Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Cooking; Home economics
=A Pudding of Fruit and Bread Crumbs.=—Mix a pint of dried and pounded
bread-crumbs with an equal quantity of any kind of berries, or of
dried and chopped sour apples. Add three eggs, half a pint of milk,
three spoonfuls of fine flour, and half a tea-spoonful of salt. Bake
on a griddle or in an oven in muffin-rings, or, when made thinner, as
griddle-cakes. If dried fruit is used, more milk is needed than for
fresh berries.
This may also be boiled for a pudding. Flour the pudding-cloth and tie
tight, as it will not swell in cooking.
=Bread and Apple Dumplings.=—Mix half a pint of dried bread-crumbs and
half a pint of fine flour. Wet it with water and two eggs thick enough
to roll. Then put it around large apples peeled and cored whole, and
boil for dumplings in several small floured cloths, or put all into
one large floured cloth, tied tight, as they will not swell. Try with
a fork, and when the apples are soft, take up and serve with a sweet
sauce.
=An excellent Indian Pudding without Eggs.=—Take seven heaping
spoonfuls of scalded Indian meal, half a tea-spoonful of salt, two
spoonfuls of butter or sweet lard, a tea-cup of molasses, and two
tea-spoonfuls of ginger or cinnamon, to the taste. Pour into these a
quart of milk while boiling hot. Mix well and put in a buttered dish.
Just as you set in the oven, stir in a tea-cup of cold water, which
will produce the same effect as eggs. Bake three-quarters of an hour
in a dish that will not spread it out thin.
=Boiled Indian and Suet Pudding.=—Three pints of milk, ten heaping
table-spoonfuls of sifted Indian meal, a tumblerful of molasses,
two eggs. Scald the meal with the milk, add the molasses and a
tea-spoonful of salt. Put in the eggs when it is cool enough not to
scald them. Put in a table-spoonful of ginger. Tie the bag so that it
will be about two-thirds full of the pudding in order to give room to
swell. The longer it is boiled the better. Some like a little chopped
suet with the above.
=A Dessert of Rice and Fruit.=—Pick over and wash the rice, and boil
it fifteen minutes in water, with salt at the rate of a heaping
tea-spoonful to a quart. Rice is much improved by having the salt
put in while cooking. Pour out the water in fifteen minutes after it
begins to boil. Then pour in rich milk and boil till of a pudding
thickness. Then pour it into cups to harden, when it is to be turned
out inverted upon a platter in small mounds. Make an opening on the
top of each, and put in a pile of jelly or fruit. Lastly, pour over
all a custard made of three eggs, a pint of milk, and a tea-spoonful
of salt boiled in a tin pail set in boiling water. This looks very
prettily. Sweet cream with a little salt can be used instead of
custard. This can be modified by having the whole put in a bowl and
hardened, and then inverted and several openings made for the fruit.
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