Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book

them on a gridiron. Take 1 tumbler currant jelly, 1 tablespoonful butter, 1 wineglass of wine, salt and pepper to taste and make a hot sauce. Heat the dish to put the cutlets on, and pour the sauce over them. Serve hot. Serve Saratoga potatoes with it, placing them in center of dish. No. 185. HICKORY-NUT CAKE. Mix 4 cups flour, 2 of sugar, 1 of butter, 2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar, all together; dissolve 1 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda in a cup of milk and mix this with the first. Add 1 pint of nut meats. No. 186. DELMONICO'S PUDDING. One quart milk with 1/2 teaspoonful salt; set this on the fire to boil; mix 3 tablespoonfuls of corn-starch with a little cold milk and stir in just before the milk boils. Boil 5 minutes. To 6 tablespoonfuls, sugar beat the yolks of 3 eggs and add any flavoring extract; pour the corn-starch, while hot, into this, then whip the whites of 3 eggs and drop it on top of pudding in form of kisses, and brown in the oven. No. 187. CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING. Chop fine 1/2 pound beef suet. Stone and chop 1 pound raisins; wash and pick 1 pound currants. Soak the crumbs of a small loaf of bread in 1 pint of milk; when it has taken up all the milk, add to it the raisins, currants, and suet, 2 eggs well beaten, a tablespoonful of sugar, a wineglassful of brandy, the grating of 1 nutmeg, and other spices if desired. Boil 4 hours. For a sauce, beat 1/4 pound butter to a cream with 1/2 pound powdered sugar and flavor with brandy. No. 188. ORANGE PUDDING. Make the same as lemon pudding, using orange instead of lemon. No. 189. PICKLED SALMON. Boil a 6 or 7 pound salmon done; put it into an earthen jar, after taking all the bones out without breaking it; put pepper and salt on it; 1 pint of vinegar, 1 teaspoonful allspice, 2 dozen grains of cloves, 1/2 dozen grains of black pepper, little red pepper; put all these