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HOCHE POT
Slice an onion and fry it in butter till it is brown; add pieces of pork and of mutton freed from fat and skin;
cover them with water and throw into it any kinds of vegetables that you may have; but particularly sliced
carrots and turnips and green cabbages; put it in the oven to cook. In another saucepan boil some white haricot
beans, salt, and pepper, until they are tender, when they must be added to the stew with a small quantity of the
liquor that they have been boiled in.
PIGEON AND CABBAGE ROLLS
Take two pigeons, two cabbages, four slices of fried bacon, an ounce of butter, a large wineglassful of sherry,
and some gravy. Truss your pigeons and cook them in butter for ten minutes in a fireproof dish. Then take
them out, cut them into neat pieces. Meanwhile have the cabbages boiled in salted water. Drain them. Cut
them in small pieces and roll some up in each slice of bacon; lay the pigeons on top, pouring over them the
liquor they were cooked in and half the wine. Put all in the oven for ten minutes--pour in the rest of the wine
and leave for another ten minutes before serving. If you have stock to add to this it is an improvement, or put
half a teaspoonful of meat extract to half a pint of water.
[Une refugiee.]
REMAINS OF SAUSAGE
If you have a few inches of a big sausage cut it into as thick slices as you can--fry them and lay them in a
circle on a dish with a poached egg on each. Little dinner breads are good when soaked in milk, stuffed with
sausage meat, and fried. It can be used to stuff cucumber, or eggplants, but you should then crumble up the
meat and bind it with the yolk of a raw egg.
[_Mme. Georgette._]
SHOULDER OF LAMB A LA BEIGE
PART II 55
Braise your shoulder of lamb; that is, put it in a closely covered stewpan, in a good brown sauce or gravy with
the vegetables, to be served with it. It is the lid being closed that makes the meat take some flavor from the
vegetables. To do it in the Belgian way, take some good white turnips, wash them and scrape them, put small
ones in whole, large ones cut in half. Take some small cabbages, trim off without leaves, cut them in half,
remove the stalk, make a hollow in the center and fill it with forcemeat of any kind; but sausage meat is good.
Place the stuffed cabbages round the meat to cook gently at the same time.
[_Madame Vershagen._]
FILLET OF BEEF À LA BRABANCONNE
Take a whole fillet of beef, trim it neatly and set it in a braising pan to cook very slowly in some good brown
sauce to which you have added a pint of stock. Put in neatly shaped carrots and turnips and some balls made
of mashed potato already fried. Keep hot in two sauceboats a puree of Brussels sprouts and a puree of onions.
These are prepared by cooking the vegetables in water, then chopping fine, and rubbing through a sieve with
cream, or with a little good milk, pepper, and salt. To serve the fillet, lay it on a dish with the carrots and
turnip, potato cakes round; pour over it the rest of the brown sauce from the pan; then add in heaps the onion
puree and the sprouts puree.
[_Madame Vershagen._]
STEWED BEEF
An inferior part of beef may be made to taste excellent if it is braised; that is, simmered with the cover on
slowly, in company with onions (already fried) and well washed pieces of carrots and whole turnips. Put on
also some small cabbages cut in halves, and if you can give it, a glass of good red wine.
[_Une refugiee._]
BEEF AND APRICOTS
Stew your beef, say three pounds of steak, in some gravy, adding to a pint of liquor a level teaspoonful of
white sugar. Throw in a handful of the dried apricots, but be sure you wash them well first. This dish is
generally accompanied by leeks, first blanched for a few moments, and then put in the stew. Flavor with salt,
pepper, and the rind of half a lemon which remove before you serve the stew. For English taste the sugar
could be omitted.
[_Seulette._]
FOR AN INVALID
This must be begun at least three hours before it will be required. Take two ounces of pearl barley, wash it
well, and put it in cold water enough to cover it, for an hour. Take a pound of good steak, shred it in small
pieces, and put it in an enameled saucepan with a quart of cold water and a sprinkle of salt. Strain the water
from the barley and add this last to the meat, and let it simmer for two hours. Then strain off the liquor and
pound the meat and barley in a mortar, rub it through a sieve; when it is a smooth puree put it back into the
pan with its liquor and a gill of cream. Let it simmer again for a moment and serve it in a cup with a lid to it.
[_Madame A. F._]
INVALIDS' EGGS
PART II 56
Cut out some rounds of bread a good deal larger than a poached egg would be. While these are frying, make a
puree of Brussels sprouts. Boil them till tender, squeeze in a cloth. Rub them through a sieve and make into a
very thick puree with cream, pepper and salt. Poach a fresh egg for each crouton, and slip it on, very quickly,
put some of the green puree round, and serve under a hot cover.
A SWEET FOR THE CHILDREN
If you have some little breads over, cut each one in four, soak the pieces in milk sweetened and flavored with
vanilla, for three hours. When they are well soaked roll them for a moment in grated and dried breadcrumbs,
and dip them for a moment in boiling fat, just as you would do croquettes. Sift some white sugar over them
and serve very hot.
[_Madame M._]
QUINCE CUSTARD
When you have quince preserves by you this is a quickly prepared dish. Make a good custard with a pint of
rich milk, four eggs and a little essence of almonds and two ounces of powdered sugar. Put your quince
preserve at the bottom of a fireproof circular dish and fill up with custard. Put it to bake for half or hour or till
set. When set add some more quince (heated) on the top with some chopped almonds and serve hot. The same
dish can be done with apples, which should be stewed, flavored with the rind of a half lemon, and passed
through a sieve. Apple puree is put on the top in the same way, and it is decorated with some thin lemon peel
cut into stars.
[_Chef reconnaissant._]
YELLOW PLUMS AND RICE
Put half a pound of rice in hot milk till it has absorbed all it can and is tender. Beat lightly the yolks of three
eggs, beating in a lump of fresh butter the size of a pullet's egg; add powdered sugar and the whites of the
eggs well beaten. Put the rice into this mixture and place all in a mold. Cook it gently for twenty-five
minutes. Meanwhile take some very perfect yellow plums, skin and stone them and heat them in half a bottle
of light white wine that you have seasoned with a little spice. Turn out the rice, put the yellow plums on the
top and pour round the sauce, strained through muslin. Very good cold.
BRABANT PANCAKE
Butter first of all your pancakes, and you should have proper pancake saucers fit to go to table. Heat half a
pint of sweetened milk and melt a quarter of a pound of salt butter with it. When well melted pour it into a
basin and sprinkle in nearly three ounces of flour. Beat up the yolks of three large or four small eggs and
incorporate them, then add the whites well beaten. Put a spoonful or two on each saucer and set to bake in the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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HOCHE POT
Slice an onion and fry it in butter till it is brown; add pieces of pork and of mutton freed from fat and skin;
cover them with water and throw into it any kinds of vegetables that you may have; but particularly sliced
carrots and turnips and green cabbages; put it in the oven to cook. In another saucepan boil some white haricot
beans, salt, and pepper, until they are tender, when they must be added to the stew with a small quantity of the
liquor that they have been boiled in.
PIGEON AND CABBAGE ROLLS
Take two pigeons, two cabbages, four slices of fried bacon, an ounce of butter, a large wineglassful of sherry,
and some gravy. Truss your pigeons and cook them in butter for ten minutes in a fireproof dish. Then take
them out, cut them into neat pieces. Meanwhile have the cabbages boiled in salted water. Drain them. Cut
them in small pieces and roll some up in each slice of bacon; lay the pigeons on top, pouring over them the
liquor they were cooked in and half the wine. Put all in the oven for ten minutes--pour in the rest of the wine
and leave for another ten minutes before serving. If you have stock to add to this it is an improvement, or put
half a teaspoonful of meat extract to half a pint of water.
[Une refugiee.]
REMAINS OF SAUSAGE
If you have a few inches of a big sausage cut it into as thick slices as you can--fry them and lay them in a
circle on a dish with a poached egg on each. Little dinner breads are good when soaked in milk, stuffed with
sausage meat, and fried. It can be used to stuff cucumber, or eggplants, but you should then crumble up the
meat and bind it with the yolk of a raw egg.
[_Mme. Georgette._]
SHOULDER OF LAMB A LA BEIGE
PART II 55
Braise your shoulder of lamb; that is, put it in a closely covered stewpan, in a good brown sauce or gravy with
the vegetables, to be served with it. It is the lid being closed that makes the meat take some flavor from the
vegetables. To do it in the Belgian way, take some good white turnips, wash them and scrape them, put small
ones in whole, large ones cut in half. Take some small cabbages, trim off without leaves, cut them in half,
remove the stalk, make a hollow in the center and fill it with forcemeat of any kind; but sausage meat is good.
Place the stuffed cabbages round the meat to cook gently at the same time.
[_Madame Vershagen._]
FILLET OF BEEF À LA BRABANCONNE
Take a whole fillet of beef, trim it neatly and set it in a braising pan to cook very slowly in some good brown
sauce to which you have added a pint of stock. Put in neatly shaped carrots and turnips and some balls made
of mashed potato already fried. Keep hot in two sauceboats a puree of Brussels sprouts and a puree of onions.
These are prepared by cooking the vegetables in water, then chopping fine, and rubbing through a sieve with
cream, or with a little good milk, pepper, and salt. To serve the fillet, lay it on a dish with the carrots and
turnip, potato cakes round; pour over it the rest of the brown sauce from the pan; then add in heaps the onion
puree and the sprouts puree.
[_Madame Vershagen._]
STEWED BEEF
An inferior part of beef may be made to taste excellent if it is braised; that is, simmered with the cover on
slowly, in company with onions (already fried) and well washed pieces of carrots and whole turnips. Put on
also some small cabbages cut in halves, and if you can give it, a glass of good red wine.
[_Une refugiee._]
BEEF AND APRICOTS
Stew your beef, say three pounds of steak, in some gravy, adding to a pint of liquor a level teaspoonful of
white sugar. Throw in a handful of the dried apricots, but be sure you wash them well first. This dish is
generally accompanied by leeks, first blanched for a few moments, and then put in the stew. Flavor with salt,
pepper, and the rind of half a lemon which remove before you serve the stew. For English taste the sugar
could be omitted.
[_Seulette._]
FOR AN INVALID
This must be begun at least three hours before it will be required. Take two ounces of pearl barley, wash it
well, and put it in cold water enough to cover it, for an hour. Take a pound of good steak, shred it in small
pieces, and put it in an enameled saucepan with a quart of cold water and a sprinkle of salt. Strain the water
from the barley and add this last to the meat, and let it simmer for two hours. Then strain off the liquor and
pound the meat and barley in a mortar, rub it through a sieve; when it is a smooth puree put it back into the
pan with its liquor and a gill of cream. Let it simmer again for a moment and serve it in a cup with a lid to it.
[_Madame A. F._]
INVALIDS' EGGS
PART II 56
Cut out some rounds of bread a good deal larger than a poached egg would be. While these are frying, make a
puree of Brussels sprouts. Boil them till tender, squeeze in a cloth. Rub them through a sieve and make into a
very thick puree with cream, pepper and salt. Poach a fresh egg for each crouton, and slip it on, very quickly,
put some of the green puree round, and serve under a hot cover.
A SWEET FOR THE CHILDREN
If you have some little breads over, cut each one in four, soak the pieces in milk sweetened and flavored with
vanilla, for three hours. When they are well soaked roll them for a moment in grated and dried breadcrumbs,
and dip them for a moment in boiling fat, just as you would do croquettes. Sift some white sugar over them
and serve very hot.
[_Madame M._]
QUINCE CUSTARD
When you have quince preserves by you this is a quickly prepared dish. Make a good custard with a pint of
rich milk, four eggs and a little essence of almonds and two ounces of powdered sugar. Put your quince
preserve at the bottom of a fireproof circular dish and fill up with custard. Put it to bake for half or hour or till
set. When set add some more quince (heated) on the top with some chopped almonds and serve hot. The same
dish can be done with apples, which should be stewed, flavored with the rind of a half lemon, and passed
through a sieve. Apple puree is put on the top in the same way, and it is decorated with some thin lemon peel
cut into stars.
[_Chef reconnaissant._]
YELLOW PLUMS AND RICE
Put half a pound of rice in hot milk till it has absorbed all it can and is tender. Beat lightly the yolks of three
eggs, beating in a lump of fresh butter the size of a pullet's egg; add powdered sugar and the whites of the
eggs well beaten. Put the rice into this mixture and place all in a mold. Cook it gently for twenty-five
minutes. Meanwhile take some very perfect yellow plums, skin and stone them and heat them in half a bottle
of light white wine that you have seasoned with a little spice. Turn out the rice, put the yellow plums on the
top and pour round the sauce, strained through muslin. Very good cold.
BRABANT PANCAKE
Butter first of all your pancakes, and you should have proper pancake saucers fit to go to table. Heat half a
pint of sweetened milk and melt a quarter of a pound of salt butter with it. When well melted pour it into a
basin and sprinkle in nearly three ounces of flour. Beat up the yolks of three large or four small eggs and
incorporate them, then add the whites well beaten. Put a spoonful or two on each saucer and set to bake in the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]