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Cookery for beginners

1884

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Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
One cup of sugar. One teaspoonful of mace, and half as much allspice. Two teaspoonfuls of butter. One tablespoonful of saltA Simple Susan. Butter a pudding-dish and cover the bottom 128 COOKERY FOR BEGINNERS. with crumbs. Lay on these a thick layer of minced apple^ sprinkled lightly with salt and spices — more heavily with sugar. Stick bits of butter over all. Then more crumbs, going on in this order until all the ingredients are used up. The top layer should be crumbs. Cover closely, and bake half an hour. Re- move the cover and set on the upper grating of the oven until ijicely browned. Send to table in the dish in which it was baked. Sance for the Abo76. Two cupfuls of powdered sugar. Two tablespoonfuls of butter. Half teaspoonful of mace or nutmeg. Juice (strained) of a lemon. Two tablespoonfuls of boiling waterSance for the Abo76. Melt the butter with the hot water and beat in, with egg whisk or "Dover," the sugar, a little at a time, until the sauce is like a cream. Add lemon juice and nutmeg. DESSERTS. 129 mould into a mound on a glass dish, or a deep plate, and set in a cold place until it is firm. This is a good "hard sauce" for any hot pudding. Oottage Pudding. Two eggs. One cup of milk. One cup of sugar. One tablespoonful of butter. Three cups of prepared flour. If you have not the prepared, use family flour with two tablespoonfuls of Royal Baking Powder, sifted twice with it. One tablespoonful of saltOottage Pudding. Put the sugar in a bowl, warm the butter slightly, but do not melt it, and rub it with a wooden spoon into the sugar until they are thoroughly mixed together. Beat the eggs light in another bowl, stir in the sugar and butler, then the milk, the salt, and lastly the flour. 130 COOKERY FOR BEGINNERS. Butter a tin cake mould well« pour in the batter and bake about forty minutes in a steady oven. Should it rise very fast, cover the top with white paper as soon as a crust is formed, to prevent scorching. When you think it is done stick a clean, dry straw into the thickest part If it comes up smooth and not sticky the loaf is ready to be taken up. Loosen the edges from the mould with a knife, turn out on a plate, and send hot to table. Cut with a keen blade into slices, and eat with pudding sauce. An easy receipt and one that seldom fails to give general satisfaction. ^3 OAEE-MAEHfa. "V TEVER undertake cake unless you are •*• ^ willing to give to the business the amount of time and labor needed to make it well. Materials tossed together " anyhow " may, once in a great while, come out right, but the manufacturer has no right to expect this, or to be mortified when the product is a failure. Before breaking an egg, or putting butter and sugar together, collect all your ingredients. Sift the flour and arrange close to your hand, the bowls, egg-beater, cake-moulds, ready but- tered, etc. Begin by putting the measured sugar into a 131 132 COOKERY FOR BEGINNERS. bowl, and working the butter into it with a wooden spoon. Warm the butter slightly in cold weather. Rub and stir uutil the mixture is as smooth and light as cream. Indeed, this process is called " creaming." Now, beat the yolks of your eggs light and thick in another bowl; wash the egg-beater well, wipe dry and let it get cold before whipping the whites to a standing heap in a third vessel. Keep the eggs cool before and while you beat them. Add the yolks to the creamed butter and sugar, beating hard one minute; put in the milk when milk is used, the spices and flavoring; whip in the whites, and lastly, the sifted and prepared flour. Beat from the bottom of the mixing-bowl with a wooden spoon, bringing it up full and high with each stroke, and as soon as the in- gredients are fairly and smoothly mixed, stop beating, or your cake will be tough. Let your first attempt be with • cup-cake baked in small tins. Learn to manage your CAKE-MAKING. 133