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Vegetable soup recipes: Sago vegetable soup.

SAGO VEGETABLE SOUP

3 oz. Sago—1d.

1 pint Milk—2 1/2d.

2 quarts Bone Stock

1 Leek

Salt and Pepper—1/2d.

Total Cost—4d.

Time—Half an Hour.

Wash the sago in cold water, boil the leek in the stock for ten minutes, take it out and stir in the sago; continue stirring until the sago is transparent and the stock quite thick, then pour in the milk [...]

CHOCOLATE BAVARIAN CREAM

CHOCOLATE BAVARIAN CREAM

For one large mould of cream, use half a package of gelatine, one gill
of milk, two quarts of whipped cream, one gill of sugar, and two and a
half ounces of Walter Baker & Co.’s Chocolate.

Soak the gelatine in cold water for two hours. Whip and drain the cream,
scrape the chocolate, and put the [...]

Vegetable soup recipes: French vegetable soup.

FRENCH VEGETABLE SOUP

3 Potatoes

3 Carrots

2 Turnips—1 1/2d.

2 quarts Bone Stock

Pepper

2 Onions

1/2 stalk Celery—1d.

1 oz. Butter—1d.

1 teaspoonful Sugar

Salt—1/2d.

Total Cost—4d.

Time—One Hour.

Peel and slice up the vegetables and sprinkle them with the sugar and salt, and put them into a saucepan with the butter, and sweat for five minutes. Pour over the boiling stock and stir until it boils; [...]

CHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE

CHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE

Soak a quarter of a package of gelatine in one-third of a cupful of cold
water for two hours. Whip one pint of cream to a froth, and put it in a
bowl, which should be placed in a pan of ice-water. Put half an ounce of
shaved chocolate in a small pan with two tablespoonfuls of [...]

Vegetable soup recipes: Original mulligatawny soup.

ORIGINAL MULLIGATAWNY SOUP

2 quarts Stock

1 Apple

1 Onion

1 Carrot—1d.

1/2 oz. Curry Powder

1 oz. Flour—1d.

1 oz. Butter—1d.

Total Cost—3d.

Time—One Hour

The liquor in which poultry or a rabbit has been boiled is the best for this soup. Slice up the apple, onion, and carrot, and fry them in the butter; sprinkle over the curry powder and flour and brown [...]

CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

Put a three-quart mould in a wooden pail, first lining the bottom with
fine ice and a thin layer of coarse salt. Pack the space between the
mould and the pail solidly with fine ice and coarse salt, using two
quarts of salt and ice enough to fill the space. Whip one quart of
cream, and drain it [...]

Vegetable soup recipes: Beef vegetable soup.

BEEF VEGETABLE SOUP

3 lbs. Leg of Beef—6d.

2 quarts Water

1 fagot of Herbs

Salt and Pepper

2 Onions

2 Carrots

2 Turnips

1 doz. Peppercorns—1 1/2d.

Total Cost—7 1/2 d.

Time—Five Hours

Pot-au-feu is the national dish of France; it is cheap, nourishing and palatable, and very simple to make. The slower it is cooked the better it is; in fact, in this lies [...]

CHOCOLATE CREAM PIES

CHOCOLATE CREAM PIES

Beat to a cream half a cupful of butter and a cupful and a quarter of
powdered sugar. Add two well-beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls of wine,
half a cupful of milk, and a cupful and a half of sifted flour, with
which has been mixed a teaspoonful and a half of baking powder. Bake
this in four [...]

Vegetable soup recipes: Bacon vegetable soup.

BACON VEGETABLE SOUP

1 Cabbage—3d.

1 lb. Bacon—9d.

1 doz. Peppercorns

2 Turnips

1 Carrot

1 Onion

Pieces of Stale Bread—1d.

Total Cost—1s. 1d.

Time—Three Hours and a Half

This soup is not as expensive as it appears, for the bacon is served as a dish of meat, either after the soup or cold for breakfast or tea. Put two quarts of water into a [...]

CHOCOLATE ICE-CREAM

CHOCOLATE ICE-CREAM

For about two quarts and a half of cream use a pint and a half of milk,
a quart of thin cream, two cupfuls of sugar, two ounces of Walter Baker
& Co.’s Premium No. 1 Chocolate, two eggs, and two heaping
tablespoonfuls of flour.

Put the milk on to boil in a double-boiler. Put the flour and [...]

Vegetable soup recipes: Beef vegetable soup.

BEEF VEGETABLE SOUP

9 Leeks—3d.

1 set of Giblets

2 oz. Beef Dripping

3 quarts Water or Pot Boilings

Salt and Peppercorns—4d.

Total Cost—7d.

Wash and slice up the leeks into pieces about one inch long, put them into a saucepan with the butter or dripping made thoroughly hot; cover over and let them cook for half an hour, stirring occasionally. While [...]

CHOCOLATE PROFITEROLES

CHOCOLATE PROFITEROLES

Shave into a cup one ounce of Walter Baker & Co.’s Premium No. 1
Chocolate, and put the cup into a pan of boiling water. Make a paste the
same as for eclairs, save that instead of one tablespoonful of sugar
three must be used.

As soon as the paste is cooked, beat in the melted chocolate. When [...]

Vegetable soup recipes: Italian vegetable soup.

ITALIAN VEGETABLE’ SOUP.

1 small head celery, 1 large onion, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, 3 tablespoons coarsely chopped parsley, P.R. Barley malt meal, Mapleton’s or P.R. almond or pine-kernel cream, 3 pints boiling water.

Well wash the vegetables and slice them, and add them with the parsley to the boiling water. (The water should be distilled, if [...]

CHOCOLATE ICING

CHOCOLATE ICING

Make a vanilla icing, and add one tablespoonful of cold water to it.
Scrape fine one ounce of Walter Baker & Co.’s Premium No. 1 Chocolate,
and put it in a small iron or granite-ware saucepan, with two
tablespoonfuls of confectioners’ sugar and one tablespoonful of hot
water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy, then [...]

Vegetable soup recipes: French vegetable soup.

FRENCH VEGETABLE SOUP.

2 carrots, 1 turnip, 1 leek, 1 stick celery, 1/2 cabbage, 1 bay leaf, 2 cloves, 6 peppercorns, 3 qts. water.

Scrape and cut up carrots and turnip. Slice the leek, and cut celery into dice. Shred the cabbage. Put into the jar with the water, and place in a moderate oven, or on [...]