Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Take a calf’s liver, and chop it very fine. Mix with it half a pound of
beef suet chopped line also; half a pound of flour; two minced onions;
a handful of bread-crumbs; a table-spoonful of chopped parsley and
sweet marjoram mixed; a few blades of mace and a few cloves powdered;
and a little pepper and salt. Mix all well together. Wet the mixture
with six eggs well beaten, and make it up into dumplings, with your
hands well floured. Have ready a large pot of boiling water. Drop the
dumplings into it with a ladle, and let them boil an hour. Have ready
bread-crumbs browned in butter to poor over them before they go to
table.
HAM DUMPLINGS.
Chop some cold ham, the fat and lean in equal proportions. Season it
with pepper and minced sage. Make a crust, allowing half a pound of
chopped suet; or half a pound of butter to a pound of flour. Roll it
out thick, and divide it into equal portions. Put some minced ham into
each, and close up the crust. Have ready a pot of boiling water, and
put in the dumplings. Boil them about three quarters of an hour.
LIGHT DUMPLINGS.
Mix together as much grated bread, butter and beaten egg (seasoned with
powdered cinnamon) as will make a stiff paste. Stir it well. Make the
mixture into round dumplings, with your hands well floured. Tie up each
in a separate cloth, and boil them a short time,—about fifteen minutes.
Eat them with wine sauce, or with molasses and butter.
PLAIN FRITTERS.
Beat seven eggs very light, and stir them gradually into a quart of
milk; add, by degrees, three quarters of a pound, or a pint and a half
of sifted flour. Beat the whole very hard. Have ready in a frying-pan
over the fire, a large quantity of lard. When the lard has come to a
hard boil, begin to put in the fritters; allowing for each about a jill
of batter, or half a large tea-cup full. They do not require turning,
and will be done in a few minutes. Fry as many at a time as the pan
will hold. Send them to table hot, and eat them with powdered cinnamon,
sugar, and white wine. Let fresh hot ones be sent in as they are
wanted; they chill and become heavy immediately.
Begin to fry the fritters as soon as the batter is mixed, as it will
fall by setting. Near a pound and a half of lard will be required for
the above quantity of fritters.
APPLE FRITTERS.
Pave, core, and parboil (in a very little water) some large juicy
pippins. When half done, take them out, drain them, and mince them very
fine. Make a batter according to the preceding receipt; adding some
lemon juice and grated lemon-peel. Stir into the batter a sufficient
quantity of the minced apple to make it very thick. Then fry the
fritters in hot lard as before directed. Eat them with nutmeg and
sugar.
PLAIN PANCAKES.
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