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
Put to ten quarts of ripe dry black currants, one quart of water; put
them in a large stew-pot, tie paper close over them, and set them for
two hours in a cool oven. Squeeze them through a fine cloth, and add
to every quart of juice a pound and a half of loaf sugar broken into
small pieces. Stir it till the sugar is melted; when it boils skim it
quite clean. Boil it pretty quick over a clear fire, till it jellies,
which is known by dipping a skimmer into the jelly and holding it in
the air; when it hangs to the spoon in a drop, it is done. If the
jelly is boiled too long it will lose its flavour and shrink very
much. Pour it into pots, cover them with brandy papers, and keep them
in a dry place. Red and white jellies are made in the same way.
91. APPLE JELLY.
Take of apple juice strained, 4 lbs.
sugar, one pound.
Boil to a jelly.
92. STRAWBERRY JELLY.
Take of the juice of strawberries, 4 lbs.
sugar, 2 lbs.
Boil down.
93. GOOSEBERRY JELLY.
Dissolve sugar in about half its weight of water, and boil; it will
be nearly solid when cold; to this syrup add an equal weight of
gooseberry juice, and give it a boil, but not long, for otherwise it
will not fix.
94. RASPBERRY CREAM.
Rub a quart of raspberries through a hair sieve, and take out the
seeds and mix it well with cream; sweeten it with sugar to your
taste, then put it into a stone jug, and raise a froth with a
chocolate mill. As the froth rises, take it off with a spoon, and lay
it upon a hair sieve. When there is as much froth as wanted, put what
cream remains in a deep China dish, and pour the frothed cream upon
it, as high as it will lie on.
95. RASPBERRY JAM.
Mash a quantity of fine ripe dry raspberries, strew on them their own
weight of loaf sugar, and half their weight of white currant juice.
Boil them half an hour over a clear slow fire, skim them well, and
put them into pots or glasses; tie them down with brandy papers, and
keep them dry. Strew on the sugar as quick as possible after the
berries are gathered, and in order to preserve their flavour, they
must not stand long before boiling them.
96. STRAWBERRY JAM.
Bruise very fine some scarlet strawberries, gathered when quite ripe,
and put to them a little juice of red currants. Beat and sift their
weight in sugar, strew it over them, and put them into a preserving
pan. Set them over a clear slow fire, skim them, then boil them 20
minutes, and put them into glasses.
97. RASPBERRY PASTE.
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