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

Neige (a cheap and pretty Supper Dish)

INGREDIENTS for medium-sized dish.- 4 eggs, 0/4 pint of milk, pounded sugar to taste, flavouring of vanilla, lemon-rind, or orangeflour…

Nectarines, Preserved

INGRE- DIENTS. - To every lb. of sugar allow pint of water, nectarines. Divide the nectarines in two, take out the stones, and make a…

Negus, To Make

INGREDIENTS. -To every pint of port wine allow 1 quart of boiling water, lb. of sugar, 1 lemon, grated nutmeg to taste. AVERAGE COST, 6d…

Nougat

INGREDIENTS. -Almonds, filberts and pistachios, half their weight in white sugar, liqueur for flavouring, lemonjuice. Blanch, drain, dry…

Noyeau Cream

INGREDIENTS for quart mould.-14 oz. of isinglass or gelatine, the juice of 2 lemons, noyeau and pounded sugar to taste, 1 pint of milk, 1/2…

Noyeau, Home-made

INGRE- DIENTS.-2 oz. of bitter almonds, 1 oz. of sweet ditto, 1 lb. of loaf sugar, the rinds of 3 lemons, 1 quart of Irish whiskey or gin…

NTS

Wheatears; fresh butter. After the birds are picked, gutted and cleaned, truss them like larks, put them down to a quick fire, and baste…

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