the same quantity
of cold water. Thicken the batter with a sufficient quantity of flour
stirred in by degrees, and mix it two or three hours before it is
wanted, that it may be light by fermentation.

Put some butter into a frying-pan. Dip each slice of apple into the
batter, and fry them brown. Then drain them, grate white sugar over
them, and send them to table.

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_Peach Fritters_ may be made in the same way, but the peaches must be
cut into quarters.


BREAD FRITTERS.

Boil a quart of milk with cinnamon and sugar to your taste. When done,
stir in a table-spoonful of rose-water. Cut some slices of bread into a
circular shape. Soak them in the milk till they have absorbed it. Then
drain them. Have ready some yolks of eggs well beaten. Dip the slices of
bread into it, and fry them in butter. Serve them up strewed with
powdered sugar.


RICE CAKE.

Take half a pound of rice and wash it well. Put it into a pint of cream
or milk, and boil it soft. Let it get cold. Then stir into it
alternately a quarter of a pound of sugar, two ounces of butter, eight
eggs well beaten (having left out the whites of four), and a wine-glass
of rose-water, or else the grated peel of a lemon. Mix all well. Butter
a mould or a deep pan with straight sides, and spread grated bread
crumbs all over its inside. Put in the mixture, and bake it three
quarters of an hour.

Ground rice is best for this cake.

If any of the cake is left, you may next day cut it in slices and fry
them in butter.

Or, instead of baking the mixture in a large cake, you may put flour on
your hands, and roll it into round balls. Make a batter of beaten eggs,
sugar, and grated bread; dip the balls into it, and fry them in butter.


POTATO CAKE.

Roast in the ashes a dozen small or six large potatoes. When done, peel
them, and put them into a pan with a little salt, and the rind of a
lemon grated. Add a quarter of a pound of butter, or half a pint of
cream, and a quarter of a pound of sugar. Having mashed the potatoes
with this mixture, rub it through a cullender, and stir it very hard.
Then set it away to cool.

Beat eight eggs, and stir them gradually into the mixture. Season it
with a tea-spoonful of mixed spice, and half a glass of rose-water.

Butter a mould or a deep dish, and spread the inside all over with
grated bread. Put in the mixture, and bake it for three quarters of an
hour.


SPONGE CAKE--CALLED IN FRANCE BISCUIT.

Take ten eggs, and beat them till very thick and smooth. Add gradually a
pound of powdered loaf-sugar. Rub a lump of loaf-sugar all over the rind
of a large lemon, to draw the juice to the surface; then grate the peel
of the lemon, and stir it into the mixture, together with the lump of
sugar. Squeeze in the juice of the lemon, and add two table-spoonfuls of
rose-water. Beat the mixture very hard; then take half a pound of potato
flour (which is best), or else of fine wheat flour, and stir it in very
lightly and slowly. It must be baked immediately.

Have ready some small square or oblong cases of thick white paper, with
an edge turned up all round, and sewed at the corners. They should be
about a finger in length, half a finger in breadth, and an inch and a
half in depth. Either butter these paper-cases, or sift white sugar all
over the inside. Put some of the mixture into each case, but do not fill
them to the top. Grate loaf-sugar over the top of each, and bake them
quickly.

These cakes are much better when baked in paper cases; tins being
generally too thick for them. No cake requires greater care in baking.
If the oven is not hot enough, both at top and bottom, they will fall
and be heavy, and lose their shape.


CROQUETTES.

Take a pound of powdered sugar, a pound of butter, half a pound of
wheat-flour, and half a pound of Indian meal; mix all together, and add
the juice and grated peel of a large lemon, with spice to your taste.
Make it into a lump of paste. Then put it into a mortar, and beat it
hard on all sides.

Roll it out thin, and cut it into cakes with the edge of a tumbler, or
with a tin cutter.

Flour a shallow tin pan. Lay the cakes into it, but not close together.
Bake them about ten minutes. Grate sugar over them when done.


MARGUERITES.

Beat together till very light, a pound of butter and a pound of powdered
sugar. Sift a pound of flour into a pan. Take the yolks only, of twelve
eggs, and beat them till very thick and smooth. Pour them into the
flour, and add the beaten butter and sugar. Stir in a grated nutmeg, and
a wine-glass of rose-water. Mix the whole together, till it becomes a
lump of dough.

Flour your paste-board, and lay the dough upon it; sprinkle it with
flour. Roll it out about half an inch thick, and cut it into round cakes
with the edge of a cup. Flour a shallow pan, put in the cakes (so as not
to touch), and bake them about five minutes in a quick oven. If the oven
is too cool, they will run.

When the cakes are cool, lay on each a large lump of currant jelly. Take
the whites of the eggs, and beat them till they stand alone. Then add to
them, by degrees, sufficient powdered sugar to make the consistence of
icing, and ten drops of strong essence of lemon. Heap on each cake, with
a spoon, a pile of the icing over the currant-jelly. Set them in a cool
oven till the icing becomes firm and of a pale brownish tint.

These cakes are very fine.


WAFERS.

Sift half a pound of flour into a pan. Make a hole in the middle, and
put in three beaten eggs, a table-spoonful of brandy, a table-spoonful
of powdered sugar, a table-spoonful of sweet-oil, and a very little
salt, not more than will lie on a sixpence. Mix all together, adding
gradually a little milk, till you have a batter about the thickness of
good cream. Then stir in a table-spoonful of rose-water. Let there be no
lumps in the batter. Heat your wafer-iron on both sides, in a clear
fire, but do not allow it to get red-hot. Then grease the inside with a
brush dipped in sweet-oil, or a clean rag with some butter tied up in
it. Then put in the batter, allowing about two table-spoonfuls to each
wafer. Close the iron, and in baking turn it first on one side and then
on the other. When done, sprinkle the wafers with powdered sugar, and
roll each one up, pressing the edges together while warm, so as to make
them unite.

A little practice will soon show you the proper degree of heat, and the
time necessary for baking the wafers. They should be but slightly
colored, and of an even tint all over.


GINGERBREAD.

Mix together two pounds of flour, one pound of sugar, five beaten eggs,
three quarters of a pound of butter, and a tea-cupful of ginger. Put the
flour to the other ingredients, a little at a time, and stir the whole
very hard. Melt a tea-spoonful of sal aratus or fine pearl-ash in a
little sour milk, and stir it in at the last. Roll the dough into
sheets, and cut it out with square tins. If not stiff enough for
rolling, add a little more flour. Lay it in buttered pans, and bake it
in a moderate oven.




PART THE SEVENTH.




PREPARATIONS OF FRUIT, SUGAR, &c.


AN APPLE CHARLOTTE.

Pare and core some fine pippins, and cut them into small pieces. Melt
some butter in the bottom of a pan. Then lay your apples in it with a
sufficient proportion of sugar, beaten cinnamon or nutmeg, and some
rose-water or grated lemon-peel. Set the pan in an oven, and let the
apples bake till they are quite soft. Then take them out of the pan, and
mash them to a marmalade with the back of a spoon.

Cut some thin slices of bread into a triangular or three-cornered shape,
and dip them in melted butter. Then butter a broad deep dish, and lay
the pieces of bread in the bottom of it, making the points meet in the
centre. Spread a thick layer of apple all over the bread; then more
bread, covered with another layer of apple, and so on till the dish is
full; having a cover of bread on the top. Set it in the oven, and bake
it slowly about a quarter of an hour.

A very fine Charlotte may be made by substituting slices of spunge-cake
for the bread, or having square spunge-cakes laid round, leaving a hole
in the centre to be filled up with gooseberry jelly. If you use
spunge-cake, you need not put it in the oven.


APPLE COMPOTE.

Pare and core some large pippins, but leave them whole. Make a syrup by
boiling and skimming a pound of loaf-sugar melted in a gill of water,
into which the half of the white of an egg has been beaten. When the
syrup is quite clear, boil the apples in it till soft and tender. Then
take them out, lay them in a deep dish, and fill up with small
sweet-meats or marmalade the holes from whence you took the cores.

Boil the syrup again till it becomes a jelly. Pour it hot over your
apples, and set it in a cool place to congeal.

The syrup will be much improved by adding to it the juice of one or two
lemons, or a dozen drops of essence of lemon.


COMPOTE OF PEARS.

Pare them, but leave on the stems. Lay them in a preserving-pan; and to
a dozen moderate-sized pears, put half a pound of white sugar, a gill of
water, and a few sticks of cinnamon, with some slips of lemon-peel.
Simmer them till tender; and when half done, pour in a glass of
port-wine. When quite done, take out the pears and lay them in a deep
dish. Strain the syrup; give it another boil, and pour it over them.


COMPOTE OF CHESTNUTS.

Take some of the largest and finest chestnuts. Cut a slit in the shell
of each, and roast them in a charcoal furnace, taking care not to burn
them. When done, peel them and put them into a pan with some powdered
sugar, and a very little water. Let them simmer over a slow fire for
about a quarter of an hour. When done, take them out, put them into a
dish, squeeze over them some lemon-juice, and sprinkle them with
powdered sugar.


FRIED APPLES.

Pare and core some of the largest and finest pippins, and cut them into
thin round slices. Mix together in a deep dish some brandy, lemon-juice,
and powdered sugar. Lay the slices of apple in it, and let them soak for
several hours. Then drain them, and dip each slice in flour. Put some
butter into a pan, and fry the apples of a fine brown. Dish them, and
grate loaf-sugar over them.

Quinces may be done in the same manner. So also may peaches, but they
must be cut in half.


PEACH MARMALADE.

Take ripe peaches; pare them and cut them in half, taking out the
stones. Weigh them, and to each pound of fruit allow half a pound of
loaf-sugar. Mash them with the sugar, and put them in a
preserving-kettle. Boil them slowly till they become a shapeless mass,
which will generally be in about three quarters of an hour. Stir the
marmalade frequently, to prevent its sticking to the kettle. Blanch half
the kernels, and cut them in two; and when the marmalade is about half
done, put them into it to give it a fine flavor. Take out the kernels
when the marmalade is cold, and then tie it up in pots or glasses,
laying over it paper dipped in brandy.

Marmalade of plums or green-gages may be made in the same manner.


BRANDY PEACHES.

Take large yellow free-stone peaches; they must not be too ripe. Wipe
off the down with a flannel, and then prick each peach to the stone with
a large pin. Put them into a pan, and scald them with boiling water.
Cover them, and let them rest for a few minutes. This is to make them
white. You may repeat the scalding two or three times. Then take them
out to drain and dry.

Allow a pound of the best loaf-sugar to a dozen large peaches. Put the
sugar into a preserving-kettle (lined with enamel or porcelain), and
melt it, allowing to each pound a gill of water, and half the white of
an egg. Boil the sugar, and skim it till perfectly clear. Then put in
the peaches, and give them a boil. Take them off the fire, and let them
set in the syrup till next day.

The following morning take out the peaches, set the syrup over the fire,
and when it has boiled a few minutes put in the peaches, and give them a
short boil. Then take them out, and let them get cold. Boil down the
syrup to half its original quantity, but take care that it does not boil
long enough to congeal or become thick. Put the peaches into a glass
jar, and pour the syrup over them. Fill up the jar with brandy, and
cover it closely.

Apricots may be done in the same manner. Also pears. The stems must be
left on the pears.


GOOSEBERRY POTTAGE.

Stew two quarts of fine large gooseberries in just sufficient water to
cover them. When quite soft and broken, mash them with the back of a
spoon, make them very sweet with sugar, and set them away to get cold.
Take three pints of rich milk; stir into it a pounded nutmeg and the
yolks of four eggs. Then set it over a bed of hot coals, and let it
simmer, stirring it gently all the time. Before it comes to a boil, take
it off the fire and gradually stir in the gooseberries. It must be
quite cold before you serve it up. Send it to table in a bowl, and eat
spunge-cake with it.

It will be still nicer, if you use the pulp only of the gooseberries,
pressed through a sieve or cullender.


FRUIT JELLIES.

Previous to making your jelly, clarify the sugar, which must be the best
loaf. Break it up, and to each pound allow a gill of water and an ounce
of isinglass. Mix the water with the sugar. Dissolve the isinglass in as
much hot water as will cover it. Set the sugar over the fire in a
preserving-kettle; and when it is beginning to boil, throw in the melted
isinglass. Skim the syrup well, and when it is quite clear and no more
scum rises, take it from the fire, cover it, and leave it to settle.

Prepare the fruit of which you intend to make the jelly. If small fruit,
such as gooseberries, currants, grapes, raspberries, or strawberries;
pick them from the stems, and put them into a jar; set the jar in a
vessel of warm water, and let them come to a boil. Then take them out,
put them into a fine sieve, set a pan under it, and with the back of a
large spoon press out all the juice from the fruit. Mix the juice, while
warm, with the clarified sugar, and boil them together for about a
quarter of an hour. Then put it into your jars or glasses, and tie it up
with brandy-paper.

If you want the jelly for immediate use, put it into a mould; set the
mould in ice for two or three hours; and when the jelly is congealed,
loosen it by setting the mould in warm water, and then turn it out.


PRESERVED PUMPKIN.

Take a fine ripe pumpkin of a deep rich color. Cut from it as many
slices as you want; they should be very thin. Have ready some
lime-water. Put into it the slices of pumpkin, and let them soak for
twenty-four hours. Then take them out, wash them well in cold water, and
wipe them dry. Having prepared a nicely clarified syrup of sugar, put
the slices of pumpkin into it, and let them simmer over a slow fire
without stirring, for a day and a night; but first flavor them to your
taste with lemon-juice mixed into the syrup. When done, they will be
crisp and transparent. Put them into broad stone or queensware pots, and
tie them up with brandy-paper.


PRESERVED RASPBERRIES.

Let your raspberries be gathered on a dry day. Measure them, and to a
quart of raspberries allow a pound of fine loaf-sugar. Spread the fruit
on large dishes, but do not heap it; let every raspberry lie singly.
Pound the sugar to powder, and sift it over the fruit.

Then have ready the same quantity of ripe currants. Squeeze them through
a linen bag which has been wrung out of cold water. Prepare a pound of
loaf-sugar for each pint of currant juice. Put the sugar into a
preserving-kettle, and pour the currant-juice over it. When it has
melted, set it on the fire, and boil and skim it for ten minutes. When
no more scum rises, put in the raspberries. As soon as they are all
scalded, take off the kettle, cover it, and set it away for two hours.
Then put it again on the fire for about five minutes. Afterward set it
again away for two hours, and then return it to the fire as before.
This must be done three times in all, but on no account allow the
raspberries to boil. If done with care, they will be whole and
transparent.

When cold, put them up in glasses.

       *       *       *       *       *

If you preserve white raspberries, do them in the juice of white
currants.

       *       *       *       *       *

Any other fruit may be done in jelly in the same manner.


ORANGE JELLY.

Peel twelve large sweet oranges, and cut them into small pieces. Put
them into a linen bag, and squeeze out all the juice. Measure the juice,
and if it does not amount to a pint, squeeze some more pieces of orange
through the bag. Put a pound of double-refined loaf-sugar into a
preserving kettle, and pour the juice over it. When the sugar has
melted, put it over the fire. Dissolve two ounces of isinglass in a
little hot water, and add it to the jelly just as it is beginning to
boil. Let it boil hard twenty minutes. Then put it into glasses, and tie
it up with brandy-paper.

Lemon-jelly may be made in this manner.


CLARIFIED SUGAR, FOR PRESERVES, AND OTHER USES.

To each pound of sugar allow half a pint of water, and half the white of
an egg; thus four pounds of sugar will require a quart of water and the
whites of two eggs. Mix the white of egg with the water, and beat it to
a froth with rods. Take two thirds of the water, and pour it over the
sugar. When it has melted, set it over the fire. When it rises and
boils, pour in a little more of the water, and diminish the fire to
abate the boiling and allow the scum to rise. Take it off, skim it well,
and in five minutes set it on the fire again. When it boils a second
time, add a little more water; and afterwards take it off and skim it
again. Repeat this till it is quite clear, and no more scum rises. Then
take it from the fire. Dip a fine napkin in warm water, wring it out,
and then strain the syrup through it. Afterwards put your fruit into the
syrup, and boil it till tender.

You may keep this syrup in bottles, and at any time you can put fruit
into it; for instance, strawberries, raspberries plums, apricots &c. If
only wanted for immediate use, you need not boil them, but send them to
table in the syrup, with the advantage of their natural color and
flavor.


FRUIT IN SUGAR COATS.

Prepare some of the best loaf-sugar powdered as fine as possible. Have
ready some white of egg. Take some of the best and largest plums,
cherries, strawberries, raspberries, apricots (peeled) or any other
suitable fruit.

Dip the fruit, separately, in the white of egg, and then roll it all
over in the powdered sugar, which will thus adhere to it, and form a
coat. Then lay it on a dish (spreading it out so as not to touch) and
set it in a cool oven to harden.


BURNT ALMONDS.

Take a pound of shelled sweet almonds, a pound of loaf-sugar, and half a
pint of water. Melt the sugar in the water, and then set it over the
fire. Put in the almonds, and stir them about till they are well
dispersed through the sugar. Let them boil, and when you hear the
almonds crack, they are sufficiently done. Take them off, and stir them
till they are dry, and then put them into a wire sieve, and sift from
them the loose sugar. Put this sugar again into the pan, with sufficient
water to moisten it, and let it come to a boil. Then put in two
spoonfuls of cochineal powder to color it red; add the almonds, and stir
them over the fire till they are quite dry. Put them away in glass jars.


PEPPERMINT DROPS

Powder some fine loaf-sugar, add to it a little essence of peppermint
(sufficient to give it a strong flavor) and enough of water to make it
into a thick paste, which you must mix on a plate with the point of a
broad knife. Then put the paste into a pan that has a lip or little
spout at one side; melt it over the fire, and let it come to a boil. As
soon as it boils, take it off and drop it from the lip of the pan into a
clean broad tin pan or plate. Let the drops be all of the same size and
shape. The tin pan that receives them must be very cold. As soon as the
drops have hardened, loosen them from the tin, by slipping the point of
a knife under each.

You may color them red with cochineal.

Keep them in a glass jar.

If the mixture congeals before all the drops are made, melt it again
over the fire.


CHOCOLATE DROPS.

Scrape some of the best chocolate, and mix it with powdered white sugar.
Moisten it with a little water, so as to make a paste. Work it on a
plate with a knife. Then boil it in a pan with a lip, and pour it (a
drop at a time) into a cold tin pan. While moist, sprinkle colored
sugar-sand or non-pareils over the surface of each chocolate drop, which
drop must be of a good shape, and about the size of a sixpence. When
they are hardened, take them off the tin, by slipping under them the
point of a knife.

Keep them in glass jars.

After the chocolate has boiled, make the drops as fast as possible; for
if it gets cold before they are all done, it will injure it much to boil
it over again.

The confectioners use for these purposes small leaden moulds, greased
with oil of almonds. Into these moulds they pour the mixture, so that
every thing comes out of the same size and shape.


NOUGAT.

This is a very fine confection. Take three quarters of a pound of
shelled sweet almonds, and one quarter of a pound of shelled bitter
almonds. Blanch them by scalding them in boiling water. Then throw them
into cold water, and take them out and wipe them. Cut them into small
pieces (but do not pound them,) and mix them well together.

Take a pound of loaf-sugar broken small, and mix it with half a pint of
cold water, and an ounce of isinglass melted in a very little hot water.
Boil the sugar, and skim it well. When it is quite clear, throw in your
almonds, having first squeezed over them the juice of two lemons. Stir
the almonds well through the sugar; and as soon as they are properly
mixed with it, take the kettle off the fire.

Have ready a mould or a square tin pan well greased with sweet-oil. Put
your mixture into it, a little at a time; dispersing the almonds equally
through the sugar, before it has time to get cold. But if it does chill
before the almonds are well mixed in it, set it again over the fire to
melt. Turn it frequently in the mould, to prevent its sticking. When it
has become a hard cake, set the mould for a moment in warm water, and
turn out the nougat.

In stirring it, you had better use a wooden spoon.


ORGEAT PASTE.

Take half a pound of shelled bitter almonds, and a pound and a half of
shelled sweet almonds. Blanch them, and pound them in a mortar one or
two at a time, pouring in frequently a little rose-water, which will
preserve their whiteness and prevent them from being oily and heavy.
Pound them to a fine smooth paste, and then mix them with a pound and a
half of loaf-sugar finely powdered.

Put the mixture again into the mortar, a little at a time, and pound it
awhile that the sugar and almonds may be thoroughly incorporated; adding
still a little rose-water.

When done, put it away in small covered pots or glasses, and it will
keep several months in a cool dry place. It makes a very fine drink.

When you want to use it, put a small piece into a tumbler of cold water,
and stir it till dissolved.




LIQUEURS.


To filter cordials, cover the bottom of a sieve with clean blotting
paper. Pour the liquor into it (having set a vessel underneath to
receive it), and let it drip through the paper and through the sieve.
Renew the paper frequently, and fasten it down with pins.

This process is slow, but it makes the liquor beautifully clear.


NOYAU.

Take six ounces of peach kernels, and one ounce of bitter almonds. Break
them slightly. Put them into a jug with three pints of white French
brandy. Let them infuse three weeks; shaking the jug every day. Then
drain the liquor from the kernels, and strain it through a linen bag.
Melt three quarters of a pound of the best loaf-sugar in a pint of
rose-water. Mix it with the liquor, and filter it through a sieve, the
bottom of which is to be covered on the inside with blotting paper. Let
the vessel which is placed underneath to receive the liquor be entirely
white, that you may be the better enabled to judge of its clearness. If
it is not clear the first time, repeat the filtering. Then bottle it for
use.


RASPBERRY CORDIAL.

Take a quart of raspberry-juice, and half a pint of cherry-juice, the
fruit having been squeezed in a linen bag after the cherries have been
stoned. Mix the juices together, and dissolve in them two pounds of
loaf-sugar. Then add two quarts of French brandy; put it into a jug, and
let it rest five weeks. Afterwards strain it, and bottle it for use.


ROSE CORDIAL.

Take a pound of the leaves of full-blown red roses. Put them into a
quart of lukewarm water, and let them infuse for two days, in a covered
vessel. Then squeeze them through a linen bag, to press out all the
liquid, and take as much white brandy as you have of the decoction of
roses. To a pint of the infusion add half a pound of loaf-sugar, and a
very small quantity of coriander and cinnamon. Put it into a jug, and
let it set for two weeks. Then filter it through blotting paper, and put
it into bottles.


QUINCE CORDIAL.

Pare your quinces, and scrape them to the core. Put all the scrapings
into a tureen, and see that there are no seeds among them. Let the
scrapings remain covered in the tureen for two days. Then put them into
a linen bag, and squeeze out all the juice. Measure it, and mix it with
an equal quantity of white brandy. To each pint of the mixture add half
a pound of loaf-sugar, and a little cinnamon and cloves. Put it into a
jug, and let it infuse for two months. Then filter it through blotting
paper, and bottle it. This cordial improves by age, and is excellent.


LEMON CORDIAL.

Pare off very thin the yellow rind of some fine lemons. Cut the lemons
in half, and squeeze out all the juice. To each pint of the juice,
allow half a pound of loaf-sugar. Mix the juice, the peel, and the sugar
together; cover it, and let it set twenty-four hours. Then mix it with
an equal quantity of white brandy, put it into a jug, and let it set a
month. Then strain it through a linen bag; and afterwards filter it
through blotting paper, before you bottle it.




PART THE EIGHTH.




MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS.


FRENCH COFFEE.

Let the coffee be roasted immediately before you want to use it, as it
loses much of its strength by keeping. Its color, when done, should be a
fine bright brown; but by no means allow it to scorch. A cylindrical
coffee-roaster that can be turned by a handle, and sets before the fire,
is far preferable to a pot or a pan. Grind the coffee while warm.

If you intend to make half a dozen cups of coffee for drinking, measure
six cups of water of the same size, and put the water into the
coffee-pot. Set it on hot coals, and when the water boils, put in two or
three chips of isinglass, or the white of an egg. Then throw in six
large tea-spoonfuls of ground coffee. Stir it several times while
boiling, and set it several times back from the fire to diminish the
boiling gradually. When it has boiled sufficiently, remove it entirely
from the coals, pour in a cup of cold water, and then put it in a corner
and let it settle for half an hour. Afterwards pour it off from the
grounds into another pot (which must first be scalded), and set it close
to the fire, but do not let it boil again.

If you intend to serve it up with hot cream, you must make the coffee
stronger. While the coffee is clearing, boil your cream or milk, and
pour some of it hot into each cup of coffee.


COFFEE WITHOUT BOILING.

Coffee made without boiling is much stronger, more economical, and less
troublesome than the usual way; but it requires a pot of a particular
construction. The best sort of pot for this purpose is called in French
a Grecque (Greek). It must be made of the best block-tin, and of a tall
cylindrical shape, with the spout very near the bottom. The receptacle
for the coffee-powder fits into the upper part of the coffee-pot, and
must be taken out when washed. The bottom of this receiver is pierced
with very small holes, and there are two other strainers, made of
movable plates of tin, also covered with fine holes. These two strainers
fit into the receiver. The powdered coffee is to be placed between them,
so that it may filter through the lower strainer, and also through the
holes at the bottom of the receiver. Having scalded the pot, put the
coffee into the receiver between the two movable strainers, and pour in
some water which must be boiling hard at the time. The coffee will then
drain through into the lower part of the pot where the spout is, and
will clear itself in passing through the holes. Shut down the lid, place
the pot near the fire, and the coffee will be ready for use as soon as
it has done draining through.

Allow a large tea-spoonful of the powder for each cup that you intend to
have.

This mode of preparing coffee is very expeditious, and requires neither
isinglass nor white of egg.


CHOCOLATE.

Never boil chocolate in milk, as that spoils the flavor; and do not
scrape it, but merely cut it into pieces. To an ounce of chocolate allow
a cup of boiling water.

Having first scalded the pot, put in the chocolate, pour the water on
it, and boil it till one third has evaporated. Then supply that third
with cream or milk, and take it immediately from the fire.

You need not stir it more than two or three times.


FINE LEMONADE.

Allow a whole lemon and four or five lumps of loaf-sugar to half a pint
of cold water. Roll the lemons hard on a table to make them more juicy.
Cut them in half, and squeeze them over the sugar. Then pour on the
water, and stir till the sugar is dissolved. Take out whatever seeds may
have fallen in. In warm weather, put a lump of ice into each glass.


PUNCH.

Take three large lemons, and roll them very hard on the table to make
them more juicy. Then pare them as thin as possible. Cut out the pulp,
and throw away the seeds and the white part of the rind. Put the yellow
rind and the pulp into a pint of boiling water; set it on the fire, and
let it boil two or three minutes. Take it off, and throw in a
tea-spoonful of raw green tea of the best sort, and let it infuse about
five minutes. Then strain it through linen. Stir into it three quarters
of a pound of loaf-sugar, and a pint of brandy, or any other suitable
liquor. Set it again over the fire, and when it is just ready to boil,
remove it, and pour it into a china bowl or pitcher.


CONVENIENT LEMONADE.

Take four ounces of powdered tartaric acid, and two drachms of essential
oil of lemon. Mix them together, and keep them in a well-corked phial. A
table-spoonful mixed with sugar and water, will make six or eight
glasses of lemonade.

It will keep about a month, but not longer, as it will then lose its
strength.


FRENCH MUSTARD.

Put on a plate an ounce of the very best mustard powder, with a
salt-spoon of salt, a few leaves of tarragon, and a clove of garlic
minced fine. Pour on by degrees sufficient vinegar to dilute it to the
proper consistence (about a wine-glassful), and mix it well with a
wooden spoon. Do not use it in less than twenty-four hours after it is
mixed.


POTATO FLOUR.

Potato flour is excellent for sponge-cake, and other things which
require extraordinary lightness. It is also good for young children, and
for convalescent sick persons.

Take the best and most mealy potatoes; pare them, and wash them through
several waters. Then rasp or grate them over a tureen half full of cold
water. Continue to grate the potatoes till the lower half of the tureen
is filled with the pulp, so that the water may rise to the top. The
mealy part of the potatoes will sink to the bottom, while the remainder
or the useless part will rise to the surface. When nothing more rises,
pour off the water carefully, and dry the flour which you find at the
bottom. When quite dry, pound it in a mortar to a fine powder, and sift
it through a sieve.

Potato flour is much lighter than that of wheat.


COLD PICKLES.

Season some of the best vinegar with a little garlic, a little tarragon,
and a little sweet-oil. Put it into a glass jar, and keep it well
covered. You may throw into it the green seeds of nasturtians, morella
cherries, little onions, small young carrots when but a finger long,
radish pods, and various other things. Keep the jar well closed, and
the pickles will be as good and keep as long as if they had been boiled.

Nasturtians and cherries will keep in plain vinegar without any
seasoning.


CORNICHONS, OR FRENCH CUCUMBER PICKLES.

Take ten pounds of very small cucumbers. Brush them all over to clean
them well, and cut off the stems. Put them into an earthen pan with two
handfuls of salt. Let them rest twenty-four hours, and then drain them.
When they are well drained, put them back into the same pan, and pour in
a quantity of boiling hot white wine vinegar, sufficient to cover them.
Then cover the pan carefully with a lid or dish, and let the cucumbers
set in the vinegar twenty-four hours. They will then be yellow. Pour the
vinegar from them, and cover them with vine-leaves. Boil the vinegar
again, and when it boils throw it over the cucumbers, stirring them
well.

When the vinegar is cold, pour it from the cucumbers, and boil it again.
Then pour it over them, and proceed in this manner four or five times,
till they become of a fine green. Keep them in the interval always
covered with a layer of vine-leaves, fresh each time, and also with a
cloth kept down by a large dish. This, by keeping in the steam, will
assist them in greening.

Then drain them on a sieve, and put them into glass jars.

Afterwards, boil some fresh white wine vinegar, first mixing in it the
following seasoning. To every quart of vinegar allow half an ounce of
mace, half an ounce of sliced ginger, half an ounce of whole black
pepper, six cloves, a few sprigs of tarragon, and half a clove of
garlic.

Boil the vinegar with these ingredients for five minutes, and then pour
it hot on the pickles. Tie them up carefully. They may be used in a
week.

The generality of French pickles, are made in a manner similar to those
of England and America.


FINE COLOGNE WATER.

Procure at an apothecary's the following oils and have them all put into
the same phial:--Oil of lemon, 2 drams; oil of rosemary, 2 drams; oil of
lavender, 1 dram; oil of bergamot, 2 drams; oil of cinnamon, 10 drops;
oil of cloves, 10 drops; oil of roses, 2 drops; tincture of musk, 8
drops.

Put 2 pint of highly rectified spirits of wine into a bottle, and pour
the oils into it. Shake it hard for a few minutes, having corked it
tightly. It will be fit for immediate use, but it improves by keeping.

If you wish it stronger, double the quantity of all the oils, but have
only a pint of spirits of wine.


THE END.




Transcriber's Note


The following typographical errors were corrected:

   Page  Error
     v   Green Peas Soup ib changed to Green Peas Soup ib.
     v   Garlic Butter ib changed to Garlic Butter ib.
    vi   Hazlenut changed to Hazelnut
  viii   French Cakes changed to French Paste
    ix   Chocolate Drops ib changed to Chocolate Drops ib.
    16   our pounds changed to four pounds
    21   marmelade changed to marmalade
    31   rolled in flour changed to rolled in flour,
    31   en minutes changed to ten minutes
    32   SIRLOIN OF BEEF changed to SIRLOIN OF BEEF.
    33   hem round changed to them round
    34   pen-knife, changed to pen-knife.
    67   same manner changed to same manner.
    70   of brandy changed to of brandy.
    73   warm water changed to warm water.
    82   Ham Omelet changed to Ham Omelet.
    92   over its inside changed to over its inside.
   103   sieve or cullender changed to sieve or cullender.
   110   through the sieve, changed to through the sieve.

The following words were inconsistently spelled or hyphenated.

  bread-crumbs / breadcrumbs
  sauce-pan / saucepan
  sponge-cake / spunge-cake
  spongy / spungy
  sweet-herbs / sweet herbs






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