Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Having melted three table-spoonfuls of fresh butter in three pints of
warm milk, set it away to cool. Then beat three eggs as light as
possible, and stir them gradually into the milk when it is quite cold;
adding a tea-spoonful of salt. Stir in by degrees enough of sifted
flour to make a batter as thick as you can conveniently beat it; and
lastly, add two table-spoonfuls of strong fresh yeast from the brewery.
Cover the batter and set it in a warm place to rise. It should be light
in about three hours. Having heated your griddle, grease it with some
butter tied in a rag; grease your muffin rings round the inside, and
set them on the griddle. Take some batter out of the pan with a ladle
or a large spoon, pour it lightly into the rings, and bake the muffins
of a light brown. When done, break or split them open with your
fingers; butter them and send them to table hot.
SODA BISCUITS.
Melt half a pound of butter in a pint of warm milk, adding a
tea-spoonful of soda; and stir in by degrees half a pound of sugar.
Then sift into a pan two pounds of flour; make a hole in the middle;
pour in the milk, &c., and mix it with the flour into a dough. Put it
on your paste-board, and knead it long and hard till it becomes very
light. Roll it out into a sheet half an inch thick. Cut it into little
round cakes with the top of a wine glass, or with a tin cutter of that
size; prick the tops; lay them on tins sprinkled with flour, or in
shallow iron pans; and bake them of a light brown in a quick oven; they
will be done in a few minutes. These biscuits keep very well.
A SALLY LUNN.
This cake is called after the inventress. Sift into a pan a pound and a
half of flour. Make a hole in the middle, and put in two ounces of
butter warmed in a pint of milk, a salt-spoonful of salt, three
well-beaten eggs, and two table-spoonfuls of the best fresh yeast. Mix
the flour well into the other ingredients, and put the whole into a
square tin pan that has been greased with butter. Cover it, set it in a
warm place, and when it is quite light, bake it in a moderate oven.
Send it to table hot, and eat it with butter.
Or, you may bake it on a griddle, in small muffin rings, pulling the
cakes open and buttering them when brought to table.
SHORT CAKES.
Rub three quarters of a pound of fresh butter into a pound and a half
of sifted flour; and make it into a dough with a little cold water.
Roll it out into a sheet half an inch thick, and cut it into round
cakes with the edge of a tumbler. Prick them with a fork; lay them in a
shallow iron pan sprinkled with flour, and bake them in a moderate oven
till they are brown. Send them to table hot; split and butter them.
TEA BISCUIT.
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