The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young HousekeepersHenry, May
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The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housekeepers
Henry, May
Jewish cooking
Wash and dry the currants, mix the dry ingredients well together, add
sufficient milk to make a stiff paste, then knead well on a floured
board. Form into shapes, brush over with milk, flour a tin, and bake in
a hot oven ½ hour. If the rolls sound hollow when tapped, they are done.
Scones. Time—¾ hour.
1 lb. flour, ½ pint milk, 3 oz. butter, 3 teaspoonfuls baking-powder, 1
oz. sugar.
Rub the butter into the flour, add the baking-powder and sugar, and form
into a smooth paste with lukewarm milk. Roll the paste out 1½ inch
thick, cut it into triangles, and bake on a greased tin ½ hour. When
half done, brush over with milk.
Spanish Biscuits. Time—½ hour.
1 lb. flour, 3 oz. sifted sugar, 1 tablespoonful baking-powder, 3
dessertspoonfuls salad oil, 1 dessertspoonful orange-flower water.
Enough cold water to make it into a stiff paste.
Mix the ingredients, break off small pieces, shape them into rings,
notching out all round with a sharp knife, place them on a hot tin and
bake them in a hot oven.
Spice Cakes. Time—½ hour.
6 oz. flour, 4 oz. castor sugar, 1 oz. butter, 1 teaspoonful
baking-powder, 1 teaspoonful nutmeg or cinnamon, ½ gill water, 1 egg.
Whisk the egg and sugar to a stiff batter, and add the water. Mix the
flour, baking-powder and spice together, and stir lightly into the
batter, then add the butter melted. Half fill small greased patty-pans,
and bake in a sharp oven.
Vinegar Cake. Time—2 hours.
½ lb. flour, 2 oz. butter, ¼ lb. brown sugar, ¼ lb. currants, ¼
teaspoonful carbonate of soda, 1 dessertspoonful vinegar, 1 gill milk, ½
teaspoonful baking-powder, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon.
Mix the flour and butter together, then add the sugar, currants (washed
and dried), cinnamon, and baking-powder. Mix together smoothly in a
basin the carbonate of soda and the milk, then add the vinegar, and
while it is effervescing, mix it quickly with the dry ingredients. Turn
all into a greased cake-tin, and bake in a moderate oven about 1½ hour.
Yorkshire Tea Cakes. Time—2 hours.
¾ lb. flour, 1½ gill milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful castor sugar, 1 oz.
German yeast, 1 oz. butter, salt.
Pass the flour through a sieve, and add a pinch of salt. Melt the butter
in a stew-pan, add the milk, and let it become lukewarm. Cream the yeast
with the castor sugar, add the milk, butter and egg, mix well, then
strain into the middle of the flour, work in all the flour from the
sides, then turn on to a floured board, and knead with the hand. Cut
into two pieces, place in floured tins, cover and leave in a warm place
to rise 1 hour. Bake from 20 to 30 minutes in a hot oven.
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SWEETMEATS.
Chocolate Caramels. Time—¾ hour.
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