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Pickles and Preserves
Lemon Curd
Ingredients |
1 lb. loaf sugar. |
3 lemons. |
0.25 lb. butter. |
6 eggs. |
Mode. To the butter put the sugar, 6
eggs, well beaten; (leaving out two whites), the peel of two lemons, grated;
and juice of three lemons. Put all into a nice brass pan, and simmer until
it is dissolved and looks like honey.
Mrs. Beck, Kerrera, Tettenhall Road.
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Marmalade
Ingredients |
6 Seville oranges. |
3 lemons. |
9 sweet oranges. |
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Mode. Cut in halves and
squeeze out juice, then cut up finely, and to every pound of fruit
add three pints of water and let it stand for 24 hours; then boil
until one third boiled away, and stand it aside for 24 hours; after
which boil again, adding one and a quarter pounds of sugar to one
pint of fruit.
Nurse Gibson, Queen Victoria Nursing Institution, Bath Road.
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Puddings
Angel Pudding
Ingredients |
2 ozs. flour. |
0.5 pint new milk. |
2 ozs. powdered sugar. |
2 eggs. |
2 ozs. butter. |
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Mode. Melt the butter in the
milk, mix all well together, bake in small pattypans until nicely
browned. A little powdered sugar should be sifted over each pudding,
and slices of lemon served with them. The eggs must be well beaten.
Mrs. Shelton, Waterloo Road.
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Fig Pudding
Ingredients |
0.5 lb. figs (chopped). |
1 egg. |
0.5 lb. bread crumbs. |
0.25 lb. brown sugar. |
6 ozs. suet. |
1 teacupful milk. |
Mode. Mix well, and boil
for two and a quarter hours.
Mrs. Perkins, 46 Compton Road. |
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Sauces
Browning for Gravies
Ingredients |
0.25 lb. butter. |
1 quart boiling water. |
0.5 lb. lump sugar. |
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Mode. Put the butter and
sugar into a frying pan, let them simmer until burnt brown; then
pour the boiling water, let it boil until all is dissolved. When
cold, bottle for use.
Miss Nickolson, District Nurses, Home. |
Salad Dressing
Ingredients |
1 wineglassful salad oil. |
2 teaspoonsful salt |
1.5 wineglassful vinegar. |
4 teaspoonsful powdered
sugar. |
1.5 wineglassful milk or
cream. |
0.25 eggspoonful cayenne
pepper. |
2 teaspoonsful mustard |
yolk of 1 egg. |
Mode. Beat the egg, add
salad oil, stirring continually, likewise cream, and lastly
vinegar. Mix other ingredients into a paste, with a little of
the above mixture, then add the remainder, and transfer to a
bottle. Shake well together.
Miss Warmington, The Westleys. |
Savouries
Mock Crab
Ingredients |
2 good sized tomatoes. |
A piece of butter - size of a
walnut. |
2 eggs. |
A little pepper and salt. |
Mode. Peel tomatoes, cut
them into slices, put in saucepan with a little pepper, salt and
piece of butter, stew until tender, then add two well-beaten
eggs; stir until it thickens, dish up on hot buttered toast.
Mrs. Hinde, Mowbray House. |
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Tomato Rarebit
Ingredients |
Butter (the size of an egg). |
Pinch pepper |
2 or 3 tomatoes. |
Salt |
2 tablespoonsful grated
cheese. |
Yolk of an egg. |
Mode. Put the butter and
tomatoes in a saucepan, on the fire, and stir till they are hot
through. Then add cheese, pepper, salt, and egg, well beaten.
Stir for one or two minutes over the fire, and turn out on hot
toast.
Mrs. Bishton, Bath Road. |
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Soups
Cabbage Soup
Ingredients |
1 small cabbage. |
0.25 teaspoonful pepper. |
1 teaspoonful parsley. |
1 pint milk. |
1 oz. butter. |
1.5 pints boiling water. |
1 onion. |
1 tablespoonful crushed
tapioca. |
1 teaspoonful salt. |
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Mode. Put on a large
saucepan of water to boil, shred the cabbage, and put it into
boiling water to blanch for five minutes. Then strain the
cabbage and return to the saucepan, with the butter. Then add
boiling water, milk, onion and seasoning. Bring this to the
boil, and cook it for 45 minutes, shake in the crushed tapioca,
and boil for 10 minutes. Put the chopped parsley into the tureen
and pour the boiling soup on it.
Mrs. Deanesly, Claremont, Penn Road. |
Cream of Artichoke Soup
Ingredients |
1 lb. artichokes. |
1 quart white stock. |
2 onions. |
Pepper and salt. |
1 oz. butter. |
0.5 gill cream. |
1 oz. flour. |
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Mode. Peel and wash
artichokes, cut in slices with the onions. Put in a stew pan
with the butter, and fry for 10 minutes with the lid on the pan;
then dust over with flour, and over all pour the stock, stirring
as you pour it. Boil for an hour and then rub it through a
sieve; season with pepper and salt. Re-heat, and last of all
stir in the cream. Enough for six persons; average cost,
eightpence. This is a thick soup, and very delicious.
Miss Alice Guest, Tettenhall Road. |
Sweets
Toronto Pudding
Ingredients |
2 ozs. butter. |
1 egg. |
2 ozs. castor sugar. |
0.5 teacupful milk. |
Mode. Beat butter and
sugar to a cream, add egg, well beaten and milk. Sift-in enough
flour to make a stiff batter. Cover the centre of a dinner plate
with stewed apples, or other fruit, butter the edge of the
plate, pour the mixture over, and bake in a quick oven from 20
to 30 minutes.
Miss Loveys, The Queen Victoria Nursing Institution. Bath
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Vicarage Pudding
Ingredients |
0.25 lb. flour. |
0.25 lb. raisins. |
0.25 lb. currants. |
0.5 teaspoonful ground
ginger. |
1 tablespoonful moist sugar. |
0.5 saltspoonful salt. |
0.25 lb. chopped suet. |
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Mode. Put all the
ingredients into a basin, having previously stoned the raisins,
and washed, picked, and dried the currants. Mix well with a
clean knife, dip the pudding cloth into boiling water, wring it
out, and put in the mixture. Have ready a saucepan of boiling
water, plunge in the pudding, and boil for 3 hours. Turn it out
on a dish and serve with sifted sugar. Time - 3 hours. Average
cost - 7d. Sufficient to serve five or six persons.
Mrs. A.J. Guy, Molineux Hotel. |
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