Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Melt a quarter of a pound of fresh butter in a quart of warm milk, and
add a salt-spoonful of salt. Sift two pounds of flour into a pan, make
a hole in the centre, and put in three table-spoonfuls of the best
brewer’s yeast. Add the milk and butter and mix it into a stiff paste.
Cover it and set it by the fire to rise. When quite light, knead it
well, roll it out an inch thick, and cut it into round cakes with the
edge of a tumbler. Prick the top of each with a fork; lay them in
buttered pans and bake them light brown. Send them to table warm, and
split and butter them.
RICE CAKES.
Pick and wash half a pint of rice, and boil it very soft. Then drain
it, and let it get cold. Sift a pint and a half of flour over the pan
of rice, and mix in a quarter of a pound of butter that has been warmed
by the fire, and a salt-spoonful of salt. Beat five eggs very light,
and stir them gradually into a quart of milk. Beat the whole very hard,
and bake it in muffin rings, or in waffle-irons. Send them to table
hot, and eat them with butter, honey, or molasses. You may make these
cakes of rice flour instead of mixing together whole rice and wheat
flour.
CREAM CAKES.
Having beaten three eggs very light, stir them into a quart of cream
alternately with a quart of sifted flour; and add one wine glass of
strong yeast, and a salt-spoon of salt. Cover the batter, and set it
near the fire to rise. When it is quite light, stir in a large
table-spoonful of butter that has been warmed by the fire. Bake the
cakes in muffin rings, and send them to table hot, split with your
fingers, and buttered.
FRENCH ROLLS.
Sift a pound of flour into a pan, and rub into it two ounces of butter;
mix in the whites only of three eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, and a
table-spoonful of strong yeast; add sufficient milk to make a stiff
dough, and a salt-spoonful of salt. Cover it and set it before the fire
to rise. It should be light in an hour. Then put it on a paste-board,
divide it into rolls, or round cakes; lay them in a floured square pan,
and bake them about ten minutes in a quick oven.
COMMON ROLLS.
Sift two pounds of flour into a pan, and mix with it a tea-spoonful of
salt. Warm together a jill of water and a jill of milk. Make a hole in
the middle of the pan of flour; mix with the milk and water a jill of
the best yeast, and pour it into the hole. Mix into the liquid enough
of the surrounding flour to make a thin batter, which you must stir
till quite smooth and free from lumps. Then strew a handful of flour
over the top, and set it in a warm, place to rise for two hours or
more. When it is quite light, and has cracked on the top, make it into
a dough with some more milk and water. Knead it well for ten minutes.
Cover it, and set it again to rise for twenty minutes. Then make the
dough into rolls or round balls. Bake them in a square pan, and send
them to table hot, cut in three, buttered and put together again.
BREAD.
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