Rolls, Excellent
INGREDIENTS for 6 good-sized rolls.-1 lb. of flour, 1 oz. of butter, 1/4 pint of milk, a large teaspoonful of yeast, a little salt. AVERAGE COST, 5d.
Warm the butter in the milk, add to it the yeast and salt, and mix these ingredients well together. Put the flour into a pan, stir in the above ingredients and let fire throughout the operation is absolutely the dough rise, covered in a warm place. necessary to insure a good result. When the article to be dressed is thin and delicate, the fire may be small; but when the joint is large, the fire must fill the grate. Meat must never be put down before a hollow or exhausted fire, which may soon want recruiting; on the other hand, if the heat of the fire become too fierce, the meat must be removed to a considerable distance till it has somewhat abated. Some cooks always fail in roasting, though they succeed in nearly everything else. A French writer on the culinary art says that anybody can learn how to cook, but one must be born a roaster. According to Liebig, beef or mutton cannot be said to be sufficiently roasted, until it has acquired throughout the whole mass a temperature of 158°. But poultry may be well cooked when the inner parts have attained a temperature of 130° to 140°. This depends on the greater amount of blood which beef and mutton contain, the colouring matter of blood not being coagulable under 158°.
Robert Sauce (for Steaks, &c.). - INGREDIENTS for sauce for dish for 5 or 6 persons.-2 oz. of butter, 3 onions, 1 teaspoonful of flour, 4 tablespoonfuls of gravy or stock, salt and pepper to taste, 1 teaspoonful of made mustard, 1 teaspoonful of vinegar, the juice of lemon. AVERAGE COST, 6d.
Put the butter into a stewpan, set it on the fire, and, when browning, throw in the onions, which must be cut into small ROLLS.
Knead it well, make it into rolls, let them rise again for a few minutes, and bake in a quick oven. Richer rolls may be made by adding 1 or 2 eggs and a larger proportion of butter, and their appearance improved by brushing the tops over with yolk of egg or a little milk.
TIME. This quantity, divided into 6 rolls, from 15 to 20 minutes.