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(from The Book of Household Management, edited by Isabella Beeton, 1861) (A fashionable iced pudding. - Carême's Recipe) Ingredients: 40 chestnuts 1 lb. of sugar flavouring of vanilla 1 pint of cream 12 egg yolks 1 glass of Maraschino cherries 1 oz. of candied citron 2 oz. of currants 2 oz. of stoned raisins 1/2 pint of whipped cream 3 eggs Instructions: 1313. INGREDIENTS. - 40 chestnuts, 1 lb. of sugar, flavouring of vanilla, 1 pint of cream, the yolks of 12 eggs, 1 glass of Maraschino, 1 oz. of candied citron, 2 oz. of currants, 2 oz. of stoned raisins, 1/2 pint of whipped cream, 3 eggs. Mode. - Blanch the chestnuts in boiling water, remove the husks, and pound them in a mortar until perfectly smooth, adding a few spoonfuls of...
(from Southern Watchman Newspaper, of Athens, Georgia, September 9, 1863) Ingredients: about 25 gallons of sorghum juice - "enough for 2-1/2 gallons of syrup" (10 gallons of juice boils down to make 1 gallon of syrup) 1/2 bushel of damson plums Instructions: A gentleman of Jackson County, who has tried the experiment recently, informs us the best damson preserves he ever tasted can be made with sorghum syrup, as follows: Put into a boiler juice enough to make 2 1/2 gallons of syrup - to this add, when it begins to thicken, or is half boiled down, half a bushel of plums. Boil until rather thicker than usual. Of course an iron vessel will not do. This looks to be more of a commercial method. I'm not sure how many homeowners will...
(from Miss Leslie's Complete Cookery, by Eliza Leslie, 1838) Ingredients: 1/2 pint cold water 1/2 lb. powdered white sugar 3 lbs. flour 1 lb. butter nutmeg 1 tsp. powdered cinnamon 1 wine glass rose water 1 tsp. pearl-ash optional - 3 tbsp. carraway seeds Instructions: Take a half-pint or a tumbler full of cold water, and mix it with half a pound of powdered white sugar. Sift three pounds of flour into a large pan and cut up in it a pound of butter; rub the butter very fine into the flour. Add a grated nutmeg, and a tea-spoonful of powdered cinnamon, with a wine glass of rose water. Work in the sugar, and make the whole into a stiff dough, adding, if necessary, a little cold water. Dissolve a tea-spoonful of pearl-ash in just enough...
(from Cookery as it Should be, by a student of Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow, 1853) Ingredients: 1 pint young tender ochras 2 onions 1/2 pint tomatoes a piece of garden pepper 1/2 tsp. salt 1 handful of Lima beans 2 young squashes 1 knuckle of veal, or a pair of chickens a piece of cold, cooked pork or bacon 1 large spoonful of flour 1 large spoonful of butter serve fouls with egg sauce Instructions: Take a pint of young tender ochras, wash and slice them, chop two onions finely, and put these into a gallon of water; skin and slice half a pint of tomatoes; add a small piece of garden pepper - a very little piece will answer, - and half a teaspoonful of salt; put all on to cook at seven o'clock in the morning, and let it simmer until...
(from Godey's Ladies Magazine, edited by L.A. Godey, Sarah J. Hale, 1865) Ingredients: 4 lbs. raspberries 1/2 pint vinegar 1 lb. loaf sugar for every lb. of juice Instructions: Take four pounds of raspberries, pour over them half a pint of vinegar, place in an earthen jar, cover it securely, so that no air can enter, and place it in a sunny window twelve hours; take it in at night, and place out again in the sun the next day for another twelve hours. Then place in a flannel bag, till the juice has run through without pressure. Then for every pound of juice take a pound of loaf sugar, and boil it for a quarter of an hour, or till no scum arises; then put it into small bottle, and well cork it.
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