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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.
fitted if necessary. ^Yhen the fruit comes to i sugar with each pound of fruitCherry Brandy, which must _. be used, the juice ought to be strained off, and | jjkced in with it. Fill the bottles with the best boiled with a Httle sugar, and, when cold, put I French brandy. Do not make the mistake of into the tarts instead of water. Time, about supposing that the fruit and sugar will make an hour. Probable cost of cherries, 3d. to 6d. j bad spirit pass for good. Cork the bottles se- per pound. | wirely, and seal over the top. The cherries Cherries, To Pickle.- Choose sound, I "^^y be used in a month, but will be better in not over-ripe Kentish cherries, wipe them care- I ^"^^^ Three or four cloves put m the bottle are fully, and put them into jars, leaving about an ! '^Y ^^^Y considered an miprovement. Probable ■ " " ■ I cost of Morella cherries, lOd. to Is. per pound. I Cherry Brandy (another way). — Choose sound, fresh jMorella cherries, wipe them, and cut oft' the stalks to within half an inch, prick inch of their stalks. Boil sufficient French vinegar to cover them, and boil one pound of sugar and a few grains of cayenne with every quart of vinegar. When cold, add a few drops of cochinealCherry Brandy (another way), and cover the cherries. Tie them dovm closely. They will be ready for use in three or four weeks. Probable cost of cherries, 3d. to 6d. per pound. Cherries, To Preserve. — Take two poimds of sound, ripe Kentish chen-ies, weighed after they have been picked and stoned. Put a pound of sifted sugar into the preserving each cherry with a needle, half fill a wide- necked bottle with them, and to eaoh bottle put a dozen scraped bitter almonds and a quarter of a poimd of white sugar cjindCherries, To Preservey crushed small. Fill with best French brandy, cork securely, and seal over the top. The brandy will be better if kept for a few months. Probable cost of cherries, lOd. to Is. per pound. a, ^uuiiu (ji siiieu sugar lulo ine preserving- v^ \',a.n with half a pint of red currant juice, or, if ^ Cherry Brandy (another way). — Put this is not at hand, water, and let it boil for six pounds of black clien-ies, six pounds of five minutes. Throw in the cherries, which SloreUas, and two pounds of strawberries in a CHE ( 124 ) CHE cask. Bruise them slightly with a stick, then add three pounds of sugar, twelve cloves, haK an ounce of powdered cinnamon, and two nutmegs grated, with a quarter of the kernels of the cherry-stones, and a handful of mint and bahn. Pour over these six quarts of hrandy or gin. Let the cask remain open for tsn days, then close it, and in two months it will he fit for use. Probable cost, Morella cherries, lOd. to Is. per pound. Sufficient for one gallon and a half of cherry brandy.