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An English Monkey

A historical recipe from Practical vegetarian cookery, by Kate Buffington Davis, Constance Wachtmeister (1897).

A historical recipe

Practical vegetarian cookery, by Kate Buffington Davis, Constance Wachtmeister (1897). Project Gutenberg eBook #69812.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From Practical vegetarian cookery, by Kate Buffington Davis, Constance Wachtmeister (1897). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #69812 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69812). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

United Kingdom. Associated with United Kingdom by a demonym leading its title: English (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Soak one cupful of bread crumbs in one cupful of milk about ten or fifteen minutes.
  2. Melt one tablespoonful of butter, add one cupful of cheese broken into small pieces;
  3. stir until melted;
  4. add the crumbs and one beaten egg, one half teaspoonful of salt, a few grains of cayenne, and a piece of bicarbonate of soda as large as a pea.
  5. Cook for five minutes;
  6. serve on wafers.