Pastry
Cheese Pastry
Ingredients. Two ounces of Butter.
Salt and Cayenne (One dessertspoonful of Water)
Put the flour on a paste-board, sprinkle in a little salt and cayenne, and rub in the cheese, grated, and the butter; mix all these…
Flaky Crust
Three-quarters of a pound of Flour. Salt. Put the flour and a little salt into a basin and mix to a stiff paste with about a gill of cold…
Seven Eggs (Eight ounces of Castor Sugar)
Six ounces of Flour, sifted. 4 Put the eggs and sugar into a basin; stand the basin over a stewpan of boiling water, and whip well for…
Petits Choux
One Yolk and two whole Eggs Essence of Vanilla or Orange. Put the water, butter, and salt into a stewpan; as soon as these begin to boil…
Puff Paste
Half a pound of fresh Butter. Take a clean cloth, and squeeze all the water out of the butter. Put the flour on a marble slab or a…
Rough Puff
Salt. Half a teaspoonful of Lemon-juice. Put the butter and flour on a paste-board, chop up the butter in the flour, heap it all up on the…
Short Crust
Ingredients. Eight ounces of Flour.
One Egg (Teaspoonful of Castor Sugar)
Put the flour into a basin with the sugar and mix in the baking-powder; rub the butter into the flour with your hands; add the yolk of egg…
Vol-au-Vent de Pommes
The Rind of a Lemon (grated). Put the apples peeled and cored into a stewpan with the sugar, lemon-juice and rind, and the water, and cook…
Mignonette Pepper
Break the eggs into a basin and whip them till well mixed; then add pepper, salt, and the cheese. Melt one ounce of butter in the omelet…
One Sheep's Kidney
One ounce and a half of Butter.
Salt and Pepper (Skin the kidney and cut up)
Skin the kidney and cut up into thin slices, break the eggs into a basin, beat well and season with a pinch of white pepper and salt, and…
Pepper and Salt (Blanch and beard the oysters)
Blanch and beard the oysters and cut each into four. Separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs, beat the yolks a little, and add the…
Salt and Pepper (Parsley Shalot Break three)
Parsley. Shalot. Break three eggs into a basin and whip them ; add pepper and salt to taste. Chop finely a teaspoonful of parsley and a…
Three Eggs
Salt. Put the orange-flower water and the sugar into a stewpan, and stir over the fire; let it boil quickly for three minutes; then put it…
Three Eggs (Piece of Shalot)
One ounce and a half of Butter. Skin the tomato, cut it up into small pieces, with a piece of shalot chopped up. Take the eggs, beat the…
Six Eggs (Half an ounce of Flour)
Fifteen drops of Essence of Vanilla. Put four yolks of eggs into a basin, add the castor sugar, and beat with a wooden spoon for ten…
Amber Pudding
Six large Apples, or one pound after peeling.
Puff Paste (Few preserved Cherries)
Peel, core, and slice the apples; place them in a stewpan with the butter, sugar, and lemon-rind, and let them stew slowly until tender…
Five Eggs
One teaspoonful of Essence of Vanilla. Put five yolks of eggs into a basin, add the sugar, milk, and cream. Whip five whites of eggs…
Brown Bread Pudding
Ingredients. A stale Brown Loaf.
One Lemon (Gill of Cream)
Half a teaspoonful of Essence of Vanilla. A gill and a half of Water.