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
=Another Dessert of Rice and Fruit.=—Boil the rice in salt and
water, a tea-spoonful to a quart of water. When cooked to a pudding
consistency, cool it, and then cut it in slices. Then put a thin layer
of rice at the bottom of a pudding-dish, cover it with a thin layer of
jelly or stewed fruit half an inch thick. Continue to add alternate
layers of rice and jelly or fruit, smooth it at top, grate on sugar,
and then cut the edges to show stripes of fruit and rice. Help it in
saucers, and have cream or a thin custard to pour on it. Make the
custard with two eggs, half a pint of milk, and half a tea-spoonful of
salt. Boil it in a pail set in boiling water.
=Dessert of cold Rice and stewed or grated Apple.=—Cut cold boiled
rice in slices, and then lay in a buttered pudding-dish alternate
layers of rice and grated or stewed apples. Add sugar and spice to
each layer of apples. Cover with the rice, smooth with a spoon dipped
in cold water or milk, and bake three-quarters of an hour if the
apples are raw. To be served with a sweet sauce.
=A rich Flour Pudding.=—Six eggs.
Three spoonfuls of flour.
One pint of milk.
A tea-spoonful of salt.
Beat the yelks well and mix them smoothly with the flour, then add the
milk. Lastly, whip the whites to a stiff froth; work them in, and bake
immediately.
To be eaten with a liquid sauce.
=Apple-Pie.=—Take fair apples; pare, core, and quarter them.
Take four table-spoonfuls of powdered sugar to a pie.
Put into a preserving-pan, with the sugar; water enough to make a thin
sirup; throw in a few blades of mace; boil the apple in the sirup
until tender, a little at a time, so as not to break the pieces. Take
them out with care, and lay them in soup-dishes.
When you have preserved apple enough for your number of pies, add
to the remainder of the sirup cinnamon and rose-water, or any other
spice, enough to flavor it well, and divide it among the pies. Make
a good paste, and line the rim of the dishes, and then cover them,
leaving the pies without an under crust. Bake them a light brown.
=Spiced Apple Tarts.=—Rub stewed or baked apples through a sieve;
sweeten them, and add powdered mace and cinnamon enough to flavor
them. If the apples are not very tart, squeeze in the juice of a
lemon. Some persons like the peel of the lemon grated into it. Line
soup-dishes with a light crust, double on the rim, and fill them and
bake them until the crust is done. Little bars of crust, a quarter of
an inch in width, crossed on the top of the tart before it is baked,
are ornamental.
=Baked Indian Pudding.=—Three pints of milk.
Ten heaping table-spoonfuls of Indian meal.
Three gills of molasses.
A piece of butter as large as a hen’s egg.
Scald the meal with the milk, and stir in the butter and molasses, and
bake four or five hours. Some add a little chopped suet in place of
the butter. This can be boiled.
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