Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Mix a tea-cup full of powdered white sugar with a quart of rich milk,
and cut up in the milk two ounces of butter, adding a salt-spoonful of
salt. Put this mixture into a covered pan or skillet, and set it on
coals till it is scalding hot. Then take it off, and scald with it as
much yellow Indian meal (previously sifted) as will make it of the
consistence of thick boiled mush. Beat the whole very hard for a
quarter of an hour, and then set it away to cool.
While it is cooling, beat three eggs very light, and stir them
gradually into the mixture when it is about as warm as new milk. Add a
tea-cup full of good strong yeast, and beat the whole another quarter
of an hour—for much of the goodness of this cake depends on its being
long and well beaten. Then have ready a turban mould or earthen pan
with a pipe in the centre, (to diffuse the heat through the middle of
the cake.) The pan must be very well buttered, as Indian meal is apt to
stick. Put in the mixture, cover it, and set it in a warm place to
rise. It should be light in about four hours. Then bake it two hours in
a moderate oven. When done, turn it oat with the broad surface
downwards, and send it to table hot and whole. Cut it into slices, and
eat it with butter.
This will be found an excellent cake. If wanted for breakfast, mix it,
and set it to rise the night before. If properly made, standing all
night will not injure it. Like all Indian cakes, (of which this is one
of the best,) it should be eaten warm.
It will be much improved by adding to the mixture, a salt-spoon of
pearl-ash, or sal-aratus, dissolved in a little water.
PLAIN CIDER CAKE.
Sift into a large pan a pound and a half of flour, and rub into it half
a pound of butter. Mix in three-quarters of a pound of powdered white
sugar and melt a small tea-spoonful of sal-aratus or pearl-ash in a
pint of the best cider. Pour the cider into the other ingredients while
it is foaming, and stir the whole very hard. Have ready a buttered
square pan, put in the mixture, and set It immediately in a rather
brisk oven. Bake it an hour or more, according to its thickness. This
is a tea cake, and should be eaten fresh. Cut it into squares, split
and butter them.
TENNESSEE MUFFINS.
Sift three pints of yellow Indian meal, and put one-half into a pan and
scald it. Then set it away to get cold. Beat six: eggs, whites and
yolks separately. The yolks must be beaten till they become very thick
and smooth, and the whites till they are a stiff froth, that stands
alone. When the scalded meal is cold, mix it into a batter with the
beaten yolk of egg, the remainder of the meal, a salt-spoonful of salt,
and, if necessary, a little water. The batter must be quite thick. At
the last, stir in, lightly and slowly, the beaten white of egg. Grease
your muffin rings, and set them in an oven of the proper heat; put in
the batter immediately, as standing will injure it.
Send them to table hot; pull them open, and eat them with butter.
HOE CAKE.
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