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Madras Potato Curry

  • Cut boiled potatoes into thin slices; then fry 1 chopped onion in 2 tablespoonfuls of butter.
  • Add 3 ounces of grated cocoanut, 1 teaspoonful of curry-powder and 1 cup of milk, salt and cayenne pepper to taste.
  • Let boil up.
  • Add the sliced potatoes and a sprig of parsley chopped.

Let simmer a few minutes and serve hot.

Russian Omelet

  • Chop 2 shallots with a little parsley and cook in hot water.
  • Add 2 tablespoonfuls of caviare and a teaspoonful 6 of lemon-juice; season to taste.
  • Beat 4 eggs with 1 tablespoonful of cream, salt and pepper, and fry in an omelet-pan with hot butter until done.
  • Put the mixture in the centre; turn in the ends.

serve at once.


Austrian Braised Tongue

  • Boil a large fresh beef tongue in salted water until tender.
  • Remove the tongue and lard it with thin strips of bacon; sprinkle with paprica; lay in a baking-pan; add 1 onion sliced thin and 1 cup of the water in which the tongue was cooked and pour over 1 pint of cream. Let bake in a moderate oven.
  • Baste often with the sauce.

Serve hot, and pour over the sauce; garnish with parsley.

Haggis (SCOTCH)

  • Chop a sheep's tongue, liver and heart and 1 pound of bacon.
  • Add 2 large chopped onions; season with 1/4 teaspoonful of red pepper and 1 teaspoonful of mixed herbs and salt to taste.
  • Mix with 1 pint of toasted oatmeal, 2 beaten eggs and the grated rind and juice of a lemon.
  • Then clean the pouch of the sheep and fill with the mixture.
  • Lay in boiling water and let boil three hours.

Serve with apple-sauce.


Oriental Canapes

  • Take some lobster or crab-meat and pound in a mortar.
  • Mix with 1 tablespoonful of butter; season with salt and pepper, a pinch each of mustard, cayenne, nutmeg and curry-powder and moisten with lemon-juice.
  • Cut small rounds of toasted bread; scoop out some of the centre; fill with the mixture and cover with a curry sauce.
  • Sprinkle with fine bread-crumbs and let bake in the oven a few minutes.

Serve hot.


Rissotto (ITALIAN).

  • Boil 1 cup of rice in salted water until soft; drain.
  • Then grate Parmesan cheese and cover the rice with cheese.
  • Let steam in the oven a few minutes; then pour over some highly seasoned tomato-sauce.

serve hot with
fried veal chops.

Polish Stewed Tongue

  • Cook a fresh tongue until tender; skin and slice thin.
  • Put a large spoonful of butter in a saucepan; add a chopped onion; let brown.
  • Then stir in 1 tablespoonful of flour; add 2 cups of the water in which the tongue was cooked, a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon.
  • Let boil with the juice of 1 lemon, 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar and 1 tablespoonful of sugar.
  • Add the sliced tongue and simmer ten minutes.

Serve hot or cold.


Belgian Potato Salad

  • Slice cold boiled potatoes very thin and mix with chopped celery and onion; season with salt and pepper.
  • Then mix the yolks of 2 hard-boiled eggs with 1 tablespoonful of olive-oil.
  • Add to the salad with 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar.

Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve.


French Veal Soufflé

  • Heat 2 tablespoonfuls of butter.
  • Mix with 2 tablespoonfuls of flour until smooth; add 1 cup of milk; let boil up.
  • Then add 1 cup of minced veal, some parsley, salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste.
  • Stir in the yolks of 2 eggs.
  • Remove from the fire; let cool.
  • Beat the whites to a stiff froth; add to the meat.
  • Put in a buttered baking-dish and bake twenty minutes.

Serve at once.

Jewish Crebchen Soup

  • Beat 3 eggs with 2 tablespoonfuls of water and a pinch of salt; then add enough flour to make a stiff dough.
  • Work it well with flour and roll out as thin as possible; fold it double and cut into square pieces and fill with minced cooked chicken or veal.
  • Sprinkle with chopped parsley and bits of butter; fold in the edges.
  • Haveready some soup stock; when boiling, add the crebchen and let boil until done.

Serve with the soup.

Codfish a la Lyonnaise

  • Cut cold boiled codfish in pieces; then boil 8 small onions until soft; heat 2 tablespoonfuls of butter. Add the boiled onions, 2 small cold sliced potatoes, the codfish and 1 cup of milk; sprinkle with pepper.

Cover and simmer ten minutes and serve hot.

India Curried Eggs

  • Cut hard-boiled eggs in halves; then fry 1 small chopped onion and 1 chopped apple in hot butter; add 1/4 cup of pounded almonds and 1 pint of milk, mixed with 1/2 tablespoonful of cornstarch.
  • Season with salt and a dessertspoonful of curry-powder.
  • Let cook ten minutes; then add the eggs.
  • Let all get very hot.

Serve with croutons; garnish with fried parsley.

Russian Fish-Roll

  • Chop some cooked trout and white fish, and mix with 1/2 cup of boiled rice.
  • Season with salt, pepper and all kinds of herbs minced fine.
  • Then make a rich pie-paste and roll out very thin.
  • Fill with the mixture and make into a roll.
  • Sprinkle with bits of butter and let bake until brown.

Serve hot with wine-sauce.

Vienna Stewed Carrots

  • Peel some carrots and cut in small pieces.
  • Boil in salted water until tender; drain.
  • Brown 1 tablespoonful of flour in 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; add 1/2 cup of the water in which the carrots were cooked, 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar and a little sugar. Let all boil; then add the carrots and 1 cup of cooked peas, some chopped parsley
  • and a pinch of pepper.

Simmer ten minutes and serve hot.


Spanish Cake

  • Beat 1 pound of butter with 1 pound of sugar to a cream. Add the yolks of 8 eggs well beaten.
  • Sift 1 pound of flour with 2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder and stir together with 1 cup of milk.
  • Add the whites of eggs, beaten to a stiff froth with a pinch of salt.
  • Flavor with rose-water.

Bake in a moderate oven until done.

Russian Boiled Fish

  • Clean and season a whole fish and let boil with 1 sliced onion, 1/2 cup of vinegar, a few slices of lemon and 2 sprigs of parsley.
  • Add a tablespoonful of butter and let cook until tender.
  • Remove the fish to a platter; mix the sauce with 1 tablespoonful of brown sugar, a pinch of ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg and the juice of a lemon.
  • Let boil well; then thicken with the yolks of 2 beaten eggs and pour over the fish.

Serve cold. Garnish with
lemon-slices and olives.

Egyptian Meat-Pie

  • 4 Line a large baking-dish with pie-dough.
  • Have ready 1/2 pound of calf's liver chopped, and 1/2 pound of fresh pork chopped fine.
  • Season highly and mix with 1/2 cup of butter, 2 green peppers, 1 onion chopped and 1/2 can of chopped mushrooms.
  • Moisten with a glass of sherry.
  • Fill the dish with the mixture and cover with the dough.

Let bake until done and serve hot

Vienna Peach Torte

  • Make a rich pie-dough; then line a pie-dish with the dough.
  • Pare and remove the stones from the peaches and cut into quarters.
  • Lay closely on the pie; sprinkle with brown sugar and moisten with wine.
  • Bake in a moderate oven until done.

Then spread with a meringue and let brown in the oven a few minutes.


Stuffed Goose

  • Season a fat goose with salt and pepper, and rub well with vinegar. Then core small apples and fill the goose with the whole apples.
  • Put in the baking-pan, sprinkle with flour; pour over 1 cup of hot water; add a lump of butter and bake until done.
  • Baste often with the sauce in the pan.

Serve the goose with the whole apples.


Bavarian Wine Soup

  • Mix 3 pints of red wine with 1 pint of water. Add sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon to taste and the grated peel of half a lemon.
  • Let come to a boil; then stir in the yolks of 2 well-beaten eggs.
  • Do not boil again.

Serve hot
with biscuits.

Norwegian Salad

  • Cut some pickled herring into pieces and mix with flaked lax, 2 peeled apples and 2 boiled potatoes. Cut into dice pieces; add some chopped shallots and gherkins; sprinkle with finely minced tarragon and chervil, salt and pepper.
  • Cover with a plain salad dressing

Baked Fish

  • Season a fish with salt, pepper, some grated green ginger and curry-powder. Place in a baking-pan with 1 sliced onion, 2 chopped green peppers and 1 sprig of parsley. Pour over some water and hot melted butter; sprinkle with flour and bake until done.

Garnish with sliced lemon and parsley

Egyptian Cabbage

  • Parboil a cabbage in salted water; drain and stuff with chopped cooked mutton. Mix with chopped ham, 1 onion and 2 sprigs of parsley chopped fine. Add 1/2 cup of cooked rice, salt and pepper to taste.
  • Place in a buttered baking-dish; sprinkle with bits of butter; add the juice of a lemon, and let bake in a moderate oven until done.

Baste often with butter and serve hot.


French Pineapple Bisque

  • Beat the yolks of 4 eggs with 1 cup of pulverized sugar; add 1 pint of cream; stir well until very light. Then 3 add 1 small can of shredded pineapple and crush a few macaroons. Mix well with a small glass of brandy.

Let
freeze and serve in small glasses.

Austrian Potato Dumplings

  • Peel 5 potatoes and boil whole in salted water until tender. Drain, let get cold, then grate them and mix with 4 eggs and 1 ounce of butter; add salt to taste.
  • Mix well; add flour enough to form into dumplings and fry in deep hot lard until brown.

Serve hot with cooked fruit.


Egyptian Meat Balls

  • Chop 1 pound of raw beef; season with salt, pepper and 1 teaspoonful of curry-powder; add 2 stalks of chopped celery, 1 small onion and some chopped parsley. Mix with 2 beaten eggs and 1/2 cup of
  • bread-crumbs, and make into small balls. Let cook in hot butter until tender.

Serve on a border of boiled rice and pour over all a highly seasoned tomato-sauce.

Chinese Chicken.

  • Cut a fat chicken into pieces at the joints; season with all kinds of condiments; then put in a deep saucepan.
  • Add some chopped ham, a few sliced bamboo sprouts, 1 chopped onion and a handful of walnuts. Cover with hot water and let stew slowly until tender.
  • Add some Chinese sauce and parsley.

Serve with shredded
pineapple.

East India Fish

  • Slice 1/2 pound of cooked salmon; then heat 1 ounce of butter in a stew-pan; add 2 small onions chopped fine, 1 ounce of cocoanut, 2 hard-boiled eggs chopped. Let cook a few minutes, then add 1 pint of milk; let boil up once. Add the fish, 1 teaspoonful of curry paste, 1 teaspoonful of paprica and salt to taste.

Let cook a
few minutes, then stir in 1 large tablespoonful of boiled rice. Serve very hot with toast.

Austrian Goulasch

  • Boil 2 calves' heads in salted water until tender;then cut the meat from the bone.
  • Fry 1 dozen small peeledonions and 3 potatoes, cut into dice pieces; stir in 1 tablespoonful of flour and the sauce in which the meat wascooked.
  • Let boil up, add the sliced meat, 1 teaspoonful of paprica and salt to taste;

Lets all cook together fifteen
minutes then serve very hot.

Carrot cake

For the cake


  • 4 eggs
  • 8oz/226g light muscovado sugar
  • 1 tbsp golden syrup
  • Grated rind of 1 orange
  • 8oz/226g ground almonds
  • 8oz/226g finely grated carrot
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 3 tbsp self-raising flour
  • 4 tsp cocoa powder
  • 2 tsp baking powder


For the topping


  • 6oz/170g plain chocolate
  • 6oz/170g reduced-calorie cream cheese


Method


  • Preheat over to 190 degrees C (375 degrees F) gas mark 5
  • Grease and line an 8inch/20cm square shallow cake tin
  • Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and beat well until evenly combined
  • Spoon into tin, level and bake for one hour or until a skewer comes out clean
  • Cover with greaseproof paper if cake overbrowns
  • Allow to cool for 10 mins and turn out on a wire rack
  • Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of boiling water. Cool slightly, then beat in cream cheese
  • Smooth over cake