Culinary Chemistry: The Scientific Principles of Cookery, with Concise Instructions for Preparing Good and Wholesome Pickles, Vinegar, Conserves, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Various Other Alimentary Substances Employed in Domestic Economy, with Observations on the Chemical Constitution and Nutritive Qualities of Different Kinds of Food.Accum, Friedrich Christian
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Culinary Chemistry: The Scientific Principles of Cookery, with Concise Instructions for Preparing Good and Wholesome Pickles, Vinegar, Conserves, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Various Other Alimentary Substances Employed in Domestic Economy, with Observations on the Chemical Constitution and Nutritive Qualities of Different Kinds of Food.
Accum, Friedrich Christian
Cooking; Food poisoning
Mash a gallon of ripe tomatas; add to it one pound of salt, press out
the juice, and to each quart add a quarter of a pound of anchovies, two
ounces of eshallots, and an ounce of ground black pepper; simmer the
mixture for a quarter of an hour; then strain it through a sieve, and
put to it a quarter of an ounce of pounded mace, the same quantity of
allspice, ginger, and nutmeg, and half a drachm of cochineal; let the
whole simmer for twenty minutes, and strain it through a bag: when cold,
bottle it:
Or, put tomatas into an earthen pan, and bake them very slowly in an
oven. Rub the pulp through a hair sieve, to separate the seeds and
skins. To every pound, by weight, of the pulp, add a pint and a quarter
of vinegar, with a drachm of mace, ginger, cloves, allspice, and one
ounce each of white pepper, and minced eshallot. Simmer them for half an
hour, and strain off the liquid.
WALNUT CATSUP.
Take 28 lbs. of unripe walnuts when quite tender, reduce them to a pulp
in a marble mortar; add to the mass two gallons of vinegar; let it stand
three or four days; to each gallon of liquor, put a quarter of a pound
of minced eshallots, half an ounce of bruised cloves, the same of mace
and black pepper, one tea-spoonful of Cayenne pepper, and a quarter of a
pound of salt: give it a boil up, and strain it through a flannel.
Conserved Fruits.
The preserving of the pulpy fruits employed in housekeeping for making
fruit pies, tarts and puddings, so as to render them fit for that
purpose, when they cannot be procured in their recent state, is an
object of considerable importance in every well regulated family.
The expence of sugar is frequently urged as a reason for not conserving
fruits in housekeeping, and to this may be added the uncertainty of
success from the strong fermentable quality of many fruits, if the sugar
has not been very liberally added. They may indeed be conserved for a
length of time without sugar, by baking them in an oven, and then
closely stopping them up; but if the cork becomes dry, the atmospheric
air exchanges place with what is impregnated by the fruit, which then
soon becomes mouldy; some pulpy fruits may be conserved in good
condition by the following method, for years, or even it is probable for
a longer period, in hot climates.
CONSERVATION OF RECENT FRUITS WITHOUT SUGAR.
The following fruits may be conserved without sugar. The more juicy
fruits of the berry kind, such as currants, mulberries, strawberries,
raspberries, are not well calculated for this process.
METHOD OF CONSERVING GOOSEBERRIES,
Orlean Plums
Green Gages
Damsons
Peaches
Nectarines
Bullaces.
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