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Title: Dressed vegetables à la mode

Author: Harriet A. de Salis

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DRESSED VEGETABLES

_À LA MODE_

MRS DE SALIS

AUTHORESS OF ‘SAVOURIES À LA MODE’ ‘ENTRÉES À LA MODE’
‘OYSTERS À LA MODE’ ‘SOUPS AND DRESSED FISH À LA MODE’
AND ‘SWEETS AND SUPPER DISHES À LA MODE’

The earth hath roots;
The bounteous huswife Nature on each bush
Lays her full mess before ye’

SHAKESPEARE

FIFTH IMPRESSION

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1900

_All rights reserved_

PREFACE.

In ‘Sweets and Supper Dishes à la Mode’ I mentioned I had completed the
series, but, like so many of the members of the dramatic art who after
their farewell are induced back again, I am making my reappearance in
the gastronomic art with ‘Vegetables à la Mode,’ as the public who have
so kindly received my former little books are anxious that I should
extend the series; and as the _vox populi_ should be respected, I have
had much pleasure in culling from the vegetable gardens of the culinary
world the recipes printed in this little book, several of which I am
indebted for to Madame de Joncourt’s ‘Wholesome Cookery,’ which she has
kindly allowed me to use.

HARRIET A. DE SALIS.

DRESSED VEGETABLES

_À LA MODE._

American Yams à la Française.

Cut the yams into slices about half an inch thick, trim into oval
shapes, put them into a pan full of water; wash and drain them upon
a cloth; next place them in a stewpan with two and a half ounces of
butter, and season with salt and a grate of nutmeg. Moisten with a pint
of water; put the lid on and let them simmer for three-quarters of an
hour, turning them over occasionally, so that they may be equally a
bright yellow colour on both sides. Arrange in a circle, and pour the
following sauce over them:--

Mix an ounce of butter with a dessertspoonful of flour; put it into a
stewpan with a gill of cream a teaspoonful of castor sugar, a little
salt, and a teaspoonful of lemon-juice. Stir this over the fire till it
thickens, when it will be ready.

Aiquebelle Fritters.

Pound five potatoes; add a pinch of Gruyère cheese, eight eggs,
half a pound of fresh butter, pepper and salt. Beat the eggs well
before adding them to the other ingredients. Mix all together very
thoroughly. Divide the mixture into pieces about the size of a milk
biscuit, and fry in boiling fat.

Artichokes à la Barigoule.

Fonds d’Artichauts à la Barigoule.

Wash and trim three or four artichokes, remove the chokes, and fry the
top of the leaves and the bottom of the artichokes in hot lard for
three or four minutes.

Fill the cavities with a forcemeat made with two ounces of finely-shred
suet, two ounces of veal free from fat and fibre, two teaspoonfuls of
chopped parsley, a trifle of marjoram and thyme, half a shalot chopped
fine, a little salt and pepper, and a teaspoonful of grated lemon-peel.
Mix thoroughly, and work in the yolk of an egg. Fasten a piece of bacon
on the top of each artichoke. Bind them with string to keep them in
their proper place. Put them in a stewpan, with enough brown gravy to
cover them. Let them stew gently till tender. Take away the strings,
and dish them with a little of the gravy thickened round them.

Artichokes à la Barigoule.

Fonds d’Artichauts à la Barigoule.

(Another way.)

Parboil some globe artichokes. Strip off the leaves and take out the
choke. Make a farce of bread-crumbs, parsley, mushrooms, truffles,
shalots, and any savoury meat or game, minced very fine, and seasoned
to taste. Put a slice of bacon or ham, two carrots, a bouquet garni at
the bottom of a stewpan, and place the artichokes on the top of them;
pour over a glass of chablis.

Artichoke Bottoms à la Carème.

Fonds d’Artichauts à la Carème.

(Original Recipe.)

Wash the artichokes thoroughly. Boil them till they are nearly tender;
drain them, remove the middle leaves and the chokes, and lay in each
a little of a forcemeat composed of six oysters, one sardine, two
anchovies, and a few shrimps or prawns or pieces of lobster, all minced
finely together, and put into a sauce made of a grated tablespoonful
of horseradish, half a teaspoonful of lemon-juice, a tablespoonful of
vinegar, half a teaspoonful of capers, and one gill of white sauce. Let
this boil up, then stir in the fish mixture, fill the artichokes, and
bake in the oven till tender and done. Scatter lobster coral on the top
of each before serving, or alternately lobster coral and grated fried
parsley.

Cream of Artichokes.

Crème d’Artichauts.

Parboil some artichokes, strip off the leaves, and press out the edible
part of each leaf; remove the chokes, and pass this pulp through a hair
sieve. Add a very little onion pulp. Season with salt, pepper, and a
tiny dust of cayenne. Mix this with double cream, and steam in a mould
very slowly for twenty minutes. Turn out of the mould, and serve with a
cream sauce round.

Artichoke Bottoms à la Kaiser.

Fonds d’Artichauts à la Kaiser.

(Original Recipe.)

Cook some artichoke bottoms; season them with a little grated Parmesan
cheese. Take some plain round glossy tomatoes and place one on each
artichoke; lay some mushroom purée on the top of each, taking care to
smooth it well; place each artichoke on a fried croûton masked with
the tomato purée, and put them in a deep tin dish, and bake them in
the oven (which must not be a fierce one) for about ten minutes. Just
before serving sprinkle a little finely-chopped parsley over, and curl
an anchovy on the top of each round a sprig of parsley that has been
heated in the oven.

Artichokes à la Malay.

Artichauts à la Malay.

(Original Recipe.)

Prepare the artichokes as in Artichokes à la Carème, and fill them with
a mixture made of an onion minced very finely and put into a stewpan
with half a pint of prawns, an ounce of butter and a grate of cinnamon,
half a pint of good mutton broth, and a little salt. Let this stew over
a moderate fire for half an hour, then stir in a spoonful of curry
powder, and let it stew twenty minutes longer. Strain the gravy into a
clean stewpan, add the prawns, and let it simmer again for ten minutes.
Scrape a piece of cocoa-nut sufficient to fill a tablespoon into a gill
of water, and press it through a sieve. Take half the milk from the
cocoa-nut, thicken it with flour, stir it into the curry mixture, toss
it over the fire, and give a squeeze of lemon to it, and then put in
the artichokes.

Dish them up on a rice mound, ornamented with gherkins and chillies.
This is very good cold, and the rice should then be iced and ornamented
with whipped aspic jelly and three leaves of the artichoke standing up
in the middle of each.

Artichokes à la Gouffé.

Artichauts à la Gouffé.

Wash and trim three young artichokes, cut them into thin slices, and
as they are cut throw them into water with a cupful of vinegar in it.
Drain them, and season with a little salt and pepper. Make a batter
with three eggs, two tablespoonfuls of oil, and two of flour. When
all are well mixed, put the slices of artichokes into it, and stir
gently for about three minutes, until every piece of artichoke is well
covered. Fry in hot fat, being careful that the vegetable is cooked
through as well as being browned. Drain from the fat, and pile the
slices high in the dish, and garnish with fried parsley.

Artichokes à l’Italienne.

Artichauts à l’Italienne.

Take the bottoms of some French artichokes, put them in a stewpan with
some butter, white wine, a little stock, and lemon-juice. When cooked
serve up with sauce italienne over.

Artichokes à l’Italienne.

Artichauts à l’Italienne.

(Another way.)

Is similar to the last recipe, only the stuffing is made of fried onion
chopped very small, browned bread-crumbs, and grated Parmesan cheese,
and baked in the oven.

Stuffed Artichokes à la Béchamel.

Make a savoury stuffing with some chopped herbs, bread-crumbs, a
mushroom, a pounded anchovy, and the yolk of a hard-boiled egg. Make
this into a paste by cooking it in a little cream and gravy; fill some
artichoke bottoms with it, and put them to simmer in a béchamel sauce;
serve with fried sippets. The preserved artichokes (fonds d’artichauts)
are very good for this purpose, and require very little cooking.

Globe Artichokes aux Fines Herbes.

Wash, soak, and trim all the bottom leaves from the artichokes; boil
in a large saucepan of boiling water till the leaves come easily out,
and the bottoms are soft. When cold, pull off all the leaves and remove
the chokes; put them into a saucepan with half a pint of fines herbes
sauce (made of half a pint of good brown sauce, three small onions, two
bunches of parsley, a tablespoonful of tomato sauce, two of chervil,
four small button mushrooms chopped fine, and a little salt; stew all
these for twenty minutes, _but do not boil_), simmer for three or four
minutes, and serve very hot with the sauce over them.

Globe Artichokes au Diable.

Prepare the artichokes as for Artichokes aux Fines Herbes, and fill
the bottoms with devilled shrimps which have been stewed in butter for
three minutes; sprinkle with cayenne pepper, and mask with Espagnole
sauce.[1]

[1] See _Entrées à la Mode_ for Espagnole sauce.

To devil the shrimps, take a pint of picked ones and put them into two
ounces of butter; warm only, and sprinkle with dry curry powder and
cayenne pepper.

Artichokes à la Chef.

Trim the artichokes, cut out the chokes, and stuff them with minced
bacon, parsley, mushrooms, and shalots which have been fried in butter.
Line a stewpan with slices of bacon, add the artichokes, season with
pepper and salt and a bouquet garni. Moisten with gravy, and cook over
a slow fire with hot coals on the lid. When done, dish up covered
with essence of ham. Essence of ham is made of ham finely pounded and
warmed in butter in which a little flour has been stirred, and, when a
good colour, moistened with stock seasoned with herbs, cloves, chopped
mushrooms, and a teaspoonful of vinegar, and passed through a tammy.

Artichoke Chips.

Wash, peel, and cut into thin slices as many Jerusalem artichokes as
are required. Throw them into cold water and dry them. Put them in a
frying-basket. Plunge this into boiling lard, and fry a nice light
brown. Put them before the fire and dry. Sprinkle with a little salt,
and serve very hot.

Jerusalem Artichokes à la Reine.

Wash the artichokes, cut off the end of each quite flat, and trim the
other end into a point. Boil them in milk and water, and lift them out
the moment they are done; drain, and place them upright in the dish
into which they are to be served, and sauce them with a rich béchamel
sauce.

Jerusalem Artichokes au Parmesan.

Boil till quite tender sufficient Jerusalem artichokes to fill up some
scallop shells; cut them up very small, and mix them up in a little
béchamel sauce. Add a little pepper and salt, strew on thickly some
grated Parmesan, and over that some bread-crumbs; put little pieces of
butter all over the top, and brown them with the salamander.

Asparagus with Cream.

Asperges à la Crème.

Cut up some heads of asparagus; wash and drain them. Melt some fresh
butter in a saucepan, warm the asparagus heads in it, and stir in some
rich béchamel sauce. When done, serve covered with the sauce.

Asparagus Omelet.

Omelette aux Pointes d’Asperges.

Boil about twenty-five heads of asparagus, and cut the green ends, when
tender, in short pieces. Mix with them four well-beaten eggs, adding a
little pepper and salt. Melt an ounce of butter in an omelet-pan, pour
in the mixture, stir till it thickens over the fire, and fold it nicely
over.

Asparagus sauce may be served with it.

Asparagus à la Tod Heatley.

(Original Recipe.)

Cook the asparagus as usual, then lay them on ice or in a refrigerator.
When properly cold, arrange them in bunches like faggots, and tie them
round with strips cut from lettuces to resemble a binder. Arrange them
high on the dish, and pour over them whipped cream in which a little
aspic jelly has been mixed. Garnish with croûtons of aspic and whipped
aspic. This dish is also very good with simply a green mayonnaise over
it.

Asparagus à la Pompadour.

Boil the asparagus in boiling salt and water. When cooked, cut it
into lengths three inches long, drain them, and place them before the
fire for a few moments. Take one ounce of fresh butter, two yolks of
eggs, a pinch of salt, a saltspoonful of pepper, and a tablespoonful
of vinegar; cook in a saucepan till thick; dish up the asparagus in a
pyramid, and pour the sauce over.

Asparagus Rolls.

Cut a piece out of the crust of the tops of three French rolls, and
take out all their crumb; be careful that the crusts fit again in the
places from whence they were taken. Fry the rolls brown in fresh
butter. Then take a pint of cream, the yolks of six eggs beaten fine,
and a little salt and nutmeg; stir well together over a slow fire till
it begins to be thick. Have ready a hundred of small grass boiled, and
save tops enough to stick the rolls with. Cut the rest of the tops
small, put them into the cream, and fill the rolls with them. Before
frying the rolls, make a good many holes in the top to stick the grass
in. Then lay on the pieces of crust and stick the grass in that it may
look as if it were growing.

Asparagus à la Rustic.

Cut the green part of a hundred good spruce asparagus heads; wash,
boil, and strain them. Take three French rolls, cut a piece of the top
crust neatly out, pick out _all_ the crumb, and fry the outsides in
butter; take a gill of cream with the yolks of three eggs beaten up in
it, add a little salt and a grate of nutmeg, and stir well together
over a gentle fire till it begins to thicken; put in three parts of the
asparagus cut small; fill the rolls with it; put on the tops that were
cut off, and with a sharp skewer make holes in the tops, and stick some
asparagus in as if it were growing. Arrange them on a dish, and serve
very hot.

Asparagus à la Française.

Wash and boil the asparagus till tender, drain them, cut off the heads
and about two inches of the white part of the stalks; mince them very
small, and mix with them an onion also cut very small. Add the yolk of
an egg well beaten, with salt and pepper to taste. Make it hot in a
stewpan, and dish it up on a slice of toast, and pour a good sauce over
it.

Asparagus Pudding.

Take about fifty young asparagus and cut up the green part into
pea-sized pieces. Beat about an ounce of butter to a cream, add to
it a cupful of flour, two teaspoonfuls of finely-chopped ham, four
well-beaten eggs, a little pepper and salt, and then the asparagus.
Mix all well together, and add sufficient milk to make it into a stiff
batter. Put it into a well-oiled mould, wrap it up in a floured cloth,
and place it in a saucepan of boiling water. When sufficiently cooked,
turn it out on to a hot dish and pour good clear clarified butter round
it in which two drops of vinegar have been put.

Dressed Beetroot.

Slice a parboiled beetroot in nice round slices, and stew it with small
onions in a little cream with a very small piece of sugar, pepper and
salt, and a tablespoonful of vinegar. Dish the slices of beetroot with
the small onions round them.

Beetroot Fritters.

Cut some boiled beetroot into slices. Take two pieces at a time, place
a slice of raw onion sprinkled with chopped chervil, pepper, and salt
between them, dip into batter, and plunge into boiling fat. When a good
colour, dish up.

Beetroot à la Savarin.

Fry a slice of onion in butter, then mix together half a teaspoonful
of salt, half of dry mustard, twelve drops of essence of anchovies,
a dessertspoonful of cornflour, a gill of cream, and a gill of milk.
Put this with the onion, and boil for five minutes; then slice in a
nice-coloured boiled beetroot, and let all get cold.

Stewed Beetroot.

Bake or boil a beet till it is tender, and let it remain till cold,
then peel and cut it into slices, and stew it for a little while in
some broth or pale gravy. Thicken this with a teaspoonful of arrowroot
and two tablespoonfuls of cream, and stir in quickly, as you take it
off the fire, a tablespoonful of chilli vinegar.

Beetroot à la Crème.

Peel a beetroot and cut it into slices, then cook it very slowly in
white béchamel sauce; season with pepper and salt, and serve.

Brittany Beans.

Cut some onions in thin shreds, scald and drain them. Fry them in
butter till they are a nice golden brown; then sprinkle over them
flour, pepper, and salt, and sauté them for five minutes. Add some
stock and stew for twenty minutes, taking care to stir frequently; then
add some well-cooked haricot beans and butter, and sauté together.

Broad Beans à la Crème.

The beans must be very young. Boil them in water with a faggot of
parsley and some salt. When done, drain in a colander; then put them
into a stewpan with an ounce and a half of butter, some chopped
parsley, and as much winter savoury as will cover the tip of a spoon,
pepper, salt, and just one grate of nutmeg. Sauté the beans over the
fire for five minutes, and then mix in well with them a liaison of
three eggs and the juice of half a lemon. When the liaison has become
set, dish them up with fancy fried croûtons round them.

French Beans à la Poulette.

Take some young French beans, remove all fibres by breaking off the
ends; wash and boil them in boiling water. When done, toss them in
melted butter seasoned with chopped chives and parsley; stir in a
dessertspoonful of flour, a pinch of salt, and a quarter of a pint of
stock; reduce the sauce; thicken with two yolks of eggs, and flavour
with a few drops of lemon-juice when it is ready to serve.

Omelet of French Beans.

Cut up finely two tablespoonfuls of French beans, stir into them
three well-beaten eggs, then add a heaped-up tablespoonful of grated
Parmesan, with a little pepper and salt to taste. When perfectly mixed,
put the whole, with two ounces of melted butter, into the omelet-pan,
and fry a pale brown. The time varies from three to five minutes.

Fricasseed White Kidney Beans.

Take a quart of white kidney beans; if they are dried soak them for
some hours first, but if fresh merely blanch them and rub off the
skins. The dried ones must be boiled till tender and their skins slip
off.

Put them into a saucepan with half a pint of gravy, a bunch of sweet
herbs, pepper, salt, a grate of nutmeg, and a glass of marsala; cover
them close, and let them stew gently for about a quarter of an hour;
then take out the herbs, add a piece of butter mixed with flour, and
shake it till thick. Beat up the yolks of two eggs in cream, put it
in, and keep shaking the pan one way till thick and smooth; squeeze in
juice of half a lemon, and serve.

French Beans à la Béchamel.

Cut up some French beans; soak them in cold water, and boil in boiling
salt and water; when done, plunge them into cold water and drain. Warm
some chopped onions in fresh butter, but do not brown them; and when
nearly cooked, stir in a little flour, salt, pepper, chopped parsley,
chives, and a wineglassful of stock; add the beans, and when boiling
thicken the sauce with yolks of eggs and flavour with lemon-juice. This
sauce must not be thin.

French Beans à la Crème.

Take a pound of French beans, string them, and boil them in salt and
water till tender, then drain them. Beat the yolks of two fresh eggs
in a gill of cream and about one ounce of fresh butter; beat all well
together, put it into a stewpan, and set over a clear fire. When hot,
stir in a tablespoonful of vinegar, add the beans, and let all simmer
for about six minutes, stirring constantly. Serve very hot.

Broccoli à la Fermière.

Take three heads of broccoli--one large and two small heads. Put into a
stewpan two and a half ounces of butter, and when melted stir in four
well-beaten eggs till it becomes of the consistency of cream. Pour this
over a slice of toasted bread which has been placed on a dish. Lay
the largest broccoli in the middle, and the two smaller ones cut into
sprigs and arranged round it.

Fricassee of Brussels Sprouts à la Lucerne.

Take some young sprouts and put them into boiling water with a lump
of butter, a little salt, a piece of soda the size of a pea, and a
bouquet garni. When they are cooked, take them out and drain them. Have
ready some good white stock and rich béchamel sauce--say, half a pint
of each--the yolk of an egg, and a teaspoonful of lemon-juice; put
all these into a stewpan and stir over the fire till it is all well
blended and the thickness of rich cream. Mix in the sprouts, and then
dish them up; garnish with fried croûtons cut in the shape of hearts,
mask them over with a little Parmesan cheese, and sprinkle the yolk of
a hard-boiled egg which has been passed through a wire sieve over the
centre of the sprouts.

Brussels Sprouts à la Parisienne.

Trim and boil about thirty heads of sprouts in two quarts of water in
which a handful of salt has been placed; when done, strain them, and
chop very fine. Then put an onion in a stewpan, cut in slices, with two
ounces of butter, three sprigs of parsley, and an ounce of raw ham.
Stir them ten minutes over the fire, then add the chopped sprouts and
half a teaspoonful of flour; mix all well together and add half a pint
of white stock and half a pint of milk. Stir until it boils, then add
a teaspoonful of powdered sugar; season with a little pepper and salt,
and serve with fried sippets.

Fried Brussels Sprouts.

Boil the sprouts, drain and fry them in butter for a few minutes;
sprinkle with pepper, salt, and chopped parsley.

Ladies’ Cabbage.

(American Recipe.)

Boil a firm white cabbage for fifteen minutes, changing the water from
the boiling-kettle; when tender, drain and set aside till cold. Then
chop fine, and add two beaten eggs, an ounce of butter, pepper, salt,
and three tablespoonfuls of cream. Stir all well together, and bake in
a buttered pie-dish till brown.

Cabbage Jelly.

Boil a Savoy cabbage in water, chop it very fine and pass it through
a sieve, and mix it with a little pepper, salt, and butter; mould and
bake it.

Cabbage à la Flamande.

Cut a cabbage into quarters, parboil, and then place it in cold water,
squeeze it dry, take out the heart and tie it round; then stew it with
half an ounce of butter, half a pint of good stock, seven onions, a
bouquet garni, and salt and pepper to taste. When nearly cooked, put
in a gill of vinegar; and when it is sufficiently cooked take a crust
of bread about four inches in diameter, fry it in butter, and put it
in the bottom of a dish, upon which place the cabbage and some fried
sausages; arrange the onions round. Skim the same, add a little cullis
to it, and pour it over the whole.

Cabbage and Rice Balls.

(Italian Recipe.)

Boil some rice with a little broth; cut some onions small, fry them,
and mix them well with the rice. Then fry the rice, adding a little
water so that it should not thicken too much; when cooked, add a little
grated cheese and butter.

Take some cabbages, separate the leaves, put them into hot water, half
boil and rinse them. Take each leaf separately, spread the rice thickly
on it, and roll it up.

Then take a stewpan and put in some pieces of butter and onions cut
very finely, cook them well with a little water; then place the balls
of rice in the stewpan and cook them until the cabbage is done. When
cooked, sprinkle grated cheese over them, and serve with tomato sauce.

Stuffed Cabbages à la Russe.

Chop finely an onion and fry it in butter, but it _must not brown_; add
six chopped mushrooms and two tablespoonfuls of semolina, and warm all
over the fire a few minutes, and take it off the fire. Pick the finest
outside leaves off the cabbages and place them on one side; cut the
cabbages into quarters, blanch and drain them; cut out the hard pieces
from the centres, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and spread some of
the stuffing between each leaf. Tie up the pieces of cabbage to their
original shape, with the large leaves placed round them, and boil in
water seasoned with onions, carrots, a bouquet of mixed herbs, and a
lump of butter. When done, drain and serve. Serve melted butter in a
sauceboat.

Cardoons Boiled.

Cut away the coarse outside of the cardoon, wash it free from sand, lay
it in cold water to harden; then boil it in milk and water till tender,
drain it on the back of a sieve. Cut each stalk in two; place them in a
vegetable-dish and pour white sauce over them.

Cardoons à la Fromage.

String three cardoons and cut them into pieces an inch long, stew them
in half a pint of claret till quite tender, add an ounce of butter
rolled in flour, and a little pepper and salt. Put them into a china
baking-dish, add the juice of an orange, and grate three ounces of
Parmesan cheese over. Brown with a salamander, and serve quickly.

Stewed Cardoons.

Take four cardoons, take off the outside leaves, string the white part
and cut them about two inches long; wash them very clean, and put them
into a stewpan with three-quarters of a pint of veal broth, a glass of
sauterne, a small bunch of sweet herbs, a little pepper and salt. Cover
over and stew gently till tender, then add a piece of butter rolled in
flour, and boil all gently till it becomes the proper consistency; add
the juice of half a lemon and dish up.

Fillets of Carrot.

Wash, scrape, and cut into slices about half an inch thick, and then
into dice-shape, several young carrots; boil them in water for five
minutes, drain, and put into a stewpan with a gill of good brown sauce.
Sprinkle with pepper and salt, and stew till tender.

Carrots à la Flamande.

Boil half a dozen carrots till quite tender; then stamp them out in
fancy shapes and stew them in a little good melted butter, with five
small onions, a table-spoonful of finely-chopped parsley, and a little
salt and pepper. Serve the carrots with the sauce poured over.

Carrots à l’Allemande.

Trim some small carrots so that they are all of the same shape, that
is, the real shape of the carrot, but not too sharp at one end or too
thick at the other, and not longer than an inch and a half.

Parboil in water with a little salt; drain. Then place in a sauté-pan
with one pint of stock, two ounces of butter, one ounce of sugar, and
let simmer for half an hour; then let it boil briskly till the sauce is
reduced to a glaze. Roll each carrot in this, and form into a dome of
carrots; surround with a rich brown sauce flavoured with lemon-juice.

Carrots à la Windsor.

Take some carrots of equal size and cut the upper parts into even
lengths of about two and a half inches, and trim one end to a point in
the shape of a cone. Then throw them into salted boiling water and let
them boil for three-quarters of an hour. Take them out and drain well.
Arrange them upright in a stewpan, pour in _good_ hot gravy to half
their height; add a little salt and a small teaspoonful of sugar, and
boil quickly for half an hour longer. Dish them up standing upright,
and pour over them a good brown thickened gravy with a dessertspoonful
of parsley and a little lemon-juice in it.

Carrot Fritters.

Boil a large carrot till tender; beat it to a pulp, pass it through
a sieve, and mix with it a gill of cream, two tablespoonfuls of
bread-crumbs and two well-beaten eggs. Fry the mixture, divided into
the shape of fritters, in hot dripping, and serve with a good brown
cullis.

Carrots à la Maître d’Hôtel.

Scrape, wash, and scald the carrots in boiling water; cook them in hot
water, with salt and a piece of butter the size of a small egg. When
cooked, remove them, and put them to drain. Mix in a stewpan another
piece of butter, chopped parsley, one chopped shalot, and pepper and
salt to taste. Put in the carrots, toss them up for two minutes, and
serve them with fried sippets.

Curried Cauliflowers.

Boil three or four small cauliflowers till tender, cut them up into
little _bouquets_, and put them into a stewpan with some curry sauce,
prepared thus:--

Take one sliced onion, a dessertspoonful of good curry-powder, two
ounces of butter, a tablespoonful of grated cocoa-nut, a tablespoonful
of the milk from the cocoa-nut, a teaspoonful of lemon-juice, a
dessertspoonful of chutney; let all these blend and cook well together
for an hour, skimming it, and then passing it through a sieve.

Pour this sauce over the pieces of cauliflower, and let all simmer for
twenty minutes; dish the pieces up _en pyramide_, and pour the sauce
all over.

Cauliflower Fritters.

Blanch a cauliflower, break it into neat pieces, and dip it into a nice
thick white sauce; leave them until cold, and then take each piece
separately and dip it into batter and fry in boiling butter. Serve hot,
with fried parsley.

Cauliflower à la Maître d’Hôtel.

Take three heads of nice little white cauliflowers, some maître d’hôtel
sauce in which a tablespoonful of tomato purée has been introduced; put
into a saucepan of water a small quantity of flour, and when it boils
put in the cauliflowers. When done, cut off the stalks, place the
pieces head downwards into a hot basin, and press them gently together.
Put the sauce into a dish, and turn the moulded cauliflowers out of the
basin on it--which, if neatly done, will give the appearance of a very
large cauliflower.

Cauliflower au Gratin.

Choux-fleurs au Gratin.

Wash and boil a cauliflower in the usual way, and when it is
sufficiently boiled take it out of the saucepan and cut off all the
outside green leaves. Now take a cloth and squeeze all the water
out of the cauliflower, and put half an ounce of flour and the same
quantity of butter into a stewpan and mix well together, and pour in
a gill of cold water; put the stewpan on the fire, and stir smoothly
till it boils and thickens. Then add one tablespoonful of cream, a
dust of cayenne, and a little salt. Have grated two ounces of Parmesan
cheese, and stir rather more than half into the white sauce. Place the
cauliflower in the dish in which it is to be served, pour the sauce all
over the cauliflower, and sprinkle the remainder of the grated cheese
over the cauliflower, and brown the top with a hot salamander till it
is a pale brown. This dish should be served very hot.

Cauliflower au Parmesan.

Choose four very small white cauliflowers, cut off the stalks and
stems, making them flat, so that they will stand nicely in the dish.
Cleanse thoroughly and boil till tender, but not sufficiently so to
run any risk of breaking. Arrange them so as to make them look like
one large cauliflower, and powder them thickly with grated Parmesan.
Make a sauce with an ounce of butter, a little salt, half a teaspoonful
of lemon-juice, the yolks of two eggs beaten to a cream, and two
tablespoonfuls of grated Parmesan. Mix well together, and stir over the
fire; then pour over and around the cauliflower.

Stuffed Cauliflower.

Boil a cauliflower till cooked, but not so soft as to fall to pieces.
With a sharp knife remove a small part of the heart of the flower;
fill the vacuum with a stuffing of the chopped heart, and four cooked
mushrooms seasoned with cayenne. Make a good white sauce, mix in some
grated Parmesan cheese, pour over the cauliflower, and serve very hot,
garnished with croûtons.

Moulded Cauliflower.

Choufleur en forme.

Boil four nice and white cauliflowers, all of an equal size, in a
little thin flour and water till tender; then cut off the stalks and
press them, head downwards, into a hot basin; then arrange them in a
vegetable-dish, with some of the stalks arranged neatly round them, and
pour over them some tomato sauce.

Cauliflower Omelet.

Take the white part of a boiled cauliflower after it is cold, chop it
very small, and mix with it a sufficient quantity of well-beaten egg to
make a very thick batter; then fry in fresh butter and send it to table
hot.

Cauliflower Fritters.

When the cauliflowers are boiled and drained divide them into branches,
and toss them up for a few minutes in a stewpan, with butter, pepper,
salt, and a little nutmeg. Serve with fried sippets.

Celery with Brown Sauce.

Take five or six heads of celery _with the roots_, break off the coarse
outer stalks, lay them in cold water for some hours, parboil them in
water for ten minutes, drain, and place them in a stewpan with as much
stock as will cover them; add a small piece of glaze, pepper, salt, and
a very little flour. Let all stew gently for about an hour. When done,
dish up the celery, strain the sauce and pour it over the celery.

Celery with Cream.

Cut the white part of three heads of celery into lengths of about three
inches long, boil it till quite tender, and strain the water from it.
Beat up the yolks of three eggs and strain them into half a pint of
cream; season with a little salt, and put this and the celery into a
stewpan, and place it over the fire till it boils and becomes tolerably
thick, and then send it to table on toast.

Celery à l’Espagnole.

Select well-grown celery, cut it into lengths of six inches, and
blanch in boiling water. Place two slices of bacon in a stewpan and
place the celery on these; mix four tablespoonfuls of Espagnole sauce
(_see_ ‘Entrées à la Mode’) and the same quantity of broth. Simmer for
three-quarters of an hour. Dish up the celery after removing the grease
from the sauce, and pour it round the celery.

Celery ‘au Jus.’

Parboil some celery, drain it, and put it into a stewpan; toss it in a
little oil. Add some good meat gravy to it and a tomato. Simmer till
the celery is quite cooked; then strain the sauce and serve over it.

Stewed Celery.

Cut five or six roots of celery to the length of the inside of the dish
in which they are to be served, take away all the outer leaves and
green tops, wash the celery till it is perfectly clean; then stew it in
good stock till it is tender, and sauce it with either a thick béchamel
or a good Espagnole sauce.

Celery à la Villeroi.

Take three or four heads of celery, cut them into six-inch lengths,
parboil them, and then dip them into cold water; drain them, and then
split the heads into halves; mask them with some thick Allemande sauce,
and place them on a dish to get cold. Now roll them in bread-crumbs;
and serve Villeroi sauce with this dish.

Cucumbers à l’Espagnole.

Cut the cucumbers into pieces about two inches long and one inch wide,
remove the seeds, strew a little salt over them, and let them remain
between two plates for an hour or more. Drain off the juice and put
them into a saucepan; cover them with good stock and let them simmer
gently till quite tender. Drain them, pile high on a dish, and pour
some rich brown sauce over them.

Celery Cream à l’Ambrosia.

(Original Recipe.)

Take two or three heads of celery, washing it well and scraping it
clean; place it in a mortar, and have ready a pint of good rich cream
and pour in half a pint, one gill at a time, over the celery, and pound
well together for a few minutes, and then rub it through a clean wire
sieve. When it is passed put it back into the mortar, and keep adding
cream, about a gill at a time, till all is well blended. Continue this
till all the cream is used. Then add half a pint of nicely flavoured
whipped aspic. Have prepared a buttered mould which has been decorated
with cooked mushrooms arranged in tiers all round the mould, and
arrange leaves of chervil fancifully about; pour in the celery purée,
and place on ice for some hours and turn out. If any of the mushrooms
should adhere to the mould it is easy to attach them to the cream
again; place chopped aspic all round the base and on the top, sticking
a small piece of the stalk of celery with leaf on it in the centre.

Morels à l’Andalouse.

Cut half a pound of ham into dice, fry them in salad oil, and when a
good colour put in some morels; moisten with half a pint of sherry, a
gill of madeira, and season with a mixture of a saltspoonful of salt,
half a saltspoonful of pepper, and a teaspoonful of capsicum powder,
to which add a dessertspoonful of finely-minced parsley. Cook for
forty-five minutes; then dish up the morels in a pyramid and pour the
sauce over, which should be thickened with flour and flavoured with
lemon-juice.

Colcannon.

Mix in about equal proportions some well-mashed potatoes and some young
sprouts, or greens of any kind, first boiled till quite tender and
chopped up. Mash up all thoroughly together; add a seasoning of pepper
and salt, a small bit of butter, and a spoonful or two of cream or
milk; put a raw onion in the middle of all, and stir over a clear fire
till very hot and sufficiently dry to be moulded and turned out. The
onion must be taken out before the dish is served.

Turnips and carrots are often chopped up with the greens and potatoes.

This can also be made with parsnips and potatoes.

Colcannon.

(Another way.)

Boil and mash greens, cabbage, carrots, turnips, a shred onion with
mashed potatoes--half the quantity should consist of the latter; add
two eggs, pepper and salt, and a good piece of butter; put it into a
plain mould or pudding-basin, boil for an hour, and turn out.

Fillets of Cucumber.

Divide through the middle a cucumber, remove the seeds and soft part,
cut it into lengths of about one inch, trim them in oval shapes and all
the same size. Put them in a stewpan with an ounce of butter, a little
pepper, sugar, and salt, and let them stew till quite tender without
acquiring any colour.

Cucumber Mayonnaise.

Put the beaten yolk of an egg in a glass dish, with very little salt,
pepper, and a dust of cayenne and a teaspoonful of lemon-juice. Mix
these to a cream, and then add the best salad oil, a few drops at a
time, and well stirred till thick. A little more lemon-juice will
thin it, and then add more oil till half a pint has been used in this
alternate fashion.

Fish served in this is very good.

Cucumbers à la Poulette.

Pare and slice two cucumbers very thinly, let them soak in a little
vinegar, sprinkled with salt, for half an hour. Drain, and then press
them dry in a cloth; flour them, and put a piece of butter into a
stewpan, and when it begins to boil throw in the cucumbers and shake
them over a gentle fire for ten minutes, being careful they should not
take the slightest colour. Pour on to them some very strong but pale
gravy, enough to cover them; when it boils, skim off the fat entirely,
add a little salt and white pepper, and when the cucumbers are quite
tender strew in a dessertspoonful of finely-minced parsley, and thicken
the sauce with the yolks of two eggs.

Stewed Cucumbers.

Pare and split into quarters about four young cucumbers, peel them,
and then pare them round and round into thin ribbons until the watery
part is reached, which part must be thrown aside. Sprinkle these with
cayenne and salt, and leave them to drain a little. Arrange them
lightly on a dish, and sauce them with very fine oil well mixed with
chilli vinegar and a trifle of common vinegar.

Stuffed Cucumber.

Peel a large cucumber, remove a narrow piece from the side and scoop
out the seeds with a teaspoon. Fill the cavity with a forcemeat made of
lobster and salmon, replace the piece and bind it round with thread.
Line the bottom of a saucepan with slices of bacon, put the cucumber
upon it and then two or three more slices; cover the whole with nicely
flavoured stock; season with salt and pepper, and simmer gently till
the cucumber is sufficiently cooked; then take it out, thicken the
gravy with a little flour and butter, and serve very hot.

Dressed Endive.

Plunge three heads of celery into salted water, having removed the
green leaves from them. When well washed, blanch, drain dry, and finely
chop them. Put into a stewpan half a pint of good gravy and the endive
heads, add a saltspoonful of castor sugar and a little salt, and stew
till tender. When cooked, thicken with butter and flour, and stir in
a gill of good rich brown sauce with a dessertspoonful of lemon-juice
stirred into it, and serve with poached eggs on the top.

Endive Ragoût.

Lay two heads of white endive in salt and water for three hours. Take
fifty asparagus, cut off the heads, then chop the rest small as far as
it is tender, and lay in salt and water. Take a bunch of celery, wash
and scrape it clean and cut it into three-inch lengths. Put it into a
saucepan with a pint of water and some mignonette pepper; let it stew
till quite tender, then put in the asparagus. Shake the saucepan, and
let it simmer till the grass is cooked. Take the endive out of the
water, drain it, and leave one large head whole. Take the other leaf by
leaf, put it into the stewpan, and put to it a pint of sauterne. Cover
the pan closely, and let it boil till the endive is done; add a quarter
of a pound of butter rolled in flour, cover the pan again and keep it
shaking. Then take out the endive when cooked and lay the whole head
in the middle; take out the celery and asparagus and lay them round
it, and the other part of the endive over that. Pour the liquor out of
the saucepan into the stewpan, stir it together, and season it with
salt. Beat the yolk of an egg up with half a pint of cream, which mix
into the sauce, keeping stirring till thick, and then pour it over the
ragoût.

Endive Stewed with Cream.

Wash four heads of endive thoroughly, pluck off the outer green leaves,
put them into a stewpan of boiling salt and water and boil them quickly
till tender; then drain and squeeze them dry, cut off the roots, and
chop them very fine. Rub them through a wire sieve into a stewpan,
add an ounce of butter and a _little_ salt; stir it over a slow fire
for a few minutes; then mix in two dessertspoonfuls of white sauce, a
tablespoonful of cream, and a teaspoonful of castor sugar. Stir over
the fire till thick, and pile up in a dish, and garnish with fried
sippets.

Greens à la Hottentot.

Take three onions and one chilli, and add sufficient butter to stew
some greens in; fry the onions and chilli till soft; then wash the
greens and put them with the butter, onions, and chilli into a stewpan
without any water. Season with salt; cover the stewpan and let them
simmer gently over the fire till all the water from the greens is dried
up. A few prawns added is a great improvement.

Haricot Beans à la Maître d’Hôtel.

Take a quart of haricot beans, soak them in cold water for three or
four hours, then boil them in salt and water till tender; drain well,
and put them into a stewpan, with three ounces of butter mixed with a
teaspoonful of chopped chives, a sprig of parsley minced fine, with
pepper and salt to taste. Shake the pan over the fire, but do not stir.
When hot, and all well mixed together, squeeze in the juice of half a
lemon, and serve.

Kohlrabi au Gratin.

Pare and cut a kohlrabi in thin slices; simmer in salt and water for
some hours till quite tender. Drain away the water; then coat a china
dish (fireproof) with butter and browned bread-crumbs; then put a layer
of the sliced kohlrabi with a little cream, then a layer of forcemeat,
then another of kohlrabi. Mix some broth and cream and pour in a small
quantity.

Strew the surface with bread-crumbs; finish with a salamander to brown
it.

Kohlrabi Steamed.

Peel some young kohlrabi and cut it into thin slices. Put some gravy
and a small piece of butter into a stewpan and steam them till soft.
Have mixed a small tablespoonful of flour in melted butter, and stir
this into the gravy till quite smooth; season to taste; boil up, and
pour through a strainer over the kohlrabi, which ought to be quite
soft. Cover whilst boiling.

A dessertspoonful of sugar is boiled with them.

Laver.

Have some mashed potatoes put upon a dish quite flatly, and cover it
with some laver; then another layer of potatoes, then another of laver.

The laver is dressed like spinach.

Laver to Stew.

Stir in a stewpan over the fire two ounces of butter, a gill of stock,
a tablespoonful of vinegar, pepper and salt to taste, and a pint of
laver. Serve very hot.

Curried Lentils.

Fry three or four sliced onions in a little butter until of a nice
brown colour; put them into a saucepan with half a pint of red lentils
and one pint of water; simmer one hour; then add a dessertspoonful of
curry-powder and a teaspoonful of lemon-juice, and serve with boiled
rice.

Stewed Lettuces.

Strip off the outer leaves and cut away the stalks. Wash the lettuces
thoroughly and throw them into salted water.

They will be tender in twenty-five minutes. Lift them out and press
the water from them, chop them a little, and heat them up in a
saucepan, with pepper and salt to taste, and a small slice of butter.
Now dredge in a little flour and stir well; then add a small cup of
gravy; boil quickly until they are tolerably dry; then stir in a little
lemon-juice, and serve them hot with fried sippets around them.

Stuffed Lettuce.

Take four large heads of lettuce, wash well, and boil them in salted
water. After they have boiled a quarter of an hour take them out and
put them into cold water. Then drain them well, cut them open and stuff
with a veal forcemeat, tying the ends of the lettuce round the meat
securely. Place the stuffed heads in a stewpan, covering them with
gravy, and seasoning with salt, pepper, and vinegar. Put the stewpan
on the side of the stove to simmer for a quarter of an hour; then take
out the heads (removing the strings), and serve on a hot dish with the
gravy poured round them.

Mandram or Dressed Cucumbers.

Take cucumbers, pare them, and chop them in small pieces. Take half
the quantity of young onions and cut them fine, add a piece of
lemon, a trifle of cayenne, and a glass of sherry or madeira and
dessert-spoonful of Chili vinegar. This is very good with any roast
meat.

Morelles à l’Andalouse.

Cut half a pound of ham into dice, fry them in salad oil, and, when
a good colour, put in some morels. Moisten with a gill of madeira
and half a pint of chablis, season with a mixture composed of a
saltspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper, and a teaspoonful
of capsicum powder, to which add a dessert-spoonful of finely minced
parsley.

Cook all this for forty-five minutes; then dish up the morels in a
pyramid and pour the sauce over, which must be thickened with flour and
flavoured lemon-juice.

Green Morels Stewed.

Take some morels, wash them well, cut the large ones in quarters,
leaving the smaller ones whole. Put them into a stewpan with gravy
enough to cover them, a glass of sauterne, and a little pepper and
salt. Cover them closely and let them stew gently for an hour; then
stir in a piece of butter mixed with flour and a dessert-spoonful of
lemon. Boil till thick as cream, then serve.

Mushrooms à la Bordelaise.

Clean some large fresh-gathered mushrooms, skin and lightly score
the under-side. Put them into a china dish and baste them with oil
or butter, and strew pepper and salt over them. When they have been
steeped in this marinade for a couple of hours, broil them on both
sides for ten minutes over a clear fire, and serve with melted butter
in which are parsley, young onions, a little garlic (all minced), and
the juice of a lemon poured over them.

Mushrooms à la Bordelaise.

(Another way.)

Take some large fresh mushrooms; peel, wash, and drain them; make
one or two slits on the top side of the mushrooms; let them soak for
an hour in salad oil, salt and pepper. Broil them, taking care to
turn them so that each side may be equally broiled. Warm the oil in
which the mushrooms were soaked, season with finely chopped chives
and parsley; dish up the mushrooms, sprinkle over with a few drops of
lemon-juice, and pour the hot oil over them.

Mushrooms au Beurre.

Cut the stems from some button mushrooms and clean them well with a
soft cloth and some fine salt, and rinse them in water; drain them
quickly. Spread them in a clean cloth and leave them to dry for ten
minutes. Put an ounce and a half of fresh butter to a pint of mushrooms
and place it in a thick saucepan, and shake over the fire until it just
begins to brown; then throw in the mushrooms, and continue shaking the
saucepan over a clear fire that they may not burn, and when they have
simmered three or four minutes strew over them a little salt and a dust
of cayenne; stew them till they are perfectly tender, and heap them
high on a dish, and serve very hot.

Croustades of Mushrooms.

Chop an onion very finely; fry it in butter a pale brown, stir it
carefully, then add a quarter of a pound of finely-chopped mushrooms;
simmer together till the mushrooms are two-thirds cooked. Soak two
anchovies; pound them in a mortar with a teaspoonful of French mustard,
three tablespoonfuls of brown sauce, and add this to the mushrooms.
Boil together for two or three minutes, and fill the croustade case.

Mushrooms au Gratin.

Skin, wash, drain, and wipe dry some fresh mushrooms. Cut the stems to
within a quarter of an inch, and fill the cup with a forcemeat made
of one ounce grated bacon, quarter ounce of shred shalot, a sprig of
chopped parsley, a tiny piece of thyme, and pepper and salt to taste.
Simmer this for five minutes in butter, and add the yolk of an egg.
Stand the mushrooms, well dredged with bread raspings, in a baking-dish
smeared with butter, and bake in a moderate oven. When done, serve
piled on a hot dish with some rich brown sauce round.

Stuffed Mushrooms à la Lucullus.

Wash, dry, and trim some mushrooms; chop up the stalks with a
teaspoonful of minced parsley and tomato, and warm this mixture for a
few moments in some butter. Fill the mushrooms (they should be large
ones) with this mixture, place them on a buttered baking-dish, and
bake them six minutes, basting them with clarified butter.

Mushroom Toast.

Crôute aux Champignons.

Take the stems off half a pound of small mushrooms, then peel them.
Dissolve two ounces of butter in a stewpan, strew over them a dust of
cayenne and a dust of pounded mace, and let them stew over a gentle
fire from ten to fifteen minutes; shake them all the time; then add a
small dessert-spoonful of flour, and shake the pan until it is browned
a pale colour. Pour in slowly a gill of good gravy, and when the
mushrooms have stewed softly for a couple of minutes, throw in a little
salt and a squeeze of lemon-juice, and pour them on a slice cut about
an inch thick from the under part of a moderately-sized loaf and fried
in butter a pale brown, after having been first slightly hollowed on
the outside.

Mushrooms and Tomatoes.

Toast a slice of bread, butter it, and cut it into rounds two inches
in diameter. Dip the tomatoes into hot water and peel them; cut them
into thick slices and lay them on the toast; on the top of these place
a peeled mushroom. These must be put into a buttered tin, and a little
clarified melted butter poured over each; then place the dish into
the oven for two minutes and baste them whilst cooking. Serve hot and
quickly.

Baked Spanish Onions.

Take a large onion: wash it clean; take a corer and remove the core,
and put in its place some butter, pepper, and salt, and let it bake
with a thin piece of paper round it for an hour, or till done, in a
slow oven. When done, peel it and put it into a vegetable-dish, and
pour over some good brown gravy.

Onions à la Bretonne.

Brown four large onions over a slow fire in butter and salt, and when a
good colour stir in a little flour. Moisten with good brown stock and
reduce. Pass the same over a tammy, and pour the onions.

Onions à la Bordeaux.

Parboil some onions, not too large; drain the water from them; put them
into a stewpan with an ounce of butter and a bouquet garni chopped
fine; add a gill of good rich gravy, and the same of claret; simmer
till the onions are fairly tender, and the sauce reduced. Squeeze over
a tablespoonful of lemon-juice. Dish up, and serve hot.

Spanish Onion à la Célerie.

Peel a large Spanish onion and bring it to the boil in the usual way.
Let it drain thoroughly. Take an apple-corer and take out the centre,
and fill in with a forcemeat of tomatoes and mushrooms, with a few
drops of lemon-juice. Put the stuffed onion into a stewpan with one
small carrot, one small turnip, a bouquet garni, a dust of cayenne, a
lean piece of ham, and some good Espagnole, or rich brown sauce (about
half a pint). Put them in the oven, with a few live coals on the lid,
and let all stew for three hours, or perhaps a little longer, adding
a little butter and gravy from time to time. When cooked, glaze the
onion, remove all fat from the sauce, and pour round the onion; and
have strips of celery which have been cooked in thin broth in which
some cheese had been sprinkled, drain them, and garnish the top of the
onion with them.

Onions à la Corsica.

Peel four large onions. Cut them into quarters and then slice them.
Throw them into boiling salad oil. Keep stirring till they are tender.
After draining them, stir in enough cooked spinach to turn them green.
Place them on a dish and serve, garnished with the white of hard-boiled
egg cut in quarters and the yolk chopped and arranged in little bunches
round.

Onions à la Crème.

Take four small Spanish onions and boil them in three waters; drain
them and put them into a stewpan with two ounces of butter, a little
flour rubbed smooth, pepper and salt, and a gill of cream. Put this
over a slow fire and stir frequently till cooked. Serve with the same
poured over them.

Onion Fritters.

Chop up an onion. Make a stiff batter with a table-spoonful of flour,
an egg, a little milk, pepper, and salt. Mix all well together, and
put a dessertspoonful at a time into a frying-pan of boiling butter or
dripping. Brown the fritters on both sides and serve them, alone or
handed round with rump steak.

Onions à la Génoise.

Take a pint of small onions and boil them in good Lucca or olive oil.
Drain them and pour this sauce over them. A tablespoonful of minced
capers, gherkins, and sultana raisins, minced parsley, a dust of
cayenne pepper, a tablespoonful of vinegar, a teaspoonful of castor
sugar, and a tablespoonful of good gravy, and O. K. Sauce. When these
ingredients are hot, pour over the onions and serve.

Onions ‘au Jus.’

Cook some young onions in boiling salt and water for fifteen minutes,
then drain them. Mix some flour and butter well together over the fire
until they are pale brown; add a little claret and gravy. Now put in
the onions with a bouquet garni, a couple of cloves, and a bay leaf.
Simmer all together till the onions are quite cooked. Strain and dish
up the onions with the sauce, and add some fried sippets, a few capers,
and a couple of minced anchovies.

Miroton of Onion.

Take some onions, chop them up, and sauté them in butter till they are
browned. Dredge a little flour over them, then add hard-boiled eggs
cut up small, shred herbs, pepper, a gill of cream, and a teaspoonful
of sauterne. Place this mixture in a buttered mould, and bake it for
about an hour. Turn it out and garnish with fried parsley.

Ragoût of Onions.

Peel and blanch six onions, strain the water from them, and place them
in a stewpan with half a pint of cream, pepper, salt to taste, and a
dust of cayenne. Simmer till the onions are done, then make a liaison
with the yolks of two eggs into the cream sauce, and serve the onions
with the sauce around, and garnished with fried sippets cut into shapes.

Onions à l’Espagnole.

Peel a large onion and stamp out the core with a vegetable-culler;
parboil in water for ten minutes, and drain on a sieve. Spread the
bottom of a stewpan with butter, place the onion in it; moisten with
gravy just enough to cover it, and let it boil slowly, turning it
occasionally. When nearly done, add a dessert-spoonful of castor sugar,
and boil down quickly to a glaze; add a little tomato purée, and roll
the onion in it, and dish up.

Spanish Onions Stewed.

Boil a large onion, and when done scoop out the middle and fill it with
forcemeat, fry it a light brown, and make a rich gravy and pour over.

Stuffed Onions.

Parboil onion or onions in salted water for ten minutes. Remove the
core with column-cutter, leaving the bottom intact. Fill up with
a mixture of bread-crumbs, anchovies, well washed and cut-up small
capers, pepper, and salt; melt a piece of butter in a saucepan, and
mix with it a table-spoonful of flour; put in the onion; take an equal
quantity of broth and claret, pour enough into the saucepan to almost
cover the onions; add a bundle of herbs tied up, with a few cloves, and
simmer gently till the onions are done; remove the herbs and dish up
the onions.

Stuffed Onions.

(Another way.)

Peel a couple of fair-sized Portugal onions, parboil and drain them;
scoop out the centre, but keeping the onions whole. Chop up the inside
of the onion with a little meat and a little fat bacon; add some
bread-crumbs, a sprig of parsley, and a small piece of lemon peel,
chopped fine; add pepper and salt to taste; then beat it all up to a
paste with a well-beaten egg and stuff the onions with it, dredge them
with flour, and fry them a nice brown; then place them in a stewpan
with a rich brown gravy to cover them, and let them stew gently for two
hours.

Parsnip Fritters.

Take three large parsnips and boil them till tender; peel them and mash
them very finely; add a teaspoonful of flour, one well-beaten egg, and
salt to taste. Make the mixture into small cakes with a spoon, and fry
them on both sides, a delicate brown in good dripping or butter. Serve
them up very hot and piled upon the dish.

Parsnip Balls.

Parboil six parsnips, and let them get cold; then peel them and grate
them. Beat two eggs till very light and mix with the grated parsnip,
adding enough flour to bind the mixture. Make this mixture into small
flat balls. Have some boiling lard or clarified dripping and drop the
balls gently into it; fry them until a golden brown on both sides. Send
to the table hot, garnished with fried parsley.

Petits Pois à la Demi-Bourgeoise.

Put a quart of young peas into a stewpan, with a good-sized piece of
butter, one onion, one cabbage lettuce cut in four. Let them be stewed
in their own juice upon a very slow fire. When they are done and there
is hardly any sauce left, add a little sugar, very fine salt, and
afterwards the yolks of two eggs with some cream; mix the whole on the
fire and serve up.

Peas Stewed with Lettuces and Ham.

Shell a peck of young green peas and put them into a bowl of cold water
and two ounces of butter. Work them well with the fingers to make the
peas stick together, and then drain them in a colander. Put them then
in a stewpan with the hearts of two cabbage lettuces finely shred, a
large onion cut into thin slices, a handful of parsley, and half a
pound of ham cut into small pieces; cover the saucepan closely and let
the peas stew till the peas are tender; shake the saucepan now and
again to prevent the peas sticking. When they are done, take out the
ham and the onion, put in two ounces of butter mixed smoothly with a
dessert-spoonful of flour and a table-spoonful of cream. A sprig of
mint stewed with the peas is an improvement. Simmer gently for four
minutes, and serve as hot as possible, with fried sippets round, and
slices of broiled ham on the top.

Potato-Balls.

Bake half a dozen potatoes; rub them through a wire sieve, and put them
into a stewpan with an ounce of butter, two yolks of eggs, a little
pepper and salt; stir over the fire till the paste leaves the sides of
the pan; then put it between two plates to get cold; then shape this
potato-paste into small balls or pears (the stalks being represented by
parsley stalks); dip these into beaten egg, roll them in bread-crumbs
and fry of a pale colour in hot frying fat; dish them up high in a
pyramid shape.

Potato-Balls à la Duchesse.

Take half a dozen potatoes, boil and pass them through a sieve, and
work into them in a bowl one gill of cream and the yolks of three
eggs; add pepper, salt, and a grate of nutmeg to taste, with some
finely-chopped parsley. When well mixed and smooth, take them up by
little spoonfuls, roll each into a ball, flatten and flour it slightly.
Lay them all on a sauté-pan, with plenty of melted butter, and cook
them slowly. Turn them when one side is done, and serve hot as soon as
both sides are coloured.

Potato-Ball Ragoût.

Mash, roll up with yolk of egg, grated ham or tongue, minced parsley,
one onion, pepper, salt, and a little bit of butter; roll them in
beaten egg and a little flour, and fry them in good dripping.

Potatoes à la Bonn.

(German Recipe.)

Cut some raw potatoes into slices half an inch thick, and cut them into
four or five strips; fry them in plenty of very hot butter till a nice
golden colour, turning them so that all sides should be equally golden.

Have ready one ounce of Parmesan cheese and one ounce of Gruyère
cheese, and a gill of cream which has been stirred over the fire
till the cheese is hot and melted; add a dust of cayenne. Put in the
potatoes and give one stir round, and arrange in a dish which will hold
hot water.

Potato Boulettes.

Boil some good potatoes, dry, mash a pound of them smoothly, and mix
with them two ounces of fresh butter, a teaspoonful of salt, a little
nutmeg, the beaten and strained yolks of four eggs, and then the whites
well whisked. Mould the mixture with a teaspoon, and drop it into a
small pan of boiling butter, and fry these boulettes for five minutes
over a moderate fire a pale brown colour; drain, and dish them up high.

Potatoes in Cases.

Take as many potatoes as may be required and bake them; cut a small
piece from the top of each and with a spoon scoop out the insides. Mash
them smoothly, and pass through a sieve; mix with this potato-paste
an ounce of fresh butter and a gill of cream. Put it into a stewpan
over a slow fire to boil, and during the time stir quickly in the
whites of a couple of eggs whipped to a very stiff froth; then fill the
potato-skins with the mixture, bake quickly in the oven, and serve in a
folded napkin.

Potato-Chips or Ribbons.

Wash a pound of potatoes well in cold water, and scrub them clean;
peel them, and cut out the eyes, and any black specks there may be;
then peel the potatoes very thinly into ribbons and twist them into
fancy shapes. Put into a saucepan about a pound of clarified dripping,
and heat it to frying heat; then take a frying-basket and put the
potato-ribbons in when the fat is quite hot, for about six minutes.
Place a piece of paper on a plate, and when the chips are done--which
they will be when they become quite crisp and of a pale brown
colour--turn them out on to the paper and drain off the grease, and
sprinkle salt over them, and serve them very hot

Potatoes à la Crème.

Put a piece of butter rolled in flour in a stewpan, with some salt,
pepper, and a grate of nutmeg. Mix all well together and add a gill of
cream; then place the sauce on the fire and stir round till it boils.

Have ready some potatoes cut in slices; put them into the sauce, and
after warming them up serve very hot. Sometimes a little chopped
parsley and green onions are added to the sauce.

Potato Croquettes.

Boil some potatoes very dry; mash them quite smoothly; season them
with salt and white pepper; warm them with about an ounce and a half
of butter, pound it, and add two tablespoonfuls of good cream. Boil
them till dry; let them cool a little, and then roll them into balls;
sprinkle over them crushed vermicelli, and fry them a pale brown.
Sometimes they are rolled in egg and bread-crumbs instead of the
vermicelli.

Potato Croquettes.

(Another way.)

Take two pounds of potatoes, boil them, and pass them through a wire
sieve with a wooden spoon; then put into a stewpan an ounce of butter
and a tablespoonful of milk and put it on the fire, and when this is
hot stir in smoothly the sifted potato; then take off the stewpan
from the fire, and break the yolks of two eggs into a basin and stir
them one at a time into the sifted potato; then take three sprigs of
parsley, wash them in cold water, dry them in a cloth and chop them
very finely. Sprinkle the parsley into the stewpan and season the
potato with a little pepper and salt. Turn the potato on to a plate and
let it get cold; then put some clarified dripping into a deep stewpan
and put it on the fire to heat, and have some bread-crumbs ready. When
the potato-mixture is cold form it into balls; then egg and bread-crumb
these balls and fry them in a frying-basket, taking care the balls
do not touch each other. When the fat is hot and smoking put in the
frying-basket for two minutes and fry a pale yellow; drain them, and
mount them up high on a dish, and ornament with fried parsley.

Potatoes à la Crème au Gratin.

Take some boiled potatoes and cut them into slices about an inch in
diameter. Make a white béchamel sauce in which grated Parmesan cheese
has been well mixed; place some neat little fried croûtons round the
bottom of the dish in the form of a coronet; place inside it a close
circular row of the sliced potatoes, and then spread a layer of the
Parmesan mixture over them; repeat the row of potatoes and the mixture
till the dish is full; smooth the top over with some of the sauce;
shake some fried bread-crumbs and grated Parmesan cheese over all. Put
all into the oven for twenty minutes, and then serve.

Potato Cheese.

Follow the recipe exactly as for Potato Soufflée, adding only three
ounces of grated cheese, Parmesan or otherwise, to the ingredients.

Potato Fritters.

Take a pint of milk, put into it three ounces of potato-flour, warm
it up for a quarter of an hour; flavour it with an ounce of powdered
macaroons, a dessertspoonful of sugar, and six drops of orange-flower
water. Boil, and then add two yolks of eggs; stir till it becomes a
thick batter; pour into a dish to get cold, when it should be rolled
into small balls the size of a walnut; egg and bread-crumb them and
fry. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

Potatoes au Gratin.

Boil the potatoes, then peel them and pound them smooth. Place a
layer of them on a baking-dish and sprinkle over them a little grated
Parmesan cheese, with a few little bits of butter; then add another
layer of potato, cheese, and butter until all the potato is used up.

Salamander this and send to table quickly.

Fried Potatoes à la Hollandaise.

Boil some potatoes in salt and water, peel and mash them and rub them
through a sieve; season with salt, pepper, and a bouquet garni, and
moisten with a gill of good gravy--the purée should be very thick; then
make it into balls, which should be dipped in beaten egg and fried, and
served with fried parsley.

Potatoes à l’Italienne.

Bake some potatoes; cut off the tops and scoop out the pulp, and
mix with a third proportion of well-boiled rice; season with grated
Parmesan cheese, pepper, and salt. Put this mixture back into the
potato-shells, replace the tops, and bake them in the oven for a few
minutes. This makes a very nice savoury.

Italian Potatoes.

(Another way.)

Boil one pound of potatoes, then peel and pound them; add three ounces
of butter, a little bread-crumb soaked in milk; beat the mixture smooth
but not liquid; beat the yolks of three eggs well; add them to the
mixture with the beaten whites of two. Dish this high up on a dish,
smooth it with a knife, pour over some hot butter, and bake in the
oven. Serve quickly.

Potato Klösse.

Take about six baked potatoes and scoop out the floury part till there
are about six ounces. Beat two ounces of butter to a cream, and mix it
with the potato-flour; add the well-beaten yolks of two eggs, a grate
of nutmeg, and a little pepper and salt to taste. Beat the mixture
thoroughly, and mould it into small balls. Drop these in boiling salt
and water, and be careful to do this with a metal spoon, and to dip it
into boiling water each time it is used. Or they may be made with two
ounces of finely-grated bread-crumbs and one ounce of Parmesan, the
white of one of the eggs, then moulded and boiled as above. Sprinkle
fried bread-crumbs over when dishing them up.

Potatoes à la Lyonnaise.

Cut up in rounds about a quarter of an inch thick six potatoes that
have been boiled, and fry them a pale golden colour, with an ounce and
a half of butter, in a frying-pan; season with chopped parsley and
shallot, pepper and salt, and a tablespoonful of lemon-juice.

Potatoes à la Maître d’Hôtel.

Wash half a dozen potatoes; boil them in salt and water. When done,
drain, and let them cool. Then peel and cut the potatoes into thick
slices; put one and a half ounce of butter, a little pepper and salt
to taste, four tablespoonfuls of good gravy, and one table-spoonful of
minced parsley. Mix all well together, put in the potatoes, shake them
well in the sauce to cover them, and when quite hot through squeeze in
the lemon-juice and serve.

Potatoes à la Milanese.

Take as many potatoes as are required; choose the largest; bake them
well, and cut off the tops and scoop out the insides. Pass the potato
through a sieve, and add a table-spoonful of grated Parmesan and
Gruyère cheese mixed, pepper and salt. Melt a good tablespoonful of
butter (or more according to number of potatoes) in a stewpan, put in
the potato and make it hot, and fill the skins of the potatoes with it.
Put them in the oven and serve up very hot.

Potatoes à la Mode.

Peel as many potatoes as are wanted, cut them in slices lengthways
half an inch thick, dry them in a cloth. Have a frying-pan with almost
boiling fat in it, put in the potatoes and let them fry for ten
minutes. Take them out and drain them; let them get nearly cold. Boil
the fat up again, and when boiling put in the potatoes and fry them
for four minutes, when they should come out perfectly dry and a pale
gold colour, and much swollen. Sprinkle with salt, and serve quickly.

Potatoes à la Moltke.

Take about eight good-sized potatoes, peel and cut them into long thin
slices. Have ready three ounces of butter mixed with two tablespoonfuls
of flour and put them in a stewpan and stir over the fire till the
butter is a good brown colour; then add half a pint of broth and two
tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Put the potatoes in this gravy and let them
simmer gently till tender, which will be in twelve or fifteen minutes.
Serve very hot. Some cooks put in a bay-leaf to simmer in with the
potatoes.

Potatoes à la Napolitaine.

Put a large tablespoonful of gravy into a stewpan with two ounces
of butter, one ounce of grated Parmesan, a dessert-spoonful of
lemon-juice, pepper and salt to taste, a grate of nutmeg, and the yolks
of two well-beaten eggs, and set it over the fire to become hot. Place
a border of fried croutons round a dish. Put a row of potato cut into
slices within the border; pour over some of the above sauce; then place
some more slices of potato in a smaller circle, then a layer of the
same, and so on until a raised centre is formed. Put a little sauce
over the top, and cover it well over with the remaining, with an ounce
of grated cheese and some bread-crumbs. Bake for twenty minutes and
serve.

Potato Omelet.

Take a large hot baked potato, break it open and scoop out the inside.
Beat this till smooth, and mix with it a little pepper, salt, a
dessertspoonful of lemon-juice, and the yolks of three eggs. Just
before frying the omelet, add the whites of the eggs beaten to a froth.
Fry in the usual way, and garnish with fried parsley.

Potatoes Moulded with Parmesan.

Mash some potatoes very smooth, and work into them a couple of
well-beaten eggs. Put them into one of the French china fireproof
pie-dishes, and shape them high in a dome-like form. Smooth the
surface, and then draw the back of a fork over it in different
directions and sprinkle some grated Parmesan over it. Put little bits
of butter over it at equal distances, and bake in the oven till the
potatoes are of a nice gold colour.

Potatoes à la Provençale.

Mash two pounds of potatoes, pass them through a wire sieve, season
with pepper and salt. Grate two ounces of Gruyère cheese and pound it
in the mortar with enough butter to make a paste; add a quarter of a
pint of milk and a little minced parsley. Put this into a frying-pan,
stirring in the potatoes, and fry till of a pale brown. Dish it up
high, _en pyramide_.

Potato Pudding.

Boil about eight potatoes, take out the potato-flour, mash and mix
it with one ounce of suet, a quarter-pint of milk, and one ounce of
grated Parmesan cheese; add as much boiling water to make it a proper
consistency, and bake in an earthen dish.

Potatoes à la Russe.

Cut up the potatoes in small pieces and fry them in olive oil, with
some mushrooms minced small.

Potatoes Sauté.

Wash a couple of pounds of potatoes in cold water, scrape them, and cut
them into shapes like the quarters of an orange. Let them boil up in
a saucepan of cold water and wipe them dry. Put two ounces of butter
into a stewpan and toss the potatoes in it for about twenty minutes
over a quick fire. They should brown on all sides alike. Strain off the
butter, sprinkle some salt over the potatoes, and serve.

Savoury Potatoes.

Take six good-sized potatoes, parboil, and cut them into slices about
a quarter inch thick. Melt one ounce of butter and one ounce of fat
bacon, cut up into a saucepan, add an onion and a small shalot, and let
all stew till tender. Dredge in a tablespoonful of flour, and stir till
it is smooth and brown; then pour in, a little at a time, as much hot
gravy as will bring the sauce to the consistence of cream. Add half an
ounce of chopped parsley, a bouquet garni, a bay-leaf, and one grate of
nutmeg. Let all this simmer for five minutes, when the sliced potatoes
must be put in; and, when tender, place them on a dish and serve very
hot.

Potato Snow.

Take some fine large white potatoes, boil them in their skins in salt
and water till quite tender; drain, and _dry them thoroughly_ before
the fire; rub the potatoes through a coarse sieve on to this dish; do
not touch them afterwards, or the flakes will fall. Send to table as
hot as possible.

Potato Soufflé.

Make a smooth paste of two table-spoonfuls of mashed potatoes, one
tablespoonful of flour, with a gill of milk, or sufficient to make it
into a paste; add salt and pepper and half a pint more milk; put this
into a stewpan with an ounce of butter. Stir over the fire till it is
as thick as cream, then add four well-beaten yolks of eggs, and then
stir in the whites beaten to a froth. When this mixture is stiff enough
to bear the weight of an egg, pour it into the soufflé dish and bake it
in a moderate oven. When done, just hold a red-hot salamander over for
a few seconds, and send quickly to table.

Potato Soufflé.

(Another way.)

Take as many potatoes as are required, wash and scrub them well. Bake
them gently in the oven, and, when done, cut the top off one end of
each and get the potato out without breaking the skins. Cut a small
piece off the other end of each, so that they may stand up. Work the
potato quite smooth, mixing with it pepper, salt, and four drops of
essence of anchovy. Take the whites of two eggs and beat to a stiff
froth. Mix this lightly with the potatoes, return all into the skins,
put them in the oven to become quite hot, and serve.

Potato Soufflé au Parmesan.

Make this soufflé the same as the preceding recipe, only adding two
table-spoonfuls of grated Parmesan cheese into the egg-mixture, and
sprinkling Parmesan over the top just before serving.

Stewed Potatoes.

Put one ounce of butter in a saucepan, one chopped onion, a
table-spoonful of parsley, a little celery and table-salt mixed. Cut
half a pound of potatoes into pieces, put them in a saucepan with three
tablespoonfuls of water; when quite soft, add a gill of cream and a
little vinegar; sprinkle a little flour in and boil up, and serve.

Stuffed Potatoes.

Hollow out some large potatoes and fill them with mealy potatoes beaten
to a paste in a mortar, mixed with chopped parsley, chives, shallot,
butter, and fat bacon cut into dice, with pepper and salt to taste.
Butter the insides of the potatoes and nearly fill them with this
paste; put them on a buttered tin and bake in a Dutch oven.

Potato Straws.

Cut raw potatoes about two inches long and about one-eighth of an inch
thick. Fry in boiling fat till a golden brown and crisp, drain well on
a sieve before the fire, and serve in the centre of a dish of cutlets.

Potatoes and Tomatoes.

Bake some potatoes; cut off the tops carefully, so that they may be
replaced. Scoop out all the potato, mix it with a little butter, a
dust of cayenne, a little garlic butter about the size of a pea, a
little finely chopped parsley, and some tomato purée. Mix all these
well together in a saucepan, stir well over the fire, and then refill
the potato-cases with it, replace the tops, and strew a few baked
bread-crumbs over, and serve very hot.

Red Cabbage Stewed.

(Flemish Recipe.)

Take a fresh cabbage and strip the outer leaves, wash it, and cut it
into the thinnest possible slices, beginning from the top. Place it in
a stewpan, with about two ounces of clarified melted butter; add some
pepper and salt, and stew it very slowly for about four hours in its
own juice, stirring it often and pressing it down. When quite tender,
add a tablespoonful of vinegar, and mix up thoroughly; keep the cabbage
in a hot dish, and serve broiled sausages round it.

Salsify.

Wash and scrape the salsify very white, put it into water with a
dessertspoonful of vinegar in it; then put it into a pan of boiling
water with two ounces of butter, salt, and a tablespoonful of vinegar.
When quite tender, put it to drain on a sieve. Then cut it into short
pieces, and again put it into a stewpan, with a tablespoonful of white
sauce, the remainder of the butter, and a squeeze of lemon. Shake it
over the fire for a few minutes till it is well mixed and very hot, and
serve piled high, garnished with fried croûtons.

Salsify Dressed.

Scrape and soak some salsify in water and vinegar; next boil them in
plenty of water with salt and a _little_ flour. After they are boiled,
toss them up, with a little melted butter and grated cheese.

Fried Salsify.

Wash and scrape the roots of their dark outside skin, and cut it into
lengths of three or four inches, when boil it till tender; drain it.
Make some French batter, throw the bits of salsify into it, and take
them out separately and fry them a light brown; drain well from the
fat, and sprinkle a little salt over it and dish quickly.

Salsify or Mock Oysters.

(American Recipe.)

Scrape the roots thoroughly and lay in cold water ten or fifteen
minutes. Boil whole till tender, drain, and when cold mash with a
wooden spoon to a smooth paste, picking out all the fibres. Moisten
with a little milk. Add a tablespoonful of butter, and an egg and
a half for every cupful of salsify. Beat the eggs light. Make into
round cakes, dredge with flour, and fry brown; or it may be sent up
in a fireproof china dish, with bread-crumbs on the top, browned, and
steeped in butter.

Salsify Scalloped.

Scrape some salsify, cut it into very short pieces, and boil it
till tender. When sufficiently cooked, drain it, and make a white
sauce of butter, flour, and cream, with a teaspoonful of essence
of anchovy added to it, a little pepper and celery salt. Mix in an
egg, and flavour with a little lemon-juice. Put this mixture into
scallop-shells, and sprinkle fried bread-crumbs on them, and slightly
brown with the salamander.

Scorzonera in Brown Sauce.

Wash the roots and scrape the skin gently off them, and cut them into
lengths of three or four inches; put them into boiling water, with a
little salt, a small bit of butter, and the juice of a lemon; boil them
for an hour, then drain, and serve with a rich Espagnole sauce over
them; or a sauce tournée may be substituted for the brown sauce.

Seakale au Parmesan.

Boil the seakale in boiling water for about twenty minutes, or till
tender, drain it, and then pour over it half a pint of white sauce, and
sprinkle with grated Parmesan, and serve.

Seakale Stewed in Gravy.

Boil the kale for ten minutes in salt and water, drain it well, and put
it into a saucepan with as much good brown gravy as will nearly cover
it; stew it gently for ten minutes till tender, and send it to table in
the gravy very hot.

Seakale, Timbale of.

(Original Recipe.)

Take three or four heads of seakale, boil it till quite soft, drain it
on a cloth, cut it in pieces half an inch long; well butter a plain
mould, line it with buttered paper, place in it the seakale endways so
as to give the appearance of honeycomb when turned out. Make a paste
thus: put a gill of water, a small piece of butter, into a little
stewpan to boil. When boiling, throw into it a tablespoonful of flour,
leave it a few minutes, then stir in one egg and turn it out on a plate
until wanted. Take about a pound or rather more of Spanish chestnuts,
remove the skin, and pound in a mortar, and then add to it half the
quantity of the above paste and a quarter of the quantity of butter,
with salt and pepper to taste. Mix all together, add one whole egg and
three yolks, pass it through a wire sieve, stir in a gill of white
stock or cream, pour it into a mould and steam for half an hour. Serve
with truffle sauce; and have ready some truffles cut into fancy shapes,
and dipped in white of egg, and quickly ornament the sides and top of
the timbale. Little mounds of chopped beetroot should be placed at
intervals round the base.

Spinach.

Pick the spinach very carefully; put it into plenty of boiling water
and salt, pressing it down with a spoon; boil for ten minutes. Drain
and squeeze it, and throw it into cold water to preserve the green
colour. Pass it through a wire sieve and return it to the stewpan,
with a little salt, a piece of fresh butter, an eggspoonful of castor
sugar, the squeeze of a lemon, and a gill of cream. Heat it up in the
saucepan after stirring it well, then press it into a plain mould and
turn it out, and serve it in the form of diamonds; garnish with fried
sippets glazed.

Spinach Chartreuse.

(Original.)

Make a good purée of spinach, with cream and two eggs to make a
liaison; add a squeeze of lemon. Take a plain mould and place it on
ice. Then take a tumbler and half-fill it with cold water and stand
it in the centre of the mould. Pour the purée, into which a little
aspic jelly has been whipped, into the mould itself; let it remain on
ice till firm, then empty the water from the centre and fill the same
with warm water; after a minute take out the tumbler carefully; then
place in the interior a mayonnaise of hard-boiled eggs in which some
aspic jelly has been stirred into the mayonnaise, and when quite iced
turn the mould out, and ornament the top with hard-boiled eggs cut in
quarters and red aspic cut in dice, and place mounds of chopped aspic
round.

Curried Spinach.

Take some well-cooked spinach and fry it in boiling butter into which
a tablespoonful of curry powder has been already fried; add to this a
dozen prawns or shrimps and fry all together slowly for one hour.

Serve very hot as an entrée.

Spinach, Croustades of.

Cut some bread into the shape of hearts and slit them all round; fry
them in batter. Arrange the hearts in the form of a rosette. Then cut a
round of bread, which slit in the same way, and place it in the centre
over the points of the hearts. Fry them till they are of a fine brown,
then cut out the interior, remove all the crumb, and fill the space
left with spinach cream.

Spinach à la Crème.

Take two good pounds of spinach, boil it till quite tender, chop it
very fine, and rub it through a coarse wire sieve; season with pepper
and salt. Place it in a stewpan, stir over the fire till warm; then
pour in a gill of cream, two ounces of butter, and a good saltspoonful
of castor sugar. Stir over the fire for five minutes, and press it into
a form, turn it out, and garnish with small fried croûtons.

Spinach Fritters.

Boil spinach, thoroughly drain, and mince it; add some grated bread,
one grate of nutmeg, and a small piece of sugar. Add as much cream
and yolks and whites of eggs as will make the preparation of the
consistence of batter, drop the batter into a frying-pan of boiling
lard. When the fritters rise, take them out and send to table.

Spinach and Eggs.

Prepare the spinach as for dressing spinach, and cut in the form of
large sippets, with a poached egg served on each, and with glazed fried
sippets arranged around.

Spinach Omelet.

Make a purée of spinach in the usual way; take two tablespoonfuls of it
and stir it into four eggs which have been previously beaten, yolks and
whites separately; add a little piece of shalot which has been rubbed
through the sieve, add pepper and salt to taste. When thoroughly mixed,
put the whole into an omelet-pan, with two ounces of butter, and fry a
pale brown; serve very hot.

Spinach Soufflé.

(Original.)

Make a thick purée of spinach, using good broth to mix with it; add
half a spoonful of flour, a little salt, and an ounce of butter; let
all this boil till very thick; then add the yolks of four or five eggs,
a gill of cream, a pinch of castor sugar, and mix all well together.
Just before sending to table whip up and add the whites of the eggs and
put into the oven for the proper time. Strew hard-boiled egg (yolk and
white) passed through the sieve over the top.

Tomato Chartreuse.

(Original Recipe.)

Make a good purée of tomatoes in which some shalot has been minced,
and mix with it three well-beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of aspic, and
a little salt and cayenne. Have a plain double mould, which must be
well buttered; pour some tomato purée into the outer mould, and pour
into the centre some rich white sauce in which two whole eggs have been
beaten up; add some small button mushrooms, and put this into the inner
mould. Tie the mould down with a cloth and steam it like an ordinary
custard pudding. It should be kept quite upright; and when turned out
on the dish, pour round some Tournée sauce; sprinkle a little grated
parsley over the top.

Tomato Cream à l’Irrésistible.

(Original Recipe.)

Cut some tomatoes in slices, oil a plain mould, and arrange the
tomatoes all round in circles and at the bottom of the mould; make a
white purée of mushrooms, which has been cooked and allowed to cool,
and in which, after cooking, half a pint of aspic jelly has been well
stirred in. Put this purée into the mould, and put on ice for some
hours; turn out, and serve with a little chervil and tarragon salad
round the base, and arrange aspic jelly cut in devices on the top.
Hard-boiled eggs in quarters should be placed at equal distances on the
chervil salad.

Curried Tomatoes.

Cut tomatoes in slices, bake them, grate an apple, chop a shalot
small, and fry these in butter till quite tender; add a heaped-up
dessertspoonful of curry-powder, four tablespoonfuls of good gravy;
simmer all together for a few minutes. Add the tomatoes and a
tablespoonful of cocoa-nut milk, a squeeze of lemon-juice, and a tiny
bit of sweet chutnee. Serve hot.

Tomato Fritters.

Bake some tomatoes till nearly cooked (they must be rather uncooked),
add some Parmesan cheese, and a _little_ very finely chopped shalot.
Add as much cream and the white of one egg as will make the preparation
of the consistency of batter; drop this batter into a frying-pan of
boiling butter, and when the fritters rise take them out and send them
to table, just dusting them over with grated Parmesan cheese.

Stuffed Tomatoes à la Financière.

Dip the tomatoes into boiling water, peel them, and scoop out the
centres with a small spoon, and place them on a tin dish. Take a
lump of butter the size of a walnut, a little mushroom liquor, a
tablespoonful of tomato sauce, a dessertspoonful of olive oil, a
teaspoonful of chopped parsley and shalots in equal quantities, a
little salt and pepper to taste; mix and stir all in a stewpan till
quite hot and thoroughly mixed. Fill each tomato with some of this
stuffing, and sprinkle them with grated bread-crumbs. Pour a few
spoonfuls of olive oil into the dish, and bake for ten minutes and
brown with a salamander.

Iced Tomatoes.

(American Recipe.)

Scald the tomatoes for a minute or so and peel carefully, cut out the
stalks with a sharp knife, remove about one teaspoonful of the contents
and put in a pinch of salt, sugar, and pepper, and as much minced
parsley, shalot, and tarragon as will fill the space; boil (that is,
reduce) some cream, with an onion and some salt, until quite thick, put
a dessertspoonful under each tomato; ice the whole and serve in the
dish it is dressed in.

Tomato au Gratin.

Cut some ripe tomatoes in slices, place them in a china baking dish in
layers with some chopped onion and bread-crumbs, pepper, and salt, and
a little gravy between each layer; cover the top with a last layer of
bread-crumbs and a few lumps of butter. Bake for about twenty minutes.

Stuffed Tomatoes à la Milanese.

Take six ripe tomatoes of equal size, cut a circle off the top of each
and scoop out the insides. Press the pulp through a sieve, and mix in
with it a little salt, cayenne, two ounces of butter broken into little
pieces, two tablespoonfuls of bread-crumbs, a large shalot finely
minced, a teaspoonful of parsley, and two very large tablespoonfuls of
grated Parmesan. Fill the tomatoes with this mixture, put on the tops
again, and bake in a moderate oven, or fry them in oil till cooked
brown. Mushroom sauce or sauce espagnole round them.

Tomato Omelet.

Take four tomatoes, peel and mince them finely. Mix a tablespoonful of
flour with a little milk till it is quite smooth, add three eggs to it
(beaten), a little salt, and a dust of cayenne, the tomatoes, and half
a minced shalot. Fry the omelet in the usual way, and serve very hot.

Tomatoes à la Portugaise.

Slice half-a-dozen ripe tomatoes, season with pepper and salt, and put
little pieces of butter here and there upon them. Mince two onions
finely, sprinkle over the tomatoes, cover the saucepan slowly, and
steam them for fifteen minutes. Then pour a gill of good brown gravy
over them, stir often, and let them simmer till done. Have ready four
ounces of freshly boiled rice. Stir this in with the tomatoes and mix
thoroughly. Turn out on a hot dish and send brown mushroom sauce in a
tureen to hand with it

Tomatoes à la Provençale.

Choose nicely shaped tomatoes, and of an equable shape; divide them in
the middle, leaving the blossom side the largest; empty them neatly of
their seeds and juice, and have ready a mixture made of two ounces of
minced ham, two ounces of mushrooms, two ounces of bread-crumbs, six
shalots, a teaspoonful of parsley, a quarter saltspoonful of cayenne,
a little bit of salt, two ounces of butter, two yolks of eggs; stew
all together, except the eggs and bread-crumbs. After stewing let this
mixture cool, then mix in the bread-crumbs and eggs; fill the tomatoes,
cover them with fine bread-crumbs and moisten them with clarified
butter, and bake them in a brisk oven till they are well coloured.

Tomatoes à la San Francisco.

Procure some small round bell-shaped tomatoes, peel and core them with
a column cutter, and fill up the inside with three or four anchovies,
cut very small, and stirred in mayonnaise sauce. Have some melted aspic
jelly, just beginning to set, in a deep basin; pass with a bodkin or
trussing needle a piece of string through the top of each tomato, so
that you may dip them into the basin of aspic till they are well coated
with the aspic; lay them on ice and remove the string when quite cold;
cut little fancy rounds of aspic and lay on the top of each, and on
this place a sprig of tarragon which has been dipped into mayonnaise.
Cut hard-boiled eggs in quarters and place round the tomatoes, and
garnish with chopped aspic, with chervil leaves placed at a distance on
it, or arranged in a wreath on the chopped aspic.

Tomato Soufflé.

Prepare some tomato pulp--it must not be too liquid--stir in the yolks
of three eggs, and afterwards the whites well beaten. Fill a large
soufflé case or a number of small ones, and bake as other soufflés.

Tomato Toast.

Take two good sized tomatoes, put them into boiling water for two
minutes, peel and mince them very fine with two red chillies, a little
salt, and a small shalot. Put half an ounce of butter in a saucepan
with a dessertspoonful of milk; add the tomato mixture, cook it for a
few minutes, and mix in a well-beaten egg. Go on cooking till it is
the thickness of scrambled eggs, and serve on slices of fried bread,
and strew a little parsley passed through the sieve on the top.

Buisson of Truffles.

Cleanse thoroughly as many good-shaped round truffles as may be
required, stew them as for truffles à la serviette, and let them cool
in the liquor. Take a stale quartern loaf, cut off all the rest, and
stamp out or cut the crumb to an oval shape. Cover this with parsley
all round and stick a dozen truffles all round it with silver skewers.
Pile the rest on the top and serve.

Truffles in Champagne.

Take a dozen black truffles, pick out the eyes, and soak them in warm
water for an hour, and then clean with a scrubbing-brush. Wash well.
Place at the bottom of a stewpan three slices of fat bacon, a sliced
carrot and turnip, three onions, a bayleaf, a bouquet garni, and six
cloves. Put in the truffles and half cover them with white stock, let
them simmer for half an hour, then add a pint of champagne, and simmer
for another half-hour, keeping the lid _closed_. Let them cool, then
place the stewpan on ice with a weight over the cover. Drain dry and
serve cold. When they are served hot they are not allowed to cool, and
served in the gravy.

Green Truffles Stewed.

Peel six large green truffles, cut them into thin slices and put them
into a stewpan with half a pint of gravy, a glass of sherry, a bouquet
garni, pepper and salt to taste. Cover them close, and let them simmer
very slowly for an hour, then add a piece of butter and flour. Stew
till thick, then squeeze in the juice of half a lemon, crisp the top of
a French roll, arrange it in the centre of the dish. Remove the herbs
and put the truffles over the roll.

Truffles à l’Italienne.

Wash clean, wipe, and peel some truffles very thin; put them in a
sauté-pan, with a slice of fresh butter, some very finely chopped
parsley, shalot, salt and pepper, and put them on the fire and stir
them well; in ten minutes they will be done, then drain off part of the
butter, and throw in a bit of fresh butter, a small ladleful of sauce
espagnole, the juice of one lemon, and a little cayenne pepper.

Truffles à l’Italienne.

(Another way.)

Cut the truffles in fillets and sauce them with sauce italienne, and
garnish with glazed sippets.

Truffles à la Serviette.

Take some fine large truffles, wash and brush them well in cold water.
When perfectly clean, line a stewpan with slices of bacon, put in
the truffles with a bunch of parsley, green onions, and thyme, two
bayleaves, half a dozen cloves, and a little sweet basil; pour in
sufficient rich veal gravy to cover them, with the addition of a pint
of champagne, boil them very gently for an hour, then draw them aside
and let them cool in the gravy. Heat them up afresh when they are
wanted for table; they must be lifted out very tenderly and drained on
a clean cloth, and dished up on a snow-white napkin.

Turnips à la Béchamel.

Cut some finely-grained turnips in quarters and pare them into balls of
equal size; arrange them in a stewpan, and nearly cover them with good
veal stock; add a little salt, a small lump of sugar, and boil them
quickly until they are quite tender, but not at all broken; dish them
up and pour over a rich thick white béchamel sauce.

Turnips à la Française.

Cut them into cubes or scoop them out as balls with cutters, then boil
them in salt and water with a piece of butter. White sauce in which a
little nutmeg has been grated should be poured over them.

Turnips stewed in Butter.

Take some young turnips, wash and dry them, pare them, slice them to
half an inch thick, and divide them into dice. Now dissolve one ounce
of butter for each half-pound of turnips, and stew them gently for
nearly an hour. When half cooked, add salt and white pepper to taste.
These can be served by themselves or dished up in the centre of an
entrée.

Turnip Pudding à la Brisse.

Wash, blanch, and peel some large turnips. Cut them into slices and
cook in a saucepan with melted butter; add salt, pepper, and pinch of
powdered sugar, and stir in some very thick béchamel sauce, boil for
a minute, pass through a tammy and add sufficient eggs to make the
purée a good substance, pass it into a well-buttered mould, which has
a well in the centre, cook it in a bain-marie or some substitute, and
when done turn out of the mould, garnish the centre with prettily cut
vegetables which have been cooked in béchamel sauce.

This dish can also be made with carrots or spinach.

Vegetables Curried.

Take the remains of any cooked vegetables, the greater variety the
better; fry them in butter, with a little onion and a dessertspoonful
of curry powder, a teaspoonful of desiccated cocoa-nut, and half a
teacupful of milk. Let all these stew slowly for an hour. Serve with
rice.

Vegetable Macédoine.

Take any vegetable that is in season, such as carrots, turnips,
Jerusalem artichokes, small onions, asparagus tops, branches of
cauliflower, cucumbers, peas, French beans, &c. Boil them separately,
drain them, toss them up in a yellow sauce, and serve.

Vegetable Marrow Chips.

Bake partially a vegetable marrow, then cut it into pieces like potato
chips, or into lengths like potato ribbons, throw some salt over and
fry them in hot dripping, mount them high in a dish, and sprinkle
Parmesan cheese over. This dish can also be served without the cheese.

Vegetable Marrow à l’Espagnole.

Slice a Spanish onion and two good-sized tomatoes, and fry them in
about half an ounce of butter. Then cut a vegetable marrow into neat
square pieces, add a little hot stock, and pepper and salt. Let all
simmer together till the marrow is cooked, and serve very hot.

Vegetable Marrow à l’Italienne.

Take a couple of vegetable marrows as near the same size as possible,
slice them as thin as cucumber is sliced, dry them on a cloth, and fry
them in very hot butter, dredge with pepper and salt, and serve up on a
napkin. The fat _must_ be very hot, as they are done in a minute.

Vegetable Marrow à l’Orient

Squeeze the water out of a vegetable marrow, grate it small, grate also
some new cheese, add a couple of eggs and a small quantity of fried
onions and pistachio nuts. Make this into a paste, and beat it up well
together. Then take some slices of vegetable marrow, spread the paste
upon them rather thickly, having first put a little butter on the
slices. Bake in a slow oven for half an hour.

Vegetable Marrow au Parmesan.

Peel, cut in half a vegetable marrow, take out the seeds and soft part,
and cut it into neat oval-shaped fillets about two and a half inches
long and two wide. Put them in a sauté-pan with a piece of butter,
and stew till tender. Add pepper and salt, serve on fried croûtons of
toast, and pour over them Parmesan sauce.

Vegetable Marrow Stuffed.

Boil a marrow tender in stock, cut it lengthways in half, hollow out
the insides and fill them with a rich mince of white meat, or scalloped
lobsters or oysters, or minced mushrooms. Put the two sides together
again and dish up with a rich sauce or a piquant sauce round.

Vegetable Pie à la Grimod de la Reynière.

Cook green peas, young broad beans, small carrots, and tender French
beans separately in a rich béchamel sauce; place these in a baked pie
case, divided into compartments by thin pieces of paste, and serve.

White Kidney Beans.

(Haricots Blancs.)

Throw the haricots into boiling salt and water with a small bit of
butter in it, having soaked them previously for a couple of hours.
Bring them gently to the boil and then simmer gently till tender. Drain
them when they are cooked, and place them in a clean stewpan with two
ounces of fresh butter and a dessertspoonful of chopped parsley, and
salt and pepper to taste. Toss the beans gently till they are quite hot
and equally covered with the sauce, add the strained juice of half a
lemon, and serve quickly.

_SALADS._

Artichoke and Tomato Salad.

Take some artichoke bottoms, boiled, and some slices of raw tomato. Mix
some tarragon, chervil oil, pepper, salt, and vinegar together. Dip the
artichokes and tomatoes in separately and lay them alternately in a
salad bowl. Pour the dressing over.

Artichoke Salad.

Cut up six artichoke bottoms into thin strips, slice two medium-sized
cucumbers very thin, chop up two very young onions; toss these
ingredients; then shape neatly in the dish, garnish with small
radishes, sprinkle half a teaspoonful of celery salt over the dish,
pour a simple salad dressing over all and serve.

Salad of Asparagus.

Large white asparagus. Boil till quite done, cut in half-inch lengths,
throwing away any part not absolutely tender. Place in the bowl, cover
with good sauce; then sprinkle over with grated ham. Or add tiny strips
of smoked sausage.

Broccoli Salad.

Choose the whitest and closest heads, trim off all the outside leaves
and outsides of the stalks, and place the broccoli in salted water
a few minutes; when well washed, put them into a saucepan and cover
with hot water, add a little salt and boil for fifteen minutes; drain
quietly and plunge into a basin of cold water. Mash a clove of garlic,
and chop it up fine with a few sprigs of chervil or parsley, a little
grated horse-radish, and a leaf of mint; add a wineglass of the best
vinegar and three wineglasses of oil and a dust of cayenne, mix well
together and pour over the broccoli, and serve.

Iced Salad à l’Inspiration.

(Original Recipe.)

Take two large heads of celery, cleanse it well and chop it up very
finely; take a small onion, parboil it, also a small shalot; chop them
up very finely also; mix all together thoroughly.

Make a mayonnaise sauce by taking a dessertspoonful of Swiss milk,
the yolks of two eggs, and beat them up well together; then add a
mustardspoonful of made mustard, a tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar,
a dessertspoonful of plain vinegar, and stir up again; then pour in a
tablespoonful of cream (this can be omitted), and after that four or
five tablespoonfuls of best salad oil drop by drop, stir till it is as
thick as cream, and mix in the celery and onion; now add half a pint of
whipped aspic jelly and whip up in it, and mix in the celery and onion.

Oil a plain round mould and fill in this salad mixture, let it stand
on ice for twelve hours and turn it out. Have ready cut some rounds
of beetroot stamped out with a cutter about the size of a florin, with
scalloped edges, and decorate the outside of the moulded salad with it;
on the top cut the rounds of beetroot into halves and stand them up all
round the edge; put a little piece of the celery with the green top on
it in the middle of the top, strew a little finely chopped aspic over
the top and serve some more all round the base, with hard-boiled eggs
cut in half-quarters here and there on the aspic garnish.

Little dariole moulds can be filled with this mixture as a variety, but
the beetroot decoration must then be cut the size of sixpences.

Iced Salad à la Tentation.

(Original Recipe.)

Take some cabbage lettuces, thoroughly cleanse them, cut out the hearts
and white leaves only, also endive, some peas, haricots, asparagus
heads if in season, cucumber, beetroot and watercress, and two or
three spring onions; chop up all very finely and mix them thoroughly
together; then make a mayonnaise and aspic sauce exactly the same as
for iced salad à l’Inspiration, and mould it in the same fashion.
Decorate it with hard-boiled eggs cut in devices alternately yellow and
white, and here and there a truffle cut in dice.

Have some chopped red aspic jelly and strew all over the mould and
round the base, and have rolled anchovies arranged round the top of
the mould, and in the centre half of the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, on
which four fillets of anchovy should rest; a few capers, olives, and
rolled anchovies should be placed about the aspic garnish at the base.

Nantese Salad.

Peel half a dozen small Spanish onions, take out the core, put a little
butter inside each, and bake them in a moderate oven till quite tender.
Let them get cold, cut them into slices and lay them at the bottom of
a salad bowl. Scrape half a dozen sardines, remove the skin, take the
flesh from the bones, and lay the fish in neat-sized pieces on the
onion. Slice half a dozen hard-boiled eggs, place these on the fish and
strew over the whole with two tablespoonfuls of finely minced parsley
and a teaspoonful of chopped tarragon and chervil each. Serve with
the following salad dressing. Beat up the yolks of four eggs with two
ounces of butter, half a teacupful of cream, a gill of vinegar, and a
tablespoonful of made mustard. Put this in a jar and stand it in a pan
of boiling water, and stir till it is thicker than custard. When quite
cold, thin it by beating in the juice of half a lemon, and pepper and
salt to taste.

Rochelle Salad.

Wash a couple of heads of celery and dry them. Cut the stalks into
three-inch lengths and place them in a salad bowl mixed with the
whites of three hard-boiled eggs, thinly shred. Press the yolks of the
eggs through a wire sieve, then pour over a pint of ‘sauce tartare.’
Sprinkle over this first the powdered yolks of eggs, and then three
finely shred truffles.

Garnish the salad with curled anchovies, beetroot cut in stars, and
slices of German sausage.

Onion and Tomato Salad.

Parboil a large Spanish onion, scald and peel six or eight tomatoes;
slice them and put them in the salad bowl. Add a little chopped
parsley, tarragon and chervil, pepper and salt. Stir in thoroughly some
oil, then vinegar to taste.

Potato Salad.

Bake some potatoes, peel and slice them, and put them in the salad
bowl with two onions and one shalot cut in quarters, pour over them
two wineglassfuls of claret, add a little salt and pepper, and stir
till thoroughly mixed; after which pour in a dessertspoonful of vinegar
and a wineglassful of best Lucca oil, and stir up well; then add some
chervil leaves chopped fine, remove the onion and ornament with a
hard-boiled egg, the white cut in strips and the yolk passed through
the sieve and sprinkled over all.

Potato and Truffle Salad.

Bake, peel, and slice some potatoes, cut up some truffles which have
been boiled in saumur into very thin slices, and arrange them in
alternate layers in a salad bowl with the sliced potatoes--the last
layer must be of truffles. Garnish with small pickled onions, fillets
of anchovy, and either stoned or stuffed olives; sprinkle with salt and
pepper. Mix a dressing of oil and vinegar and pour over.

Red Cabbage Salad à la Russe.

Cut up a red cabbage into very fine narrow strips, plunge for a minute
into boiling salt and water, cool in cold water, drain. Lay in a deep
dish and sprinkle with salt and tarragon vinegar.

Stir some mashed hard-boiled yolks of eggs into half a tumbler full of
sour cream, season with salt, pepper, chopped chervil, and tarragon
leaves.

Pour over the cabbage and garnish with a few slices of black radish.

Salsify Salad.

Boil the salsify till perfectly tender, drain it, and cut it into inch
lengths. Pour over it any simple salad dressing or toss it up lightly
with oil, vinegar, salt, pepper, and chopped ravigote.

Salad of Seakale.

Boil seakale till quite tender, let it cool, and cut it into half-inch
lengths. Take care that it is quite dry. Put in the salad bowl. An hour
before serving, pour over some good mayonnaise or tartare sauce, and
add fillets of anchovy, laid on the top.

Shikaree Salad.

Wash, dry, and break up some lettuces in the usual way, with cress,
endive, beetroot, &c., and pour over a salad dressing made as follows:
Mix a teaspoonful of cayenne with a tablespoonful of powdered white
sugar. Put the mixture into a small saucepan and pour over it two
glassfuls of mushroom ketchup, two glassfuls of claret, and the
strained juice of a large lemon. Stir the liquor over the fire till the
sugar is dissolved and it is quite hot; then let it cool, and add to it
the yolk of an egg and four tablespoonfuls of salad oil and well mix.

Tomato Salad.

Choose four round red tomatoes, throw them into a saucepan of fast
boiling water for two minutes or less, take them up quickly and throw
them into cold water for two minutes. The skin will now quickly peel
off. Cut up the tomatoes in thick rounds, lay them on a dish, sprinkle
over a little salt and sugar, a scrape of onion, and a few drops of
salad oil; then drip vinegar over and serve directly.

Salad of Tomatoes en Surprise.

(Original Recipe.)

Chop up some tomatoes small, flavour them with a bead of garlic and a
shalot chopped up and rubbed through the sieve; add four tablespoonfuls
of whipped aspic jelly and mayonnaise sauce, and mix into the purée.

Decorate a mould with hard-boiled eggs stamped out in rounds or stars,
and arrange them in tiers one above the other. Between each layer of
egg place a little chervil leaf and a sprig of tarragon alternately;
fill the mould with the tomato purée, place on ice, and when ready turn
out. Garnish with small salad mixed with mayonnaise sauce round the
base. Arrange watercress prettily on the top and sprinkle red aspic
jelly all over it.

Vegetable Salad.

Boil equal quantities of carrots, peas, asparagus heads, French
beans, potatoes, and half the quantity of turnips; when done, drain
carefully and place in a salad bowl in separate groups with a head of
boiled cauliflower in the centre. Cover with a sauce made of twelve
tablespoonfuls of salad oil, two of vinegar, half a teaspoonful of
anchovy sauce, a little salt, pepper, a dust of cayenne, and a rub of
garlic, all stirred well together.

Watercress Salad.

Get some nice young watercress, cleanse it thoroughly in salt and
water, and put it in a salad bowl with a few sliced young radishes and
four hard-boiled eggs cut into half-quarters. Pour a simple salad sauce
over it.

INDEX.

Aiquebelle fritters, 1

American yams, 1

Artichokes à la Barigoule, 2

-- à la Carême, 3

-- cream of, 3

-- à la kaiser, 4

-- à la Malay, 4

-- à la Gouffé, 5

-- à l’Italienne, 5, 6

-- stuffed, à la béchamel, 6

-- aux fines herbes, 6

-- au diable, 7

-- à la chef, 7

-- chips, 7

-- Jerusalem, à la reine, 8

-- -- au parmesan, 8

-- salad, 75

Asparagus with cream, 8

-- omelet, 8

-- à la Tod Heatly, 9

-- à la Pompadour, 9

-- rolls, 9

-- à la rustic, 10

-- à la Française, 10

-- pudding, 11

-- salad, 75

Beans, broad, à la crème, 13

-- Brittany, 12

-- French, à la poulette, 13

-- omelet of, 13

-- French, à la béchamel, 14

-- white kidney, fricasseed, 14

-- -- à la crème, 14

Beetroot, dressed, 11

Beetroot fritters, 11

-- à la Savarin, 12

-- stewed, 12

Broad beans, 13

Broccoli à la fermière, 15

-- salad, 76

Brussels sprouts à la Lucerne,

-- -- à la Parisienne, 16

-- -- fried, 16

Cabbage, ladies’, 16

-- à la Flamande, 17

-- and rice balls, 17

-- jelly, 16

-- stuffed, à la Russe, 18

-- red, stewed, 57

Cardoons, boiled, 18

-- à la fromage, 18

-- stewed, 19

Carrots, fillets of, 19

-- à l’Allemande, 19

-- à la Flamande, 19

-- à la Windsor, 20

-- fritters, 20

-- à la maître d’hôtel, 20

Cauliflowers, curried, 21

-- fritters, 21, 24

-- à la maître d’hôtel, 21

-- au gratin, 22

-- au parmesan, 22

-- stuffed, 23

-- moulded, 23

-- omelet, 23

Celery with brown sauce, 24

-- with cream, 24

-- à l’Espagnole, 24

-- au jus, 25

-- stewed, 25

-- à la Villeroi, 25

-- à l’ambrosia, 25

Colcannon, 27

Cucumber à l’Espagnole, 25

-- fillets of, 27

Endive ragoût, 30

-- stewed, with cream, 30

Greens à la Hottentot, 31

Haricot beans à la maître d’hôtel, 31

Iced salad, 77

Kohlrabi au gratin, 31

-- steamed, 32

Laver, 32

-- stewed, 32

Lentils, curried, 32

Lettuces, stewed, 33

-- stuffed, 33

Mandarins, 33

Morelles à l’Andalouse, 34

-- green, stewed, 34

Mushrooms à la Bordelaise, 34, 35

-- au beurre, 35

-- croustades of, 36

-- stuffed, à la Lucullus, 37

-- toast, 37

-- and tomatoes, 37

Nantese salad, 78

Onions, Spanish, baked, 33

-- à la Bretonne, 38

-- à la Bordeaux, 38

-- à la céleri, 38

-- à la Corsica, 39

-- à la crème, 39

-- fritters, 39

-- à la Génoise, 40

-- au jus, 40

-- miroton of, 40

-- ragoût of, 40

-- à l’Espagnole, 41

-- Spanish, stewed, 41

-- stuffed, 41, 42

-- and tomato salad, 79

Parsnip fritters, 42

-- balls, 43

Peas à la demi-bourgeoise, 43

-- stewed, with lettuce and ham, 43

Potato balls, 44

-- -- à la duchesse, 44

-- -- ragoût, 45

-- à la Bonn, 45

-- boulettes, 45

-- in cases, 46

-- chips or ribbons, 46

-- à la crème, 46

-- croquettes, 47

-- à la crème au gratin, 47, 48

-- cheese, 48

-- fritters, 48

-- -- au gratin, 49

-- fried, à la Hollandaise, 49

-- à l’Italienne, 49, 50

-- klösse, 50

-- à la Lyonnaise, 50

-- à la maître d’hôtel, 51

-- à la Milanese, 51

-- à la mode, 51

-- à la Moltke, 52

-- à la Napolitaine, 52

-- omelet, 53

-- moulded with parmesan, 53

-- à la Provençale, 53

-- pudding, 53

-- à la Russe, 54

-- sauté, 54

-- salad, 79

-- savoury, 54

-- snow, 55

-- soufflé, 55

-- -- au parmesan, 55

-- stewed, 56

-- stuffed, 56

-- straws, 56

-- and tomatoes, 57

-- and truffle salad, 79

Red cabbage, stewed, 57

Salads, 75-82

Salsify, 57

-- dressed, 58

-- fried, 58

-- or mock oysters, 58

-- salad, 80

-- scalloped, 59

Scorzonera in brown sauce, 59

Seakale au parmesan, 59

-- stewed, in gravy, 59

-- timbale of, 60

Shikaree salad, 80

Spinach, 60

-- chartreuse of, 61

-- curried, 61

-- croustades of, 62

-- à la crème, 62

-- fritters, 62

-- and eggs, 63

-- omelet, 64

-- soufflé, 63

Tomato chartreuse, 63

-- cream à l’irrésistible, 64

-- curried, 64

-- fritters, 65

-- stuffed, à la financière, 65

-- iced, 65

-- au gratin, 66

-- à la Milanese, 66

-- omelet, 66

-- à la Portugaise, 67

-- à la Provençale, 67

-- à la San Francisco, 68

-- salad, 81

-- -- en surprise, 81

-- soufflé, 68

-- toast, 68

Truffles, buisson of, 69

-- in champagne, 69

-- green, stewed, 69

-- à l’Italienne, 70

-- à la serviette, 70

Turnips à la béchamel, 71

-- à la Française, 71

-- stewed, in butter, 71

-- pudding à la Brisse, 71

Vegetables, curried, 72

-- macédoine, 72

Vegetable-marrow chips, 72

-- -- à l’Espagnole, 73

-- -- à l’Italien, 73

-- -- à l’Orient, 73

-- -- au parmesan, 73

-- -- stuffed, 74

-- pie à la Grimod, 74

-- salad, 82

White kidney beans, 74

Watercress salad, 82

Yams, American, 1

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