Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Grate the yellow rinds of twelve lemons and two oranges upon two pounds
of loaf-sugar. Squeeze on the juice of the lemons and oranges; cover
it, and let it stand till next day. Then strain it through a sieve, add
a bottle of champagne, and the whites of eight eggs beaten to a froth.
You may freeze it or not.
MILK PUNCH.
What is commonly called milk punch, is a mixture of brandy or rum,
sugar, milk and nutmeg, with-without either lemon juice or water. It is
taken cold with a lump of ice in each tumbler.
FINE MILK PUNCH.
Pare off the yellow rind of nine large lemons, and steep it for
twenty-four hours in a quart of brandy or rum. Then mix with it the
juice of the lemons, a pound and a half of loaf-sugar, two grated
nutmegs, and a quart of water. Add a quart of rich unskimmed milk, made
boiling hot, and strain the whole through a jelly-bag. You may either
use it as soon as it is cold, or make a larger quantity, (in the above
proportions,) and bottle it. It will keep several months.
REGENT’S PUNCH.
Take four large lemons; roll them on the table to make them more juicy,
and then pare them as thin as possible. Cut out all the pulp, and throw
away the seeds and the white part of the rind. Put the yellow rind and
the pulp into a pint of boiling water with two tea-spoonfuls of raw
green tea of the best sort. Let all boil together about ten minutes.
Then strain it through linen, and stir in a pound of powdered
loaf-sugar and a bottle of champagne, or of any liquor suitable for
punch. Set it again over the fire, and when just ready to boil, remove
it, and pour it into a china bowl or pitcher, to be sent round in
glasses.
WINE JELLY.
Clarify a pound of loaf-sugar, by mixing it with half a pint of water
and the beaten white of an egg, and then boiling and skimming it. Put
an ounce of isinglass (with as much boiling water as will cover it)
into a small sauce-pan, and set it in hot coals till the isinglass is
thoroughly dissolved. Then when the syrup has been taken from the fire,
mix the melted isinglass with it, add a quart of white wine and stir in
a table-spoonful or a spoonful and a half of old Jamaica spirits. Stir
the mixture very hard, and pour it into a mould. When it has congealed,
wrap a cloth dipped in warm water round the outside of the mould; turn
out the jelly, and eat it with ice-cream.
BISHOP.
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