the thorough good cook - recipe

The Thorough Good Cook
by George Augustus Sala
recipes from 1896

A digital version of a rare antique cookbook originally published in 1896 for those who want to kick it Olde Skool !

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The Thorough Good Cook by George Augustus Sala is now in the public domain. The recipes are original and unadulterated, of course!

RECIPE

Orange Tart.
Line a shallow tart dish with a good puff paste, and
upon it pour the following mixture :-Take four Seville
oranges, and double their weight of sugar; squeeze all the
juice from the pulp, then boil the oranges till tender ;
then pound them into a paste, adding the sugar, a tea-
spoonful of butter, the juice from the oranges, and a few
drops of essence of lemon ; bake till the crust is done, and
then cover with custard or cream.

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