Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Take small fresh-gathered button mushrooms, peel them carefully with a
penknife, and cut off the stems; throwing the mushrooms into salt and
water as you do them. Then put them into a porcelain skillet of fresh
water, cover it closely, and set it over a quick fire. Boil it as fast
as possible for seven or eight minutes, not more. Take out the
mushrooms, drain them, and spread them on a clean board, with the
bottom or hollow side of each mushroom turned downwards. Do this as
quickly as possible, and immediately, while they are hot, sprinkle them
over with salt. When they are cold, put them into a glass jar with
slight layers of mace and sliced ginger. Fill up the jar with cold
distilled or white wine vinegar. Put a spoonful of sweet oil on the top
of each jar, and cork it closely.
MUSHROOMS PICKLED BROWN.
Take a quart of large mushrooms and (having trimmed off the stalks) rub
them with a flannel cloth dipped in salt. Then lay them in a pan of
allegar or ale vinegar, for a quarter of an hour, and wash them about
in it. Then pat them into a sauce-pan with a quart of allegar, a
quarter of an ounce of cloves, the same of allspice and whole pepper,
and a tea-spoonful of salt. Set the pan over coals, and let the
mushrooms stew slowly for ten minutes, keeping the pan well covered.
Then take them off, let them get cold by degrees, and put them into
small bottles with the allegar strained from the spice and poured upon
them.
It will be prudent to boil an onion with the mushrooms, and if it turns
black or blueish, you may infer that there is a poisonous one among
them; and they should therefore be thrown away. Stir them for the same
reason, with a silver spoon.
TO PICKLE TOMATAS.
Take a peck of tomatas, (the small round ones are best for pickling,)
and prick every one with a fork. Put them into a broad stone or earthen
vessel, and sprinkle salt between every layer of tomatas. Cover them,
and let them remain three days in the salt. Then put them into vinegar
and water mixed in equal quantities, half and half, and keep them in it
twenty-four hours to draw out the saltness. There must be sufficient of
the liquid to cover the tomatas well.
To a peck of tomatas allow a bottle of mustard, half an ounce of
cloves, and half an ounce of pepper, with a dozen onions sliced thin.
Pack the tomatas in a stone jar, placing the spices and onions
alternately with the layers of tomatas. Put them in till the jar is
two-thirds fall. Then fill it up with strong cold vinegar, and stop it
closely. The pickles will be fit to eat in a fortnight.
If you do not like onions, substitute for them a larger quantity of
spice.
TOMATA SOY.
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