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The English-Chinese cookery book

1890

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Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Cut a cake of chocolate in very small pieces, boil a pint of water. When it is at boiling point, add the chocolate ; mill it off the fire until quite melted. Then place it on a gentle fire till it boils. Pour it into a basin, and it will keep for some days. When it is required, put a spoonful or two into fresh milk, boil it with sugar, and mix it well. Mill it to a fine froth. After this put it into a jug, stand it in boiling water over a clear fire> and stir it one way until the eggs are set in the milk, but do not let it boil, then strain it through a fine silk sieve, and stir into it about half a pint of thick cream. Freeze and mould it as other ice creams. tfc m jjc W » 0 r ft ft ft * * »[ f m ® £,ft u,m * fit * w.» a m ti ± iBj jf,® ffi # is ft ft.® g gs & m ® m iitr ® ft x tt * m k m o HR fffl ft, ft in ft ffl ft yc.ft ft ft 7J ffl T So— ® ft ^ ® T.tr ft £ $ « $ £ lit $ 118 — — Jt — M M J:, ■}& /. f « m m KSo* m *a _ ff ft &.31 PS fa <3 ¥ lol,f tr 4^ z n$ m to>MoW ft.* itm&M m,®>M © ' & ^,fr s * J*c % m m 5c * HR fffi X $a It £,& * £ S ffl m m¥ <% m m m jn m M S A if «, H W tk. Wc Hk # M — %f M *£ *,« IIItSA SM, ».i ffl 4- ffl IE ¥ ! 4* T» Jt fi &j 4- fS 4c ft ;> t»“ l£ &B fi5 o * 36, 0 A fa m m z jz i.z z z m m a x GENERAL FOR DIRECTIONS CAKES. WHEN making pies and cakes, the first thing to be done is to build the fire and get the oven just right. Then sift the flour and measure it ; count and break the eggs ; measure everything that is to be put into the cake ; lard the pans, and line them with paper. If butter is put into the cake, the order in which the different ingredients should be put in is as follows, viz. — Beat the butter to a cream, and then add the sugar gradually, then spice and any kind of liquor which you use, then the milk, then the eggs well beaten, then the flour, in which always mix thoroughly while dry, the soda and cream of tartar ; and, if fruit, let that always be the last thing to be added. 6 m 3k » §& I# & Hi. # m i6 #*. tr » a w m» a 4 * t s is a i wm ® « Em » & tk m m m f? trJJti fottoifc m. & ® * ii in ft w > # o #r 44 IE 4 « tr ffi 4 ’/ft. * H K ^ o SfiTiKtf - | W.z PLAIN FROSTING. PLACE the whites of one, two, or more eggs in a bowl. Throw into them a tablespoonful of pulverised white sugar. Beat with a wooden -spoon, adding sugar by the spoonful, and beating well between the -additions. It is impossible to state the exact amount of sugar, as the size and freshness of eggs vary so much; but use about one cupful of sugarPlain Frosting for one white of an egg. If, when drawing the end of a knife-blade through the frosting on the back of a spoon, it leaves a clean-cut line, consider the frosting sufficiently beaten. It is best to frost cake while it is warm. Spread over the cake a thin coating of the frosting, with a long thin knife. This fills the pores, and the heat of the cake melts the sugar, causing the frosting to cling very securely. Next put on with a spoon s ifficient to cover the cake, spreading evenly over the whole surface. After smoothing, set in a cool place to harden. Lemon juice is the nicest flavouring. 120 — fi If # In, A — f# 1? ® |$5 'fikiW, ft »«r«U8M»fcK»^:»IS3^lf*AS- 5* if 2$ K tt.M # * £ & 3*. a itk * z m m.m m #.s m st it ® », m ■tiioH if u#, pTo# ® # w a — a m m mwm A,*.#*, a z a. i#,7J J? 3.Q OS®M,