Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Split open and skewer the sweet-breads; season them with pepper and
salt, and with powdered mace. Broil them on a gridiron till thoroughly
done. While they are broiling, prepare some melted butter seasoned with
mace and a little white wine, or mushroom catchup; and have ready some
toast with the crust cut off. Lay the toast in the bottom of a dish;
place the sweet-breads upon it, and pour over them the drawn butter.
PICKLED EGGS.
Boil twelve eggs quite hard, and lay them in cold water; having peeled
off the shells. Then put them whole into a stone jar, with a quarter of
an ounce of whole mace, and the same quantity of cloves; a sliced
nutmeg; a table-spoonful of whole pepper; a small bit of ginger; and a
peach leaf. Fill up the jar with boiling vinegar; cover it closely that
the eggs may cool slowly. When they are cold, tie up the jar; covering
the cork with leather. After it has stood three days pour off the
pickle, boil it up again, and return it boiling hot to the eggs and
spice. They will be fit for use in a fortnight.
GUMBO SOUP.
Take four pounds of the lean of a fresh round of beef and cut the meat
into small pieces, avoiding carefully all the fat. Season the meat with
a little pepper and salt, and put it on to boil with three quarts and a
pint of water (not more.) Boil it slowly and skim it well. When no more
scum rises, put in half a peck of ochras, peeled and sliced, and half a
peck of tomatas cut in quarters. Boil it slowly till the ochras and
tomatas are entirely dissolved, and the meat all to rags. Then strain
it through a cullender, and send it to table with slices of dry toast.
This soup cannot be made in less than seven or eight hours. If you dine
at two, you must put on the meat to boil at six or seven in the
morning. It should be as thick as a jelly.
SHREWSBURY CAKES.
Rub three quarters of a pound of butter into two pounds of sifted
flour, and mix in half a pound of powdered sugar, and half a pound of
currants, washed and dried. Wet it to a stiff paste with rich milk.
Roll it out, and cut it into cakes. Lay them on buttered baking sheets,
and put them into a moderate oven.
RICE FLUMMERY.
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