Reform Cookery Book (4th edition): Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Reform Cookery Book (4th edition): Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century.
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Soak 1/8 oz. vegetable gelatine in a tumbler of water for an hour. Strain
and put in saucepan with a tumbler fresh water and 5 ozs. loaf sugar. Stir
till gelatine is dissolved. Add juice of 2 lemons, and strain through
sieve. When cool add the whites of two eggs, and switch till quite light
and spongy throughout--about three quarters of an hour. Put in mould, or
when set pile up in rocky spoonfuls.
Lemon Cream Mould.
1 large lemon, 3 eggs, 6 ozs. sugar, 3/4 pint (3 teacupfuls) milk, 1/6 oz.
vegetable gelatine.
Soak gelatine in cold water for at least an hour. Drain and put to come
slowly to boil in the milk. Separate whites from yolks of eggs, and put the
latter in large basin with the sugar and yellow part of lemon rind grated.
Beat thoroughly and strain boiling milk over, stirring all the time. Return
to saucepan, bring just to boil, and set aside to cool. Beat up whites of
eggs very stiff and mix in lightly, adding the strained juice of lemon. Put
in mould or glass dish, and set in cool place till quite firm.
Cobden Pudding.
Four ozs. grain granules, 2 ozs. sugar, 1 oz. cocoanut cream, 3 ozs.
stoned raisins, 2 eggs, 3 gills milk.
Put grain granules, sugar, raisins, and cocoanut cream in large basin.
Bring milk to boil and pour over. Cover and let stand till cool. Beat up
yolks and add, and lastly the whites beaten stiff. Pour into buttered
pudding-dish and bake in moderate oven for an hour.
JAMS AND JELLIES.
We have not space to go into these at any length. The following are one or
two of my "very own," as the children say, which are voted a great success.
Apple Jam.
Take quantity required--say 7 lbs.--tart crisp apples. Wash well and dry.
Pare and core, putting the trimmings in water to cover. Cut up the best of
the apples into small pieces--not too thin--and set aside, also covered with
cold water. Put on the trimmings to boil with some lemon rind and either a
few sticks of cinnamon or some cloves. Simmer for an hour or longer, till
all the goodness is drawn out, mashing freely with a wooden spoon. Turn
into jelly-bag and allow to drain without pressure. Pour the water off the
apples, measure that and the drained juice, and put into preserving pan.
Measure the apple chips also, and add when the liquid boils. Allow 14 ozs.
loaf sugar to each breakfast cupful, and boil till the apples are clear, but
not broken down--about 20 minutes. Skim and pot as usual. If ginger
flavouring is preferred, shave down about 6 ozs. preserved ginger, and add
when the juice is put on to boil.
Marmalade Jelly.