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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Puritan's Pudding.— Grate three ounces of stale crumb of bread. Put it into a bowl, with a pinch of salt, the eig-hth part of a nutmeg, grated, an ounce of the kernel of a fresh cocoa- nut, finely-grated, two table-spoonfuls of pow- dered and sifted sugar, and an inch of thin lemon-rind. Mix these ingredients well to- gether, then pour over them a pint of milk, which has been beaten up with two well-whisked eggsPuritan's Pudding. Let the crumbs soak for two hours or more. Beat the mixture well with a fork, pour it into a dish, and bake in a moderate oven. Time to bake, half an hour. Probable cost, 8d. Sufficient for three or foiur persons. PUR ( 673 ) QUA Purl. — T;ik(3 ten pounds of wormwood, six pounds of gentian, two pounds of dried rind of orange, half a pound of bruised ginger, two ounces of cloves, and eight ounces of carda- momums. Put these ingredients in six gallons of water, boil the mixture, then digest for fourteen or fifteen days, and decant into wine bottles. Add this to warm beer, according to taste. Purl (another way). — Take half a pint of ule, and warm it gently ; then add to it one wine-glassful of bitters, or a little spirit. Pm-l is a favourite early morning beverage with hard di'inkers. Purl (another way). — "Warm a pint of ale with a quarter of a pint of milk, and add some sugar and a wine-glassful of gin, brandy, or rum. This beverage is now little used, except amongst the lower classes in and about the metropolis. Plirslain. — This plant is a native of South America. The young shoots and succulent leaves iiscd to be frequently employed as a cooling ingredient in spring salads. Putrefaction. — The process of putrefac- tion is thus described by Baron Liebig : — "The sulphurised and nitrogenised constituents of plants and animals are among the most complex organic atoms. From the instant that they, after being separated from the organism, come in contact with the air, they pass into a state of decomposition, which, when once com- menced, continues, even if the air be now ex- cluded. The colourless, fresh-cut surface of a potato, of a turnip, or of an apple, when ex- posed to the air, soon becomes brown. In all such substances the presence of a certain quantity of water, in which the molecules are enabled to move freely on one another, is a con- dition necessary to the production, by tempo- rary contact with air, of a change in form and composition, a resolving of the original body into new products, which continues uninter- ruptedly till no part of the original compound is left. This process has been distinguished by the name of pnfirfactiot/J' Pyramid, Italian {sec Italian Pyramid). Pyramids, Puff Paste {see Puff Paste Rings or Pyramids). — A pretty Dish for a Juvenile Party. Pyroligneous Acid has the remarkable property of preventing the putrefaction of animal substances. It is well known that meat that has been smoked keeps better than that which has been dried without smoke ; and it is now ascertained that this effect depends on the pjToligneous acid that rises with the smoke of the wood or turf which are employed in smoking it. When carefully purified and pro- perly diluted with water, pyroligneous acid is used extensively as a substitute for common A-inegar in pickling, and even for common use.