Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth, and sift into a pan a
quart of wheat flour, adding a salt-spoon of salt. Make a hole in the
middle, and mix in the white of egg so as to form a thick batter, and
then add two table-spoonfuls of the best fresh yeast. Cover it, and let
it stand all night. In the morning, take a hoe-iron (such as are made
purposely for cakes) and prop it before the fire till, it is well
heated. Then flour a tea-saucer, and filling it with batter, shake it
about, and clap it to the hoe, (which must be previously greased,) and
the batter will adhere, till it is baked. Repeat this with each cake.
Keep them hot, and eat them with butter.
MILK TOAST.
Boil a pint of rich milk, and then take it off, and stir into it a
quarter of a pound of fresh butter, mixed with a small table-spoonful
of flour. Then let it again come to a boil. Have ready two deep plates
with half a dozen slices of toast in each. Pour the milk over them hot,
and keep them covered till they go to table. Milk toast is generally
eaten at breakfast.
POTATO YEAST.
Pare half a dozen middle-sized potatoes, and boil them in a quart of
soft water, mixed with a handful of hops, till quite soft. Then mash
the potatoes smooth, not leaving in a single lump. Mix with them a
handful of wheat flour. Set a sieve over the pan in which you have the
flour and mashed potatoes, and strain into them the hop-water in which
they were boiled. Then stir the mixture very hard, and afterwards pass
it through a cullender to clear it of lumps. Let it stand till it is
nearly cold. Then stir in four table-spoonfuls of strong yeast, and let
it stand to ferment. When the foam has sunk down in the middle, (which
will not be for several hours,) it is done working. Then put it into a
stone jug and cork it. Set it in a cool place.
This yeast will be found extremely good for raising home-made bread.
Yeast when it becomes sour may be made fit to use by stirring into it a
little sal-aratus, or pearl-ash, allowing a small tea-spoonful to a
pint of yeast. This will remove the acidity, and improve the bread in
lightness. The pearl-ash must be previously melted in a little lukewarm
water.
CREAM CHEESE.
The cheese so called (of which numbers are brought to Philadelphia
market) is not in reality made of cream, but of milk warm from the cow,
and therefore unskimmed.
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