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almonds anchovies anchovy sauce apples apricot jam bake basin beat black pepper brandy bread crumbs brown butter for frying candied peel castor sugar cayenne and salt cayenne pepper cayenne to taste chicken chopped parsley cupful custard dessertspoonful eggs eggs well beaten fire flour four eggs FOUR PERSONS.-2 fried bread gelatine grated cheese half a pint half a pound hour isinglass jelly lemon juice loaf sugar macaroons minutes mixture nutmeg omelet onion orange ounces of butter oven Parmesan cheese parsley pepper and salt PERSONS.-1 oz pie dish pint of cream pint of milk pint of water Pudding puff paste quarter rice rounds of bread salt to taste saucepan serve very hot sieve SIX PERSONS.-1 sponge cakes spoonful sprinkle stiff froth stir suet sugar to taste tablespoonful of cream tablespoonful of flour tablespoonfuls Take teacupful teaspoonful thick three eggs three ounces tomatoes whipped whisk whites yolks
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Page 117 - Hack's (Maria) Stories from English History during the Middle Ages. Revised by DAVID MURRAY SMITH, Author of " Tales of Chivalry and Romance,
Page 103 - Beat six fresh eggs extremely well, and mix, when strained, with a pint of cream, four ounces of sugar, a glass of wine, half a nutmeg grated, and as much flour as will make it almost as thick as ordinary pancake batter, but not quite. Heat the frying-pan tolerably hot, wipe it with a clean cloth ; then pour in the batter, to make thin pancakes. Pancakes of...
Page 118 - A boy can hardly fail to be the better for perusing the graphic stories of the rise of the Peel family, and the struggles of such men as Hugh Miller, Wilson the ornithologist, Smeaton the engineer, Oberlin the pastor, Astor the millionaire, and Stephenson the railway pioneer.
Page 82 - Boil a calf's foot in water till it wastes to a pint of jelly, clear of sediment and fat. Make a tea-cup of very strong coffee ; clear it with a bit of isinglass to be perfectly bright ; pour it to the jelly, and add a pint of very good cream, and as much fine Lisbon sugar as is pleasant ; give one boil up, and pour into the dish. It should jelly, but not be stiff. Observe that your coffee be fresh.
Page 83 - ... it on a sieve with a bit of thin muslin laid smooth in the shallow end till next day. Put it in glasses. It will keep good, in a cool place, ten days. Lemon Honeycomb. — Sweeten the juice of a lemon to your taste, and put it in the dish that you serve it in. Mix the white of an egg that is beaten with a pint of rich cream, and a little sugar ; whisk it, and as the froth rises, put it on the lemon juice.
Page 117 - Anecdotes, &c., of Celebrated Preachers, from the Fourth Century of the Christian Era to the Present Time. By THOMAS JACKSON, MA, Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, and Hector of Stoke Newington, London.
Page 106 - You must prepare it in a part of the house where as jittle of the warm air comes as you can possibly contrive. The ice and salt being in a bucket, put your cream into an ice-pot, and cover it ; immerse it in the ice, and draw that round the pot, so as to touch every possible part.
Page 37 - Whip the whites of the eggs and add them, pour the mixture into a deep tin lined with buttered paper, and allow for the rising, say four inches. Bake twenty minutes and serve the moment it leaves the oven. CHEESE SOUFFLE. Melt an ounce of butter in a sauce-pan; mix smoothly with it one ounce of flour, a pinch of salt and cayenne and a quarter of a pint of milk; simmer the mixture gently over the fire, stirring it all the time, till it is as thick as melted butter; stir into it about three ounces...
Page 81 - ARROWROOT CUSTARD. — One table-spoon of arrowroot, one pint of milk, one egg, two table-spoons sugar; mix the arrowroot with a little of the cold milk; put the rest of milk on the fire and boil, and stir in the arrowroot, and egg. and sugar well beaten together; scald and pour into cups to cool; any flavoring the invalid prefers may be added.
Page 118 - Riviera (The), both Eastern and Western. By HUGH MACMILLAN, DD 24 page Illustrations, and nearly 150 in the text, including descriptions and Illustrations of the following towns, among many others :—Nice, Cannes, Mentone, San Remo, &c.