A little girl's cookery bookBenton, Caroline French
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A little girl's cookery book
Benton, Caroline French
Cooking -- Juvenile literature
Put the lemon juice and grated rind, together with the sugar and
butter, into a brass pan; add the eggs gradually lest they curdle. Then
simmer over the fire until as thick as honey, stirring gently all the
time.
Pour into small jars, and when cold paste paper over. Keep in a very
dry place. Fill the patty-pans half-full, as it rises much in a quick
oven. Puff paste should be used for these.
LEMON JELLY
½ box gelatine.
½ cup cold water.
2 cups boiling water.
1 cup sugar.
Juice of 3 lemons, and three scrapings of the yellow rind.
Put the gelatine into the cold water and soak one hour. Put the boiling
water, the sugar, and the scrapings of peel on the fire, and stir till
the sugar dissolves. Take it off the fire and stir in the gelatine, and
mix till this is dissolved; when it is partly cool, turn in the lemon
juice and strain through a flannel bag dipped in water and wrung dry.
Put into a pretty mould.
ORANGE JELLY
Make this exactly as you did the Lemon Jelly, only instead of taking
the juice of three lemons, take the juice of two oranges and one lemon,
and scrape the orange peel instead of the lemon peel.
Whipped cream is nicer with either of these jellies.
PRUNE JELLY
Wash well a cup of prunes, and cover them with cold water and soak
overnight. In the morning put them on the fire in the same water, and
simmer till so tender that the stones will slip out. Cut each prune in
two and sprinkle with sugar as you lay them in the mould; pour over
them lemon jelly made by the recipe above, and put on ice. Turn out on
a pretty dish, and put whipped cream round.
FRUIT JELLY
Make a plain lemon jelly, as before. Cut up, very thin, two oranges,
one banana, six figs, and a handful of white grapes, which you have
seeded, and sweeten them. Put in a mould and pour in the jelly; as it
begins to grow firm you can gently lift the fruit from the bottom once
or twice.
You can also fill the mould quite full of fruit, and make only half the
jelly and pour over. Whipped cream is nice to eat with this.
STEWED RHUBARB
Wipe the rhubarb with a damp cloth. Cut into pieces about one inch
long; put in a stewpan with enough water just to cover it, and put in
sugar to suit taste. Cook till it becomes soft, but not mashed; let it
simmer gently.
SNOW PUDDING
½ box of gelatine.
1 pint of cold water.
3 eggs.
Juice of 3 lemons.
½ cup of powdered sugar.
Pour the water over the gelatine and let it stand ten minutes; then
put the bowl over the fire and stir till it is dissolved, and take it
off at once. As soon as it seems nearly cold, beat to a froth with
the egg-beater. Beat the whites of the eggs stiffly, and add to the
gelatine, with the lemon juice and sugar, and mix well. Put in a mould
and set on ice. Make a soft custard by the recipe, and pour round the
pudding when you serve it.
VELVET CREAM
¼ box of gelatine.
1 pint of milk.
2 eggs.
3 tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Small teaspoonful of vanilla.
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