Category: Cooking & Drinking
The innate love of change in man is visible even in the kitchen. Not so very long ago soup was an exception in English houses--almost a luxury. A dish of vegetables--as a dish and not an adjunct to meat--was a still greater rarity; and even now plain-boiled potatoes, peas, cab...
The innate love of change in man is visible even in the kitchen. Not so very long ago soup was an exception in English houses--almost a luxury. A dish of vegetables--as a dish a...
2. Part 2Vegetables should be well washed in cold water to remove insects and dust; if not fresh gathered, leave them some time in cold water, and remember that they take longer to cook...
3. Part 3Take a bunch of asparagus and scrape the stalks well. Cut them of equal length and put them into boiling salted water (if they are not all of the same size, put the biggest in f...
4. Part 4Clean and pare two or three pounds of cardoons, cut them lengthwise, and blanch them in boiling water. Then throw them into cold water to make them retain their whiteness, and d...
5. Part 5Leave one pint of lentils in cold water for twelve hours. Strain, put them into hot water, and boil them rapidly; then cook them slowly for about an hour, drain them well, put t...
6. Part 6Put several peeled mushrooms into a sauce-pan with two or four ounces of butter (according to the quantity of mushrooms used), add a small bunch of parsley and two or three smal...
7. Part 7Peel eight or more potatoes, cut them into quarters, wash, and boil them in salted water with half a lemon; take them off the fire before they are over-cooked. Then strain throu...
8. Part 8Boil five or six tomatoes until they are soft with one teaspoonful of salt, one of sugar, half a teaspoonful of thyme, a saltspoonful of pepper, one slice of onion, one bay leaf...
9. Part 9Cut two potatoes and one onion in pieces. Fry the onion in two ounces of butter till browned, then pour it over the potatoes in an earthen pot, add two tablespoonfuls of rice, o...