Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Take two deep dishes, and sift three quarters of a pound of flour into
each. Make a hole in the centre of one of them, and pour in a wine
glass of the best brewer’s yeast; mix the flour gradually into it,
wetting it with lukewarm milk; cover it, and set it by the fire to rise
for about two hours. This is setting a sponge. In the mean time, cut up
five ounces of butter into the other dish of flour, and rub it fine
with your hands; add half a pound of powdered sugar, a tea-spoonful of
powdered cinnamon, a grated nutmeg, a table-spoonful of rose water, and
a half pint of milk. Beat three eggs very light, and stir them hard
into the mixture. Then when, the sponge is perfectly light, add it to
the other ingredients, mixing them all thoroughly with a knife. Cover
it, and set it again by the fire for another hour. When, it is quite
light, flour your paste-board, turn out the lump of dough, and cut it
into thick diamond shaped cakes with a jagging iron. If you find the
dough so soft as to be unmanageable, mix in a little more flour; but
not else. Have ready a skillet of boiling lard; put the dough-nuts into
it, and fry them brown; and when cool grate loaf-sugar over them. They
should be eaten quite fresh, as next day they will be tough and heavy;
therefore it is best to make no more than you want for immediate use.
The New York Oley Koeks are dough-nuts with currants and raisins in
them.
WAFFLES.
Put two pints of rich milk into separate pans. Cut up and melt in one
of them a quarter of a pound of butter, warming it slightly; then, when
it is melted, stir it about, and set it away to cool. Beat eight eggs
till very light, and mix them gradually into the other pan of milk,
alternately with half a pound of flour. Then mix in by degrees the milk
that has the butter in it. Lastly, stir in a large table-spoonful of
strong fresh yeast. Cover the pan, and set it near the fire to rise.
When the batter is quite light, heat your waffle-iron, by putting it
among the coals of a clear bright fire; grease the inside with butter
tied in a rag, and then put in some batter. Shut the iron closely, and
when the waffle is done on one side, turn the iron on the other. Take
the cake out by slipping a knife underneath; and then heat and grease
the iron for another waffle. Send them to table quite hot, four or six
on a plate; having buttered them and strewed over each a mixture of
powdered cinnamon, and white sugar. Or you may send the sugar and
cinnamon in a little glass bowl.
In buying waffle-irons, do not choose those broad shallow ones that are
to hold four at a time; as the waffles baked in them are too small, too
thin, and are never of a good shape. The common sort that bake but two
at once are much the best.
NEW YORK COOKIES.
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