Goose Vegetable
INGREDIENTS for dish for 4 persons. lb. of bread-crumbs, 1 onion, 1 teaspoonful of chopped parsley and herbs, 1 oz. of butter, pepper and salt.
AVERAGE Cost, 3d.
Soak the bread in cold water, squeeze it nearly dry and mash it, mix with it the herbs and onion minced. Butter a tin, put in the mixture, and put the remainder of the butter cut in small pieces on the top.
Bake in a good oven for 1 hour and serve hot.
TIME.-1 hour.
SEASONABLE at any time.
Gooseberries, Compôte of.- INGREDIENTS for dish sufficient for 6 persons.--Syrup; to 1 pint of syrup allow a quart of gooseberries. "AVERAGE COST, 1s.
Top and tail the gooseberries, which should not be very ripe, and pour over them some boiling water; then take them out and plunge them into cold water with which has been mixed a tablespoonful of vinegar, which will assist to keep the fruit a good colour. Make a pint of syrup, and when it boils drain the gooseberries and put them in; simmer them gently until the fruit is nicely pulped and tender, without being broken; then dish the gooseberries on a glass dish, boil the syrup for 2 or 3 minutes, pour over the gooseberries, and serve cold.
A glass of liqueur is an improvement to this dish.
GOOSEBERRY CHIPS.
TIME.-About 5 minutes to boil the gooseberries in the syrup, 3 minutes to reduce the syrup.
SEASONABLE in June.
Gooseberry Chips. (Useful for Dessert.) - INGREDIENTS. - Gooseberries unripe and green, but quite full-grown; sifted loaf sugar.
Put the gooseberries when cleaned of tops and tails, into jars, and boil them in a copper till quite soft. To every lb. of pulp put 1/2 lb. of loaf sugar sifted; the sugar must be stirred in very gently.
Then pour out the sweetened pulp on flat dishes, about inch thick, which must be set in the sun to dry. When sufficiently dried in the sun, the pulp may be cut into strips, and twisted into any fanciful shapes, bows, &c. - TIME.
For drying, according to the amount of the sun.
SEASONABLE at all times.
Note. These chips may be kept for years in tin boxes, if packed quite dry, with layers of paper between the rows.
