I tried cooking with Bessie, the long-suffering if somewhat temperamental wood-burning stove, again today. Nothing burned this time, but the oven seemed to be running cool, even though I kept the fire up.
Anyways, today's dinner consisted of
fricasseed chicken, from
Miss Leslie's Complete Cookery (1851), accompanied by boiled vegetables,
'excellent rolls' from
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861), and followed by puff pastry cookies (a version of this appears in most of the cookery books I've looked at c.1850-1865). The pastry was left over from making a lemon pudding (also from Miss Leslie's, though I got the idea from Mrs. Beeton's list of May menus); unfortunately, the lemon pudding didn't set in a timely manner.
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Fricasseed Chicken. I cut up a whole chicken
without freaking out, even if it wasn't very neat. |
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Rolls. Could have used some more salt,
but the texture turned out quite passable. |
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| Boiled vegetables with rosemary. Improvised. |
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| Puff Paste Cookies. Yum. |
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The lemon pudding didn't set
(well, not in the hot kitchen). |
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