Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
To make coffee without boiling, you must have a biggin, the best sort
of which is what in France is called a Grecque. They are to be had of
various sizes and prices at the tin stores. Coffee made in this manner
is much less troublesome than when boiled, and requires no white of egg
or isinglass to clear it. The coffee should be freshly roasted and
ground. Allow two cupfuls of ground coffee to sis cupfuls of boiling
water. Having first scalded the biggin, (which should have strainers of
perforated tin, and not of linen,) put in the coffee, and pour on the
water, which should be boiling hard at the time. Shut down the lid,
place the pot near the fire, and the coffee will be ready as soon as it
has all drained through the coarse and fine strainers into the receiver
below the spout. Scald your china or silver pot, and pour the coffee
into it. But it is best to have a biggin in the form of an urn, in
which the coffee can both be made and brought to table.
For what is called milk coffee,—boil the milk or cream separately;
bring it to table in a covered vessel, and pour it hot into the coffee,
the flavour of which will be impaired if the milk is boiled with it.
DOMESTIC LIQUORS ETC.
SPRUCE BEER
Put into a large kettle, ten gallons of water, a quarter of a pound of
hops, and a tea-cupful of ginger. Boil them together till all the hops
sink to the bottom. Then dip out a bucket full of the liquor, and stir
into it six quarts of molasses, and three ounces and a half of the
essence of spruce. When all is dissolved, mix it with the liquor in the
kettle; strain it through a hair sieve into a cask; and stir well into
it half a pint of good strong yeast. Let it ferment a day or two; then
bung up the cask, and you may bottle the beer the next day. It will be
fit for use in a week.
For the essence of spruce, you may substitute two pounds of the outer
sprigs of the spruce fir, boiled ten minutes in the liquor.
To make spruce beer for present use, and in a smaller quantity, boil a
handful of hops in two gallons and a half of water, till they fall to
the bottom, Then strain the water, and when it is lukewarm, stir into
it a table-spoonful of ground white ginger; a pint of molasses; a
table-spoonful of essence of spruce; and half a pint of yeast. Mix the
whole well together in a stone jug, and let it ferment for a day and a
half, or two days. Then put it into bottles, with three or four raisins
in the bottom of each, to prevent any further fermentation. It will
then be fit for immediate use.
GINGER BEER.
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