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
DAMP WALLS. When a house has undergone repairs, the walls are apt to
become damp, as well as when it has been new built. To prevent the ill
effects, powder some glass fine, mix it with slacked lime, dry the
mixture well in an iron pot, and pass it through a flour sieve. Then
boil some tar with a little grease for a quarter of an hour, and make a
cement of the whole together. Care must be taken to prevent any moisture
from mixing with the cement, which must be used as soon as made. Lay it
on the damp part of the wall like common plaster about a foot square at
a time, or it will quickly become too hard for use: if the wall be very
wet, a second coating will be required. Common hair mortar may then be
laid on, with the addition of a little Paris plaster, which will prevent
the walls in future from becoming damp.
DAMSON CHEESE. Pick the damsons clean, bake them slowly, till they may
be rubbed through a cullender, leaving nothing but the skins and stones.
Boil the pulp and juice three hours over a slow fire, with some moist
sugar, and keep it stirring to prevent burning. Blanch the kernels, and
mix them with the jam a few minutes before it be taken off the fire. Put
it into cups, tie it down with writing paper dipped in brandy, and the
cheese will keep several years, if kept in a dry place.
DAMSON PUDDING. Line a bason with tolerably thin paste, fill with the
fruit, and cover the paste over it. Tie a cloth tight over, and boil
till the fruit is done enough.
DAMSON WINE. Take a considerable quantity of damsons and common plums
inclining to ripeness; slit them in halves, so that the stones may be
taken out, then mash them gently, and add a little water and honey. Add
to every gallon of the pulp a gallon of spring water, with a few bay
leaves and cloves: boil the mixture, and add as much sugar as will
sweeten it, skim off the froth, and let it cool. Now press the fruit,
squeezing out the liquid part; strain all through a fine cloth, and put
the water and juice together in a cask. Having allowed the whole to
stand and ferment for three or four days, fine it with white sugar,
flour, and whites of eggs. Draw it off into bottles, then cork it well:
in twelve days it will be ripe, and will taste like weak port, having a
flavour of canary.
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