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Apple Sauce apples bake beat beef boiling water bread bread-crums broil brown cake carrots celery chicken chopped cloves cold water crust currants custard deep dish dish drawn butter dredge dressing eggs fifteen minutes fish flavor four eggs fried gravy half a cup half a pint half a pound half an hour isinglass juice lemon let it boil let it stand liquor little butter little flour little mace little pepper little salt Macaroni meat molasses mould mutton nice nutmeg onions oven oyster sauce oysters parsley peel pepper and salt piece of butter pint Potatoes pound of butter pound of sugar PUDDING puff paste quart quart of milk quarts of water rice Roast roll salt pork sauce saucepan sieve sirup slices small pieces soup stew stir strain sweet table-spoonfuls Take teacup teaspoonful three quarters tomatoes turkey turn turnips veal wash white sugar yolks
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Page 125 - ... dish, and bake four hours; serve hot, with sugar and wine sauce. This is the most simple, cheap and luxuriant fruit pudding that can be made. RHUBARB, OR PIE-PLANT PUDDING. Chop rhubarb pretty fine, put in a pudding-dish, and sprinkle sugar over it; make a batter of one cupful of sour milk, two eggs, a piece of butter the size of an egg, half a teaspoonful of soda, and enough flour to make batter about as thick as for cake. Spread it over the rhubarb, and bake till done. Turn out on a platter...
Page 110 - Cut a pound of cheese in slices a quarter of an inch thick ; put a piece of butter the size of an egg in a small frying-pan.
Page 92 - FISH SAUCE. Take half a pint of milk and cream together, two eggs well beaten, salt, a little pepper, and the juice of half a lemon; put it over the fire, and stir it constantly until it begins to thicken.
Page 79 - Boil a chicken; joint it and lay it into a saucepan, with a piece of butter the size of an egg, a...
Page 159 - CREAM. stir the whites into the yolks; dissolve a quarter of a pound of chocolate in half a pint of hot water add a pint and a half of cream, give it one boil, and turn it on the eggs, stirring it all the time. Then put it into a pitcher; put the pitcher into boiling water, stirring the custard constantly until it thickens. To be served in glasses, and eaten cold. COFFEE CUSTARD. Take a large cup of fresh ground coffee, break an egg into it ; mix it up well ; put it into a coffeepot with a pint of...
Page 145 - One teacup of rice boiled soft in milk ; a pint of milk; a piece of butter the size of an egg; the yolks of five eggs ; the rind of two lemons grated; bake twenty minutes.
Page 18 - Break up a large lobster, take •the meat out of the shell, break the^shell up, and 2* put it into a saucepan, with water enough to cover it. Let this simmer while the soup is boiling ; then strain all this, and put it back into the soup-pot ; cut the lobster very fine, and put it into the soup, and boil it two hours.
Page 167 - One pound of sugar and six ounces of butter beaten to a cream ; the whites of sixteen eggs well beaten ; the rind, grated, and the juice of one lemon, and three quarters of a pound of flour. GOLD CAKE. Beat to a cream three quarters of a pound of butter and one pound of fine white sugar ; add the yolks of fourteen eggs, the grated rind of two lemons, and one pound of flour ; beat all together very well. Bake in a tin pan lined with buttered paper. A RICH LOAF OR WEDDING CAKE. Two pounds of butter...
Page 17 - Take a shin of real ; put it in a pot with three quarts of water, two carrots and two onions cut up, ' pepper and salt; boil it three hours; then strain it all through a sieve ; add three quarters of a pound of butter braided in three table-spoonfuls of flour; stir it in, and give it one boil ; have ready, washed out of the liquor, one gallon of oysters; strain the liquor into the soup ; let it boil up ; then put in the oysters, and a tumbler and a half of white wine ; give it one boil, and send...
Page 46 - ... with beef stock or water enough to just cover it; let it cook slowly two hours; dish the meat ; skim all the fat from the gravy ; add some flour mixed with a little water...