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Italian Paste

From The practical housewife (1862).

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A historical recipe

The practical housewife, by Robert Kemp Philp. (1862).

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. two ounces of Italian paste

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Put on a quart of stock (p.
  2. 253), and when it boilsadd two ounces of Italian paste in small stars, rings, &c.
  3. ;
  4. boil for twenty minutes, or rather longer, and serve hot.
  5. ^ Oyster Sauce.
  6. — Open the oysters carefully, sa as to preserve their liquor ;
  7. beard and remove the tough parts, which stew in the liquor, adding sufficient water or veal-broth to make the proper quantity of sauce, and allow^ for evaporation of about one-half;, when done, strain it off, and.
  8. put it in a saucepan with the oysters, a tea-spoonful of anchovy sauce, and a good-sized piece of butter rolled;
  9. in flour ;
  10. keep turning it round to prevent the butter from curdling.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The practical housewife (1862), printed page 262, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/0304PRAC

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.