Mrs. Beeton's All About Cookery

The most trusted name in the Victorian kitchen, arranged A to Z: over a thousand recipes with the price of every dish worked out to the penny — including what to serve at a ball supper, and how to carve what you serve.

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19 recipes in this part of Mrs. Beeton's All About Cookery.

Infants' or Invalids' Food

Tie the flour in a cloth as a pudding, put it in boiling water and boil 3 hours. Scrape the inner part of the ball, and use a tablespoonful…

Iced - Pudding

INGREDIENTS. lb. of sweet almonds, 2 oz. of bitter ones, lb. of sugar, 8 eggs, 1½ pint of milk, a few slices of citron or preserved…

Ices, to make Fruit-Water

INGREDIENTS.-To every pint of fruit-juice allow 1 pint of syrup. AVERAGE COST, 10d. per pint. Select nice ripe fruit; pick off the stalks…

Icing, Chocolate

INGREDIENTS for icing for 1 large cake. lb. of pounded loaf sugar, 3 oz. of chocolate, a small teacupful of water. AVERAGE COST, 4d. Grate…

Ices, Recipes for

Directions for making the following appear under their respective headings :- Banana Ice Cream. Iced Pudding.

Icing, Almond, for Cakes

INGREDIENTS.-To every lb. of finelypounded loaf sugar, allow 1 lb. of sweet almonds, the whites of 4 eggs, a little rosewater. Blanch the…

Icing, Sugar, for Cakes

INGRE- DIENTS. To every lb. of loaf sugar allow the whites of 4 eggs, 1 oz. of fine starch. Beat the eggs to a strong froth, and gradually…

Indian Chutney Sauce

INGRE- DIENTS.-8 oz. of sharp, sour apples, pared and cored; 8 oz. of tomatoes, 8 oz. of salt, 8 oz. of brown sugar, 8 oz. of stoned…

Indian Corn, Roasted

INGRE- DIENTS. Unripe, or green, corn, butter, salt. Strip the green ears of their leaves, and roast before a quick fire till the grain is…

Indian Maize, Boiled

INGRE- DIENTS.-The ears of young green Indian maize or wheat to every 1/2 gallon of water, allow 1 heaped tablespoonful of salt. Take off…

Indian Pudding

INGREDIENTS for pudding large enough for 6 persons.-4 large apples, a little grated nutmeg, 1 teaspoonful of minced lemon-peel, 2 large…

Invalid Cookery

A few rules to be observed in cooking for invalids :- Let all the kitchen utensils used in the preparation of invalid cookery be delicately…

Invalid's Cutlet

INGREDIENTS for sufficient for 1 person.-1. nice cutlet from a loin or neck of mutton, 2 teacupfuls of water, 1 very small stick of celery…

Invalid's Jelly

INGREDIENTS for 3 pints of jelly. -6 shanks of mutton, 3 pints of water, a bunch of sweet herbs, pepper and salt to taste, 3 blades of…

Invalids, Lemonade for

IN. GREDIENTS for 1 pint of lemonade. lemon, lump sugar to taste, 1 pint of boiling water. AVERAGE COST, 1d. Pare off the rind of the lemon…

Italian Cream

INGREDIENTS for 1½ pint mould. pint of milk, pint of cream, sugar to taste, 1 oz. of isinglass or gelatine, 1 lemon, the yolks of 3 eggs…

Italian Pudding

INGREDIENTS for pudding for 6 to 8 persons. lb. of any kinds of plain sweet biscuits, 6 macaroons or 2 dozen ratafias, 1 oz. of sultanas, 2…

Italian Sauce, Brown

INGRE- DIENTS for sauce for small dish. A few chopped mushrooms and shalots, 1/24 pint of stock, 1/21 glass of Madeira, the juice of 1/2…

Italian Sauce, White

INGREDI- ENTS for sauce for good-sized dish.- pint of white stock, 2 tablespoonfuls of chopped mushrooms, 1 dessertspoonful of chopped…

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