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The cook's oracle : containing practical receipts / [Anon].

  • William Kitchiner
Date:
1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The cook's oracle : containing practical receipts / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he will then have it in his power to serve you with provi- sion that will do him credit, which the finest Meat, &c. in the world will never do, unless it has been kept a proper time to be ripe and tender. __ If you have a well-ventilated Larder in a shady, dry situation, you may make still surer, by ordering in your Meat and Poultry such a time before you want it as will vender it tender, which the finest meat cannot be, unless hung a proper time (see 2d Chapter of the Rudiments of Cookery), according to the season, and nature of the meat, &c., but always, as “ les bons hommes de bouche de france” say, till it is “ assez mortifiée.” Permitting this process to proceed to a certain degree renders Meat mach more easy of solution in the Stomach, and for those whose digestive faculties are delicate, it is of the utmost importance. that it be attended to with the greatest necety,—for the most consummate skill in the Culinary preparation of it will not compensate for the want of attention to this. (Read Obs. to No. 68.) Meat that is thoroughly Roasted, or Boiled, eats much shorter and tenderer, and is in proportion more digestible, than that which is. wnder-done. You will be enabled to manage much better if your Em- ployers will make out a Brn or Fare ror THE WEEK on the Saturday before — for example, for a F amily of half a dozen -— Snunday...... Roast Beef (No. 19), and My Pudding (No. 554.) Monday ..... Fow] (Nos. 16,58), what was left of My Pudding fried, . and warmed in the Dutch oven. Tuesday .... Calf’s Head (No. 10), Apple-Pie. Wednesday. Leg of Mutton (No. 1), or (No. 23.) . Thursday .. Do. broiled or hashed (No. 487), or (No. 484), Pan- Cakes. Friday...... Fish (No. 145), Pudding (No. 554.) Saturday... Fish, or Eggs and Bacon (No. 545.) It is an excellent plan to have certain things on certain days. When your Butcher or Poulterer knows what you will want, he has a better chance of doing his best for you; and never think of ordering Brrr ror RoastrnG except for Sunday.