RECIPES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XX, 19 May 1894, Page 478

RECIPES.

Tete de Veau a l’Andreani (Mrs Marshall’s recipe).— Take half a calf’s bead, lay it in cold salted water for twenty-fonr hours, occasionally changing the water ; then remove the brains, bone the head, tie it up in a clean cloth, put it into cold water with a little salt, and bring it to the boil, then take it up, wash it well, replace it in the cloth, and put it into another stewpan with a plateful of cleansed vegetables, carrot, onion, celery, turnip, and leek ; add a few peppercorns, a bunch of herbs, and the juice of two or three lemons; cover with water, bring it to the boil, and letit simmergentlyforthreeorfourhours. Remove the cloth, take out the tongue, place the head on a hot dish, crimp the ears, and garnish with the brains and tongue dressed as follows: Blanch the brains, and cut them in small pieces ; skin the tongue and cut it up also, put a wineglassful of sherry into a small stewpan with one ounce of glaze; when boiling, pour it over the brains and tongue, then put some of the mixture in the centres of some preserved artichoke bottoms that have been warmed in their own liquor, and place them round the head. Pour some Andreani sauce round. Put into a stewpan four onions that have been fried in two ounces of butter without browning, a pinch of salt, a quarter of au ounce of Marshall’s coralline pepper, a pint and a half of good flavoured white stock, the juice of two lemons, and two ounces of glaze. Boil steadily till the onions are tender, then add one ounce of arrowroot mixed with a little stock, a few drops of carmine, and two ounces of grated Parmesan, stir till boiling, add a gill of cream, tammy, reheat, and use. Rice Souffle.—To make rice souffle, stew rice and milk as fora pudding, add sugar and the yolks of two eggs beaten, bake in a pudding dish, take it out and let it cool, then put jam on the top, cover with the whites of the eggs beaten to a snow, brown in the oven.

Sunshine Cake.—Whites of eleven eggs, beaten stiff; add gradually one and a-half cups of granulated sugar. Beat the yolks of six eggs with the peel of halt an orange, grated and three tablespoonfuls of juice. Add to the whites one cup of flour sifted three times, in which is put one teaspoonful of cream tartar, and add to the above. Sift flour and sugar three times, measure each after one sifting. Sift cream tartar with flour, beat quickly and well. Bake in a moderate oven fifty minutes. Do not grease the pan. Turn upside down on a sieve.