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
=Ice-Cream without Cream.=—A vanilla bean or a lemon rind is first
boiled in a quart of milk. Take out the bean or peel, and add the
yelks of four eggs, beaten well. Heat it scalding hot, but do not
boil it, stirring in white sugar till _very_ sweet. When cold, freeze
it.
=Fruit Ice-Cream.=—Make rich boiled custard, and mash into it the soft
ripe fruit, or the grated or cooked hard fruit, or grated pine-apples.
Rub all through a sieve, sweeten it very sweet, and freeze it. Quince,
apple, pear, peach, strawberry, and raspberry are all very good for
this purpose.
=A Cream for stewed Fruit.=—Boil two or three peach leaves, or a
vanilla bean, in a quart of cream, or milk, till flavored. Strain and
sweeten it, mix it with the yelks of four eggs, well beaten; then,
while heating it, add the whites cut to a froth. When it thickens take
it up. When cool, pour it over the fruit or preserves.
=Currant, Raspberry, or Strawberry Whisk.=—Put three gills of the
juice of the fruit to ten ounces of crushed sugar, add the juice of a
lemon, and a pint and a half of cream. Whisk it till quite thick, and
serve it in jelly-glasses or a glass dish.
=Lemonade Ice, and other Ices.=—To a quart of lemonade, add the whites
of six eggs, cut to a froth, and freeze it. The juices of any fruit,
sweetened and watered, may be prepared in the same way, and are very
fine.
=Charlotte Russe.=—One ounce of gelatine simmered in half a pint of
milk or water, four ounces of sugar beat into the yelks of four eggs,
and added to the gelatine when dissolved. Then add a pint of cream or
new milk. Lastly, add the whites beat to a stiff froth, and beat all
together. Line a mold with slices of sponge-cake and set it on ice,
and when the cream is a little thickened, fill the mold; let it stand
five or six hours, and then turn it into a dish.
=Flummery.=—Cut sponge-cake into thin slices, and line a deep dish.
Make it moist with white wine; make a rich custard, using only the
yelks of the eggs. When cool, turn it into the dish, and cut the
whites to a stiff froth, and put on the top.
=Chicken Salad.=—Cut the white meat of chickens into small bits the
size of peas. Chop the white parts of celery nearly as small.
Prepare a dressing thus: rub the yelks of hard-boiled eggs smooth, to
each yelk put half a tea-spoonful of liquid mustard, the same quantity
of salt, a table-spoonful of oil mixed in very slowly and thoroughly,
and half a wine-glass of vinegar. Mix the chicken and celery in a
large bowl, and pour over this dressing.
The dressing must not be put on till just before it is used. Bread and
butter and crackers are served with it.
=Wine Jelly.=—Two ounces of American isinglass or gelatine. One quart
of boiling water. A pint and a half of white wine. The whites of three
eggs.
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