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
Soak the gelatine in cold water half an hour. Then take it from the
water, and pour on the quart of boiling water. When cooled, add the
grated rind of one lemon, and the juice of two, and a pound and a half
of loaf-sugar. Then beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and
stir them in, and let the whole boil till the egg is well mixed, but
do not stir while it boils. Strain through a jelly-bag, and then add
the wine.
In cold weather, a pint more of water may be added. This jelly can be
colored by beet-juice, saffron, or indigo, for fancy dishes.
=An Apple Lemon Pudding.=—Six spoonfuls of grated, or of cooked and
strained, apple. Three lemons, pulp, rind, and juice, all grated. Half
a pound of melted butter. Sugar to the taste. Seven eggs well beaten.
Mix, and bake with or without paste. It can be made still plainer by
using nine spoonfuls of apple, one lemon, two thirds of a cup full of
butter, and three eggs.
=Wheat Flour Blanc-Mange.=—Wet up six table-spoonfuls of flour to a
thin paste with cold milk, and stir it into a pint of boiling milk.
Flavor with lemon-peel or peach-leaves boiled in the milk. Add a
pinch of salt, cool it in a mold, and eat with sweetened cream and
sweetmeats.
=Orange Marmalade.=—Take two lemons and a dozen oranges; grate the
yellow rinds of all the oranges but five, and set it aside. Make a
clear sirup of an equal weight of sugar. Clear the oranges of rind and
seeds, put them with the grated rinds into the sirup, and boil about
twenty minutes till it is a transparent mass.
=A simple Lemon Jelly=, (easily made.)—One ounce of gelatine. A pound
and a half of loaf-sugar. Three lemons, pulp, skin, and juice, grated.
Pour a quart of boiling water upon the isinglass, add the rest, mix
and strain it, then add a glass of wine, and pour it to cool in some
regular form. If the lemons are not fresh, add a little cream of
tartar or tartaric acid.
=Cranberry.=—Pour boiling water on them, and then you can easily
separate the good and the bad. Boil them in a very little water till
soft, then sweeten to your taste. If you wish a jelly, take a portion
and strain through a fine sieve.
=Apple Ice=, (very fine.)—Take finely-flavored apples, grate them
fine, and then make them _very_ sweet, and freeze them. It is very
delicious.
Pears, peaches, or quinces also are nice, either grated fine or stewed
and run through a sieve, then sweetened _very_ sweet, and frozen. The
flavor is much better preserved when grated than when cooked.
=Whip Syllabub.=—One pint of cream. Sifted white sugar to your taste.
Half a tumbler of white wine. The grated rind and juice of one lemon.
Beat all to a stiff froth.
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