Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Beat eight eggs very light, omitting the whites of four. Mix them
gradually with a quart of cold milk and a quarter of a pound of sugar.
Put the mixture into a sauce-pan with a bunch of peach leaves, or a
handful of broken up peach-kernels or bitter almonds; the yellow peel
of a. lemon, and a handful of broken cinnamon; or you may boil in it a
vanilla bean. Set it on hot coals, and simmer it slowly, stirring it
all the time. As soon as it comes to a boil, take it immediately off
the fire, or it will curdle and be lumpy. Then strain it; add eight or
ten drops of oil of lemon, and put it into glass cups. You may lay in
the bottom of each cup a maccaroon soaked in wine. Grate nutmeg over
the top, and send it to table cold. Eat it with tarts or sweetmeats.
RICE CUSTARD.
Boil some rice in milk till it is quite dry; then put it into small
tea-cups, (pressing it down hard,) and when it is cold and has taken
the shape of the cups, turn it out into a deep dish, and pour a boiled
custard round it. Lay on the top of each lump of rice a piece of
preserved quince or peach, or a piece of fruit jelly. In boiling the
rice, you may mix with, it raisins or currants; if so, omit the
sweetmeats on the top.
Another way of boiling custard is to put the mixture into a pitches,
set it in a vessel of boiling water, place it on hot coals or in a
stove, and let it boil slowly, stirring it all the time.
SNOWBALL CUSTARD.
Make a boiled custard as in the preceding receipts; and when it is done
and quite cold, put it into a deep glass dish. Beat to a stiff froth
the four whites of eggs that have been omitted in the custard, adding
eight or ten drops of oil of lemon. Drop the froth in balls on the top
of the dish of custard, heaping and forming them with a spoon into a
regular size and shape. Do not let them touch each other. You may lay a
fresh, rose leaf on the top of every one.
APPLE CUSTARD.
Pare, core, and quarter a dozen large juicy pippins. Strew among them
the yellow peel of a large lemon pared very thin; and stew them till
tender, in a very small portion of water. When done, mash them smooth
with the back of a spoon; (you must have a pint and a half of the
stewed apple;) mix a quarter of a pound of sugar with them, and set
them away till cold. Beat six eggs very light, and stir them gradually
into a quart of rich milk, alternately with the stewed apple. Put the
mixture into cups, or into a deep dish, and bake it about twenty
minutes. Send it to table cold, with nutmeg grated over the top.
LEMON CUSTARD.
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