American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and VegetablesSimmons, Amelia
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American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables
Simmons, Amelia
Cooking, American -- Early works to 1800
One and half pound sugar, half pound butter, rubbed into two pounds
flour, add one glass wine, one do. rose water, 18 eggs and a nutmeg.
_A light Cake to bake in small cups_.
Half a pound sugar, half a pound butter, rubbed into two pounds flour,
one glass wine, one do rose water, two do. emptins, a nutmeg, cinnamon
and currants.
_Shrewsbury Cake_.
One pound butter, three quarters of a pound sugar, a little mace, four
eggs mixed and beat with your hand, till very light, put the
composition to one pound flour, roll into small cakes--bake with a
light oven.
N.B. In all cases where spices are named, it is supposed that they be
pounded fine and sifted; sugar must be dryed and rolled fine; flour,
dryed in an oven; eggs well beat or whipped into a raging foam.
_Diet Bread_.
One pound sugar, 9 eggs, beat for an hour, add to 14 ounces flour,
spoonful rose water, one do. cinnamon or coriander, bake quick.
RUSK.--_To make_.
No. 1. Rub in half pound sugar, half pound butter, to four pound
flour, add pint milk, pint emptins; when risen well, bake in pans ten
minutes, fast.
No. 2. One pound sugar, one pound butter, six eggs, rubbed into 5
pounds flour, one quart emptins and wet with milk, sufficient to bake,
as above.
No. 3. One pound sugar, one pound butter, rubbed into 6 or 8 pounds of
flour, 12 eggs, one pint emptins, wet soft with milk, and bake.
No. 4. P.C. rusk. Put fifteen eggs to 4 pounds flour and make into
large biscuit; and bake double, or one top of another.
No. 5. One pint milk, one pint emptins, to be laid over night in
spunge, in morning, melt three quarters of a pound butter, one pound
sugar, in another pint of milk, add luke warm, and beat till it rise
well.
No. 6 Three quarters of a pound butter, one pound sugar, 12 eggs, one
quart milk, put as much flour as they will wet, a spoon of cinnamon,
gill emptins, let it stand till very puffy or light; roll into small
cakes and let it stand on oiled tins while the oven is heating, bake
15 minutes in a quick oven, then wash the top with sugar and whites,
while hot.
_Biscuit_.
One pound flour, one ounce butter, one egg, wet with milk and break
while oven is heating, and in the same proportion.
_Butter Biscuit_.
One pint each milk and emptins, laid into flour, in sponge; next
morning add one pound butter melted, not hot, and knead into as much
flower as will with another pint of warmed milk, be of a sufficient
consistance to make soft--some melt the butter in the milk.
_A Butter Drop_.
Four yolks, two whites, one pound flour, a quarter of a pound butter,
one pound sugar, two spoons rose water, a little mace, baked in tin
pans.
PRESERVES.
_For preserving Quinces_.
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