Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Put into a sauce-pan a pint of the best West India molasses; a
tea-spoonful of powdered white ginger; and a quarter of a pound of
fresh butter. Set it on hot coals, and simmer it slowly for half an
hour; stirring it frequently. Do not let it come to a boil. Then stir
in the juice of two lemons, or two table-spoonfuls of vinegar; cover
the pan, and let it stand by the fire five minutes longer. This is good
for a cold. Some of it may be taken warm at once, and the remainder
kept at hand for occasional use.
It is the preparation absurdly called by the common people a stewed
quaker.
Half a pint of strained honey mixed cold with the juice of a lemon, and
a table-spoonful of sweet oil, is another remedy for a cold; a
tea-spoonful or two to be taken whenever the cough is troublesome.
FLAX-SEED LEMONADE.
To a large table-spoonful of flax-seed allow a tumbler and a half of
cold water. Boil them together till the liquid becomes very sticky.
Then strain it hot over a quarter of a pound of pulverized sugar candy,
and an ounce of pulverized gum arabic. Stir it till quite dissolved,
and squeeze into it the juice of a lemon.
This mixture has frequently been found an efficacious remedy for a
cold; taking a wine-glass of it as often as the cough is troublesome.
COCOA.
Put into a sauce-pan two ounces of good cocoa (the chocolate nut before
it is ground) and one quart of water. Cover it, and as soon as it has
come to a boil, set it on coals by the side of the fire, to simmer for
an hour or more. Take it hot with dry toast.
COCOA SHELLS.
These can be procured at the principal grocers and confectioners, or at
a chocolate manufactory. They are the thin shells that envelope the
chocolate kernel, and are sold at a low price; a pound contains a very
large quantity. Soak them in water for five or six hours or more, (it
will be better to soak them all night,) and then boil them in the same
water. They should boil two hours. Strain the liquid when done, and let
it be taken warm.
RAW EGG.
Break a fresh egg into a saucer, and mix a little sugar with it; also,
if approved, a small quantity of wine. Beat the whole to a strong
froth. It is considered a restorative.
SODA WATER.
To forty grains of carbonate of soda, add thirty grains of tartaric
acid in small crystals. Fill a soda bottle with spring water, put in
the mixture, and cork it instantly with a well-fitting cork.
SEIDLITZ POWDERS.
Fold in a white paper one drachm of Rochelle salts. In a blue paper a
mixture of twenty grains of tartaric acid, and twenty-five grains of
carbonate of soda. They should all be pulverized very fine. Put the
contents of the white paper into a tumbler not quite half full of cold
water, and stir it till dissolved. Then put the mixture from the blue
paper into another tumbler with the same quantity of water, and stir
that also. When the powders are dissolved in both tumblers, pour the
first into the other, and it will effervesce immediately. Drink it
quickly while foaming.
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