Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Pare off very thin the yellow rind of four large lemons, And lay it in
the bottom of a deep dish. Squeeze the juice of the lemons into a large
bowl containing a pint of white wine, and sweeten it with half a pound
of powdered loaf-sugar Then, by degrees, mix in a quart of cream. Pour
the whole into the dish in which you have laid the lemon-peel, and let
the mixture stand untouched for three hours. Then beat it with rods to
a stiff froth, (first taking out the lemon-peel,) and having put into
each of your glasses a table-spoonful or more of fruit jelly, heap the
syllabub upon it so as to stand up high at the top. This syllabub, if
it can be kept in a cold place, may be made the day before you want to
use it.
COUNTRY SYLLABUB.
Mix half a pound of white sugar with a pint of fine sweet cider, or of
white wine; and grate in a nutmeg. Prepare them in a large bowl, just
before milking time. Then let it be taken to the cow, and have about
three pints milked into it; stirring it occasionally with a spoon. Let
it be eaten before the froth subsides. If you use cider, a little
brandy will improve it.
A TRIFLE.
Place half a pound of maccaroons or Naples biscuits at the bottom of a
large glass bowl. Pour on them as much white wine as will cover and
dissolve them. Make a rich custard, flavoured with bitter almonds or
peach leaves; and pour it when cold on the maccaroons; the custard may
be either baked or boiled. Then add a layer of marmalade or jam. Take a
quart of cream, mix with it a quarter of a pound of sugar, and half a
pint of white wine, and whip it with rods to a stiff froth; laying the
froth (as you proceed) on an inverted sieve, with a dish under it to
catch the cream that drips through; which must be saved and whipped
over again. Instead of rods you may use a little tin churn. Pile the
frothed cream upon the marmalade in a high pyramid. To ornament
it,—take preserved water-melon rind that has been cut into leaves or
flowers; split them nicely to make them thinner and lighter; place a
circle or wreath of them round the heap of frothed cream, interspersing
them with spots of stiff red currant jelly. Stick on the top of the
pyramid a sprig of real flowers.
FLOATING ISLAND.
Take a quart of rich cream, and divide it in half. Sweeten one pint of
it with loaf-sugar, and stir into it sufficient currant jelly to colour
it of a fine pink. Put it into a glass bowl, and place in the centre a
pile of sliced almond-sponge cake, or of lady cake; every slice spread
thickly with raspberry jam or marmalade, and laid evenly one on
another. Have ready the other pint of cream, flavoured with a few drops
of oil of lemon, and beaten with rods to a stiff froth. Heap it all
over the pile of cake, so as entirely to cover it.
A RASPBERRY CHARLOTTE.
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