Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
After the clear jelly has done dripping, you may return the ingredients
to the kettle, and warm them over again for about five minutes. Then
put them into the bag (which you may now squeeze hard) till all the
liquid is pressed out of it into a second dish or bowl. This last jelly
cannot, of course, be clear, but it will taste very well, and may be
eaten in the family.
A pound of the best raisins picked and washed, and boiled with the
other ingredients, is thought by many persons greatly to improve the
richness and flavour or calves’ feet jelly. They must be put in whole,
and can be afterwards used for a pudding.
Similar jelly may be made of pigs’ or sheep’s feet; but it is not so
nice and delicate as that of calves.
By boiling two sets, or eight calves’ feet in five quarts of Water, you
may be sure of having the jelly very firm. In damp weather it is
sometimes very difficult to get it to congeal if you use but one set of
feet; there is the same risk if the weather is hot. In winter it maybe
made several days before it is to be eaten. In summer it will keep in
ice for two days; perhaps longer.
TO PRESERVE CREAM.
Take four quarts of new cream; it must he of the richest quality, and
have no milk mixed with it. Put it into a preserving kettle, and simmer
it gently over the fire; carefully taking off whatever scum may rise to
the top, till nothing more appears. Then stir, gradually, into it four
pounds of double-refined loaf-sugar that has been finely powdered and
sifted. Let the cream and sugar boil briskly together half an hour;
skimming it, if necessary, and afterwards stirring it as long as it
continues on the fire. Put it into small bottles; and when it is cold,
cork it, and secure the corks with melted rosin. This cream, if
properly prepared, will keep perfectly good during a long sea voyage.
ITALIAN CREAM.
Put two pints of cream into two bowls. With one bowl mix six ounces of
powdered loaf-sugar, the juice of two large lemons, and two glasses of
white wine. Then add the other pint of cream, and stir the whole very
hard. Boil two ounces, of isinglass with, four small tea-cups full of
water, till it is reduced to one half. Then stir the isinglass
lukewarm, into the other ingredients, and put them into a glass dish to
congeal.
CHOCOLATE CREAM.
Melt six ounces of scraped chocolate and four ounces of white sugar in
half a pint of boiling; water. Stir in an ounce of dissolved isinglass.
When the whole has boiled, pour it into a mould.
COLOURING FOR CONFECTIONARY.
_RED._
Take twenty grains of cochineal, and fifteen grains of cream of tartar
finely powdered; add to them a piece of alum the size of a cherry
stone, and boil them with a jill of soft water, in an earthen vessel,
slowly, for half an hour. Then strain it through muslin, and keep it
tightly-corked in a phial.
_COCHINEAL FOR PRESENT USE._
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