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
79. TRANSPARENT MARMALADE.
Cut very pale Seville oranges into quarters; take out the pulp, put
it into a basin, and pick out the skins and seeds. Put the peels
into a little salt and water, and let them stand all night, then
boil them in a good quantity of spring water until they are tender:
cut them in very thin slices, and put them into the pulp. To every
pound of marmalade put one pound and a half of double refined beaten
sugar; boil them together gently for 20 minutes; if they are not
transparent, boil them a few minutes longer. Stir it gently all the
time, and take care not to break the slices. When it is cold, put it
into jelly and sweetmeat glasses tied down tight.
80. BARBERRY MARMALADE.
Mash the barberries in a little water, on a warm stove; pass them
through a hair sieve with a paddle; weigh the pulp and put it back on
the fire; reduce it to one half, clarify a pound of sugar and boil it
well; put in the pulp and boil it together for a few minutes.
81. QUINCE MARMALADE.
Take quinces that are quite ripe, pare and cut them in quarters,
take out the cores, put them in a stew-pan with spring water, nearly
enough to cover them, keep them closely covered, and let them stew
gently till they are quite soft and red, then mash and rub them
through a hair sieve. Put them in a pan over a gentle fire, with as
much thick clarified sugar as the weight of the quinces; boil them
an hour and stir the whole time with a wooden spoon to prevent its
sticking; put it into pots, and when cold tie them down.
82. SCOTCH MARMALADE.
Take of the juice of Seville oranges, 2 pints,
yellow honey, 2 lbs.
Boil to a proper consistence.
83. HARTSHORN JELLY.
Boil half a pound of hartshorn in three quarts of water, over a
gentle fire, till it becomes a jelly; when a little hangs on a spoon
it is done enough. Strain it hot, put it into a well-tinned saucepan,
and add to it half a pint of Rhenish wine, and a quarter of a pound
of loaf sugar. Beat the whites of four eggs or more to a froth, stir
it sufficiently for the whites to mix well with the jelly, and pour
it in as if cooling it. Boil it two or three minutes, then put in the
juice of four lemons, and let it boil two minutes longer. When it is
finely curdled and of a pure white, pour it into a swan-skin jelly
bag over a China basin, and pour it back again until it becomes as
clear as rock water; set a very clean China basin under, fill the
glasses, put some thin lemon rind into the basin, and when the jelly
is all run out of the bag, with a clean spoon fill the rest of the
glasses, and they will look of a fine amber colour. Put in lemon and
sugar agreeable to the palate.
84. WHIPT CREAM.
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