“The next morning Stephen was again left in charge of the fire, and the other two started to fetch a fresh load of cocoa-nuts, saying that they should be back by twelve o’clock, and should expect to find that he had got something new for them. After putting a piece of meat into the well Stephen made a fresh experiment. Fishing out a great lump of fat from the cask, he first washed it carefully to get rid of the salt, then put it into half a cocoa-nut shell, placed this on some hot embers and fried the fat until most of it melted, and then squeezed the remainder between two flat stones. Then he poured the fat into another cocoa-nut half full of milk, put three or four pounds of flour on a flat rock, made a hollow in the middle as he had seen the servant do at home while making pastry, poured the liquor gradually into this, mixing it up with the flour until he had made the whole into dough. Then he cleared away a portion of the embers, and dividing the dough into flat cakes placed these on the hot ground. Half an hour later he cleared another space from embers, and turned the cakes over, and in twenty minutes they were baked through. They were pronounced excellent by his companions as they ate them with their meat.”
A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.
Vanilla Cream EPERGNE, WITH FRUIT. Fruited Jelly. Two Roast Fowls, cut up. Two Roast Fowls, cut up. Prawns Two Boiled Fowls, with Béchamel Prawns Sauce. Biscuits Small Pastry Tongue, ornamented. Custards, TRIFLE, ORNAMENTED. Custards, in glasses. in glasses. Raised Chicken Pie. Tipsy Cake Lobster Salad. Lobster Salad. Fruited Jelly. Swiss Cream. Roast Pheasant. Meringues. EPERGNE, WITH FRUIT. Meringues. Raspberry Cream. Galantine of Veal. Fruited Jelly. Tipsy Cake. Small Pastry. Biscuits.
Sources: The passage is from G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, With Cochrane the Dauntless, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Beeton, The Book of Household Management of 1861, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — teal cloth, sheaf stamp.