Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery: The "All About It" Books

of bread, or, if wanted very savoury, fry them in clarified butter, and spread on them the paste made by recipe for potted anchovies. Made mustard, or a few grains of cayenne, may be added to the paste before laying it on the toast. ANCHOVIES, Fried. _Ingredients._—1 tablespoonful of oil, ½ a glass of white wine, sufficient flour to thicken; 12 anchovies. _Mode._—Mix the oil and wine together, with sufficient flour to make them into a thickish paste; cleanse the anchovies, wipe them, dip them in the paste, and fry of a nice brown colour. _Time._—½ hour. _Average cost_, for this quantity, 9_d._ _Sufficient_ for 2 persons. _Seasonable_ all the year. ANCHOVIES, Potted, or Anchovy Butter. _Ingredients._—2 dozen anchovies, ½ lb. of fresh butter. _Mode._—Wash the anchovies thoroughly; bone and dry them, and pound them in a mortar to a paste. Mix the butter gradually with them, and rub the whole through a sieve. Put it by in small pots for use, and carefully exclude the air with a bladder, as it soon changes the colour of anchovies, besides spoiling them. To potted anchovies may be added pounded mace, cayenne, and nutmeg to taste. APPLE CHARLOTTE, a very simple. _Ingredients._—9 slices of bread and butter, about 6 good-sized apples, 1 tablespoonful of minced lemon-peel, 2 tablespoonfuls of juice, moist sugar to taste. _Mode._—Butter a pie-dish; place a layer of bread and butter, without the crust, at the bottom; then a layer of apples, pared, cored, and cut into thin slices; sprinkle over these a portion of the lemon-peel and juice, and sweeten with moist sugar. Place another layer of bread and butter, and then one of apples, proceeding in this manner until the dish is full; then cover it up with the peel of the apples, to preserve the top from browning or burning; bake in a brisk oven for rather more than ¾ hour; turn the charlotte on a dish, sprinkle sifted sugar over, and serve. _Time._—¾ hour, or a few minutes longer. _Average cost_, 1_s._ _Sufficient_ for 5 or 6 persons. _Seasonable_ from August to March. APPLE CHEESECAKES.