Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
To a pound of grated cocoa-nut allow a pint of unskimmed milk, and six
ounces of white sugar. Beat very light the yolks of six eggs. Stir them
gradually into the milk, alternately with the cocoa-nut and sugar. Put
the mixture into a pitcher; set it in a vessel of boiling water; place
it on hot coals, and simmer it till it is very smooth and thick;
stirring it all the time. As soon as it comes to a hard boil, take it
off the fire; pour it into a large bowl, and set it out to cool. When
cold, put it into glass cups. Beat to a stiff froth the white of egg
that was left, and pile it on the custards.
BAKED COCOA-NUT CUSTARD.
Grate as much cocoa-nut as will weigh a pound. Mix half a pound of
powdered white sugar with the milk of the cocoa-nut, or with a pint of
cream; adding two table-spoonfuls of rose water. Then stir in gradually
a pint of rich milk. Beat to a stiff froth the whites of eight eggs,
and stir them into the milk and sugar, a little at a time, alternately
with the grated cocoa-nut; add a tea-spoonful of powdered nutmeg and
cinnamon. Then put the mixture into cups, and bake them twenty minutes
in a Dutch oven half filled with boiling water. When cold, grate
loaf-sugar over them.
CHOCOLATE CUSTARD.
Scrape fine a quarter of a pound of the best chocolate, and pour on it
a tea-cup of boiling water. Cover it, and let it stand by the fire till
it has dissolved, stirring it twice. Beat eight eggs very light,
omitting the whites of two. Stir them by degrees into a quart of cream
or rich milk, alternately with the melted chocolate, and three
table-spoonfuls of powdered white sugar. Pat the mixture into cups, and
bake it about ten minutes. Send them to table cold, with sweetened
cream, or white of egg beaten to a stiff froth, and heaped on the top
of each custard.
MACCAROON CUSTARDS.
These must he made in china custard cups. Put a maccaroon in the bottom
of each cup, and pour on it a table-spoonful of white wine. Mix
together a pint of cream, and a pint of milk; and boil them with a
large stick of cinnamon broken up, and a small bunch of peach leaves or
a handful of broken bitter almonds. Then strain the milk; stir in a
quarter of a pound of white sugar, and set it away to cool. Beat very
light eight eggs, (omitting the whites of four,) and stir them
gradually into the cream and milk when quite cold. Fill your cups with
the mixture, (leaving the maccaroons at the bottom,) and set them in a
Dutch oven or iron baking pan, which must be half full of boiling
water. Heat the oven-lid first, by standing it up before a hot fire;
then put it on, spreading coals over the top. Place sufficient coals
under the oven, and bake the custards about ten minutes. When cold,
heap beaten white of egg on the top of each. These custards are very
fine.
SYLLABUB, OR WHIPT CREAM.
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