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
=Apple Custard.=—Take half a dozen very tart apples, and take off
the skin and cores. Cook them till they begin to be soft, in half a
tea-cup of water. Then put them in a pudding-dish, and sugar them.
Then beat six eggs with four spoonfuls of sugar; mix it with three
pints of milk, and two tea-spoonfuls of salt; pour it over the apples,
and bake for about half an hour.
=Plain Macaroni or Vermicelli Puddings.=—Put two ounces of macaroni
or vermicelli into a pint of milk, and simmer until tender. Flavor it
by putting in two or three sticks of cinnamon while boiling, or some
other spice when done. Then beat up three eggs, mix in an ounce of
sugar, half a pint of milk, a tea-spoonful of salt, and a glass of
wine. Add these to the broken macaroni or vermicelli, and bake in a
slow oven.
=Green Corn Pudding.=—Twelve ears of corn, grated. Sweet-corn is best.
One pint and a half of milk. Four well-beaten eggs. One tea-cup and a
half of sugar.
Mix the above, and bake it three hours in a buttered dish. More sugar
is needed if common corn is used.
=Bread Pudding for Invalids or young Children.=—Grate half a pound
of stale bread; add a pinch of salt, and pour on a pint of hot milk,
and let it soak half an hour. Add two well-beaten eggs, put it in a
covered basin just large enough to hold it, tie it in a pudding-cloth,
and boil it half an hour; or put it in a buttered pan in an oven, and
bake it that time. Make a sauce of thin sweet cream, sweetened with
sugar, and flavored with rose-water or nutmeg.
=A good Pudding.=—Line a buttered dish with slices of wheat bread,
first dipped in milk. Fill the dish with sliced apple, and add sugar
and spice. Cover with slices of bread soaked in milk; cover close with
a plate, and bake three hours.
=Loaf Pudding.=—When bread is too stale, put a loaf in a pudding-bag
and boil it in salted water an hour and a half, and eat it with hard
pudding-sauce.
=A Lemon Pudding.=—Nine spoonfuls of grated apple, one grated lemon,
(peel and pulp,) one spoonful of butter, and three eggs. Mix and bake,
with or without a crust, about an hour. Cream improves it.
=Green Corn Patties=, (like oysters.)—Twelve ears of sweet-corn
grated. (Yellow corn will do, but not so well.)
One tea-spoonful of salt, and one of pepper.
One egg beaten into two table-spoonfuls of flour.
Mix, make into small cakes, and cook on a griddle.
=Cracker Plum Pudding=, (excellent.)—Make a very sweet custard, and
put into it a tea-spoonful of salt.
Take soda crackers, split them, and butter them very thick.
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