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 free companion book to Eat Dangerously is The Thorough Good Cook by George Augustus Sala. The recipes are original and unadulterated, of course!

RECIPE

 

 
 

Waffles, French.
  Ingredients required are eight ounces of flour, four
ounces of powdered sugar, one pint of whipped cream,
eight eggs, one stick of vanilla, a little salt, and au glass of
curacao. Place the flour, sugar, and salt in a basin, then
add the yolks of the eggs, the (pounded) vanilla, and the
curacao, and mix these well together, gradually adding
the whipped cream just before using the batter; add the
whipped whites of eggs, and mix them in lightly, so as to
thoroughly incorporate them with it. Bake these Waffles
in irons made for the purpose, and which must have been
Moistened with a little clarified butter. Fill one side of the
irons with some of the batter, handling it gently with a
spoon ; close the irons, and then turn them upside down
(that the batter may run into the opposite side) and set
them over the fire. Observe, however, that the irons be
very carefully heated, and the superfluous heat allowed to
go off previously to filling them with the batter, for, owing
to the presence of sugar, the waffles readily acquire colour.
When done, shake some vanilla sugar over them, and send
them to table. These waffles may be spread with some
kind of preserve, such as apricot, currant, jelly, etc.
 

 

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