High-Class Cookery Recipes

The National Training School of Cookery's own recipes, c.1906 — high-class dishes as taught, course by course, under royal patronage.

Hot Puddings and Soufflés

24 recipes in this part of High-Class Cookery Recipes.

Puff-pastry

Grate the lemon-rinds and squeeze the juice; mix these with the castor sugar, yolks of eggs, cream, and cake-crumbs. Stir all well together…

Four Eggs (Fifteen drops of Essence)

Fifteen drops of Essence of Vanilla. Butter a pint-and-half mould, ornament the bottom with the cherries and angelica, break the sponge…

Caramel Pudding

Half a gill of Cold Water. For the Pudding :- Four Yolks and two Whites of Eggs. 3 whole One tablespoonful of Castor Sugar.

Cocoanut Pudding

Half a pound of grated Cocoanut.

Six Eggs (Two teaspoonfuls of Vanilla)

Cook the cocoanut in the milk; cream the butter and sugar together, beat up the yolks of eggs, and add to the butter and sugar. When the…

Conservative Pudding

Five ounces of Savoys and Ratafias (mixed). The Yolks of five Eggs and one White.

Fig Pudding

Half a pound of Beef Suet. Quarter of a pound of Sultanas.

Half a Nutmeg (Two ounces of Cherries)

Two ounces of Cherries. Two ounces of Angelica.

Four Eggs (Chop the suet figs almonds)

Chop the suet, figs, almonds, cherries, and angelica very fine; mix all well, and add the dry ingredients; mix again, and stir in the eggs…

Plum Pudding

Half a pound of Beef Suet. Quarter of a pound of mixed Peel.

Four Eggs (One gill of Milk)

One wineglassful of Brandy Two ounces of Almonds.

Half a Nutmeg (Little Salt)

Chop up the suet, wash and dry the currants, stone the raisins, clean the sultanas, taking off the stalks, cut up the peel, blanch and chop…

Pine-apple Soufflé

Melt the butter in a stewpan, and add the flour and milk; cook well; add the sugar and the pineapple, previously cut into dice; add the…

SAUCE (Reduce one gill of the syrup)

Reduce one gill of the syrup from the pine-apple, add one ounce of loaf sugar, and one glass of sherry; colour with cochineal; pour round…

Three Eggs (Raspberry Jam about half)

Raspberry Jam, about half a pound. Quarter of a pound of Sugar.

Semolina Soufflé

Ingredients. One pint of Milk.

Four Eggs (Rind of one Lemon)

Put the milk on to boil; sprinkle in the semolina and sugar; add the peel of the lemon, cut very thin; stir till it thickens, then take out…

Mince Meat

One pound and a half of Beef Suet chopped fine. One pound and a half of Raisins Two pounds of Currants. دو دو Two pounds of Apples, chopped…

Viennoise Pudding

Five ounces of crumb of Bread. Cut the bread into dice, shred the candied peel, grate the lemon-rind, and pick the sultanas. Put these all…

Four Eggs

Half a teaspoonful of Essence of Vanilla. Butter a pint-and-half soufflé-tin; tie a band of buttered paper round the tin, coming two inches…

Puff-paste

Beat the butter to a cream, and stir into it the flour, sugar, and the eggs beaten up; add the baking-powder and lemon-rind. Line a…

Apricot Cream

Half a pint of Apricot Purée. Half a pint of whipped Cream.

Two Eggs (One ounce of Gelatine)

Half a gill of strong Coffee, or Essence of Coffee. Make half a pint of custard with the eggs and milk. Dissolve the gelatine and sugar in…

Gâteau de Riz

Three-quarters of an ounce of Gelatine. Half a pint of Double Cream.

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