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<!-- le html en commun: http://10.6.2.99:9001/p/html le css en commun: http://10.6.2.99:9001/p/html2print Glossaire html balises : id="Couverture" -> englobe les titres de la couverture id="Glossaire" -> englobe liste du glossaire et titre "contents" class="ElementsDeGlossaire" -> correspond au texte et liens du glossaire id="AppelIndex" -> Englobe liens vers l'index class="ElementsAppelIndex" -> liens vers l'index id="Preface" -> englobe le texte de la préface id="Partie1" -> englobe les recettes de la partie 1 id="Partie2" -> englobe les recettes de la partie 2 id="Index" -> englobe la liste d el'index id="ElementsDeIndex" -> liste de l'index id="Licences" -> englobe texte des licences id="Colophon" -> englobe texte colophon class="Recettes" -> englobe toute les recettes h6 -> titres PART I et PART II id="intro_part2" -> texte d'introduction de la partie 2 --> <div id="Couverture"> <h1> The Belgian Cook-Book </h1> <h2> By Various </h2> <h2> Edited By Mrs. Brian Luck </h2> <h4> 1915 "Lucullus, whom frugality could charm, Ate roasted turnips at the Sabine Farm." </h4> </div> <div id="Glossaire"> <p> <b>CONTENTS</b> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_PREF"> PREFACE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_PART"> <b>PART I</b> </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0003"> CAULIFLOWER SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0004"> FISH SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0005"> STARVATION SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0006"> IMMEDIATE SOUP, OR TEN MINUTES SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0007"> CHERVIL SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0008"> A GOOD PEA SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0009"> WATERZOEI </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0010"> A GOOD BELGIAN SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0011"> BELGIAN PURÉE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0012"> AMBASSADOR SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0013"> CRECY SOUP (BELGIAN RECIPE) </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0014"> FLEMISH SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0015"> TOMATO PURÉE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0016"> ONION SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0017"> POTAGE LEMAN </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0018"> TOMATO SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0019"> SOUP, CREAM OF ASPARAGUS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0020"> GREEN PEA SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0021"> VEGETABLE SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0022"> MUSHROOM CREAM SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0023"> THE SOLDIER'S VEGETABLE SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0024"> LEEK SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0025"> CELERIS AU LARD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0026"> CABBAGE WITH SAUSAGES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0027"> LEEKS À LIEGOISE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0028"> A SALAD OF TOMATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0029"> POTATOES AND CHEESE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0030"> FRIDAY'S FEAST </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0031"> RED CABBAGE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0032"> ASPARAGUS À L'ANVERS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0033"> COOKED LETTUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0034"> STUFFED CAULIFLOWER </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0035"> GOURMANDS' MUSHROOMS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0036"> POMMES CHÂTEAU </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0037"> CHIPPED POTATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0038"> CHICORY À LA FERDINAND </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0039"> APPLES AND SAUSAGES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0040"> STUFFED CHICORY </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0041"> TOMATOES STUFFED WITH BEANS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0042"> CABBAGE AND POTATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0043"> SPINACH À LA BRACONNIÈRE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0044"> A DISH OF HARICOT BEANS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0045"> POTATOES IN THE BELGIAN MANNER </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0046"> TOMATOES AND SHRIMPS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0047"> FLEMISH ENDIVE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0048"> CAULIFLOWER AND SHRIMPS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0049"> BELGIAN CARROTS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0050"> STUFFED TOMATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0051"> RED CABBAGE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0052"> VEGETABLE SALAD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0053"> CHICORY </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0054"> CAULIFLOWER À LA REINE ELIZABETH </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0055"> MUSHROOMS À LA SPINETTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0056"> DRESSED CAULIFLOWER </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0057"> BRUSSELS SPROUTS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0058"> RAGOUT OF MUTTON </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0059"> STEWED SHOULDER OF MUTTON </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0060"> SHOULDER OF MUTTON </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0061"> MUTTON COLLOPS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0062"> SHOULDER OF MUTTON DRESSED LIKE KID </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0063"> ROAST RUMP OF BEEF, BORDELAISE SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0064"> ROASTED FILLET OF BEEF </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0065"> BEEF À LA BOURGUIGNONNE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0066"> OX-TONGUE À LA BOURGEOISE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0067"> BEEF À LA MODE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0068"> BOEUF À LA FLAMANDE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0069"> CARETAKER'S BEEF </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0070"> BLANKENBERG BEEF </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0071"> VEAL WITH TOMATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0072"> FRICANDEAU OF VEAL </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0073"> VEAL CUTLETS WITH MADEIRA SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0074"> GRENADINS OF VEAL </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0075"> CALF'S LIVER À LA BOURGEOISE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0076"> VEAL WITH MUSHROOMS, OR THE CALF IN PARADISE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0077"> BLANQUETTE OF VEAL </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0078"> VEAL CAKE, EXCELLENT FOR SUPPER </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0079"> BREAST OF VEAL </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0080"> OX TONGUE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0081"> VEAL À LA MILANAISE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0082"> STUFFED VEAL LIVER, OR LIVER À LA PANIER D'OR </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0083"> VEAL À LA CRÊME </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0084"> <i>This is the demi-glaze Sauce which is used for all brown Sauces.</i> </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0085"> DUTCH SAUCE FOR FISH </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0086"> BEARNAISE SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0087"> MUSLIN SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0088"> SAUCE BORDELAISE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0089"> POOR MAN'S SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0090"> THE GOOD WIFE'S SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0091"> CREAM SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0092"> SAUCE MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0093"> SAUCE AU DIABLE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0094"> FRICASSEE OF PIGEONS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0095"> HUNTER'S HARE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0096"> FLEMISH RABBIT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0097"> ROAST KID WITH VENISON SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0098"> BAKED RABBIT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0099"> CHICKEN À LA MAX </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0100"> RABBIT À LA BORDELAISE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0101"> LAEKEN RABBIT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0102"> RABBIT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0103"> HARE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0104"> RUM OMELETTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0105"> THE CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY DISH </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0106"> A FRANGIPANI </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0107"> APRICOT SOUFFLÉ </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0108"> STEWED PRUNES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0109"> CHOCOLATE CREAM </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0110"> SEMOLINA SOUFFLÉ </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0111"> SNOWY MOUNTAINS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0112"> RICHELIEU RICE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0113"> EXCELLENT PASTE FOR PASTRY </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0114"> CHOCOLATE CREAM </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0115"> BELGIAN GINGERBREAD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0116"> APPLE FRITTERS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0117"> FOUR QUARTERS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0118"> SAFFRON RICE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0119"> SEMOLINA FRITTERS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0120"> SPECULOOS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0121"> GAUFRES FROM BRUSSELS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0122"> RICE À LA CONDE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0123"> PAINS PERDUS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0124"> FRUIT FRITTERS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0125"> MOCHA CAKE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0126"> VANILLA CREAM </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0127"> RUM CREAM </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0128"> PINEAPPLE À L'ANVERS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0129"> POUDING AUX POMMES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0130"> SOUFFLÉ AU CHOCOLAT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0131"> A NEW DISH OF APPLES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0132"> GOLDEN RICE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0133"> BANANA COMPÔTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0134"> RIZ CONDE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0135"> CHOCOLATE CREAM </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0136"> KIDNEY SOUFFLÉ </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0137"> BAKED SOUFFLE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0138"> PEASANTS' EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0139"> TWO RECIPES FOR TOMATOES AND EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0140"> TOMATOES AND EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0141"> MUSHROOM OMELETTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0142"> ASPARAGUS OMELETTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0143"> STUFFED EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0144"> POACHED EGGS, TOMATO SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0145"> EGGS AND MUSHROOMS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0146"> BELGIAN EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0147"> EGGS À LA RIBEAUCOURT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0148"> TO USE UP REMAINS OF MEAT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0149"> VEAL WITH ONIONS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0150"> VEAL CAKE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0151"> TO USE UP COLD MEAT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0152"> FLEMISH CARBONADE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0153"> A USE FOR COLD MUTTON </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0154"> FLEMISH CARBONADES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0155"> FISH </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0156"> REMAINS OF FISH </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0157"> GOOD RISSOLES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0158"> CROQUETTES OF BOILED MEAT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0159"> CARBONADES DONE WITH BEER </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0160"> WALLOON ENTRÉE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0161"> SCRAPS OF MEAT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0162"> FRICADELLE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0163"> CHICORY AND HAM WITH CHEESE SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0164"> CROQUETTES OF VEAL </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0165"> ENTRÉE (CROQUE-MONSIEUR) </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0166"> HOT-POT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0167"> HOCHE POT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0168"> BOUCHÉES À LA REINE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0169"> HOCHE POT OF GHENT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0170"> CARBONADE OF FLANDERS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0171"> HEADLESS SPARROWS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0172"> MUTTON STEW </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0173"> HOCHE POT GANTOIS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0174"> CHINESE CORKS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0175"> LIMPENS CHEESE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0176"> CHEESE SOUFFLÉ </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0177"> CHEESE CROQUETTES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0178"> CHEESE FONDANTS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0179"> CHEESE SOUFFLÉ </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0180"> POTATOES AND CHEESE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0181"> YORK HAM, SWEETBREADS, MADEIRA SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0182"> HAM WITH MADEIRA SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0183"> A DIFFICULT DISH OF EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0184"> COUNTRY EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0185"> FRENCH EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0186"> OEUFS CELESTES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0187"> PETITES CAISSES À LA FURNES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0188"> FLEMISH CARROTS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0189"> AUBERGINE OR EGG PLANT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0190"> EGG PLANTS AS SOUFFLÉ </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0191"> POTATO CROQUETTES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0192"> PURÉE OF CHESTNUTS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0193"> HORS D'OEUVRES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0194"> POTATO DICE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0195"> ANCHOVIES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0196"> ANCHOVY SANDWICHES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0197"> ANCHOVY ROUNDS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0198"> ANCHOVY BISCUITS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0199"> ANCHOVY PATTIES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0200"> MOCK ANCHOVIES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0201"> CUCUMBER À LA LAEKEN </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0202"> HERRING AND MAYONNAISE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0203"> SWEET DRINKS AND CORDIALS. ORGEAT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0204"> HAWTHORN CORDIAL </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0205"> DUTCH NOYEAU </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0206"> LAVENDER WATER </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0207"> HOT BURGUNDY </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0208"> CRÊME DE POISSON À LA ROI ALBERT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0209"> FISH AND CUSTARD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0210"> HAKE AND POTATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0211"> VERY NICE SKATE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0212"> TO KEEP SPRATS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0213"> TO KEEP MACKEREL FOR A WEEK </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0214"> A BROWN DISH OF FISH </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0215"> BAKED HADDOCKS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0216"> FILLETED SOLES AU FROMAGE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0217"> FILLETED FISH, WITH WHITE SAUCE AND TOMATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0218"> THE MILLER'S COD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0219"> DUTCH HERRINGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0220"> REMAINS OF COD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_PART2"> <b>PART II</b> </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0222"> HORS D'OEUVRE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0223"> CARROT SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0224"> SORREL SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0225"> OSTEND SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0226"> ANOTHER SORREL SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0227"> HASTY SOUP </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0228"> ARTICHOKES A LA VEDETTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0229"> SURPRISE POTATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0230"> VEGETABLE SALADS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0231"> TOMATOES A LA SIR EDWARD GREY HOMMAGE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0232"> STUFFED CARROTS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0233"> TO COOK ASPARAGUS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0234"> TOMATOES IN HASTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0235"> KIDNEYS AND LETTUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0236"> TOMATO RICE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0237"> RICE WITH EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0238"> BROAD BEANS IN SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0239"> OMELETTE OF PEAS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0240"> BRUSSELS ARTICHOKES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0241"> BELGIAN SALAD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0242"> BRUSSELS CARROTS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0243"> CARROTS AND EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0244"> CUCUMBERS AND TOMATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0245"> RED HARICOTS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0246"> POTATOES A LA BRABANCONNE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0247"> FLEMISH PEAS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0248"> CHOU-CROUTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0249"> SPINACH FRITTERS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0250"> HARLEQUIN CABBAGES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0251"> LITTLE TOWERS OF SALAD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0252"> PUFFS FOR FRIDAY </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0253"> HADDOCK A LA CARDINAL </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0254"> SKATE STEW </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0255"> TO DRESS COARSE FISH </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0256"> FLEMISH SALAD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0257"> FLEMISH SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0258"> BEEF SQUARES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0259"> IMITATION CUTLETS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0260"> KIDNEYS WITH MADEIRA </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0261"> PIGS' TROTTERS IN BLANQUETTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0262"> LOIN OF MUTTON IN THE POT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0263"> OX TONGUE WITH SPINACH AND WHITE SAUCE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0264"> VEAL FRITTERS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0265"> STEWED BEEF </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0266"> A MUTTON SALAD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0267"> SAUSAGE PATTIES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0268"> SAUSAGE AND POTATOES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0269"> RAGOUT OF COLD MEAT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0270"> A <span class="adverb">QUICKLY</span> MADE STEW </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0271"> GRENADINES OF VEAL </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0272"> HOCHE POT </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0273"> PIGEON AND CABBAGE ROLLS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0274"> REMAINS OF SAUSAGE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0275"> SHOULDER OF LAMB A LA BEIGE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0276"> FILLET OF BEEF À LA BRABANCONNE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0277"> STEWED BEEF </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0278"> BEEF AND APRICOTS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0279"> FOR AN INVALID </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0280"> INVALIDS' EGGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0281"> A SWEET FOR THE CHILDREN </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0282"> QUINCE CUSTARD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0283"> YELLOW PLUMS AND RICE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0284"> BRABANT PANCAKE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0285"> DELICIOUS SAUCE FOR PUDDINGS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0286"> FRUIT JELLIES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0287"> STRAWBERRY FANCY </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0288"> PINK RICE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0289"> MILITARY PRUNES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0290"> MADELINE CHERRIES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0291"> STRAWBERRY TARTLETS </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0292"> MADEIRA EGGS OR OEUFS À LA GRAND'MÈRE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0293"> BUTTERFLIES </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0294"> CHERRY AND STRAWBERRY COMPOTE </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0295"> CHOCOLATE CUSTARD </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0296"> GOOSEBERRY CREAM WITHOUT CREAM </a> </p> <p class="ElementsDeGlossaire"> <a href="#link2H_4_0297"> CHOCOLATE PUDDINGS </a> </p> </div> <div id="AppelIndex"> <p class="ElementsDeAppelIndex"> <a href="#link2H_4_0298"> INDEX </a> </p> </div> <div id="Preface"> <a name="link2H_PREF" id="link2H_PREF"></a> <h2> PREFACE </h2> <p> The recipes in this little book have been sent by Belgian refugees from all parts of the United Kingdom, and it is through the kindness of these correspondents that I have been able to compile it. It is thought, also, that British cooking may benefit by the study of Belgian dishes. </p> <p> The perfect cook, like Mrs. 'Arris or the fourth dimension, is often heard of, but never <span class="adverb">actually</span> found, so this small manual is offered for the use of the work-a-day and inexperienced mistress and maid. It is not written in the interests of millionaires. The recipes are simple, and most inexpensive, rather for persons of moderate means than for those who can follow the famous directions for a certain savory: "Take a leg of mutton," etc. A shelf of provisions should be valued, like love-making, not only for itself but for what it may become. </p> <p> SAVORIES: If you serve these, let them be, like an ankle, small and neat and alluring. This dish is not obligatory; recollect that it is but a culinary work of supererogation. </p> <p> SOUP: Let your soup be <span class="adverb">extremely</span> hot; do not let it be like the Laodiceans. You know what St. John said about them, and you would be sorry to think of your soup sharing the fate which he describes with such <span class="adverb">saintly</span> verve. Be sure that your soup has a good foundation, and avoid the Italian method of making <i>consommé</i>, which is to put a pot of water on to warm and to drive a cow past the door. </p> <p> FISH: It is a truism to say that fish should be <span class="adverb">absolutely</span> fresh, yet only too many cooks think, during the week-end, that fish is like the manna of the Hebrews, which was imbued with Sabbatarian principles that kept it fresh from Saturday to Monday. I implore of you to think <span class="adverb">differently</span> about fish. It is a most nourishing and strengthening food—other qualities it has, too, if one must believe the anecdote of the Sultan Saladin and the two anchorites. </p> <p> MEAT: If your meat must be cooked in water, let it not boil but <span class="adverb">merely</span> simmer; let the pot just whisper <span class="adverb">agreeably</span> of a good dish to come. Do you know what an English tourist said, looking into a Moorish cooking-pot? "What have you got there? Mutton and rice?" "For the moment, Sidi, it is mutton and rice," said the Moorish cook; "but in two hours, inshallah, when the garlic has kissed the pot, it will be the most delicious comforter from Mecca to Casa Blanca." Simmer and season, then, your meats, and let the onion (if not garlic) just kiss the pot, even if you allow no further intimacy between them. Use bay-leaves, spices, herbs of all sorts, vinegar, cloves; and never forget pepper and salt. </p> <p> Game is like Love, the best appreciated when it begins to go. Only experience will teach you, on blowing up the breast feathers of a pheasant, whether it ought to be cooked to-day or to-morrow. Men, as a rule, are very particular about the dressing of game, though they may not all be able to tell, like the Frenchman, upon which of her legs a partridge was in the habit of sitting. Game should be underdone rather than well done; it should never be without well-buttered toast underneath it to collect the gravy, and the knife to carve it with should be very, very sharp. </p> <p> VEGETABLES: <span class="adverb">Nearly</span> all these are at their best (like brunettes) just before they are <span class="adverb">fully</span> matured. So says a great authority, and no doubt he is thinking of young peas and beans, lettuces and asparagus. Try to dress such things as potatoes, parsnips, cabbages, carrots, in other ways than <span class="adverb">simply</span> boiled in water, for the water often removes the flavor and leaves the fiber. Do not let your vegetable-dishes remind your guests of Froissart's account of Scotchmen's food, which was "rubbed in a little water." </p> <p> SWEETS: It is difficult to give any general directions for sweets. They should be made to look attractive, and they should be <span class="adverb">constantly</span> varied. The same remarks <span class="adverb">apply</span> to savories, which last ought always to be <span class="adverb">highly</span> seasoned, whether hot or cold. </p> <p> MADE DISHES are a great feature in this little book. I have tried to help those small households who cook, let us say, a leg of mutton on Sunday, and then see it meander through the week in various guises till it ends its days honorable as soup on the following Friday. Endeavor to hide from your husband that you are making that leg of mutton almost achieve eternal life. It is noticeable that men are attracted to a house where there is good cooking, and the most unapproachable beings are rendered accessible by the pleasantness of a <i>soufflé</i>, or the aroma of a roast duck. You must have observed that a certain number of single men have their hearts very "wishful" towards their cook. Not <span class="adverb">infrequently</span> they marry that cook; but it is less that she is a good and charming woman than that she is a good and charming cook. Ponder this, therefore; for I have known men otherwise happy, who long for a good beef-steak pudding as <span class="adverb">vainly</span> as the Golden Ass longed for a meal of roses. Try these recipes, for <span class="adverb">really</span> good rissoles and hashes. Twice-cooked meat can always be alleviated by mushrooms or tomatoes. Remember that the discovery of a new dish is of more use than the discovery of a new star,—besides which, you will get much more praise for it. And if on Wednesday you find that you have to eat the same part of the very same animal that you had on Monday, do not, pray, become exasperated; treat it <span class="adverb">affectionately</span>, as I treat my black hat, which becomes more ravishing every time that I alter it. Only, do not buy extravagant make-weight for a scrap of cold meat that would be best used in a mince patty, or you will be like a man keeping a horse in order to grow mushrooms. </p> <p> And, <span class="adverb">lastly</span>, the good cook must learn about food what every sensible woman learns about love—how best to utilize the cold remains. </p> <h3> M. LUCK. </h3> <a name="link2H_PART" id="link2H_PART"> </a> </div> <div id="Partie1"> <h6> PART I </h6> <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> </a> <h2> CAULIFLOWER SOUP </h2> <p id="numero2"> After you have boiled a cauliflower, it is a great extravagance to throw away the liquor; it is <span class="adverb">delicately</span> flavored and forms the basis of a good soup. Wash well your cauliflower, taking great care to remove all grit and insects. Place it to simmer with its head downwards, in salted water; and, when it is tender, remove it. Now for the soup. Let all the outer leaves and odd bits simmer well, then pass them through a sieve. Fry some chopped onions, add the liquor of the cauliflower and the pieces that have been rubbed through the sieve, add a little white pepper and a slice of brown bread. Let all cook <span class="adverb">gently</span> for half-an-hour, then, just before serving it, take out the slice of bread and sprinkle in <span class="measure">two teaspoonfuls</span> of grated Gruyere cheese. <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> </a> </p> <h2> FISH SOUP </h2> <p> When you buy fish and have it filleted, ask for the bones and trimmings to be sent also. Put <span class="measure">a quart</span> of milk to heat and add to it a bunch of mixed herbs, a few minced shallots, parsley, pepper and salt. Throw in your fish and cook for an hour. If you have any celery put in a piece, or two or three white artichokes. Strain the soup, taste it, and add more salt or more milk as you think necessary. Return to the pan. Take the yolk of an egg and just before taking the soup from the fire, stir it <span class="adverb">quickly</span> in. This soup must never boil. It should be made out of the very white fish, excluding herring and mackerel. <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> </a> <h2> STARVATION SOUP </h2> <p> If you have a pork-bone from the fresh meat, let it boil in water for an hour. Put the pan to cool and take off the fat, and remove the bone. Replace the pan on the fire and throw into it <span class="measure">two pounds</span> of Brussels sprouts. Do not add onions to this soup but leeks, and the hearts of cabbage. Pepper and spice to taste. Rub it through a sieve and let it be thick enough to form a thin purée. <a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> </a> <h2> IMMEDIATE SOUP, OR TEN MINUTES SOUP </h2> <p> Into <span class="measure">a quart</span> of boiling water throw <span class="measure">two tablespoonfuls</span> of either semolina or tapioca: let it boil for eight minutes with a dust of salt and pepper. Meanwhile, take your tureen, put <span class="adverb">quickly</span> into it two yolks of very fresh eggs, add two pats of butter and <span class="measure">two small spoonfuls</span> of water to mix it. Stir <span class="adverb">quickly</span> with the spoon, and when the soup has done its eight minutes' boiling, pour it on the egg and butter in the tureen. This is an <span class="adverb">extremely</span> good soup. It is rendered still better by a small quantity of Bovril. <a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> </a> <h2> CHERVIL SOUP </h2> <p> Put a bone of veal on to cook in water, with four or five potatoes, according to the quantity desired. When these are tender, pass them through the tammy and return them to the soup. Chop up the chervil, adding to it <span class="measure">half a dessert-spoonful</span> of cornflour. Quarter of an hour before serving, put in the chervil, but take the cover off the pot, so that it remains a good green color. Pepper and salt to be added also. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert, Café Appelmans, Anvers.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> </a> <h2> A GOOD PEA SOUP </h2> <p> Soak your dried peas over-night. The following day boil some fresh water, and throw in the peas, adding a few chopped onions and leeks, with pepper and salt. Let the soup simmer for three hours on the top of the stove, giving it a stir now and then. If you have a ham-bone, that is a great improvement, or the water in which some bacon has been boiled is a good foundation for the soup, instead of the fresh water. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. M. Schmidt.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> </a> <h2> WATERZOEI </h2> <p> This is an <span class="adverb">essentially</span> Flemish soup. One uses carp, eels, tench, roach, perches, barbel, for the real waterzoei is always made of different kinds of fish. Take <span class="measure">two pounds</span> of fish, cut off the heads and tails, which you will fry <span class="adverb">lightly</span> in butter, adding to make the sauce a mixed carrot and onion, three cloves, a pinch of white pepper, a sprig of parsley, one of thyme, a bay-leaf; pour in two-thirds of water and one-third of white wine till it more than covers the ingredients and let it simmer for half-an-hour. Then the pieces of fish must be cut an equal size, and they are placed to cook <span class="adverb">quickly</span> in this liquor for twenty minutes. Five minutes before serving add a lemon peeled and cut into slices and the pips removed. Some people bind the sauce with breadcrumbs grated and browned. You serve, with this dish, very thin slices of bread and butter. For English tastes, the heads and tails should be removed when dressing the dish. <a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> </a> <h2> A GOOD BELGIAN SOUP </h2> <p> is called <i>crême de sauté</i>. Itself one of the most wholesome of vegetables, watercress combines <span class="adverb">admirably</span> with potatoes in making soup. Wash, dry, and chop <span class="adverb">finely</span> <span class="measure">four ounces</span> of the leaves picked from the stalks, fry <span class="adverb">slowly</span> for five minutes with or without a <span class="adverb">thinly</span>-sliced onion, add <span class="measure">one pound</span> of potatoes cut in small dice, and fry, still very <span class="adverb">slowly</span>, without browning; pour in <span class="measure">one quart</span> of water or thin stock, simmer <span class="adverb">gently</span>, <span class="adverb">closely</span>-covered, for from thirty-five to fifty minutes, rub through a hair sieve, and having returned the puree to the saucepan with <span class="measure">a half-teaspoonful</span> of castor sugar, and salt and cayenne to taste, thicken with <span class="measure">one table-spoonful</span> of flour stirred <span class="adverb">smoothly</span> into <span class="measure">one breakfast-cupful</span> of cold milk; boil up <span class="adverb">sharply</span>, and serve sprinkled with watercress. </p> <p> [<i>E. Haig.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> </a> <h2> BELGIAN PURÉE </h2> <p> Cook <span class="measure">two pounds</span> of Brussels sprouts in boiling water. Take them out, drain them and toss them in butter for five minutes, sprinkle them with <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of flour, and then cook them in gravy (or meat extract and water), fast boiling, over a good fire, and keep the lid of the saucepan off so that they may remain green. Pass them through the sieve, leave them in ten minutes, bind the mixture with the yolks of three eggs, <span class="measure">a pint</span> of milk; then at the last minute <span class="measure">one dessert-spoonful</span> of butter for each <span class="measure">pint and a half</span> of soup. <a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> </a> <h2> AMBASSADOR SOUP </h2> <p> <span class="measure">A pint and a half</span> of either fresh peas, or of dried peas that have been soaked for six hours in cold water; a leek, and three onions chopped <span class="adverb">finely</span>. Simmer till the peas are tender, then pass all through the sieve. Well wash some sorrel and chop it, and add as much as will be to your taste. In another pan cook <span class="measure">five tablespoonfuls</span> of rice, and add that to your soup. Simmer up again, stirring it all very well. This soup should be of a green color. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Georges Goffaux.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> </a> <h2> CRECY SOUP (BELGIAN RECIPE) </h2> <p> Take ten carrots, two onions, one leek, five potatoes, and cook all <span class="adverb">gently</span> in water, with salt and pepper; when they are tender, rub them through the sieve and serve it very hot. </p> <p> [<i>G. Goffaux.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0014" id="link2H_4_0014"> </a> <h2> FLEMISH SOUP </h2> <p> To <span class="measure">two pounds</span> of washed and picked Brussels sprouts add ten potatoes, two onions, two leeks, salt, pepper. Cook all <span class="adverb">gently</span> and pass through a sieve. Add at the last moment a sprinkle of chopped chervil. </p> <p> [<i>G. Goffaux.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0015" id="link2H_4_0015"> </a> <h2> TOMATO PURÉE </h2> <p> Begin by cleaning four potatoes, two leeks, a celery, four carrots, <span class="measure">three pounds</span> of big tomatoes; well wash all these vegetables and cut them in dice, the tomatoes a little larger. Cook them all <span class="adverb">gently</span> for an hour in <span class="adverb">nearly</span> <span class="measure">two pints</span> of gravy, to which you have already added two thick slices of bread and a pinch of salt. Take care that your vegetables do not stick to the bottom of the pan. When all is well cooked, pass it through a fine tammy. Add more gravy, or water and meat juice; make it of the consistency that you wish. Bring it to the boil again over the fire, adding pepper and salt, and just before serving a bit of fresh butter also. It is a great improvement to add at the last minute the yolk of an egg, mixed in a little cold water, <span class="adverb">quickly</span> stirred in when the soup is off the fire. </p> <p> The three recipes for seven or eight persons. </p> <p> [<i>G. Kerckaert.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0016" id="link2H_4_0016"> </a> <h2> ONION SOUP </h2> <p> Mince some thick onions, five or six, and let them color over the fire in butter. Add <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of flour, sprinkling it in, and the same amount in gravy; thicken it with potatoes and when these are cooked, peas, all through a sieve. Bring the purée to the right consistency with milk, and let it simmer for a few minutes before serving, adding pepper and salt. </p> <p> [<i>Gabrielle Janssens.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0017" id="link2H_4_0017"> </a> <h2> POTAGE LEMAN </h2> <p> Make a good gravy with <span class="measure">one and one-half pounds</span> of skirt of beef. With one half of the gravy make a very good purée of peas—if possible the green peas—with the other half make a good purée of tomatoes. Combine the two purées, adding pepper and salt and a dust of cayenne. For each guest add to the soup <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of Madeira wine, beat it all well and serve <span class="adverb">quickly</span>. Or add, instead of Madeira, <span class="measure">one dessert-spoonful</span> of sherry wine. </p> <p> This celebrated soup is honored by the name of the glorious defender of Namur. </p> <p> [<i>Gabrielle Janssens.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0018" id="link2H_4_0018"> </a> <h2> TOMATO SOUP </h2> <p> Boil together six medium potatoes, a celery, two leeks, two carrots, and <span class="measure">a pound</span> of fresh tomatoes, with pepper, salt and a leaf of bay. Pass all through the sieve. Fry two or three chopped onions in some butter and add the soup to them. Boil up again for twenty minutes before serving. If you have no fresh tomatoes, the tinned ones can be used, removing the skin, at the same time that you add the fried onions. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Praet.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0019" id="link2H_4_0019"> </a> <h2> SOUP, CREAM OF ASPARAGUS </h2> <p> Boil some potatoes and pass them through the sieve, add the asparagus-tops, with a pat of butter for each four tops; thin the soup with extract of meat and water, and at the last moment stir in the raw yolks of two eggs, and a little chopped parsley. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Praet.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0020" id="link2H_4_0020"> </a> <h2> GREEN PEA SOUP </h2> <p> Put <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of dry green peas to soak overnight in water, with <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of bicarbonate of soda in it. In the morning take out the peas and put them on the fire in about <span class="measure">three-and-a-half pints</span> of water. When the peas are <span class="adverb">nearly</span> cooked, add five big potatoes. When all is cooked enough for the skins to come off <span class="adverb">easily</span>, rub all through a sieve. Fry in some butter four or five onions and five or six leeks till they are brown, or, failing butter, use some fat of beef; add these to the peas and boil together a good half-hour. If possible, add a pig's trotter cut into four, which makes the soup most excellent. When ready to serve, remove the four pieces of trotter. Little dice of fried bread should be handed with the soup. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0021" id="link2H_4_0021"> </a> <h2> VEGETABLE SOUP </h2> <p> Fry four onions till they are brown. Add them to <span class="measure">three pints</span> of water, with four carrots, a slice of white crumb of bread, five potatoes, a celery and a bunch of parsley, which you must take out before passing the soup through the sieve. A few tomatoes make the soup better; if they are tinned, do not add them till after the soup has been passed through the tammy; if they are fresh, put them in with the other vegetables. Simmer for an hour, add pepper and salt before serving. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0022" id="link2H_4_0022"> </a> <h2> MUSHROOM CREAM SOUP </h2> <p> On a good white stock foundation, for which you have used milk and a bone of veal, sprinkle in some ground rice till it thickens, stirring it well for twenty minutes. Wash and chop your mushrooms, and fry them in butter. Add the yolk of an egg and bind it. This is a delicious soup. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Marcke de Lunessen.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0023" id="link2H_4_0023"> </a> <h2> THE SOLDIER'S VEGETABLE SOUP </h2> <h3> (Eight to ten persons) </h3> <p> Peel <span class="measure">three pounds</span> of vegetables. Put them in a large pot with all the vegetables that you can find, according to the season. In the winter you will take four celeries, four leeks, two turnips, a cabbage, two onions, pepper and salt, two-penny-worth of bones, and about <span class="measure">five and one-half quarts</span> of water. Let it all boil for three hours, taking care to add water so as to keep the quantity at <span class="measure">five quarts</span>. Rub all the vegetables through a tammy, crushing them well, and then let them boil up again for at least another hour. The time allotted for the first and second cooking is of the greatest importance. <a name="link2H_4_0024" id="link2H_4_0024"> </a> <h2> LEEK SOUP </h2> <p> Cut up two onions and fry them till they are brown; you need not use butter, clarified fat will do very well. Clean your leeks, washing them well; cut them in pieces and fry them also; add any other vegetables that you have, two medium-sized potatoes, pepper, salt, and a little water. Let all simmer for three hours, and pass it through a fine sieve. Let there be more leeks than other vegetables, so that their flavor predominates. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Jules Segers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0025" id="link2H_4_0025"> </a> <h2> CELERIS AU LARD </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">one pound</span> of celery, cut off the green tops, cut the stems into pieces two-thirds of an inch long; put into boiling salted water, and cook till tender. Take <span class="measure">one-half pound</span> potatoes, peel and slice, and add to the celery, so that both will be cooked at the same moment. Strain and place on a flat fire-proof dish. Prepare some fat slices of bacon, toast them till crisp in the oven; pour the melted bacon-fat over the celery and potato, adding a dash of vinegar, and place the rashers on top. Serve hot. </p> <p> Leeks may be prepared in the same way. <a name="link2H_4_0026" id="link2H_4_0026"> </a> <h2> CABBAGE WITH SAUSAGES </h2> <p> Cut a large cabbage in two, slice and wash, put it into boiling water with salt, and when <span class="adverb">partly</span> cooked, add some potatoes cut into smallish pieces. Cook all together for about an hour; then drain. Put some fat in a saucepan, slice an onion, brown it in the fat, add the cabbage and potato, and stew all together for ten minutes; then dish. Bake some sausages in the oven and dish them round the cabbage; serve hot. </p> <p> <i>Another way (easier)</i> </p> <p> Stew the cabbages, potato and sausages all together and dish up <span class="adverb">neatly</span>. <a name="link2H_4_0027" id="link2H_4_0027"> </a> <h2> LEEKS À LIEGOISE </h2> <p> Take enough of leeks to make the size of dish required; if they are very thick, cut in two lengthwise; cut off the green tops; leaving only the blanched piece of stalk; put them into boiling salted water and cook <span class="adverb">thoroughly</span> about one hour: strain and dish <span class="adverb">neatly</span> on a fish-drainer. Have ready some hard-boiled eggs; shell them, cut in two, and place round the leeks; serve hot with melted butter, or cold with mayonnaise sauce. </p> <p> N. B. The water in which the leeks have been boiled makes a wholesome drink when cold, or a nourishing basis for a vegetable soup. </p> <p> [<i>From Belgians at Dollarfield, N.B.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0028" id="link2H_4_0028"> </a> <h2> A SALAD OF TOMATOES </h2> <p> To make a tomato salad you must not slice the fruit in a dish and then pour on it a little vinegar and then a little oil; that is not salad—that is ignorance. </p> <p> Take some red tomatoes, and, if you can procure them, some golden ones also. Plunge each for a moment in boiling water, peel off the skin, but <span class="adverb">carefully</span>, so as not to cut through the flesh with the juice. Take some raw onion cut in slices; if you do not like the strong taste, use shallot; and lay four or five flat slices on the bottom of the salad dish. Put the tomato slices over them, sprinkle with salt and just a dust of castor sugar. In four hours lift the tomatoes and remove the onions altogether. Make in a cup the following sauce: Dissolve <span class="measure">a salt-spoonful</span> of salt in <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of tarragon vinegar. Stir in <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of oil, dropping it <span class="adverb">slowly</span> in, add a very little mustard, some pepper and a sprinkle of chopped chervil. Some people like chopped chives. Pour this over the tomato salad and leave it for an hour at least before serving it. <a name="link2H_4_0029" id="link2H_4_0029"> </a> <h2> POTATOES AND CHEESE </h2> <p> Every one likes this nourishing dish, and it is a cheap one. Peel some potatoes and cut them in rounds. In a fireproof dish put a layer of these, sprinkle them with flour, grated cheese, pepper, salt, a few pats of butter. Then some more potatoes, and so on till the dish is full. Beat the yolks of two eggs in <span class="measure">a pint</span> of milk, add pepper and salt and pour it over the dish. Leave it on the top of the stove for five minutes, then cook it for half-an-hour in a moderate oven. Less time may be required if the dish is small, but the potatoes must be <span class="adverb">thoroughly</span> cooked. The original recipe directs Gruyère cheese, but red or pale Canadian Cheddar could be used. <a name="link2H_4_0030" id="link2H_4_0030"> </a> <h2> FRIDAY'S FEAST </h2> <p> Cook a medium cabbage till it is tender, and all the better if you can cook it in some soup. When tender, mince it and rub it through a sieve. Boil at the same time <span class="measure">three pounds</span> of chestnuts, skin them, keep ten whole, and rub the others through the sieve, adding a little milk to make a purée. Mix the purée with the cabbage, adding salt, pepper, and a lump of butter the size of a chestnut. Press it into a mold and cook it in a double saucepan for quarter of an hour. Take it out and decorate with the whole chestnuts. <a name="link2H_4_0031" id="link2H_4_0031"> </a> <h2> RED CABBAGE </h2> <p> Take half a red cabbage of medium size, chop it very <span class="adverb">finely</span> and put it in a pan; add a little water, salt, and pepper, three or four potatoes cut in fine slices and five lumps of sugar. Let it all simmer for two hours with the lid on. Then take off the cover and let it reduce. Before serving it, add either a bit of fat pork or some gravy, with <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of vinegar. Stir it well before sending it to table. </p> <p> [<i>Mrs. Emelie Jones</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0032" id="link2H_4_0032"> </a> <h2> ASPARAGUS À L'ANVERS </h2> <p> Clean a bunch of asparagus and cook it in salt water for fifteen minutes. To do this <span class="adverb">successfully</span>, tie the bunch round with some tape and place it upright in a pan of boiling water. Let the heads be above the water so that they will get cooked by the steam and will not be broken. Simmer in this way to prevent them moving much. Meanwhile, hard-boil three eggs and chop some parsley. Lay the asparagus on a dish and sprinkle parsley over it, place round the sides the eggs cut in halves long-ways, and serve as well a sauce-boat of melted butter. </p> <p> [<i>Mrs. Emelie Jones</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0033" id="link2H_4_0033"> </a> <h2> COOKED LETTUCE </h2> <p> Very often you will find that you cannot use all your lettuces, that they have begun to bolt and are no good for salad. This is the moment to cook them. Discard any bad leaves and wash the others <span class="adverb">carefully</span>. Boil them for twelve minutes, take them off the fire, drain them and dry them in a clean cloth so as to get rid of all the water. Mince them <span class="adverb">finely</span>, then put them into a saucepan with a lump of butter, pepper and salt. Stir till they begin to turn color, then put in <span class="measure">a thimbleful</span> of flour melted in milk. Stir <span class="adverb">constantly</span>, and if the vegetable becomes dry, moisten with more flour and milk. Let it simmer for quarter of an hour, and turn it out as a vegetable with meat. <a name="link2H_4_0034" id="link2H_4_0034"> </a> <h2> STUFFED CAULIFLOWER </h2> <p> Pick over a fine cauliflower, and plunge it for a moment in boiling water. Look over it well again and remove any grit or insects. Put it head downwards in a pan when you have already placed a good slice of fat bacon at the bottom and sides. In the holes between the pan and the vegetable put a stuffing of minced meat, with breadcrumbs, yolks of eggs, mushrooms, seasoning of the usual kinds, in fact, a good forcemeat. Press this well in, and pour over it a thin gravy. Let it cook <span class="adverb">gently</span>, and when the gravy on the top has disappeared put a dish on the top of the saucepan, turn it upside down and slip the cauliflower out. Serve very hot. <a name="link2H_4_0035" id="link2H_4_0035"> </a> <h2> GOURMANDS' MUSHROOMS </h2> <p> There was a man in Ghent who loved mushrooms, but he could only eat them done in this fashion. If you said, "Monsieur, will you have them tossed in butter?" he would roar out, "No—do you take me for a Prussian? Let me have them <span class="adverb">properly</span> cooked." </p> <p> Melt in a pan a lump of butter the size of a tangerine orange and squeeze on it the juice of half a lemon. The way to get a great deal of juice from a lemon is to plunge it first of all for a few minutes, say five minutes, in boiling water. When the butter simmers, throw in <span class="measure">a pound</span> of picked small mushrooms, stir them <span class="adverb">constantly</span>, do not let them get black. Then in three or four minutes they are well impregnated with butter, and the chief difficulty of the dish is over. Put the saucepan further on the fire, let it boil for a few minutes. Take out the mushrooms, drain them, sprinkle them with flour, moisten them with gravy, season with salt and pepper, put them back in the butter and stir in the yolk of an egg. Add also a little of the lemon juice that remains. While you are doing this you must get another person to cut and toast some bread and to butter it. Pour on to the bread the mushrooms (which are fit for the greatest saints to eat on Fridays), and serve them very hot. <a name="link2H_4_0036" id="link2H_4_0036"> </a> <h2> POMMES CHÂTEAU </h2> <p> Take twenty potatoes, turn them with a knife into olive shape, boil them in salted water for five minutes; drain them and put them on a baking-tin with salt and butter or dripping. Cook them in a very hot oven for thirty minutes, moving them about from time to time. Sprinkle on a little chopped parsley before serving. <a name="link2H_4_0037" id="link2H_4_0037"> </a> <h2> CHIPPED POTATOES </h2> <p> Take some long-shaped potatoes, peel them and smooth them with the knife. Cut them into very thin rounds. </p> <p> Heat the grease pretty hot, dry the slices of potato with a cloth, put them into the frying basket and plunge them into the fat. When they are colored, take the basket out, let the fat heat up again to a <span class="adverb">slightly</span> higher temperature, and re-plunge the basket, so that the slices become quite crisp. Serve with coarse salt sprinkled over. <a name="link2H_4_0038" id="link2H_4_0038"> </a> <h2> CHICORY À LA FERDINAND </h2> <p> Boil and chop in medium-sized pieces the chicory, mince up a few chives according to your taste and heat both the vegetables in some cream, adding salt and pepper. Pour on a dish and decorate with chopped hard-boiled eggs. <a name="link2H_4_0039" id="link2H_4_0039"> </a> <h2> APPLES AND SAUSAGES </h2> <p> This dish comes from the French border of Belgium; it tastes better than you would think. Take <span class="measure">a pound</span> of beef sausages, and <span class="adverb">preferably</span> use the small chipolata sausages. (What a delightful thing if the English would make other kinds of sausages as well as their beef and pork ones!) Fry then your sausages <span class="adverb">lightly</span> in butter, look upon them as little beings for a few moments in purgatory before they are removed to heaven, among the apples. Keeping your sausages hot after they are fried, take <span class="measure">a pound</span> of brown pippin apples, pare them and core them. Cut them into neat rounds quarter of an inch thick, put them to cook in their liquor of the sausages (which you are keeping hot elsewhere), and add butter to moisten them. Let them simmer <span class="adverb">gently</span> so as to keep their shape. Put the apple-rings in the center of the dish, place the sausages round them. This dish uses a good deal of butter, but you must not use anything else for frying. <a name="link2H_4_0040" id="link2H_4_0040"> </a> <h2> STUFFED CHICORY </h2> <p> Make a mince of any cold white meat, such as veal, pork or chicken, and add to it some minced ham; sprinkle it with a thick white sauce. In the meantime the chicories should be cooking; tie each one round with a thread to keep them firm and boil them for ten minutes. When cooked, drain them well, open them lengthwise very <span class="adverb">carefully</span>, and slip in <span class="measure">a spoonful</span> of the mince. Close them, keeping the leaves very neat, and, if necessary, tie them round again. Put them in a fire-proof dish with a lump of butter on each, and let them heat through. Serve them in their juice or with more of the white sauce, taking care to remove the threads. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Limpens</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0041" id="link2H_4_0041"> </a> <h2> TOMATOES STUFFED WITH BEANS </h2> <p> Halve and empty the tomatoes, and put a few drops of vinegar in each. Cook your beans, whether French beans or haricots or flageolets, and stir them, when tender, into a good thick bechamel sauce. Let this get cold. Empty out the vinegar from the tomatoes and fill them with the mixture, pouring over the top some mayonnaise sauce and parsley. </p> <p> [<i>Madame van Praet</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0042" id="link2H_4_0042"> </a> <h2> CABBAGE AND POTATOES </h2> <p> Boil the cabbages in salted water till tender. Chop them up. Brown an onion in butter, and add the cabbage, salt, pepper, and a little water. Slice some potatoes <span class="adverb">thickly</span>, fry them, and serve the vegetable with cabbage in the center, and the fried potatoes laid round. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. M. Schmidt, Antwerp</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0043" id="link2H_4_0043"> </a> <h2> SPINACH À LA BRACONNIÈRE </h2> <p> Cook <span class="measure">two pounds</span> of well-washed spinach; drain it, and pass it through a sieve; or, failing a sieve, chop it very <span class="adverb">finely</span> with butter, pepper and salt. Do not add milk, but let it remain somewhat firm. Make a thick bechamel sauce, sufficient to take up a <span class="measure">quarter of a pound</span> of grated Gruyère, and, if you wish, stir in the yolk of a raw egg. Lay in a circular dish <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of minced ham, pour round it the thick white sauce, and round that again the hot spinach. This makes a pretty dish, and it is not <span class="adverb">costly</span>. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Braconnière</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0044" id="link2H_4_0044"> </a> <h2> A DISH OF HARICOT BEANS </h2> <p> Put the haricots to soak for six hours in cold water. Boil them in water with one carrot, one onion, salt, two cloves, a good pinch of dried herbs. Drain off the liquor from the haricots. Chop up a shallot, and fry it in butter; add your haricots, with pepper and salt and tomato purée. Stir well, and serve with minced parsley scattered at the top. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Goffaux</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0045" id="link2H_4_0045"> </a> <h2> POTATOES IN THE BELGIAN MANNER </h2> <p> Take some slices of streaky bacon, about five inches long, and heat them in a pan. When the bacon is half-cooked, take it out of the pan and in the fat that remains behind fry some very <span class="adverb">finely</span>-sliced onions till they are brown. When the onions are well browned, put them in a large pot, large enough for all the potatoes you wish to cook, adding pepper, salt, and <span class="measure">a coffee-spoonful</span> of sweet herbs dried and mixed, which in England replace the thyme and bay-leaves used in Belgium. Add sufficient water to cook the potatoes and your slices of bacon. Cook till tender. </p> <p> [<i>E. Wainard</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0046" id="link2H_4_0046"> </a> <h2> TOMATOES AND SHRIMPS </h2> <p> Lay on a dish some sliced tomatoes, taking out the seeds, and sprinkle them over with picked shrimps. Then pour over all a good mayonnaise sauce. For the sauce: Take the yolk of an egg and mix it with <span class="measure">two soup-spoonfuls</span> of salad oil that you must pass in very <span class="adverb">gently</span> and very little at a time. Melt a good pinch of salt in <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of vinegar (tarragon vinegar, if you have it); add pepper and a small quantity of made mustard. In making this sauce be sure to stir it always the same way. It will take about half-an-hour to make it <span class="adverb">properly</span>. </p> <p> [<i>Paquerette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0047" id="link2H_4_0047"> </a> <h2> FLEMISH ENDIVE </h2> <p> Choose twelve endives that are short and neat; cut off the outside leaves and pare the bottom; wash them in plenty of water, and cook them in simmering water for three minutes. Then take them from the water and place them in a well-buttered frying-pan, dust them with salt and also with a pinch of sugar. Add the juice of half a lemon, and rather less than <span class="measure">a pint</span> of water. Place the pan on the fire for two or three minutes to start the cooking, then cover it <span class="adverb">closely</span>, and finish the cooking by placing it in the oven for fifty minutes. Take out the endives and put them in the vegetable-dish and pour over them the liquor in which they have been cooked. This liquor is improved by being reduced, and when off the fire, by having a small piece of butter added to it. </p> <p> The above recipe can be used for chicory as well as for endive. </p> <p> [<i>J. Kirckaert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0048" id="link2H_4_0048"> </a> <h2> CAULIFLOWER AND SHRIMPS </h2> <p> Take a cauliflower and cut off the green part, and wash it several times in salted water. Boil it <span class="adverb">gently</span> till cooked, taking care that it remains whole. Put it aside to cool, and when it is quite cold make a hole in the center down to the bottom. Pick some shrimps till you have <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of them, make a good mayonnaise and, taking half of it, mix it with the shrimps. Fill the hole in the cauliflower with the shrimps and sauce, and pour the rest of the sauce over the top of the cauliflower. </p> <p> This dish is to be served very cold. </p> <p> [<i>E. Defouck</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0049" id="link2H_4_0049"> </a> <h2> BELGIAN CARROTS </h2> <p> Clean well the carrots, cut them in dice, and wash them well. Put them on the fire with enough water to cover them, a bit of butter, an onion well minced, salt and pepper and <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of powdered sugar. Place the dish in the oven for at least an hour, and, when you serve it, sprinkle over the carrots some minced parsley. </p> <p> [<i>Gabrielle Janssens</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0050" id="link2H_4_0050"> </a> <h2> STUFFED TOMATOES </h2> <p> Take ten good tomatoes and cut off the tops, which are to serve as lids. Remove the insides, and fill with the following mixture: minced veal and ham, rather more veal than ham, mushrooms tossed in butter, a little breadcrumb, milk to render it moist, pepper and salt. Put on the covers and add on each one a scrap of butter. Bake them <span class="adverb">gently</span> in a fireproof dish. The following excellent sauce is poured over them five minutes before taking them out of the oven: Use any stock that you have, <span class="adverb">preferably</span> veal, adding the insides of the tomatoes, pepper and salt; pass this through the wire sieve. Make a <i>roux</i>—that is, melt some butter in a pan, adding flour little by little and stirring until it goes a brown color. Add to it then your tomatoes that have been through the sieve, and some more fried mushrooms. Pour this sauce over the whole and serve very hot. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Praet</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0051" id="link2H_4_0051"> </a> <h2> RED CABBAGE </h2> <p> Mince the cabbage and put it in a pan with plenty of refined fat (clarified fat) and two or three large potatoes, pepper and salt. Add sufficient water to cover it, with a dash of vinegar and <span class="measure">six dessert-spoonfuls</span> of brown or moist sugar. Let it simmer for four hours, drain it and serve cold. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Segers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0052" id="link2H_4_0052"> </a> <h2> VEGETABLE SALAD </h2> <p> The special point of this dish is that peas, beans, carrots in dice, are all cooked <span class="adverb">separately</span> and when they are cold they are placed in a large dish without being mixed. Decorate with the hearts of lettuce round the edge and with slices of tomato, and pour over it, or hand with it, a good mayonnaise. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Praet</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0053" id="link2H_4_0053"> </a> <h2> CHICORY </h2> <p> This excellent vegetable can be dressed either in a bechamel sauce, or with butter and lemon-juice. It is <span class="adverb">gently</span> stewed, first of all, and it requires pepper and salt. The sauces can be varied with tomato, or with some of the good English bottled sauces stirred with the bechamel. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Praet</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0054" id="link2H_4_0054"> </a> <h2> CAULIFLOWER À LA REINE ELIZABETH </h2> <p> Simmer the cauliflowers till tender. Prepare a mince of veal and pork, and season it well with a little spice. Butter a mold and fill it with alternate layers of mince and of cauliflower broken in small pieces. Fill a large saucepan three-quarters full of boiling water and place the mold in this; let it cook for one hour in this way over the fire; turn it out and pour a spinach sauce over it. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Praet</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0055" id="link2H_4_0055"> </a> <h2> MUSHROOMS À LA SPINETTE </h2> <p> Make some puff pastry cases, wash and chop the mushrooms and toss them in butter to which you have added a slice of lemon. Make a bechamel sauce with cream, or, failing that, with thick tinned cream, and mix with the mushrooms. Heat the cases for a few minutes in the oven and fill them with the hot mixture. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0056" id="link2H_4_0056"> </a> <h2> DRESSED CAULIFLOWER </h2> <p> Simmer a cauliflower till it is tender. Pour out the liquor, and add to it a bit of butter, the size of a nut, rolled in flour, a pinch of nutmeg, <span class="measure">a tablespoonful</span> of Gruyère cheese and a little milk. </p> <p> Bind the sauce with a little feculina flour. At the moment of serving, pour the sauce over the cauliflower, which you have placed upright on a dish. The nutmeg and the cheese are indispensable to this dish. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0057" id="link2H_4_0057"> </a> <h2> BRUSSELS SPROUTS </h2> <h3> (The best way to cook them) </h3> <p> Having cleaned and trimmed your sprouts, let them simmer in salted water, to which you have also added a little soda to preserve the color. Or, if you do not like to add soda, keep the pan <span class="adverb">firmly</span> covered by the lid. When tender, take them out and let them drain, place them in another pan with a good lump of butter or fat; stir, so as to let the butter melt at once, and sprinkle in pepper and a tiny pinch of nutmeg. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Germaine Verstraete</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0058" id="link2H_4_0058"> </a> <h2> RAGOUT OF MUTTON </h2> <p> Fry the mutton very well. Then place in another pan sufficient water to cover your mutton, adding pepper, salt, a little nutmeg, a celery, and a few white turnips cut in pieces. When they are well cooked, add the meat and let all simmer for two hours. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0059" id="link2H_4_0059"> </a> <h2> STEWED SHOULDER OF MUTTON </h2> <p> Put in a pan a large lump of butter or clarified fat, and place the shoulder in it. Add two big onions sliced, and a very large carrot also sliced, thyme, bay-leaf, two cloves, pepper and salt, and, if you like it, two garlic knobs. Let the shoulder simmer in this by the side of the fire for three hours. Strain the sauce through a fine sieve, and then add to it either a glass of good red wine or a little made mustard with <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of brown sugar. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Segers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0060" id="link2H_4_0060"> </a> <h2> SHOULDER OF MUTTON </h2> <p> Put <span class="measure">a handful</span> of dried white haricots to soak over-night and simmer them the following day for two hours with some salt. Rub your shoulder of mutton with a little bit of garlic before putting it in the oven to cook, and when it is done, serve with the haricots round it, to which have been added a pat or two of butter. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0061" id="link2H_4_0061"> </a> <h2> MUTTON COLLOPS </h2> <p> Take some slices of roast or boiled leg of mutton, egg them, and roll in a mixture of breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, and a little flower. Fry till the slices are brown on each side; serve with chipped potatoes. <a name="link2H_4_0062" id="link2H_4_0062"> </a> <h2> SHOULDER OF MUTTON DRESSED LIKE KID </h2> <p> My readers have <span class="adverb">probably</span> tasted a shoulder of kid dressed as mutton. Let them therefore try the converse of the dish, and, if they <span class="adverb">really</span> take trouble with it, they will have a dinner of the most delicious. Put into a deep dish that will hold your shoulder of mutton the following mixture: </p> <p> <span class="measure">a cupful</span> each of oil, vinegar, white wine, red wine, an onion stuffed with cloves, a bunch of herbs which must be fresh ones—thyme, parsley, marjoram, sage, a tiny bit of mint, a few bay-leaves—two medium carrots cut in slices. Put the shoulder of mutton in this mixture and keep it there for four days, turning it every now and then and pouring the mixture on it. On the fifth day take it out, and, if you care to take the trouble, you will improve it by larding the meat here and there. Put it to roast in front of a good fire, with your liquor, which serves to baste it with, in a pan beneath. If you cannot arrange to hang the mutton by a string to turn like a roasting jack, then bake it, and <span class="adverb">continually</span> baste it. A small shoulder is most successful. For one of <span class="measure">four pounds</span> bake for fifty minutes. <a name="link2H_4_0063" id="link2H_4_0063"> </a> <h2> ROAST RUMP OF BEEF, BORDELAISE SAUCE </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">three pounds</span> of the rump of beef, put it into a pretty deep pan upon one onion, one sliced carrot, some thyme, and a bay-leaf, three <span class="measure">table-spoonfuls</span> of dripping, salt, and pepper. Put it on the top of the fire, and when it comes <span class="adverb">fully</span> to the boil, put it to the side, and allow it to simmer <span class="adverb">nicely</span> for an hour and a half. Dress it on a dish and serve the sauce <span class="adverb">separately</span>. <a name="link2H_4_0064" id="link2H_4_0064"> </a> <h2> ROASTED FILLET OF BEEF </h2> <p> About <span class="measure">three pounds</span> of fillet of beef roasted in a good hot oven for forty minutes; let it be rather underdone. Take three turnips, four good-sized carrots, cut them into jardinière slices. Cook them <span class="adverb">separately</span> in salted water, drain them and add salt, pepper, a tiny pinch of sugar and <span class="measure">one dessert-spoonful</span> of butter. Dress the fillet on a long dish with the garniture of carrots and turnips, and some artichoke-bottoms cooked in water and finished with butter, also add some potatoes <i>château</i>. Be sure the dish is very hot. Put a little water, or, for choice, clear stock, upon the roasting-dish and pour it over the fillet. <a name="link2H_4_0065" id="link2H_4_0065"> </a> <h2> BEEF À LA BOURGUIGNONNE </h2> <p> Braise <span class="measure">three pounds</span> of beef upon twenty little onions, ten mushrooms, and two glasses of red wine, salt, pepper, thyme and bay-leaf; cook for one and one-half hours with not too hot a fire. After that, place the beef on an oval dish; keep it hot; stir <span class="measure">two tablespoonfuls</span> of demi-glaze into the vegetables and let it boil up. Cut some slices of the beef, and strain the sauce over all. <a name="link2H_4_0066" id="link2H_4_0066"> </a> <h2> OX-TONGUE À LA BOURGEOISE </h2> <p> Braise a tongue with two glasses of Madeira, one carrot, one onion, thyme, bay-leaf, for two hours. Take seven tomatoes cut in pieces, four carrots cut in two and three in four, about one-half inch long, ten smallish onions, and braise them all together; then add <span class="measure">two large table-spoonfuls</span> of demi-glaze, some salt and pepper. Serve all very hot on an oval dish. </p> <p> Braised tongue eats very well with spinach, carrots or sorrel. <a name="link2H_4_0067" id="link2H_4_0067"> </a> <h2> BEEF À LA MODE </h2> <p> Take the raw beef, either rump-steak or fillet, and brown it in the pan in some butter. Then add a little boiling water. Add then six or eight chopped shallots, the hearts of two celeries chopped, a few small and whole carrots, pepper, salt, two cloves. Before serving, bind the sauce with a little flour and pour all over the meat. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0068" id="link2H_4_0068"> </a> <h2> BOEUF À LA FLAMANDE </h2> <p> For this national dish that part of the animal called the "spiering" is used, which is cut from near the neck. What is called fresh silverside in England answers very well. Cut the beef into slices about half-an-inch thick and divide the slices into four pieces. This you can do with a piece of <span class="measure">four pounds</span>. For a piece of <span class="measure">four pounds</span>, cook first of all four large fried onions in fat. Put the beef in the hot fat when the onions are colored, and sauté it; that is, keep moving the meat about <span class="adverb">gently</span>. Take the meat out and place it on a dish. Add to the fat <span class="measure">two dessert-spoonsful</span> of flour and let it cook <span class="adverb">gently</span> for five minutes, adding <span class="measure">a good pint</span> of water. Pass the sauce through a tammy, over the onions, and put the meat back in it, and it ought to cover them. Then add <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of good vinegar and a strong bunch of herbs. Stew for an hour, take off the fat and remove the bunch of herbs. Heat up again and serve. <a name="link2H_4_0069" id="link2H_4_0069"> </a> <h2> CARETAKER'S BEEF </h2> <p> The real name of this dish is <i>Miroton de la Concierge</i>, and it is <span class="adverb">currently</span> held that only <i>concierges</i> can do it to perfection. Put <span class="measure">a handful</span> of minced onion to fry in butter; when it is <span class="adverb">nearly</span> cooked, but not quite, add <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of flour, and stir it till all is well colored. Pour on it a little gravy, or meat-juice of some kind, and let it simmer for ten minutes after it begins to steam again. Then take your beef, which must be cold, and cut in small slices; throw them in and let it all cook for a quarter of an hour, only simmering, and <span class="adverb">constantly</span> stirring it, so that though it becomes <span class="adverb">considerably</span> reduced it does not stick to the pan. <a name="link2H_4_0070" id="link2H_4_0070"> </a> <h2> BLANKENBERG BEEF </h2> <p> This is a winter dish; it is most sustaining, and once made, it can be kept hot for hours without spoiling. Make a purée of lentils or peas, and season it with pepper and salt. Mince your beef with an equal quantity of peeled chestnuts, add chopped parsley, a dust of nutmeg or a few cloves. If you have any cheap red wine pour it over the mince till it is well moistened. If you have no red wine, use gravy. If you have no gravy, use milk. Let all heat up in the oven for ten minutes, then sprinkle in some currants or sultanas. Take the dish you wish to serve it in, put the stew in the middle, and place the purée round it. If the mince is moist it can be kept by the fire till required, or the dish can be covered with another one and placed in a carrying-can, taken out to skating or shooting parties. <a name="link2H_4_0071" id="link2H_4_0071"> </a> <h2> VEAL WITH TOMATOES </h2> <p> Grill some slices of fat veal; cook some sliced tomatoes with butter, pepper and salt, on a flat dish in a pretty quick oven. Garnish the veal with the tomatoes laid on top of each slice, and pour <i>maître-d'hôtel</i> butter over, made with butter, salt, chopped parsley, and lemon-juice. <a name="link2H_4_0072" id="link2H_4_0072"> </a> <h2> FRICANDEAU OF VEAL </h2> <p> A fillet of veal, larded with fat bacon, of about <span class="measure">three pounds</span>. Braise it one and one-half hours on a moderate fire. Dish with its own gravy. This eats well with spinach, endive, sorrel or carrots. <a name="link2H_4_0073" id="link2H_4_0073"> </a> <h2> VEAL CUTLETS WITH MADEIRA SAUCE </h2> <p> are garnished with potatoes and mushrooms, and the sauce is made of demi-glaze and madeira, worked up with butter, pepper, salt and chopped parsley. <a name="link2H_4_0074" id="link2H_4_0074"> </a> <h2> GRENADINS OF VEAL </h2> <p> Cut your veal into <span class="adverb">fairly</span> thick cutlets, lard them with fat bacon, and braise them in the oven, with salt, pepper and butter. Dish up, and rinse the pot with a little stock, and pour it on the meat ready to serve. <a name="link2H_4_0075" id="link2H_4_0075"> </a> <h2> CALF'S LIVER À LA BOURGEOISE </h2> <p> Take a calf's liver, lard it with fat bacon, braise it with the <i>bourgeoise</i> garnish—carrots and turnips. After it is cooked and dished, stir some demi-glaze into the sauce, pour it on to the meat and garnish with potatoes <i>château</i>. <a name="link2H_4_0076" id="link2H_4_0076"> </a> <h2> VEAL WITH MUSHROOMS, OR THE CALF IN PARADISE </h2> <p> Take some slices of loin of veal, fry them in butter, with pepper and salt, for twenty minutes. Take <span class="measure">two spoonfuls</span> of demi-glaze and heat it with some mushrooms and a little madeira. Put the mushrooms and sauce on each slice and sprinkle chopped parsley over all. </p> <p> This can also be done with <i>fines herbes</i>, mushrooms, chervil and parsley, chopped before cooking them in the butter. <a name="link2H_4_0077" id="link2H_4_0077"> </a> <h2> BLANQUETTE OF VEAL </h2> <p> Take your veal, which need not be from the fillet or the best cuts. Cut it into pieces about an inch long and add a little water when putting it into the pan; salt, pepper and a little nutmeg, and let it simmer for two hours. When tender, stir in the juice of half a lemon, and then bind the sauce with the yolk of an egg, or, in default of that, with a little flour. Serve <span class="adverb">immediately</span>. You will find that when you wish to bind a sauce at the last minute, egg powder will serve very well. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0078" id="link2H_4_0078"> </a> <h2> VEAL CAKE, EXCELLENT FOR SUPPER </h2> <p> Take some chopped veal and with it an equal quantity of chopped beef, and one-quarter the quantity of breadcrumbs from a fresh loaf. Bind all with a raw egg, adding salt and pepper, and, if wished, some blanched and chopped almonds. (Put a large piece of butter both above and below.) Shape the meat into the form of a loaf and put it in a dish, with a large slice of butter above and below it. Cook it for about half-an-hour. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Gabrielle Janssens</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0079" id="link2H_4_0079"> </a> <h2> BREAST OF VEAL </h2> <h3> (A good and inexpensive dish) </h3> <p> Cook the breast of veal in stock or in a little meat extract and water, with sliced carrots and onions, thyme, pepper, salt, three bay-leaves and three cloves. Let it stew for one hour in this, and then take it out. Take out also the vegetables, and strain the liquor. Make a bechamel sauce and add it to the liquor, giving it all a sharp taste with the juice of half a lemon. Put back the breast of veal in this sauce and when hot again serve them together. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0080" id="link2H_4_0080"> </a> <h2> OX TONGUE </h2> <p> Cook the ox tongue in stock or in meat extract and water. Make the hunters' sauce, as for a hare, but sprinkle into it some chopped sultanas. Take the tongue out of the stock and skin it, cut it in neat pieces if you wish, and let it heat in your sauce. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0081" id="link2H_4_0081"> </a> <h2> VEAL À LA MILANAISE </h2> <p> Egg and breadcrumb some thick slices of veal; fry and garnish with boiled macaroni cut in small pieces, with ham, mushrooms, truffles, all cut in Julienne strips, pepper, salt, and a little tomato sauce. Mix all these well together, and serve very hot. <a name="link2H_4_0082" id="link2H_4_0082"> </a> <h2> STUFFED VEAL LIVER, OR LIVER À LA PANIER D'OR </h2> <p> The <i>Panier d'Or</i> is a hotel in Bruges, much frequented before the war by the English. </p> <p> Take the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, a bit of bread the same size, and crumble them together; rub in some chopped parsley and onion and moisten it with gravy or with milk; season <span class="adverb">highly</span> with salt, cayenne, and a little vinegar or mustard. Take your liver, if possible in one rather large flat slice. Make deep cuts in it, parallel to each other, and lying <span class="adverb">closely</span> together. Press your stuffing into these cuts. Put a bit of butter the size of a walnut into a pan, or fireproof dish. Take your liver and tie it round with a slice of fat bacon or fat pork. Lay it in the dish and let it cook for an hour in a moderate oven. When done, remove the slice of bacon, if there is any left, and serve the liver in its own juice. <a name="link2H_4_0083" id="link2H_4_0083"> </a> <h2> VEAL À LA CRÊME </h2> <p> Take a piece of veal suitable for roasting, and put it in vinegar for twenty-four hours. </p> <p> Roast it with butter, pepper and salt, with a few slices of onion. Baste it well, and when it is finished crush the onions in the gravy and add some cream. Mix together with flour so as to thicken. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Spreakers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0084" id="link2H_4_0084"> </a> <h2> <i>This is the demi-glaze Sauce which is used for all brown Sauces.</i> </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">one pound</span> of flour, dry it in the oven on a tray till it is the color of cocoa; pass it through a sieve into a saucepan, moisten it with stock, mixing very <span class="adverb">carefully</span>. Boil it up two or three times during forty-eight hours, adding two carrots, two onions, thyme, bay, all cut up, which you have colored in the frying-pan, also some salt and peppercorns. When it is all cooked, pass it through a cloth or sieve. When it is reduced the first time, you should add some stock, but by the time it is finished it should be <span class="adverb">fairly</span> thick. It will keep for a fortnight. </p> <p> [<i>G. Goffaux</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0085" id="link2H_4_0085"> </a> <h2> DUTCH SAUCE FOR FISH </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">a tablespoonful</span> of flour and three of water; make it boil and add the yolks of three eggs; melt <span class="measure">one-half pound</span> of butter and beat it <span class="adverb">gently</span> into your first mixture, add salt, the juice of half a lemon and a pinch of grated nutmeg. Keep the sauce very hot in a <i>bain-marie</i> or in a double saucepan. If you have neither, keep it in a large cup placed in a saucepan of hot water. </p> <p> [<i>Mrs. Emelie Jones</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0086" id="link2H_4_0086"> </a> <h2> BEARNAISE SAUCE </h2> <h3> (Very good with stewed meat) </h3> <p> Put some onions to cook in tarragon vinegar and water; when they are half done, add more water and throw in a little thyme and a leaf or two of bay; let it cook for one hour and pass it through a sieve. Melt some butter in a pan and thicken it with flour; put your vinegar to it and more water if you think it necessary; stir in salt and pepper and the yolks of two eggs or more, according to the quantity that you wish to make. Let it get thick, and just as you take it off the fire add a sprinkle of chopped parsley and a pat of butter. This is a useful sauce and it well repays the trouble. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0087" id="link2H_4_0087"> </a> <h2> MUSLIN SAUCE </h2> <p> Melt a piece of butter the size of an egg, sprinkle and stir in some flour, adding water if it becomes too thick. Keep stirring over the fire for five minutes, and, still stirring, add pepper and salt and the yolks of two eggs. You may add the yolks of three or four eggs if you wish for a rich sauce. The last item is the juice of a lemon to your taste. This is a very popular addition to meat. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0088" id="link2H_4_0088"> </a> <h2> SAUCE BORDELAISE </h2> <p> Two shallots, ten tarragon leaves all chopped, are put into a very small saucepan. Add a large glass of claret, <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of butter, and let it all reduce together. Add salt, pepper, <span class="measure">three dessert-spoonfuls</span> of demi-glaze, let it come to the boil, and stir in <span class="measure">two dessert-spoonfuls</span> of butter. [<i>Georges Goffaux</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0089" id="link2H_4_0089"> </a> <h2> POOR MAN'S SAUCE </h2> <p> Even a piece of meat of poor quality is much liked if it has the following sauce poured over it when served. Put a little milk, say <span class="measure">a cupful</span>, in a saucepan, with salt and pepper; let it heat. Chop up <span class="measure">a handful</span> of shallots and a quarter as much of parsley that is well washed. Throw them into the milk; let it boil, and when the shallots are tender the sauce is ready. If you have no milk, use water; but in that case let it be <span class="adverb">strongly</span> flavored with vinegar. <a name="link2H_4_0090" id="link2H_4_0090"> </a> <h2> THE GOOD WIFE'S SAUCE </h2> <p> This sauce is indispensable to any one who wishes to use up slices of cold mutton. Trim your slices, take away skin and fat and pour on them the following cold sauce. Hard-boil three eggs, let them get cold. Crumble the yolks in a cup, adding <span class="adverb">slowly</span> <span class="measure">a tablespoonful</span> of oil, salt, pepper, a little mustard, <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of vinegar; then chop the whites of egg, with a scrap of onion, and if you have them, some capers. Mix all together and pour it over the cold meat. <a name="link2H_4_0091" id="link2H_4_0091"> </a> <h2> CREAM SAUCE </h2> <p> Roll a lump of butter in flour, put it in a pan on the fire, and as it melts add pepper and salt. Stir it, and as it thickens add a little milk; let it simmer and keep on stirring it. You will never get a good white sauce unless you season it well and let it simmer for a quarter of an hour. Strain it, heat it again, and serve it for fish, potatoes, chicken. <a name="link2H_4_0092" id="link2H_4_0092"> </a> <h2> SAUCE MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL </h2> <p> Every one likes this sauce for either meat or fish. In a double saucepan melt a lump of butter, flavor it with salt, pepper, some minced parsley that you had first rubbed on a raw slice of onion, and some lemon-juice. Use vinegar instead of the lemon if you wish, but do not forget that it does not require so much vinegar. Mix it with a fork and serve it warm; do not let it bubble. <a name="link2H_4_0093" id="link2H_4_0093"> </a> <h2> SAUCE AU DIABLE </h2> <h3> (For cold meats) </h3> <p> Take a shallot or two, according to quantity of sauce needed, slice very <span class="adverb">finely</span>, shred a little parsley, put both into the sauce-boat, with salt, pepper, and mustard to taste; add oil and vinegar in proportion of <span class="measure">one dessert-spoonful</span> of vinegar to <span class="measure">two table-spoonfuls</span> of oil, till sufficient quantity. <a name="link2H_4_0094" id="link2H_4_0094"> </a> <h2> FRICASSEE OF PIGEONS </h2> <p> Put your pieces of pigeon into a stew-pan in butter, and let it cook with the pigeons. Then add one carrot, two onions, two sprigs of parsley, a leaf of sage, five juniper berries, and a very little nutmeg. Stir it all for a few minutes, and then, and only then, add <span class="measure">a half-cupful</span> of water and Liebig, two rusks or dry biscuits in pieces, the juice of a lemon. Put it all on the side of the fire, cover the saucepan and let it cook <span class="adverb">gently</span> for an hour and a half. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Vandervalle</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0095" id="link2H_4_0095"> </a> <h2> HUNTER'S HARE </h2> <p> Cut the hare in pieces and cook it in the oven in butter, pepper and salt, turning it now and then so that it does not get dry. Then prepare Hunter's Sauce. Melt a bit of butter the size of an egg and add flour, letting it brown, fry in it plenty of chopped onions and shallots, adding tarragon vinegar, cayenne and pepper-corns; spice it <span class="adverb">highly</span> with nutmeg, three cloves, a sprig of thyme and a couple of bay-leaves. Chop up the hare liver, put it in the sauce and pass all through the sieve. Pour the sauce over the hare and add a good glass of claret, or, for English tastes, of port wine. If the sauce is too thin, thicken it with flour, and serve all together. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0096" id="link2H_4_0096"> </a> <h2> FLEMISH RABBIT </h2> <p> Cut the rabbit into neat pieces. Put them into a deep frying-pan and toss them in butter, so that each piece is well browned without burning the butter. Take them out of the pan and in the same butter cook six shallots (<span class="adverb">finely</span> minced) till they are brown. Then return the rabbit to the pan, seasoning all with salt and pepper, adding as well three bay-leaves, two cloves, and two white peppers. If you have any gravy, add <span class="measure">a pint</span> of it, but in default of gravy add the same quantity of Bovril and water. Place on the fire till it boils, then draw it to the side and let it cook there <span class="adverb">gently</span> for three-quarters of an hour. Just when it is <span class="adverb">nearly</span> done, add a little vinegar, more or less according to your taste. This is served with boiled and well-drained potatoes. If the sauce is not thick enough, add to it a little flour which has been first mixed with some cold water. </p> <p> [<i>Georges Kerckeert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0097" id="link2H_4_0097"> </a> <h2> ROAST KID WITH VENISON SAUCE </h2> <p> This dish is very excellent with mutton instead of kid; the meat tastes like venison if this recipe is followed: </p> <p> Put the meat, say a shoulder of mutton, to soak in a bottle of red wine, with a sliced carrot, thyme, bay-leaves (4), six cloves, fifteen peppercorns and <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of vinegar, for two hours. Then bring the liquor to the boil and just before it is boiling pour it over and over the meat. Do this pouring over of hot liquor for two days. Then put the meat in the oven with butter, pepper, and salt, till it is cooked. </p> <p> Sauce: Brown some onions in butter and pour in your liquor, but without the carrot. Let it simmer for three-quarters of an hour, and pour it through a sieve. Roll a nut of butter in flour and add little by little the liquor you have from the meat, then <span class="measure">a coffee-spoonful</span> of meat extract and two lumps of sugar. This sauce ought to be quite thick. It is served with the meat. [<i>Mme. Vandervalle</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0098" id="link2H_4_0098"> </a> <h2> BAKED RABBIT </h2> <p> Fry the pieces of rabbit, adding three onions, two medium potatoes, half a glass of beer, a little water or stock, pepper and salt. Let it all bake <span class="adverb">gently</span> in an earthenware pot for two hours, and then thicken the same with flour. It is an improvement to add when it is being cooked two cloves, two bay-leaves, a pinch of nutmeg, and any fresh herbs, such as thyme, parsley, mint. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. E. Maes</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0099" id="link2H_4_0099"> </a> <h2> CHICKEN À LA MAX </h2> <p> Chop up some cold chicken into small squares, mix with a thick white sauce, and let it heat. Put it on a hot dish and cover with fried onions. Put chipped potatoes at the ends of the dish and a boiled chicory at either side. This excellent dish has received distinction also from its name, that of the heroic and ingenious burgomaster of Brussels. </p> <p> [<i>M. Stuart</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0100" id="link2H_4_0100"> </a> <h2> RABBIT À LA BORDELAISE </h2> <p> Cut a rabbit into joints, cover with vinegar, chop <span class="adverb">finely</span> two small onions, thyme, pepper, and salt, and a little grated nutmeg; let all soak for twenty-four hours. </p> <p> Take out the joints and brown <span class="adverb">gently</span> in a little dripping; when all are <span class="adverb">nicely</span> browned take <span class="measure">one cupful</span> of the marmalade and stew till tender one and a half to two hours. When ready, strain off the sauce, thicken <span class="adverb">nicely</span> with flour, dish the rabbit, and pour over the sauce. <a name="link2H_4_0101" id="link2H_4_0101"> </a> <h2> LAEKEN RABBIT </h2> <p> Take a medium-sized rabbit, and have it prepared and cut into joints. Put the pieces to soak for forty-eight hours in vinegar, enough to cover them, with a sprinkle of fresh thyme in it and a small onion sliced <span class="adverb">finely</span>. After forty-eight hours, put <span class="measure">one-quarter pound</span> of fat bacon, sliced, in a pan to melt, and when it has melted, take out any bits that remain, and add to the melted bacon a bit of butter as big as an egg, which let melt till it froths; <span class="adverb">secondly</span>, sprinkle in <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of flour. Stir it over the fire, mixing well till the sauce becomes brown, and then put in your marinaded pieces of rabbit. Add pepper and salt and cook till each piece is well colored on each side. When they are well colored, add then the bunch of thyme, the sliced onion and half the vinegar that you used for soaking; three bay-leaves, one dozen dried and dry prunes, five lumps of sugar, <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of water. Cover <span class="adverb">closely</span> and let it simmer for two hours and a half. </p> <p> [<i>A Belgian at Droitwich</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0102" id="link2H_4_0102"> </a> <h2> RABBIT </h2> <p> Put the back and the hind legs of one or two rabbits in an oven, covering the same first with a layer of butter (half inch thick) and then with a layer of French mustard, pepper and salt. Roast by a good fire for one hour, baste often with the juice from the meat and the gravy. <a name="link2H_4_0103" id="link2H_4_0103"> </a> <h2> HARE </h2> <p> To be put in a pan in the oven: sauce, butter, and <span class="measure">a quarter of a pint</span> of cream, pepper, salt and some flour to thicken the sauce. Before the hare is put in the oven, cover it with a thin piece of bacon, which must be taken away before the hare is brought to table. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Breakers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0104" id="link2H_4_0104"> </a> <h2> RUM OMELETTE </h2> <p> This simple dish is much liked by gentlemen. Break five eggs in a basin, sweeten them with castor sugar, pour in <span class="measure">a sherry glassful</span> of rum. Beat them very hard till they froth. Put a bit of fresh butter in a shallow pan and pour in your eggs. Let it stay on the fire just three minutes and then slip it off on to a hot dish. Powder it with sugar, as you take it to the dining-room. At the dining-room door, set a light to <span class="measure">a big spoonful</span> of rum and pour it over the omelette just as you go in. It is almost impossible to light a glass of rum in a hurry, for your omelette, so use a kitchen spoon. <a name="link2H_4_0105" id="link2H_4_0105"> </a> <h2> THE CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY DISH </h2> <p> Boil up <span class="measure">a quart</span> of milk, sweeten it with <span class="adverb">nearly</span> <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of sugar, and flavor with vanilla. Let it get cold. Beat up six eggs, both yolks and whites, mix them with the milk, put it all in a fireproof dish and cook very <span class="adverb">gently</span>. Cover the top before you serve it with ratafia biscuits. <a name="link2H_4_0106" id="link2H_4_0106"> </a> <h2> A FRANGIPANI </h2> <p> Put your saucepan on the table and break in it two eggs. Mix these with <span class="measure">two dessertspoonfuls</span> of flour. Add <span class="measure">a pint</span> of milk, and put it on the fire, stirring always one way. Let it cook for a quarter of an hour, stirring with one hand, while with the other sprinkle in powdered sugar and ground almonds. Turn out to get cold, and cut in squares. <a name="link2H_4_0107" id="link2H_4_0107"> </a> <h2> APRICOT SOUFFLÉ </h2> <p> This is good enough even for an English "dinner-party." Beat the whites of six eggs <span class="adverb">stiffly</span>. Take <span class="measure">four dessert-spoonfuls</span> of apricot jam, or an equal quantity of those dried apricots that have been soaked and stewed to a purée. If you use jam, you need not add sugar. If you use the dried apricots, add sugar to sweeten. Butter a dish at the bottom, and when you have well mixed with a fork the beaten whites and the apricot, put it in a pyramid on the dish and bake for fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Powder with sugar. <a name="link2H_4_0108" id="link2H_4_0108"> </a> <h2> STEWED PRUNES </h2> <p> Prunes are very good done this way. Take <span class="measure">a pound</span> of prunes, soak them twenty-four hours in water. Put them on the fire in <span class="measure">a cupful</span> of water and half a bottle of light red wine, <span class="measure">quarter of a pound</span> of sugar and, if you like it, a pinch of cinnamon or mixed spice. Let it all stew till the liquor is much reduced and the prunes are well flavored. Let them get cold, and serve them in a glass dish with whipped cream. <a name="link2H_4_0109" id="link2H_4_0109"> </a> <h2> CHOCOLATE CREAM </h2> <p> Take the whites of six eggs and beat them stiff, doing first one and then another, adding to them <span class="measure">three soup-spoonfuls</span> of powdered sugar and three sticks of chocolate that you have grated. If you have powdered chocolate by you, use that, and taste the mixture to judge when it is well flavored. Mix it all well in a cool place. To do this dish <span class="adverb">successfully</span>, make it just before you wish to serve it. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Lust, of Brussels</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0110" id="link2H_4_0110"> </a> <h2> SEMOLINA SOUFFLÉ </h2> <p> Boil up <span class="measure">two pints</span> of milk and fifteen lumps of sugar with a bit of vanilla. Add <span class="measure">three soup-spoonfuls</span> of semolina, and let it boil for fifteen minutes, while you stir it. Take it from the fire, and add to it the yolks of two eggs and their whites that you have beaten <span class="adverb">stiffly</span>. Put it in the oven for a quarter of an hour, and serve it hot. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Lust, of Brussels</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0111" id="link2H_4_0111"> </a> <h2> SNOWY MOUNTAINS </h2> <p> Butter six circular rusks, and put on them a layer of jam. Beat the whites of three eggs and place them on the rusks in the shape of a pyramide. Put them in the oven and color a little. They must be served hot. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Lust, of Brussels</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0112" id="link2H_4_0112"> </a> <h2> RICHELIEU RICE </h2> <p> Put <span class="measure">three soup-spoonfuls</span> of Carolina rice to swell in a little water, with a pat of butter. When the rice has absorbed all the water, add <span class="measure">a pint</span> of milk, sugar to sweeten, a few raisins, some chopped orange-peel, and some crystallized cherries, or any other preserved fruit. Put all on the fire, and when the mixture is cooked the rice ought to be creamy. Add the yolk of an egg, stir it well, and pour all into a mold. Put it to cool. Turn it out, and serve it with the following sauce, which must be poured on the shape. </p> <p> <span class="measure">a pint</span> of milk, sugar, and vanilla; let it boil. Stir <span class="measure">a soup-spoonful</span> of cornflour in water till it is smooth, mix it with the boiling milk, let it boil while stirring it for a few minutes, take it from the fire, add the yolk of an egg, and pour it on the rice shape. Serve when cold. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Lust, of Brussels</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0113" id="link2H_4_0113"> </a> <h2> EXCELLENT PASTE FOR PASTRY </h2> <p> Equal quantities of butter and flour, well mixed in a little beer; add also a pinch of salt. Make this paste the day before you require it; it is good for little patties and tarts. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Le Kent</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0114" id="link2H_4_0114"> </a> <h2> CHOCOLATE CREAM </h2> <h3> (No. 2) </h3> <p> Melt four penny tablets of chocolate in hot milk until it is liquid and without lumps. Boil up <span class="measure">a pint</span> of milk with a stick of vanilla, a big lump of butter (size of a walnut) and ten lumps of sugar. When this boils, add the chocolate and keep stirring <span class="adverb">continually</span>. Then take the yolks of three eggs and well beat them; it is better to have these beaten before, so as not to interfere with the stirring of your mixture. Add your three yolks and keep on stirring, always in the same way. Then pour the mixture into a mold that has been rinsed out in very cold water, and let it stand in a cool place till set. </p> <p> [<i>Mrs. Emelie Jones</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0115" id="link2H_4_0115"> </a> <h2> BELGIAN GINGERBREAD </h2> <p> 1/2 pound cornflour 1/4 pound butter 1/4 pound white sugar 1 or 2 eggs 1/2 ounce ginger powder. </p> <p> Work all the ingredients together on a marble slab, to get the paste all of the same consistency. Make it into balls as big as walnuts, flattening them <span class="adverb">slightly</span> before putting them into the oven. This sort of gingerbread keeps very well. </p> <p> [<i>L. L. B. d'Anvers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0116" id="link2H_4_0116"> </a> <h2> APPLE FRITTERS </h2> <p> Put <span class="measure">half pound</span> of flour in a deep dish and work it with beer, beating it well till there are no lumps left. Make it into a paste that is not very liquid. Peel and core some good apples, cut them into rounds, put them in the paste so that each one is well covered with it. Have a pan of boiling fat and throw in the apple slices for two minutes. They ought to be golden by then, if that fat has been hot enough. Serve them dusted with powdered sugar and the juice of half a lemon squeezed on them. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Delahaye</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0117" id="link2H_4_0117"> </a> <h2> FOUR QUARTERS </h2> <p> Weigh four very fresh eggs and put them in an earthenware dish. Add <span class="adverb">successively</span>, sieved flour, fine sugar, and fresh butter, each one of these items being of the same weight of the eggs—hence the name: Four Quarters. With a wooden spoon, work these four ingredients, then let them rest for five minutes. Turn it all into a buttered mold and let it cook for five quarters of an hour in a gentle oven or in a double saucepan. Turn it out, and eat it either cold or hot and with fruit. </p> <p> [<i>Georges Kerckaert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0118" id="link2H_4_0118"> </a> <h2> SAFFRON RICE </h2> <p> Wash the rice in cold water, heat it in a little water and add a dust of salt. Flavor some milk (enough to cover the rice) with vanilla, and pour it on the rice. Let it cook in the oven for an hour and a quarter. Take it from the fire, and stir in the yolks only of two eggs, or of one only, if wished. Sweeten the whole with sugar, and color it with a little saffron. Turn it out, and let it get very cold. </p> <p> [<i>Paquerette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0119" id="link2H_4_0119"> </a> <h2> SEMOLINA FRITTERS </h2> <p> <span class="measure">Quarter pound</span> semolina, <span class="measure">one and a half pints</span> of milk, three eggs. Put on the milk, and, as soon as it is boiling, drop the semolina in, in a shower. Let it boil for a few minutes, stirring <span class="adverb">continually</span>. Then add the yolks of three eggs, and then the whites, which you have already beaten stiff. Pour all on a dish, and cool. Have some boiling lard (it is boiling when it ceases to bubble), and throw into it <span class="measure">spoonsful</span> of the mixture. When they are fried golden, take them out, drain them a moment, and sprinkle on some white sugar. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Segers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0120" id="link2H_4_0120"> </a> <h2> SPECULOOS </h2> <h3> (A Brussels recipe) </h3> <p> Pound down <span class="measure">half pound</span> flour, <span class="measure">four ounces</span> brown sugar, <span class="measure">three and a half ounces</span> butter, a pinch of nutmeg, and the same of mace and cinnamon in powder. Add, as well, a pinch of bicarbonate of soda. Make the paste into a ball, and cover it with a fine linen or muslin cloth, and leave it till the following day. If you have no molds to press it in, cut it into diamonds or different shapes, and cook them in the oven on buttered trays. I believe waffle irons can be bought in London. <a name="link2H_4_0121" id="link2H_4_0121"> </a> <h2> GAUFRES FROM BRUSSELS </h2> <p> Mix in an earthern bowl <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of flour, five yolks of eggs, <span class="measure">a coffee-spoonful</span> of castor sugar, <span class="measure">half pint</span> of milk (fresh), adding a pinch of salt and of vanilla; then <span class="measure">two ounces</span> butter melted over hot water. Then beat up the whites of four eggs very <span class="adverb">stiffly</span>, and add them. Butter a baking-tin or sheet (since English households have not got a gaufre-iron, which is double and closes up), and pour in your mixture, spreading it over the sheet. When the gaufre is <span class="adverb">nicely</span> yellowed, take it out and powder it with sugar. But to render this recipe <span class="adverb">absolutely</span> successful, the correct implement is necessary. <a name="link2H_4_0122" id="link2H_4_0122"> </a> <h2> RICE À LA CONDE </h2> <p> Simmer the rice in milk till it is tender, sweeten it, and add, for a medium-sized mold, the yolks of two eggs. Let it thicken a little, and stir in pieces of pineapple. Pour it into a mold, and let it cool. Turn it out when it has well set, and decorate with crystallized fruits. Pour round it a thin apricot syrup. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0123" id="link2H_4_0123"> </a> <h2> PAINS PERDUS </h2> <h3> (Lost bread) </h3> <p> Make a mixture of milk and raw eggs, enough to soak up in six rusks. Flavor it with a little mace or cinnamon. Put some butter in a pan and put the rusks in it to fry. Let them color a good brown, and serve them hot with sugar dusted over them. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0124" id="link2H_4_0124"> </a> <h2> FRUIT FRITTERS </h2> <p> Peel some apples, take out the core and cut them in slices, powder them on each side with sugar. You can use also pears, melons, or bananas. Make a batter with flour, milk and eggs, beating well the whites; a glass of rum and sugar to sweeten it. Put your lard on to heat, and when the blue steam rises roll your fruit slices in the batter and throw them into the lard. When they are golden, serve them with powdered sugar. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0125" id="link2H_4_0125"> </a> <h2> MOCHA CAKE </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of fresh butter, <span class="measure">four ounces</span> of powdered sugar, and work them well together. When they are well mixed, add the yolks of four eggs, each one <span class="adverb">separately</span>, and the whites of two. When the mixture is <span class="adverb">thoroughly</span> well done, add, drop by drop, some boiling coffee essence to your taste. Butter a mold and line it with small sponge biscuits, and fill it with alternate layers of the cream and of biscuits. Put it for the night in the cellar before you serve it the following day. You can replace the essence of coffee by some chocolate that has been melted over hot water. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0126" id="link2H_4_0126"> </a> <h2> VANILLA CREAM </h2> <p> Sweeten well <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of milk and flavor it with vanilla. Put it to boil. Mix in a dish the yolks of four eggs with a little cornflour. When the milk boils, pour it very <span class="adverb">slowly</span> over the eggs, mixing it well. Return it all to the pan and let it get thick without bringing it to the boil. Add some chopped almonds, and turn the mixture into a mold to cool. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0127" id="link2H_4_0127"> </a> <h2> RUM CREAM </h2> <p> Take sponge biscuits and arrange them on a dish, joining each to the other with jam. (You can make a square or a circle or a sort of hollow tower.) Pour your rum over them till they are well soaked. Then pour over them, or into the middle of the biscuits, a vanilla cream like the foregoing recipe, but let it be <span class="adverb">nearly</span> cold before you use it. Decorate the top with the whites of four eggs sweetened and beaten, or use fresh cream in the same way. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0128" id="link2H_4_0128"> </a> <h2> PINEAPPLE À L'ANVERS </h2> <p> Take some slices of pineapple, and cut off the brown spots at the edges. Steep them for three hours in <span class="measure">a plateful</span> of weak kirsch, or maraschino, that is <span class="adverb">slightly</span> warmed. Cut some slices of plain cake of equal thickness, and glaze them. This is done by sprinkling sugar over the slices and placing them in a gentle oven. The sugar melts and leaves the slices <i>glacés</i>. Arrange the slices in a circle, alternating pineapple and cake, and pour over the latter an apricot marmalade thinned with kirsch or other liqueur. This dish looks very nice, and if whipped cream can be added it is excellent. </p> <p> [<i>L. L. B. Anvers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0129" id="link2H_4_0129"> </a> <h2> POUDING AUX POMMES </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">a pound</span> of apples and peel them. Cook them, and rub them, when soft, through a sieve to make them into a purée. Sweeten it well, and scent it with a scrap of vanilla; then let it get cold. Beat up three eggs, both whites and yolks, and mix them into your cold compôte, and put all in a dish that will stand the heat of the oven. Then place on the top a bit of butter the size of a filbert and powder all over with white sugar. Place the dish in an oven with a gentle heat for half-an-hour, watching how it cooks. This dish can be eaten hot or cold. </p> <p> [<i>E. Defouck</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0130" id="link2H_4_0130"> </a> <h2> SOUFFLÉ AU CHOCOLAT </h2> <p> Melt two tablets of chocolate (Menier) in <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of water over heat, stirring till the chocolate is well wetted and very thick. Then prepare some feculina flour in the following way: Take for five or six persons <span class="adverb">nearly</span> <span class="measure">a pint</span> of milk. Sweeten it well with sugar; take <span class="measure">two dessert-spoonfuls</span> of feculina. Boil the sweetened milk, flavoring it with a few drops of vanilla essence. When it is boiled, take it from the fire, and let it get cold, mixing in the flour by adding it <span class="adverb">slowly</span> so as not to make lumps. Put it back on a brisk fire and stir till it thickens; add then the melted chocolate, and when that is <span class="adverb">gently</span> stirred in take off your pan, and again let it get cold. At the moment of cooking the soufflé, add three whites of eggs beaten stiff. Butter a deep fireproof dish, and pour in the mixture, only filling up half of the dish. Cook in the oven for fifteen minutes in a gentle heat, and serve <span class="adverb">immediately</span>. A tablet of Chocolat Menier is a recognized weight. </p> <p> [<i>Gabrielle Janssens</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0131" id="link2H_4_0131"> </a> <h2> A NEW DISH OF APPLES </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">a pint</span> of apple purée and add to it three well-beaten eggs, a taste of cinnamon if liked, <span class="measure">quarter of a pound</span> of melted butter and the same quantity of white powdered sugar. Mix all together and, taking a fireproof dish, put a little water in the bottom of it and then some fine breadcrumbs, sufficient to cover the bottom. Pour in your compôte, then, above that, a layer of fine breadcrumbs, and here and there a lump of fresh butter, which will prevent the breadcrumbs from burning. Cook for half-an-hour. <a name="link2H_4_0132" id="link2H_4_0132"> </a> <h2> GOLDEN RICE </h2> <p> Put <span class="measure">a quart</span> of milk to boil, and, when boiling, add <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of good rice. When the rice is <span class="adverb">nearly</span> cooked, add a pennyworth of saffron, stirring it in <span class="adverb">evenly</span>. This is excellent, eaten cold with stewed quinces and cream. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0133" id="link2H_4_0133"> </a> <h2> BANANA COMPÔTE </h2> <p> Divide the bananas in regular pieces; arrange them in slices on your compôte dish, one slice leaning against the other in a circle. Sprinkle them with sugar. Squeeze the juice of an orange and of half a lemon—this would be sufficient for six bananas—and pour it over the bananas. Cover the dish and leave it for two hours in a cold place. A mold of cornflour or of ground rice may be eaten with this. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Gabrielle Janssens</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0134" id="link2H_4_0134"> </a> <h2> RIZ CONDE </h2> <p> For <span class="measure">one and one-half pints</span> of milk <span class="measure">half a breakfast-cupful</span> of rice. Let it boil with sugar and vanilla; strain the whole. Add <span class="measure">one-half pint</span> of cream, well beaten, five leaves of gelatine (melted). Mix the whole and pour in a mold which has been wet. When turned out of the mold, put apricots or other fruit on the top. Pour the juice over all. </p> <p> [<i>Mlle. Breakers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0135" id="link2H_4_0135"> </a> <h2> CHOCOLATE CREAM </h2> <p> 10 leaves of gelatine, well melted and sifted. 1 pint cream, <i>well beaten</i>. 3-1/2 sticks of chocolate melted with a little milk. </p> <p> Mix all the ingredients together and put them in a mold which has been <span class="adverb">previously</span> wet. </p> <p> [<i>Mlle. Breakers</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0136" id="link2H_4_0136"> </a> <h2> KIDNEY SOUFFLÉ </h2> <p> Mince <span class="adverb">finely</span> a veal kidney and add <span class="measure">one-half pound</span> of minced veal. Make a brown sauce of flour and butter, and add the meat to it. Let it cool a little, and add three well-beaten eggs, with <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of rasped Gruyère. Butter a mold, and sprinkle the inside with breadcrumbs, and fill it with the mince. Leave it for three quarters of an hour in the oven, or for an hour and a half in the double saucepan of boiling water. Turn it out of the mold and serve with either a tomato or a mushroom sauce. </p> <p> [<i>L. L. B. (d'Anvers)</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0137" id="link2H_4_0137"> </a> <h2> BAKED SOUFFLE </h2> <p> Three eggs, <span class="measure">two table-spoonfuls</span> of powdered sugar and <span class="measure">a thimbleful</span> of cornflour or feculina flour. The original recipe gives also one packet of vanilla sugar, but as this may be difficult to get in England it will be easier to add a few drops of vanilla essence when mixing. Mix the yolks of eggs with the sugar for ten minutes, then add the whites, <span class="adverb">stiffly</span> beaten, stirring in very <span class="adverb">lightly</span>, so as to let as much air as possible remain in the mixture; sprinkle in the flour. Take a fireproof dish, and butter it, and pour in the mixture, which place in a gentle oven for a quarter of an hour. It is better to practice this recipe at lest once before you prepare it at a dinner, on account of the baking. </p> <p> [<i>L. Verhaeghe.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0138" id="link2H_4_0138"> </a> <h2> PEASANTS' EGGS </h2> <p> For six people put on the fire <span class="measure">two handfuls</span> of sorrel, reduce it to a puree, and add <span class="measure">two dessertspoonfuls</span> of cream, a lump of butter the size of a pigeon's egg, pepper, salt. Take six hard-boiled eggs and, crumbling out the yolks, add them to the sorrel puree. Place the whites (which you should have cut longways) on a hot dish, and pour over them the puree of sorrel; sprinkle the top with breadcrumbs, and put bits of butter on it also. Place in the oven for ten minutes, and serve garnished with tomatoes. </p> <p> [<i>Mlle. A. Demeulemeester.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0139" id="link2H_4_0139"> </a> <h2> TWO RECIPES FOR TOMATOES AND EGGS </h2> <p> Take some good tomatoes, but not too ripe. Cut them down from top to bottom, take out the pulp, and in each half tomato put half a hard-boiled egg. Arrange them on a dish, and pour round them a good mayonnaise, to which you have added some chopped parsley. </p> <p> Take some tomatoes not too ripe, and cut them in half <span class="adverb">horizontally</span>. Take out the pulp, so that you have two half-cases from each tomato. Break an egg into each tomato and sprinkle it well with cheese. Place them all in the oven, till the eggs are set, and decorate with sprigs of parsley. </p> <p> [Mlle. A. Demeulemeester.] <a name="link2H_4_0140" id="link2H_4_0140"> </a> <h2> TOMATOES AND EGGS </h2> <p> Hard-boil some eggs and, while they are cooking, fry a large square slice of bread in butter to make a large crouton. Peel the eggs when they have been in boiling water for ten minutes. Pile them on the crouton, and have ready a tomato sauce to pour over. </p> <p> Tomato Sauce: <span class="adverb">Gently</span> stew <span class="measure">two pounds</span> of tomatoes and pass them through a sieve, return them to the pan and stir in <span class="measure">a mustard-spoonful</span> of mustard, <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of vinegar, salt and pepper; heat well; and, if too thin, thicken it with flour to the right consistency. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Praet.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0141" id="link2H_4_0141"> </a> <h2> MUSHROOM OMELETTE </h2> <p> Toss the sliced mushrooms in butter, adding, if you wish, a little mushroom ketchup. Break the eggs in a pan and beat them <span class="adverb">lightly</span> together, and cook for three minutes over a good fire. Slip the omelette on a hot dish, spread with butter. <a name="link2H_4_0142" id="link2H_4_0142"> </a> <h2> ASPARAGUS OMELETTE </h2> <p> This is made quite <span class="adverb">differently</span>. Cook the asparagus-tops in salt and water and drain them. Roll them in a little bechamel sauce. Break your eggs into the pan into which you have put a little butter; stir them with a fork in your left hand, adding salt and pepper with your right. This will only take a minute. Add the asparagus-tops in the thick sauce; this will take another minute. Roll or fold up the omelette and slip it on a hot buttered dish. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Praet.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0143" id="link2H_4_0143"> </a> <h2> STUFFED EGGS </h2> <p> Hard-boil your eggs, allowing half an egg for each person. Take out the yolk. While they are boiling and afterwards cooling in water, make a small quantity of mayonnaise sauce. Peel the eggs, cut them through lengthways, and take out the yolks. Crumble these with a little chopped herbs, and add the mayonnaise. Fill the eggs with this mixture, and place them in a dish with chopped lettuce round it, to which you may add a little more of the sauce. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Marcke de Lunessen</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0144" id="link2H_4_0144"> </a> <h2> POACHED EGGS, TOMATO SAUCE </h2> <p> Make some rounds of toast and butter them; place on each a slice of tongue or of ham. Keep these hot, and poach as many eggs as you require. Slip each egg on the toasts, and cover them <span class="adverb">quickly</span> with a <span class="adverb">highly</span> seasoned tomato sauce. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Marcke de Lunessen</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0145" id="link2H_4_0145"> </a> <h2> EGGS AND MUSHROOMS </h2> <p> Pick over <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of mushrooms, cut them in small pieces like dice, and put them to stew in the oven with plenty of butter, pepper, and salt. Make a thick white sauce, and you may add to it the juice from the mushrooms when they are cooked; then stir in the mushrooms. Take three hard-boiled eggs, and separate yolks from whites. Put into a shallow vegetable-dish the whites cut up in small pieces, pour over them the bechamel with the mushrooms, and finish up by sprinkling over the top the hard-boiled yolks, which you have crumbled up with a fork. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Braconnière</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0146" id="link2H_4_0146"> </a> <h2> BELGIAN EGGS </h2> <p> Make some scrambled eggs, and place them on a very hot dish, and pour round them a thick tomato sauce. Decorate the dish <span class="adverb">quickly</span> with thick rounds of tomato. <a name="link2H_4_0147" id="link2H_4_0147"> </a> <h2> EGGS À LA RIBEAUCOURT </h2> <p> Butter some little paper cases, and let them dry in the oven. Put into each one a pat of butter and let it melt <span class="adverb">lightly</span>. Break an egg into each case, taking care not to break the yolk, and put a bit of butter on each yolk. Place in a quick oven till the whites are half set. At the moment of serving take them out, and have ready some minced tongue or ham, to sprinkle on them, and decorate with a big bit of truffle. <a name="link2H_4_0148" id="link2H_4_0148"> </a> <h2> TO USE UP REMAINS OF MEAT </h2> <p> Cut in slices the remains of any cold meat, such as pork, beef, veal, ham, or mutton. Melt in a pan a bit of salt butter the size of a walnut, and put in it an onion cut into fine slices; let it get brown in the hot butter. In another pan put a larger piece of butter rolled in <span class="measure">a soup-spoonful</span> of flour; add to it the onion and butter, and add enough water to prevent the sauce from getting very thick. Add, if you wish it, <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of meat-extract and a pinch of salt. Have ready some mashed potatoes, but let them be very light. Place the slices of meat in a fireproof dish, pour the sauce on them, then the mashed potatoes, and put the dish in the oven, all well heated through. This is called in Belgium "<i>un philosophe</i>." </p> <p> [<i>Paquerette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0149" id="link2H_4_0149"> </a> <h2> VEAL WITH ONIONS </h2> <p> Take a lump of butter the size of an egg, and let it color in a saucepan. Slice some onions and fry them in another pan. When fried, add them to the butter with some sliced carrots, a few small onions, and your pieces of veal, salt, and pepper. Add a small quantity of water, and close the lid on the saucepan. When the meat is tender, you can thicken the sauce with a little flour. This is a good way to use veal that is hard, or parts that are not the best cuts. </p> <p> [<i>Paquerette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0150" id="link2H_4_0150"> </a> <h2> VEAL CAKE </h2> <p> Mince very <span class="adverb">finely</span> <span class="measure">three pounds</span> of raw veal and <span class="measure">one-fourth pound</span> of pork. It is better to do this at home than to have it done at the butcher's. Put two slices of bread to soak in milk, add two yolks of eggs and the whites, pepper and salt. Mix it well, working it for ten minutes. Then let it rest for half-an-hour. Put it in a small stewpan, add a lump of butter the size of a pigeon's egg, and put it in the oven. It will be ready to serve when the juice has ceased to run out. </p> <p> [<i>Paquerette</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0151" id="link2H_4_0151"> </a> <h2> TO USE UP COLD MEAT </h2> <p> Take a fresh celery, wash it well, and remove the green leaves. Let it boil till half-cooked in salted water. Drain it on a sieve, and then cut it lengthways, and place minced meat of any kind, well seasoned, between the two pieces. Tie them together with a thread and let them cook again for a quarter of an hour, this time either in the same water and <span class="adverb">gently</span> simmered, or in the oven in a well-buttered dish. Other people, to avoid the trouble of tying the two halves, spread the mince on each half and cook it in the oven, laid flat in a fireproof dish. In this case put a good lump of butter on each portion of mince. </p> <p> [<i>L. Verhaeghe.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0152" id="link2H_4_0152"> </a> <h2> FLEMISH CARBONADE </h2> <p> Put two onions to color in butter or in hot fat. Then add to them the beef, which you have cut into pieces the size of a small cake. Let it cook for a few minutes, then add pepper, salt, a carrot sliced, and enough water to allow the meat to cook <span class="adverb">gently</span> by the side of the fire, allowing one and one-half hours for <span class="measure">one and one-half pounds</span> of meat. Ten minutes before serving add to the sauce a little meat-juice or Liebig. You may at the same time, if it is wished, cook potatoes with the meat for about twenty minutes. Serve it all in a large dish, the meat in the center and the potatoes round. The sauce is served <span class="adverb">separately</span>, and without being passed through the sieve. </p> <p> [<i>L. Verhaeghe.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0153" id="link2H_4_0153"> </a> <h2> A USE FOR COLD MUTTON </h2> <p> Cut the mutton into neat pieces, take away all fat and skin. Fry in butter and add all sorts of vegetables in dice, with thyme, bay-leaves, and parsley. Let all this stew very <span class="adverb">gently</span> for two hours; you must add more stock or water to prevent it getting dry. Keep the lid of the pan on and, half-an-hour before serving, put in peeled potatoes. This dish is served very liquid. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Spinette</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0154" id="link2H_4_0154"> </a> <h2> FLEMISH CARBONADES </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">four pounds</span> of beef—there is a cut near the neck that is suitable for this recipe. Cut the meat in small pieces (square) and fry them in a pan. In another pan put a piece of refined fat and fry in it five big onions that you have <span class="adverb">finely</span> chopped. When these are well browned, add to them the meat, sprinkling in also pepper, salt, mixed herbs. Cover all with water, and let it cook for an hour with the lid on. After an hour's cooking, add half a glass of beer, a slice of crumb of bread with a light layer of mustard and <span class="measure">three tablespoonfuls</span> of best vinegar. Let it cook again for three quarters of an hour. If the sauce is not thick enough, add a little flour, taking care that it boils up again afterwards. <a name="link2H_4_0155" id="link2H_4_0155"> </a> <h2> FISH </h2> <p> When there remains any cold fish, take away all skin and bones, mixing the flesh with salt, butter, pepper, and one or two raw eggs as you wish. Take some small fireproof cases and place in each some lemon-juice with a little melted butter and grated breadcrumbs. Bake the cases till the top of the fish is of a golden color. <a name="link2H_4_0156" id="link2H_4_0156"> </a> <h2> REMAINS OF FISH </h2> <p> Make a good white sauce, add pepper, salt, and a little nutmeg and juice of a lemon. Add then your remains of fish and a few pickled shrimps. Fill some shells with it and sprinkle over the top a good powdering of grated Gruyère cheese. Lay a pat of butter in the middle of each shell and put them in the oven. When they are colored a good golden brown, serve them decorated with parsley. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Lekent</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0157" id="link2H_4_0157"> </a> <h2> GOOD RISSOLES </h2> <p> Mince any cold meat, adding to <span class="measure">a pound</span> of it <span class="measure">one-half pound</span> of fresh lean pork, a chopped shallot and parsley, salt, pepper, a little nutmeg, and bind with an egg, both yolk and white. Form into balls, and dip them in flour, then color them in some butter, and when they are <span class="adverb">nicely</span> browned pour into the butter a little stock or meat-juice and water. Let them <span class="adverb">gently</span> cook in it for ten minutes, and serve. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Lekent</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0158" id="link2H_4_0158"> </a> <h2> CROQUETTES OF BOILED MEAT </h2> <p> I think that boiled meat when cold is often neglected as being tasteless, but, prepared as I will show you, it will deserve your approval. </p> <p> Mince your boiled meat and put it into a thick white sauce well-spiced with pepper, salt, and nutmeg, and let it remain for two hours. Then prepare your croquettes by rolling the mixture in white of egg and fine breadcrumbs. Put a piece of butter in the saucepan, sufficient to take all the croquettes, and let them brown in it for about ten minutes. A white sauce served with them is a good addition. </p> <p> [<i>Mlle. A. Demeulemeester</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0159" id="link2H_4_0159"> </a> <h2> CARBONADES DONE WITH BEER </h2> <p> Cut the meat into slices that are thin rather than thick. Mince two big onions and fry them till brown; then fry the slices till they are colored on both sides. Pour on them first some beer, then a dash of vinegar, adding thyme, pepper, and salt, and throw in also a slice of crust of bread, which you have spread with mustard. Let this all simmer for three hours. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Segur</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0160" id="link2H_4_0160"> </a> <h2> WALLOON ENTRÉE </h2> <p> Make some toasted bread, either cut in rounds or in squares, and butter them. Cut some slices of salt beef, or, better still, ham, and put them on top; spread the meat with a good layer of grated cheese, and over that place another piece of buttered toast of corresponding shape. Melt some butter in a small saucepan and fry the rounds till they are golden-brown. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. E. Maes</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0161" id="link2H_4_0161"> </a> <h2> SCRAPS OF MEAT </h2> <p> Your scraps of meat must be cut small or <span class="adverb">roughly</span> minced; add to them a little sausage-meat, about a quarter as much, and a slice of white crumb bread that you have dipped in water or milk, and well drained. If eggs are not too dear, add two eggs, mixing them with the meat. Place the dish in the oven for half-an-hour—but it must be a slow oven—and take care that the meat does not become dry. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0162" id="link2H_4_0162"> </a> <h2> FRICADELLE </h2> <p> For <span class="measure">one pound</span> of minced pork take <span class="measure">one and one-half pounds</span> of minced veal; cut three slices of white bread the thickness of <span class="adverb">nearly</span> an inch, and crumble them up; two raw eggs, pepper and salt. Mix it all well, and place it in the oven for half-an-hour. If you eat this hot, serve it with a gravy sauce. If you wish for a supper-dish, put salad round the meat. <a name="link2H_4_0163" id="link2H_4_0163"> </a> <h2> CHICORY AND HAM WITH CHEESE SAUCE </h2> <p> Cook the chicories <span class="adverb">gently</span> in butter till they are done. Then take each one, and roll it in a slice of ham, and put them in a fireproof dish. Then make a very good white sauce of flour and butter and milk, adding cheese to flavor it <span class="adverb">strongly</span>, and the yolk of an egg. Pour this sauce over the chicory, and place the dish in the oven. Let it turn brownish, and then serve it <span class="adverb">directly</span>. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Vandervalle</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0164" id="link2H_4_0164"> </a> <h2> CROQUETTES OF VEAL </h2> <p> Make first of all a very thick white sauce of flour, milk, and butter, not forgetting also salt and pepper; when it is very thick add grated Gruyère cheese, in the proportion of a heaped <span class="measure">teaspoonful</span> of this to <span class="measure">a breakfast-cupful</span> of sauce. Take it off the fire, and stir in first of all the juice of a lemon, and then the yolk of an egg. Let it get cold. Then mince up <span class="adverb">finely</span> your veal, or, indeed, any lean meat. Mix it well with the sauce, and make croquettes of it. Then roll each in the white of egg that you have left, and then in grated breadcrumbs, and fry in deep fat. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Vandervalle</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0165" id="link2H_4_0165"> </a> <h2> ENTRÉE (CROQUE-MONSIEUR) </h2> <p> Cut out some rounds of crumb of bread, of equal size, with a tin cutter; or, failing that, with a wine-glass. Butter all the rounds and sprinkle them with grated cheese—for preference with Gruyère. On half the number of rounds place a bit of ham cut to the same size. Put a lump of butter the weight of egg into a pan, and fry with the rounds in it, till they become golden. When they are a nice color, place one round dressed with cheese on a round dressed with ham, so as to have the golden bread both above and below. Serve them very hot, and garnished with fried parsley. </p> <p> [<i>E. Defouck</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0166" id="link2H_4_0166"> </a> <h2> HOT-POT </h2> <p> Before putting in your meat, cook in the water a celery, four leeks, two onions, two turnips, two carrots; then add the meat, with pepper and salt, and stew <span class="adverb">gently</span> for three hours. If you can put in a marrow-bone as well, that will give the soup a delicious flavor. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0167" id="link2H_4_0167"> </a> <h2> HOCHE POT </h2> <p> <span class="measure">One pound</span> of fresh pork, <span class="measure">one pound</span> rump (flank) of beef, <span class="measure">one pound</span> rump of veal, two onions, one celery, four leeks, two or three carrots, two or three turnips, according to the size, a few Brussels sprouts, five or six potatoes, according to the number of persons. Let the water boil before putting in the meat, and cut all the vegetables in cubes of the same size, like cubes of sugar. Let simmer only, for three hours; it is delicious and makes a dinner. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0168" id="link2H_4_0168"> </a> <h2> BOUCHÉES À LA REINE </h2> <p> Get some little cases from the pastry-cook of puff paste, which are to be filled with sweetbread cut in dice. It is a good plan to heat the cases before filling them. </p> <p> The filling mixture. Cook the sweetbreads in water with pepper and salt, till done, skin them and cut in dice. Prepare a good bechamel sauce, seasoned with the juice of a lemon, and add to it a few mushrooms that have been fried in butter. Heat the dice of sweetbread in this sauce and fill the cases with it. Put them back in the oven to get quite hot. <a name="link2H_4_0169" id="link2H_4_0169"> </a> <h2> HOCHE POT OF GHENT </h2> <p> Clean two big carrots and cut them into small pieces, the same for two turnips, four leeks, two celeries, and a good green cabbage, only using the pale leaves. Wash all these vegetables well in running water, two or three times, and put them on the fire in <span class="measure">three and one-half pints</span> of water. Add salt, and let it cook for an hour. At the end of this time, add a good piece of pork weighing perhaps <span class="measure">three pounds</span>—for choice let it be cutlets. You can also add a pig's trotter. Let it cook for another hour, taking care that the meat remains below the water. At the end of that time, and half-an-hour before you wish to eat it, add potatoes enough to be three for each person. Watch the cooking so as to see that the potatoes do not stick, and finish the seasoning with pepper and salt. </p> <p> [<i>Georges Kerckaert</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0170" id="link2H_4_0170"> </a> <h2> CARBONADE OF FLANDERS </h2> <p> Cut your beef into small neat pieces. Mince some onions <span class="adverb">finely</span>, and for five or six people you would add two bay-leaves, two cloves, pepper, salt; simmer <span class="adverb">gently</span> for three hours in water, and at the end of that time bind the sauce with cornflour. Some people like the sauce to be thickened instead with mustard. </p> <p> [<i>V. Verachtert.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0171" id="link2H_4_0171"> </a> <h2> HEADLESS SPARROWS </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">two pounds</span> of beef, which must be lean and cut in thin slices. Cut your slices of beef in pieces of five inches by three. Put in the middle of each piece a little square of very fat bacon, a sprig of parsley, pepper and salt. Roll up the slices and tie them round with a thread so that the seasoning remains inside. Melt in a pan a lump of butter the size of a very big egg. Let it get brown and then, after rolling the beef in flour, put them in the butter. Let them cook thus for five minutes, add <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of water, and let them simmer for two hours. Fill up with water if it becomes too dry. Before serving, take great care to remove the threads. </p> <p> [<i>A Belgian at Droitwich.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0172" id="link2H_4_0172"> </a> <h2> MUTTON STEW </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">two pounds</span> of mutton, the breast or one of the inferior parts will do as well as a prime piece. Put in an earthenware pan a lump of butter as big as an egg, and let it color. Cut the mutton in pieces and let them color in the butter, adding salt and pepper, a few onions or shallots. When all is colored, add at least <span class="measure">a pound</span> of turnips, cut in slices, with about <span class="measure">a pint</span> of water. Let it boil up till the turnips are tender. Then add <span class="measure">two and one-half or three pounds</span> of potatoes; salt and pepper these, but in moderation, if the meat has been already salted and peppered. Add some thyme and bay-leaves, and let them all cook very <span class="adverb">gently</span> till the potatoes are tender. When these are cooked, take out the pieces of meat, mix the turnips and potatoes, so as to make a uniform mixture; then place the meat on the top of the mixture, and serve it. <i>N.B.</i> It is necessary to watch the cooking of this dish very <span class="adverb">carefully</span>, so that you can add a little water whenever it becomes necessary, for if one leaves the preparation a little too dry it <span class="adverb">quickly</span> burns. </p> <p> [<i>A Belgian at Droitwich.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0173" id="link2H_4_0173"> </a> <h2> HOCHE POT GANTOIS </h2> <h3> (For eight or nine persons) </h3> <p> Take <span class="measure">one pound</span> beef, <span class="measure">one pound</span> salt pork, and <span class="measure">one pound</span> mutton; cut into pieces about three inches by two, let it boil, and skim. Take two or three carrots, one large turnip, one large head of celery, three or four leeks, a good green cabbage, cut in four, the other vegetables cut into pieces of moderate size, not too small; put them in with the meat, and see that they are first covered by the water. Let it boil for three to four hours, and three quarters of an hour before dishing, add some potatoes cut in pieces. </p> <p> To dish: Place the meat in the center of a flat dish, and the vegetables around; serve the liquid in a soup-tureen. This dish should be eaten out of soup plates, as it is soup and meat course at one time. <a name="link2H_4_0174" id="link2H_4_0174"> </a> <h2> CHINESE CORKS </h2> <p> Make a thick white sauce, and when it has grown a little cold, add the yolk of one egg, and a few drops of lemon-juice. Sprinkle in a slice of stale bread, and enough grated cheese to flavor it <span class="adverb">strongly</span>, and leave it to cool for two hours. Then shape into small pieces like corks, dip them into the beaten whites of your egg, and then into grated breadcrumbs. Have ready some hot fat, or lard, and fry the cheese-balls in it till they are golden. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Limpens.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0175" id="link2H_4_0175"> </a> <h2> LIMPENS CHEESE </h2> <p> Take a roll and, cutting it in slices, remove the crusts so that a round of crumbs remain. Butter each slice, and cover it well with grated cheese, building up the slices one on the top of the other. Boil <span class="measure">a cupful</span> of milk, with pepper, salt, and a little nutmeg; when boiled, pour it over the bread till it is well soaked. Put them in the oven, for quarter of an hour, according to the heat of the oven and the quantity you have. You must pour its juice over it every now and then, and when the top is turning into a crust, serve it. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Limpens.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0176" id="link2H_4_0176"> </a> <h2> CHEESE SOUFFLÉ </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">two good soup-spoonfuls</span> of flour, and mix it with <span class="measure">half a teacupful</span> of milk; melt a lump of butter, the size of a filbert, and add that, then enough grated cheese to your taste, and the yolks of four eggs. Add at the last the whites of the four eggs, beaten <span class="adverb">stiffly</span>; pepper and salt. Butter a mold, put in your mixture, and let it cook for one hour in a saucepan, surrounded with boiling water, and the lid on. Then turn out the soufflé, and serve with a mushroom sauce. The sauce is a good white sauce, to which you add already cooked mushrooms. Clean them first of all, chop them, and cook them till tender in butter; and their own juice; then throw them into the sauce, and pour it over your soufflé. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Vandervalle.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0177" id="link2H_4_0177"> </a> <h2> CHEESE CROQUETTES </h2> <p> Make a thick bechamel sauce, and be sure that you cook it for ten minutes, <span class="adverb">constantly</span> stirring. Add, till well flavored, some Gruyère and Parmesan cheese, mixed and grated. Let it all get cold. Then roll this mixture into the shape of carrots; roll them in <span class="adverb">finely</span>-grated breadcrumbs, and fry them in hot lard or refined fat. Lay them on a hot dish, and, at the thicker end of each carrot stick in a sprig of parsley to look like the stalk. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. van Marcke de Lunessen.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0178" id="link2H_4_0178"> </a> <h2> CHEESE FONDANTS </h2> <p> For twelve fondants make a white sauce with two soupspoons of flour and milk. Add to it the yolks of three eggs. Stir in <span class="measure">four ounces</span> of mixed Gruyère cheese, and Parmesan, grated very <span class="adverb">finely</span>. Add at the end the juice of half a lemon, and a dust of cayenne. Let it all grow cold. Then make little balls with this paste and roll them in breadcrumbs. Throw them in a pan of boiling fat, where they must remain till they are a good golden color. Drain them, keeping them hot, and serve <span class="adverb">quickly</span>. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Emelie Jones</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0179" id="link2H_4_0179"> </a> <h2> CHEESE SOUFFLÉ </h2> <p> Grate <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of Gruyère cheese. Mix in a cup of milk <span class="measure">a dessert-spoonful</span> of flour; beat four whole eggs, and add first the cheese, and then the flour and milk mixture. Season with pepper and salt, and put all into a mold. Let it cook in a saucepan of boiling water for an hour and a half. Then at the end of this time put it in the oven for half an hour. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Emelie Jones</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0180" id="link2H_4_0180"> </a> <h2> POTATOES AND CHEESE </h2> <p> Wash some raw potatoes, peel them, cut them into very thin round slices. Take a dish which will stand the oven, and be nice enough to go on the table, and put in it a layer of the slices sprinkled with pepper, salt, a little flour, and plenty of grated Gruyère. Continue in this way, finishing with a layer of cheese, and a little flour. Put the dish in the oven, which must not be a very hot one, and cook <span class="adverb">gently</span>. </p> <p> For a medium pie dish you will find that half an hour will be sufficient to cook the potatoes. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Emelie Jones</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0181" id="link2H_4_0181"> </a> <h2> YORK HAM, SWEETBREADS, MADEIRA SAUCE </h2> <p> Heat the ham in a double saucepan (bain marie). Boil the sweetbreads, blanch them and let them fry in some butter. </p> <p> Take flour and butter and melt them to a thick sauce, adding a tumbler of water and Liebig which will turn your sauce brown. Fry <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of mushrooms in butter and when brown, add them and the liquor to your sauce with a good glass of madeira or sherry. Place your ham in the middle of the dish, surround it with the sweetbreads, and pour over all the Madeira sauce. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Vandervalle</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0182" id="link2H_4_0182"> </a> <h2> HAM WITH MADEIRA SAUCE </h2> <p> Cook some macaroni or spaghetti, with salt and pepper. Make a brown sauce, using plenty of butter, for this dish requires a great deal of sauce, and add to your "roux" some tomatoes in purée (stewed and run through a sieve), a little meat extract, some fried mushrooms, a few drops of good brandy or madeira to your taste. Let your slices of ham heat in this sauce, and when ready, place them in the middle of a flat dish, put the mushrooms or spaghetti round, and put the sauce, very hot, over the ham. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Spinette.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0183" id="link2H_4_0183"> </a> <h2> A DIFFICULT DISH OF EGGS </h2> <p> And yet this is only fried eggs after all! Put some oil on to heat; if you have not oil use butter, but oil is the best. When the bluish steam rises it is hot enough. Break an egg into a little flat dish, tip up the frying pan at the handle side, and slip the egg into it, then with a wooden spoon turn the egg over on itself; that is, roll the white of it over the yolk as it slips into the pan. If you cannot manage this, let the egg heat for a second, and then roll the white over the yolk with a wooden spoon. Do each egg in this way, and as soon as one is done let it drain and keep warm by the fire. When all are done put them in a circle, in a dish, and pour round them a very hot sauce, either made with tomatoes, or flavored with vinegar and mustard. <a name="link2H_4_0184" id="link2H_4_0184"> </a> <h2> COUNTRY EGGS </h2> <p> Make a white sauce <span class="adverb">thickly</span> mixed with onions, such as you would eat in England with a leg of mutton, but do not forget a little seasoning of mace. Make a high mold of mashed potatoes, and then scoop it out from the top, leaving the bottom and high sides of the vegetable. While your sauce is kept by the fire (the potatoes also), boil six eggs for two minutes, shell them, and you will find the whites just set and no more. Pour the onion sauce into the potato, and drop in the whole eggs and serve very hot. <a name="link2H_4_0185" id="link2H_4_0185"> </a> <h2> FRENCH EGGS </h2> <p> Put a lump of butter the size of an egg in a fireproof dish, mixing in when it is melted some breadcrumbs, a chopped leek, the inside of three tomatoes, pepper and salt. Let it cook for three or four minutes in the oven, then stir in the yolks of two eggs, and let it make a custard. </p> <p> Then break on the top of this custard as many eggs as you wish; sprinkle with pepper and salt. Let it remain in the oven till these last are beginning to set. Take out the dish, and pass over the top the salamander, or the shovel, red hot, and serve at once. I have seen this dish with the two extra whites of eggs beaten and placed in a pile on the top, and <span class="adverb">slightly</span> browned by the shovel. <a name="link2H_4_0186" id="link2H_4_0186"> </a> <h2> OEUFS CELESTES </h2> <h3> (Hommage à Sir Edward Grey) </h3> <p> <span class="adverb">Gently</span> boil a quantity of the very best green peas in good gravy; as the gravy becomes reduced, add, instead, butter. Do not forget to have put a lump of sugar in every pint of gravy. When the peas are done break on them the required number of fresh eggs, with pepper and salt. Place all in a double saucepan, till the eggs are just done. It is a pity that in England there are no cooking pots made, which will hold fire on the top, so that a dish, such as this, becomes <span class="adverb">easily</span> done in a few minutes. <a name="link2H_4_0187" id="link2H_4_0187"> </a> <h2> PETITES CAISSES À LA FURNES </h2> <p> Take a small Ostend rabbit, steep it in water as usual, and boil it <span class="adverb">gently</span> in some white stock, with a good many peppercorns. When it is cold chop the meat up into small dice; add to it about a quarter of the amount of ham, and the whites of two hard-boiled eggs, all cut to the same size. </p> <p> Moisten the salpicon with a good white sauce made with cream, a little lemon juice, pepper and salt. </p> <p> The little paper cases must have a ring of cress arranged, about a quarter of an inch thick; the salpicon, put in <span class="adverb">carefully</span> with a small spoon, will hold it in place. </p> <p> Fill the cases to the level of the cress leaves, and decorate with a Belgian flag made as follows: </p> <p> Make some aspic <span class="adverb">jelly</span> with gelatine, tarragon vinegar, and a little sherry. Color one portion with paprika or coralline, pepper; a second part with the sieved yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, and the remainder with rinsed pickled walnuts, also passed through a wire sieve. Pour the red <span class="adverb">jelly</span> into a small mold with straight sides; when it is almost set pour in the yellow aspic, and when that is cold pour in the black. When the <span class="adverb">jelly</span> is quite cold, turn it out, slice it, and cut it into pieces of suitable size. If you make too much aspic it can decorate any cold dish or salad. The walnut squash looks black at night. </p> <p> [<i>Margaret Strail, or Mrs. A. Stuart.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0188" id="link2H_4_0188"> </a> <h2> FLEMISH CARROTS </h2> <p> Take some young carrots, wash and brush them as <span class="adverb">tenderly</span> as you would an infant, then simmer them till tender in with pepper and salt. When cooked, draw them to the side of the fire and pour in some cream to make a good sauce. If you cannot use cream, take milk instead and stir with it the yolk of an egg. To thicken for use, add a pinch of sugar and some chopped parsley. <a name="link2H_4_0189" id="link2H_4_0189"> </a> <h2> AUBERGINE OR EGG PLANT </h2> <p> This purple fruit is, like the tomato, always cooked as a vegetable. It is like the brinjal of the East. It is <span class="adverb">hardly</span> necessary to give special recipes for the dressing of aubergines, for you can see their possibilities at a glance. They can be stuffed with white mince in a white sauce, when you would cut the fruit in half, remove some of the interior, fill up with mince and sauce, replace the top, and bake for twenty minutes, or <span class="adverb">simply</span> cut in halves and stewed in stock, with pepper and salt they are good, or you can simmer them <span class="adverb">gently</span> in water and when ready to serve, pour over them a white sauce as for vegetable marrow. If they are cheap in England the following entrée would be inexpensive and would look nice. <a name="link2H_4_0190" id="link2H_4_0190"> </a> <h2> EGG PLANTS AS SOUFFLÉ </h2> <p> Wash the fruit, cut them lengthways, remove the inside. Fill each half with a mixture made of beaten egg, grated cheese, and some fine breadcrumbs, and a dash of mustard. Put the halves to bake for a quarter of an hour, or till the soufflé mixture has risen. When cooked place them in an oval dish with a border of rice turned out from a border mold. <a name="link2H_4_0191" id="link2H_4_0191"> </a> <h2> POTATO CROQUETTES </h2> <p> Cook your potatoes, rub them through the sieve, add pepper and salt, two or three eggs, <span class="adverb">lightly</span> beaten, mixing both yolks and whites, and according to the quantity you are making a little butter and milk. Work all well and let it get cold. Roll into croquettes, roll each in beaten egg, then in <span class="adverb">finely</span> grated breadcrumbs, and let them cook in boiling fat or lard. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Emelie Jones.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0192" id="link2H_4_0192"> </a> <h2> PURÉE OF CHESTNUTS </h2> <p> Make a little slit in each chestnut, boil them till tender, then put them in another pan with cold water in it and replace them on the fire. Peel them one by one as you take them out, and rub them through a sieve, pounding them first to make it easier, add salt, a good lump of butter and a little milk to make a nice purée. This is very good to surround grilled chicken or turkey legs, or for a salmi of duck or hare. <a name="link2H_4_0193" id="link2H_4_0193"> </a> <h2> HORS D'OEUVRES </h2> <p> The attractive "savory" of English dinner tables finds its counterpart <span class="adverb">apparently</span> in egg and fish dishes served cold at the beginning of a meal, and therefore what we should call hors d'oeuvres. <a name="link2H_4_0194" id="link2H_4_0194"> </a> <h2> POTATO DICE </h2> <p> Boil your potatoes and let them be of the firm, soapy kind, not the floury kind. When cooked, and cold, cut them into dice, and toss them in the following sauce: </p> <p> Take equal quantities of salad oil and cream, a quarter of that amount of tarragon vinegar, a pinch of salt, and a few chopped capers. Mix very well, and pour it on the dice. You may vary this by using cream only, in which case omit the vinegar. Season with pepper, salt, celery seed, and instead of the capers take some pickled nasturtium seed, and let that, <span class="adverb">finely</span> minced, remain in the sauce for an hour before using it. <a name="link2H_4_0195" id="link2H_4_0195"> </a> <h2> ANCHOVIES </h2> <p> Fillets of these, put in a lattice work across mashed potato look very nice. Be sure you use good anchovies preserved in salt, and well washed and soaked to take away the greater part of the saltness; or, if you can make some toast butter it when cold, cut it into thin strips, and lay a fillet in the center. Fill up the sides of the toast with chopped hard-boiled yolk of egg. <a name="link2H_4_0196" id="link2H_4_0196"> </a> <h2> ANCHOVY SANDWICHES </h2> <p> Cut some bread and butter, very thin, and in fingers. Chop some water-cress, lay it on a finger, sprinkle a little Tarragon vinegar and water (equal quantities) over it, and then lay on a fillet of anchovy, cover with more cress and a finger of bread and butter. Put them in a pile under a plate to flatten and before serving trim the edges. <a name="link2H_4_0197" id="link2H_4_0197"> </a> <h2> ANCHOVY ROUNDS </h2> <p> Make some toast, cut it in rounds, butter it when cold. Curl an anchovy round a stewed olive, and put it on the toast. Make a little border of yolk of egg boiled and chopped. <a name="link2H_4_0198" id="link2H_4_0198"> </a> <h2> ANCHOVY BISCUITS </h2> <p> Made as you would make cheese biscuits, but using anchovy sauce instead to flavor them. If you make the pastry thin you can put some lettuce between two biscuits and press together with a little butter spread inside. <a name="link2H_4_0199" id="link2H_4_0199"> </a> <h2> ANCHOVY PATTIES </h2> <p> Make some paste and roll it out <span class="adverb">thinly</span>. Take a coffee cup and turning it upside down stamp out some rounds. Turn the cup the right way again, and put it on a round. Then you will see an edge of paste protruding all round. Turn this up with the end of a fork, which makes a pretty little edge. Do this with all, and fill the shallow cases then made with a good mayonnaise sauce in which you have put chopped celery and potato, and a small quantity of chopped gherkins. Lay three fillets of anchovy across each other to form a six-pointed star and season <span class="adverb">highly</span> with cayenne pepper. </p> <p> All the above recipes can be followed using sardines instead of anchovies, and indeed one can use them in many other ways, with eggs, with lettuce, with tomatoes. As anchovies are rather expensive to buy, I give a recipe for mock anchovies, which is easy to do, but it must be done six months before using the fish. <a name="link2H_4_0200" id="link2H_4_0200"> </a> <h2> MOCK ANCHOVIES </h2> <p> When sprats are cheap, buy a good quantity, what in England you would call a peck. Do not either wipe or wash them. Take <span class="measure">four ounces</span> of saltpeter, <span class="measure">a pound</span> of bay salt, <span class="measure">two pounds</span> of common coarse salt, and pound them well, then add a little cochineal to color it, pound and mix very well. Take a stone jar and put in it a layer of the mixture and a layer of the sprats, on each layer of fish adding three or four bay leaves and a few whole pepper-corns. Fill up the jar and press it all down very <span class="adverb">firmly</span>. Cover with a stone cover, and let them stand for six months before you use them. <a name="link2H_4_0201" id="link2H_4_0201"> </a> <h2> CUCUMBER À LA LAEKEN </h2> <p> Take a cucumber and cut it in pieces two inches long, then peel away the dark green skin for one inch, leaving the other inch as it was. Set up each piece on end, scoop it out till <span class="adverb">nearly</span> the bottom and fill up with bits of cold salmon or lobster in mayonnaise sauce. Cold turbot or any other delicate fish will do <span class="adverb">equally</span> well or a small turret of whipped cream, <span class="adverb">slightly</span> salted, should be piled on top. This dish never fails to please. <a name="link2H_4_0202" id="link2H_4_0202"> </a> <h2> HERRING AND MAYONNAISE </h2> <p> Take some salt herring, a half for each person, and soak them for a day in water. Skin them, cut them open lengthwise, take out the backbone, and put them to soak in vinegar. Then before serving them let them lie for a few minutes in milk, and putting them on a dish pour over them a good mayonnaise sauce. [<i>Mlle. Oclhaye.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0203" id="link2H_4_0203"> </a> <h2> SWEET DRINKS AND CORDIALS. ORGEAT </h2> <p> Blanch first of all <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of sweet almonds and <span class="measure">three ounces</span> of bitter, turn them into cold water for a few minutes; then you must pound them very fine in a stone mortar, if you have a marble one so much the better, and do it in a cool place. </p> <p> You must add a little milk <span class="adverb">occasionally</span> to prevent the paste from becoming <span class="adverb">oily</span>, then add <span class="measure">three quarts</span> of fresh milk, stirring it in <span class="adverb">slowly</span>, sweeten to your taste, and then putting all into a saucepan clean as a chalice, bring it to the boil. </p> <p> Boil for ten minutes, and then stir till cold, strain it through finest muslin, and then add two good glasses of brandy. Bottle and keep in a dark place. <a name="link2H_4_0204" id="link2H_4_0204"> </a> <h2> HAWTHORN CORDIAL </h2> <p> When the hawthorn is in full bloom, pick <span class="measure">a basketful</span> of the blooms. Take them home, and put the white petals into a large glass bottle, taking care that you put in no leaves or stalks. When the bottle is filled to the top do not press it down, but pour in <span class="adverb">gently</span> as much good French Brandy as it will hold. Cork and let it stand for three months, then you can strain it off. This is good as a cordial, and if you find it too strong, add water, or sweeten it with sugar. <a name="link2H_4_0205" id="link2H_4_0205"> </a> <h2> DUTCH NOYEAU </h2> <p> Peel <span class="adverb">finely</span> the rinds of five large lemons, or of six small ones, then throw on it <span class="measure">a pound</span> of loaf sugar that you have <span class="adverb">freshly</span> pounded, <span class="measure">two ounces</span> of bitter almonds, chopped and pounded; mix these with <span class="measure">two quarts</span> of the best Schnappes or Hollands, and add <span class="measure">six tablespoonfuls</span> of boiling milk. </p> <p> Fill your jars with this, cover it close, and put it in a passage or hall, where people can shake it every day. </p> <p> Leave it there for three weeks, and strain it through some blotting paper into another bottle. It will be ready to drink. <a name="link2H_4_0206" id="link2H_4_0206"> </a> </p> <h2> LAVENDER WATER </h2> <p> Take a large bottle, and put in it <span class="measure">twelve ounces</span> of the best spirits of wine, one essence of ambergris, twopennyworth of musk, and three drachms of oil of lavender. </p> <p> Cork it <span class="adverb">tightly</span>, put in a dark place, and shake it every day for a month. This is <span class="adverb">really</span> lavender spirit, as no water is used. <a name="link2H_4_0207" id="link2H_4_0207"> </a> <h2> HOT BURGUNDY </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of good Burgundy wine, put it to boil with two cloves, and a dust of mixed spice, sweeten to taste with some powdered sugar. If you like add a quarter of the quantity of water to the wine before boiling. <a name="link2H_4_0208" id="link2H_4_0208"> </a> <h2> CRÊME DE POISSON À LA ROI ALBERT </h2> <p> Take a fresh raw whiting, fillet it, and pass the flesh through a wire sieve. </p> <p> For a small dish take <span class="measure">four ounces</span> of the fish, mix them <span class="adverb">lightly</span> with <span class="measure">four tablespoonfuls</span> of very thick cream, adding pepper and salt. Fill an oval ring mold, and steam <span class="adverb">gently</span> for twenty minutes, under buttered paper. </p> <p> Have some marine crayfish boiled, shell the tails, cut them in pieces, removing the black line inside. Cut three truffles into thick slices, heat them and the crayfish in some ordinary white sauce, enriched with the yolk of a raw egg, pepper and salt, and <span class="measure">one dessertspoonful</span> of tarragon vinegar. This must not be allowed to boil. When the cream is turned out into a hot silver dish, pour the ragout into the center, and put a hot lid on. </p> <p> This dish, and that on page 86-87, has been composed by a Scotch lady in honor of the King of the Belgians. Not every cook can manage the cream, but the proportions are exact, and so is the time. </p> <p> [<span class=">Mrs. Alex. Stuart."</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0209" id="link2H_4_0209"> </a> </p> <h2> FISH AND CUSTARD </h2> <p> Boil up the trimmings of your fish with milk, pepper and salt. Strain it and add the yolks of eggs till you get a good custard. Pour the custard into a mold, and lay in it your fish, which must already be parboiled. If you have cold fish, flake it, and mix it with the custard. Put the mold in a double saucepan. Steam it for three quarters of an hour. Turn it out, and garnish with strips of lemon peel, and if you have it, sprigs of fennel. <a name="link2H_4_0210" id="link2H_4_0210"> </a> </p> <h2> HAKE AND POTATOES </h2> <p> Hake, which is not one of the most delicate fish, can be made excellent if stewed in the following sauce: <span class="measure">a quart</span> of milk to which you have added <span class="measure">a dessertspoonful</span> of any of the good English sauces; thicken it with a knob of butter rolled in flour, which stir in till all is smooth. When it boils take off the fire, and put in your pieces of hake, set it back by the side of the fire to keep very hot, without boiling, for twenty-five minutes. Meanwhile mash some potatoes, and put it as a purée round a dish, pour the fish in the center, sprinkle on it chopped parsley. The liquor ought to be much reduced. <a name="link2H_4_0211" id="link2H_4_0211"> </a> </p> <h2> VERY NICE SKATE </h2> <p> Take skate, or indeed any fish that rolls up <span class="adverb">easily</span>, make into fillets, dry them well, and sprinkle on each fillet, pepper, salt, a dust of mixed spice, and chopped parsley. Roll each fillet up <span class="adverb">tightly</span>, and pack them <span class="adverb">tightly</span> into a dish, so that they will not become loose. Take vinegar and beer in equal quantities, or, if you do not like to use beer, you must add to the vinegar some whole black pepper, and a good sprinkle of dried and mixed herbs with salt. Pour over the fish, tie a piece of buttered paper over the top, and bake for an hour and a quarter (for a medium pie dish) in a moderate oven. <a name="link2H_4_0212" id="link2H_4_0212"> </a> <h2> TO KEEP SPRATS </h2> <p> A large quantity of these may be bought <span class="adverb">cheaply</span> and kept for some weeks by this method. Put on to warm equal quantities of vinegar and water, what you think sufficient to cover your sprats, allowing for wastage; and stir in for every quart of liquor <span class="measure">a small saltspoonful</span> of mixed spice, four bay leaves, a shallot minced, a small bunch of bruised thyme, the thin rind of a half lemon, salt and pepper; if you can use tarragon vinegar so much the better. Clean the sprats, remove tails and heads, and lay them in a deep dish. Take your liquor and pour it over the fish, tie a large paper over all, and let them bake in a cool oven for two or three hours; or cook them in a double saucepan; in any case do them very <span class="adverb">slowly</span>. Put aside to cool, and take out the fish to use as required. They will keep good four weeks. <a name="link2H_4_0213" id="link2H_4_0213"> </a> <h2> TO KEEP MACKEREL FOR A WEEK </h2> <p> It sometimes happens that you can get a great quantity of this fish, very fresh, <span class="adverb">cheaply</span>, and wish to use it later on. </p> <p> Pickle it thus: Boil <span class="measure">a pint</span> of vinegar with six peppercorns, four cloves, four bay leaves, a scrap of mace, <span class="measure">a saltspoonful</span> of salt, and the same of made mustard. When this is boiled up put it to cool. Lay your mackerel prepared ready for eating, and sprinkle on each piece some salt, and minced thyme. It may be an hour before using. </p> <p> Then fry the fish, lifting each piece <span class="adverb">carefully</span> into the hot fat. When fried lay the fish in a deep dish, and pour on each piece your vinegar liquor till all is covered. </p> <p> Cover over with paper such as you use for jam pots, well tied down. You can afterwards heat the fish as you require. <a name="link2H_4_0214" id="link2H_4_0214"> </a> <h2> A BROWN DISH OF FISH </h2> <p> Take your fish, which should be herring or mackerel, relieve it of the bones, skin and fins, which you must put to boil for three quarters of an hour in water, with pepper and salt. After that time strain off the liquor, and add to it enough browning to color it well. </p> <p> Then brown <span class="measure">quarter of a pound</span> of butter and knead into it <span class="measure">two tablespoonfuls</span> of flour, add it, when well mixed, to your liquor, with salt and pepper, a piece of lemon peel, and a dust of mixed spice. Bring all this to the boil and drop in your fish. (Cut in neat fillets.) Let them simmer for twenty minutes, and if too dry pour in some <span class="adverb">darkly</span> colored gravy. Just before you wish to serve add a good wine glass of claret, or of Burgundy, take out the lemon peel, and pour all on a hot dish. If you do not wish to put wine, the flavor of the sauce is very excellent if you stir into it <span class="measure">a dessertspoonful</span> of mushroom ketchup, or <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of soy. This brown fish is nice to follow a white soup. <a name="link2H_4_0215" id="link2H_4_0215"> </a> <h2> BAKED HADDOCKS </h2> <p> Take all the trimmings of two good sized haddocks, cover them with milk and water, and put them to simmer. Add chopped parsley, a chopped shallot, pepper and salt. </p> <p> Cut each fish in half across, and lay them in the bottom of a pie dish, sprinkle breadcrumbs, pats of butter, pepper and salt, between and on each piece. Fill up the dish with water or milk, adding the simmered and strained liquor from the trimmings. </p> <p> Bake <span class="adverb">gently</span> for an hour, and when brown on top add more breadcrumbs, and pats of butter. <a name="link2H_4_0216" id="link2H_4_0216"> </a> <h2> FILLETED SOLES AU FROMAGE </h2> <p> Boil the filleted soles in water. Make a sauce with butter. <span class="measure">One spoonful</span> of flour—milk, pepper and salt, powdered cheese (Cheddar). Boil it, adding some washed and chopped mushrooms and a little cream. Put the filets on a dish and pour them over the sauce. Leave it about a quarter of an hour in the oven, so that it becomes <span class="adverb">slightly</span> browned. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. Spreakers.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0217" id="link2H_4_0217"> </a> <h2> FILLETED FISH, WITH WHITE SAUCE AND TOMATOES </h2> <p> Brown two onions in butter, and add a spray of parsley, <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of tomatoes and <span class="measure">a claret glassful</span> of white wine. Let this simmer for half an hour, and then pass it through the tammy. Then fry <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of mushrooms, and add them and their liquor to the sauce, thickening it, if necessary, with a little cornflour. A great improvement is a little liebig. Place your fish in the oven, and cook it <span class="adverb">gently</span> in butter, with pepper and salt. When it is done, serve it with the sauce poured over it. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Vandervalle.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0218" id="link2H_4_0218"> </a> <h2> THE MILLER'S COD </h2> <h3> (Cabillaud meunier) </h3> <p> Cut your cod in slices, and roll them in flour. Put them to fry in a good piece of butter, adding chopped parsley, pepper and salt, and the juice of one lemon. This is very good, if served in the dish that it is cooked in. <a name="link2H_4_0219" id="link2H_4_0219"> </a> <h2> DUTCH HERRINGS </h2> <h3> (A cold dish) </h3> <p> Take some Dutch, or some salted herrings, and remove the skin, backbones, etc. Lay the fish in milk for at least twenty-four hours to get the salt out. Make a mayonnaise sauce, adding to it the roe from the herrings, in small pieces; wipe and drain the fish, and pour over them the sauce. <a name="link2H_4_0220" id="link2H_4_0220"> </a> <h2> REMAINS OF COD </h2> <h3> I </h3> <p> Take your fish, and remove all bones and skin. Put some butter to brown in a saucepan, and when it is colored, add the cod, sprinkling in pepper and salt and a good thickening of grated breadcrumbs. Let this all heat <span class="adverb">gently</span> by the fire and turn it into paper cases, with chopped parsley on the top. </p> <h3> II </h3> <p> The above recipe can be followed for making fish rissoles, but, after having mixed it well, let it grow cold. Then form into balls, roll them in breadcrumbs, and throw them into boiling fat. </p> <h3> III </h3> <p> Take all the remains of the fish and heat them in butter. Make some mashed potatoes, and add to them some white sauce, made of flour, milk and butter. Mix this with the fish, so that it is quite moist, and do not forget salt and pepper. Place the mixture in a fireproof dish and sprinkle breadcrumbs over it. Bake for fifteen minutes, or till it is hot through, and serve as it is. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. M. Schmidt, of Antwerp.</i>] </p> </div> <div id="Partie2"> <p> <a name="link2H_PART2" id="link2H_PART2"> </a> <h6> PART II </h6> <div id="intro_part2"> <p> The second half of this little book is composed <span class="adverb">chiefly</span> of recipes for dishes that can be made in haste, and by the inexperienced cook. But such cook can <span class="adverb">hardly</span> pay too much attention to details if she does not wish to revert to an <span class="adverb">early</span>, not to say feral type of cuisine, where the roots were eaten raw while the meat was burnt. Because your dining-room furniture is <span class="adverb">Early</span> English, there is no reason why the cooking should be <span class="adverb">early</span> English too. And it <span class="adverb">certainly</span> will be, unless one takes great trouble with detail. </p> <p> Let us suppose that at 7:30 P.M. your husband telephones that he is bringing a friend to dine at 8. Let us suppose an even more rash act. He arrives at 7:15, he brings a friend: you perceive the unexpressed corollary that the dinner must be better than usual. In such a moment of poignant surprise, let <span class="adverb">fly</span> your best smile (the kind that is practiced by bachelors' widows) and say "I am delighted you have come like this; do you mind eight or a quarter past for dinner?" Then melt away to the cook with this very book in your hand. </p> <p> I take it that you consider her to be the junior partner in the household, you, of course, being the senior, and your husband the sleeping partner in it. Ask what there is in the house for an extra dish, and I wager you the whole solar system to a burnt match that you will find in these pages the very recipe that fits the case. A piece of cold veal, viewed with an eye to futurity, resolves itself into a white creamy delightfulness that melts in your mouth; a new-laid egg, maybe, poached on the top, and all set in a china shell. If you have no meat at all, you must <span class="adverb">simply</span> hoodwink your friends with the fish and vegetables. </p> <p> You know the story of the great Frenchwoman: </p> <p> "Hèlas, Annette, I have some gentlemen coming to dine, and we have no meat in the house. What to do?" </p> <p> "Ah! Madame, I will cook at my best; and if Madame will talk at her best, they will never notice there is anything wrong." </p> <p> But for the present day, I would recommend rather that the gentlemen be beguiled into doing the talking themselves, if any shortcoming in the menu is to be concealed from them, for then their attention will be engaged. </p> <p> It takes away from the made-in-a-hurry look of a dish if it is decorated, and there are plenty of motifs in that way besides parsley. One can use beetroot, radishes, carrots cut in dice, minced pickles, sieved egg; and for sweets, besides the usual preserved cherries and angelica, you can have strips of lemon peel, almonds pointed or chopped, stoned prunes cut in halves, wild strawberries, portions of tangerine orange. There is a saying, </p> <pre xml:space="preserve"> Polish the shoe, Though the sole be through, </pre> <p> and a very simple chocolate shape may be made attractive by being garnished with a cluster of pointed almonds in the center, surrounded by a ring of tangerine pieces, well skinned and laid like many crescents one after the other. There is nothing so small and insignificant but has great possibilities. Did not Darwin raise eighty seedlings from a single clod of earth taken from a bird's foot? </p> <p> It is to be regretted that Samuel Johnson never wrote the manual that he contemplated. "Sir," he said, "I could write a better book of cookery than has ever yet been written. It should be a book on philosophical principles." </p> <p> Perhaps the pies of Fleet Street reminded him of the Black Broth of the Spartans which the well-fed Dionysius found <span class="adverb">excessively</span> nasty; the tyrant was <span class="adverb">curtly</span> told that it was nothing indeed without the seasoning of fatigue and hunger. We do not wish a meal to owe its relish <span class="adverb">solely</span> to the influence of extreme hunger—it must have a beautiful nature all its own, it must exhibit the idea of Thing-in-Itself in an <span class="adverb">easily</span> assimilable form. </p> <p> I am convinced, anyhow, that this little collection (formed through the kindness of our Belgian friends) will work miracles; for there are plenty of miracles worked nowadays, though not by those romantic souls who think that things come by themselves. Good dinners <span class="adverb">certainly</span> do not, and I end with this couplet: </p> <pre xml:space="preserve"> A douce woman and a fu' wame Maks King and cottar bide at hame. </pre> <p> Which, being interpreted, means that if you want a man to stay at home, you must agree with him and so must his dinner. </p> <h3> M. LUCK. </h3> <a name="link2H_4_0222" id="link2H_4_0222"> </a> </p> </div> <h2> HORS D'OEUVRE </h2> <h3> (Herring and Mayonnaise) </h3> <p> Take some salt herrings, one for each person, and soak them for a day in water. Skin them, cut them open lengthways, take out the backbone, and put them to soak for a day in vinegar. Then before serving them, let them lie for a few minutes in milk, and, putting them on a dish, pour over them a good mayonnaise sauce. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Delhaye.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0223" id="link2H_4_0223"> </a> </p> <h2> CARROT SOUP </h2> <p> Wash and scrape <span class="measure">a pound</span> of carrots, slice them, treat two medium sized potatoes in the same manner, add a bay leaf, a sprig of thyme and a chopped onion. Cook all with water, add salt, pepper, and cook <span class="adverb">gently</span> till tender, when pass it through a sieve. Put in a pan a lump of butter the size of an egg, with a chopped leek and a sprig of chervil. Let it cook <span class="adverb">gently</span> for three or four minutes, then pour on the puree of carrots and let it all come to the boil before taking it off to serve. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Stoppers.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0224" id="link2H_4_0224"> </a> </p> <h2> SORREL SOUP </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">a quart</span> of bouillon or of meat extract and water. Fry in butter a carrot, a turnip, an onion, a small cabbage, all washed and chopped, and add <span class="measure">half a teaspoonful</span> of castor sugar. Put your soup to it and set on the fire. Let it simmer for twenty minutes, add any seasoning you wish and a little more water, and let it simmer for another half hour. Then shred a bit of basil or marjoram with <span class="measure">a handful</span> of well washed sorrel, throw them in, cook for five minutes, skim it, pour it into a soup tureen, and serve. <a name="link2H_4_0225" id="link2H_4_0225"> </a> </p> <h2> OSTEND SOUP </h2> <p> There are many varieties of this soup to be met with in the different hotels, but it is a white soup, made of fish pieces and trimmings, strained, returned to the pot, and with plenty of cream and oysters added before serving. It should never boil after the cream is put in. A little mace is usual, but no onions or shallot. A simple variety is made with flour and milk instead of cream, the liquor of the oysters as well as the oysters, and a beaten egg added at the last moment. </p> <p> [<i>Esperance.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0226" id="link2H_4_0226"> </a> </p> <h2> ANOTHER SORREL SOUP </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">a tablespoonful</span> of breadcrumbs, moisten them in milk in a pan, then add as much water as you require. Throw in three medium potatoes, <span class="measure">a handful</span> of well washed sorrel, and a sprig or two of chervil, a lump of butter, pepper, and salt. Bring to the boil, simmer for quarter of an hour, pass through a tammy, heat again for ten minutes and serve burning hot. </p> <p> [<i>Esperance.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0227" id="link2H_4_0227"> </a> <h2> HASTY SOUP </h2> <p> Into <span class="measure">a quart</span> of boiling water throw <span class="adverb">lightly</span> <span class="measure">four tablespoonfuls</span> of semolina, so that the grains are separated. Let it boil for a quarter of an hour, with pepper and salt. Take the tureen and put the yolk of an egg in it with a bit of butter the same size, mix them with a fork and pour in <span class="measure">a teacupful</span> of hot water with extract of meat in it, as strong as you wish. <span class="adverb">Quickly</span> pour in the semolina soup and serve it at once. This is a <span class="adverb">quickly</span> made and inexpensive dish, besides which it is a nice one. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Alphonse F.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0228" id="link2H_4_0228"> </a> <h2> ARTICHOKES A LA VEDETTE </h2> <p> Boil some globe artichokes in salted water till they are tender. Take out the center leaves, leaving an even fringe of leaves on the outside. Remove as much of the choke as you can. Put them back in a steamer. Toss some cooked peas in butter, then mix them in cream and taking up your artichokes again put in your cream and peas in the center of each, as much as you can get in. The cream is not necessary for this dish to be a good one, but the artichokes and peas must both be young. As a rule people cut their fruit too soon and their vegetables too late. </p> <p> [<i>Chef reconnaissant.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0229" id="link2H_4_0229"> </a> <h2> SURPRISE POTATOES </h2> <p> Quarter of an hour will suffice to prepare and cook this savory surprise, once the potatoes are baked. Take three large potatoes of symmetrical size, clean and bake them; cut each in two and remove the inside without injuring the skin. Melt <span class="measure">half an ounce</span> of butter by the fire, add <span class="measure">two ounces</span> of potato passed through a sieve, <span class="measure">a teaspoonful</span> of grated parmesan, pepper, salt, and <span class="measure">a tablespoonful</span> of milk. Then stir in the yolk of an egg and <span class="adverb">presently</span> the white, well beaten. Fill the empty potato skins with the mixture which ought to rise and puff out in ten or twelve minutes. <a name="link2H_4_0230" id="link2H_4_0230"> </a> <h2> VEGETABLE SALADS </h2> <p> Sometimes one has a few leeks, a half cauliflower, <span class="measure">a handful</span> each of peas and beans. Instead of currying these vegetables (which removes all distinctive flavor from them) cook them <span class="adverb">gently</span>, and toss them when cold in a good salad dressing. If you can give the yolk of an egg to it, so much the better. Any cold meat is improved by a side dish of this sort. The vegetables that one can curry with advantage are large marrows, cut into cubes, turnips, potatoes, parsnips. </p> <p> [<i>Marguerite Leblanc</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0231" id="link2H_4_0231"> </a> <h2> TOMATOES A LA SIR EDWARD GREY HOMMAGE </h2> <p> Take some fine firm tomatoes, not very ripe. Turn them with the stalk side up and cut a slice off the top with a sharp knife. Take out the inside with a teaspoon. Break into each tomato a pullet's egg, sprinkle with pepper and salt. The inside of the tomato you will pass through a fine wire sieve and it will be a thick liquor; mix it with bread-crumbs, salt, pepper, and some grated cheese till quite thick. Put this mixture on the top of each egg and place all in the oven for three or four minutes, so that the eggs are only just set and no more. </p> <p> [<i>Amie inconnue.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0232" id="link2H_4_0232"> </a> <h2> STUFFED CARROTS </h2> <p> Take some good sized carrots, and after washing them well and cutting off the green tuft, cut each one across about two and a half inches from the leaves. Scoop out the inside yellow part, leaving a case of the redder part and a piece to form the bottom, at the smaller end. Then stew the cases very <span class="adverb">gently</span> till a little tender, but not quite soft. Take them out of the water, drain them, and then placing each on its small end, fill up with hot chopped mushrooms, that have been tossed in butter. Arrange in a circle on a dish, and garnish with small sprigs of carrot leaves. The insides that you have scooped out are to be used for soup flavoring. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0233" id="link2H_4_0233"> </a> <h2> TO COOK ASPARAGUS </h2> <p> One should not let the tips of this vegetable touch the water. Take your bundle, dip the stalks in warm water to remove any dust, and the tips also, if it is necessary. Then tie the bundle round with tape, keeping the ends of stalks even so that it will stand upright. Place them in boiling water with the heads just sticking out, and keep them like that. In this way the heads, which are very tender, will be cooked in the steam and will not drop off. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0234" id="link2H_4_0234"> </a> <h2> TOMATOES IN HASTE </h2> <p> Butter a pie-dish, <span class="adverb">preferably</span> a fireproof china dish. Open a tin of tomatoes and remove as much skin as you can if they are the unpeeled kind. Put <span class="measure">a handful</span> of crumbled brown bread in the dish with lumps of butter, then pour on that some tomatoes, dust with pepper and salt, then more bread, and so on, finishing at the last with lumps of butter, and a thick sprinkling of grated cheese. Bake for twenty minutes. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0235" id="link2H_4_0235"> </a> </p> <h2> KIDNEYS AND LETTUCE </h2> <p> Put on some water to boil. Take your lettuce, and choose the round kind, and wash it well. Take out <span class="adverb">neatly</span> with your fingers the center leaves, and fill up instead with a sheep's kidney which you have <span class="adverb">lightly</span> dusted with flour, pepper, and salt. Tie the lettuce round very <span class="adverb">firmly</span> and set it in a pan of boiling water that covers up only three quarters of the vegetable. Boil for eighteen minutes. Take out the lettuce, untie it, drain it, and serve at once. Kidneys are good when they are placed inside large Spanish onions and <span class="adverb">gently</span> stewed, in which case a dab of made mustard is given them. <a name="link2H_4_0236" id="link2H_4_0236"> </a> </p> <h2> TOMATO RICE </h2> <p> Put on your rice to boil. Make a tomato sauce by stewing them <span class="adverb">gently</span>, and then rubbing them through a sieve; this makes a purée, which you must put back to heat with pepper and salt and a small quantity of made mustard. Then grate some parmesan, or failing that, some Gruyère cheese. Take off the rice, drain it, keeping it hot, put it on a dish and pour over it your purée. Then sprinkle the grated cheese <span class="adverb">thickly</span> on top of all. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0237" id="link2H_4_0237"> </a> </p> <h2> RICE WITH EGGS </h2> <p> Boil some rice till it will press <span class="adverb">closely</span> together. Fill some teacups with it, pressing the rice well down; then leave a hole in the middle and pour into each hole a small raw egg, yolk, and white. Set the tea-cups to cook in the oven, and when the eggs are just set and no more, press on them some more rice. Turn them out of the teacups, and if you have rubbed the inside of the cups with a little butter this will be easy, and sprinkle over the top of each mold plenty of chopped parsley. Do not forget salt and pepper to season the ingredients. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0238" id="link2H_4_0238"> </a> </p> <h2> BROAD BEANS IN SAUCE </h2> <p> Take your shelled beans, very young and tender. Throw them into boiling water for a minute, then pour the water away. Heat for <span class="measure">a pound</span> of beans <span class="measure">one and one-half pints</span> of milk, stir in <span class="measure">four ounces</span> of salt butter, a very little chopped parsley, salt and pepper. Do not let the milk boil, but when it simmers put in the beans. When they have been heated for ten minutes, thicken your sauce with the yolks of two eggs and <span class="measure">a tablespoonful</span> of cream. Take out a bean and eat it to see if it is cooked, and if so, pour all on a hot dish. Garnish with fried sippets of bread. Old broad beans can be treated in the same way, but they must first be skinned. </p> <p> [<i>Aimee.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0239" id="link2H_4_0239"> </a> </p> <h2> OMELETTE OF PEAS </h2> <p> Beat up three eggs, to which add <span class="measure">one tablespoonful</span> of grated cheese, pepper, and salt, and mix <span class="adverb">thoroughly</span>. Butter an omelette pan, and pour in the mixture, keep moving it <span class="adverb">gently</span> with a fork while you sprinkle in with the other hand some cooked green peas. The omelette will be cooked by the time you have sprinkled in <span class="measure">two handfuls</span>. Slip it off on to a very hot dish, fold over, and serve at once. </p> <p> [<i>Jean O.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0240" id="link2H_4_0240"> </a> </p> <h2> BRUSSELS ARTICHOKES </h2> <p> Wash well some globe artichokes, and boil them in salted water. Meanwhile make a good mushroom filling, <span class="adverb">highly</span> seasoned, of cooked mushroom, dipped into butter, pepper, salt, a few breadcrumbs, and shreds of ham. Remove the center leaves from the vegetable and as much of the choke as you can. Fill up with the mushroom force and stew <span class="adverb">gently</span> in brown sauce flavored with a bunch of herbs. </p> <h3> [<i>F. R.</i>] </h3> <a name="link2H_4_0241" id="link2H_4_0241"> </a> <h2> BELGIAN SALAD </h2> <p> is <span class="adverb">merely</span> endive, washed and torn apart with red peppers added here and there as well as the ordinary salad dressing. </p> <p> <i>Belgian asparagus</i> is done by adding to the cooked vegetable a bechamel sauce, poured over the dish, and then slices of hard boiled eggs placed on the top. The giant asparagus is used, and it is eaten with a fork. </p> <p> [<i>A Grocer's Wife.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0242" id="link2H_4_0242"> </a> </p> <h2> BRUSSELS CARROTS </h2> <p> Cut young carrots in small pieces, blanch them in salted water; melt some butter in a stew pan, add enough water and meat extract to make sufficient to cover the carrots, season with pepper, salt and a pinch of sugar and toss the carrots in this till they are tender. Then add the yolk of an egg and <span class="measure">a tablespoonful</span> of cream, holding the pan just off the fire with the left hand, while you stir with the right. When it is well mixed pour all out on a vegetable dish and sprinkle over with chopped parsley. </p> <p> [<i>Amie reconnaissante.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0243" id="link2H_4_0243"> </a> <h2> CARROTS AND EGGS </h2> <p> Make the same preparation as above, for the sauce, with the same seasonings, but add a dust of nutmeg. Then add <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of white stock which will be enough for a small bunch of carrots; simmer them for fifteen minutes and then break in three whole eggs, taking care that they fall apart from each other. Let them cook till <span class="adverb">nearly</span> set (for they will go on cooking in the hot sauce after you remove them from the fire) and serve at once. This is <span class="adverb">nearly</span> as good if you use old carrots sliced, instead of the young ones. </p> <p> [<i>M. Zoeben</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0244" id="link2H_4_0244"> </a> </p> <h2> CUCUMBERS AND TOMATOES </h2> <p> Take two earthenware pots and put some tomatoes to stew in one, in water, pepper, and salt. Peel a cucumber, open it, remove the seeds and stuff it with any forcemeat that you have; but a white one is best. Let it cook <span class="adverb">gently</span> in some brown stock, well covered over. When tender put the cucumber along the dish and tomatoes on each side. A puree of potatoes can surround them. </p> <p> [<i>A. Fanderverde</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0245" id="link2H_4_0245"> </a> </p> <h2> RED HARICOTS </h2> <p> Soak some white haricot-beans over night, or stew them till tender in some weak stock. Make a tomato sauce in a saucepan, and flavor it rather <span class="adverb">strongly</span> with made mustard, stirring well, so that it is well incorporated. When the beans are tender, drain them from the liquor (keeping them hot) and reduce that to half its quantity. Put back the beans and add the tomato sauce, heat for a couple of minutes, and serve with three-cornered pieces of toast. </p> <p> [<i>Elise et Jean</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0246" id="link2H_4_0246"> </a> </p> <h2> POTATOES A LA BRABANCONNE </h2> <p> Boil some potatoes, rub them through a sieve, add pepper, salt, and <span class="measure">a tablespoonful</span> of cream to <span class="measure">a pound</span> of potatoes, rub through a tammy again. Chop a shallot, a spring or two of parsley and mix them in, sprinkling in at the same time a dust of nutmeg and <span class="measure">a dessertspoonful</span> of grated cheese. Place the puree in a dish to be baked, and before setting it in the oven sprinkle on the top some bread-crumbs, and cheese grated and mixed and one or two pats of salt butter. Bake till it is a golden brown. </p> <p> [<i>Elise et Jean</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0247" id="link2H_4_0247"> </a> </p> <h2> FLEMISH PEAS </h2> <p> Cook some young peas and some carrots (scraped and shaped into cones) in separate pans. Then put them together in an earthenware close covered pan to simmer together in butter and gravy, the first water having been well drained from them. Season with pepper and salt and let them cook <span class="adverb">gently</span> for ten or twelve minutes; do not uncover the pot to stir it, but shake it every now and then to prevent the contents from burning. </p> <p> [<i>Amie inconnue</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0248" id="link2H_4_0248"> </a> </p> <h2> CHOU-CROUTE </h2> <p> Take as many white September cabbages as you wish, trim them, cut in halves, remove the stalks, wash them very <span class="adverb">thoroughly</span> and shred them pretty <span class="adverb">finely</span>. Procure an earthenware crock and put in a layer of cabbage, sprinkle it with coarse salt, whole pepper, and juniper berries. Fill up the crock in this way, put on the lid, and keep it down <span class="adverb">closely</span> with weights. It will be ready in about six weeks' time, when the fermentation has taken place. It is good with pork or bacon. <a name="link2H_4_0249" id="link2H_4_0249"> </a> </p> <h2> SPINACH FRITTERS </h2> <p> Take any cold boiled spinach—though people <span class="adverb">generally</span> eat all that there is—and mix it <span class="adverb">thickly</span> with the yolk of egg and a little rice flour; you may add a little powdered sugar. Have ready some boiling fat, and drop <span class="measure">spoonfuls</span> of the spinach into it. If the fat is hot enough the fritters will puff out. Drain them <span class="adverb">quickly</span> and serve very hot. <a name="link2H_4_0250" id="link2H_4_0250"> </a> </p> <h2> HARLEQUIN CABBAGES </h2> <p> Shred some red cabbage, to <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of it add two medium sized apples, minced <span class="adverb">finely</span> without core or skin, a bit of fat bacon, season with pepper, salt, vinegar, which should be tarragon vinegar, and put it to simmer in some gravy or milk and water. It should cook for an hour over a gentle fire. Cook <span class="adverb">separately</span> some green cabbage, cleaned, boiled till tender in salted water, chopped, then put back on a gentle fire with salt, pepper, a dust of nutmeg, and some fat or butter. Let it heat and mix well, and then serve the two colors side by side in the same dish; the red cabbage has a sour and the green has a nutty flavor which is very agreeable. <a name="link2H_4_0251" id="link2H_4_0251"> </a> </p> <h2> LITTLE TOWERS OF SALAD </h2> <p> Put a couple of eggs on to boil hard, while you make a thick mayonnaise sauce. Cut some beetroot, some cucumber, some cold potato, some tomato into slices. Peel your eggs, and slice them, and build up little piles of the different things, till about two inches high. Between each slice you will sprinkle grated breadcrumbs, pepper, salt, a tiny scrap of chopped raw shallot, parsley, all mixed in a cup. Finish with the rounded ends of white of egg on the top, put lettuce round and pour the dressing over it. <a name="link2H_4_0252" id="link2H_4_0252"> </a> </p> <h2> PUFFS FOR FRIDAY </h2> <p> Make a batter of a beaten egg, a dust of rice flour, pepper, salt and as much cream as you can give. Roll out this batter so <span class="adverb">thinly</span> that you can almost see through it. Cut it into rounds and put on it any cooked vegetables that you have, but they must be <span class="adverb">highly</span> seasoned. Cold potatoes will do if they are done with mustard, vinegar, or a strong boiled sauce. Fold over the paste, press it together at the edges, and fry in hot fat. <a name="link2H_4_0253" id="link2H_4_0253"> </a> </p> <h2> HADDOCK A LA CARDINAL </h2> <p> Take some fillets of haddock, or cod or hake, and poach them <span class="adverb">gently</span> in milk and water. Meanwhile, prepare a good white sauce, and in another pan a thick tomato sauce, <span class="adverb">highly</span> seasoned, colored with cochineal if need be, and as thick as a good cream. Lay the fillets when cooked one each on a plate, put some of the white sauce round it, and along the top put the tomato sauce which must not run down. A sprig of chervil is to be placed at each end of the fillet. </p> <p> [<i>Seulette.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0254" id="link2H_4_0254"> </a> </p> <h2> SKATE STEW </h2> <p> Put the fins, skin, trimmings of skate into water enough to cook them, with pepper and salt and simmer for half an hour. Strain it through a fine sieve. Make a brown sauce of butter and flour, pepper, salt, adding a little milk, about <span class="measure">a teacupful</span> for <span class="measure">a pound</span> of skate, then squeeze in the juice of half a lemon, and if you have it, a glass of white wine. Take the skate, cut it in pieces, simmer it in salted water; when cooked, strain away the water, dish the fish, pouring over it the above sauce. Decorate with strips of lemon peel laid in a lattice-work down the center. </p> <p> [<i>Une epiciere</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0255" id="link2H_4_0255"> </a> </p> <h2> TO DRESS COARSE FISH </h2> <p> Any fish is good if dressed in this way. Make a brown sauce, well flouring it with salt, pepper, and dried herbs. Mince and fry a shallot and add it, then a large glass of red wine, a few drops of lemon juice. Cook some fish roe, sieve it, and stir it into the sauce. Take your fish and simmer it in milk and water till cooked, then heat it up <span class="adverb">quickly</span> in the sauce to serve. </p> <h3> [<i>F. R.</i>] </h3> <a name="link2H_4_0256" id="link2H_4_0256"> </a> </p> <h2> FLEMISH SALAD </h2> <p> This is fillets of herring, laid in a bowl with slices of apple, beetroot, cold potatoes, and cold cooked sprouts, covered with the ordinary salad dressing. If the fish is salted, let it soak first of all in milk to take away the greater part of the salt. This is a winter dish, but the same sort of thing is prepared in summer, substituting cold cooked peas, cauliflower, artichokes, beans, with the fish. </p> <p> [<i>Amie reconnaissante.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0257" id="link2H_4_0257"> </a> </p> <h2> FLEMISH SAUCE </h2> <p> This popular sauce is composed of melted butter thickened with yolk of egg and flavored with mustard; it is used <span class="adverb">greatly</span> for fish. <a name="link2H_4_0258" id="link2H_4_0258"> </a> </p> <h2> BEEF SQUARES </h2> <p> If you have a small piece of very good beef, such as rump steak or fillet of beef, it is more economical to cut it into squares, and grill it <span class="adverb">lightly</span> at a clear fire. Have ready some squares of toast, buttered and hot, lay these on a hot dish with a bit of steak on the top, and on the top of that a slice of tomato much peppered and salted and a small pile of horse-radish. This makes a pretty dish and can be varied by using capers or chopped gherkins instead of horse-radish. It is a great saving to cut meat, bread, etc., in squares instead of rounds. </p> <p> [<i>Une amie au convent.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0259" id="link2H_4_0259"> </a> </p> <h2> IMITATION CUTLETS </h2> <p> A dish that I have done for those who like curry flavoring is the following. Take any cold cooked vegetables, and cutting them in small pieces, roll them in a thick white sauce which you have <span class="adverb">strongly</span> flavored with curry. Put it aside to get firm. If you are in a hurry you can bind with the yolk of an egg in the flour and make a thick batter in that way. Form into cutlets and fry as you would a real cutlet. The same thing can be done with macaroni or spaghetti that is already cooked, with cold fish or anything that is insipid to the taste. </p> <p> [<i>Une amie au convent</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0260" id="link2H_4_0260"> </a> </p> <h2> KIDNEYS WITH MADEIRA </h2> <p> Use either sheep or pigs' kidneys. Cut them longways, so as to be able to take out the threads from the inside of them. Put some butter on to fry over a brisk fire and when it is browned, but not burnt, put in the kidneys for three or four minutes. Take them out and keep them hot for a minute while you add to the butter they were cooked in <span class="measure">a soupspoonful</span> of Madeira wine, a good dust of chopped parsley, a little cayenne pepper and salt. Mix it well, and if too thick add a little gravy. Pour the sauce over the kidneys and finish with a powdering of chopped parsley. Fried potatoes are eaten with this dish. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Vanderbelle Genotte.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0261" id="link2H_4_0261"> </a> </p> <h2> PIGS' TROTTERS IN BLANQUETTE </h2> <p> Any part of pork or veal is good done in this way. Take your pieces of meat and fry them in butter till they are a good golden brown color. Put them in a pan, covering them with water, and adding a sliced onion, a bay leaf, a whole carrot, a leek, pepper, salt,—let it all simmer <span class="adverb">gently</span> over a slow fire till the meat is cooked but not boiled. Take the pieces from the liquor and pass it through a sieve. Mix a little rice flour in a cup of cold water, stirring well. Drop in the juice of half a lemon and the beaten yolk of an egg, which stir round <span class="adverb">quickly</span>. Put in the meat again for a moment and serve it with boiled potatoes. <a name="link2H_4_0262" id="link2H_4_0262"> </a> </p> <h2> LOIN OF MUTTON IN THE POT </h2> <p> Put in an earthenware pot three shallots, <span class="adverb">finely</span> minced; take a bit of garlic, cut it close and rub it round the side of the pot; put in as well a lump of butter, pepper and salt, and some rather fat gravy. Divide the loin and put six chops in to simmer for three quarters of an hour on a moderate fire, covering the pot with the lid. Before you serve it, stir in a little lemon juice and stir up the sauce. To be served with Cauliflower à la Aerschot as follows: Cut your cauliflower into medium pieces, seeing that it is very clean, while you have some salted water boiling up. Put in the pieces, boil till tender, then drain them on a sieve. Put leaves and trimming of the vegetable into the pot to simmer and serve as basis for a vegetable soup. Make a good white sauce, adding the yolk of an egg, and flavoring it with nutmeg. Put the vegetable on a dish and pour over the sauce, letting it stand for a few moments by the fire before it is eaten. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Herman Noppen.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0263" id="link2H_4_0263"> </a> <h2> OX TONGUE WITH SPINACH AND WHITE SAUCE </h2> <p> Boil the tongue in salted water till the outer skin will peel off. Take this off, then put the tongue back in the liquor to simmer while you prepare the same. Take a piece of butter the size of an egg, melt it and mix it with <span class="measure">two dessertspoonfuls</span> of ground rice, add some of the liquor, pepper, and salt, stir well, so that it makes a good cream; drop in the yolks of two eggs, always stirring, and a little lemon juice. Serve the tongue whole with this sauce poured over it and spinach done in the following way: Wash the spinach in running water till every bit of grit has gone. Put some water on to boil, salt it well, and throw in the spinach which you have freed from mid-rib and stalk. The water must be boiling and the fire brisk. When tender, pass the spinach through the sieve, then put a bit of butter into an enameled saucepan, then the spinach, which heat for six minutes, add a little pepper. Serve it with the tongue, and you can garnish as well with little croutons of bread fried in butter. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Herman Noppen</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0264" id="link2H_4_0264"> </a> <h2> VEAL FRITTERS </h2> <p> If you have only a little piece of veal or other cold meat, you can make a very presentable dish in the following way: Cut a thin slice of meat and spread on each side of it a layer of mashed potatoes to which you have added some tomato sauce. Beat up an egg and dip the slices and potato into it, lay them in fine breadcrumbs and fry them till a good golden color in plenty of fat. Send them to table under a hot cover. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0265" id="link2H_4_0265"> </a> <h2> STEWED BEEF </h2> <p> If you are obliged to make a hot dish in a hurry and have only a piece of inferior meat, there is no better way of using it than by dressing it in the Brabant way, which is rather expensive. Clean and cook some mushrooms, and when fried <span class="adverb">lightly</span>, add them and their liquor to your beef, cut up in small pieces, but not minced. Add pepper, salt, a dust of spices, or an onion with three or four cloves in it, and a half bottle of good red wine. Stew all together for at least twenty minutes, take out the onion and cloves, and serve in the dish it was cooked in which should be an earthenware pot. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0266" id="link2H_4_0266"> </a> <h2> A MUTTON SALAD </h2> <p> Cut some slices of cold mutton or lamb, removing every bit of fat and skin that you can, unless that destroys the firmness of the slice. Prepare a salad of lettuce, and if you cannot give a mayonnaise sauce, add to the lettuce plenty of sliced cucumber, for that keeps the mutton moist. Put the salad on each slice and roll the meat over as <span class="adverb">tightly</span> as you can. Lay the rolls <span class="adverb">closely</span> together in a dish and sprinkle a very little salad dressing over them. This way of doing meat is very useful for taking to picnics, or for taking on a long journey. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0267" id="link2H_4_0267"> </a> <h2> SAUSAGE PATTIES </h2> <p> <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of sausage meat of any kind that you like. Make some rounds of paste, lay the meat on half of each round and fold over. Steam for quarter of an hour, or stew in plenty of gravy. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0268" id="link2H_4_0268"> </a> <h2> SAUSAGE AND POTATOES </h2> <p> Roll some cooked sausage meat in mashed potatoes, making a roll for each person. Brush the potatoes over with milk and put them to bake till <span class="adverb">nicely</span> browned. Decorate with gherkins on each roll of butter. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0269" id="link2H_4_0269"> </a> <h2> RAGOUT OF COLD MEAT </h2> <p> Take any cold meat that you have, free it from fat and skin and cut it in rounds like a five-franc piece. If you have some lean bacon or ham, a little of that should be added. I should tell you first of all to put some rice on to boil in boiling water. Make a sauce of flour and butter in a pan, adding gravy if you happen to have it, but failing that, use water and vinegar in equal parts to thin it; season with pepper and salt and <span class="measure">a small spoonful</span> of anchovy sauce. When the sauce is heating, put in the meat and cover the pan, let it all heat for twelve minutes and then place meat and sauce in the middle of a dish. By this time the rice may be tender. Drain it well and put it as a border to the stew. </p> <p> [<i>Aimee.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0270" id="link2H_4_0270"> </a> <h2> A QUICKLY MADE STEW </h2> <p> Put a piece of butter in a stewpan, with an onion cut in pieces, a few cloves, salt and pepper, <span class="measure">a tablespoonful</span> of shredded parsley, and if you have it some good gravy or meat juice and water. Throw into the sauce some cold meat, <span class="adverb">preferably</span> underdone, and after it has simmered for fifteen minutes take a cut onion and rub with it the bottom of the dish that you are going to use. Take a good glass of red wine, such as Burgundy and mix it with the yolk of an egg, stir this into the stew and serve up in a couple of minutes. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Groubet.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0271" id="link2H_4_0271"> </a> <h2> GRENADINES OF VEAL </h2> <p> Take a fireproof dish, and after sprinkling it with breadcrumbs put in it a layer of roast veal in slices, a layer of mashed potatoes, a layer of veal kidney, <span class="adverb">partly</span> cooked, and cut into pieces and <span class="adverb">lastly</span> a layer of potato. Cover the whole with a bechamel sauce into which you have stirred some grated cheese; put it to bake in the oven. Then make a brown sauce with any veal or kidney gravy that you have, and cook some mushrooms in it with pepper and salt; the sauce is to be served with the grenadine. <a name="link2H_4_0272" id="link2H_4_0272"> </a> <h2> HOCHE POT </h2> <p> Slice an onion and fry it in butter till it is brown; add pieces of pork and of mutton freed from fat and skin; cover them with water and throw into it any kinds of vegetables that you may have; but <span class="adverb">particularly</span> sliced carrots and turnips and green cabbages; put it in the oven to cook. In another saucepan boil some white haricot beans, salt, and pepper, until they are tender, when they must be added to the stew with a small quantity of the liquor that they have been boiled in. <a name="link2H_4_0273" id="link2H_4_0273"> </a> <h2> PIGEON AND CABBAGE ROLLS </h2> <p> Take two pigeons, two cabbages, four slices of fried bacon, <span class="measure">an ounce</span> of butter, <span class="measure">a large wineglassful</span> of sherry, and some gravy. Truss your pigeons and cook them in butter for ten minutes in a fireproof dish. Then take them out, cut them into neat pieces. Meanwhile have the cabbages boiled in salted water. Drain them. Cut them in small pieces and roll some up in each slice of bacon; lay the pigeons on top, pouring over them the liquor they were cooked in and half the wine. Put all in the oven for ten minutes—pour in the rest of the wine and leave for another ten minutes before serving. If you have stock to add to this it is an improvement, or put <span class="measure">half a teaspoonful</span> of meat extract to <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of water. </p> <p> [<i>Une refugiee</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0274" id="link2H_4_0274"> </a> <h2> REMAINS OF SAUSAGE </h2> <p> If you have a few inches of a big sausage cut it into as thick slices as you can—fry them and lay them in a circle on a dish with a poached egg on each. Little dinner breads are good when soaked in milk, stuffed with sausage meat, and fried. It can be used to stuff cucumber, or eggplants, but you should then crumble up the meat and bind it with the yolk of a raw egg. </p> <p> [<i>Mme. Georgette.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0275" id="link2H_4_0275"> </a> <h2> SHOULDER OF LAMB A LA BEIGE </h2> <p> Braise your shoulder of lamb; that is, put it in a <span class="adverb">closely</span> covered stewpan, in a good brown sauce or gravy with the vegetables, to be served with it. It is the lid being closed that makes the meat take some flavor from the vegetables. To do it in the Belgian way, take some good white turnips, wash them and scrape them, put small ones in whole, large ones cut in half. Take some small cabbages, trim off without leaves, cut them in half, remove the stalk, make a hollow in the center and fill it with forcemeat of any kind; but sausage meat is good. Place the stuffed cabbages round the meat to cook <span class="adverb">gently</span> at the same time. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Vershagen.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0276" id="link2H_4_0276"> </a> <h2> FILLET OF BEEF À LA BRABANCONNE </h2> <p> Take a whole fillet of beef, trim it <span class="adverb">neatly</span> and set it in a braising pan to cook very <span class="adverb">slowly</span> in some good brown sauce to which you have added <span class="measure">a pint</span> of stock. Put in <span class="adverb">neatly</span> shaped carrots and turnips and some balls made of mashed potato already fried. Keep hot in two sauceboats a puree of Brussels sprouts and a puree of onions. These are prepared by cooking the vegetables in water, then chopping fine, and rubbing through a sieve with cream, or with a little good milk, pepper, and salt. To serve the fillet, lay it on a dish with the carrots and turnip, potato cakes round; pour over it the rest of the brown sauce from the pan; then add in heaps the onion puree and the sprouts puree. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Vershagen.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0277" id="link2H_4_0277"> </a> <h2> STEWED BEEF </h2> <p> An inferior part of beef may be made to taste excellent if it is braised; that is, simmered with the cover on <span class="adverb">slowly</span>, in company with onions (already fried) and well washed pieces of carrots and whole turnips. Put on also some small cabbages cut in halves, and if you can give it, a glass of good red wine. </p> <p> [<i>Une refugiee.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0278" id="link2H_4_0278"> </a> <h2> BEEF AND APRICOTS </h2> <p> Stew your beef, say <span class="measure">three pounds</span> of steak, in some gravy, adding to <span class="measure">a pint</span> of liquor <span class="measure">a level teaspoonful</span> of white sugar. Throw in <span class="measure">a handful</span> of the dried apricots, but be sure you wash them well first. This dish is <span class="adverb">generally</span> accompanied by leeks, first blanched for a few moments, and then put in the stew. Flavor with salt, pepper, and the rind of half a lemon which remove before you serve the stew. For English taste the sugar could be omitted. </p> <p> [<i>Seulette.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0279" id="link2H_4_0279"> </a> <h2> FOR AN INVALID </h2> <p> This must be begun at least three hours before it will be required. Take <span class="measure">two ounces</span> of pearl barley, wash it well, and put it in cold water enough to cover it, for an hour. Take <span class="measure">a pound</span> of good steak, shred it in small pieces, and put it in an enameled saucepan with <span class="measure">a quart</span> of cold water and a sprinkle of salt. Strain the water from the barley and add this last to the meat, and let it simmer for two hours. Then strain off the liquor and pound the meat and barley in a mortar, rub it through a sieve; when it is a smooth puree put it back into the pan with its liquor and a gill of cream. Let it simmer again for a moment and serve it in a cup with a lid to it. </p> <p> [<i>Madame A. F.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0280" id="link2H_4_0280"> </a> <h2> INVALIDS' EGGS </h2> <p> Cut out some rounds of bread a good deal larger than a poached egg would be. While these are frying, make a puree of Brussels sprouts. Boil them till tender, squeeze in a cloth. Rub them through a sieve and make into a very thick puree with cream, pepper and salt. Poach a fresh egg for each crouton, and slip it on, very <span class="adverb">quickly</span>, put some of the green puree round, and serve under a hot cover. <a name="link2H_4_0281" id="link2H_4_0281"> </a> <h2> A SWEET FOR THE CHILDREN </h2> <p> If you have some little breads over, cut each one in four, soak the pieces in milk sweetened and flavored with vanilla, for three hours. When they are well soaked roll them for a moment in grated and dried breadcrumbs, and dip them for a moment in boiling fat, just as you would do croquettes. Sift some white sugar over them and serve very hot. </p> <p> [<i>Madame M.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0282" id="link2H_4_0282"> </a> <h2> QUINCE CUSTARD </h2> <p> When you have quince preserves by you this is a <span class="adverb">quickly</span> prepared dish. Make a good custard with <span class="measure">a pint</span> of rich milk, four eggs and a little essence of almonds and <span class="measure">two ounces</span> of powdered sugar. Put your quince preserve at the bottom of a fireproof circular dish and fill up with custard. Put it to bake for half or hour or till set. When set add some more quince (heated) on the top with some chopped almonds and serve hot. The same dish can be done with apples, which should be stewed, flavored with the rind of a half lemon, and passed through a sieve. Apple puree is put on the top in the same way, and it is decorated with some thin lemon peel cut into stars. </p> <p> [<i>Chef reconnaissant.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0283" id="link2H_4_0283"> </a> <h2> YELLOW PLUMS AND RICE </h2> <p> Put <span class="measure">half a pound</span> of rice in hot milk till it has absorbed all it can and is tender. Beat <span class="adverb">lightly</span> the yolks of three eggs, beating in a lump of fresh butter the size of a pullet's egg; add powdered sugar and the whites of the eggs well beaten. Put the rice into this mixture and place all in a mold. Cook it <span class="adverb">gently</span> for twenty-five minutes. Meanwhile take some very perfect yellow plums, skin and stone them and heat them in half a bottle of light white wine that you have seasoned with a little spice. Turn out the rice, put the yellow plums on the top and pour round the sauce, strained through muslin. Very good cold. <a name="link2H_4_0284" id="link2H_4_0284"> </a> <h2> BRABANT PANCAKE </h2> <p> Butter first of all your pancakes, and you should have proper pancake saucers fit to go to table. Heat <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of sweetened milk and melt <span class="measure">a quarter of a pound</span> of salt butter with it. When well melted pour it into a basin and sprinkle in <span class="adverb">nearly</span> <span class="measure">three ounces</span> of flour. Beat up the yolks of three large or four small eggs and incorporate them, then add the whites well beaten. Put <span class="measure">a spoonful or two</span> on each saucer and set to bake in the oven for ten minutes and when done place each saucer on a plate with a good lump of apricot jam on each. If you have no pancake saucers, put the apricot preserve on one half of each pancake and fold it up. </p> <p> [<i>Jean O.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0285" id="link2H_4_0285"> </a> <h2> DELICIOUS SAUCE FOR PUDDINGS </h2> <p> To <span class="measure">a large wineglassful</span> (say a glass for champagne wine) of new Madeira add the yolks only of two eggs. Put in a very clean enamel saucepan over the fire and stir in powdered sugar to your taste. Whisk it over the fire till it froths, but do not allow it even to simmer. Use for Genoese cakes and puddings. </p> <p> [<i>Madame Groubet.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0286" id="link2H_4_0286"> </a> <h2> FRUIT JELLIES </h2> <p> Jellies that are very well flavored can be made with fresh fruit, raspberries, strawberries, apricots, or even rhubarb, using the proportions of <span class="measure">one ounce</span> of gelatine (in cold weather) to every pound of fruit puree. In hot weather use a little less gelatine. As the fruit <span class="adverb">generally</span> gives a bad color, you must use cochineal for the red jellies and a little green coloring for gooseberry jellies. The gelatine is of course melted in the fruit puree and all turned into a mold. You can make your own green coloring in this way. Pick <span class="measure">a pound</span> of spinach, throwing away the stalks and midrib. Put it on in a pan with a little salt and keep the cover down. Let it boil for twelve minutes. Then put a fine sieve over a basin and pour the spinach water through it. Strain the spinach water once or twice through muslin; it will be a good color and will keep some time. Orange and lemon jellies are much more wholesome when made at home than those made from bought powders. To the juice of every six oranges you should add the juice of one lemon, and you will procure twice as much juice from the fruit if, just before you squeeze it, you let it soak in hot water for three or four minutes. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0287" id="link2H_4_0287"> </a> <h2> STRAWBERRY FANCY </h2> <p> Take a slice or two of plain sponge cake and cut out rounds two inches across. Then whip up in a basin the whites only of four eggs, coloring them with the thinner part of strawberry jam. As a rule this jam is not red enough, and you must add a little cochineal. Put the pink mixture in high piles on the cakes. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0288" id="link2H_4_0288"> </a> <h2> PINK RICE </h2> <p> This sweet is liked by children who are tired of rice pudding. Boil your rice and when tender mix in with it the juice of a boiled beetroot to which some sugar has been added. Turn it into a mold and when cold remove it and serve it with <span class="measure">a spoonful</span> of raspberry preserve on the top or with some red plums round it. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0289" id="link2H_4_0289"> </a> <h2> MILITARY PRUNES </h2> <p> Take some of the best French preserved prunes, and remove the stones. Soak them in orange curaçoa for as long a time as you have at your disposal. Then replace each stone by a blanched almond, and place the prunes in small crystal dishes. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0290" id="link2H_4_0290"> </a> <h2> MADELINE CHERRIES </h2> <p> Take some Madeleine cakes and scoop them out to form baskets. Fill these with stoned cherries both white and black that you have soaked in a good liqueur—cherry brandy is the best but you may use maraschino. Place two long strips of angelica across the top and where these intersect a very fine stoned cherry. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0291" id="link2H_4_0291"> </a> <h2> STRAWBERRY TARTLETS </h2> <p> It often happens that you have among the strawberries a quantity that are not quite good enough to be sent to table as dessert, and yet not enough to make jam of. Put these strawberries on to heat, with some brown sugar, and use them to fill small pastry tartlets. Pastry cases can be bought for very little at the confectioner's. Cover the top of the tartlet when the strawberry conserve is cold with whipped cream. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0292" id="link2H_4_0292"> </a> <h2> MADEIRA EGGS OR OEUFS À LA GRAND'MÈRE </h2> <p> Break the yolk of an egg in a basin and be sure that it is very fresh; beat it up, adding a little powdered sugar, and then, drop by drop, enough of the best Madeira to give it a strong flavor. This makes a nice sweet served in glass cups and it is besides very good for sore throats. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0293" id="link2H_4_0293"> </a> <h2> BUTTERFLIES </h2> <p> You will get at the confectioner's small round cakes that are smooth on the top; they are plain, and are about two and one-half inches across. Take one and cut it in halves, separating the top from the bottom. Cut the top pieces right across; you have now two half moons. Put some honey along the one straight edge of each half moon and stick it by that on the lower piece of cake, a little to one side. Do the same with the second half moon, so that they both stick up, not unlike wings. Fill the space between with a thick mixture of chopped almonds rolled in honey, and place two strips of angelica poking forward to suggest antennae. A good nougat will answer instead of the honey. </p> <p> [<i>Pour la Patrie</i>.] <a name="link2H_4_0294" id="link2H_4_0294"> </a> <h2> CHERRY AND STRAWBERRY COMPOTE </h2> <p> Take <span class="measure">half a pint</span> of rich cream and mix with it <span class="measure">a small glassful</span> of Madeira wine or of good brandy. Pick over some fine cherries and strawberries, stoning the cherries, and taking out the little center piece of each strawberry that is attached to the stalk. Lay your fruit in a shallow dish and cover it with the liquor and serve with the long sponge biscuits known as "langues de chat" (Savoy fingers). </p> <p> [<i>Amitie aux Anglais.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0295" id="link2H_4_0295"> </a> <h2> CHOCOLATE CUSTARD </h2> <p> To make a nice sweet in a few minutes can be <span class="adverb">easily</span> managed if you follow this recipe. Make a custard of rich milk and yolks of eggs, sweeten it with sugar, flavored with vanilla, and if you have a little cream add that also. Then grate down some of the best chocolate, as <span class="adverb">finely</span> as you can, rub it through coarse muslin so that it is a fine powder. Stir this with your custard, always stirring one way so that no bubbles of air get in. When you have got a thick consistency like rich cream, pour the mixture into paper or china cases, sprinkle over the tops with chopped almonds. There is no cooking required. <a name="link2H_4_0296" id="link2H_4_0296"> </a> <h2> GOOSEBERRY CREAM WITHOUT CREAM </h2> <p> Take your gooseberries and wash them well, cut off the stalk and the black tip of each. Stew them with sugar till they are tender, just covered in water. Do not let them burn. If you have not time to attend to that put them in the oven in a shallow dish sprinkled with brown sugar. When tender rub them through a fine sieve at least twice. Flavor with a few drops of lemon juice, and add sugar if required. Then beat up a fresh egg in milk and add as much arrowroot or cornflour as will lie flat in a salt spoon. Mix the custard with the gooseberries, pass it through the sieve once more and serve it in a crystal bowl. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. B-M.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0297" id="link2H_4_0297"> </a> <h2> CHOCOLATE PUDDINGS </h2> <p> Make some Genoese cake mixture as you would for a light cake, and pour it into greased molds like cups. You can take the weight of one egg in dried flour, butter, and rather less of sugar. Beat the butter and sugar together to a cream, sprinkle in the flour, stirring all the time, a pinch of salt, and then the beaten egg. When your little cakes are baked, turn them out of the molds and when cool turn them upside down and remove the inside, leaving a deep hole and a thin crust all round. Fill up this hole with the custard and chocolate as above, and let it grow firm. Then turn the cases right way up and pour over the top a sweet cherry sauce. You may require the yolks of two eggs to make the custard firm. </p> <p> [<i>Mdlle. B-M.</i>] <a name="link2H_4_0298" id="link2H_4_0298"> </a> </div> <div id="Index"> <pre> <h2> INDEX </h2> <div id="ElementsDeIndex"> Anchovy Biscuits " Patties " Rounds " Sandwiches Anchovies " Mock Apples, a new dish of Apples and Sausages Artichokes a la Vedette Artichokes, Brussels Asparagus a l'Anvers Asparagus, To Cook Aubergine or Egg Plant Banana Compote Beans, a Dish of Haricot " Broad, in Sauce Beef a la Bourguignonne Beef a la Mode Beef, Blankenberg " Caretaker's " Fillet of, a la Brabanconne " Roast Rump of, Bordelaise Sauce " Roasted Fillet of " Stewed Beef and Apricots Beef Squares Brussels Sprouts Boeuf a la Flamande Bouchees a la Reine Brabant Pancake Burgundy, Hot Butterflies Cabbage, Red Cabbage and Potatoes Cabbage with Sausages Cabbages, Harlequin Cake, Mocha Calf's Liver a la Bourgeoise Carbonade, Flemish Carbonade of Flanders Carbonades done with Beer Carrots, Belgian " Brussels " Flemish " Stuffed Carrots and Eggs Cauliflower a la Reine Elizabeth Cauliflower and Shrimps Cauliflower, Dressed " Stuffed Celeris au Lard Cheese Fondants Cheese Limpens Cherry and Strawberry Compote Cherries, Madeline Chicken a la Max Chicory Chicory a la Ferdinand Chicory and Ham with Cheese Sauce Chicory, Stuffed Children's Birthday Dish, The Chinese Corks Chou-Croute Cod, Remains of " The Miller's Cordial, Hawthorn Cream, Chocolate " Rum " Vanilla Creme de Poisson à la Roi Albert Croquettes of Boiled Meat Croquettes of Veal Croquettes, Cheese " Potato Cucumber à la Laeken Cucumbers and Tomatoes Custard, Chocolate Cutlets, Imitation Delicious Sauce for Puddings Egg Plants as Souffle Eggs à la Ribeaucourt Eggs, a Difficult Dish of " Belgian " Country " French " Madeira or Oeufs à la Grand'mère " Peasants' " Poached, Tomato Sauce " Stuffed Eggs and Mushrooms Endive, Flemish Entrèe (Croque-Monsieur) " Walloon Fish " a Brown Dish of Fish, Filleted, with White Sauce and Tomatoes " Remains of " To Dress Coarse Fish and Custard Four Quarters Frangipani Fricadelle Friday's Feast Fritters, Apple " Fruit " Semolina " Spinach " Veal Fruit Jellies Gaufres from Brussels Gingerbread, Belgian Gooseberry Cream without Cream Haddock a la Cardinal Haddocks, Baked Hake and Potatoes Ham with Madeira Sauce Ham, York, Sweetbreads, Madeira Sauce Hare " Hunter's Haricots, Red Herring and Mayonnaise Herrings, Dutch Hoche Pot Hoche Pot Gantois Hoche Pot of Ghent Hors d'Oeuvre Hot Pot Invalid, for an Invalid's Eggs Kid, Roast, with Venison Sauce Kidneys and Lettuce Kidneys with Madeira Lamb, Shoulder of, à la Belge Lavender Water Leeks à la Liegeoise Lettuce, Cooked Mackerel, to Keep for a Week Meat, Cold, Ragout of " Scraps of " To Use Up Cold " To Use Up Remains of Mutton, a Use for Cold " Collops " Loin of, in the Pot " Ragout of " Shoulder of " Shoulder of, Dressed Like Kid " Stew " Stewed Shoulder of Mushrooms à la Spinette Mushrooms, Gourmands' Oeufs Celestes, Hommage à Sir Edward Grey Omelette, Asparagus " Mushroom " of Peas " Rum Ox Tongue Ox Tongue a la Bourgeoise Ox Tongue with Spinach and White Sauce Pains Perdus Pastry, Excellent Paste for Peas, Flemish Petites Caisses à la Furnes Pigeon and Cabbage Rolls, Pigeons, Fricassee of Pigs' Trotters in Blanquette Pineapple à l'Anvers Pommes Château Potato Dice Potatoes, Chipped " Surprise Potatoes a la Brabanconne Potatoes and Cheese Potatoes in the Belgian Manner Pouding aux Pommes Prunes, Military " Stewed Puddings, Chocolate Puffs for Friday Purée of Chestnuts Quince Custard Rabbit " Baked " Flemish " Laeken Rabbit à la Bordelaise Rice, Golden " Pink " Richelieu " Saffron Rice à la Conde Rice with Eggs Rissoles, Good Riz Conde Salad, Belgian " Flemish " Little Towers of " a Mutton " of Tomatoes " Vegetable Salads, Vegetable Sauce au Diable Sauce, Bearnaise " Bordelaise " Cream " Dutch, for Fish " Flemish " Maître d'Hôtel " Muslin " Poor Man's " The Good Wife's Sausage and Potatoes Sausage Patties Sausage, Remains of Skate, Stew " Very Nice Snowy Mountains Soles, Filleted, au Fromage Soufflé, Apricot " Au Chocolat " Baked " Cheese " Kidney " Semolina Soup, A Good Belgian " A Good Pea " Ambassador " Another Sorrel " Belgian Purée " Carrot " Cauliflower " Chervil " Cream of Asparagus " Crecy (Belgian recipe) " Fish " Flemish " Green Pea " Hasty " Immediate, or Ten Minutes " Leek " Mushroom Cream " Onion " Ostend " Potage Leman " Sorrel " The Soldiers' Vegetable " Starvation " Tomato " Tomato Puree " Vegetable " Waterzoei Sparrows, Headless Speculoos Sprats, To Keep Spinach à la Braconnière Stew, A <span class="adverb">Quickly</span> Made Strawberry Fancy Strawberry Tartlets Sweet Drinks and Cordials Orgeat Sweet for the Children, A Tomato Rice Tomatoes, à la Sir Edward Grey Hommage Tomatoes and Eggs " and Eggs, Two Recipes for Tomatoes and Shrimps Tomatoes in Haste Tomatoes, Stuffed " Stuffed with Beans Veal, Breast of, " Blanquette of " Fricandeau of " Grenadines of " Grenadins of Veal à la Crème Veal à la Milanaise Veal Cake, " Excellent for Supper Veal Cutlets with Madeira Sauce Veal Liver Stuffed, or Liver à le Panier d'Or Veal with Mushrooms, or the Calf in Paradise Veal with Onions Veal with Tomatoes Yellow Plums and Rice </div> <pre> </div> <div id="Licences"> <h2> Licences </h2> <pre> End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Belgian Cookbook, by Various *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BELGIAN COOKBOOK *** ***** This file should be named 7223-h.htm or 7223-h.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/7/2/2/7223/ Text file produced by David Starner, Sergio Cangiano, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. 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