Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Sherbet may be made of the juice of various sorts of fruit.
BOTTLED SMALL BEER.
Take a quart bottle of the very best brisk porter, and mix it with four
quarts of water, a pint of molasses, and a table-spoonful of ginger.
Bottle it, and see that the corks are of the very best kind. It will be
fit for use in three or four days.
TO KEEP LEMON JUICE.
Powder a pound of the best loaf-sugar; put it into a bowl, and strain
over it a pint of lemon juice; stirring it well with a silver spoon
till the sugar has entirely melted. Then bottle it, sealing the corks;
and keep it in a dry place.
ESSENCE OF LEMON-PEEL.
Rub lumps of loaf-sugar on fine ripe lemons till the yellow rind is all
grated off; scraping up the sugar in a tea-spoon, and putting it on a
plate as you proceed. When you have enough, press it down into a little
glass or china jar, and cover it closely. This will be found very fine
to flavour puddings and cakes.
Prepare essence of orange-peel in the same manner.
CIDER VINEGAR.
Take six quarts of rye meal; stir and mix it well into a barrel of
strong hard cider of the best kind; and then add a gallon of whiskey.
Cover the cask, (leaving the bung loosely in it,) set it in the part of
your yard that is most exposed to the sun and air; and in the course of
four weeks (if the weather is warm and dry) you will have good vinegar
fit for use. When you draw off a gallon or more, replenish the cask
with the same quantity of cider, and add about a pint of whiskey. You
may thus have vinegar constantly at hand for common purposes.
The cask should have iron hoops.
A very strong vinegar may be made by mixing cider and strained honey,
(allowing a pound of honey to a gallon of cider,) and letting it stand
five or six months. This vinegar is so powerful that for common
purposes it should be diluted with a little water.
Vinegar may be made in the same manner of sour wine.
WHITE VINEGAR.
Put into a cask a mixture composed of five gallons of water, two
gallons of whiskey, and a quart of strong yeast, stirring in two pounds
of powdered charcoal. Place it where it will ferment properly, leaving
the bung loose till the fermentation is over, but covering the hole
slightly to keep out the dust and insects. At the end of four months
draw it off, and you will have a fine vinegar, as clear and colourless
as water.
SUGAR VINEGAR.
To every gallon of water allow a pound of the best brown sugar, and a
jill or more of strong yeast. Mix the sugar and water together, and
boil and skim it till the scum ceases to rise. Then pour it into a tub;
and when it cools to lukewarm heat, put into it the yeast spread on
pieces of toast. Let it work two days; then put it into an iron-hooped
cask, and set it in a sunny place for five months, leaving the bung
loose, but keeping the bung-hole covered. In five months it will be
good clear vinegar, and you may bottle it for use.
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