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
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Put a pint of warm cream into a saucepan over the fire, and when it
is warm, add to it 5 quarts of new milk. Then put in some rennet,
stir it, and when it is turned, put the curd into a linen cloth or
bag. Let the whey drain from it, but do not squeeze it too much. Put
it into a mortar, and pound it as fine as butter. Add ½ a pound of
sweet almonds blanched, ½ a pound of macaroons, or Naples biscuit.
Then add nine well beaten yolks of eggs, a grated nutmeg, a little
rose or orange water, and ½ a pound of fine sugar. Mix all well
together.
41. ALMOND CHEESECAKES.
Put 4 ounces of blanched sweet almonds into cold water, and beat them
in a marble mortar or a wooden bowl, with some rose water. Put to
it 4 ounces of sugar, and the yolks of four eggs beat fine. Work it
till it becomes white and frothy, and then make a rich puff paste as
follows: Take ½ a pound of flour, and a ¼ of a pound of butter;
rub a little of the butter into the flour, mix it stiff with a little
cold water, and then roll out the paste. Strew on a little flour and
lay over it in thin bits 1-3d of the butter, throw a little more
flour over the bottom, and do the like three different times. Put the
paste into the tins, grate sugar over them, and bake them gently.
42. BREAD CHEESECAKES.
Slice a penny loaf as thin as possible, pour on it a pint of boiling
cream, and let it stand two hours. Beat together 8 eggs, ½ a pound
of butter, and a grated nutmeg: mix them into the cream and bread
with ½ a pound of currants well washed and dried, and a spoonful of
white wine or brandy. Bake them in patty pans, on a raised crust.
43. RICE CHEESECAKES.
Boil 4 ounces of rice till it is tender, and then put it into a sieve
to drain; mix with it 4 eggs well beaten up, ½ a pound of butter,
½ a pint of cream, 6 ounces of sugar, a nutmeg grated, a glass of
brandy, or ratafia water. Beat them all well together, then put them
into raised crusts, and bake them in a moderate oven.
44. APPLE CAKES.
Take half a quartern of dough, roll it out thin; spread equally over
it 5 ounces each of coffee and sugar, a little nutmeg or allspice,
and 2 ounces of butter; then fold and roll it again two or three
times, to mix well the ingredients. Afterwards roll it out thin,
and spread over it 4 rather large apples, pared, cored, and chopped
small; fold it up, and roll until mixed. Let it stand to rise after.
Half a pound of butter may be added.
45. BLANCMANGE.
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