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The University Library Leeds LEEDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Classmark: 6M/ A AM COOKERY K-5> THE WIFE’S HELP TO INDIAN COOKERY. ‘ Hie labor, hoc opus est.’ A ll rights reserved. : XLhc Mites Ifoelp to Nubian Cookery: BEING A PRA CTICAL MANUAL FOR HO USEKEEPERS. CEompUeb smi) (Ebitcb BY W . H . D A W E ASSISTANT-SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF^VENUE, NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES). ALLAHABAD, INDIA. ‘ She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household.' Prov. xxxi. 15. LONDON ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1888. S. ^pebicatcb TO CHARLES PAGET CARMICHAEL, Esq., C.S.I., BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE. This officer retired on 7th March, 1884, after rendering faithful service to his country—in India—for thirty-five years. His large personal acquaintance with the country, his influence and popularity with the people, and his familiarity with their language, has made his name a household word among Anglo-Indians and Natives alike. To this distinguished officer I respectfully inscribe my compilation, as a memorial of regard and esteem. W. H. DAWE. Jfilkliuslt, gtent, •20th August, 1888. 63 GENERAL CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. ON DIET IN INDIA - - - - - I II. ON PURIFYING WATER - - - 2 III. ON INDIAN SERVANTS - - - - 4 IV. ON THE INDIAN COOK - - - - 6 V. ON THE KITCHEN - - - - 7 VI. ON KITCHEN UTENSILS - - - - 7 VII. ON ROASTING - - - - - 9 VIII. ON BOILING- - - - - - JO IX. ON FRYING - - - - - - II X. ON BROILING - - - - - 12 XI. ON ENTREES, OR MADE DISHES - - - 12 XII. ON SOUPS - - - - - -1 XIII. ON VEGETABLES - - - - - 15 XIV. ON OMELETTES - - - - - 1 XV. ON PASTRY - - - - - - 17 XVI. ON PUDDINGS - - - - - l8 XVII. ON MILK AND CREAM - - - - 19 XVIII. ON DRINKS ----- 20 XIX. ON PRESERVATION OF HEALTH IN INDIA - 21 XX. ON INDIAN WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (IN ORDI- NARY USE) - - - - - 22 TABLE I. —SHOWING VALUE OF GOODS FROM 2 TO 1,000 AT FROM I ANNA TO IO RUPEES EACH - - - 24 TABLE II.—OF INCOME, EXPENSE, OR WAGES FOR 30 DAYS - - - - - - ' - 25 TABLE III. —OF INCOME, EXPENSE, OR WAGES FOR 31 DAYS - - - - - - - - 26 viii CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE XX. MEMORANDUM OF INDIAN CURRENCY NOTES, SUGGESTED 27 TABLE FOR ASCERTAINING THE DAILY WAGES OF INDIAN SERVANTS AND OTHERS IN INDIAN CURRENCY - - 28 TABLE FOR ASCERTAINING WAGES AND OTHER PAYMENTS IN ENGLISH MONEY- - - - - - 28 MEMORANDUM ON NATIVE SERVANTS, AND THEIR ESTI- MATED RATES OF WAGES - - - - - 29 XXI. MONTHLY ACCOUNTS OF SERVANTS’ WAGES SUG- GESTED - - - - - - 30 MONTHLY MEMORANDUM OF MILK, BUTTER, AND BREAD SUPPLIES, SUGGESTED - - - 42 RECIPES I TO 908 - 48-222 HINTS FOR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS TO AND FROM INDIA ... 223-224 ANALYTICAL INDEX - - - 225-248 INDEX FOR HOUSEHOLD RECIPES - - 249-2 50 PREFACE - - - - - ix INDIAN DOMESTIC TROUBLES - - - xi ENGLISH AND INDIAN EXCHANGE TABLE - xiii ERRATA. Page 23, line 4, for ‘ 9 dwts.’ read ‘o dwts.’ Page 89, line 23, for ‘Zima-Gosht’ read 'Qima-Gosht.' Page 96, line 12, for ‘loin of mutton' read ‘loin of pork.' PREFACE. ‘ Nothing is so Lovely in Woman as her Study of the Household.' This work is designed to be a Guide, and it affords oppor- tunities of gaining information, especially in the Art of Indian Cookery. As the chief promoter of man’s happiness is woman, it should in be the hands of every Female Economist ; the most enlightened will find some useful hints in its pages. The Compiler, an Anglo-Indian, has had the advantage of intercourse with those best experienced in the subject, and is in- debted to several Anglo-Indian families, to whom he tenders his best thanks for the many rare and useful Recipes herein introduced. The store of useful information it contains makes it a very desirable Reference-Book, and a most valuable Gift-Book, i ^-The recipes have been carefully selected, and have been com- piled with the view of meeting the requirements not only of Residents in India but of English and Anglo-Indian Families at Home, who will find in it reminiscences of olden days. It teaches Habits of Economy, the way to turn everything in best account these are among the Household-affairs to the ; things which every Mother should teach her Daughters. X PREFACE. It is adapted for constant use, not merely for one year, but for many years ; a Compilation of permanent reference, an every- day Book in the hands of a careful House-wife. ‘ All Books of Cookery, all helps of Art, All critic learning, all commenting notes, Are vain, if void of genius thou wouldst cook !’ —Old Writer. INDIAN DOMESTIC TROUBLES. ‘Who, when I’ve found a friend to dine, Declares we drank both flasks of wine, Though half, I know, was left in mine ? My Khidmatgar. Who evermore to fool me tries, And tells my wife a pack of lies, And charges twice for all he buys ? My Khansamah. Who smokes my food and cribs my tea, Or sends the second brew to me, And cooks in fat instead of Ghee ? My Bdwarchf. Who takes good care no stranger tries To cheat me of a single pice, Yet steals himself before my eyes ? My Behrd. Who sits and claims each joint of bone That leaves my table as his own, And fat and lazy now has grown ? My Mehtar. Who beats my shirts to ribbons fine, And changes (why, I can’t divine,) Old Jones’s trashy things for mine? My Dhobi. Who with my horses’ Gram makes free, Deducts one seer from every three, And sells the balance back to me ? My Sals. INDIAN DOMESTIC TROUBLES. Who wakes me from my slumbers deep, As bawling loud, the house he’ll creep, To tell all thieves that Sdhib’s asleep ? My Choklddr. Who bathes me every day, full well, In soap obnoxious to the smell, And marks me so, my chin can tell ? My Hajjdm.’ * c Who try me fifty times a day, Till wrath and passion get their way, And what I’d do—’tis hard to say ? My Servants. o THE HOUSEWIFE’S FRIEND. 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But in both countries the amount of vegetable food required to sustain life is very great, especially in the colder climate. It has been proved that an Irishman wants many pounds weight of potatoes with milk to keep him in health. The quantity of rice con- sumed by the Asiatic, although less in proportion, is also very great. Medical men maintain that in India Europeans con- the that is absolutely sume double quantity of meat necessary ; in fact, that they live almost exclusively on animal food. The three staple kinds of food are exemplified by bread, meat, and vegetables, and a man does not reach his full development of health and strength unless the three are blended in his dietary as nature evidently intended they should be blended. The un- due consumption of animal food is only permissible in intensely cold climates, in order, we presume, that the consumer may, by the organic combustion of its carbon and hydrogen, create the heat he requires to resist the bitter cold.