Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Cream cheeses (as they are generally called) may be made in this
manner. They are always eaten quite fresh, while the inside is still
somewhat soft. They are made small, and are sent to table whole, cut
across into triangular slices like a pie or cake. After they become fit
to eat, they will keep good but a day or two, but they are considered
while fresh very delicious.
COTTAGE CHEESE.
This is that preparation of milk vulgarly called Smear Case. Take a pan
of milk that has just began to turn sour; cover it, and set it by the
fire till it becomes a curd. Pour off the whey from the top, and tie up
the curd in a pointed linen bag, and hang it up to drain; setting
something under it to catch the droppings. Do not squeeze it. Let it
drain all night, and in the morning put the curd into a pan, (adding
some rich cream,) and work it very fine with a spoon, chopping and
pressing it till about the consistence of a soft bread pudding. To a
soup plate of the fine curd put a tea-spoonful of salt; and a piece of
butter about the size of a walnut; mixing all thoroughly together.
Having prepared the whole in this manner, put it into a stone or china
vessel; cover it closely, and set it in a cold place till tea time. You
may make it of milk that is entirely sweet by forming the curd with
rennet.
A WELSH RABBIT.
Toast some slices of bread, (having cut off the crust,) butter them,
and keep them hot. Grate or shave down with a knife some fine mellow
cheese: and, if it is not very rich, mix with it a few small bits of
butter. Put it into a cheese-toaster, or into a skillet, and add to it
a tea-spoonful of made mustard; a little cayenne pepper; and if you
choose, a wine glass of fresh porter or of red wine. Stir the mixture
over hot coals, till it is completely dissolved; and then brown it by
holding over it a salamander, or a red-hot shovel. Lay the toast in the
bottom and round the sides of a deep dish; put the melted cheese upon
it, and serve it up as hot as possible, with dry toast in a separate
plate; and accompanied by porter or ale.
This preparation of cheese is for a plain supper.
Dry cheese is frequently grated on little plates for the tea-table.
TO MAKE CHOCOLATE
To each square of a chocolate cake allow three jills, or a chocolate
cup and a half of boiling water. Scrape down the chocolate with a
knife, and mix it first to a paste with a small quantity of the hot
water; just enough to melt it in. Then put it into a block tin pot with
the remainder of the water; set it on hot coals; cover it, and let it
boil (stirring it twice) till the liquid is one third reduced. Supply
that third with cream or rich milk; stir it again, and take it off the
fire. Serve it up as hot as possible, with dry toast, or dry rusk. It
chills immediately. If you wish it frothed, pour it into the cup, and
twirl round in it the little wooden instrument called a chocolate mill,
till you nave covered the top with foam.
TO MAKE TEA.
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