Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Take a pint and a half of orange juice, and mix it with half a pint of
clear or filtered water. Stir in half a pound of powdered loaf-sugar.
Pare very thin the yellow rind of six deep-coloured oranges, cut in
pieces, and lay it at the bottom of a bowl or tureen. Pour the orange
juice and sugar upon it; cover it, and let it infuse an hour. Then
strain the liquid into a freezer, and proceed as for ice cream. When it
is frozen, put it into a mould, (it will look best in the form of a
pine-apple,) and freeze it a second time. Serve it in glass cups, with
any sort of very nice sweet cakes.
ICE LEMONADE.
May be made in the above manner, but with a larger proportion of sugar.
The juice of pine-apples, strawberries, raspberries, currants and
cherries, may be prepared and frozen according to the above receipts.
They will freeze in a shorter time than if mixed with cream, but are
very inferior in richness.
BLANC-MANGE.
Put into a bowl an ounce of isinglass; (in warm weather you must take
an ounce and a quarter;) pour on as much rose water as will cover the
isinglass, and set it on hot ashes to dissolve. [Footnote: You may make
the stock for blanc-mange without isinglass, by boiling four calves’
feet in two quarts of water till reduced one half, and till the meat is
entirely to rags. Strain it, and set it away till next day. Then clear
it from the fat and sediment; cut it into pieces and boil it with the
cream and the other ingredients. When you take it from the fire, and
strain it into the pitcher, keep stirring it till it gets cold.] Blanch
a quarter of a pound of shelled almonds, (half sweet and half bitter,)
and beat them to a paste in a mortar, (one at a time,) moistening them
all the while with a little rose water. Stir the almonds by degrees
into a quart of cream, alternately with half a pound of powdered white
sugar; add a large tea-spoonful of beaten mace. Put in the melted
isinglass, and stir the whole very hard. Then put it into a porcelain
skillet, and let it boil fast for a quarter of an hour. Then strain it
into a pitcher, and pour it into your moulds, which must first be
wetted with cold water. Let it stand in a cool place undisturbed, till
it has entirely congealed, which will be in about five hours. Then wrap
a cloth dipped in hot water round the moulds, loosen the blanc-mange
round the edges with a knife, and turn it out into glass dishes. It is
best to make it the day before it is wanted.
Instead of using a figure-mould, you may set it to congeal in tea-cups
or wine glasses.
Blanc-mange may be coloured green by mixing with the cream a little
juice of spinage; cochineal which has been infused in a little brandy
for half an hour, will colour it red; and saffron will give it a bright
yellow tinge.
CARRAGEEN BLANC-MANGE.
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