The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
To one pound of fine sifted sugar, put the yolks of ten eggs, (have
the whites in a separate pan,) and set it, if in summer, in cold
water: if there is any ice set the pan on it as it will cause the
eggs to be beat finer. Then beat the yolks and sugar well with a
wooden spoon for 20 minutes, and put in the rind of a lemon grated;
beat up the whites with a whisk, until they become quite stiff and
white as snow. Stir them into the batter by degrees, then add three
quarters of a pound of well-dried flour; finally put it in a mould in
a slack oven to bake.
13. SAFFRON CAKES.
Take a quartern of fine flour, a pound and a half of butter, three
ounces of caraway-seeds, six eggs, well beaten, a quarter of an ounce
of well-beaten cloves and mace, a little pounded cinnamon, one pound
of sugar, a little rose-water and saffron, a pint and a half of
yeast, and a quart of milk. Mix them thus: first boil the milk and
butter, then skim off the butter, and mix it with the flour and a
little of the milk. Stir the yeast into the rest and strain it; mix
it with the flour, put in the eggs and spice, rose-water, tincture of
saffron, sugar, and eggs. Beat it all well up, and bake it in a hoop
or pan well buttered. Send it to a quick oven, and an hour and a half
will do it.
14. QUEEN CAKES.
Take a pound of sugar, beat and sift it, a pound of well-dried
flour, a pound of butter, eight eggs, and half a pound of currants
washed and picked; grate a nutmeg and an equal quantity of mace and
cinnamon, work the butter to a cream, put in the sugar, beat the
whites of the eggs 20 minutes, and mix them with the butter and
sugar. Then beat the yolks for half an hour and put them to the
butter. Beat the whole together, and when it is ready for the oven,
put in the flour, spices, and currants; sift a little sugar over
them, and bake them in tins.
15. RICE CAKES.
Beat the yolks of 15 eggs for nearly half an hour, with a whisk, mix
well with them 10 ounces of fine sifted loaf sugar, put in half a
pound of ground rice, a little orange water or brandy, and the rinds
of two lemons grated, then add the whites of seven eggs well beaten,
and stir the whole together for a quarter of an hour. Put them into a
hoop and set them in a quick oven for half an hour, when they will be
properly done.
16. LEMON CAKES.
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