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
Grate a little of the outside of a Seville orange, squeeze the juice
into a dish, put the peel into water, and change it often for four
days, then put into a saucepan of boiling water on the fire; change
the water twice to take out the bitterness, and when tender, wipe
and beat them fine in a mortar; boil their weight in double refined
sugar into a syrup, and skim it, then put in the pulp and boil all
together till clear; when cold put it into the tarts, and squeeze in
the juice, and bake them in a quick oven. Conserve of orange makes
good tarts.
36. ORANGE PUFFS.
Pare off the rinds from Seville oranges, then rub them with salt, let
them lie twenty-four hours in water, boil them in four changes of
water, make the first salt, drain and beat them to a pulp; bruise in
the pieces of all that are pared, make it very sweet with loaf sugar,
and boil it till thick; let it stand till cold, and then put it into
the paste.
37. ENGLISH MACAROONS.
One pound of sweet almonds, 1 pound and a quarter of sugar, 6 whites
of eggs, and the raspings of two lemons. Pound the almonds very fine
with 6 whites of eggs, feel the almonds, and if they are free from
lumps, they will do; then add the powdered sugar, and mix it well
with the lemon raspings. Dress them in wafer paper of the required
shape; bake them in a moderate heat, then let them stand till cold,
cut the wafer paper round them, but leave it on the bottoms.
38. FANCY BISCUITS.
Take 1 pound of almonds, 1 pound of sugar, and some orange flower
water. Pound the almonds very fine, and sprinkle them with orange
flower water; when they are perfectly smooth to the touch, put them
in a small pan, with flour sifted through a silk sieve; put the
pan on a slow fire, and dry the paste till it does not stick to
the fingers; move it well from the bottom to prevent its burning;
then take it off, and roll it into small round fillets, to make
knots, rings, &c., and cut it into various shapes; make an iceing of
different colours, dip one side of them in it, and set them on wire
gratings to drain. They may be varied by strewing over them coloured
pistachios, or coloured almonds, according to fancy.
39. SPONGE BISCUITS.
Beat the yolks of 12 eggs for half an hour; then put in a pound and a
half of beaten sifted sugar, and whisk it till it rises in bubbles;
beat the whites to strong froth, and whisk them well with the sugar
and yolks, work in 14 ounces of flour, with the rinds of 2 lemons
grated. Bake them in tin moulds buttered, in a quick oven, for an
hour; before they are baked, sift a little fine sugar over them.
40. FINE CHEESECAKES.
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