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
given them previously to their going to the field. If the udder of a
milking cow becomes hard and painful, it should be fomented with warm
water and rubbed with a gentle hand. Or if the teats are sore, they
should be soaked in warm water twice a day; and either be dressed with
soft ointment, or done with spirits and water. If the former, great
cleanliness is necessary: the milk at these times is best given to the
pigs. Or if a cow be injured by a blow or wound, the part affected
should be suppled several times a day with fresh butter; or a salve
prepared of one ounce of Castile soap dissolved in a pint and a half of
fresh milk over a slow fire, stirring it constantly, to form a complete
mixture. But if the wound should turn to an obstinate ulcer, take
Castile soap, gum ammoniac, gum galbanum, and extract of hemlock, each
one ounce; form them into eight boluses, and administer one of them
every morning and evening. To prevent cows from sucking their own milk,
as some of them are apt to do, rub the teats frequently with strong
rancid cheese, which will prove an effectual remedy.
COW HEELS. These are very nutricious, and may be variously dressed. The
common way is to boil, and serve them in a napkin, with melted butter,
mustard, and a large spoonful of vinegar. Or broil them very tender, and
serve them as a brown fricassee. The liquor will do to make jelly sweet
or relishing and likewise to give richness to soups or gravies. Another
way is to cut them into four parts, to dip them into an egg, and then
dredge and fry them. They may be garnished with fried onions, and served
with sauce as above. Or they may be baked as for mock turtle.
COWSLIP MEAD. Put thirty pounds of honey into fifteen gallons of water,
and boil till one gallon is wasted; skim it, and take it off the fire.
Have a dozen and a half of lemons ready quartered, pour a gallon of the
liquor boiling hot upon them, and the remainder into a tub, with seven
pecks of cowslip pips. Let them remain there all night; then put the
liquor and the lemons to eight spoonfuls of new yeast, and a handful of
sweet-briar. Stir all well together, and let it work for three or four
days; then strain and tun it into a cask. Let it stand six months, and
bottle it for keeping.
COWSLIP WINE. To every gallon of water, weigh three pounds of lump
sugar; boil them together half an hour, and take off the scum as it
rises. When sufficiently cool, put to it a crust of toasted bread dipped
in thick yeast, and let the liquor ferment in the tub thirty six hours.
Then put into the cask intended for keeping it, the peel of two and the
rind of one lemon, for every gallon of liquor; also the peel and the
rind of one Seville orange, and one gallon of cowslip pips. Pour the
liquor upon them, stir it carefully every day for a week, and for every
five gallons put in a bottle of brandy. Let the cask be close stopped,
and stand only six weeks before it be bottled off.
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