This section is from the book "The Art Of Cookery Made Easy And Refined", by John Mollard. Also available from Amazon: The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined.
Chop fine half a pound of beef suet, add to it the same quantity of flour, two eggs beaten, a little salt, a small quantity of pounded and sifted ginger, and mix them together with milk. Let the mixture be of a moderate thickness. It may be either boiled or baked.
Take four pounds of slices of lean ham, and be careful it is of a good flavour; put it into a stew-pan with a little water, six peeled eschalots, and two bay leaves; cover the pan close, set it over a fire, and simmer the ham till three parts done; then add two quarts of water and boil it till tender, strain it through a fine sieve, skim it perfectly free from fat, clear it with whites of eggs strain it through a tamis, boil it till it is reduced to a pint, and when cold put it into small bottles and cork them close.
Let the heart be very fresh, wash and wipe it, fill it with a stuffing as for a fillet of veal, tie over the top a piece veal caul, roast it gently one hour and half, and five minutes before it is done roast it quick, froth it with flour and butter, and put it on a very hot dish. Serve it lip with a sauce un-der it made with cullis, fresh butter, a table spoonful of ketchup, and half a gill of red port boiled together. A calf's or sheep's heart may be done in the same manner.
Egg, breadcrumb, and fry in boiling lard, some slices of crimped cod; when done,, drain them dry, serve them up with oyster sauce in the center, made in the same manner as for beef steaks.
Take the crumb of a new-baked loaf, pull it into small pieces, put them on a baking plate, and set them in a moderately heated oven till they are of a nice brown colour.
Take morella cherries, prick each with a needle three or four times, put them into a dish, sift sugar over; let them remain all night, the next day make a syrup boiling hot, put the cherries into it for one day; then pour the syrup from the cherries and boil it to a strong consistency; put a little brandy to it, and add to the cherries; when they are cold put them into glasses, cover them with bladder and leather, preserve them in a cool place.
N. B. Plumbs, gooseberries, etc. may be done in the same manner.
Blanch half a pound of Jordan almonds and wipe them dry; then put into a fryingpan two ounces of fresh butter, make it hot, add the almonds, fry them gently till of a good brown colour, drain them on a hair sieve, strew over cayenne pepper and some salt, and serve them up hot.
Beat the whites of four eggs to a solid froth, add to them sifted sugar and some carraway seeds, pounded very fine, put with a spoon the mixture in pieces the bigness of a shilling, as high as you can, on sheets of damp wafer paper, and bake them in a slack oven.
N. B. In the same manner may be made puffs with cinnamon, or ginger, etc.
 
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