The practical housewife : $b A complete encyclopædia of domestic economy and family medical guidePhilp, Robert Kemp
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The practical housewife : $b A complete encyclopædia of domestic economy and family medical guide
Philp, Robert Kemp
Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics; Medicine, Popular
GINGER LEMONADE.—Boil twelve pounds and a half of lump sugar for twenty
minutes in ten gallons of water; clear it with the whites of six eggs.
Bruise half a pound of common ginger, boil with the liquor, and then pour
it upon ten lemons pared. When quite cold, put it in a cask, with two
table-spoonfuls of yeast, the lemons sliced, and add half an ounce of
isinglass. Bung up the cask the next day. It will be ready to bottle in
three weeks, and to drink in another three weeks.
HIPPOCRAS.—Digest for three days half a drachm of mace, ginger, cloves,
nutmegs, and galingale, in three quarts of Lisbon wine, and also
carraway; add an ounce of cinnamon. Strain, and mix twenty ounces of
white sugar with the liquor.
IMPERIAL, BOTTLED.—Pour a pint of boiling water on a drachm of cream of
tartar, flavour with lemon-peel and sugar, and bottle.
IMPERIAL DRINK.—Put half an ounce of cream of tartar, four ounces of
white sugar, and three ounces of orange-peel, into a pan; pour three
pints of boiling water on, strain, and cool.
IMPERIAL POP.—Take three ounces of cream of tartar, an ounce of bruised
ginger, a pound and a half of white sugar, an ounce of lemon-juice,
and pour a gallon and a half of boiling water on them; add two
table-spoonfuls of yeast. Mix, bottle, and tie down the corks as usual.
KING CUP.—Take the rind and juice of a lemon, a lump of sugar, a small
piece of bruised ginger, and pour on them about one pint and a half of
boiling water; when cold, strain, add a wine-glassful of sherry, and ice.
LAIT SUCRE.—Boil a pint of milk, sweeten with white sugar, and flavour
with lemon.
LEMONADE.—Take sixteen lemons, pare thin, cut in halves, squeeze well,
and throw all into a pan; add a pound and a half of white sugar, a
gallon of boiling water, and five table-spoonfuls of white wine (four if
sherry); mix, strain, and cool.
LEMONADE AU LAIT.—Take half a pint of lemon-juice, the same of white
wine, three-quarters of a pound of loaf sugar, and a quart of boiling
water; mix, and when cold add a pint of _boiling_ milk; let it stand
twelve hours, then pour through a jelly-bag. This makes two quarts; and
about seven lemons will produce half a pint of juice.
APPLEADE.—Cut two large apples in slices, and pour a quart of boiling
water on them, strain well and sweeten. To be drunk when cold or iced.
RASPBERRY VINEGAR.—Put a pound of fine fruit into a bowl, pour upon it
a quart of the best white-wine vinegar, next day, strain the liquor on
a pound of fresh raspberries; the following day do the same, but do not
squeeze the fruit, only drain the liquor as dry as you can. Bottle, and
cork well, then cover the corks with bottle cement.
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