Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
If you wish to flavour it with lemon instead of vanilla, take a large
lump of the sugar before you powder it, and rub it on the outside of a
large lemon till the yellow is all rubbed off upon the sugar. Then,
when the sugar is all powdered, mix with it the juice.
For strawberry ice cream, mix with the powdered sugar the juice of a
quart of ripe strawberries squeezed through a linen cloth.
PINK CHAMPAGNE JELLY.
Beat half the white of an egg to a stiff froth, and then stir it hard
into three wine-glasses of filtered water. Put twelve ounces of the
best double-refined loaf-sugar (powdered fine and sifted) into a
skillet lined with porcelain. Pour on it the white of egg and water,
and stir it till dissolved. Then add twelve grains of cochineal powder.
Set it over a moderate fire, and boil it and skim it till the scum
ceases to rise. Then strain it through a very fine sieve. Have ready an
ounce and a half of isinglass that has been boiled in a little water
till quite dissolved. Strain it, and while the boiled sugar is lukewarm
mix it with the isinglass, adding a pint of pink champagne and the
juice of a large lemon. Run it through a linen bag into a mould. When
it has congealed so as to be quite firm, wrap a wet cloth round the
outside of the mould, and turn out the jelly into a glass dish; or
serve it broken up, in jelly glasses, or glass cups. Jelly may be made
in a similar manner of Madeira, marasquin, or noyau.
A CHARLOTTE RUSSE.
Boil in half a pint of milk a split vanilla bean, till all the flavour
is extracted. Then strain the milk, and when it is cold stir into it
the yolks of four beaten eggs, and a quarter of a pound of powdered
loaf-sugar.
Simmer this custard five minutes over hot coals, but do not let it come
to a boil. Then set it away to cool. Having boiled an ounce of the best
Russian isinglass in a pint of water till it is entirely dissolved and
the water reduced to one-half, strain it into the custard, stir it
hard, and set it aside to get quite cold.
Whip to a stiff froth a quart of rich cream, taking it off in spoonfuls
as you do it, and putting it to drain on an inverted sieve. When the
custard is quite cold, (but not yet set or congealing,) stir the whipt
cream gradually into it.
Take at circular mould of the shape of a drum, the sides being
straight. Cut to fit it two round slices from the top and bottom of an
almond sponge-cake; glaze them with white of egg, and lay one on at the
bottom of the mould, reserving the other for the top.
Having thus covered the bottom, line the sides of the mould with, more
of the sponge-cake, cut into long squares and glazed all over with
white of egg. They must be placed so as to stand up all round—each
wrapping a little over the other so as to leave not the smallest
vacancy between; and they must be cut exactly the height of the mould,
and trimmed evenly. Then fill up with the custard and cream when it is
just beginning to congeal; and cover the top with the other round slice
of cake.
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