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
Mash a quart of raspberries, strain one half and put the juice to the
other half; boil them a quarter of an hour, put to them a pint of red
currant juice, and let them boil all together, till the raspberries
are done enough. Then put a pound and a half of double refined sugar
into a clean pan, with as much water as will dissolve it; boil it to
a sugar again; then put in the raspberries and juice, scald and pour
them into glasses. Put them into a stove to dry, and turn them when
necessary.
98. DAMSON CHEESE.
Boil the fruit in a sufficient quantity of water to cover it; strain
the pulp through a very coarse hair sieve; to each pound add four
ounces of sugar. Boil till it begins to candy on the sides, then pour
it into tin moulds. Other kinds of plums may be treated in the same
way, as also cherries, and several kinds of fruit.
99. AN OMELETTE SOUFFLE.
Put two ounces of the powder of chestnuts into a skillet, then add
two yolks of new laid eggs, and dilute the whole with a little cream,
or even a little water; when this is done, and the ingredients well
mixed, leaving no lumps, add a bit of the best fresh butter, about
the size of an egg, and an equal quantity of powdered sugar; then
put the skillet on the fire, and keep stirring the contents; when
the cream is fixed and thick enough to adhere to the spoon, let it
bubble up once or twice, and take it from the fire; then add a third
white of an egg to those you have already set aside, and whip them
to the consistency of snow: then amalgamate the whipped whites of
eggs and the cream, stirring them with a light and equal hand, pour
the contents into a deep dish, sift over with double refined sugar,
and place the dish on a stove, with a fire over it as well as under,
and in a quarter of an hour the cream will rise like an _omelette
souffle_; as soon as it rises about four inches it is fit to serve up.
100. ORGEAT PASTE.
Blanch and pound three quarters of a pound of sweet, and a quarter
of a pound of bitter almonds; pound them in a mortar, and wet them
sufficiently with orange flower water, that they may not oil. When
they are pounded fine, add three quarters of a pound of fine powdered
sugar to them, and mix the whole in a stiff paste, which put into
pots for use. It will keep six months; when wanted to be used, take a
piece about the size of an egg, and mix it with half a pint of water,
and squeeze it through a napkin.
101. PATE DE GUIMAUVE.
Take of decoction of marshmallow roots, 4 oz.
water, 1 gallon.
Boil 4 pints and strain: then add gum arabic, half a pound, refined
sugar, 2 lbs. Evaporate to an extract, then take it from the fire,
stir it quickly with the whites of twelve eggs, previously beaten to
a froth: then add, while stirring, half an oz. of orange-flower water.
102. _Another._
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