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 Snow.=—Put six very tart apples in cold water over a slow
fire. When soft, take away the skins and cores and mix in a pint of
sifted white sugar; beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth, and
then add them to the apples and sugar. Put it in a dessert-dish and
ornament with myrtle and box.
=Iced Fruit.=—Take fine bunches of currants on the stalk, dip them in
well-beaten whites of eggs, lay them on a sieve and sift white sugar
over them, and set them in a warm place to dry.
=Ornamental Froth.=—The whites of four eggs in a stiff froth, put
into the sirup of preserved raspberries or strawberries, beaten well
together, and turned over ice-cream or blanc-mange. Make white froth
to combine with the colored in fanciful ways. It can be put on the top
of boiling milk, and hardened to keep its form.
=To clarify Isinglass.=—Dissolve an ounce of isinglass in a cup of
boiling water, take off the scum, and drain through a coarse cloth.
Jellies, candies, and blanc-mange should be done in brass and stirred
with silver.
=Blanc-Mange.=—Two and a half sheets of gelatine broken into one quart
of milk; put in a warm place and stir till it dissolves. An ounce and
a half of clarified isinglass stirred into the milk. Sugar to your
taste. A tea-spoonful of fine salt. Flavor with lemon, or orange, or
rose-water. Let it boil, stirring it well, then strain it into molds.
Three ounces of almonds pounded to a paste and added while boiling is
an improvement. Or filberts or hickory-nuts can be skinned and used
thus. It can be flavored by boiling in it a vanilla bean or a stick of
cinnamon. (Save the bean to use again.)
=Apple Jelly.=—Boil tart peeled apples in a little water till
glutinous; strain out the juice, and put a pound of white sugar to a
pint of the juice. Flavor to your taste, boil till a good jelly, and
then put it into molds.
=Orange Jelly.=—The juice of nine oranges and three lemons. The grated
rind of one lemon, and one orange, pared thin. Two quarts of water,
and four ounces of gelatine broken up and boiled in it to a jelly. Add
the above, and sweeten to your taste. Then add the whites of eight
eggs, well beaten to a stiff froth, and boil ten minutes; strain and
put into molds, first dipped in cold water. When perfectly cold, dip
the mold in warm water, and turn on to a glass dish.
=Floating Island.=—Beat the yelks of six eggs with the juice of four
lemons, sweeten it to your taste, and stir it into a quart of boiling
milk till it thickens, then pour it into a dish. Whip the whites of
the eggs to a stiff froth, and put it on the top of the cream.
=A Dish of Snow.=—Grate the white part of cocoa-nut, put it in a glass
dish, and serve with oranges sliced and sugared, or with currant or
cranberry jellies.
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