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ADAPTED BY E. T. J. apples baking powder Beat bits of butter boiling water box of Nelson's brandy bread crumbs brown CHARLOTTE RUSSE chicken chopped cinnamon clams cloves cold water cook cup of butter cup of sugar custard dish ELECTION CAKE Flavor four eggs fruit grated peel half cup half pint half teaspoonful hour ICE CREAM JAMES BIDDLE jelly JUDGE PARKER Let it boil Let it rise liquid mace meat melted mixed molasses mould NATHANIEL TERRY Nelson's gelatine nutmeg orange ounce oven peaches pepper pint of cream pint of milk pound butter pound citron pound flour pounds raisins PUDDING puff paste receipt rissoles ROSE TERRY COOKE rose water sauce sauce boat saucepan sherry sieve slices soup sponge cake spoonful stewed stiff Stir stove sweet syrup tablespoonful of butter tablespoonfuls teaspoonful of salt teaspoonful salt TERRY thick thin tomatoes tumbler vanilla extract warm well-beaten wine wineglass yeast yolks
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Page 18 - Milk. Sift dry ingredients, rub in the butter and add milk to make a soft dough. Roll it out and bake in hot oven.
Page 38 - Beat well, cover the pan with a cloth and set in a warm place to rise. At night, when very light, add the sugar, spice, and eggs.
Page 92 - Soak a package of gelatine in half a pint of cold water for an hour.
Page 43 - Add the milk blood-warm, and the yeast. Mix thoroughly, and let it stand where it will keep quite warm, until it becomes very light, which should be by nine or ten o'clock at night. Do not disturb it while rising. Beat the eggs separately and mix with the remainder of shortening, adding spice, wine, etc.
Page 63 - Repeat the process every half hour, or oftener if the pudding browns too fast, till the five pints are used; then let it bake till done — six hours in all.
Page 48 - To the white of an unbeaten egg add one and one-fourth cups of pulverized sugar and stir until smooth. Add three drops of rosewater, ten of vanilla, and the juice of half a lemon. It will at once become very white, and will harden in five or six minutes.
Page 43 - ... and one pint of home-made yeast. In the morning cream the butter and lard, and when very light, add the sugar, mixing well ; then take a little less than half of it and rub well into the flour, after well warming the flour. Add the milk blood-warm, and the yeast.
Page 43 - Beat the eggs separately and mix with the remainder of shortening, adding spice, wine, etc. Mix well, and let it rise a second time. Next morning, when light, fill pans two-thirds full, putting in a little at a time, and dropping the fruit in thickly in layers, to prevent its sinking. Bake in a slow oven.
Page 122 - CREAM OATMEAL Boil oatmeal for an hour as for breakfast use. Rub it through a fine sieve, add a little milk, and cook it very slowly in a double boiler for half an hour longer. When perfectly smooth, add a little salt and cream. This is the most delicate preparation of oatmeal that an invalid can take.
Page 17 - Dip in beaten egg, then in cracker crumbs, and fry in boiling lard.