Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
If you bake the mixture in one large cake, (which is not advisable
unless you have had much practice in baking,) put it into a buttered
tin pan or mould, and set it directly into a hot Dutch oven, as it will
fall and become heavy if allowed to stand. Keep plenty of live coals on
the top, and under the bottom till the cake has risen very high, and is
of a fine colour; then diminish the fire, and keep it moderate till the
cake is done. It will take about an hour. When cool, ice it; adding a
little essence of lemon or extract of roses to the icing. Sponge cake
is best the day it is baked.
Diet Bread is another name for Sponge Cake.
ALMOND CAKE.
Blanch, and pound in a mortar, four ounces of shelled sweet almonds and
two ounces of shelled bitter ones; adding, as you proceed, sufficient
rose-water to make them light and white. Sift half a pound of flour,
and powder a pound of loaf-sugar. Beat thirteen eggs; and when they are
as light as possible, stir into them alternately the almonds, sugar,
and flour; adding a grated nutmeg. Butter a large square pan; put in
the mixture, and bake it in a brisk oven about half an hour, less or
more, according to its thickness. When cool, ice it. It is best when
eaten fresh.
COCOA-NUT CAKE.
Cut up and wash a cocoa-nut, and grate as much of it as will weigh a
pound. Powder a pound of loaf-sugar. Beat fifteen eggs very light; and
then beat into them, gradually, the sugar. Then add by degrees the
cocoa-nut; and lastly, a handful of sifted flour. Stir the whole very
hard, and bake it either in a large tin pan, or in little tins. The
oven should be rather quick.
WASHINGTON CAKE.
Stir together a pound of butter and a pound of sugar; and sift into
another pan a pound of flour. Beat six eggs very light, and stir them
into the butter and sugar, alternately with the flour and a pint of
rich milk or cream; if the milk is sour it will be no disadvantage. Add
a glass of wine, a glass of brandy, a powdered nutmeg, and a
table-spoonful of powdered cinnamon. Lastly, stir in a small
tea-spoonful of pearl-ash, or salaeratus, that has been melted in a
little vinegar; take care not to put in too much pearl-ash, lest it
give the cake an unpleasant taste. Stir the whole very hard; put it
into a buttered tin pan, (or into little tins,) and bake it in a brisk
oven. Wrapped in a thick cloth, this cake will keep soft for a week.
CIDER CAKE.
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