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much only as will suffice to stuff the number of ducks intended to be
dressed; add for each duck a teaspoonful of finely-pounded pepper, and
one of salt, with three cloves of garlic, and two chittacks or four
ounces of butter free of water; stuff your birds and bake or roast as
you please.
328.—Stuffing for Roast Turkey or Goose
Break, blanch, and slice up very fine twenty-five Barcelona nuts and a
dozen Jordan almonds, and set aside; fry, in two chittacks or four
ounces of butter free of water, four tablespoonfuls of finely-sliced
onions; add to it one dozen oysters, half a dozen boiled potatoes
broken up small, but not mashed, a pork or beef sausage broken up
small, the rind of a fresh lemon finely sliced and chopped, the crumb
of a slice of stale bread grated fine, some garden herbs, grated
nutmeg, plenty of finely-pounded pepper, and salt to taste; then add
the sliced nuts, and as much stock as will cover the whole of the
mixture, and allow it to simmer over a slow fire until it is reduced
to the consistency of stuffing; next add the juice of a lemon and a
little mushroom catsup and port wine, and stuff the bird, after fixing
the stuffing with an egg.
329.—Jelly for Cooked Birds, Meats, or Made Dishes
Boil down eight calves’-feet, with some pepper and salt, two onions, a
head of celery, and two carrots, in three or four quarts of water,
according to the quantity of jelly required; when perfectly boiled
down strain it lightly without bruising the onions or carrots; let it
cool, and remove all the fat; then, with a dozen cloves and the juice
and rind of a lemon, boil it again, adding a tablespoonful of soy or
any other dark-coloured, rich, and well-flavoured sauce; beat up to a
light froth the whites of four eggs, and clear the soup or jelly; add
a wineglass of brown sherry, and run or drip it through flannel. Pour
what you require over the ready cooked or dressed meat into moulds,
and let the rest cool in some large flat dish, and cut it up small for
garnishing the meat or bird when served up.
INDIAN PICKLES, CHUTNEES, SAUCES, ETC.
330.—Love-apple or Tomato Sauce
Ingredients:—Five hundred tomatoes; two pounds of green ginger,
ground fine; a pound and a half of garlic, ground fine; one pound of
chilies, ground fine; one pound of chilies, ground fine; one pound of
salt; three pounds of tamarinds; and three quarts of vinegar.
Steep the tamarinds for twelve hours in a quart of the vinegar; strain
them through a sieve, rejecting the stones, and add the other two
quarts of vinegar, all the ground condiments, and salt; break the
tomatoes into the mixture, and boil the whole, stirring it all the
time until it thickens; remove it from the fire, and when cold strain
it carefully and bottle the liquid, which is the sauce.
331.—Tomato or Love-apple Chutnee
Ingredients:—Two hundred large ripe love-apples, four ounces of
raisins, seven ounces of salt, four ounces of sugar, eight ounces of
chilies, finely sliced, four ounces of ground garlic, and seven ounces
of ground mustard-seed.
Parboil the tomatoes in a quart of vinegar, add the other ingredients,
and allow the whole to stand for ten to twelve hours; then boil it for
twenty to thirty minutes over a slow fire; when cold, bottle it.
332.—Tapp Sauce
Ingredients:—Three seers or six pounds of peeled and sliced mangoes,
two pounds of ground raisins, a pound of ground garlic, half a pound
of ground chilies, a pound and a half of ground ginger, a pound of
sugar, two pounds of salt, a quart of lime-juice, and six quarts of
vinegar.
Mix all the above well together, put it into stone jars, and expose it
to the sun for twenty days or a month, after which drain away the
liquid, which is the sauce; boil it for ten to fifteen minutes, and
when cold bottle and cork it.
333.—Sweet Chutnee
The refuse of the tapp sauce makes an excellent chutnee with the
addition of some thick syrup, a few dried dates, a few more whole
raisins, and some hot spices. Put the whole into a pan and let it
simmer for a quarter of an hour, or until the syrup is absorbed and
the chutnee reduced to a proper consistency; when cool, bottle, and
cork it well down.
334.—Another Way
Ingredients:—Two hundred green mangoes, peeled and sliced, four
pounds of salt, three pounds of ground garlic, three pounds of ground
ginger, one pound of chilies, finely sliced, four pounds of raisins,
half a dozen bay-leaves, eight pounds of sugar, and four quarts of
vinegar.
Make all the sugar into a syrup with two quarts of the vinegar, in
which the sliced mangoes must be boiled; when half done, throw in the
other ingredients, and mix up well; last of all, add the remaining two
quarts of vinegar, and when the chutnee begins to thicken remove it
from the fire; let it cool, and then bottle it.
335.—Sweet Mango Chutnee
Ingredients:—A hundred green mangoes, peeled and sliced, two seers of
tamarinds stoned, the syrup of six pounds of sugar boiled in three
quarts of vinegar, one tablespoonful of finely-pounded cinnamon, two
pounds of salt, two pounds of sliced ginger, two pounds of cleaned and
picked raisins, three quarts of vinegar, and one dessertspoonful of
grated nutmeg.
Peel the mangoes, cut them into fine slices, and steep them in salt
for thirty-six hours; drain away the salt water, and boil them in the
three quarts of vinegar; when cool, remove them into a preserving-pan,
mix in all the condiments and other ingredients, and allow the whole
to simmer for half an hour, pouring in the syrup gradually, and mixing
all the time, until the vinegar and syrup have been absorbed, and the
chutnee has acquired the desired consistency; bottle and cork when
perfectly cold.
336.—Hot Sweet Mango Chutnee
Ingredients:—A hundred green mangoes, the syrup of four pounds of
sugar and three quarts of vinegar, four pounds of tamarinds, stoned
and strained, three quarts of vinegar, eight or ten bay-leaves, one
pound of green chilies, two pounds of sliced ginger, one pound of
cloves of garlic, one pound of raisins, and two pounds of salt.
Peel and cut the mangoes into fine slices, and steep them in salt for
twenty-four to thirty-six hours; remove the mangoes from the salt
water, and boil them in three quarts of vinegar; when quite cool, lay
them in a preserving-pan, sprinkle over them the remaining salt, add
all the condiments, tamarinds, raisins, &c., and allow the whole to
simmer for half an hour, stirring all the time, with the syrup. It
should not be bottled until quite cold.
337.—Tamarind Chutnee
Ingredients:—Four pounds of ripe tamarinds without the stones, a
quarter of a pound each of ground chilies, ginger, and garlic, two
ounces of ground cinnamon, half a pound of picked currants, half a
pound of raisins (the small Cabool are the best), two pounds of soft
sugar, a quarter of a pound of salt, and a quart of vinegar.
Put the whole into a glazed earthen preserving-pan, pour over it a
quart of vinegar or syrup, or as much as will entirely cover the
mixture, and mix all well together; then allow it to simmer over a
quick fire until the vinegar or syrup is absorbed and the chutnee
thickened to the required consistency; it must be stirred during the
whole time it is on the fire.
N.B.—The two pounds of sugar and the quart of vinegar may be made
into syrup or used separately.
338.—Cussoondee
Peel and slice fine a hundred green mangoes, steep them in salt for
twelve hours, then put them under a heavy pressure for two hours, and
drain away all the water; then mix with them half a pound each of
ground chilies, ginger, and garlic, half a pound of bruised
mustard-seed, two pounds of tamarinds without the stones, and some
salt; when the whole is thoroughly mixed, pour over it as much warmed
or cooked mustard oil as will entirely cover it, and cook it for ten
to fifteen minutes over a brisk fire; when cold bottle it, taking care
that it is kept several inches well under the oil, and that it is well
corked, or it will spoil.
339.—Mango Amchoor
Peel and quarter some green mangoes; sprinkle with salt, and expose
them to the sun until they begin to dry up; then rub them with dry
pounded turmeric, chilies, and dry ginger; sprinkle more salt, and
expose them to the sun again, until they are quite dried up, when they
may be bottled and kept for use.
340.—Pickled Cabbage
Quarter a full-sized cabbage, keep it in salt for forty-eight hours,
and then drain away all the water. Prepare a pickle or brine of salt
and water in the proportion of eight ounces of salt to twenty-four
ounces of water, and boil it with half an ounce each of peppercorns
and bay-leaves; pack the cabbage loose in a wide-mouthed stone jar,
and pour over it the cold pickle or brine, which should have been
boiled the day before. Care must be taken to keep the mouth of the jar
always airtight, or the cabbage will rot. When required for use, take
out as much as will be required, steep it in fresh cold water for an
hour or two, and then boil it the same as fresh cabbage.
341.—Red Cabbage Pickle
Slice the cabbage, and sprinkle salt over each layer; after
twenty-four hours remove it into a colander, and allow all the salt
water to drain; then put the cabbage into a pan, pour in sufficient
boiling vinegar to cover it, and add a few slices of red beetroot;
when cold, put it into glass bottles and cork down.
342.—Red Cauliflower Pickle
This is a very uncommon pickle, and looks particularly pretty in white
bottles. Cut the cauliflower into pieces of equal sizes, sprinkle with
salt, and place it in the sun for a couple of days. Make a syrup of
vinegar and sugar: to every quart of vinegar put a quarter of a pound
of sugar, a few sticks of cinnamon, and as much sliced or bruised and
pounded red beet as will give the vinegar a deep red colour. When all
the salt water has drained away, put the cauliflower into a pan, and
pour over it the boiling-hot vinegar or syrup through a fine sieve, in
order to leave behind the sticks of cinnamon and fibres of the
beetroot; when cold, put the pickle into nice white bottles and cork.
343.—Patna or Bombay Onion Pickle
According to the size and number of bottles, take the small or button
onions; remove the outer coat, wash and dry them thoroughly, throw
them into a pan with some vinegar, and parboil them; set the vinegar
aside, after filtering it, for shrimp, cucumber, and other salads, or
for the preparation of mustard. Put the parboiled onions when cold
into wide-mouthed bottles, laying them alternately with fresh red
chilies, a few black peppercorns, some finely-sliced green ginger, and
a little salt. Fill the bottles with vinegar, and cork them.
344.—Mangoes Pickled Whole
Peel and divide some large-sized mangoes sufficiently to admit of the
stones being easily extracted; rub them over with salt, and expose
them to the sun for two or three days; then dry them with a napkin,
and stuff each mango with a few cloves of garlic, finely-sliced
chilies and ginger, some cullungee seeds, a clove or two, and a stick
or two of cinnamon;
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