"Success" World Famous New Economy Cookery Book

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 30 May 2006, 19:12

I present a selection of recipes and advice from an old cookery book I have - everything here is for real : I would have had trouble making half of these recipes up.

Back when we were busy force-feeding hunger-striking suffragettes with beef tea, the writing team of the "Success" World Famous New Economy Cookery Book were coming up with some stunning examples of British cuisine. I don't know if the authors of this work or their families sampled or survived these recipes.

I humbly present some examples of dishes and their ingredients. If any of the directions involve anything other than boiling or frying, I will indicate as such - but it's safe to assume that if it ain't boiled, you fry it.

1. Cow Heel Soup (1 cow-heel, 2 onions, a bunch of herbs, scraps of meat, bones etc)

2. Rabbit Soup (1 rabbit, 1 onion, salt)

3. Curry Sauce (1oz margarine, 1oz flour, 1 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of white sauce, 1 tbsp curry powder)

4. Eels (Curried) (Eels, 1oz margarine, 1oz flour, 1 tbsp curry powder)

5. Shrimps On Toast (1 pint of shrimps, rounds of buttered toast, melted butter sauce)

6. Brain Patties (Calves' brains, 2 eggs, parsley, lemon juice, 1oz margarine, breadcrumbs, seasoning)

7. Calf's Foot (Stewed) (2 feet, breadcrumbs, parsley, herbs, 4 cloves, 1 onion)

8. Calf's Head (Boiled) (breadcrumbs, 1 head, 1 egg, seasoning)

9. Cow-Heel (Boiled) (1 cow-heel, salt, parsley sauce)

10. Cow-Heel (Fried) (1 cow-heel. 1 cup of flour, 2 onions, frying fat)

*burp*

Next up - sandwiches. This book has a somewhat "anything-goes" attitude to sandwich fillings. Namely, there are recipes for :

1. Chestnut sandwiches (boiled and pounded nuts with sugar or salt)

2. Christmas Pudding sandwiches ("an excellent sandwich for hikers in winter time")

3. Fried sandwiches

4. Kipper sandwiches

5. Nut sandwiches (almonds, walnuts & brazils, mixed with salt butter)

I'm going to stop now. We're only on page 51 and haven't yet seen what they do to eggs in this book, nor even started on the breakfast dishes (including boiled cow heel pudding).

There are also words of advice for busy housewives ("washing the hair", "warts. how to cure them", "scent for an invalids room")

I'm not going to just serve it all up on a plate though. Let this stuff go down first.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 30 May 2006, 20:57

Yikes! I think we need to resurrect that thread you started on dyspepsia, Dada!!

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 30 May 2006, 21:24

Would love to see some of the recipes

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 30 May 2006, 22:04

I expected to see lard featured more heavily

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 30 May 2006, 22:17

It would have to be dripping and salt

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 30 May 2006, 22:25

There's plenty more where all this came from.

"Chicken Broth For Invalids" ingredients : "Fowl, Seasoning"

Get ready for a gutbusting update soon.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 30 May 2006, 22:30

Izzie wrote:Would love to see some of the recipes

Don't give me ideas. I didn't know you could fry cucumber.

To be fair to the book, the baking, sweets and preserves look lush - and sometimes you come across a recipe which not only has survived but doesn't look out of place in amongst the heartburn - for example, toad in the hole (batter, oil, sausages) is in there amongst the trotters, fried cheek and "Remains of lamb".

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 30 May 2006, 22:37

Give us a few. We could all try one and see what it is like

I love to try these things please

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 30 May 2006, 23:01

Izzie wrote:It would have to be dripping and salt

I'm trying not to imagine what bread and dripping butties taste like, and am focussing on puddings instead.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 31 May 2006, 09:16

rapunzell wrote:
I'm trying not to imagine what bread and dripping butties taste like, and am focussing on puddings instead.

I got fed that quite a lot as a child. I think that's why I'm almost vegetarian...that and the tripe.

BB

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 31 May 2006, 09:39

Izzie wrote:Give us a few. We could all try one and see what it is like

I love to try these things please

I'll type up a menu with one of everything. Plus one of the bits of "advice".

You could have a "Success" dinner party using these recipes, with the advice written on small folded bits of paper that you hand to your guests as they try and leave.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 31 May 2006, 10:34

EGG SOUP

Scraps of meat and bones
2 eggs
1 teaspoon of beef extract
Seasoning

Boil up any scraps of meat, cooked or uncooked, and bones, etc., in a quart of water. Then strain and, with the liquid, place the yolks of 2 eggs. Stir well, add the seasoning and beef-extract, and make hot, but do not boil. Serve with croutons of toast.

OX TONGUE SCALLOPS

1 ox tongue
4 or 5 rashers of bacon
1/4 lb dripping
Seasoning
Sweet herbs

Smear dripping inside a saucepan; put in half the rashers of bacon, which should be fat; then arrange the tongue. Put on the lid and simmer until tender. Cut into slices; sprinkle with seasoning and sweet herbs; wrap each slice with a rasher of bacon. Envelop each in a piece of grease-proof paper, screw up the ends firmly, and fry for a few minutes. Remove paper before serving.

CUCUMBER (FRIED)

Flour
Cucumber
Salt and pepper

Peel the cucumber, cut into slices not more than 1/2 inch thick, dry them and sprinkle with flour, Fry them in boiling fat until nicely browned, turning them frequently. Drain, sprinkle with salt and pepper and serve.

CHRISTMAS PUDDING SANDWICHES

Excellent sandwiches that are sustaining may be made by placing a thin slice of cold Christmas pudding between two layers of buttered bread. Dust the pudding with white sugar before covering it. This makes an excellent sandwich for hikers in winter time.

"Cookery Hints" : BEATING UP AN EGG

Get into the habit of always beating an egg in the same direction. If you stop and begin again, you will, then, take up the same direction as before, without any hesitation. Of course, you know that to beat it half one way and half the other spoils the egg.

"Household Hints" : CLEANING A CARPET

Put 1oz wormwood salts in a pail of warm water and thoroughly wash the carpet with a flannel cloth or, if very dirty, scrub it with a brush. This will clean the carpet and revive the pile, if there is any.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 31 May 2006, 20:54

Can't imagine how I've coped all these years without those tips about beating up an egg and cleaning my carpets

...and what exactly are wormwood salts

Denise · Post by **Denise** » 02 Jun 2006, 09:03

I'm sure wormwood's the stuff real absinth is made from, in which case it seems like an awful waste rubbing it into your carpet.
"dissolve in a large bucket and drink with a straw, (serve chilled)"?

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 02 Jun 2006, 09:11

My nana told me how to make shepherds pie with corn beef

Still do it and the kids love it

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 02 Jun 2006, 22:43

Anyone tried any of the recipes yet ? I'm tempted to make the egg soup just to see how awful it is

I had been going to make apple and parsnip soup this week-end but now I'm in a quandry as to which one to make.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 05 Jun 2006, 22:26

It's gone very quiet on the Forum since Dada published the recipes - is there a connection? Should the rest of us be going to RIE gastro ward to visit the extremely sick?

I think we should be told.

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 05 Jun 2006, 23:26

Poppy wrote:It's gone very quiet on the Forum since Dada published the recipes - is there a connection? Should the rest of us be going to RIE gastro ward to visit the extremely sick?

I think we should be told.

He might yet share the book's patent indigestion remedy recipes with us

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 07 Jun 2006, 12:23

Done the cucumber (fried) last night it was very nasty even the kids put it in the bucket

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 08 Jun 2006, 14:28

Mrs Beeton does NOT recognise this book. Mind you, she wouldn't. She's been dead since 1865.

http://www.mrsbeeton.com/

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 11 Jun 2006, 11:30

Poppy wrote:It's gone very quiet on the Forum since Dada published the recipes - is there a connection? Should the rest of us be going to RIE gastro ward to visit the extremely sick?

I think we should be told.

I have been, together with the clan, away from Dada Towers for a brief sojourn on the Riviera.

Je vous presente les plats du jour : "Kidney Toast" et "Sausage Toast" pour votre disgustation :

KIDNEY TOAST

Sheep's Kidney
Pepper
Butter
Salt
Toast

Cut the sheep's kidney into slices and fry lightly in butter. Season with pepper, salt and a dash of chutney. Wrap each slice in a slice of bacon. Fix with a skewer and bake in a tin for 6 to 10 minutes. Serve on slices of toast.

SAUSAGE TOAST

Sausage meat
Tomato sauce
Frying fat
Bread

Fry sausage meat or remains of sausages in a pan with a little tomato sauce. Then fry some rounds of toast in fat. Place a thick layer of the sausage meat on each round of toast and serve hot.

Salut et bon appetite!

Dadaiste.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 11 Jun 2006, 12:46

Dadaist wrote:I have been, together with the clan, away from Dada Towers for a brief sojourn on the Riviera.

Dadaiste.

Did you have bon vacances?

Wish you'd brought back something a bit more continental and cordon bleu to share with us rather than disgusting old sausage and kidney on toast

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 28 Jan 2007, 18:31

Newly acquired - the Kenwood Recipe Book. Unknown year but it has lurid colour photos.

So you can now liquidify your invalid drinks. Here's one :

Bircher's Veal Liver Drink

2 measures milk or water
4oz raw veal liver, removing all skin
2 oz raspberries
1 banana

Remove skin from banana, cut into pieces, chop liver into pieces. Put into goblet, emulsify for 2 minutes at full speed. This does enable raw liver to be absorbed in a more palatable form.

There is a gorgeous recipe though that I'm going to try - in a short chapter of coffee recipes there's one for Cafe Brule - you mix orange peel and brandy, burn for 60 seconds then put the fire out with a cup of coffee, strain it and drink that. Sounds lush.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 29 Jan 2007, 13:49

Bircher's Veal Liver Drink

2 measures milk or water
4oz raw veal liver, removing all skin
2 oz raspberries
1 banana

Remove skin from banana, cut into pieces, chop liver into pieces. Put into goblet, emulsify for 2 minutes at full speed. This does enable raw liver to be absorbed in a more palatable form.

I feel sick, just eating my lunch and just about to barf

magbagpuss · Post by **magbagpuss** » 21 Feb 2007, 20:50

have fab jewish cookery book with a recipe for ..... wait for it ox penis stew ?!hav'nt tried it yet !!

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 21 Feb 2007, 21:25

I'd love to see the butchers face when you ask for your ox's penis

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 21 Feb 2007, 21:30

yeuch, the thought gives me the willies