Mrs. Beeton's cookery book

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Ward, Lock & Company, 1923 - 384 trang
 

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Trang 95 - To make the sauce, melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in the flour and cook over medium heat for 1 minute, or until pale and foamy.
Trang 52 - ... cooks. The wholesomeness of food is, however, a matter of much greater moment than the appearance it presents on the table.
Trang 161 - Should the pork be very salt, let it remain in water about 2 hours before it is dressed ; put it into a saucepan with sufficient cold water to cover it, let it gradually come to a boil, then gently simmer until quite tender. Allow ample time for it to cook, as nothing is more disagreeable than underdone pork, and when boiled fast, the meat becomes hard. This is sometimes served with boiled poultry and roast veal...
Trang 68 - ... 4 quarts of water. Mode. — Cut up the veal, and put it with the bones and trimmings of poultry, and the ham, into the stewpan, which has been rubbed with the butter. Moisten with J a pint of water, and simmer till the gravy begins to flow. Then add the 1 quarts of water and the remainder of the ingredients
Trang 167 - Clean the head well, and let it soak in warm water for 2 hours, to get rid of the blood; put it into a saucepan, with sufficient cold water to cover it, and when it boils, add the vegetables, peeled and sliced, and the remaining ingredients; before adding the oatmeal, mix it to a smooth batter with a little of the liquor. Keep stirring till it boils up; then shut the saucepan closely, and let it stew gently for i Vi or 2 hours.
Trang 316 - Pour over sufficient cold vinegar to cover them, with pepper and allspice in the above proportions, taking care that each jar has its share of the latter ingredients. Tie down with bladder, and put them in a dry place, and in a fortnight they will be fit for use. This...
Trang 212 - Choose cauliflowers that are close and white; trim off the decayed outside leaves, and cut the stalk off flat at the bottom. Open the flower a little in places to remove the insects, which generally are found about the stalk, and let the cauliflowers lie in salt and water for an hour previous to dressing them, with their heads downwards: diis will effectually draw out all the vermin.
Trang 65 - The operation of parting, in detail, is as follows: The buttons, if of any size, and particularly when containing much gold, are first flattened in a diamond mortar or by a blow of the hammer on an anvil, in order to expose as much surface as possible to the action of the acid. They are then replaced in a capsule, which is next filled about half full with dilute nitric acid of about 1.2 Sp. Gr. (made by mixing equal parts of strong chemically pure nitric acid and distilled water), and placed on an...
Trang 286 - Eggs for boiling cannot be too fresh, or boiled too soon after they are laid; but rather a longer time should be allowed for boiling a new-laid egg than for one that is three or four days old. Have ready a saucepan of boiling water; put the eggs into it gently with a spoon, letting the spoon touch the bottom of the saucepan before it is withdrawn, that the egg may not fall and consequently crack. For those who like eggs lightly boiled...
Trang 217 - ... minutes; then take them out and put them into cold water. Now lard them, lay them in a stewpan, add the stock, seasoning, onions, mace, and a thickening of butter and flour, and stew gently for 'A hour or 20 minutes.

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