Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Grate all the crumb of a stale six cent loaf; boil a quart of rich
milk, and pour it boiling hot over the grated bread; cover it, and let
it steep for an hour; then set it out to cool. In the mean time prepare
half a pound of currants, picked, washed, and dried; half a pound of
raisins, stoned and cut in half; and a quarter of a pound of citron cut
in large slips; also, two nutmegs beaten to a powder; and a
table-spoonful of mace and cinnamon powdered and mixed together. Crush
with a rolling-pin half a pound of sugar, and cut up half a pound of
butter. When the bread and milk is uncovered to cool, mix with it the
butter, sugar, spice and citron; adding a glass of brandy, and a glass
of white wine. Beat eight eggs very light, and when the milk is quite
cold, stir them gradually into the mixture. Then add, by degrees, the
raisins and currants, (which must be previously dredged with flour) and
stir the whole very hard. Put it into a buttered dish, and bake it two
hours. Send it to table warm, and eat it with wine sauce, or with wine
and sugar only.
In making this pudding, you may substitute for the butter, half a pound
of beef suet minced as fine as possible. It will be found best to
prepare the ingredients the day before, covering them closely and
putting them away.
A BOILED PLUM PUDDING.
Grate the crumb of a twelve cent loaf of bread, and boil a quart of
rich milk with a small bunch of peach leaves in it, then strain it and
set it out to cool. Pick, wash and dry a pound of currants, and stone
and cut in half a pound of raisins; strew over them three large
table-spoonfuls of flour. Roll fine a pound of brown sugar, and mince
as fine as possible three quarters of a pound of beef suet. Prepare two
beaten nutmegs, and a large table-spoonful of powdered mace and
cinnamon; also the grated peel and the juice of two large lemons or
oranges. Beat ten eggs very light, and (when it is cold) stir them
gradually into the milk, alternately with the suet and grated bread.
Add, by degrees, the sugar, fruit, and spice, with a large glass of
brandy, and one of white wine. Mix the whole very well, and stir it
hard. Then put it into a thick cloth that has been scalded and floured;
leave room for it to swell, and tie it very firmly, pasting the
tying-place with a small lump of moistened flour. Put the pudding into
a large pot of boiling water, and boil it steadily five hours,
replenishing the pot occasionally from a boiling kettle. Turn the
pudding frequently in the pot. Prepare half a pound of citron cut in
slips, and half a pound of almonds blanched and split in half
lengthways. Stick the almonds and the citron all over the outside of
the pudding as soon as you take it out of the cloth. Send it to table
hot, and eat it with wine sauce, or with cold wine and sugar.
If there is enough of the pudding left, it may be cut in slices, and
fried in butter next day.
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