The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private FamiliesEaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
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The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
Cooking, English; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics
CHEESE PUFFS. Strain some cheese curd from the whey, and beat half a
pint of it fine in a mortar, with a spoonful and a half of flour, three
eggs, but only one white. Add a spoonful of orange-flower water, a
quarter of a nutmeg, and sugar to make it pretty sweet. Lay a little of
this paste, in small round cakes, on a tin plate. If the oven be hot, a
quarter of an hour will bake them. Serve the puffs with pudding sauce.
CHERRY BRANDY. Stone ten pounds of black cherries, bruise the stones in
a mortar, and put them to a gallon of the best brandy. Let it stand a
month close covered, pour it clear from the sediment, and bottle it.
Morella cherries managed in this way will make a fine rich cordial.
CHERRY JAM. To twelve pounds of ripe fruit, Kentish or duke cherries,
weigh one pound of sugar. Break the stones of part, and blanch them;
then put them to the fruit and sugar, and boil all gently till the jam
comes clear from the pan. Pour it into china plates to come up dry to
the table, and keep it in boxes with white paper between.
CHERRY PIE. This should have a mixture of other fruit; currants or
raspberries, or both. Currant pie is also best with raspberries.
CHERRY WINE. Mash some ripe cherries, and press them through a hair
sieve. Allow three pounds of lump sugar to two quarts of juice, stir
them together till the sugar is dissolved, and fill a small barrel with
the liquor. Add a little brandy, close down the bung when it has done
hissing, let it stand six months and bottle it off.
CHERRIES IN BRANDY. Weigh some fine morellas, cut off half the stalk,
prick them with a new needle, and drop them into a jar or wide-mouth
bottle. Pound three quarters of the weight of sugar or white candy, and
strew over; fill the bottle up with brandy, and tie a bladder over.
CHERVIL SAUCE. The flavour of this fine herb, so long a favourite with
the French cook, is a strong concentration of the combined taste of
parsley and fennel, but more aromatic and agreeable than either, and
makes an excellent sauce for boiled poultry or fish. Wash the chervil,
and pick it very clean; put a tea-spoonful of salt into half a pint of
boiling water, boil the chervil about ten minutes, drain it on a sieve,
and mince it very fine. Put it into a sauce boat, mix with it by degrees
some good melted butter, and send it up in the boat.
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