Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Boil a quart of rich milk. Beat eight eggs, put them to the milk, and
let the milk and eggs boil together till they become a curd. Then drain
it through a very clean sieve, till all the whey is out. Put the curd
into a deep dish, and mix with it half a pound of butter, working them
well together. When it is cold, add to it the beaten yolks of four
eggs, and four large table-spoonfuls of powdered white sugar; also a
grated nutmeg. Lastly, stir in, by degrees, half a pound of currants
that have been previously picked, washed, dried, and dredged with
flour. Lay. puff paste round the rim of the dish, and bake the cheese
cake half an hour. Send it to table cold.
PRUNE PUDDING.
Scald a pound of prunes; cover them, and let them swell in the hot
water till they are soft. Then drain them, and extract the stones;
spread the prunes on a large dish, and dredge them with flour. Take one
jill or eight large fable-spoonfuls from a quart of rich milk, and stir
into it, gradually, eight spoonfuls of sifted flour. Mix it to a smooth
batter, pressing out all the lumps with the back of the spoon. Beat six
eggs very light, and stir them, by degrees, into the remainder of the
milk, alternately with the batter that you have just mixed. Then add
the prunes one at a time, stirring the whole very hard. Tie the pudding
in a cloth that has been previously dipped in boiling water and then
dredged with flour. Leave room for it to swell, but secure it firmly,
so that no water can get in. Put it into a pot of boiling water, and
boil it two hours. Send it to table hot, (not taking it out of the pot
till a moment before it is wanted,) and eat it with cream sauce; or
with butter, sugar, and nutmeg beaten together, and served up in a
little tureen. A similar pudding may be made with whole raisins.
EVE’S PUDDING.
Pare, core, and quarter six large pippins, and chop them very fine.
Grate stale bread till you have six ounces of crumbs, and roll fine six
ounces of brown sugar. Pick, wash, and dry six ounces of currants, and
sprinkle them with flour. Mix all these ingredients together in a large
pan, adding six ounces of butter cut small, and two table-spoonfuls of
flour. Beat six eggs very light, and moisten the mixture with them. Add
a grated nutmeg, and a tea-spoonful of powdered cinnamon. Stir the
whole very well together. Have ready a pot of boiling water. Dip your
pudding cloth into it, shake it out, and dredge it with flour. Then put
in the mixture, and tie it very firmly; leaving space for the pudding
to swell, and stopping up the tying place with a paste of wetted flour.
Boil it three hours; keeping at the fire a kettle of boiling water, to
replenish the pot, that the pudding may be always well covered. Send it
to table hot, and eat it with sweetened cream flavoured with wine and
nutmeg.
CINDERELLAS OR GERMAN PUFFS.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account