Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Slice a vanilla bean, and boil it slowly in half a pint of milk/till
all the strength is extracted and the milk highly flavoured with the
vanilla. Then strain its and set it aside. Mix a quart of cream and a
pint of milk, or, if you cannot procure cream, take three pints of rich
milk, and put them into a skillet or sauce-pan. Set it on hot coals,
and boil it. When it has come to a boil, mix a table-spoonful of flour
in three table-spoonfuls of milk, and stir it info the boiling liquid.
Afterwards add two eggs, (which have been beaten up with two
table-spoonfuls of milk,) pouring them slowly into the mixture. Take
care to stir it all the time it is boiling. Five minutes after, stir in
gradually half a pound of powdered loaf-sugar, and then the decoction
of vanilla. Having stirred it hard a few moments, take it off the fire,
and set it to cool. When quite cold, put it into a mould and freeze it,
as you would ice-cream, for which it frequently passes.
You may flavour it with a tea-spoonful of strong oil of lemon, stirred
in just before you take it from the fire, or with a quarter of a pound
of shelled bitter almonds, blanched, pounded in a mortar with a little
water, and then boiled in half a pint of milk, till the flavour Is
extracted.
CHERRY CORDIAL.
Take a bushel of fine ripe cherries, either red or black, or mixed;
stone them, put them into a clean wooden vessel, and mash them with a
mallet or beetle. Then boil them about five minutes, and. strain the
juice. To each quart of juice allow a quart of water, a pound of sugar,
and a quart of brandy. Boil in the water (before you mix it with the
juice) two ounces of cloves, and four ounces of cinnamon; then strain
out the spice. Put the mixture into a stone jug, or a demijohn, and
cork it tightly. Bottle it in two or three months.
COMMON ICE CREAM.
Split into pieces a vanilla bean, and boil it in a very little milk
till the flavour is well extracted; then strain it. Mix two
table-spoonfuls of arrow-root powder, or the same quantity of fine
powdered starch, with just sufficient cold milk to make it a thin
paste; rubbing it till quite smooth. Boil together a pint of cream and
a pint of rich milk; and while boiling stir in the preparation of
arrow-root, and the milk in which the vanilla has been boiled. When it
has boiled hard, take it off, stir in half a pound of powdered
loaf-sugar, and let it come to a boil again. Then strain it, and put it
into a freezer placed in a tub that has a hole in the bottom to let-out
the water; and surround the freezer on all sides with ice broken
finely, and mixed with coarse salt. Beat the cream hard for half an
hour. Then let it rest; occasionally taking off the cover, and scraping
down with a long spoon the cream that slicks to the sides. When it is
well frozen, transfer it to a mould; surround it with fresh salt and
ice, and then freeze it over again.
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