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A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes

Charles Elmé Francatelli

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A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes

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quart of milk add six ounces of rice, one ounce of brown sugar, a pinch of allspice, and ditto of salt; put all these in a proper sized pie-dish, with one ounce of butter, and set the pudding to bake for one hour and-a-half. When the pudding has been in the oven half an hour, stir it round with a fork.

No. 41. A Ground Rice Pudding.

Ingredients, eight ounces of ground rice, three pints of skim milk, one ounce of butter, four ounces of sugar, a pinch of allspice or bit of lemon-peel, a pinch of salt, and two or three eggs; mix all the above ingredients (except the eggs) in a saucepan, and stir them on the fire till the batter boils; then beat up the eggs with a fork in a basin, and mix them well into the rice batter, and pour the whole into a well-greased pie-dish, and bake the pudding for an hour.

No. 42. A Bread Pudding for a Family.

Ingredients, a two-pound loaf, two quarts of milk, two ounces of butter, four ounces of sugar, four ounces of plums or currants, three eggs, a piece of lemon-peel chopped, and a spoonful of salt. Divide the loaf into four equal-sized pieces, and soak them in boiling-water for twenty minutes, then squeeze out the water, and put the bread into a saucepan with the milk, butter, sugar, lemon-peel, and salt, and stir all together on the fire till it boils; next add the beaten eggs and the currants; pour the pudding into[30] a proper sized greased baking-dish, and bake it for an hour and a-quarter.

No. 43. A Batter and Fruit Pudding.

Ingredients, two quarts of milk, one pound of flour, four eggs, eight ounces of sugar, one quart of fruit (either plums, gooseberries, currants, &c.), one ounce of butter, a g

K T Heard 02/17/2021
Very poor read, not what I was expecting.
Lynda 12/07/2020
This book is fairly easy to adapt to modern kitchens, but I would suggest you invest in a good culinary dictionary. There are a significant number of recipes with ingredients that are impossible to find. I was able to find a cd-rom with historical cookbooks that sparked my interest in historical coo
Sophie Dalton 08/07/2019
Really interesting and insightful

Great insight into old fashioned cookery on a budget as well as interesting remedies for common ailments. The measurements and qualities were rather amusing
Lehua 11/05/2018
A fun read which satisfies both interest in historical context and the connection between food resources, diet, family budgets, and socio-economic class in 19th century Britain. Provides a list of recipes and instructions for those adventurous enough to recreate the dishes in their modern kitchens,
Annette 02/24/2016
Very interesting book as all it is is a reprint of a book published originally in the late 1800's. My, how things have changed. The recipes in this book are all quite simple, but also intended to feed large numbers of people at as low a cost as possible. Quite chatty in it's instructions which just
Stuart 01/28/2016
Not really very practical (randomly opening it, there's 'Baked Bullocks heart', followed by 'stewed sheeps trotters') in this day and age of supermarket pre-packed meat.

Even my local butcher no longer has hanging carcasses in the shopfront (I remember playing punchbag with sides of beef when I was a
Nicole 08/11/2015
It's always interesting to read old cookbooks. Some recipes stand the test of time, while others. . . Boiled sheep's head, anyone?

This book is geared towards working class families (read: poor) during Victorian-era England. Waste nothing. Lots of vegetables, especially potatoes and onions, I suppos
Stuart 02/18/2011
Reading this book in the historical context that it was written for - the mid 1800s - gives a fascinating insight to what it meant to be dirt poor. The recipes waste *nothing* - if you're boiling potatoes, veggies, or meat, use the water to make soup and let everyone fill up on soup.

The whole approa

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